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> Regulation and fraud are orthogonal to each other

This is a heady statement. It goes against all the research I've seen about international markets, though I'm open to changing my view.
I wish they were doing an ICO instead (but i guess they can't?). $BNB has been the equivalent of shovels in past years.
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I am curious to hear about your experience. What OS and terminal emulator do you use? Do you run tmux on a remote host that you SSH into?

If your terminal emulator doesn't support copy escape codes, and you're running it on a remote server, you need to ssh with X forwarding in order to share your system clipboard.

I realized over the course of this thread that I know a weird amount about configuring tmux. I rely on this feature pretty heavily, so I've had to set up system clipboard integration on Mac and Linux across on multiple different terminal emulators. I'd be happy to help you get a config that works on your system, if you want.
I don't see the relevance of consent: you can't consent on behalf of a third party.

The evidentiary question of whether a customer had actually consented to receive calls/texts from a service to which they had subscribed is separate from the question of liability for using automation to call/text a number that turns out not to belong to a customer.
But the tweet is just pointing out that mismatch, not really blaming anyone for it?
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Thank you for this.

I "move slow and make things" in some sense. I will endeavor to use this as a jumping off point for something constructive rather than leaving a pointless whiney comment about how the world will never understand or appreciate me.
(sarcasm) the government profits from state lotto, it doesn't profit from stock swindlers.
I'm not seeing the problem. What you're saying is that you want to dictate how people spend their money. Why is buying penny stocks a concern to you but spending that same amount of money on travel, cars, beanie babies... is not?

People should be able to spend their money as they please. Again, this is a red herring because their is upside to be had in plenty of these investments. Contrary to the article penny stocks are nowhere near 100% fraudulent.
Not matching for hospital admission status is a pretty big factor given the bold, highly publicized top-line numbers:

> We selected controls from the general population rather than matching to non-covid hospital admissions to determine the increased risk after hospital admission for covid-19 versus no hospital admission for covid-19 (that is, compared with the expected risk for people with similar personal and clinical characteristics in the general population).
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At least where I live, the lottery profits (around 50% of revenues, IIRC) are largely used for charities and just various social organizations and stuff, like sports. I'm not really for lotteries personally, but I think what you said is quite unfair to lotteries all things considered.
I think you're really taking for granted that a trustless system means I don't need to consult some greedy central power to ask them permission to send funds to my family in a restricted country.

If your family was barely surviving in a restricted country I'm sure you would send funds to them as well. I don't derive ethics from existing power structures and I certainly sleep better at night helping people regardless of regulations.

You're free to have your own ethics and disagree with me - that's the beauty of trustless systems, you can make your own decisions as can I.
It's an old strategy. Without an actual edge and significant (read: sophisticated and costly) risk management, that strategy will eventually get blown out by someone who is better at pricing long tail risk events than the seller. There's a reason market makers obsessively delta hedge.

Would hate to have been selling put options on VIAC when Archegos shit the bed on $20B with >4x leverage. Good luck foreseeing that.
Yep. Better to regulate now than have to bail out with taxpayer dollars later.
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hi HN! for best experience please open the link in a mobile browser (safari for ios and chrome for android). So this is something that my team and I have been tinkering with as a cool tool for midcore and hardcore game devs to market their native android games on the browser as a link. What you're experiencing in the above link is a quick ad-demo that we created for Need For Speed:No Limits - using our tech stack. Happy to get some feedback from the community on what you guys think of it.

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Insurance is rooted in statistical analysis.

Buying options, unless you literally buy every option that exists, is not even close to similar.

Did I adequately address your strawman?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/magazine/mone...
All software has a learning curve. I have never bought paid software that instantly solved my problems with no configuration or learning. I think the time cost is intrinsic in all software, it's just that free software doesn't have a dollar cost.

It is something that annoys me, for sure, but it's not unique to "free software".
ADHD gets referenced here frequently as a result of too much screentime/social media etc. However, the hypermobility and ADHD association is pretty well documented. While it's true that people may start to show ADHD like symptoms as a result of the internet etc., no one spontaneously becomes double-jointed because they're distracted by their phones.
That multiplication is entirely implicit, so there is no reason the compiler needs to handle it the same as it handles an explicit multiplication. Given that `p + i` is obviously not an integer addition and it already has much more UB then `i + j`, there is no reason why `i + j` having defined overflow rules needs to mean `p + i` also has them (just like `i + j` is safe for any small enough i and j, while p + i is only meaningful if points within the same object as p (to be fair, its not UB to compute p + i for any i, it's UB to use the value).
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I can't imagine the mental gymnastics required to deny anthopogenic climate change at this point. The data is abundant and reliable, we can see the effects with our own eyes (how many "once in a century" weather events have we been having in the past decade?) and the evidence against anthopogenic climate change comes from organizations that benefit from denying it.
The full article says it is not only for the ICU, and most were not in the ICU:

> 47,780 patients with covid-19 (4,745 admitted to the intensive care unit and 43,035 not requiring admission to the intensive care unit) were included in the analysis

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n693
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How can a regular non-executive employee be guilty of a SEC violation, for something like this?

If I'm a Tesla employee and I make a fake image about a future Tesla airplane, is that a SEC violation?
For the most part, the only time "good, honest, hard working people" make money on the stock market is via their pensions.
Please don't do this to our language

> Guaranteed income is often used interchangeably with Universal Basic Income (UBI) — the difference between the two is that *guaranteed income has qualifications* or requirements to participate.
Options trading is not “literally gambling”. If anything it’s literally selling insurance. I’ve made about $90k this year just selling calls against my stocks and puts for stocks I want to buy, with about a 90%+ win rate.
I'm apparently not most people. I watch far more hours of YouTube every day than I'd like to admit, but I never even notice the like/dislike counts, let alone rely on them to provide any meaningful signal.
Kotlin could easily end up "the next groovy", but it might also end up the next Java, or at least maintain its edge against Java.

Java is rapidly improving, and significant resources are being invested into that effort. To remain relevant Kotlin will have to keep up with Java's improvements, and will also have to retain enough killer features that differentiate it from Java.

Java is going to retain backwards compatibility, as they always have. This is a double-edged sword, of course. It holds Java back from fixing some its most glaring issues, but also keeps people in the ecosystem, and demonstrates desirable stability.

Kotlin, on the other hand, could more easily introduce big, breaking changes. The Kotlin world is more keen on the cutting-edge, and would probably switch to a "Kotlin 2" without much resistance. Plus, JetBrains is extremely well-equipped to provide tools for auto-upgrading old code.
The growing frequency and magnitude of fraud in the penny stock market is absolutely a factual claim. It would be better if the article made it explicitly. But it's implicitly there, albeit only anecdotally substantiated.

The SEC is chronically underfunded. A compelling anecdote in the press isn't an uncommon way for an investigation to start. In that light, this article is an expression of a hypothesis.
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You've been lucky so far. Ask yourself if you actually know what the value of the options you're buying is, why they're priced where they are, what the fundamentals of the company are, what the risks are. If you're not an expert, it's nothing more than gambling. That's ok, gamble if you want to. I do. But don't pretend it's investing, and don't promote it as a good way to make money. You just got lucky in a bull market.
Calling "freedom to be yourself" a political idea is really sad and pathetic.
Regulation leads to regulatory capture which leads to power and information imbalances that are great substrate for fraud. The stock market (not just penny stocks) is highly regulated but I think we could all agree there's fraud happening.

Happy to read any links you have that has evidence contrary to that though.
That is excellent. I've had to tackle a similar issue at my current place, except I am chaining long data pipelines with external repositories together. My solve was an api gateway that was verbose but highly configurable.

I wonder if you've felt the pressure of implementing or embedding a scripting language client side? You're already developing a DSL, whether it's text or graphical is not 100% the point.
This is why "tolerance" basically doesn't exist. Nobody's truly tolerant, they're just tolerant or intolerant towards some particular combination of things.
Microsoft at that time was very much a stereotypical work hard/play hard/sleep in your office/repeat type of place (in at least many departments).

Extra hours aren't that hard to find here or there if you're never leaving.
In the early days, Microsoft was licensed to develop a JVM for Windows. It shipped as part of Internet Explorer, it probably ended up on the majority of Windows machines at the time.

Over time, I believe Microsoft started to implement Windows-specific functions that _only_ worked on their implementation. Eventually Sun sued and I think that's when they lost and had to re-name the product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine
Creating a mess and leaving it to other people to clean it up. It's littering. Even if someone is paid to clean up your litter, you shouldn't litter in the first place.
Good point, an article on a news site should be required.

Simulacrum, simulacra, ...
(I disagree, see discussion above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672461 )
> Please explain to me how I can lose money by writing a covered call option.

When you to sell the underlying to cover. It's right there in the name. Of course you lose money, it's just that your downside risk is capped.

> Us plebs aren't allowed to write naked options, that privilege only belongs to institutional actors.

Yeah because you'll probably lose all your money. Would you rather be allowed to do something incredibly dangerous and then get met with a dispassionate, "Well, almost everyone fails at this but you tried anyway, should have known better! Thanks for playing."?

Writing any amount of uncovered calls where the present stock price is at least higher than the teens generally exposes you to more risk than the average American can absorb with their entire net worth.

That being said, if you really want to, there are places that will let you do it using margin if you guarantee you know what you're doing. Bad idea though.
That’s interesting! You are right the resolution (both spatial and temporal) and accurately coregistering (and then with surgery, brain shift) can be among the limiting factors for clinical use. Plus the difficult in getting good signal.

I suspect this has more to do with where they had it done than anything else. There are neurosurgeons who champion it for sure , but not that many. Most places aren’t set up for it at all from what I’ve seen. I'm guessing her procedure wasnt' done awake, was it? This is a very common way to deal with the functional stuff especially near speech or motor.

Glad to hear she had a good outcome!
I really don’t get where this idea that proprietary software is inflexible comes from. We can’t simultaneously all be working at feature factories and making inflexible software.

Sure, we’ve all had to experience the annoyance of working out the limitations of proprietary software we can’t patch but FAR FAR more common is working around the limitations of FOSS software that is infeasible to patch. You’re probably not going to patch some bug you found in your jdbc driver, tomcat, or nginx because it’s expensive to maintain.

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$company because I have a vendor I can pester to fix my bug or implement my feature.
Under what circumstances would it make sense to invest in Coinbase compared to Bitcoin/underlying? Doesn't really make sense if you're bullish on crypto. Even seed investors who invested in Coinbase when it was founded would've been financially better off just buying Bitcoin/underlying.

The situation here is unique because all of the popular coins have fixed supplies so any increase of popularity will have the commensurate increase in price. I don't see any situation in which Coinbase grows in price faster than the underlying.
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Well, he/she did use the word elite twice in the same sentence....
Anecdotally, my sister and I are both ADHDers with significant hypermobility. My mom has a double jointed thumb but no ADHD, and my dad has (undiagnosed but likely) ADHD but no double joints.
Unfortunately, the nation hasn't been in a mood to compromise since before social media. When was the last time that a President wasn't actively hated by the opposition? Not merely disliked or opposed, but actively considered incompetent and detrimental to the nation? The last time people talked about a "honeymoon period"?

The last one I can remember is George HW Bush -- unless you want to count the brief honeymoon his son was given in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Not that people liked George HW Bush (he didn't win reelection), but he was opposed rather than actively harassed. Arguably Bill Clinton got such a "honeymoon" period, but after that he was opposed with a literal vengeance.

Presidents are a very particular lens to look at this with, but I think it's illuminating. I believe it reflects the nation not being interested in compromise. (There are other interpretations, but I think it's indicative.)

If there was a time that the federal legislature had no issue passing laws, it's at least 30 years ago. That's before a lot of HN users were even born. And it shows no time of abating any time soon. Indeed, it only seems to be growing.
Yes, individuals who cause problems and generally abuse their colleagues should be excluded. <Insert identity selection here> should not be.
"Because of the coronavirus situation, Candy Japan is currently on pause."
So is that the answer to everything? If you want more risk, just lever up 4x on the S&P? Why do other stocks even exist?
I wonder how they decide how many cases to manually label?
The other Microsoft coffee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Online_Forensic_Evide...
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No it's not. Pay me $10,000 or I tell everyone you slept with your secretary is blackmail.
I believe that negative view of do notation is not popular nowadays. The tendency is to lean more on it. There are language extensions like ApplicativeDo and the newer QualifiedDo which expand the reach of the notation.
That's always been the argument, but it's always been perfectly fine for me. I'm using it to run long running background tasks, or just let me switch between multiple remote hosts patching / debugging them, not to render some kind of HD game.
Just shows that he has no sense of humour. Humour isn't usually funny if it isn't pointing at legitimate criticism - in this case, it was making fun of Microsoft. Inability to laugh at yourself just makes you stuck up.
Decoupling is valuable because it lets you grow the food where it’s needed. Food distribution is hard.
Climate research moves from papers to articles to headlines like a game of telephone. I think this is a big problem because it gives your average doomscroller a sense of impending dread and helplessness. Michael E Mann (the famous climate scientist who published the "hockey stick" emissions paper) talks about this in his new book -- "The New Climate War." Check it out.

The body of this article does touch on the actual claim of the paper -- that a myriad of factors linked to climate change have stymied agricultural productivity (particularly in less-affluent countries) compared to what that productivity would have been without those factors -- even though total agricultural output has grown due to better technology and so on.

However, if all you see is the headline the impression you get is: the world is getting hot and our farms aren't being productive enough. That's a different claim that inspires despair, not action.

Climate change is real and very, very scary. But the progress we've made in renewables, battery tech, agricultural yields, desalinization, etc., is really remarkable. It ain't over 'til it's over.
See also "Dumb Starbucks":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0TRpGP8yH4
I don't know about the rest of history, but this is the first point in my lifetime where they've been in control of so many aspects of day-to-day life.
You got it /s
What's actually factual is the NYT says

> But last month, there were 1.9 trillion transactions on O.T.C. markets, an increase of more than 2,000 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a self-regulatory group that oversees brokerage firms.

And

> A 2017 paper from Thomas Renault, a finance professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, analyzed millions of Twitter messages about low-priced stocks. A surge in tweets about a small stock led to big price increases followed by sudden collapses, he found, saying the pattern was consistent with pump-and-dump schemes.

Granted, the rest of the article is mostly quotes from ex-SEC regulators, investors, economists, Jordan Belfort; anecdotes about a few OTC stock scams; and an explanation of what pump and dump schemes are.

But this whole discussion is oversimplifying the article, assigning motives where there doesn't seem to be one.
Notice the difference between the two articles?

OP: Penny stocks are rife with fraud and reward swindlers

Your article: This one instance of state lotto had fraud. No comment on the lotto in general.
Not really. The UK has been testing pretty much everyone who's admitted to hospital for COVID since the start of the outbreak regardless of why they were admitted, which means there's going to be quite a few people in the COVID and in hospital group who were actually admitted due to other, unrelated conditions. Particularly if they were being admitted to hospital regularly...
"we didn't do this, but we suspect it was an employee. Either way, it's pretty funny."
A poor investor who wants to invest in Amazon but only has $1000 is still able to. A poor investor who wants to diversify can assemble a portfolio that matches a wealthy investor's, rather than investing everything in a couple companies. Fractional shares level the playing field for smaller players.

If the issue is that a big benefit of shares is holding 100 of them and selling contracts, why not solve that with fractional contracts? Liquidity, probably. But whole shares have the same issue as fractional shares there, as you're still only getting 1/100th of a contractable quantity.
Thanks for sharing. There are other viable better options that simply don't get exposure, or thought by pro-Bitcoiners, as they aren't financially aligned with their investment - though better because they would use blockchain but would be leveraging real life trust networks like of those of governments of democratically elected governments agreeing to use a specific system with other democratic nations.
My comment is more about smells getting stuck inside.

Aircraft, trains and other vehicles have all tried to emphasize how well they filter recirculated air, but it’s not going to win against an open window in a moving vehicle for airflow.
ehh...

More/less regulated is a silly paradigm to think through... especially for long regulated industries. There is no more or less. Regulation are not quantitative, usually. It's about what the regulations are, and what enforcement looks like.

Even the term "regulator" doesn't mean quite what it sounds like. It doesn't just mean "rules governments make." Those are laws. To the extent this article is calling for anything, it's calling for policing... which is also something a regulator does.

> "it is hard for honest people to raise money on the markets (the original purpose of stock markets), but scammers are still there. If stock markets weren't horribly over-regulated, would the VC industry even need to exist?"

Maybe not on some a chalkboard model of the world. In the actual financial world, "penny stock" markets exist for lower cap companies. They are less regulated, for exactly the reason you are alluding to. From the article itself:

"Traded on the lightly regulated over-the-counter, or O.T.C., markets, penny stocks face fewer rules about publishing information on financial results or independent board members. Wall Street analysts don’t usually follow them. Major investors don’t buy them."

VCs exist. OTC markets exist, they just aren't a popular place for startups to raise or for institutions to invest. VCs are. Reality is not a naive theory, so it's hard to say exactly why. We can think theories about why this is. To find out if they're true, we need to find evidence in the world. It's fine to propose that just not rational to conclude that honest people can't raise money because OTC regulators are too busibodied. It's irrational to conclude that without some corresponding facts from the world corroborating it. I'm not talking about absolute proofs... just something.