codewell

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   by codewell 7y ago

   I don't necessarily assume, but I do believe, that consciousness is an artifact of the complex system of our brains, or any thinking-system-with-a-serious-representation-of-itself. I take umbrage with possibly being considered therefo
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   by codewell 8y ago

   Perhaps it's a newer term. Now "short and distort" is around, for instance prominently as section 3 in the wikipedia article on "pump and dump" [0], and investopedia [1] also describe it. [0] https://en.w
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   by codewell 8y ago

   The short version is called short and distort. I'd like to see stats on which is more common.
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   by codewell 8y ago

   It's true that longs and shorts could both benefit from spreading false rumors. But shorts have an expiration date which can cause them to be much more incentivized to drive a rapid price change.
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   by codewell 12y ago

   dvd.netflix.com seems to still use the old reliable ratings predictor. Downloading (netflix.com) uses a much inflated predictor that seems designed to push popular stuff. I imagine they have to do this to obscure that the selection is so