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Yeah the term hedge fund seems something of a misnomer nowadays.

For anyone interested:

The term "hedge fund" originated from the paired long and short positions that the first of these funds used to hedge market risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund

Gramps was a programmer too, not a developer.

"Would there be any interest in a series I've been thinking of putting together about all the fantastically counterintuitive ways your eye fools you without you even noticing?"

Yes

Always Sunny?

Egestion. Not excretion. ;-)

Thank you for asking this. I've been wondering about it for several years. My assumption has always been that if the latter is correct, then some kind of exponential increase in time to get a solution would be involved. I'd love someone who actually knows something about physics to give an answer that's understandable to people who haven't studied the subject since high school 30 years ago.

"Is Amazon going to grow into a $2 trillion market cap over the next ten years? No, there is zero possibility of that happening."

I would suggest that that's a bold statement.

Interesting discussion of the legalities. They say they're not doing the sale until they have a fully functioning platform that relies on tokens to function.

To be nitpicky, (and slightly tongue in cheek), would "treasure hunter" not be a more appropriate term than "metal detector enthusiast"? I assume if there were a better tool for finding buried treasure, they'd happily ditch their metal detectors.

I think I disagree that this is Whataboutism. I did not get the impression that the commenter was trying to "discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy" (from the wiki link), but rather that he/she was pointing out an instance of apparent double standards.

I could be wrong. He/she might be attempting to defend China's policies. It just didn't come across that way to me.

It would be interesting, but perhaps not terribly useful, to see how sickness absence varies between contract and permanent staff. In the past, when contracting, I have dragged myself to work when feeling dreadful.

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I signed it.

Democracy does not equal liberty. It may, arguably, be the best way of preserving liberty. But then again it may not.

"Many will be shocked to learn that the word “democracy” was neither used in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution. Indeed, the Founding Fathers were anxious and fearful of allowing any form of tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority." [1]

[1] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/democracy-versu...

As correctly predicted by Taek eight days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15175635

"3. Buy a domain name (this step is crucial)"

Fantastic

One-party communist state opposed to free-market financial innovation.

In other news, water is wet.

I imagine it must be fairly surreal to be Satoshi, period.

I assume so too, and it's well worth reading. From 1729, by Jonathan Swift. Full text here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

When I was a kid in the 80s, the parents of a kid in my older brother's class complained angrily to the school about this, clearly having failed to realise it was satire.

Here's an excerpt:

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust."

Absolutely agree with this. My time is what I want, not money, though it would be nice.

And being famous would be a nightmare for me.

I posted this. It's the first of a series of five fairly brief articles. I found them well worth reading. They're from a couple of years ago.

From the article:

... the Homeland Security official said. "I think [bitcoin]'s a lot more legitimate than people give it credit for."

"for the U.S. it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t."

They're not damned if they don't. They're damned by their inconsistency. And that inconsistency makes it very easy for people to jump to the conclusion that principles are merely used as an excuse to pursue an unrelated agenda, all the while holding themselves forth as the righteous facing up to "evil-doers".

Drone Wars - Robot Wars in 3D.

This is pretty good. Thanks for posting it.

Yes, a tl;dr would be very much appreciated if anyone were to have the time and inclination.

"Verily, the life science’s arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has hatched a plan to release a ..."

My immediate reaction on reading that sentence was to wonder why they'd written it in some kind of Shakespearean English.

My next reaction was to feel stupid.

Exactly this happened to a former colleague of a family member. I gather he lost all of his data, including from all of his other apple devices. I don't know the details - it was mentioned at a family event recently.

Hadn't seen that before. Thanks. This is also worth a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights_and_the_Holocaus...

Also Berkeley and Berkshire are pronounced with a "bar" sound in UK English, but "burr" in the US, I believe.