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Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by unethical_ban »

jb775 wrote: post #526
unethical_ban wrote: post #352

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Holy shit, I can't believe people are comparing RH to Twitter, retail investment and corrupt hedge funds to people inciting violence against election results. FWIW, this is an app in a supposedly regulated sector, making the call to affect stock prices and cut retail investors out of the market and causing a stock to tank.

I'm not comparing RH to Twitter, I'm comparing a private business' decision to a private business' decision, per your logic on the Twitter situation (banning any loud right-wing person). Time will tell if RH actually did anything illegal. If they didn't, then your previous Twitter logic should hold....i.e. "they're a private business and they can do whatever they want"....right? I think what's ACTUALLY going on (whet…

Your comment doesn't get as much respect from me, because you think every loud right wing person is being censored on twitter, which is objectively, verifiably, bullshit. You are wrong. Incorrect. Lying? I don't know if you believe what you say or not.

Calls to violence from people in power are different from market manipulation.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by sushisource »

asenna wrote: post #421
sushisource wrote: post #339

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It requires some way to fund it, but that needn't necessarily be ETH. It also well could be, and they have first mover advantage. But, and it's a big but, I think the most important thing people who know much about crypto forget is: Other people are not like you. Most people have still never even heard of Etherium. Most people won't touch something like that without explicit approval from a government. Which, obvious…

> Most people have still never even heard of Ethereum This statement was true in 2016, 2018 and 2021. The difference being the momentum - a LOT more people have heard of Ethereum now than back then. I think you might be underestimating the network effect that Ethereum has in the space. All the tooling, beginner-friendly tutorials/books/blogs, institutions and funds flowing into the projects, the sheer number of peopl…

By most people I genuinely mean "most people" I sincerely doubt more than 50% of people in the US have heard of ETH, much less globally.

So, yeah, sticking by that statement.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by peheje »

jxf wrote: post #181

This is interesting in that it provokes the question of what an app's rating "means". Clearly, if you were getting the app because you expected to be able to trade GME and you can't, then this is a good signal not to get the app. But not all "protest votes" of this sort may be equally good signals.

Agree. I think the answer is it means whatever Google wants it to mean for this particular app.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by dang »

echelon wrote: post #163
alangibson wrote: post #80

One of the good things I see coming out of Robinhood blocking trading, Twitter and Reddit booting problematic users, Parler getting vaporized, etc. is a sudden realization amongst people of just how easily major parts of their lives can be instantly turned off by intermediaries. My hope is that this will drive a reformist movement around digital rights (speech, commerce, etc.) As well as a movement from platforms to…

Every time I mention this on Hacker News, I get downvoted by the neoliberal fascists that want to suppress the speech they feel comfortable with silencing. Free speech is only free if we allow all of it. Americans have thick skin. It's in our culture. We've accomplished so much in spite of internal disagreement and oppression: voting rights, women's rights, gay marriage (which still isn't enshrined in the constitutio…

This comment broke the site guidelines badly and you've been doing that a lot lately, unfortunately. We need you to stop doing this. Please see my more detailed reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994701.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

vineyardmike wrote: post #494
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #412

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It's belief in the lack of a supernatural deity. Subtle difference, as required by the topic.

I don't go to a building and dance and sing to my belief of no diety. I do not go and seek out others who believe in the lack of a diety to associate and grow together. I don't go on to claim wars over the land holy to my belief of no diety. I don't go on to terrorize my children and tell them they are unloved because they're born in a way that offends my belief in the lack of a diety. I don't go on to terrorize my n…

Not sure how any of that relates to my rearranging the words. I was just making it follow the dictionary definition of atheism more closely, i.e. belief that there is no god.

No more implication than that. It is, however, actively a belief. It's not "I don't care" or "it's different to the one you believe in", or "I don't believe there is a god", it is "I believe there is no god"

Never said atheism was a religion, would never say that because it's objectively false.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

Igelau wrote: post #533
Noos wrote: post #517

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If you believe stamp collectors are the source of all evil in the world, and congregate with other anti-stamp collectors to share your common struggle, maybe. It's one thing to not believe in unicorns, it's another to define yourself in opposition to unicorn believers, which many atheists do.

That's a good point, and I think it points out the fundamental misunderstanding in the comment I was replying to: conflation of atheism with radical atheism, particularly New Atheism.

My comment didn't mention 'radical' or 'New'. The location of "belief" makes the sentence an accurate description of atheism or not.

Adding 'types' in front of the word just continues us down the path of words not really meaning anything anymore.

Are radical atheists just atheists that act like dicks about it? Don't call them radical atheists, just call them dicks. Is a New Atheist one that does interpretive dance to explain their belief that there is no god? That's just an unlikely combination of two things, one of which is atheism.

Eg. I'm a radical grammarian (a dick when it comes to grammar).

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by asenna »

sushisource wrote: post #542
asenna wrote: post #421

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most people have still never even heard of Ethereum This statement was true in 2016, 2018 and 2021. The difference being the momentum - a LOT more people have heard of Ethereum now than back then. I think you might be underestimating the network effect that Ethereum has in the space. All the tooling, beginner-friendly tutorials/books/blogs, institutions and funds flowing into the projects, the sheer number of peopl…

By most people I genuinely mean "most people" I sincerely doubt more than 50% of people in the US have heard of ETH, much less globally. So, yeah, sticking by that statement.

And I agree with that statement.

I just think it's similar to some of the earlier internet days like shopping online or sending emails - in its early days most people did not know much about these concepts except for the tech community and early adopters.

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