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I am not against charging certain actors in the 2008 crisis with fraud and manipulation either.

The 2008 recession is not really a comparable event to the current GME short squeeze. It was rather a broad series of events, most of which were unfortunately legal, some of which were probably not.

In that case I would be in favour of charging the ratings agencies with fraud, and possibly the financial regulators with gross incompetence.

Edit: I don't see it as "big guys vs small guys". I see it as "law abiding people vs not".

So my reaction is not "its unfair to prosecute the little guy," but rather "we didnt get those criminals but at least we can get these criminals."
>Absent tooling to detect dead ode
I'm not sure if this is a pun that is over my head or a typo.

Thanks for the article. I think the most difficult issue to solve is the meetings one, especially now that so much work is being done remotely. It's easy to have inconclusive meetings in engineering because you can just handwave your way through a project that drags on for too long and any non-technical stakeholders will have no choice but to put up with it. Also, engineering is complex and it's easy to over-commit and end up with really tough problems to solve.

One thing I'd like to add is that a "meeting" should minimize the number of active participants. If a "meeting" has more than 4 people it should be considered a presentation. It's a waste of to be in a meeting and trying to follow a conversation that you aren't involved in. If there is information in that conversation that others need to hear, it should be documented in some way.
For some reason the capitalization keeps changing after I post. Mods feel free to change.
Makes sense that Facebook would fight anything that helps people realize how many ways they track and manipulate users.
Some folks have no choice but to bootstrap at The Man. There’s no startup accelerator for starting your own fund.
That would probably be union types[0] (or plain old dynamic typing) with checks like `is_null($val)` and `$val instanceof Type`.

Offline typecheckers (not included with PHP) can analyze the control flow to prove that any invalid types have been ruled out when an operation happens. It's not nearly as principled as proper sum types, but it works alright in practice.

PHP's upcoming enums are simple values, more like C's enums than Rust's enums.

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.declarations.ph...
I'm one of the 4M new subscribers. I am not new to WSB though. I didn't sub because I didn't want the noise but seeing as this is interesting to me now I subbed. I'm sure there are plenty of others in the same boat.
"Don't let the customer see how the sausage is made lest they rush to puke in the back alley" is rule #1 for very many businesses.
Apple sees privacy as a marketable point of differentiation to its competitors. I for one appreciate that Apple’s approach is a choice available to me as a consumer.

Meanwhile, the arc of Google’s Android platform has been steadily bending away from open source, not towards it.
Geez, you gotta wonder if the whole world went blind if it might not be a better place.
It's been a very long time since I owned a Thinkpad, 2001-ish. To give a time frame around this time there were companies like Circuit City was busted with the rise of Fry's Electronics. I'm unsure if Best Buy's was a thing at the time. The look of the Thinkpads are still very similar to ones today, but of course very modernized to times then.

I would very much appreciate who might be able to weigh in their experience who has used both a Thinkpad and a Macbook book as primary machines. It's been a while since I last purchased a pc-based laptop and would like to explore options again. Another I was interested in the past include Alienware.
These are paper gains. None of these investors have closed their position. Most of them probably can’t so long as GME is part of the index they are pegged to.
The risk is that the million or whatever new users who just funded their account with an ACH transfer from their checking account don't actually have those funds in their bank.
This headline ignores the lesson everyone should have learned by now.... you don't instantly make or lose money in the stock market... it only happens when you open and close positions.

Since it was all buy and hold driving up the price... few sold... Billions of stock certainly weren't sold.
Not only the assumptions at the application layer, but potentially the filesystem too.
I'm not aware of any other institution that allows to to take on debt by accident.
> In theory (because who knows how tf it actually works irl), they now need to buy shares in order to sell them at the contracted price.

This assumes that the old shorts haven't already been closed. Existing shorts could very well just be those that've been created within the last couple days at the current overvalued price.

> Meanwhile, brokerage CEOs are hinting (and more) at market integrity-level issues yesterday. Solvency of clearing houses and other infrastructure stuff that we only hear about during a scandal.

Yup, the Chairman of Interactive Brokers was pretty explicit.

> We are worried about the integrity of the marketplace and the clearing system

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/interactive-brokers-restrict...
April 1, 2021 - Gamestop announces intention to acquire Apple

edit: Jesus folks, this is obviously a joke. Lighten up HN!
Pretty misleading considering that they’re all institutions except for Ryan Cohen which I believe is also not a private stake.
This just goes to show how absurd some of characterizations in the media were. eg.

Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942863
and then there's intraday lol
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Someone is always going to be the biggest, you can't just label something popular as a monopoly and then say "the smaller competitors don't count", of course they count, the entire problem with a monopoly is that competitors can't survive because the monopoly has exclusive control of the market, but this isn't the case with websties, if my site has 10 million users it isn't in any way impacted by the fact that another site has 100m users.
As I understand it, the risk is not to do with the adenovirus but with the use of PEG (polyethylene glycol) or similar analogues, to make the active ingredient last longer, which may cause an allergic reaction[1] to sensitized people. The AZ vaccine does not use PEG (nor J&J, Novovax IIRC).

The complication with the adenovirus carrier is that you immune system may attack the carrier so effectively that you don't get enough exposure to the coronavirus protein that it is carrying, and hence don't develop a strong enough immune response to it. This causes problems determining how people will respond to varied treatment schedules (delay of the booster shot, mixing of vaccines, etc).[2][3]

The mRNA vaccines do not get your cells to 'appear infected'. See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcTEmHlvY10

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/suspicions-grow-nano...
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152500160...
[3] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/02/ta...
On the other hand, you could just allow free speech and expression, a strategy that has worked extremely well in western civilization for at least the last 500 years.

For instance, I have no problem with letting Nazis present their views - it only makes them look as ridiculous as they actually are, and tyranny by Nazis is no better than tyranny by Socialists/Communists, so reasonable people who are not ignorant of history should strongly oppose both. (Although, arguably, the Nazis were far less effective at killing millions of people than the Communists were...)
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I'm reasonably sure I could write a basic site, make it look as good as I can make things look given my sense of design, without searching.

If I was allowed to look at what I already have on my machine I could even set up a build process for my site. If not allowed then no build process.

But it would probably be pretty slow to write this, depending on how basic the site was, and it would not be as good as if I could look things up when I needed to.

But I wouldn't be able to deploy without searching.
Think about how this would have played out without the degenerates. Millions of shares floating, disinformation campaigns find their fruit in people who don't do their research. Shorters can cover their shares a few thousand at a time, cause the price to rise a bit, then do a touch of market manip to bring it right back down.

Rinse and repeat over a few weeks and the positions are clear. It's expensive because there's lots of interest but the amount of float is allowing massive under-the-radar moves. Very soon people lose interest because there won't be much in the way of massive gains anymore

The fact that the price keeps picking back up after every single dip means only one thing. There's still massive pressure going on. If this market were rational, it would clear. It's not clearing. No way GME is worth $360.

If it weren't for the HODLers, the only thing that would drive the price back up would be news stories piquing interest. That's not what we're seeing here. It's picking right back up because the people the shorters wanted to sell, didn't.
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No, the issue is that Robinhood is a startup brokerage with likely very few actual assets.
Go try to get a $2M short term loan using a $1M home as collateral. You will get laughed out of every bank in the country.

Now try to get investors to invest $2M for half of your home, again the mirth and laughter will be rampant. Eventually you will find someone to lend or invest $700K but it will take months to close and meanwhile Robinhood is dead.
Stock has a 2 day settlement period, so Robinhood could pay out, but it would have a 2 day delay before an ACH transfer would start when liquidating their account.
So you're saying that even if a developer doesn't want to bother with the tracking, the FB store will demand you put stuff in to feed their beast? Again, I still say that the device itself will need to grant an app access to things like GPS, etc. If the user says OK to that request, then whatevs, but the OS will still force the app to request permission.
Yes, my comment was harsh. I am happy for the guy, really, especially as a Bostonian.
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Unless the PDF has every letter placed by independent PostScript like commands or - worse - text has been imported from an SVG file.

pdfgrep is at best probabilistic and I stand by my comment..
On the other hand I am a EU citizen married to UK citizen, living in the US, so my skin in the game is mainly emotional.

I am not saying EU was/is always right, as they don't seem to be right in this case, but I was just hoping that BBC would be more subtle about it. I am totally fine with UK/AstraZeneca pushing back hard.

Just don't see the need for BBC to turn it to a "us vs them" thing. I think I am still living in denial in regards to Brexit. I guess I will have to get used to it.
I love using Scena for virtual meetings, especially formal ones. It's fun and the background noise also feels more natural than the deafening silence of z*m calls :)
I mean, this is just a list of the largest institutional holders, not like, a list of people who bought out of money options and cashed in.
I’ve been surprised to have seen this kind of comment here at HN more and more this week. The specific claim in this comment is one that is being made at /r/wallstreetbets, among many others. Over there, users seem to delight in repeating statements like this and not providing any supporting evidence or adding their own arguments. I think being an echo chamber is meant to be part of the fun of that subreddit at this moment.

But why do this on HN also? I can only guess that the users here are personally invested in GME and are hoping to increase their own profits by spreading the word and convincing more investors to join in with them. If this is the case, it seems to be at odds with how Hacker News is generally used and I am surprised to see it being tolerated so much by the administrators.
What is stopping you from making and sharing one?
> The world doesn't revolve around Facebook.

Well said. However, if you are a business owner today who wants to be able to put out their app to half their customer base, your world does revolve around Apple, which is what those of us who don't agree with the way Apple runs its App Store hegemony don't want to happen.
I think the tool is probably this one: https://hn.algolia.com/
That makes no sense. Apple is guilty for doing the right thing?

If you want to demonstrate market dominance, write a clear definition into the law and enact it.
Not at all.

What is Apple's monopoly? It is not in Smartphones, they barely have 50% share. Their monopoly is on access to iOS users.

You cannot claim iOS is a monopoly without saying the same thing about Facebook. Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook users.
Taking out a loan, in itself, doesn't indicate insolvency. If it did, nobody would lend, ever. Now defaulting on a loan - that does indicate insolvency.
Well, to be fair, the article doesn't say anything about that the chosen set of mechanics (novelty) have to provide fun. Actually, this seems to be the usefulness part of creativity, or as they describe it, how "playable and entertaining" "appropriate observers" perceive the game.

As you already refer to LeBlanc's "8 kinds of fun": he also is one of the authors of the MDA framework - a framework to analyze games - which states, that the mechanics of a game are the only thing game designers can influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA_framework (the article itself is linked in there)

While the authors don't state it directly as this framework, they refer to the framwork as an explanation of why they use mechanics.
It's a bit flippant to call a person dressed as a police officer you don't know an armed stranger, but it's factually true, which contextualizes the decision.

I don't know what you think the upside is of letting someone in a police uniform you don't know to come into your home is, no matter how rosy your view of the police.

That does not mean being completely unhelpful. That does not being unfriendly to police officers you know. That does not mean being unwelcome to police officers places that are open to the general public, like your porch, your business, your club's facility, etc. It just means that you keep your private residence private to people you didn't invite in unless legally required not to.
Never have, never got into it. Edit directly on shell. Muscle memory, creature of habit. :) also still only write procedural PHP myself.
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Web browsers are applications where similar arguments apply. Facebook once had thousands of 3rd party applications running on their platform and has steadily removed support for most of them. I’m not asking on behalf of a random weather app; I’m asking on behalf of an application with more users than iOS. I don’t think there’s a universe where Apple removes Facebook from the App Store. At that point, why are you a mere app developer or why should you be treated as such?

As an aside, I’m asking the question very sincerely. I’m always open to more developer platforms - it’s in my professional interest.
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He got what, banned from supervising a hedge fund for 2 years for insider trading? If the punishment he received from the SEC constitutes "war" in the financial markets then I don't think you understand the viewpoint that sees the the SEC as handing out trivial punishments.
Not all of short selling is bad. Sometimes it's an act of activism. Bill Ackman has been shorting Herbalife for years while trying to expose the pyramid scheme that it is. He was quite successful for a number of years. Similarly, Hindenburg Research, which was shorting Nikola Motors, revealed a lot of fraudulent stuff surrounding Nikola's public statements and their demo truck video.
The WSB guys are talking about this in their coded meme terms about diamond hands and it's not over til it's over language.

They're basically loudly signalling that they will not sell until the short float is down.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489423
What happens to the old equipment? Scrap?
Apple apps don’t do what Apple is restricting other developers from doing here, so any claim that these restrictions aren’t applied to their own apps is moot.
It is interesting how close the two events are. He tried to resign, they refused and transferred him to a hell-hole. Shortly thereafter, he dies.
Please refer to the OP, who was talking about closing trails in order to prevent the wear-and-tear on the environment that vehicles exert.
wouldn't it be a squeeze every time a short position has to be closed out?
You've never heard of a reversed PayPal or bank transaction that leaves users with a negative balance?
archive.org link - https://web.archive.org/web/20210129191423/https://learn.rob...

And for the “what is communism” article referred to below:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201021210843/https://learn.rob...
Totally subjective, but one thing I'd give Pony over Erlang is likable, consensual syntax. Erlang is weird, for no particular reason.
Yeah this article left a pretty sour taste in mouth. Every interview I've heard with Loeb has been pretty interesting and humble as he purports a new theory.
Your job probably doesn't have the strange coincidence of land you own getting zoned commercial and increasing 10x in value by pure random chance.
So the crucial thing for me would be: are the reference docs for may language/library/OS considered external resources? Can I type man in a terminal? Can I use a Python repl to explore the data structures? If so, then, yes, I can. But I had to go double tab on http.server to remember what was in there.

I used to commute on a ferry, and was offline for that commute. Often I would do some coding (more often I was writing), and a tool like Dash that put reference docs offline was essential.
I really think Robinhood might go out of business before Gamestop.
> I can only guess that the users here are personally invested in GME

bingo
More like "A disturbance was felt in the force as if 500 thousand investors all cried out 'YOLO' before discovering their GameStop stocks are worthless after giving all their money to 9 other investors."
Cool, thanks for the tip my man!
Excluding China is motivated reasoning - and even doing so still shows the opposite conclusion to the one he's clearly desperate to validate. What if I excluded Venezuela or North Korea in order to boost the conclusion that I've decided on a priori?
And a whole bunch of guys on WSB made a killing too
This story is ridiculous. Like everyone else has said, these are paper gains to (mostly) institutional investors.
Please email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to and we'll give you some tips about how to present this to HN.
Your own source:

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We need not assume that interest rates were "economic" in the sense of being within the ability of most cultivators to pay. Abject need was the motive for agrarian debt. A key financial dynamic of ancient civilizations was precisely the problem of debt arrears (including unpaid tax collections) mounting up beyond the ability of many borrowers to pay. This is what led to the royal amargi, andurarum and misharum "Clean Slate" proclamations of Mesopotamia during 2400-1700 BC, cancelling agrarian debts (but not commercial obliga- tions, that is, the placement of money with tamkaru-merchantsto finance their trade ventures).
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(Sorry for the long quote)

It then goes on to list the common interest rates of borrowing money for various markets which includes a listing for Mesopotamia. Just because they engaged in debt cancellation doesn't mean they didn't practice usury - quite the opposite, indicates they practiced it quite a bit.

Practically, the anthropological origins of usury prohibitions have very little to do with non-usury markets. Even those groups which you listed practice usury - they simply put those who practice it into secondary (or lower) social groups.

The reference to communism attempts isn't a non-sequitor since depending on the particulars of their brand of communism they either want to limit usury to only a national/popular entity or get rid of it entirely. When discussing non-usury based markets they are basically the closest modern examples we have - and it's worth noting the only surviving self-labeled communist country with a functioning economy is China, who allows usury!
> And I mean if you want, ask RH and they'll downgrade to to a cash account... just be ready for T+2 and no options trading

You can do options trading on a cash account. You can only do covered options, but honestly that's probably a good restriction for most.
Not really. A DHTs can perform this without a centralized discovery service. Bit torrent for instance uses this, and clients can trade peers without being on the DHT.

Additionally there's so many bittorrent clients that there's millions of machines in the DHT and even a brute force search of IPv4 is't going to take long to find one of the millions, which will happily give you dozens of other peers.

So sure many clients include a bootstrap server for the DHT, but that's needed once and you can skip that if you are willing scan a few 1000 hosts for a client.

I've pondered writing a DHT based client for signal like functionality (sync messages, async messages, and resistance to traffic analysis), I don't see any technical blockers. I get why signal is centralized and does have some attractive features that would be hard to match with a p2p setup. In particular quick startups, low message latency, and battery/network efficiency. With that said I think a p2p e2e chat client is quite feasible.

What would make it MUCH more feasible is people started buying wallwart arm systems (more common years ago), or raspberry Pis and ran a p2p client as a service so that clients in the home could leverage the service for email, chat, file transfers, etc.
It's well-known that people are influenced by the number and relative value of options. It may be that very few people purchase the $49 option, but that its mere presence makes people more likely to purchase a higher tier.

And by having the $49 tier present, the company can advertise that their pricing "starts at $49".

Also, there are probably some people whose purchase authority is limited to $1,000/yr.
It is fun seeing other people lose money
Your first point is very important, but your second is incorrect. Volume of trading has been very high, actually. And remember: you can't buy without someone else selling.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
I understand that privacy is point of differentiation but on Android you can still load any .apk file on any Android device on iOS devices not so much.
MUST unloaded their position for over a billion: https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20210128440/lar...
Yeah, I have a hard time believing it's just small retail investors.
"15 minutes" to settle cash for next trade is enough "instant" for most traders I think. The part that irritates people is the "2 business days" problem in the regular account.

I have heard it is complicated, but can someone elaborate the "computing cost" of a regular (non-coin) digital transfer?

Btw, transfers within 15 minutes are being done all over the world without the fancy blockchain and coin. I do understand the need for some transfers to be delayed , say liquidating all of one's investment to take a few days just for security reasons.
You might think IBD would understand the difference between realized and unrealized gains. And that it was reporting on very stale data.
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