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Unfortunately, I think, "conservative" has become nearly synonymous with bad faith arguments, blatant lies, racism, libel, violence, and other bad things no one really complains about being "censored" unless it's framed as a conservative ideal, or said by a self-proclaimed conservative.

I personally know plenty of people that are conservative that can have intriguing discussion about small government, personal freedoms, right to bear arms, etc, without even hinting at any of the bad things. But, at least lately, I don't see many (any?) conservative politicians, "leaders", or pundits that don't lean on those bad things rather heavily.

The problem with building a personal identity on words is that words have different meaning in peoples minds based on event and actions that happen in the name of those words, doesn't matter what it says in Merriam-Webster.

So, I think, if you identify as any label, reality requires that you immediately and strongly denounce the things done in it's name that you think shouldn't be. Not only do I not see much denouncing of those things going on in self-proclaimed conservative circles, I see them being actively excused and even doubled down on.

Seems a bit late to turn the word back around, if that's actually what "conservatives" want, probably time to find a new word and protect it's meaning a strongly as possible.
May or many not be, until we have discovery and actual third party audit.

If corporations can decide which politicians to platform, count the votes, and can sue into bankruptcy politicians that question the results, than clearly power rests with the corporations and the oligarchs. Politicians are just for show.

As a cynical citizen, I'm going to assume that if it wasn't possible to adjust the vote totals, their machines wouldn't have been picked. Responsibility for transparency is on them. Full third party audit, random vote sample statical analysis, and so on. Would be much more preferable to instil confidence in their corporation than suing a disgruntled politician.
A LOT of people bought GME at $350 thinking they would get rich. Propoganda on WSB basically convinced you that it would go to $1000 next week. At some point it stopped being about hedge funds and became a standard pump and dump.
That’s a good resource for sure, so thanks for pointing people there. Basically, it would be great to take that year’s Racket School and turn it into an expanded and more streamlined work.
What are we investigating here? If we are investigating the market structure of equities and how that effected the shut down of trading to a specific class of investors, individuals, and not others, institutions, then absolutely Citadel is a major part of that. The are the primary PFOF market maker, and the #1 counterparty to Robinhood. Not saying that did happen, not saying it didn't, but Citadel is central to any conversation around equity market structure.

When is it so vital that Yellen, who is an economist and former Fed official and not an expert at all in equity market structure, so vital to be involved in this investigation? What expertise does she have to no one on the SEC staff has?
I need to watch the new series of this show, it's on my list of things to watch next, I have seen first season only. How are the new episodes? Good quality?
This explains what's actually happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI&feature=youtu.be
People overrate the number of smart people and the number of dedicated writers. Most literature is just hacks copying hacks to make a buck.
Exactly. Expect Prime membership to cost more and deliver less. New suits aren’t going to be beholden to Jeff’s mode of thinking and this historical precedent. We may well see Video culled outright or spun off into another media subscription, etc.
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All the comments here are praising Bezos/Amazon as if they are some kind of Gods at innovation and yet Kindle has completely destroyed and crippled innovation in eBooks. They've so much potential but due to Amazon's monopoly, we're still stuck in the 90s when it comes to eBooks.
> switch the current economic system which has been the root cause of societal development

Strawman argument, and red herring. Just because we rely on something immoral that brought some value does not mean that there isn't a superior solution.

> switch to a fairy-tail system which you describe but miraculously does not and has not ever existed

Proper Islamic finance exists and has existed and has built empires.

> One where people will lend out money for free!

That's only in a capitalistic society where the only way to raise capital is lending. No they won't lend money for free (except if they want to be charitable). The solution is that money would be invested and risk shared equally among both parties, investor and investee, not lender and borrower, it's very different.

> This is hilarious because its just another form of lending which in fact does yield interes

It's very different. With an interest bearing loan, if the company doesn't work out, the lender will come after the borrower with the full support of the law, taking not only his principal, but the interest on top, destroying the latter. With an investment, if it doesn't work out, then the investor has lost his money and is not owed anything. It's risk sharing.

> and the average auto loan absolutely has a non-zero interest rate

I'm aware, but I wasn't talking about the average auto loan. You see it all the time when auto manufacturers offer 0% loans on certain models because they want to sell.

> Handing out low interest loans indiscriminately is irresponsible and the cause of massive economic damage throughout history.

Poison is still poison, regardless of the amount. The solution is not to give out more poison.

> The government is "taking out the loan" by issuing bonds and paying an interest rate to the bond buyers. So which side is unethical? The lender or the borrower?

Both are unethical. The Islamic perspective is that both the lender and borrower are equal in terms of sin (assuming the borrower is not doing it out of literally a life or death situation, which let's be frank, the vast majority of people are not in such a situation).

> Like which?

Islam prohibits interest, look up the Islamic empires all the way until the Ottoman empire.

> nobody is going to lend money without financial incentive. Why accept the risk?

That's the whole point. Without financial incentive, loans in Islam are purely an act of charity. If you want to invest your money, you invest it in ethical means that involve proper risk sharing. Interest bearing loans aren't that, there are countless other ways to make money. There were and are many rich Muslims that did not make their wealth using interest, but through investments.
It seems pretty reasonable that a few hundred scared politicians is more important than a larger number of small businesses burned.

I think both are bad, but the difference between a “competent coup” that kills the scared politicians and the stupid incompetence that was the capitol riot can only be known afterwards.

I think this fits into the concept that political violence is worse than regular violence.
> that the GP is conflating debt leverage and interest

I'm not :)

> The yield on these loans is always strictly positive, and an interest rate equivalent to that yield is easily calculated. You can shift payments around and structure things so that there's nominally no interest, but there's still yield on the loan.

In Islam, any loan that contractually requires benefit to the lender is prohibited, and that benefit does not have to be cash either, it could be a service or something intangible. Any attempt to dance around the issue (e.g. by stitching together intermediate contracts) does not change the fact that it is still interest under the covers, nominally or not. Islam cares about the actual substance, not what people call it on paper. This is already established in the texts which anyone can look at. As such, contractum trinius is prohibited in Islam.

Proper Islamic finance shares risk between the investor and investee, loans are strictly an act of charity since they cannot take interest. By looking at history, we know that it is possible to have societies that do not rely on interest, but on proper risk sharing. They don't teach that in the popular economic books though.
>> “My son is golden because he has a degree from Stanford University.”

>>I explained why employers are absolutely wrong for thinking his son is better than someone without a degree or a degree from a public university.

Both of these things can be true.
The populist atmosphere surrounding it all was very attractive, to me included.

But I worry that like a lot of heated populist rhetoric it is misguided, or even entirely dishonest.

We just went through a presidency with someone who loved populist rhetoric, but whose actions were anything but. It happens a lot sadly.
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> You know, if you actually visit the sub, you'd know that.

I'm not sure this part is needed for you to convey your point.
I'm sure that app review is a hard problem. But it seems like Apple has the worst of both worlds sometimes -- HN frequently puts cases where an existing, very successful app gets suddenly dinged for something, or a new app from a big vendor gets nailed on a point of policy. Meanwhile absolute shovelware like this seems to be able to clear the review process no problem.
Crediting amazon for "public cloud computing" is pretty ridiculous. Managed VPS services were a thing when Amazon was still a book store.

Yes, Amazon's services make things easier and in some instances cheaper. None of it was really inventive, though, and definitely not comparable to the list of Bell inventions.
When "GPS Speedometer" gets $200K/month in subscriptions, Apple gets their cut of that whether the app is legitimate or not.
Imagine being a billionaire and then avoiding taxes. No matter how you look at it you are always going to remain in the tres commas club and afford a fleet of yachts, mansions, rare Nike Jordans and throw parties for instagram models in Tulum.

Yet you still do it.
It depends if we're talking Solaris the movie or the Solaris the book. The book makes it clear that the ocean is reading the minds of the space ship inhabitants somehow and attempting communications with them by recreating familiar objects through neutrinos that they can somehow physically interact with. Subsequently the book is all about an attempt to establish communication with the ocean while at the same time enduring its phantoms, with the end result being that humans are unable to decipher the intentions of the ocean or communicate with it in any way.

Expanse is more along the lines of "geopolitics in space" with the protomolecule being a MacGuffin to drive the plot along and create space zombies and wormholes. Which isn't to be derisive, as I find it very entertaining, but I don't feel like it's delving deep into the scientific or philosophical ramifications of first contact.
Watching HN get caught up in this Gamestop bubble over the past week has been eye-opening to me about the community. The kind of information being spread around WSB was fully ridiculous. Wild conspiracy theories, financial advice with no basis in reality, astroturfing, and mob behavior. There has been an incredible amount of bleed-over between the garbage I've seen posted on WSB and the things posted in these HN threads and far too much reverence for a cesspool.

I think HN likes to believe it is evidence based and rational instead of emotional and greedy. A more enlightened and civilized corner of the internet. I have not been seeing much of that lately. It turns out the promise of riches is enough to make any community lose it's collective mind.

Here is a truism for you all: In any casino the players may win or lose, but the house always wins. If you think any bet is a guaranteed win, you have lost your rationality.
The games are fun. We played it with our team, and it does bring a few laughs out (we did have the zoom on, by side).

Are you folks launching more games?
So much this. /r/wallstreetbets is going to struggle to recover. It's absolutely Eternal September.

I've been subbed to WSB for about 5 years, ever since someone at work (prop trading) mentioned it as basically being a bunch of 25-30 yo finance people hanging out and doing dumb shit in their personal accounts for fun. I'll admit, I did some dumb stuff myself, trying to time UVXY/TVIX plays. (Basically netted 0 of course). But it was fun to shitpost about it. This is astrology for finance bros.

And it'd been going a bit down-hill already, but most people were still that same description: young blood, day job in finance, knows what they're doing at both a mechanical and risk level, etc. And the content reflected it.

Then somehow, one of those internet things happened. WSB became a hit, people flooded in, the mod team was overwhelmed, media attention flooded in making everything worse, etc. I feel like this is what a lot of /r/the_donald people ended up now that they're looking for a new cause. So much of the rhetoric I saw once the WSB Old Guard had been overwhelmed mirrored the kind of stuff you saw out of the_donald back in 2016.
That’s actually a really good example too. The fact I didn’t shows how far they’ve slipped of late.
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The guy is probably undervalued and his resume suggests he likes building things from scratch.
I find my problem with people defending figures like Yellen accepting speaking money is that they will often put forward the most charitable explanation of this behavior. "She's an accomplished woman who held one of the most powerful positions in global financial regulation! Of course big banks and hedge funds want her to come and speak."

Why should we give our public officials the benefit of the doubt? Why should they get the charitable viewpoint? Imo, if you hold the absolutely shocking amounts of power someone like Yellen does, where your post has significant control on the oversight and regulation of the most powerful free market economy in history, you NEED to have your feet held to the fire with regards to stuff like bribery. Our system has become corrupted due to charitable explanations.
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The problems on HN are quite telling. I agree with your statement. I just wish there was a good alternative to HN.
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It seems like lidar has a good result in certain safety cases. Is that a parked white truck stopped in front of you? I tractor trailor crossing the road? Is that a highway divider I'll be steering you into? These are just some of the accidents I think of with vision that might have been avoided with lidar.

In particular, for pedestrians, bicycles, other vehicles, maybe even children running in street, is the limited resolution enough to still substantially increase safety?

Where I got with this - hitting a brick is bad. Hitting a person is much worse. A fair number of never hit type items seem to still be picked up with Lidar.

But all good points.
A personal investor wouldn't be appropriately called a hedge fund, though. A hedge fund is, by definition, funded by a pool of investors. We are talking about hedge funds here.
I haven't read this book, but I intuit that its point is that we're to awaken to the fact that all our industrial contrivance is to blame for all our misery.

This deeply clicks with me and where I'm personally at in my growth. Technology is bullshit, and it is unsatisfying. The maximal emotional return I can get from creating industrial technology is the knowledge that I'm either dominating others or helping others be dominate. That's flatly garbage in comparison to the return I get from growing an herb on my counter and using it to make tea for my friends.

It's taken me quite some time to extricate my own personal wellbeing from the meatgrinder of western industrial life. As a matter of principle now, I can't really think deeply into how the wider world would ingest such a perspective, and whether or not it's ready for it. Such fruitless contemplations were the reasons for the depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues of my twenties.

This is happening in many spheres. Some call it spiritual awakening, others call it a mental health crisis, and yet more call it The Great Reset and seem to frame it in economic terms. Economy is pure human contrivance -- "logy" should be the root we use for the term we use to describe our relationship to the system we subsume, not "nomy".

All in all I agree -- this is by far the most interesting stuff and represents a distinct segment of growth amongst the intellectual body of western industrial humanity. I'll probably catch some neg for saying this, but all of this stuff is common sense amongst indigenous communities. They naturally have the correct context to automatically hold these perspectives.
You're correct, they're just thinking they found loopholes around the issue. Islamic texts explicitly call out this behavior and prohibits it. You can't stitch together individual legal contracts to reach the goal of lending money with interest. You can't "kid" God.
Interesting point, the image of a bunch of these blowing up in testing might loom large in people's minds once it starts carrying people, even if they rationally know it's had a much better safety record since then.
Likewise I've recently gotten back into RSS - thanks to this new breed of RSS readers (feedbin and others) that also let you subscribe to email newsletters. So handy to get that clutter out of my inbox. Wrote a bit about this recently: https://paulstamatiou.com/hello-rss/
I think there is a name for people positioning themselves in the market on the advice of self-proclaimed "retards and autists"
GME's 52 week low is $2.57.

Without knowing when they entered their position. It was hovering around $4 for a long time last year.

Even if they bought in at $5, selling at $20 is absolutely a win. Yes, they could have gambled and HODL'd, but there's no reason to gamble after seeing a 4x increase on a stock very few people expected would ever break $10.
I'm still looking for blockchain-pitches where a small MySQL server wouldn't do the same job better and with less complexity.
Is it clear that Amazon delivery is worse for emissions? Isn't it better to have one truck deliver everyone's goods, versus each person individually driving to the store (which also has a much larger geographical footprint than a warehouse, per item)?

I'm willing to concede that Amazon may well have driven overall consumption up. Also, anything being shipped by air is causing way more emissions by weight than any amount of people driving to the stars. But I still wonder how this balances out against the efficiency of a delivery van; I don't think the answer is that obvious.
> Monaco is actually pretty biased against women in its divorce laws

Monegasque divorce laws are not gendered and there are plenty of wealthy women in Monaco.

Alimony also has a fixed time period of 5 years.

What part of that do you find controversial as opposed to practical? Its more like generous severance as opposed to a perhaps merely more familiar concept of alimony.

This would give the liberty for MacKenzie, for example, to be sure that she got her own vesting agreements and her own shares in the organization they founded together. It moves the agency back to the individuals as opposed to assuming they are going to be starry eyed infants that are going to get screwed over. If people want to decouple marriage from any financial considerations, this is the way to do it, focus on the love. If they want to be business partners then write them into the separate business. If they want to have their supporting unpaid labor valued, then their moonlighting as a personal assistant is valued in the six figure ranges just like professionals.
I think you're absolutely correct. Stock picking is roughly a winner-take all game where you are facing off against incredibly smart and prepared people.

Unfortunately, I have heard of several people[1] that have switched from passive funds to research and stock picking. One week of market silliness may have un-did decades of teaching the public to not pick individual stocks.

While it's nice that more people are going to start reading 10-Qs and learning what a put is, it's almost certainly going to be a net-negative.

[1]https://twitter.com/TrumpSC/status/1354197824494325764
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Yeah it's called slactivism - if you can send thoughts and prayers and do a little social media virtue signaling well job done and you didn't have to leave the house.
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The difference is the HN hype train might cause you some headaches from picking an immature tech stack. Whereas the WSB echo chamber has literally ruined thousands of people's lives and retirements.
> ps. amazon employee #2

Oh wow that's nice. Yeah, Amazon was definitely a better name choice.
Defi works regardless of the price of the underlying asset
I completely agree. If you're directly using a SHA hash for password storage, even with salt, you're doing it so incompetently that you should probably be fined.

At the very least use a well-studied iterated salted hash algorithm for storing passwords (if you must authorize an incoming request later). That is a minimum bar. I generally recommend argon2. Reasonable alternatives are bcrypt, scrypt, and PBKDF2. PBKDF2 is weak against hardware, but it's still better than using a hash directly.

I teach a class on developing secure software, and students have to do a final project. I take off points if they directly use SHA for password storage; that's just not acceptable.
Awesome :)

Yes do have a very interesting new game that I can't wait to get in the hands of people. Should come out next week most likely.

But all ears to what other kinds of games would you like to play with your team.
Wow there are a lot of boomers in here. The point of the Reddit push was to screw the short sellers who did get screwed. And obviously it’s a pump and dump. And even more obviously everyone knows they are risking their money, no one is risking their life savings as someone else commented. And even if they did that’s their choice
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