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> how day trading is gambling but long term trading is not

Simply: the average long-term investor makes money. The average short-hold individual investor loses money.

More structurally: the U.S. economy and stock market have historically grown. They are a positive-sum game. There is no such fundamental gain in the stock market in the short term; it is a zero-sum game before transaction costs and negative sum after. The dynamic is similar for cryptocurrencies in the short term. The long-term crypto gain exists in the adoption pitch, i.e. to the degree new investors invest.
I could get behind some of these. Like that Hobart mixer. Granted, I don't use a mixer 24/7 in a bakery, but my first Kitchen Aid overheated and broke after ~5 years.

I'd prefer if commodity things, like computer mice, were made to last, and not $5 pieces of cheap plastic that end up in landfills. But I'm the person who complains about the tons of cheap plastic trash sold in 0.99 stores while able to afford $500 mixers.

I wish there was a happy medium, where society didn't demand China produce plastic stuff that turns into trash within a month, destroying the environment exponentially.
In the US, a pair of 20 dollar kinco full leather gloves + snoseal will immediately give you "local" cred and save you from overpriced name brand junk that doesnt hold up.
If you're living in a world where people are prepared to pay much more for your work than you first thought, eventually you're going to end up pretty happy
Maintenance is huge.

A lot of products even in the supposedly "disposable" everyday category people buy for lower prices have maintenance instructions that would significantly increase their lifespan if actually followed. Misuse resistance means consumer products generally still work if you skip maintenance the manufacturer told you was necessary (which industrial products might not), but it may shorten the product's lifespan, increase operating costs or reduce performance.

My friend owns a dishwasher. Recently little specks of dirt were left on plates sometimes after the wash completed. Guess what, there's no salt in the softener re-charge. So that dishwasher is soldiering on with hard water instead of soft, and it no longer gets things clean. Fill the salt back up, and sure enough the machine's performance quickly improves. I'm sure lots of people are shouting "That's not maintenance". Well, it probably depends how you look at the problem. From his point of view he purchased "all in one" dishwasher tablets which said he didn't need salt. If he'd examined them very carefully they admit that actually you might still need to add salt periodically, but that wouldn't be very "all in one" so it's not emphasised.
Non-professional customers know this, to an approximation. And marketers know that those customers know that. Hence the both the “prosumer” market and the conflation of premium and luxury product lines: “We Are Professional Grade” for expensive trucks, “AirPods Pro” for a luxury product, the upcoming “Nintendo Switch Pro”, etc.
This is the same for laptops, but most of the people (I assume?) buy Macbooks for programming which is... kinda weird, since it's difficult to repair. Than business laptops like the Z-book, ThinkPad or insert Dell business laptop eg; Latitude 7000 series (Dell XPS isn't a business laptop from my perspective.)
It has one of the more confusing interfaces I've seen, and operator overloading just makes it worse. Numpy, on the other hand, is fairly straightforward and intuitive (and to be fair, a much simpler tool).
Anyone interested in Bond's author, Ian Fleming might find interesting Fleming's activities in Washington DC during WWII. An account this NPR feature: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=242536... follows below.

As England was fighting for its life against the Nazis, the British government sent its most charming spies — including Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward and David Ogilvy — to America to blackmail, bully and cajol the U.S. into the war effort.
Really like his 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'
> I don't know why full stack webdevs are paid so poorly.

In my experience it’s because they either don’t really know any of the stack well enough to do more than implement someone else’s design, or else they don’t know most of the stack well enough to do even that without very poor, confusing implementations.

I’ll take a backend person and a backend person willing to do front end work before a full stack “dev” any day of the week. And I’d take the full stack dev before a front end one.
I do. But it’s 2021. If I listed out a ton of problems on the left I’ll get a bunch of people on the left screaming “racist” and “nazi”, etc. Can’t have debates and arguments anymore.
This is something a modern Hitler would love to have access to. You never know who will be in charge tomorrow and whether you'll make the list of people to go to camp or get a special "vaccine"
For those who may be interested in reading the article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-ag....
> He said: "The first time I took it, I lost it all in about 20 minutes one night. The market moved very rapidly and I liquidated everything.

The “liquidated” terminology suggests he was doing leveraged swap trading.

This has nothing to do with crypto, aside from even more fun volatility.

Buying and holding crypto has no liquidation possibilities, and assets don’t drop to losing everything in 20 minutes. If it does you should buy the dip because its usually just a supply hack specific to that specific crypto.
I was suprised to learn that Tea Room moreso than advertising tea was advertising a women-friendly environment to the new generation since apparently a woman would often not be welcome at a restaurant unaccompanied by man.

Also the Green Book is mentioned. It was a guide detailing the location of black-friendly establishments which was especially invaluable when going for long distance drives in unknown territory. Published all the way up to '66!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
> I don't on a daily basis do things that could get me or my family members killed if I did them wrong.

Do you drive?
I bought a Genie Bidet at the beginning of the pandemic due to the toilet paper shortage. Never shit without one now. Doesn't save toilet paper but the idea of a dry wipe is for the savages.
> If people are trying to assign blame to a bug or outage, it's time to move on.

All the best outages have unclear blame.
Would definitely be interested
This is basically the True Scotsman argument.
I have an iPhone with AdBlock Pro and I use NextDNS on all my devices. I almost never have any ad with NextDNS (paid version) so for me it works really well.

Sometimes it’s « annoying » because I click on links from articles and emails and they are blocked so I can choose to give up or disable NextDNS for this time but it’s my choice to be tracked
The Dutch have decided: Burning biomass is not sustainable (2020)
Apple’s A15 chip will ship with an objc_msgSend branch predictor
Ah, Shopping Cart DB is at it again :)
I for one will continue doing nothing, much better than taking steps in the wrong direction
The best line from this article:

But I am saying that teaching people how to do something online is often much more lucrative than actually doing that thing yourself.
Yeah I remember something similar.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/15/modern-life-i...

https://priceonomics.com/the-search-for-the-paleo-sleep-sche...
Yes, you invest money and (ideally/mostly) they produce wares worth more money. Positive sum.
Trivial solution: make a tool that pumps tons of fake data to the point where no algorithm can separate the signal from the noise.
I'm really thinking of normal folks in normal situations (Damore, Garcia-Martinez, Wilder), not people with massive political power and partisan sway like Trump or Clinton - those figures always get passes for the horrible things they do and say even when they break their own group's rules, but normal people actually do have to color inside the lines a lot more.

I agree about your distinction between "is this behavior bad?" and "has this person done that?". The important cancel culture debate to me is over the first, where it is 100% clear who said what, the only question is whether they should be fired/silenced/banned/attacked for it. The facts about what really happened matter deeply but to take an example, the Kavanaugh situation isn't really an issue of "cancel culture" being out of control because almost everyone agrees that if he did it he should not have been appointed, it's just that most Republicans really don't think he did it and most Democrats do. Something else is going on there that is very not good, but it's not the same as James Damore being fired for statements that most people in both parties find to be within the bounds of "speech you shouldn't be shitcanned for" (https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/technology/3..., surprisingly the political divide on that one is only 10% but even Ds are 50/50 on it).

Edit re: Kavanaugh: I'd also put good money that even if the accusations against him were 100% proven or disproven almost no minds on either side would actually change, despite people claiming allegiance to the truth. Instead, like Trump and his misdeeds, we'd start arguing about fake facts and then further retreating to discussions about whether his sins we're actually great enough, etc. But as things currently stand the ostensible argument is at least over the real facts.
Sea-shell-strewn, she sleeps in her sounding-sea-shore sepulchre.
"Don't paint amazon subscribers as victims here. I am entirely satisfied"

My grandma recently bought some snake oil and she's been very happy with it, apparently it prevents health issues with blood pressure - ehich she never had to begin with. She also invested in a monorail company registered in mongolia.

Just because you are happy does not mean you have not been amused/mislead/defrauded.
Day traders are gambling on surface noise. It's not much different than roulette. Long term investors have some notion of longitudinal value accrual and stability.
Because it's a useless gizmo for microphobiacs?
Is your “office” an F-16 by any chance?
Molecular biology clues portray SARS-CoV-2 as a lab manipulation of RaTG13
I bought an encore after much research myself and had to return it after just a few weeks. It started grinding my beans to an ultra fine espresso type consistency no matter what setting I used. After much troubleshooting, they sent me a new unit (in transit now), but not a great experience from the device perspective (customer service was great).
Very true. I do ops, I'm on call. Calling a developer at 3.00AM is not something I do lightly, it would have to be insanely critical.

Operation, and on-call staff fixes broken systems just enough, that they will work until 8:00AM when the developer is back at work.

Just this week I talked to a developer, and he asked if I could switch the phone numbers, so issues would get routed to him first. My question: Why? You can't really do much without me being awake as well, so maybe I get the first call, and I call you... IF I need to?
I'm pretty sure that I established that a bandsaw is a kitchen implement (and, it's not even a stretch -- they're common in butcher shops). Is it Alton Brown who says that single-use kitchen appliances are verboten? I tend to agree.

You can also use a bandsaw to cut a sliver off a sheet of 16ga steel and use that to light a cigarette. It's truly all-purpose
Commercial kitchen equipment isn't always set up for 120V single phase operation.

If you really want to rewire your house to mix 20 gallons of dough at a time...go for it I suppose. But do the homework first.
Overall cost trends for anything electronic are going to be pretty weird this year given chip shortages.
> There's no reason for > to mean quote in a system that doesn't implement quotes. It's just a cultural construct

So is all of language. There is no reason for “cultural construct” to mean cultural construct, its just a cultural construct. But shared cultural constructs are what enables communication.
I once bought $99.80 worth of stuff on this website after seeing an advertisement for free shipping on orders $99+. It was only after getting to the final screen that I found out it was only $99.99+ so I needed to add another useless item to my cart to avoid the $10 shipping. It's not a huge deal but what's the recourse to false advertising like that? I still needed the bulk of that order so I wasn't about to cancel the order but it also wasn't nice spending more than I wanted. Is there a simple place to report violations like this?
At that age , work is hardly a waste of time.

You learn real world skills, the value of a dollar, work ethic, business processes, and get to build relationships and network with people of varied ages, unlike school.

Plus, you learn the importance of the customer.
Yeah, I didn't mention self-hostability is a must.

SourceHut is terryfying to junior members
> Algorithms and data strictures are important--to a point

For me, 90% of day-to-day algorithms use is not writing O(nm) or O(n^2) code, and knowing which data structures to use to avoid it (usually a hashtable, occasionally a heap or balanced tree).
Yeah, you have to be exceptionally stupid and just unworthy of much money if you manage to liq your only capital all at once within 20 mins.
Show HN: Synchronize work-in-progress Git branches in a light weight fashion
I didn’t insult them.

I just told them to learn some things which are entirely within their capability to learn, so that they can think about the topic they were talking about, without thinking nonsense.

It shouldn’t take more than a couple hours (possibly under an hour to get the ideas I was referring to), and knowing basic linear algebra is good for a person.

If I was blunt, it is because I dislike misinformation, and highly value mathematics. Perhaps I’ve even warped my view of things in a way that makes me feel that someone understanding mathematics is a terminal moral good? Which, if so, is probably an error on my part.
Perhaps the weakest link in the US electrical system
I used to say Computer Science is not about computing, nor is it about science. But Nand2Tetris changed that slightly.

When you realise the fundamentals are loops, data, comparisons, addition, negative numbers and instructions of those then computer science is building logical structures based on said computational primitives.
+1 for restaurant supply stores. You can find at least one in any reasonably sized city and they have just about everything you could possibly need, from tableware to cookware to appliances to bulk dry goods to cleaning and safety equipment. No frills and competitively priced.
> "Have I made the code shorter?" is a much easier question to answer than "Have I made the code easier to understand, modify and maintain?"

This is something that comes with experience though, and I think a lot of people don't truly grok this until they are trying to maintain their own terse/clever code written months/years earlier. Nothing is quite as humbling as doing `git blame` on some crappy code only to see your own name there.
Yes, that's a problem. It requires human intervention to fix it, and that inevitably includes interpretation and judgment calls and no doubt bias too. We try to be as unprejudiced as we can and stick to HN's first principles, but people have such vastly different perspectives that satisfying everyone is out of the question. Still, it's not entirely subjective, and one's ability to stick to first principles gets better with practice.

I don't recognize this bit though: "Not being able to use the flag feature when a article is being used as fuel for culture war". That doesn't sound like what I said and certainly isn't what I meant. Edit: oh, I see what you mean - "being used as fuel for culture war" is your rephrasing of what I described as "shitty comments". Don't take this absolutely, though. The median case is that both the article and the comments are garden-variety culture war; those are legit to flag. I'm just saying that you shouldn't flag indiscriminately. We want some discernment when an article clears, let's say, the 95th percentile of thoughtfulness.
Definitely doing this, if I need something I will look for the industrial option first, we don't have a big military industrial complex in Denmark, so I can't go milspec. Vacuum cleaners is a great place to start,
a bit off topic but long ago I was impressed by someone much smarter than. So impressed that I was a bit scared. Then someone told me : "if the guy is still talking to you then it means he thinks you're an interesting person".
> And I’d take the full stack dev before a front end one

So you think one person can't know the entire stack but also half of the stack is not complex/important enough to be worth specializing in?
The Unix Command Language (PDF, 1976)
It works on arbitrary text, it's written in Rust. Sorry if that wasn't clear. If the arbitrary text file happens to be a code file with a common extension, the highlighting feature will highlight the output, otherwise it's printed out plain.
FYI, CTOs at startups often directly interview and hire technical candidates...
Can't edit the original comment anymore. It works fine now!
In practice yeah I guess.

But rewriting the document is more extensive, it might even have to be moved (because Mongo allocates certain number of bytes for it, and it might outgrow that).
Markets are somewhat like the opposite of the weather. It's possible, if done correctly, to predict long term trends but not short term. There is too much volatility to know what will happen today even if you can guess about a few years from now. Company X may indeed be a good company and undervalued for reasons Y and Z but the price could still go down tomorrow even if it will probably be up a year from now.

One difference between investing and gambling is that you can expect returns from following an investment strategy. Most day traders lose money. They can't predict short term future prices. What gains they get are through luck. Compared to investors who can have predictions about trends or specific stocks and who typically make money.
I have read that they even go so far and crawl+scrape other shop websites.

Of course that is hard to prove because they have plausible deniability.
Peter Thiel on Private Currency (1999)
It seems most think it would be awkward, so it probably would be.

I'd like to hear more about how it went for you. It seems like one of the ultra logical views which people find weird (or offensive) when spoken out loud. I mean, the principle here is clearly true, both the employee and employer must profit, if this condition doesn't exist the company soon dies.
Before I had written much assembly, I used to think ifs to avoid assignments was smart. Turns out avoiding branching is better for both testability and performance.
Aquaus 360 ftw. No more blood(yes, I exercise, eat fiber, and hydrate). Saves a little on TP, although you'll use a bit wiping up the occasional overspray. Liked it so much, I bought another for the guest bathroom at the in-laws house.
There are still people who purchase stocks for dividends, based on their track records, performance, and financials. Starbucks, Target, Ultra, ... these are bellweather stocks that pay dividends and and actually act like businesses, and not casinos.

Yes, the derivatives market is insanity and probably shouldn't exist, but there are legitimate companies building business and generating wealth based on a real business plan.

Having been investing for the better part of 40 years, I've seen five big events happen, but in the long term bellweather and bluechip stocks have been non-casino investments. Don't let this recent every-ten-year cycle of hype (Doge, Crypto, GME) guide the intent of investing.
I hope DynamoDB is relegated to the niche use cases it's appropriate for. The hoops people are jumping through trying to use in place of say Aurora make for a very sad developer experience.
Linux boot manager for the AmigaOne X1000
You seem to be conflating hiking with backpacking.
You're effectively asking for the government to legislate screwing over customers.

Yes, shipping can be used as an opportunity to milk customers for a few extra dollars. Let's flip it and build it into the price of the item. You buy two of these items. The seller ships them together; there's a few cents in cost due to extra weight, but otherwise, they're pocketing that extra $X the 2nd item had set aside for shipping.

Upfront priced shipping literally only and exclusively benefits the consumer when you buy one thing (or, if the seller is an idiot and ships one item per box, which never happens). And even then, it doesn't benefit the customer more than backside-calculated shipping, its just slightly more convenient.

My Etsy shop makes hundreds of dollars just on this oddity in consumer behavior; that they're more likely to buy something if it has free shipping, so we'll just tack on $4 to the price of each item. A consumer comes along and buys three things; they just paid $12 for "shipping". We put them all in one box, pay USPS $3.50, and pocket the remaining ~$8.
I meant in the active category.

Just look at stuff like voter turnout. How many people write their representatives, or read the actual text of a bill (usually easier at local and state level single the federal ones tend to be much longer), or send a comment to an agency about a proposed regulation change? Pretty often I hear people say things that are wrong about their rights. How can we demand and protect our rights if people don't even know what they are? Even if you read the constitution, the actual implementation is greatly different and even contrary to the text.
Looks interesting. Is there consideration for a11y and l10n/i18n?
I hope you realize there's a fuzzy line between those, when you have ideal test doubles, that behave like the real thing, but are just configurable in-memory replicas of the dependency.

People get suck a kick out of categorizing their tests, I honestly find that funny.

Can you run it easily before you commit code to a unit, without a dedicated setup? Yes, then it's a unit test to me.

If it was me I wouldn't call it "something" test at all. It's just automated tests. The rest is mostly BS.
I have a cheap LUXE Neo bidet at home. It is one of the reasons why I am not looking forward to returning to the office. Wiping your poopy butt with your hand is for suckers.
Yes, true planned obsolescence has happened. But it’s a lot less common than people think, and often prohibited by law.

Even the “slowing down of old iPhones” is an example of that. This was a bug fix for crashing due to current demand that exceeded the battery’s capability.
This. It’s strange to me that US culture places importance in frequently washing hair, hands, etc.

However potentially smearing faeces over part of your body and sitting with it festering there for 12 hours or until your next shower is completely acceptable.
It's a specific kind of gambling addiction, in the same way saying someone has a 'heroin addiction' could have just been described as a 'drug addiction'. If you say someone has a gambling addiction, the mental picture is probably someone going to a casino to gamble. A 'cryptocurrency addiction' changes the mental picture to someone sitting in front of their computer watching numbers go up and down. The word refines the mental image for someone else.

But, I think it's normal to be skeptical though of new invented terms in general, since it can be used as propaganda to create fear or stigma about some very specific thing someone has an agenda of getting rid of. Cynical take: maybe someone trying to introduce the word cryptocurrency addiction has an interest in seeing the price go down, e.g. they're shorting it, etc. In the same way someone else might not want there to be stigma about crypto currencies, because they own some and want to see the price go up!