When the going gets tough, hit that delete button. People think that deleting downvoted comments is cowardly. I disagree: it’s cutting your losses. Why would the feature exist if you’re not allowed to use it? Downvotes have gotten worse. Compared to even as recently as 2 years ago, commenting is like crossing a tightrope of… Continue reading When the going gets tough, hit the delete button! (Reddit and social media commenting guide)

Interesting Twitter-essay by @tracewoodgrains, “Contra ‘Peak Woke’”: Contra "Peak Woke" The idea that we've passed "peak woke" has always seemed to me like a fundamental misunderstanding, born of focusing on moment-by-moment controversies rather than longer-term trends. Social justice progressivism has not peaked—it is simply coming into its own.… pic.twitter.com/h55RdueOHg — TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) March 22, 2024… Continue reading Peak Woke? Maybe

I saw this story going viral: Why Tech Job Interviews Became Such a Nightmare. Getting hired for tech jobs is more competitive and difficult than ever before, with job seekers having to clear increasingly high hurdles: John Moore, a technical curriculum developer and instructional designer, wrote in to say that it’s not just software engineers… Continue reading How ‘DEI’ makes companies more impersonal

The great Bitcoin/crypto die-off continues, with Bitcoin having dropped over $10,000 in the past week alone, with no end in sight to the selling. The >$100k price targets as promised by the useless analysts and experts is never happening, just as they were wrong in 2018, 2021, and 2022. What happened to $100k, Mr. Lee?… Continue reading The great Bitcoin/crypto die-off continues

Item #1: Apparently, I am "one of the good ones," as a right-leaning Black guy – but it is offensive I think it's cool this dude works for NASA. While we're Just Noticing Patterns, a remarkable number of the people who keep asking when minorities will stop caring about race, and… https://t.co/OGNqYlXYIs — Wilfred Reilly… Continue reading The Daily View: 3/18/2024

House passes a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner refuses to sell. House passage of the bill is only the first step. The Senate would also need to pass the measure for it to become law, and lawmakers in that chamber indicated it would undergo a thorough review. Senate Majority… Continue reading TikTok Ban Won’t Happen

I saw this going viral: “They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).”~ @nntaleb https://t.co/bJLxHLCYBS — Zhuo Xi (@birdxi1988) March 13, 2024 Under the timed conditions of an IQ test, eliminating false patterns or noise… Continue reading ‘Coachability’ does not refute IQ

It has been a while since I updated about my Bitcoin shorting method. To recap: at the start of the trading session, 6:30 AM PST, I short Bitcoin and go long QQQ/NDX_100 in equal size. So for a $100k portfolio this would entail buying $50k of QQQ/NDX_100 and shorting $50k of Bitcoin. Both legs are… Continue reading How to break-even shorting Bitcoin in a bull market

Item #1: Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy Raising Another $500M to Buy More Bitcoin. Plot twist: this is just a front to acquire the world’s largest private supply of cocaine.This sounds like a Ponzi or pyramid scheme in the making: raise money to buy more Bitcoin, which causes the price of Bitcoin and MicroStrategy stock to rise,… Continue reading The Daily View: 3/13/2024

Eli Lilly does not want its new weight loss drugs to be used for vanity purposes: Eli Lilly's new ad says weight loss drugs aren't meant for vanity purposes. https://t.co/xCIQChRbR9 — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 8, 2024 This is so disingenuous of Eli Lilly. The ineluctable reason these new weight loss drugs are a hundred-billion-dollar… Continue reading New Weight Loss Drugs: Of Course It’s About Vanity