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Comment on Tom Scott: England — Official teaser for Nebula in ~travel
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Comment on Nasdaq's shame - how to rig an index to appease a billionaire in ~finance
stu2b50 Link ParentWhat is "these"? It's just NDX that seriously considering it. I don't think anyone has their retirement money in NDX unless they're a real tech-believer, for better or for worse. And if they are,...What is "these"? It's just NDX that seriously considering it.
they didn't have one when tons of people put their retirement savings in over several decades.
I don't think anyone has their retirement money in NDX unless they're a real tech-believer, for better or for worse. And if they are, they're probably pretty excited about getting SpaceX in there early.
Out of curiosity: if you had a substantial part of your savings in these ETFs, what, if anything, would you do here?
Liquidate, buy an equivalent asset, go on with my day. That's the benefit of ETFs - they have far more liquidity than a traditional investment fund.
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Comment on Nasdaq's shame - how to rig an index to appease a billionaire in ~finance
stu2b50 Link ParentVOO isn't doing anything. That tracks an entirely different index. SpaceX has been trying to nudge S&P to also have a fast track rule, but it hasn't gotten anywhere, and it's much harder for S&P's...VOO isn't doing anything. That tracks an entirely different index. SpaceX has been trying to nudge S&P to also have a fast track rule, but it hasn't gotten anywhere, and it's much harder for S&P's entrance criteria to change than NDX.
Vanguard doesn't even have a index fund for NDX or QQQ because they don't trust Nasdaq's indices.
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Comment on Nasdaq's shame - how to rig an index to appease a billionaire in ~finance
stu2b50 (edited )Link ParentIf it goes through, they’ll need votes from NDX shareholders, eg the money. At some point you do have personal autonomy with your money. There’s plenty of things you can do - if you own NDX, just...If it goes through, they’ll need votes from NDX shareholders, eg the money. At some point you do have personal autonomy with your money.
There’s plenty of things you can do - if you own NDX, just liquidate it and buy a normal index fund. NDX is kind of infamous to begin with for being wish-washy with its criteria, and has terrible diversification. Vanguard doesn’t even have funds matching nasdaq indices for a reason.
People are allowed to do dumb things with their money if they wish. Ultimately, if you own NDX, you want high exposure to "high growth tech firms". Otherwise you'd buy a saner, more diversified fund (with a lower cost ratio). I wouldn't be surprised if it does go through, because this is what they want.
In terms of retirement funds, I can't imagine this would have an effect. NDX is not a normal index that your 401k autobuys.
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Comment on Nasdaq's shame - how to rig an index to appease a billionaire in ~finance
stu2b50 Link ParentJust don’t buy ETFs based on indices that have a fast track rule? ETFs are ultimately just a type of investment fund, one that promises to keep its assets equivalent to an index. If NDX (which I...Just don’t buy ETFs based on indices that have a fast track rule? ETFs are ultimately just a type of investment fund, one that promises to keep its assets equivalent to an index.
If NDX (which I doubt many people own in their retirement fund) bagholds SpaceX by next year, then it’ll perform quite badly relative to its peers, which won’t do the same thing. Feels like something that’ll work itself out?
Shareholders #1 and all.
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Comment on What do you think about putting your driver's license in your digital wallet? in ~tech
stu2b50 Link ParentIf you're outside your home state, they can also just not accept the digital ID to begin with, so that seems like a moot point.On an iPhone using Face ID, double-click the side button. On an iPhone with Touch ID, double-click the Home button. If prompted, authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID.
Tap your driver's license or ID.
Hold the top of your iPhone or the display of your Apple Watch near the identity reader.
On the screen of your device, review the information that will be shared.
To provide your consent:
On an iPhone using Face ID: Double-click the side button.
On an iPhone using Touch ID: Hold your finger on the Home button.
On an Apple Watch: Double-click the side button.
When you successfully present your license or ID, a checkmark and Done appear on your device.
To use your license or ID on your Apple Watch at a TSA checkpoint, you need to unlock your iPhone using the associated Face ID or Touch ID each time that you put on your Apple Watch. Then, you can use your license or ID without authenticating until you take the watch off again.
Depending on where you present your license or ID, there might be additional requirements. For example, when you present your license or ID to the TSA, their identity reader captures your image for comparison with the image presented from your license or ID in Apple Wallet.
If you're outside your home state, they can also just not accept the digital ID to begin with, so that seems like a moot point.
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Comment on What do you think about putting your driver's license in your digital wallet? in ~tech
stu2b50 Link ParentWhy? You just need to tap your phone against the reader.If you need to show/give it to the cops, they now have full access to your unlocked phone.
Why? You just need to tap your phone against the reader.
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Comment on What do you think about putting your driver's license in your digital wallet? in ~tech
stu2b50 LinkSeems harmless enough. Probably more useful as a backup, but could come into handy. Whether or not it’s accepted by law enforcement would depend on the state, so best to check that in advance.Seems harmless enough. Probably more useful as a backup, but could come into handy. Whether or not it’s accepted by law enforcement would depend on the state, so best to check that in advance.
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Comment on Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story in ~society
stu2b50 Link Parent"Insider trading" is an intended part of polymarket. That's drawing in more information to make the price more accurate. Insider trading is not wanted for, say, stock markets, because people in..."Insider trading" is an intended part of polymarket. That's drawing in more information to make the price more accurate. Insider trading is not wanted for, say, stock markets, because people in the business of owning stock don't want to constantly be worried about whether or not they thing they're owning is about to get wrekt.
But polymarket isn't a stock market, and it doesn't particularly care about insider trading. It would say that, say, someone from the defense market putting in a bet for whether or not Iran is going to get bombed is doing exactly what the site was intended to do - that bet will put upward pressure on the value of bets that Iran will be bombed, and that's information and a closer probability to the real probability.
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Comment on Tom Scott: England — Official teaser for Nebula in ~travel
stu2b50 Link ParentI don't mind him as a person, but I do think he speaks very slowly, and yaps a lot. I was surprised people thought his videos were brief - I always found that they kind of dragged because he spoke...I don't mind him as a person, but I do think he speaks very slowly, and yaps a lot. I was surprised people thought his videos were brief - I always found that they kind of dragged because he spoke slowly + yapped for ages before getting into the topic. He would have like an 8 minute video with maybe 30 seconds of actual content.
It's like he has an attitude that his world view/intelligence is superior to others and that he is deigning to gift us with special knowledge.
Definitely did not get those vibes. More I just find him kinda corny. Seemed down to eartht o me.
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Comment on I before she — on the shift in narrative perspective in romance novels in ~books
stu2b50 Link ParentUltimately that's one and the same. Why is it "creeping" into what you do? Because other readers and writers read fan-fiction and enjoy its qualities and write more of what they like. You're not...- Exemplary
Unless you're unreasonable, the issue isn't the fact that people are in their own space having fun with their own, mostly harmless thing. The issue is more when that thing you explicitly do not enjoy starts to creep into the thing you do.
Ultimately that's one and the same. Why is it "creeping" into what you do? Because other readers and writers read fan-fiction and enjoy its qualities and write more of what they like.
You're not obligated by the universe to have other people write things you like. It sucks when your tastes are not aligned with the public, but it is what it is. Other people are not creating purely for you - they're creating for themselves and their readers.
Like
Aspiring writers who want to write fantasy but are uninterested in making romance the main focus are getting turned away by publishing houses
Fundamentally that's because people don't care to read generic fantasy. And, what are you supposed to do about that? Brainwash people into liking something they don't actually like?
Calling it
It is literature for people who hate words.
Is just old man shouting at cloud, at best.
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Comment on I before she — on the shift in narrative perspective in romance novels in ~books
stu2b50 Link ParentThis seems kinda extreme? I'm not even a fan-fiction reader, but if people want to read fan fiction, they can read fan fiction. It's not like anyone or anything is pushing fan fiction on them -...This seems kinda extreme? I'm not even a fan-fiction reader, but if people want to read fan fiction, they can read fan fiction. It's not like anyone or anything is pushing fan fiction on them - this is as organic as it gets, AO3 isn't big corpo. People should do what they like in the one life they have.
Seems like unnecessary elitism in what's already a niche.
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
stu2b50 Link ParentWhy not just use the current hypothetical? I'm Chinese, and Firefly was a show with "Chinese" themes and no Chinese people and I was absolutely fine with it. It did not feel impossible for there...Consider the opposite of your example - if a futuristic depiction of Nigerian culture came to be shown on screen, but involved no Nigerian people, what would you think?
Why not just use the current hypothetical? I'm Chinese, and Firefly was a show with "Chinese" themes and no Chinese people and I was absolutely fine with it. It did not feel impossible for there to be large sectors of the universe with mainly white people, and the existence of Chinese themes never felt like "stealing" - if anything, I was more glad it was there than if it wasn't.
I can emphasize more with cultural appropriation and like, native americans, since their culture is actively dying, no small part due to the Americans calling their teams "chiefs", but it's just very different with "China".
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
stu2b50 Link ParentThat's what cultural hegemony looks like. You can go to Nigeria today and people are speaking English, drinking Coca Cola, wearing jeans, with no Americans in sight.That's what cultural hegemony looks like. You can go to Nigeria today and people are speaking English, drinking Coca Cola, wearing jeans, with no Americans in sight.
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
stu2b50 Link ParentIdk, I can only speak to my personal experience, but it felt like the opposite. The idea that something Chinese culture could become hegemonic was unthinkinable in most western media. Actually...The fact that there are no notable Chinese people in the universe to speak of, in a universe full of their culture, is a picture-perfect example of cultural appropriation at best, and white washing at worse.
Idk, I can only speak to my personal experience, but it felt like the opposite. The idea that something Chinese culture could become hegemonic was unthinkinable in most western media. Actually seeing Chinese in the world building in this fundamental way felt like one of the first non-token representations in a major TV show.
It didn't feel like "appropriating" something from me, but actually acknowledging that it exists and can be in a powerful position.
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
stu2b50 Link ParentOn Prime, The Expanse, Man in the High Castle, the Fallout series were pretty good and unique as well. The Boys is also significantly better than the comics it's based off of, even it also relies...On Prime, The Expanse, Man in the High Castle, the Fallout series were pretty good and unique as well. The Boys is also significantly better than the comics it's based off of, even it also relies on shock to a degree.
I feel like you could go through every service and name some real gems. The complaint of "oh everything is the same now" just feels sus to me - it reminds me of
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers
as something that everyone always says about the present.
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
stu2b50 Link ParentThat feels fine to me. The narrative of a just rebellion who loses to the empire due to disloyal leaders is a classic one, something that has happened and has been written about numerous times....That feels fine to me. The narrative of a just rebellion who loses to the empire due to disloyal leaders is a classic one, something that has happened and has been written about numerous times. Lost cause didn’t invent it, they co-opted such a narrative because it is a strong story with universal appeal, so a good candidate to paper over your sins.
The issue with the lost cause narrative is that it’s trying to override history to defend a rebellion that started over chattel slavery.
Firefly is pure fiction. It’s not trying to override real history. If Whedon was inspired by the vibes of lost cause media, to me, that is completely acceptable so long as the fiction itself is not trying to argue that chattel slavery is good. And, while it’s been a while since I watched it, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t. Being fiction, you can make the rebels actually just and the empire actually bad.
Even calling it “Lost Cause narrative” feels weird. Are you letting the confederates own an entire sub-genre of rebellion stories? I wouldn’t give them that kind of power.
That feels like saying “Harry Potter narrative” instead of “coming of age story”.
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Comment on Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series in development in ~tv
stu2b50 Link ParentYou don't think shows like Severance or Pluribus had unique elements?Nobody wants to take a gamble on anything and create something truly unique.
You don't think shows like Severance or Pluribus had unique elements?
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Comment on Helium prices soar as Qatar LNG halt exposes fragile supply chain in ~finance
stu2b50 Link ParentI wouldn't overdramatize it either. The US still produces over 90% of the global helium supply for the world. It's essentially a waste product of natural gas production - if you don't sell it, you...I wouldn't overdramatize it either. The US still produces over 90% of the global helium supply for the world. It's essentially a waste product of natural gas production - if you don't sell it, you just release it, but you can't avoid capturing the helium (since you need to separate it from the natural gas in order no matter what).
US supply is unlikely to be affected. Supply for Asian countries can see a hit in the short term, but over the long term the US can more than rectify the supply issue via the pacific.
That they buy from Qatar is as much about how it's not worth it at the current price of helium for US producers to ship it over.
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Comment on ArXiv is separating from Cornell University, and is hiring a CEO, who will be paid roughly $300,000/year in ~science
stu2b50 Link ParentHm, so who would be the current head of arxiv be if it was a public service? Oh yeah, it would be Donald Trump. …yeah, imma take the independent non-profit version.Hm, so who would be the current head of arxiv be if it was a public service?
Oh yeah, it would be Donald Trump.
…yeah, imma take the independent non-profit version.
No, Attenborough is fine. I think it's two things: one, Attenborough has an inherently pleasing voice. Two, a documentary has less context switching. It has a topic, and it goes deeper into the topic as it progresses. Because Tom Scott makes like 8-10 minute videos on different topics, every video has to start back from the beginning.
I feel like a lot of them are like
"Hi. Right now - I'm in a field somewhere in London"
pause
"You may be wondering, why is he in a field in London?"
car drives by
"That's an" - pause - "excellent question."
b roll footage
"London has some of the most field fields" pause "in the world".
cuts to footage of an a random public service worker "Well, I work at the bureau of fields. We spend a lot of time making sure fields are perfectly in line with the public's expectations of fields in the field of fields"
"But this field" pause "you may have noticed something different about this field." pause
"You probably already noticed it" pause
b roll footage of the field
"That's right" pause "this field is a different hue from other fields in London"
"Could it be because this patch gets more sunlight" pause, b-roll
"Or could it be that the soil is different?" pause, b-roll
"No, none of those."
cuts to public servant "So we had a great deal of challenges applying our field standards to this field, the field just can't field like the fields in northwestham, so we had to apply paint on the field"