In a hunter-gatherer society you'd have far higher chances of survival in a team/tribe. I don't find it surprising at all that feeling lonely (a desire to be part of a tribe) would have such a strong impact on mental (and therefore physical) health. It would act as a strong drive for the lonely person to change their situation, potentially improving their chances of survival and reproduction.
From an evolutionary perspective it's little different to starvation. In fact, you could define loneliness as "social starvation".
Stocks - at least, blue-chip stocks - are usually thickly traded. The full set of shares outstanding does get bought and sold, at prices that usually remain roughly reflective of the market price (e.g. Dell being taken private, for a recent example). There are stocks that trade much more thinly, and this kind of absurdity can happen there, e.g. Bigfoot Project: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-18/bigfoot-r... .
So there's no clear bright line between "legitimate market cap" and "silly market cap". But there is a quantitative difference, and it's worth thinking about how deep the order book is when you see these "market cap" calculations being thrown arond.
Stocks represent ownership of an actual company that produces things and sells them, creating value. The price of the stock reflects an estimate of the future profits, the true value. If you buy all AAPL shares, Apple's future profits are yours. If some people (for whatever reason) sell AAPL while the estimate of future profits is not affected, price will drops somewhat and then value investors will swoop in to pick up the cheap shares. Others might disagree with the assessment, but future profits would vindicate the value investors. In other words, true value is realised and revealed over time. Thus, you have feedback loops that should keep the share price somewhat anchored to true value.
However, with Dogecoin, there is no intrinsic value, but solely what people assign to it. If people sell Dogecoin, that is ipso facto evidence that it's worth less, which can set of vicious cycles, run-away feedback loops, both up (bubbles) or down (crash). There is no true value. It's different from stocks.
In theory no, but in practice stocks on major markets will have a deeper book and also a "market maker" that would act as a counterparty for large trades.
That'd have roughly as many characters as a 338,000 word book... longer than The Brothers Karamazov (365,000) but shorter than Gone With The Wind (418,000).
Just over half the length of A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and probably just as entertaining. Heyooo!
It is a notice that they removed this item from the main page of HN.
I do not get why it got removed. It is about a case of online harassment with all the details there. It is probably the first case that was scrutinised so much.
Re: HN, there are all sort of opportunities for startup ideas to protect when a person is being harassed.
Is this a special section of the site or something? I’ve heard this for years but when I’ve looked around in the past I never did seem to find it. Especially configurations that show you how much you saved!!
Huge thing keeping me from buying a PC is paying for Windows. I’d prefer no part of my purchase go to the Windows license. Hard for me to stomach paying for Windows just to buy a computer.
It used to be marketed as "Project Sputnik" and was harder to find (I sort of remember you had to start the configuration from a specific page and what a pain it was to hunt around to find it).
I just bought another Precision 5xxx in September and the option was right where you'd expect it to be in their configurator though.
