QuackingJimbo

Good for you. (Not sarcasm —- this is what individual stock investing should be for retail. For fun, to have a tiny bit of skin in the game.) But many people let it get out of control, either because they lack this self discpline, or because they randomly see positive results and then think they’re good traders.

No. Upstanding retail brokerages (such as Interactive Brokers) don’t make interest on their customers’ balances.

Amateur investors are best off buying indexes and holding forever. Robinhood entices them to trade in and out of individual stocks (or worse).

The ones who charge a fee don’t make interest on your balances.

Robinhood is a predatory lending scheme. The vast majority of its users should not be trading anything other than indexes.

I was ready to crap on this post for calling your own work "semi-convincing" but this writing does actually resemble most of the random blogs I find when trying to research something like nutrition or fitness.

Not a compliment to the quality of the writing. But definitely not unconvincing. Add some ads that make it impossible to scroll without freezing Chrome and you're good to go.

400 hours of commercial-watching is not being "saved"

If Netflix and other streaming services didn't exist, kids would not be watching 1600 hours of terrestrial TV with ads

It definitely helps the day to day but I cant help but think it is a horrible idea long term

I disagree with his list of upsides -- there is no upside to ADHD. It is a disability. I've been able to manage it without using stimulants, through very careful planning and trial and error (step #1 is avoiding useless wastes of time such as reading HN). But it just sucks.

What school?

You getting downvoted for this completely inoffensive (at worst) comment is pretty sad

I swear C++ gets a bad rap because most people have only seen a gross mixture of C++98 and C in their codebases

A fully modern C++11 codebase is a beautiful thing

I agree that DL/ML is destined to fail in domains like this but can you expand on this reasoning? What exactly do you mean by "quantitative math" (I haven't heard this phrase used in this way before)? And what were the equivalents of DL/ML for physics before calculus?

The outrage isn't because the incident happened. It's because DataCamp didn't do anything to reprimand the executive, and because they issued a completely tone deaf response, and because they tried to hide it.

I'm against bogus sexual assault claims as much as anyone but if you're DataCamp you really have no choice but to just fire this guy and move on (and it's obviously too late now to even do that).

Re Paypal cost, is that micropayments to businesses? I just sent my friend $0.01 and it was free, with a linked bank account. Understood that the bank account payments take a while to settle but we're talking about micropayments so settlement time doesn't really matter

Fair point about nanopayments. But what's the win? Why split up the cost per single watt or packet? No one cares about losing one cent per day due to rounding errors

Interesting

Why not just use the real Paypal?

I truly mourn the death of the "printable version" link

Just don't get banned by Visa or Mastercard

a16z is not the object of the "blowing up". There is no clickbait or ambiguity.

Well said

I don't know how anyone over the age of twelve cannot see #2 and #3

Code has bugs. Things will go wrong. You need lawyers.

You got me there. I am in the 99th percentile of crypto bears but I myself have used Bitcoin very effectively to buy illegal drugs, buy illegal steroids, and bet on sports illegally. Bitcoin is truly second to none in these domains.

> Anywhere where there is no trusted intermediary, or their fees are too expensive

Such as......?

Seconding this request. Whenever I ask a crypto bull this question directly they just call me an idiot without providing any actual examples.

That's a valid critique of small prank sites like this https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel/, but in this case StackOverflow's normal functionality still has to work

I despise globocorporate April Fools pranks as much as anyone but the aesthetic here is really well done.

Same. It's certainly not objectively "amazing" (to use the author's own verbiage)

There are exceptions or there could hypothetically be exceptions one day?

I agree with the latter

If the former, please provide examples. I am all ears

> promising blockchain startup

This can't be a serious post

> One in 9.2 quintillion. Those are the odds that you will correctly pick the winners of all 63 games played over the course of the tournament. Mathematically speaking, there are 2^63 (~9.2 quintillion) number of ways that you can fill the bracket

This is wrong. Many of the games are not even close to 50-50.

I'm interested in mewing for the purported facial aesthetic and breathing benefits

Care to link to a good methodology? I've been intrigued by this but there's a lot of conflicting information out there