I agree with this except the “if you change weights on your index fund you’re an active investor.” Granted it is taking action, but not to the level of someone who is picking stocks regularly. It’s like calling me an active investor because I choose my risk profile for my 401k, which would make everyone an active investor.
It’s absurd to think that any given person should be familiar with any other persons account or mannerisms/schtick on this website. Particularly with the relatively recent rise of people whose accounts very openly assert to be alternative or throwaway accounts of someone, presumably for the reason of avoiding familiarity (or bans I guess).
I hate Hallmark holiday movies (I don’t, but let’s be hypothetical for a second — i.e. not real), but if that were a way to make profits and I was the Hallmark CEO I would be releasing them daily during holiday season. It seems a little silly to think that the boss Zaslav would forego profit because he personally “hates cartoons.”
This is incorrect information. It’s actually quite controversial and most learned people point to “an.” Either way, one shouldn’t talk factually as if the issue is settled. Particularly if you’re citing style guides, like you are in this response, rather than informal usage.
This makes sense! It’s like lede vs lead. It’s really lede, but common usage has made lead acceptable. At least this is a better explanation and intuition than the poster below who simply asserts one thing based on the first letter without beginning to understand any context.
There’s no reason you can’t address a mixed-gender group as something like “hey everyone” or “hey folks” rather than something like “hey guys” or “hey gentlemen.” It’s just common courtesy we should feel a duty to perform it as members of a society, in my humble opinion. The point I was making a couple replies up was that some terms aren’t fungible, like paternalism and maternalism, because also they seem superficially to be different genders for the same topic, they mean totally different things, so we should use paternalism to mean what it means, despite the gender connotation.
Totally agree with your statement that gender issues are a factor in global economics, and that we should strive to use gender-neutral phrasing whenever practical.
Just a heads up: paternalism or being paternalistic is a concept unrelated to the user’s gender. It means advocating for action that limits a groups freedom or autonomy. Maternalism has a different meaning. You being one gender or another has no bearing on whether it was the correct word for the argument. It wasn’t quite the right word, condescending would probably have been better given the context of their phrases.
And for so-called tech influencers to rapidly blanket the field of discourse with their theories so they can say their theory was right later on, or making “emergency podcasts/blog posts/etc.” to get more attention and followers. It’s so exhausting.
Then if I were you, I would absolutely not take any volunteer opportunities that don’t meet this criterion. Otherwise, in some cases these seem like amazing opportunities that pay in experiences much more valuable than money. Working at Crater Lake would be a dream come true for me.
Where exactly are you drawing the line before using scare quotes around volunteering? Is 10 hours a week too much? Is requiring transportation too much? Would working at 5,000ft vs 7,000ft be ok?
For what it’s worth: if I were at a time in my life where I could do the linked opportunity, I absolutely would. Even better would be an Antarctica opportunity for a winter season.
It’s important to set an example to avoid being dismissed as a hypocrite. This author should post the inventory of all the dependencies their projects use across the board along with how much the author contributes to each of them monthly.
That would absolutely get people off the fence and to start agreeing.
From the story of the GP, and extending your analogy, this is more like if they walked into the house and found the safe and noted it was locked, so looked up the safe schematics online.
Not exactly legal.
But even stepping back, I suspect walking around and jiggling random peoples’ doorknobs to see if they’re unlocked is probably illegal.
“The Top 10 X You NEED in CURRENT_YEAR” has been a ubiquitous article title when searching for reviews on literally anything for years. It will only get worse for sure.
I can’t arbitrate here, but can add my anecdote to bolster what the person above is saying: I regularly remember clicking next on webrings and eventually getting a 404 with no way to progress. This was fairly regular to the extent that I sometimes just avoided clicking the webring modal.
This comment makes me feel like people talking like this will make “quantum” into the new crypto and grift a whole new generation of people. The cycle continues.
Sorry if off topic but what the absolute heck is up with these ridiculous YouTube splash screens? Here it’s some guy seemingly bewildered by a superimposed IDE. It’s so weird and jarring to the extent that I typically avoid clicking on YouTube videos with splash pages like that.
We need to continue to build more, affordable housing in desirable areas near public transit, and break the current cycle of the same companies buying as building.
I am so thankful I did not get a Model X Plaid last year. And would have considered getting one this year at the lower price but for the right wing descent into madness of its founder.