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Some of the shakier dot com companies did, though. And the dot com bubble collapse of Nortel and Worldcom shows that even well-established companies with significant non-bubble inv…

From my perspective it's more of a "stay away" type of stock (short or not). The price is not supported by business finance fundamentals, and seems to be pushed upward via the reta…

Or you could mitigate the next dot-com style crash (which wiped out nearly 80% of the NASDAQ composite). Back then, it was "day trading" that was one of the warning signs that a bu…

This is a much longer running issue than the Obama administration. Market distortions favoring heavy trucks include: * The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), enacted in Congres…

One of the problems with nuclear is, um, it's ability to cause an "extinction event". Sort of. In that: * Nuclear power plant failures can be very, very nasty. As in, "producing un…

If you think of authoritarianism as more of a "spread" and not as a black-or-white thing, you can see where the problems with "Trumpism" are. Using the terms of The Economist's "de…

Clarification: I am guessing you are using the liberal term from a "classic liberalism" sense (e.g. how it is used in Europe) and not the US version of the term, which generally re…

You may want to look up under whose presidency it was when the United States Justice Department sued Microsoft in 1998. :) Musk was far, far less political (at least regarding his …

The Atlantic headline is IMHO bad though -- I would agree that applying the "Rap Legend" title is questionable when it doesn't even appear that Dr. Rapp cut a commercial release. T…

Generally speaking these days, whenever I see a non-minor / specialist article in need of correction, I tend to rely on the talk section to make points that maybe an editor can app…

I do disagree with the lazy "Buzzfeed is left wing therefore your result are automatically invalid" conclusion of the poster. :) But I do believe that bias could be a genuine conce…

In the above news article, there is a direct link to the magazine with the study. The direct link to the study is here: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586 The stud…

Thanks for the clarification, I have corrected the text.

I don't think we have any document released yet that describes any full picture. We do have this statement (and a little more detail inside) in a report by a joint report by the US…

I think the gist of that statement is that there is no "easy" money anymore, if there ever was. I'm pretty sure it would be quite difficult get rich by simply importing commodity C…

From my perspective the "extra" came about when commercial interests started targetting the web, using base emotional tactics to get clicks and likes. Social media outside of the b…

It's more the "reaction to diversity" that's the issue, in my opinion. Some areas unfortunately are not terribly friendly to non-white or non-Christian people. This sometimes is re…

It's not a terribly useful study to me as a result. Granted, the parent piece from a libertarian think tank, so this type of report - an advocacy document - is what to expect. That…

There's a level of fame, the more superstar type level, where simply walking by yourself in public is much less feasible because of the tendency to get mobbed or attract unwanted a…

Based on a comment wesd linked to above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18535748 ), and applying that comment to all the large corporations behind ad-tech (because IMHO larg…

The first point is valid IMHO in a way. Like a lot of small towns in Massachusetts, Charlemont uses an open town meeting style of government, which means all residents have a vote …

Several years ago I was able to revive a "dead" SSD simply by updating the firmware to the latest version. I haven't had a dead SSD problem in a while though, so I don't know how c…

There are many forms of "news" out there (we're on a site called Hacker News after all :) ), which is probably what my complaint about that article would be. To me, more specialize…

I didn't downvote, but it did take me only a couple of Wikipedia clicks to bring up the article on Neapolitan Novels ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_Novels ). Per the ar…

What I will say about lossy MP3 audio is that in a blind ABX style test, I imagine I would not be able to point out which is which if the bitrate is high enough. However, if you pl…