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stainforth··on Apple urged to root out rating scams as developer highlights enforcement failure
If I'm Apple and taking 30% cut, and I'm also a monopoly across a subset of consumers, then it's not a big deal really, which is why it isn't fixed.
stainforth··on Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility
The richer a public minister is, the more disconnected they are from the people they govern, plain and simple.
stainforth··on Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - Steinbeck
stainforth··on Losing faith in UX
>text only network transmissions

As opposed to what, base64 images or something?

stainforth··on Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
> their liquidity allowance.

But only on specific stocks they selected? They still had liquidity for other stocks?

stainforth··on Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
Except JumpCrisscross, they shut down trading on much lower price stocks liked $NAKD as well, which given the fact that they still were able to meet collateral (based on price per your [2] right) for the activity on all of their other stocks, why couldn't they on a dollar stock?
stainforth··on Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
I'd also like a reporting of when they force closed some of their customers positions - did they do it selectively at a time when GME was lowest? From the examples I've seen it was later in the day. If they were already taking action before market open, then why didn't they also close those accounts then?
stainforth··on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood
A modern service whose whole concept is built on scale and somehow they couldn't handle the scale here. I don't buy it.
stainforth··on Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
They took an action to prevent buying before the market opened. Then they closed those positions ~during~ a point in time when GME was the lowest... Criminal.
stainforth··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
> while WSB couldn’t buy to keep the price up

Yes which could be called the crime of these brokers

stainforth··on 10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)
Off subject but on Wikipedia Grothendieck says Riemann was his only main or most admired mathematician. Do their fields match up for this to make sense?
stainforth··on The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Couldn't they create RESTful APIs instead?
stainforth··on The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Isn't that a perfect example of the folly of this intention? Maybe better if we collectively pursue a more fractal, pluralistic model? If capital only pursues monopolies that are a detriment to individuals at large, shouldn't we redirect that urge?
stainforth··on What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
The lens of this camera certainly distorts at the edges or at distance but I'm not sure I can see any deep fake or post compositing here.
stainforth··on Three reasons fungi are not plants
How much of a difference in cost between fertilizers and fungi use? Fungi enhanced agriculture sounds like a cool selling point
stainforth··on Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost
Can you give an example of a pure arb that takes years to close?
stainforth··on Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer
> to be the most excellent person of that nationality

I don't think that's even a thing.

stainforth··on German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
But highly regulating drug ads will be a far cry from every NFL broadcast having a Budweiser commercial with people smiling in bars.
stainforth··on The Paradox of Abundance
I don't see any mention of how in reality its because the profits are cordoned off by a select few. Consider the Alaska Permanent fund - Appalachia and its industry could provide for its poor, but it doesn't.
stainforth··on Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
What does a dead guy do with a million dollars?
stainforth··on Facebook senior software engineer interview
If there were poor doctors who had to drive for Uber eats after hours we would be hearing about it
stainforth··on A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown
I assume there are people here that can state in general what kind of performance drops they've seen since security patching?
stainforth··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
Network effects as a emergent principle has been discovered to violate the promises of capitalist economics. We have a right to come together and set the limits and terms by which a few can extract from the many.
stainforth··on Starship / Super Heavy
They did it in the movie Contact
stainforth··on Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks
Sounds like you wear them down.
stainforth··on Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks
Your description "people nobody wants" does not match parents "nearly all were for fake numbers" (bots).
stainforth··on Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
Perhaps that's where we are in making sure the overton window doesn't cede ground to vested interests; only the extreme alternative as a starting point if negotiations of whats possible are being made.
stainforth··on Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents
Is there a medical union?
stainforth··on GOL Airlines to Resume 737 Max Flights on Wednesday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25474668
stainforth··on Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]
Can webhooks come into play nicely with state machine models?
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