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I've made statements on HN I'd prefer are anonymous to the general public?

Also, there was no mention they were handing the info over to a 3rd party. If you explicitly state something like that, you should follow it and/or change it when the situation changes.

I don't have that issue with git repos.

I'm kinda amused a yc employee went through the effort of downvoting it after pointing out this situation is caused by y'all not following what you actually have in your notices for things.

"Please put a valid address in the email field, or we won't be able to send you a new password if you forget yours. Your address is only visible to you and us. Crawlers and other users can't see it."

Welp, I'm taking my email out.

Could be. But imo, anything the FBI touched would be suspect.

I prefer being publicly anonymous and if I answered your question there is literally only 1 person I could be. I suppose that makes me paranoid but I'd rather not create drama.

For the sake of example, Amazon.com would be sufficiently equivalent as we do sell products via Amazon. And the fact I complain about Amazon in places gives away that we do do that. :P

The latency issue is, I supposed I could have stated it better.

Of course. Hostile work environment = GTFO ASAP :) I'm just saying the "blacklist" bit was overstated imo.

> even if you do win then other companies will mark you as a troublemaker. Getting hired is going to get a lot harder.

This isn't really true. Most businesses don't do thorough background checks and the frequency of people claiming fake degrees w/o getting caught is proof of that.

I've known two people who successfully sued their employer. One had no trouble getting a job after that. It was the second suit that they lost that caused their issues (they looked like they were paranoid and had mental issues based on the company's successful defense). Even tho they are a friend of my parents, my parents and I both agree that they weren't acting all there at the time and that likely came across in interviews.

The other one only had trouble because the area was so small it was literally the only member of that industry within 300 miles. No one wanted to pay for relocation for non-management positions during a recession. Once they relocated with their own money, they had no issues.

I've never heard of an instance of someone being "blacklisted" outside of a failed lawsuit where they were shown to be deceptive and/or mentally unstable.

I don't think most people on HN are making over $100k unless they are in the Bay Area or NYC.

Many, many places that "starting salary" is more like $50-60k.

Perhaps it does but I'm not convinced without evidence it happens and I can't find any that shows it happens the majority of the time let alone all the time :/

"Report to the President and the Attorney General" https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/102922NCJRS.pdf "Organized Crime and the Meat Industry: A Study in Competition "

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2m3avv/i_am_mike_rowe_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_(gangster)

It was partially sarcastic, partially not. In 2014, its about as relevant as complaining about links between the Mafia & Unions. They used to be connected in places but it was relatively small scale (e.g. local) and not on the scale people like the parent claimed.

Do you eat meat? 'cause a number of the rendering plants that produce animal feed are still mob owned.

In case anyone was wondering why I bash Amazon's non-AWS technical staff...

They screwed up the promotion, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and 3-5s latency for ads? :P

That is the only part of this complaint I find interesting.

Its explicitly designed into Zappo's business model and an intentional side effect. They have a 1 year return policy + free returns specifically to encourage people to send more returns so they are more likely to risk buying things that might not work out.

For the same products, I have a ~9% return rate. :/

That is different than normal return rates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov would be an example of what I mean. :P

Wow. We must be exceptionally good for some reason then 'cause some of the items I'm talking about are specialty shoes that cost $100+.

I think you completely missed the point of why I pointed out an example of another side effect. :/

I'm going to drop it.

Does that happen in every case for every piece of technical evidence?

Like I said, if it really was how it worked someone would find a way to automate it. :P

I suppose I could have been more verbose. I tend to use acronyms sometimes and not think through that it could be read differently than I intended.

I'd prefer a better educated populace that realizes the "technical evidence" being submitted in many cases is essentially witness testimony and not physical evidence [e.g. fingerprints on the murder weapon] which I think many people believe.

Witness testimony is perfectly fine as long as it isn't implied to be anything greater than that.

What are you defining as higher end?

$100? $200? Unusual measurements required? [e.g. Not just a standard size but additional dimensions]

'cause if you are, I'm still standing by my experience.

Tbh, this is what scares me about tech illiterate juries. Many of these cases hang on key pieces of evidence that are literally the FBI's word against the defendants.

Penny stocks [as the OP trades] wouldn't be.

He tries to obscure it a little with things like "pink sheets" and acronyms but I don't think that is intentional. I'm guessing people just don't read the original article he is defending.

He is trading penny stocks with a market cap is less than $50 million, generally.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nanocap.asp

The amount of money needed to move the needle on these is very small, its why they are often used in pump & dumps.

He doesn't have anything to do with "Wall Street" which works with stocks that follow SEC rules, commodities, etc. in the way you mean.

> If you can be sure you are profitable in say a month (or a year), you are multiplying money, so using leverage or loans you should be able to basically have any amount of money you want (and what about trades in that case?).

Its not that simple, sadly.

You can't buy $InfinteMoney$ worth of stock X in a single transaction, you end up moving the stock price as you buy/sell. This allows others to respond to your activity. At small scales, a system that appears to work will break down at large scales.

Yes, but he is talking about trading penny stocks/pink sheets. He is on par with the people the "armchair economists" unless he is super wealthy and can prove it.

You sure you want to act like he is a financial guru?

"If you've been following penny stock trading circles on twitter for awhile, you'll know certain tales of legend were born on that day. One particular trader profited $1.2 million in a day. When that many traders produce their largest gains on one particular trade, you know it doesn't require some crazy genius, It's the stock that does all the work and makes life easy.

My day was just peanuts in comparison but it was still my personal best, as I made $33,000 (with no profit split! which felt amazing). The trader across from me, who I will affectionately nickname El Chango, had seen enough. El Chango was branch B's head trader. It killed him to see easy money slip away due to inaccessibility. He pulled CCG's principle owner aside and pleaded for him to enable access to the OTC."

His method?

"Simple. Look for the extreme volatile moves on massive volume. If the direction was down, find the first held bid. Buy. If the direction was up, find the first major seller. Short."

If it was really how that worked in the real world, it'd have been eaten up by HFT.

Are you sure that is true for all retailers of those products?

I deal with a high return rate industry [specialty products many customers can't size correctly] and I only see return rates of 3-7% depending on the product. 40% seems very high.

That isn't quite right. Many vendors provided them with XML feeds of their products just as they do with Amazon.

> The big Senate changes are probably Udall's departure and Feinstein and Leahy losing their committee chairs.

Which is a side effect of them losing control of the Senate and falls under "Republican control" creating the change.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/11/0...

If you'd like, I could list out the side effects of Republican senate control such as the impact on appointments as well if you'd like? I just assumed it was common knowledge.

In case anyone was looking for the actual text of the bill:

https://www.leahy.senate.gov/download/usa-freedom-act_-intro...

I'd honestly say this being said so close to the election is playing politics rather than "lose credibility". Republicans taking control of both houses of Congress. The Freedom Act is likely better than whatever a Republican controlled legislative branch will pass.

So you make over $200k a year AND have fun doing it?

I'm just asking because that is the only way your comment makes sense. If not, I suggest you re-read.

> At one point, a career goal of mine was to "get paid full time to work with Rails." Now that I've achieved that goal, I have bigger and better ones. I don't know what level you are operating at, but my new goals involve putting together a cohesive team that can knock out projects really fast, followed by starting a company with the experience gained from accomplishing the former.

I wish you the best of luck with your goals, for whatever that is worth. I don't mean any of this personally...I just think the view you and the OP take is far too narrow.

The reason I said "different level" is our goals are so completely different as to be incomparable from an objective viewpoint.