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New comment by ad in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

ad — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:00:15 +0000

which tools?

New comment by ad in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

ad — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:22:32 +0000

Saying “we gotta get Greenland” when the people in Greenland say they don’t want to join the US. Then refusing to rule out using force. If you want to say that no exact act of treachery has been committed, then substitute “treacherous words”, which also harms alliances.

New comment by ad in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

ad — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:36:56 +0000

The problem isn't using OneDrive. The problem is not using it. If you try to not use it, the dark patterns the article references appear.

New comment by ad in "America's Largest Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers"

ad — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:46:01 +0000

Heads up on this media source: part of Hunterbrook's business model to give investment funds early access to the news, so they can trade ahead of it [1].

Now that is not to say that this story is false, or even that the business model is necessarily bad, I will leave that up to you to decide. But this media source has a different set of motivations than most readers are used to. You'll notice that the news is about two US companies that are easily shortable, DHI and LEN.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunterbrook

New comment by ad in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

ad — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:40:43 +0000

What information sources do you use to find the cheap + growing things?

New comment by ad in "Crystal Ball Trading Game"

ad — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:07:45 +0000

Not the person you’re responding to, but my email is in my profile

New comment by ad in "Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse"

ad — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:03:46 +0000

I agree that it is not economics, or at least that their argument about economics does not suffice.

This is not a challenge and I am genuinely curious to hear your perspective: in what way does Greece teach their youngest generation to not want to have children?

New comment by ad in "Centuries of Childhood"

ad — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:10:12 +0000

Would you mind continuing your tangent? I have a set of friends who really like Oster and I don’t know much about her. Feel free to email me (address is in my profile) if you don’t want to discuss in these comments.

New comment by ad in "Reasons medieval people slept in cupboards"

ad — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:31:05 +0000

There’s some nuance/caveats, but here’s a study showing humans lost height during the switch from hunting/gathering to agriculture:

https://modernfarmer.com/2022/04/farming-made-our-ancestors-...

Mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, dead at 47

ad — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:29:00 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/dooce-heather-armstrong-dead-83c8f4812bda1766301793ea3afb02cb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35893790

Points: 7

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New comment by ad in "Ask HN: What is going on with Charles Schwab? Stock drop near 40% post SVB chaos"

ad — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:47:46 +0000

You have the best post on this thread. One question, since you seem pretty knowledgable: I thought margin accounts were covered under SIPC? Can you send me a link on how with a margin account we are unsecured creditors? I found this one but it didn't really mention being unsecured: https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/investor-faqs#how-are-mar...

Thanks and great post!

New comment by ad in "Berkshire dumps shares in TSMC, banks; increases Apple stake"

ad — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:40:10 +0000

Good to point that out, although I was still surprised by how high the percentage was even taking that into account.

List of public holdings, for the curious: https://whalewisdom.com/filer/berkshire-hathaway-inc

New comment by ad in "Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds"

ad — Wed, 11 May 2022 14:46:38 +0000

I'd be pretty interested to see how cash account is treated differently; I couldn't find a better reference either. But one advantage over the coinbase situation is at least the margin account falls under SIPC.

New comment by ad in "Ask HN: I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?"

ad — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:28:00 +0000

Did you ever get into Augur?

New comment by ad in "Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades"

ad — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 14:56:56 +0000

I can't download the paper. I'm sorry, but reading the abstract, I don't see how that paper supports your argument.

"Highlights

• Chronic Pb exposure could result in a lower weight gain in rats and a higher Pb content in the brain of model rats.

• Pb exposure reduced activities of key enzymes of glucose metabolism in the brain.

• Pb exposure could disrupt the insulin signaling pathway in the hippocampus of rats."

New comment by ad in "Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades"

ad — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 13:44:25 +0000

The paper picks 1980 as the start year…interesting because the recent HN article about obesity-caused-by-contamination post also picked 1980: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27936016

Perhaps spurious, but could be seen as more evidence for the contamination theory, since depression and weight gain are correlated.

New comment by ad in "What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries?"

ad — Fri, 21 May 2021 14:12:59 +0000

“ In seven days, the over 100 nuclear power reactors run out of emergency power and go Fukushima, spreading radioactive plumes over the most populous half of the United States. ”

I didn’t see in the article, but why can’t the nuclear power plants shut down well before they ‘go Fukushima’?

New comment by ad in "What are the best powers to play in Diplomacy?"

ad — Mon, 11 May 2020 00:08:41 +0000

I’ve never played here but this is what I’ve heard: https://www.playdiplomacy.com/

New comment by ad in "Day Trading for a Living?"

ad — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:36:31 +0000

It is feasible, although I would be surprised if it something like this were at play. For one thing the other CEO Brown and Simons himself are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. That's not any guarantee but my point is that these organizations aren't monolithic...if there were geopolitical impacts hopefully someone would leak. But even if rentech were completely amoral, they probably still wouldn't do it just because the risk/reward asymmetry is too great. Sounds like it'd fall more to the FBI than SEC; much higher penalties. Too much of the rest of the business is profitable. These people have a lot to lose. And when hedge funds engage in bad behavior, it tends to look more like this [1]. Perfectly legal, yet still harming society, in my (less informed) opinion.

What keeps me up at night is not rentech but state actors, like you said, hostile foreign nations. They have the resources to pull it off and plenty of motivation...trading profits would just be icing on the cake, really.

Here's an amateur-level manipulation example you may find interesting [2]. Could rentech do this more subtly with 10x impact? Like I was saying, it may be feasible...still kinda doubt it. If this happens my guess it would be a fund that was no longer profitable, on it's way out, they have nothing left to lose, all this computing power laying around...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-27/windst...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-21/german-so...

New comment by ad in "Day Trading for a Living?"

ad — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:58:35 +0000

> their outsized gains are due to market manipulation, front running, or other insider activities (as in, illegal/unfair).

as a former insider at a different, less successful-than-rentec-but-still-successful firm, I doubt it. They have better data, technology, and employees than most other market participants. So then the question is how did they get there:

> No one is smart enough; no algorithm or model is future-proof

I agree with the sentiment, but the way it worked was in the early days, it was much easier for one person or a small team to get those advantages. Then, as the market matured and simple algorithms became less profitable, they made new, more complex ones. It became harder for new entrants to jump-start the whole process from scratch. Simons started rentech in 1982. Teleport that Simons to today and his fund probably wouldn't even get off the ground. He would still be a genius, but a billionaire? I don't think so. As you say, no one is smart enough. It was right place/right time, and they built on their advantages.