speedybird

"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' in an informal sense, but not in the sense that actually matters. There is nothing wrong with publicly stating that you think some stock is overvalued. Particularly not if you back up your claim with some evidence, which is what Hindenburg does.

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 this part. It seems to me that you've got an axe to grind with short sellers in general. Hindenburg seems to clearly be "the real deal", whether or not you approve of what "the real deal" is.

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.

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.

I guess it's actually his real name, and Zeke short for Ezekiel isn't uncommon. But Zeke can also mean 'cloak'.

"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 negative reviews. Some claim that Schumer's biggest critics got on Netflix and purposely drove down the rating of the special, some without even watching it. Schumer herself blames the 'Alt-Right' for sabotaging her latest effort. Now, it is being announced that Netflix is ditching its five-star rating system for something much more streamlined, a rating system that owes itself to the legacy of the late Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Did Amy Schumer have anything to do with this new rating system? Probably not. But once in place, it will certainly help her Leather Special find a more appropriate audience."

https://movieweb.com/netflix-cancels-5-star-rating-system/

'Probably not', but it sure seemed like coincidental timing to me.

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 then converted to a television signal via telecine.

Supposedly the original newsreals still exist, preserved by the National Film Registry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster_newsreel_f...

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 DisjointedHunt, that's not right. All of the west coast burns; from California all the way to Alaska. The smoke in Seattle mostly comes from fires in Washington and British Columbia.

And it really is a "you live in the wrong place" problem because there isn't a solution to that other than humans completely re-engineering the ecology of the west coast, which simply is not going to happen for a myriad of reasons. So either you learn to cope with it (as I and many others have) or you move further East. The fires won't stop.

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?

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 EPA is expecting too much.

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...

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.

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 make if you already have the printer. You can easily buy a better gun cheaper than that in just about any gunstore.

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 is for.

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 management by suppressing fires and consequently causing larger fires later on, but either way you will have to cope with the smoke.

(Also, the sky turning red is actually somewhat pretty. The real harm is what it does to your lungs. Better air filtration indoors is the answer to this, and happily, also a good way to mitigate the risk of respiratory diseases..)

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.

"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 are they in this? What loophole is SpaceX using to skirt around the EPA?

"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 enter another dry period, with significantly lower precipitation and snowpack levels than observed over the last 150 years.[7]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_California#P...

It seems at this rate, California won't realize it needs desalination plants until it's too late. Desalination plants need a whole lot of power, so California should be preparing for that by building up their energy production capacity.

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 actually intents to persuade people, anyway.)

Also I'm a bit confused why people are surprised the methane for these rockets will come from a well. Did people really think Elon Musk was going to stick a hose up a cow's ass to collect the methane?

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 will sound like a rifle and rattle windows.

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 "Benchy" boats printed over and over again. A hobby that, at least at first glance, seems obsessed with creating useless plastic trinkets, seems vulnerable to social criticism in this age of environmental awareness.

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 private unlicensed people to use or abuse. A common criticism of the NRA is that it prioritizes manufacturer interests. For instance, (from what I've seen, correct me if I'm wrong) the NRA doesn't seem to do a very good job at protesting import bans that harm collectors but benefit manufacturers.

They can afford better guns.

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 have printed or home-milled receivers but are otherwise build out of factory parts.

There are also some 'ghost guns' that are wholly homemade, with all the variable quality you would expect. Most of them are probably more dangerous to the user.

That link works and sounds fine, thank you.

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 corrupted. Either way, it's intolerable. I couldn't listen to it for more than a minute.

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: bullshiting) another denominator if I don't even know what the numerator is?

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 bit of literacy goes a long way to facilitate trade and commerce, even if you're not comfortable reading a whole book. In fact there are still some people who go through life like this in developed countries today.

The denominator is easy, wikipedia tells me that is 147,000 (2020.) I'm wonder what the numerator is.

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, 15 people, 200 people, 500 'instances'.