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> CNBC reports that none of the Wall Street banks it contacted were aware of any transaction or had committed to funding a leveraged buyout of Tesla.

You don't think it's remotely a concern that a new law in Japan wiped out 40,000 Airbnbs overnight?

The future looks good for their services revenue considering the current growth momentum and the 1.3 billion active Apple devices they can sell services to.

Also they have services at 9.2B vs consensus 8.4B, which is a fantastic beat and 31% growth YoY.

He says he plays every waking hour of the day unless he's "sleeping, driving, or taking a bath". I think he's wasting a bit more than just money.

I don't know, but I imagine nobody else wanted to spend money, time, or risk their reputation on an election they have almost no chance to win.

> They just elected a Nazi in Illinois

If you're talking about Arthur Jones, you're being very misleading. He won the Republican primary, but it was unopposed, in a heavily democratic district, and he was already denounced by Illinois Republicans.

Amazon has not operated at a loss since 2001. They've had positive free cash flow every year since then.

It's pretty much the only Electron app I don't totally hate. I've grown to like it after using it at work.

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability.

The chapter about “religious debates” in particular was hilariously accurate, about how teams of people will argue about strongly held personal beliefs about things that can’t be proven.

Well having a discussion in comments can be productive if you’re learning new things. And there is a lot of good content here that many of us wouldn’t discover otherwise.

I imagine reading research or news posts on HN and commenting can be more productive than, say, reading reddit’s r/pics and commenting.

I disagree, even if you don't care about banter, a capable host will be able to drive conversation and get panelists/guests/interviewees to express themselves better (even if they are typically awkward in front of a camera). I see it all the time in professional esports streams.

Why exactly is “good looking and charismatic” a bad thing? To be a good host you need to (should) be charismatic, that’s literally the job.

Amazon has had positive free cash flow every year since 2001.

Netflix has had free cash flow of -$53 million, -$840 million, -$1.6 billion, and -$2 billion in the last 4 years respectively, and their debt has grown to $5 billion.

They could be printing tether when BTC collapses to allow themselves to buy more BTC to try to pump it back up. This would make it in essence backed by BTC since it's what they are holding.

Sorry, I don’t see your reasoning here.

I could’ve saw that the NASDAQ was in a bubble in January 2000 and shorted it.

My timing of the top would’ve obviously been off, and I could’ve gotten margin called and forcibly liquidated (with realized losses) by the time it was at peak in March 2000. That does not mean there was no dot-com bubble, just that you could lose hard shorting at the wrong time.

There are ways to avoid margin calls with options, but time would still be working against you with theta decay, so you could still lose money if your timing is off.

You did, because you need a margin account to open short positions.

You can open a short futures position in /XBT (1 btc contract) or /BTC (5 btc contract), but that is obviously not safe, and the margin requirements to even enter are insanely large. And they don’t offer options, so there really is no way to limit your risk.

Do you know how shorting works? The only way to limit margin requirements of a short would be to buy puts, which would open you up to theta decay, and I don’t think there is anywhere that would even trade BTC options since the IV would be crazy.

You want a 1 day chart to start Y axis at zero?

This is exactly what happened to me and what I did. Unfortunately I sold them 3 or so weeks ago when it was 0.25. :/

Actual quote:

> the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes

From the article:

> women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering

Do you not see the difference?

It's currently +10%, which absolutely is "soaring".

That's assuming you can correctly call the bottom, otherwise you could be waiting for a long time just to break even.

Streaming movies was impossible over dial-up, and still is. But you can if you have different internet connections like DSL, Cable, Fiber, etc.

For the original bitcoin that is currently being priced at $13,000 it is indeed technically impossible to exceed 6 transactions per second. Sure you could make a new crypto protocol, but it's not "bitcoin".