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- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 2 weeks ago:
Yeah sure that works, unless one team is the Republican party.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 2 weeks ago:
If you’re talking about a presidential election, there are two teams. The rest of the time, you should work on your own team, but when the big race is happening, there are only two viable contenders.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 2 weeks ago:
Now hang on. If you pretend the two teams are the same and refuse to pick a side because neither is perfect so it doesn’t matter, you are an enabler of fascism.
You can support a team while acknowledging their flaws. Refusing to play because the better team isn’t perfect is either naive or malicious.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 2 weeks ago:
ISO is best. There’s no debate there. From a data science perspective, YYYY/MM/DD is the only reasonable choice.
But most of the time you’re using dates, you’re only concerned with the month and day. That’s the very reason we don’t use ISO in our daily lives. If you started every mention of a date with the year, people would think you’re a crazy person, or a time traveler, or perhaps a recently-awakened coma patient. There’s just no need to begin with the year. Next Wednesday, 2024 December 18.
If you exclude the year, then the choice is month/day or day/month. Between the two, month/day is far more useful for the same reasons ISO is best. If I need both the month and the day, then I want the month first. The only time I would want the day first is if the month doesn’t matter, and I can omit the month in that case. Giving me the day first and then the month forces me to wait for the month and then remember the day. It’s inefficient transfer of information. If you exclude the year, MM/DD is objectively, if only marginally, better than DD/MM.
But then why would anyone use MM/DD/(YY)YY? Because we’re already using MM/DD.
- Comment on Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion 2 weeks ago:
Sealed bids encourage last and best offers, and prevent the deepest pockets from submitting a “highest plus one” bid that minimizes the proceeds from the sale.
This judge is either a dipshit or corrupt.
- Comment on Biden will leave office as the 'worst president' in modern memory 3 weeks ago:
Ain’t nobody storming the capitol for Biden. I would have voted for him, or anyone really over Trump, but I’m not going to become a domestic terrorist for the guy.
- Comment on Biden will leave office as the 'worst president' in modern memory 3 weeks ago:
Lol he will leave office without inciting an insurrection, so…
- Comment on WARMINGTON: Mayor who stood up to Pride group has bank account garnished 3 weeks ago:
Lol that’s what happens when you don’t pay your debts.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Kaiser Permanente is the largest HMO in California, where state healthcare regulations are stricter than other states, and they have an individual mandate that comes with actual penalties. They are one of the least evil health insurance companies, but they are still health insurance, an inherently evil concept that leeches value from the healthcare industry at the cost of human lives.
- Comment on Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths 3 weeks ago:
If it means dial back pricing, too, I’m for it.
- Comment on Max is testing always-on HBO channels 3 weeks ago:
But why?
- Comment on Crunchyroll to Move Episodes of One Piece From Ad-Supported Tier to Premium Tier 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s probably sacrilege, but I wish they would do the English dubs.
- Comment on An unwritten 'country code' is putting Rob's life at risk on the road, and all he's doing is turning right 4 weeks ago:
If you cannot see around the vehicle in front of you to know if it’s safe to pass, it isn’t safe to pass.
- Comment on Trump says Mexico’s president has ‘agreed to stop’ migrants crossing into US through her country 4 weeks ago:
Lol like a pigeon playing checkers, he moves no pieces, shits on the board, and flies away feeling victorious.
- Comment on can they?? 5 weeks ago:
Can they see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 5 weeks ago:
It is, but forex markets allow traders to trade on significant margin. Meaning, if I have $100, I might be able to buy $1,000 worth of foreign currency (a 1:10 margin) and if the value of the currency increases 1% ($100) you get 10% of the profit, which is 10% of your investment. If the position increases by 10%, you double your money. However, this also means that if the value drops by 10%, your money is gone.
Now consider that forex traders often leverage at 1:500 margins. You get to buy massive positions with currency pairs, and even the tiniest fluctuations can provide massive profits or instantaneous ruin.
The algorithm I used monitored recurring micro-patterns, watching for predictable movements. You’re also watching relative value pairs, rather than just an absolute market value. Both sides of a currency pair have nations vying to improve the value of their own currency, so you can make money (or lose money) on either side of the pair. Dollar is low against the yen, buy dollars with yen. Yen drops against the dollar, sell your positions. Euro drops against the yen, go pick up Euros agains the yen, and feel confident that Japan is already trying to strengthen the yen (simplified example, because it’s way more complex than that).
So if you track currencies across all currency pairs, you can find inconsistencies. I called it “torque” 15 years ago, but I’m sure a proper forex trader can give you an actual name for it. These are areas where three or more currencies are out of alignment, like if the dollar is up against the yen but down against the euro, and the yen is up against the euro. These are situations where you would expect the market to equalize in one direction or the other, and the trick was being able to predict which way it would go.
And I thought I had figured that out. I had not figured that out. I had gotten lucky several times in a row.
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 5 weeks ago:
It hurt with fake money, because I thought I had discovered some big secret key. Like that movie Pi. And then it was gone. All the sucess, all the dreams of a 9-screen batcave-style computer station with financial tickers and shit. I realized that I had nothing, and I was foolish for thinking otherwise. Stung like a bitch.
But you’re right, safe investments are the smarter long-term play. I did make an extra paycheck on dogecoin once on a moonshot. But otherwise, my boring retirement funds are all steadily beating inflation by a few percentage points. Why fight the tide?
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the time I started learning about forex. I used a practice account to test an algorithm for recognizing short-term trends and trading on the activity. I ran a simulation for a few days to make sure it was working, and my fake $10,000 bankroll turned into $50,000 in less than a week. I was excited about the results, and went to explain it to someone with deeper pockets who might actually have $10k to invest, and in the time it took me to walk from my desk to his and back, it went to less than $600. Five minutes, $50k wiped out.
Needless to say, he didn’t invest and I stopped daydreaming about owning a yacht. Forex is gambling.
- Comment on At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height? 5 weeks ago:
Funny and factually correct.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 5 weeks ago:
The bigger problem is that lose should rhyme with pose or close.
- Comment on Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses? 5 weeks ago:
There are oncolytic viral therapies, where viruses are modified to kill cancer cells. So, sure probably.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 5 weeks ago:
Narayama Murthy sounds like an enormous piece of shit.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t about efficiency, it’s about attacking science as a tool for evaluating truth. It’s a way to discredit the authority of expertise and shape the course of research with selective funding and demonization.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 month ago:
It’s much easier to run a HTPC on something small like a Raspberry Pi, or an NVIDIA Shield. The hardware on your TV is probably the bare minimum to run its own smart features, and replacing the firmware doesn’t guarantee that the TV isn’t still phoning home with your data.
- Comment on I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood. 1 month ago:
What?
- Comment on Amazon is shutting down Freevee 1 month ago:
Oh no! What’s Freevee?
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 1 month ago:
There are absolutely more Jewish voters in PA than there are people who abstained in protest over the Palestinian genocide. Michigan has a more concentrated Arab population, but you’re right that they aren’t why Harris lost.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 month ago:
CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the “2 x” part.
C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.
Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.
- Comment on Mellencamp was right: "Life goes on...long after the thrill of livin' is gone." 1 month ago:
It helps to find joy that does not require a thrill.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 1 month ago:
In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.