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hangars··on Ask HN: Why isn't all stock trading done by algorithm?
Machiavellian. You are also overlooking pump and dump Twitter accounts which sway stock by micro-increments, this tactic becoming more of an art than a science these days (Twitter clamped down on those accounts in recent years). Also see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/twitter-hoax_n_2850...
hangars··on Ask HN: Share an idea?
Short story dispensers:

http://www.konbini.com/us/lifestyle/french-city-introduces-s...

Yeah I know, already done, but all the best ideas are co-opted and marketed better. What if instead of this, we could also have:

- Disposable $10.00 phones

- Disposable 'Tweet' cards, or single use tweet tokens

- Disposable emoji greeting cards etc

hangars··on Guys we decentralised HTTP the other morning
So it's similar to hypothes.is / genius.com, only the actual document gets edited instead of a contextual-overlay / annotation overlay?
hangars··on Reality doesn’t exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms
I think that too many are calling this magic, or liking it to paranormal, but 50 years from now we will look back and it will be no more normal than the law of gravity, or other physical 'givens' of the universe
hangars··on What's the best way to die?
A bit morbid, but interesting reading. Apparently death by Opium is a great way to go, if not slightly illegal
hangars··on Using Lego as an Urban Planning Tool
Lego is the plural! Gotcha