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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by croissants »

Alupis wrote: post #166
mhh__ wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can he be both? He seems like a fucking odd guy, but he's not stupid in any way.

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell, "1984" Stallman, like most of us (and nearly all prominent historical figures) can posses both positive and negative traits simultaneously. The good isn't always outweighed by the bad, and vice versa. Nuance is a difficult thing sometimes...

This isn't doublethink, because "he's weird and unpleasant" and "he has insightful ideas" aren't "two contradictory beliefs".

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by jodrellblank »

louwrentius wrote: post #233
fireeyed wrote: post #189

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Can't repeat this enough. "Its a big club and you ain't in it" - George Carlin. A lot of people are waking up to the coordination between the Oligarchs. Its hardly a surprise. The politicians, their government lackeys and media are in bed with them nice and comfy only feigning outrage when the system appears threatened.

I love this quote from Carlin: It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

This is why I hate Carlin's stuff, it's so fitting for the internet tech sites because the main point of it is jeering and sneering at people who aren't you, who aren't woke. George Carlin was a Hollywood film star with a net worth in the millions if not tens of millions. He's on stage, not working a 9-5, getting you to laugh with him at all the "idiots".

It's a big club and he was in it.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by ArchD »

jannes wrote: post #231
grecy wrote: post #226

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Citadel is a hedge fund that owns Melvin Capital Management. Melvin is a $GME Short Seller that is predicted to loose BILLIONS due to people taking the free market back. Citadel owns the app Robinhood. Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed. How in the world is that NOT market manipulation?

Does Citadel actually own Robinhood? I couldn't find any source on that.

I think Robinhood sends them the retail order flow. I don't know about ownership. The conflict of interest is the same.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by rangibaby »

bluetwo wrote: post #143
pgrote wrote: post #102

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I wish I could find it, but 10 years ago, probably longer now, there was a prescient video where there turned out to be only 4 tech companies left. Something like amazgooglesoft or something. The narrator had a deep voice and I think it was funded by a media company. Edit: Found it through the keywords, "old prediction video where amazon microsoft google buy everything" lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s…

When all the tech companies merge, they will in turn be bought by Taco Bell.

A short squeeze is how Taco Bell won the fast food wars

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by sgerenser »

grecy wrote: post #226
aaomidi wrote: post #38

Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.

Citadel is a hedge fund that owns Melvin Capital Management. Melvin is a $GME Short Seller that is predicted to loose BILLIONS due to people taking the free market back. Citadel owns the app Robinhood. Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed. How in the world is that NOT market manipulation?

Citadel does not own Robinhood.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by SulfurHexaFluri »

px43 wrote: post #71
jokethrowaway wrote: post #6

If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.

Where did you live 10 years ago that wasn't run by corporate greed and corruption, or were you just too young to remember it? If anything, things are better now than they were 10 years ago, and things were even worse 10 years before that. One reason that things are getting better is that more people are paying attention, which makes that fun paradox where a bunch of people who are new to this whole thing perceive the…

I think the general attitude was not that these people are conspiracy theorists and making these things up but that there response would be something like "Why does it matter, how does it affect me?" and the answer would have been some theoretical bad thing that the average person can't imagine happening to themselves. Now its happening which makes it real for people.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by voodootrucker »

alexashka wrote: post #34
jokethrowaway wrote: post #6

If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.

If anyone predicted Trump becoming president 10 years ago, they would've been labelled a lunatic. Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, because fiction has the constraints of being something we can comprehend and live with. It has to be redeeming and hopeful, reality doesn't.

Seriously, reason from first principles. The incentives are the outcome. It was predicted in mainstream media (granted as a pessimistic joke):

https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons-writer-reveals-how-he-...

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by rvz »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #6

If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.

Stallman predicted this for decades and was labeled as such until Edward Snowden came about and showed the evidence right in our faces.

As usual, Big Tech strikes again with a lesser role this time. It won't be the last until some 'action' is done to keep them in check.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by sulam »

simias wrote: post #129
mulmen wrote: post #36

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You may think reviews are calculated as: SELECT app, AVG(stars) AS display_stars FROM customer_reviews GROUP BY app; It’s actually an ML algorithm that optimizes for revenue.

Being condescending is not constructive. Can you substantiate your claim? I'm sure that there are many tweaks to the way apps are ranked, but I would expect that the rating itself would, indeed, mostly be a star average.

This is not how most stores calculate the rating. Not Apple's, not Amazon's, and not Google's. They all have various "leans" on the score, that factor in other things besides just total_score divided by num_reviews.
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