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901.
by tempsy 6y ago
i don’t think you can look at Tesla surpassing Walmart in market cap today and rationalize it as normal forward looking behavior when there’s been zero news over the last 10 days outside of a stock split, which in theory should have zero im
902.
by tempsy 6y ago
that doesn’t read “needs to be dismantled” at all
903.
by tempsy 6y ago
none of them? stocks have never been more detached from the underlying economy than now - i mean look at the total market cap of US stocks to GDP - it’s something like 170%
904.
Former Uber Security Chief Charged with Concealing Hack(nytimes.com)
72 points by tempsy 6y ago|31 comments
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Airbnb indefinitely bans all parties at its listings(techcrunch.com)
2 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
906.
Does Robinhood Make It Too Easy to Trade? From Free Stocks to Confetti(wsj.com)
2 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
907.
by tempsy 6y ago
i don't think the rank and file working for "big tech" are emotionally invested in whether their employer can stay a monopoly or not - if anything lack of competition among large employers means its easier to collude with eac
908.
by tempsy 6y ago
I don't know why anyone reads Ben Evans - he's a sycophant for big tech who seems to lack the ability to objectively reason about monopoly power.
909.
Tesla's stock hits $2000 as bulls run wild, market cap zeroes in on $400B(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
910.
by tempsy 6y ago
I wonder if this will mean a bunch of new car buyers in CA...which would ironically be good for the economy/recovery effort.
911.
by tempsy 6y ago
i use the app on iOS mostly
912.
by tempsy 6y ago
it’s gotten much worse recently
913.
by tempsy 6y ago
i use the app on my phone - guessing there isn’t a way?
914.
by tempsy 6y ago
anecdotally youtube seems to have aggressively increased the number of ads just in the last few weeks or so i see ads on almost all videos i watch now, there are two ads before the video (the first one i can’t skip at all, the second i can
915.
Flooding Again Pounds China’s Three Gorges Dam(wsj.com)
1 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
916.
by tempsy 6y ago
they are benefiting from rise of the "local summer getaway" but that's only one season of the year. what happens in the fall and winter? and to business travel?
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by tempsy 6y ago
Travel might come back but one thing I'm more confident that the pandemic has changed is awareness and empathy for systemic inequities in our society. Uber and Lyft are currently dealing with an existential crisis to their business mod
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QAnon groups hit by Facebook crack down(nbcnews.com)
4 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
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Behind Tesla's denial to deliver cars to Pinduoduo's group buyers(news.cgtn.com)
1 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
920.
by tempsy 6y ago
their Q2 sales were better than a low expectation but in line with other non-holiday quarter, but bread and butter iPhone sales have been very flat for a long time. investors are essentially thinking “if Apple can do the same in Q2 as other
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California’s first plague case in 5 years is confirmed in South Lake Tahoe(latimes.com)
2 points by tempsy 6y ago|2 comments
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The Longest Unprofitable Short I’ve Ever Seen(institutionalinvestor.com)
1 points by tempsy 6y ago|0 comments
923.
by tempsy 6y ago
it's supposed to be a broad index representative of most if not all publicly traded industries. tech is heavily represented because it's become the largest sector as far as total market cap goes. there are equal weighted index tha
924.
by tempsy 6y ago
if you really think the earliest adopters of this project are going to be sharing pirated copies of The Avengers over child porn you don't understand anything about the internet and incentives
925.
S&P 500 Sets First Record Since February, Erasing Its Coronavirus Plunge(wsj.com)
12 points by tempsy 6y ago|6 comments
926.
by tempsy 6y ago
every file storage system has to deal with child porn eg dropbox, google drive, amazon, fb, etc etc. the advantage is they can easily convert files to hashes and delete and remove content at scale + work with law enforcement to find and arr
927.
by tempsy 6y ago
well it's not going to be used to store cat pics point is there will be illicit content being shared, and why would I want to spin up a node and be roped into some FBI investigation because my computer has bits and pieces of the illici
928.
by tempsy 6y ago
nope I like some projects, actually, but if you spin up a node you have no control over the content that is stored on your computer. if you really think the first adopters are going to be sharing cat pics you're being incredibly naive.
929.
by tempsy 6y ago
This project has always felt DOA to me - I can't think of any other possibility than the first adopters for this product being distributers of child porn over just about anything else.
930.
by tempsy 6y ago
The tax should really be tied to the risk free rate - the real issue is sitting on a ton of unproductive cash not necessarily forcing the wealthy to shy away from riskier investments.

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