Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by jacquesm on Friday December 20, 2019 @05:11AM
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> including the impending launch disaster tomorrow
I think you mean tonight, and why do you think it will be a disaster?
Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by dnautics on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:09AM
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Because I can see the future? ;)
Foresight is 20/20. See my comment that is a child of (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703179)
It was obvious that this was going to happen. NASA was giving a pass to Boeing on a lot of things,there was lots of organizational pressure to not screw it up, and it failed its previous test due to careless error.
Sadly the put order I placed did not execute because I don't know how to effectively trade in illiquid markets yet.
Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by jacquesm on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:26AM
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You'd have done well on that one. That's why I asked how you knew, it was a pretty bold prediction and to see it come true like that is quite a thing. Pity you didn't answer sooner!
Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by dnautics on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:42AM
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Haha it's not the first time I've made s spectacular long prediction. I correctly predicted Sarah Palin being the us vice presidential candidate a full six months before it happened.
Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by jacquesm on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:15PM
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That was so totally, terribly bad for McCain that I thought he would never ever go for it. You really should put some money on these, looks like you're going to be well off. OTOH of course then you'll score a long string of 0's....
Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
by dnautics on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:36PM
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I don't really know how to find these information markets. Sometimes the predictions I make aren't really tradeable, like that time I told my coworker that the house he bought would be beneath a volcano in 15 years (that one came true last year). I also correctly predicted a few startup-relevant things like that theranos was nonsense (prediction circa 2011) and that sriraj raval was kind of a snake.
I've also made some duds like predicting that catalunya would successfully secede.
Not very much, including the impending launch disaster tomorrow, would destroy Boeing. The us can't let it fail, it's too big.