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by EGreg 1007 days ago
That’s because too many hedge funds and other speculators have been borrowing on margin, and that leads to collapse. Regardless of what rules are set up to regulate this, rampant speculation and bubbles can always destabilize a market and lead to collapse!

You see, what happens is that capitalism rewards the greater risktakers and when the success stories have survivor bias you end up with — oh we’re talking about CSS? Sorry, nevermind.

3 comments

The first paragraph on its own fits quite well, given the average amount of article-reading that happens here.
I think the title should definitely be changed to not be misleading ;)
What do you mean this isn't a new variant of waveform collapse for procedural random generation?