LittlePeter

> The awesome thing about markets is that they separate the talkers from the doers, so go write another editorial if it makes you feel better. A bunch of kids in their 20's have made more money than this author will make in his whole life because they called it better than this "expert"

You can be an expert and still be poor. Your argument seems to imply if the author was an expert he would be filthy rich.

I am an expert on roulette. I know it is a losing proposition and I can give you the expected value of your bets. I choose not to play because of negative expected value. Yet there are kids in their 20's that have made fortune with roulette.

So what's your business exactly? Can you be a bit more concrete what your smart contracts are, what problem they solve?

> Bitcoin keeps defying every possible analyzer's projections

It does not. Several people claimed Bitcoin would be in the $100K-$1,000K range by now.

I think it is much more likely that the 87-old is

- suffering from a mental disease

- is bored to death and pulling a prank before it's his time to go

I don't understand, what do you gain from avoiding the discussion? Can't you just move on and not come back to this thread?

Maybe you're a mod, in which case I understand...

Isn't this what the voting is for? If it weren't interesting for the front page, it wouldn't be there, no?

It does not contradict, no. I can lose weight eating moderately but you may not. You may need to eat bordering on starvation to lose weight, which in my book is not "moderate".

Basically, my point is, some people have to suffer more to lose weight. But all people will lose weight regardless if they stop eating, because physics.

What else can "instance" mean, other than an instance of a virtual server? Granted may not be on AWS, but still is virtual which is a latency killer.

> Some people just have conditions where they can NOT lose weight.

Of course the laws of thermodynamics say that is impossible. You will lose weight if you don't eat. You may not lose weight if you eat moderately, while another person will.

Festivus [1] for the rest of us! We find tinsel distracting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX55AzGku5Y

You are right... everything has been inflated by a factor of two: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25192244

I extracted the inner text inside a <p class="foo"></p> using Python & BeautifulSoup, print to stdout, then cut, sort, uniq, and sort again.

It looks like the counts from this voodoo are incorrect: they are all twice as much. However, proportions are still correct.

Counts by country:

     54  United Kingdom
     18  Germany
     14  France
      8  Netherlands
      6  Switzerland
      4  Sweden
      4  Spain
      2  Romania
      2  Norway
      2  Lithuania
      2  Finland
      2  Estonia
      2  Cyprus
      2  Belgium

United Kingdom is definitely over-represented. Bad sampling by Sifted? Or is the climate in UK genuinely more favorable to start-ups?

With commas:

Aperture, Mother Jones, New Yorker, Vanity Fair,

Digital:

Capitol Hill, Seattle blog, New York Times, Talking Points Memo

> can't escape the compulsion of not even being wrong.

What does this phrase mean? Is the economist not wrong? Why is that then unfortunate?

The "economic uncertainty" sounds like something everyone would agree on. "Yes we are in uncertain times right now". Then again, at any point in time, there would be agreement that economy is in uncertain times. It is a meaningless argument because in my opinion it is always true.

Here is a Google Trend for "economic uncertainty", where nothing seems to have changed much except maybe little blip during Spring of 2020: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=economic...

Edit, found a link which actually does show heightened economic uncertainty: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USEPUINDXD perhaps contradicting myself.

Through what mechanism would bots drive up the price? Are you claiming there are simplistic momentum bots out there with seemingly more cash than other bots that just buy up bitcoin causing it to rise, which causes them to buy more of it, ad nauseam?

For pump and dump schemes, aren't we past that stage for Bitcoin at least? Isn't Bitcoin too big and too "mainstream" to be pumped in some Telegraph channel? Maybe you can clarify what pump-and-dump strategy you think is being used here?

You can look up the aircraft used for last 7 flights of a particular flight on flightradar24.com. The aircraft type serving a route typically stays fixed.

Additionally you can look up an airline's fleet on Wikipedia and avoid ones with the Max.

I genuinely wonder if Taiwan can claim to be part of this agreement? Claiming so would implicitly acknowledge they are China, which they would be unwilling to do I think.

I too have bad experience traveling Basel - Cologne route with DB. At this point, I switched to flying or renting a car. The thought of traveling with DB gives me shudders.

That's like not plugging a leak in the International Space Station with multiple layers of duct tape because it is a work around, while waiting for a proper replacement panel that will arrive in 3 months...

> The biggest mistake new investors make is sell when they see a red negative number.

On the other hand, often used reason for bad trading performance is sticking to the losers and not riding the winners. So who is right? Or you think this trading maxim does not apply to the "investing" that you refer to?

From the article:

> go to sleep at the same time every night.

I do not agree. From personal experience, I'll be wasting hours some days trying to fall asleep.

If anything, wake up at the same hour every day and go to bed when tired.

You're right. My expectations we wrong. I expected short concise news article, but this seems to be a long-form article. My bad.

Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is bad and what it does.

What IBM is would typically be clear from the context: "IBM reported record loss in 2nd quarter of 2020".

I was waiting for the DDT acronym to be explained, but no. IMHO no matter how obvious an acronym may be, it should be explained, something like "DDT (D... D... T...) is highly dangerous".

Apparently: "Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine."

edit: added explanation

He is an entertainer and knows how to maximize value against amateurs, of which there are a lot in tournaments, hence where most of his winnings are from.

In online short-handed (6 or less) cash poker against the online pros he is the "fish".

Here is an HN thread of someone who grew up in Whittier answering questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840005

Sure, but until then, a checklist could be a $100 dollar solution for a hospital in Zambia until there is more money for a more advanced system.

Extremely far-fetched: green cars are easier to convert to camouflage patterned military cars?