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by shrimpx 6y ago
More importantly it saved hedge funds like Melvin and Citadel form self-harm. They aggressively shorted these stocks into the ground, looking to make billions. If the prices stay up or keep going up, they stand to lose billions and even go
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Wall Street is/will be having a ball with the new administration desperate to keep the market "stable". Stable == deliberately and slowly bled by hedge funds.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I have a bit of knowledge from friends who work in fintech, and the sentiment among fintech companies seems to be that SEC doesn't matter. The fine is small and comes way too late. You can simply account for an approximate future fine
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by shrimpx 6y ago
True. But it’s more than memeing a stock. They’re doing it knowing that these hedge funds will have to gobble up stock to close their shorts.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
The scheme was already well underway when Elon tweeted.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I completely agree with you, and we should work to limit these companies to our liking, with legislation. Your stance is super reasonable. But look around, many people in this conversation are effectively arguing in favor of totally, global
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by shrimpx 6y ago
If you’re loud and profane in a bar and disturbing the tenants, the bouncer will muzzle you. You seem to be arguing that the bouncer should not be allowed to do that. You seem to be mixing up “free speech” in the constitution and the normal
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by shrimpx 6y ago
“Free speech” is about limiting government retaliation based on speech. So Uncle Sam can’t legally put you in prison because you spoke against Uncle Sam. Free speech doesn’t mean you’re protected to speak whatever you want in any setting. S
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by shrimpx 6y ago
This is a tough issue, and I don't see how it would be more humanist to support something like "all speech, in any situation, must be allowed and protected". Clearly some of that speech will be destructive, and harm people. I
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I think the point is not that "all speech should be suppressed", but that, generally speaking, the suppression of speech should not be disallowed. Users and employees should be allowed to pressure companies to suppress hate speech
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by shrimpx 6y ago
We should clarify that "free speech" is unrelated to what Twitter and Facebook are doing. Free speech is a constitutional concept, protecting people from draconian government laws that suppress their speech, or discriminate them b
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I'm a big believer in constitutional free speech, but I certainly don't believe that laws or conventions should protect unbridled amplified speech; giving everyone a megaphone connected to everyone else's ear. Plenty of examp
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I definitely think the current outrage around "Big Tech censoring free speech" is a downstream effect of these companies curating feeds to maximize ad revenue. If these platforms presented the content without interpreting and cura
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by shrimpx 6y ago
You can make the same argument in the opposite direction: for those who support unbridled electronic speech amplification, are you prepared for it to fall in the hands of people who are bent on changing minds en masse to fill society with f
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I disagree with all the points, except (1). If one has a hard time creating a social life outside of work, working remotely is terrible.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
FYI you still cannot get a full native experience with Chrome and Firefox, due to plugins that have not been ported. For example Chrome ships with an x64 version of Widevine, a plugin that is required to watch live streams on YouTube TV (an
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by shrimpx 6y ago
That 2012 laptop is amazing! I put an ssd in it and moved the original HDD into the CD slot for extra storage. Total powerhouse.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
My take is Jony Ive went extreme on form factor and totally lost his grip on users. He wanted an objectively perfect, extremely thin portless wireless machine. Now that he’s gone the design team is descending from the Ivery tower and undoin
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Btw that squiggle button — I assume you mean ~ — is completely instrumental to programming and using a shell. It’s also the switcher key between windows of the same app (cmd-~ as opposed to cmd-tab).
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Its drawback is poor performance but it’s ok for basic use — surfing the web, typing docs and notes. I almost got one in 2015 if I could code in it but I tested it and it was way too sluggish. However a 12 inch MacBook M1 would be incredibl
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by shrimpx 6y ago
It's probably "scale thinking" that makes google seem like they don't care: Everything is huge when you're "at scale"; the impact of a small blunder can take down companies or black out nation states. It&#
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by shrimpx 6y ago
This may sound a bit cynical but it's honest: When everyone else is gratuitously praising engineering, it sort of creates an atmosphere that feels like engineering is being taken advantage of by these other people: managers, sales peop
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Something to watch out for is people becoming jaded if you use bombastic winning language like "crushing it" all the time, and your praise language doesn't measure up to the size of the win. If a tiny fix and a huge win are b
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I agree, but every major decision takes into account societal forces. When I say “moral plane” I take into account broad societal forces. For example, broadly speaking in the USA the black cause for equal justice is broadly understood to be
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by shrimpx 6y ago
I agree with this take on Greewald. That Twitter thread, and his recent substack article, is effectively attacking private property, and implying that corporations ought to be compelled to transmit and amplify all speech. According to greew
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Many of the questions here are of the form “Can a private business drop a customer?” And the answer is a resounding YES and has nothing to do with constitutional free speech. A company refusing to provide service to a customer is NOT consti
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by shrimpx 6y ago
They were likely running everything on aws including dns.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Parlor is NOT Amazon competition.
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by shrimpx 6y ago
Literally any company can drop any user. It’s in their terms of service. Of course there is a lot of calculation around dropping a high profile user, or a large class of users. It could result in social upheaval and backlash if they do or d
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by shrimpx 6y ago
The black cause is on a completely different moral plane than angry white people trying to keep trump in power. To cut off service to someone is not destroying a business “competitor.” The fact that they were depending on your service indic

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