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omarchowdhury··on No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy
Thanks for the explanation. Yes, they would need to pay more than once for it. In any scenario, the demand would outstrip the supply and hence there is still a short squeeze on the table.
omarchowdhury··on No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy
> I believe it when I see it. Isn't the majority of shares hold by the heavy pros anyway? I doubt the other Hedgefonds and Yolon Musks will sacrifice shit.

They don't need to. It's mathematically impossible for shorts to cover, because they've shorted more than the entire float.

omarchowdhury··on Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
Both.

https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-pr...

omarchowdhury··on Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
No, coercion of the POTUS is the criminal offense.

> where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something

omarchowdhury··on Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
Right, it's more of a convenience.
omarchowdhury··on Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules
> Imagine a hypothetical scenario where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something under penalty of deplatforming.

The threat would be a criminal offense.

omarchowdhury··on Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos
How much of that is wash trading?
omarchowdhury··on 1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
Human and pigs have a common creator according to the Islamic view. Even via observation, we can see that humans and pigs are similar in that they both need to eat, breathe, sleep, excrete. Both have eyes, lungs, hearts, brains... Is there a loss of dignity or some sort of implied conflation because of shared properties?

What's your intention behind this question?

omarchowdhury··on Scientists say a mind-bending rhythm in the brain can act like ketamine
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxboZrFcvRo&

Give it your entire attention.

omarchowdhury··on Mountains and Gravity [pdf]
Crazy would be not to try.
omarchowdhury··on Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN
I searched for "red light therapy" and none of the articles matched, not even the most recent article on red light therapy that was on the homepage. Same for "red light".
omarchowdhury··on Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
> Fun fact, 75% of potential ATP production only results from light exposure, with only 25% from food. We run on light more than we do food (necessary nutrients and minerals aside).

This is fascinating. Would you care to share literature that dives into this?

omarchowdhury··on Stingrays and Dirtboxes: how cops can secretly track your phone
Are these logins legally purchasable or is there some black/grey market for them?
omarchowdhury··on Chat logs from a $4.5M ransomware negotiation
Reuters coverage: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-cwt-ransom/payment-...
omarchowdhury··on One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
They use Bing API.
omarchowdhury··on One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
> They don’t need google scale, they just need profitability.

Oh? They did take money from Greylock and Sequoia. Don't those guys aim as high as possible?

omarchowdhury··on Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator
Would we be able to adjust the drop shadow?
omarchowdhury··on Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh
> just going somewhere is not going to be enough.

How about going there completely disguised, and pretending to go to a different floor in the building than Fahim? If he went there to talk to him, he wouldn't press a button in the elevator for a different apartment.

omarchowdhury··on Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?
The Crisis of the Modern World and The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times by René Guénon.
omarchowdhury··on Robinhood has lured young traders, sometimes with devastating results
At the minimum, capture market share.
omarchowdhury··on If NSA Can Hack WiFi 8 Miles Out – Implications for Commercial Use
> If you have the correct antennas and possibly amplifiers on both ends you can established a Wifi link over hundreds of miles (if you have line of sight). Basically, if you can see the other device you want to communicate with at building level with your eyes then it's not too difficult to establish a Wifi link with it using off the shelf parts.

Any resources you can share to do this?

omarchowdhury··on 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
Why not? Tell us your story.
omarchowdhury··on A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro
The two video cards alone cost $10k.
omarchowdhury··on PHP Insights: Analyze the code quality of PHP projects
Other than Facebook, who are they?
omarchowdhury··on DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search
Don't forget the machine augmentation.
omarchowdhury··on Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster
> meaning half of them had abnormalities due to imprecise editing on the side of the technicians and the equipment they had.

Source?

omarchowdhury··on Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
Some of them are on purpose, like "Imbox".
omarchowdhury··on Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
...it's both.
omarchowdhury··on Have the record number of investors in the stock market lost their minds?
It's not like this for all mortgages. Some lenders are demanding a lump sum of the 3 payments after the 90 days.
omarchowdhury··on Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
Any books by Fritjof Schuon, René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, or Titus Burckhardt.
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