smcn

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by smcn 3y ago
None of the successful stuff is coordinating a pump and dump. You may get the odd post where someone does try but it doesn't go anywhere. > But, actually, some of the WSB stuff is openly coordinated strategy, not intelligence, overt
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by smcn 3y ago
No, at no point was anyone taking umbridge with short selling. They had issues with large hedge funds trying to kill companies, that may be where your confusion lies. Also, adding FRC in there is an interesting move. Do you blame retail tra
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by smcn 3y ago
There is a big difference between a coordinated effort and open source intelligence which is what most people are performing on WSB.
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by smcn 3y ago
It definitely is. A pump and dump is a coordinated effort to artificially raise the price of a stock. Posting technical analysis and/or positive news that encourages people to take a position is not a pump and dump. No more than any fi
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by smcn 3y ago
Nobody is trying to change short selling rules. Like I said, this wasn't a rebellion against short selling. Also, this is all verifiable information. I'd encourage you to confirm what it is that I'm saying. Benjamin Graham sa
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by smcn 3y ago
Yes I'd say that you're wrong with that. To start, it wasn't that short sellers were ruining the market. If you spent any time there, you'd see that they, too, short stocks. Second, it definitely wasn't made up. GME
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by smcn 3y ago
People certainly try but I don't think the community gets the credit it deserves. While it is certainly true that the majority are not seasoned investors, there are plenty in there that are able to be dissenting voices to these obvious
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by smcn 3y ago
I don't think anyone was trying to save the stock market. The general vibe was more fire and brimstone.
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by smcn 3y ago
Well, it's different because of whatever X is. X is the reason why the idea can spread through the community. It needs to make sense on some fundamental level in order to get past the onslaught of ridicule that every stock and member i
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by smcn 3y ago
I'd argue that is a very simplistic way of looking at it. There is always a narrative as to why a stock will go "to the moon". You say it's explicitly a pump and dump and it's not really, no. Look at GME, the idea w
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by smcn 3y ago
It certainly has that reputation but it is largely unearned in my experience. There is no explicit coordination happening to create pump and dumps. There has, on occasion, been some level of coordination when attempting to trigger a short s
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by smcn 4y ago
I've seen people use ChatGPT to make investment decisions. "AI says that $X is about to squeeze" or "AI says the market is going to crash on X". A huge lack of knowledge as well as an overconfidence about what this
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by smcn 4y ago
I'd recommend you look at something like vimium: https://vimium.github.io/ Gives you vim keybindings across your entire browser. It doesn't solve your issue of having to click through to links but for that, maybe
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by smcn 4y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417 Some of the replies to Musks tweet are pretty abhorrent. I've never really understood the Musk worship but I don't understand how his public undoin
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by smcn 4y ago
I run feetr.io. It's an algorithm which tracks momentum for stocks and uses that to find which stocks have the best chance of increasing in price that day, then sends those out to people on a daily basis. I'm in the process of add
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by smcn 4y ago
Wow, it's just nonstop fun over there. I noticed that a lot of analytics data is missing, tweet count is empty for many days but also all of the historic data for tweets, profile visits, and mentions are just gone. In fact, looking thr
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by smcn 4y ago
Common Lisp, specifically SBCL. Most popular choice (outside of Clojure and Emacs Lisp?). That's the easy answer. You'll encounter more libraries and online answers/resources which will help any growing pains. Quicklisp is us
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by smcn 4y ago
There was a great comment about LispWorks over on the reddit discussion, linked here[0]. I really need to give it a shot at some point, especially as someone doing CL professionally. I know that Lisp is popular on HN but that it's most
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by smcn 4y ago
In place of iterate, as tagbody still has a very specific place in the arsenal that loop doesn't fully solve. Or maybe it does and I'm missing something. I'm probably missing something. Absolutely agreed that iterate would cl
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by smcn 4y ago
The lisp LOOP macro is an excellent example of a DSL done right, in my opinion. It does exactly what you'd expect and allows you to write English sentences to solve problems. I know that there are factions of lispers who are against it
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by smcn 4y ago
This is one of the funniest posts I've seen in a while. Best of luck, be careful haha.
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by smcn 4y ago
Had to check that out and you're absolutely right but you missed out that the top selling artist of all time is actor John Cusack. For some reason that's bamboozling me. https://www.voice.com/johncusack https:&#x
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by smcn 4y ago
Not the most up to date I believe but there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_...
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by smcn 4y ago
"Woke" can now mean anything you want it to mean, it's just a dismissive buzzword that you can levy against people you don't like. Predominantly people on the right of the political spectrum throwing it at people left of
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by smcn 4y ago
So in effect you don't care about the issue and are content with how things are? I'm sorry, I'm not sure that I understand what stance you're taking. Misinformation is not an issue to you, would that be correct? Requirin
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by smcn 4y ago
Would Chinas inability to contain conversations give you pause as to how achievable that goal is? Would you be looking at criminalising lies and the spreading of them, even without knowing its a lie? If so, how many people would be prosecut
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by smcn 4y ago
I don't blame you for having a US centric view point but I will say that this issue is affecting far more countries than just the US. [edit] Sorry, to directly reply: I'm unsure what it is that you would prefer happen? Nothing? It
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by smcn 4y ago
It's a multiplier sure, but this is a completely new issue we're having (at least on this scale). It's caused by social media, that's not really up for debate. You cannot prevent lies or deception, that's not within
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by smcn 4y ago
We haven't recently invented the concept of a lie, so the idea of "that's just how we are" rings hollow. People are being radicalised by qanon, incels, redpill, the alt-right, <insert the group you dislike> at an i
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by smcn 4y ago
Are you trying to say that biology is the root cause? The content is successful as it emits a reaction from us. Whether a good reaction or a bad one, we still engage with it. Whether you're binge watching a TV show you love or hate scr

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