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phob··on Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers
How do you know that Apple won't gain even more share and profits than anticipated next year? Shouldn't you be short selling instead?

I think you're falling to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_effect

phob··on Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers
According to your conspiracy theory, the price is sometimes artificially low and sometimes artificially high. Why haven't you made a profit by short selling? Why wouldn't a competing company?
phob··on Try Haskell: An interactive tutorial in your browser
I thought it was great, except the way "let" was introduced was a little shocking. You just assumed what it was doing was intuitive (which it was, coming from a lisp background). I look forward to more!
phob··on GNU Emacs 23.2 released
Python? http://pymacs.progiciels-bpi.ca/pymacs.html
phob··on The Data-Driven Life
"Global superintelligence known as the cloud"... Really?
phob··on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release
Why?
phob··on Proofs without words
Wow, I didn't know about MathOverflow. Good to know!
phob··on Ask HN: Average comment score for HN users?
What does leaders do, if not that?
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