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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by macawfish on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:24AM (#26261160)
This has that too, it's called "reddit"
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by TheRealSteel on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:32AM (#26261583)
I'm sure jedberg will be very interested to find out about this Reddit thing
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by bidirectional on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:56AM (#26261346)
Reddit isn't people who have made at least a 25k investment in a terminal communicating under their real name and job title. That's worth something.
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by skocznymroczny on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:19AM (#26261509)
No, but it has plenty of people making at least a 250k investment into a meme stock.
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by iorrus on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:26AM (#26261819)
My understanding was that the real action takes place in the anonymous chat rooms on the Bloomberg terminal, But I don't know if this is true.
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:34AM (#26261221)
> This has that too, it's called "reddit"

If you receive a Bloomberg message from someone, it's something actionable. That's not true, in finance, of virtually any other electronic communication channel.

Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by dkdbejwi383 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:59AM (#26261366)
> If you receive a Bloomberg message from someone, it's something actionable.

That's some real blue sky thinking.

Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by jasfi on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:38AM (#26261239)
Can you give some examples? Do you mean it's highly trustworthy?
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by happyconcepts on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:29AM (#26262497)
>communicating under their real name and job title.

I never got spammed once on my terminal.

Not once.

Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by garmaine on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:52AM (#26261321)
He's just saying the high cost acts as an inbound filter.
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by gajotron on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:57AM (#26261349)
Spamfilter prior to HashCash based on Proof of Income
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by sneak on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:19AM (#26261503)
I wonder if a messageboard where you had to submit a significantly difficult hashcash proof with every message would be very interesting.