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The insider trading you're allowed to do

https://coached.com/essays/the-insider-trading-youre-allowed-to-do/
17•rohanm93•2h ago

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sixtyj•58m ago
This is not an “insider trading”, it is an insider’s knowledge (affinity to knowledge) and ability to use it.
bananaflag•32m ago
Also see the famous case of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine

who left Metallica to found Megadeth.

elvircrn•15m ago
Completely unrelated to the article claims.
pipes•14m ago
Genuine question, what inside info did he have?

Also

"Initial drummer Carruthers was replaced after Mustaine and Ellefson decided they could not trust him. Carruthers had chosen to hide his black heritage from them by claiming he was Spanish, and they could not understand why he would deceive them.Brett Frederickson joined the band in November 1983 as their next drummer."

That move probably hasn't aged well. Pretty nasty.

Edit: I can't recall which podcast I heard this, but ismtbhebthe guy that was sad that his band didn't sell as many records as Metallica?

yawaramin•12m ago
Actually, the real legal insider trading is the trades that you _don’t_ place based on insider knowledge. Eg, if you know that the iPhone is years ahead of everything else and you happen to be holding Apple stock, then you won’t let whoever is managing your portfolio sell any of it when otherwise you may not have cared. There’s no way to prove illegality for _not_ placing a trade.
dumberquestions•4m ago
There should be a name for this cognitive bias, not accounting for what someone is not doing.
Havoc•9m ago
Unfortunately doesn't work that smoothly everywhere because outcomes are often tied to larger unknowns whether it is will AI bubble pop or will the global economy take a dip.

Access to internal data isn't a crystal ball

yieldcrv•6m ago
I read the article and I’m far more interested in talking about actual legal insider trading in the equities market

You may not be able to trade your company’s stock, or a competitor’s if you have knowledge that was under an employer agreement, but you can trade your sector and correlated assets

You can have an edge, it’s not a legal issue.

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https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-site...
280•0in•9h ago•102 comments

Muse Spark Open

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
805•bigwheels•15h ago•401 comments

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNpfz4UzqU
276•johnnyApplePRNG•3d ago•80 comments

The insider trading you're allowed to do

https://coached.com/essays/the-insider-trading-youre-allowed-to-do/
18•rohanm93•2h ago•9 comments

New York City's iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/us/nyc-horse-carriage-ban
35•1659447091•2d ago•22 comments

RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes
152•emot•8h ago•43 comments

The Folders Programming Language

https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders
50•gurst•4h ago•7 comments

Neural networks are clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
680•themgt•17h ago•249 comments

Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

https://orlp.net/blog/two-stack-sliding-window-aggregation/
8•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

What I self-host

https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/
476•BrunoBernardino•13h ago•296 comments

'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

https://www.polygon.com/order-of-the-sinking-star-impressions/
140•cvoss•2d ago•87 comments

New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sy...
283•johnbehnke•13h ago•183 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
605•FinalDestiny•20h ago•237 comments

Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-routed-a-graphite-pipe-through-the-iphone-duos-hinge
134•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•94 comments

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/
452•zlandes86•17h ago•196 comments

BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5
175•gliffie•17h ago•82 comments

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill
142•chanana•7h ago•33 comments

Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097760/
54•signa11•4h ago•42 comments

Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup
341•speckx•14h ago•153 comments

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2613
6•mikk14•1d ago•1 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
273•rbanffy•18h ago•111 comments

Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
308•dvrp•17h ago•99 comments

Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia

https://lwn.net/Articles/1094721/
45•signa11•7h ago•15 comments

Thank You, Deno

https://www.vlt.io/blog/competition-keeps-javascript-moving
76•jcbhmr•8h ago•12 comments

Major ICQ security hole (1998)

https://opennet.ru/base/maillist/169.txt.html
89•sysoleg•2d ago•48 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
158•GaryBluto•2d ago•54 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
288•iamnothere•20h ago•173 comments

Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161
220•mhb•2d ago•172 comments

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/
189•ErenayDev•18h ago•174 comments

BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox

https://github.com/johnrash/bebox
59•rguiscard•10h ago•15 comments