speedybird

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by speedybird 5y ago
> "The US Securities Exchange Act defines market manipulation as "transactions which create an artificial price or maintain an artificial price for a tradable security"." They are 'manipulating the market'
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by speedybird 5y ago
> It's because they want to be able to move the stock price when they publish something. Publicity helps move the market which is how they make money. Why do you think that make [him|them] illegitimate? You've not explained
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by speedybird 5y ago
As I said, I think it's probably his real name. But it's a cool name for sure; his name would be right at home in a cyberpunk novel.
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by speedybird 5y ago
It might be insider trading in some countries, but it isn't in America. It's perfectly legal to trade on information you found out through your own research and didn't tell anybody about.
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by speedybird 5y ago
I guess it's actually his real name, and Zeke short for Ezekiel isn't uncommon. But Zeke can also mean 'cloak'.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> "Netflix Ditches 5 Star Rating System, Is Amy Schumer to Blame?" > "This past week, Netflix officially debuted their new Amy Schumer stand-up comedy hour The Leather Special. And it was instantaneously met with neg
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by speedybird 5y ago
Analogue video (e.g. television) interlacing did actually begin in the 1930s, a few years before the Hindenburg disaster. But the original disaster footage would have been shot on film (not interlaced of course), cut into newsreels and th
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by speedybird 5y ago
> bad air quality over half a continent away If you mean that Californian fires are smoking out states like Nebraska, that's something I haven't heard of. But if you mean smoking out Seattle, the example used above by Disjoi
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by speedybird 5y ago
I guess you're alluding to KSC or Cape Canaveral? As far as I know they pipe their water in from a neighboring town. Do they actually have enough fresh water to support the launch cadence SpaceX is planning for?
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by speedybird 5y ago
Supposing the EPA is gutted as you suggest (my sibling comment suggests otherwise), it surely still has more capability and expertise when it comes to environmental regulation than the FAA. I think expecting the FAA to act as a surrogate E
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by speedybird 5y ago
> The EPA is also a national security concern. I strongly agree, but not for the reason you give. Environmental destruction is likely to start more wars than it prevents...
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by speedybird 5y ago
Copyrighted music won't prevent video of cops breaking the law from being used in court, so don't let that tactic dissuade you from recording the police.
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by speedybird 5y ago
TBQH, even poor people in America can afford better guns from a store than homemade guns. The main exception to this is people who aren't permitted to buy guns. Wikipedia says the infamous FGC-9 costs "less than $400" to ma
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by speedybird 5y ago
This makes sense. If the EPA is slacking and rubber-stamping things, that warrants investigation and criticism. But I'm not buying the angle that the FAA should be expected to enforce the EPA's rules. That's what the EPA i
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by speedybird 5y ago
If you think wildfire smoke makes a region unlivable, then consider that before deciding where to live. Wildfires are a natural part of the ecological cycle in some parts of the world. You can fault California for botching their forest m
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by speedybird 5y ago
Not really, not in the sense that most people think of it. It can be composted, but certainly not in the backyard pile of vegetable matter most people will imagine when you talk about composting.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> "he's at best exploiting loopholes and at worst operating extrajudicially. [...] But, more importantly, it's irrelevant to the problem at hand, sidestepping the regulation process" Again, the EPA exists, so where
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by speedybird 5y ago
"During the Medieval Warm Period, there were at least two century-long megadroughts with only 60-70% of modern precipitation levels. Paleoclimatologists believe that higher temperatures due to global warming may cause California to en
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by speedybird 5y ago
How could it be that SpaceX is answerable only to the FAA and is immune to the EPA? Why is it on the FAA to regulate a well? I think the author of the article should work on including a bit more exposition and a bit less snark (if he act
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by speedybird 5y ago
> Hydrogen does not burn energetically, especially before it has been mixed with oxygen. Drop the word "especially" and I might agree, but a mere party balloon of hydrogen mixed with oxygen in a stoichiometric ratio going off
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by speedybird 5y ago
Instead of trying to craft legislation addressing 3d printed guns directly, it might be more effective for governments to target the 3d printing hobby using environmental rhetoric. They could point to and ridicule the number of "Bench
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by speedybird 5y ago
>There's no way the NRA would let this loophole get closed, right? They might, since people making rifles at home aren't buying rifles from manufacturers. Licensed FFLs don't use this 'loophole', it exists for
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by speedybird 5y ago
They can afford better guns.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> For the ghost guns, do you still need to have professionally manufactured elements standing pressure, like a barrel, Yes, the 'ghost guns' politicians fear the most are built like that. Particularly, AR pattern rifles that
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by speedybird 5y ago
That link works and sounds fine, thank you.
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by speedybird 5y ago
I downloaded the mp3 to listen to this, but the audio is filled with weird squeaks, squawks, and short skips. I don't know if their microphone is broke, if this is some effects they added to be cute, or if their mp3 download is simply
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by speedybird 5y ago
How many is the numerator? That's all I'm asking; do you even know? There is a pretty big difference between 15 and 200. Which of those is more accurate? Is it even either of those? What good is 'estimating' (read: bu
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by speedybird 5y ago
Literacy is not a binary. It was apparently common for working class people to have some practical literacy; the ability to recognize and write words in their local vernacular that were relevant to their lives and professions. A little b
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by speedybird 5y ago
The denominator is easy, wikipedia tells me that is 147,000 (2020.) I'm wonder what the numerator is.
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by speedybird 5y ago
How many people are involved in this AppleToo thing? It's hard for me to get a handle on just how significant any of this is in the scope of the whole corporation. I clicked through a few links in the article and see various numbers,

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