Correct, and this is actually how all markets work in the sense that they allow for price discovery :)

It’s not really abuse though. These markets aggregate information; when an insider takes one side of a trade, they are selling their information about the true price (probability of the thing happening) to the market (and the price will move accordingly).

You’re spot on that people should think of who is on the other side of the trades they’re taking, and be extremely paranoid of being adversely selected.

Disallowing people from making terrible trades seems…paternalistic? Idk

You don’t get it. Allowing insiders to trade disincentivizes normal people from putting money. Why else is it not allowed in stock market?

I came to make this exact comment. While I agree with the author in general I think it’s not nearly so cut and dry that you should always say directly what you mean in order to communicate clearly.

This is a different person from who you originally asked lol

Right yes I do know :)

Your complaint wrt sprinkling flatmap is the motivation behind scala for comprehensions

There’s no opposing view you’re just right. Also having a lot of Anki cards is bad, regardless of the fact that the reviews become less frequent as time goes on. You want as few cards as possible with as high a quality standard as you can get. With a few thousand cards it’s very easy to get into a cycle of spending a half hour or more per day doing reviews.

You’re right this guy is a dick, as soon as I read this email I went to check who it was and laughed because I remembered that keepers thread.

Consider stack ranking to ready them for the workplace!

In general it’s ok to give a first offer (provide a salary range) if you have an information advantage. You can come in just outside the zopa.

Chrome never actually did away with third party cookies