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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by metacritic12 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:41AM (#26262171)
Having worked in finance on the buy side, I can say this was not true for me or the dozens of people I knew who use it. Neither I nor others I know in the space use the terminal as a place to "hang out" with wealthy people.

Bloomberg's tooling is quite good, and you can get 80% of the way to a bespoke chart with 20% of the work.

Not sure if the above is speculation, or parody, or just a projection of a stylized view of how finance and the world works. But definitely the above comment is confusing / misleading to people who don't work in the industry.

Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by cashewchoo on Thursday February 25, 2021 @09:16AM (#26262941)
Hello from the (ex) sell side. I think it's satire. Pretty hard to tell though. But I think it's just really good satire.
Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by hinkley on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:35PM (#26266345)
Poe's Law strikes again.