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travmatt

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    Comment #27186927

    Any business who followed your logic would be then vulnerable to the first competitor who was willing to sell the cure instead. To prevent that from happening, it would take a glob…

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    Comment #27185943

    In reality, a company will look at the cure and know that it will end the market in management. They will also understand that whoever brings the cure to market first will take the…

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    Comment #27185080

    If a company is aware that a new drug could cure a previously managed disease, it’s pretty obvious that you’d like to be the one pocketing any available profits before a competitor…

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    Comment #26332376

    I don’t think the stock market has correlated with underlying economic realities in a long time, and I don’t think short selling is the cause of that. Additionally, I’d think that …

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    Comment #26331714

    Economic research[0] disagrees with you. “”” We show that stock prices are more accurate when short sellers are more active. First, in a large panel of NYSE-listed stocks, intraday…

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    Comment #26330509

    Markets cannot find efficient prices without short selling.

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    Comment #26330465

    One of the people in the world most vulnerable to short selling is against it.* Short selling is still an essential part of markets and price discovery, it’s not really that hard t…

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    Comment #26296744

    I saw a picture on Reddit of a wall stacked high with 3060’s. In the comments, the poster mentioned he placed a bulk order, the downside was it took a while.

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    Comment #26137252

    Some might argue that you should provide evidence and arguments that support your allegation that’s she’s selling influence.

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    Comment #26137229

    I have a hard time reconciling the fact you claim to be making a dispassionate analysis, and yet cannot find a single accomplishment of Janet Yellen that would merit her being an i…

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    Comment #25895313

    I’m telling you that black people in America have a culture that is descended from a lot of sources, and you cannot just simplify it as Anglo-Saxon, again because such a wide swath…

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    Comment #25894885

    I know expat Jamaican and Dominican communities in New York that celebrate festivals yearly. I ate jerk chicken with red beans and rice last week, I don’t think that was an Anglo-S…

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    Comment #25894591

    African-American culture is most certainly not Anglo-Saxon. It’s actual roots in the African diaspora and the Caribbean, and there are entire communities, like the Gullah of the Ca…

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    Comment #25886507

    To protect against harassment: https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/08/t-mobile-hands-over...

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    Comment #25706811

    One possible candidate drug I’ve read quite a bit about but have not seen anything on HN about is high-dose melatonin, and even typical melatonin use is associated with a lower cha…

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    Comment #25706750

    > The UK's health services are struggling at the moment. Are you saying the NHS is struggling with their doctors publishing dangerous recommendations? I’m not sure what you’re impl…

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    Comment #25706722

    I haven’t heard vitamin d administration is associated with better outcomes, but I’ve heard that vitamin d levels are inversely correlated with outcomes - i.e., people should take …

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    Comment #25706574

    If you do his breathing exercises you can step into a cold shower and legitimately not notice the cold.

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    Comment #25700297

    It’d be pretty useless to only research and document phenomena that you already understand. But in case it seems that odd to you, here’s 16 other cases of cancer that went into rem…

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    Comment #25599206

    > I read 45 books in 2020 He’s claimed to have read a fairly large number of books in 2020. So not on the basis of his writing swift, rather his taste as a reader.

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    Comment #25559353

    I don’t think the many eyes fallacy states that code audits are impossible or useless.

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    Comment #25554937

    A good example was the AWS S3 outage that occurred when a single engineer mistyped a command[0]. While the outage wouldn't have occurred had an engineer not mistyped a command, tha…

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    Comment #25529503

    Other comments here have remarked that previous sightings may have violated airspace laws. It’s unlikely that he’d break those laws.