I think the content at HN is pretty good. Some other novel approaches I have seen includes upquest.com which has voting based on where you think the score is headed. I think (as others have mentioned) downvoting introduces issues like for example downvoting articles around the one article you want upvoted.

Actual shares, no. A crypto bucket shop will show up in the short term, I can guarantee it.

You seem to be making a lot of flawed assumptions here.

Even IF you are to assume this is a simply speculative "greater fool" scenario Robinhood just ensured through their interference that the last buyers are less likely to profit.

Robinhood's job is not to police transactions it is to process them. That they would do this for a few million $ in potential customer support time is so naïve.

Letting them off the hook for illegal manipulation because "it is a headache" is one of the stupidest arguments I have heard.

This is one of the few benefits I can see to cryptocurrency.

And even that is tenuous. In cases where you run afoul of AML regulations, cryptocurrency will not save you.

In cases such as this where you break no laws, but your payment processor refuses to process payments ... well, at some point you'll have to convert your crypto cash into real cash - so all you did was kick the ball downstream and fixed nothing. If MasterCard refuses to process your payments, they can also refuse to process payments for the crypto exchange if they do business with you.

I'd prefer Capital One not have access to and sell all my purchase data.

Absolutely

Crowdfunding should be loosened. Sure some people will get scammed but it is the same people who the government allows to sink their weekly paycheck into scratchers. These regulations are only in place to give PE a monopoly on certain investments.

The critical difference being that government makes a lot of money off gambling taxes; it may be a negative-sum game, but it's their negative-sum game.

Fair point

You could sell a variant or have a constant recycled set of promos

Interesting, looking back further it seems searches for these symptoms are associated with flu seasonality.

I came to that conclusion. I'm trying different searches that might be more unique to covid-19, like labored breathing. I'm trying to think of other proxies, maybe things like "coronavirus home remedy", etc.

Yeah, it is strongly associated with the flu seasonality. It makes sense considering what sick often people do, their first reaction is to type their symptoms into Google.

This 100%

Given first 500 digits: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971 6939937510582097494459230781640628620899 8628034825342117067982148086513282306647 0938446095505822317253594081284811174502 8410270193852110555964462294895493038196 4428810975665933446128475648233786783165 2712019091456485669234603486104543266482 1339360726024914127372458700660631558817 4881520920962829254091715364367892590360 0113305305488204665213841469519415116094 3305727036575959195309218611738193261179 3105118548074462379962749567351885752724 89122793818301194912

Let's encode: 10,72,7

//index, length

48,2|139,2|13,1

Even with a fixed length we run into the same issue.