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I'll offer feedback on the ratings system. My one gripe with your site is that the "buy" or "sell" justifications provided by your users seem weak. For example: Electric cars are p…

My employer is hyper-strict about stuff that is directly competitive with their offerings, but has tightly "ringfenced" those offerings and allows us to do what we like outside the…

>Maintaining a short position is expensive Short positions on companies like Netflix should be initiated using capped-loss derivatives instead of assuming the unlimited risk of sel…

Great link, I've definitely spent much longer than I expected reading these articles.

Bloggers outnumber AAPL sell-side coverage by infinity to 48.

Do you mean "incentive to predict conservatively" rather than "incentive to under-predict"?

Many people are eating for survival, not epicurean delights. I hear your complaints about lack of taste, but I don't think they invalidate the method of growing hydroponically.

As a former Sevilla resident, nice to click around for a while.

> Using a $225,000 microscope I saw a microscope for sale at best buy for $40! This is waste, pure and simple! edit: Either I'm not funny or people don't get sarcasm. Probably the …

This is a great question: I am working on getting you an answer from a derivatives expert. I suspect the reason has to do with difficulty inherent to unbundling existing derivative…

A parallel reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d34k0/what_do_you...

The Magnetar trade was fascinating, and I humbly submit that any reporting done by This American Life is likely to be better reporting than any other news agency out there.

Are HN-ers still largely in the dark about what happened inside of a CDO^2? What happened to all of those mortgages the treasury bought? What still doesn't make sense to you about …

>I've been in both workplaces and graduate programs where one's political views were simply assumed. Ditto with religion. I'm not devout, but I don't believe it's anyone's right to…

There's a bright side in this: seriously. If we don't live our lives with the expectation that we will finally begin enjoying them when we retire, we might begin living our lives t…

Also, adding links to other blog posts responding/reacting to posts in what I'm reading.

I hadn't considered this angle: are you able to flesh out the degree to which they will be able to do this? I'm non-technical, so it's not immediately clear to me: * the potential …

I would humbly submit that PP&E likely is dominated by warehousing facilities and books at a place like B&N. It may include some real estate, but I wouldn't bet on it representing …

Don't you incur large potential liabilities by dispensing financial advice over the internet?

You seem to be assuming they own all of their retail stores. Is this true?

Is it just me or is MA kind of a jerk? - Guy who is kind of new to this "hacker" conversation and might be asking a stupid question

> eTrade destroyed the old school retail stock broker Don't look now, but these guys are still very much alive[1].You may not use them, but plenty of people are still charging $150…

I would use the heck out of your site if I could text ideas into it somehow (via twitter?). Also if it recorded metadata about my location, that'd be pretty neat. (how many seconds…