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well he or she or in-between! But yeah most software engineers at most places are Men.

True. I am trying to see if others have seen this behavior too. Could be i am not that smart and have mostly worked with other not so smart people

I guess people look at you on social media and feel bad about themselves

What i think he is saying is this:

If you look at s&p 500 stocks weight for instance, at number 483 is Rollins inc, weight 0.019938%. Do you know this company? But everyone here if you have invested in s&p 500 has invested in this stocks. The way s&p 500 works is it picks stocks based on market cap. Now this company has a very low chance of getting kicked out even if it is a dud as people keep investing in it via ETF's

Here lies the opportunity. If you go through every company in s&p 500 you are going to find overvalued and undervalued stocks. One strategy is to pair trade. Take a long/short position. But it is very tough to time as every keeps investing every month. Other strategy is wait for a crash and instead of again investing in these ETF's for small returns pick stocks that got battered for no reason. This has inspired me to actually work a bit, actually looks at balance sheets and pick stocks.

Side note, i only own one etf and it is PTF. It has very little stocks and i think focused funds are a better bet.

What is your solution?

I think all these examples are of thinking too much. Why not just this very moment do something you feel like. Then the next and then the next. Go learn surfing, call your child and if you are too lazy then just accept you don't care about that stuff as much and do what you care about. You care about netflix then watch netflix. Don't do what you think society or other people think is cool.

If we are completely present in the now and doing what feel rights. There is no room for all these negative thoughts.

You think too highly of yourself. Why do you think whatever you create is something special. It's most likely Shit. There is freedom in knowing you are one in 7 billion. Real creation happens when you give freedom to your mind to do whatever it wants to. There is no time constraint, no feeling that i need to get this done. It's spontaneous. You are following someone else's script here. You are equating activity with accomplishment

I am just proposing a different point of view and i am not claiming what i am saying is right. I am here to learn and what you say makes sense. Your point about adults learn slow is it because that't what the popular opinion is and that is the reason they tell themselves, "oh, i am a grown up so i am going to learn slowly"?

https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn...

how has science determined that? consciousness is subjective so they are depending on what people have said to them. The mind of scientist and the person they are observing are at play here.

Please enlighten me. I want to be educated. According to me our mind is very fluid. We can teach it to behave a certain way. I do not believe that someone is awkward socially or cannot get caught in mania etc just because they are the way they are. All of this is learned behavior according to me. Why is it that most of these people are in the US? It seems to me because the environment makes people act this way. I do not think that this is because of genetics. If we mediate then we can look at the mind as an observer and change most if not all of our behavior. When someone gets a diagnosis for say ADHD. Then they exhibit those symptoms even more because they reinforce that behavior.

put these people in a situation that the only way to survive is to socialize, i am pretty sure they will be very charming because we are capable of doing a lot if our survival is at stake.

Here i am not talking about people with mental illness. Those i understand. Please help me understand this

I am not an idiot. Of course we are causing climate to change for the worse. I don't trust everyone out there though. Most scientist and media people have a self serving attitude. They just want clicks

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Why do they not lock the account after n number of tries say 5?

The user will need to use a different way to authenticate if they can't enter the correct code in 5 tries

I know the mistake was very costly and we are talking about lives here. But, come on.. is there a chance people are over analyzing. We can try hard and do everything right and still something can go wrong.

They are humans and the airplanes from Boeing have been very very very reliable. It's not like every max 8 dropped from the air. A lot of them, most of them flew alright. I know the people who lost their lives paid a big price but, in hindsight everyone has an opinion.

I think you are confusing risk with speculation. Every investment has risks associated with it. Even if a stock pays dividend does not mean it will keep paying it for perpetuity. Nothing is guaranteed.

How do you know they will never produce income? Can you see the future? If you can, please tell me.

check out what Munger says about bitcoin, speculate if you want but don't bet the house on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVDqAHQ4-M

Every asset that produces an Income or has a possibility of producing income in the future is an investment. Everything else is speculation.

Buying a commercial property and renting it out is an investment. Buying a house in the hope of selling it for more in the future is not investment.

Same goes for Gold, Bitcoin, momentum trading in stocks in not investment. Buying a stock that does not pay dividend but is a real business that produces something is an investment.

Best thing i ever read on HN

All this content reprograms our brain. Even if a sane person works for FB for content moderation they will be screwed up pretty soon.

I am so glad i am not on facebook since 2008. If you think it's not messing with you, THINK AGAIN. Facebook is the worst thing that happened to us, except for Mark and it's employees

one quarter? Who told you that?

Less than 1/10th percent Indians eat beef.

Our planet needs to be viewed as and felt as a living entity. There needs to be a shift so we care for every living entity. Every plant, animal, human. Our values need to shift from material pursuits and those as a benchmark for happiness and success to how we treat one another and also other living beings.

Is there a website i can go to and check earth's health as a whole? Like we can check our own health. It would be good to have a place that lists our planets health against a bunch of vital signs

No one's talking about the point that Western countries are exploiting poor Asian countries. They consume a lot, are a big burden on the planet and this selfishness is going to end the world

check back in few months

(my baseless rant with no scientific proof)I think people who move a lot are lonelier as opposed to those who never left the place they grew up. I have a few childhood friends in my home town that even if i meet after years still share a bond. I feel that it must be easier for women to make friends. It is very hard to make guy friends as most guys who are not in a relationship tend to focus on finding/hooking up. Also, we are a bit conditioned by pornography and also are a bit delusional. Everyone thinks too highly of themselves.. no one wants to settle. The women/men who can settle don't as their mischief(fucking around) catches on to them. Nothing wrong with that but there are consequences.

We half of us are lonely and don't want to be. Can't we all just get along and be nice to each other and build genuine relationships? No. For that first we need to accept that conditioning is messing up with our heads.. Change our habits and slow but surely we will meet like minded people

What is the difference between her and an astrologer? If she is so sure, they should return all their clients money(invested in tech) or put them in defensive stocks. I kinda envy her for making a lot of money and being on TV for i don't know what! no one can predict what's going to happen. Golden state winning yesterday was a sure thing. But then didn't! and now i finally realize that i or nobody has any idea what's going to happen.

Looking at the past we can say with certainty(if we assume it will repeat) that stocks will crash someday. When that happens some money that can be risked should be used to buy a well diversified ETF. Till then if you can't hold on to cash then keeping buying every month.

What is while? I lived in the US for a decade and please say Sir to the cop when he stops you and don't mess with them. Even a small incident can send you to the hospital

I don't think people actually use the note though. I don't see anyone having guts to give that note to policemen or government officials in India.

Everyone in India just like the US is scared of the Police and know not to mess with them.

I am so glad I left the US to get a PR in Canada. I have a multiple entry 10-year tourist visa to US now. The immigration system will never get reformed. Once the recession follows in a year or two and unemployment goes up no when is going to talk about immigration(no one cares now but they will care even less).

What happens when the ETF value goes down not because the value of the underlying stock goes down but because people are selling the ETF?

Won't they need to rebalance then? The way it will happen is they will have to sell all the stocks in the ETF according to their percent allocation