KevonLooney

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I've used Target for groceries and they're routinely cheaper for most things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Vacation time is not sick time. If you want any type of vacation at all, you need to plan ahead of time. Offering only 2 weeks is a joke. If you get sick one day, you lose one week of vacation.

Monitoring and rationing sick time is like limiting bathroom breaks or coffee time. if your job does it, you have a crappy employer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Workers in the US may not even have sick time. They do make more money though, probably because lots of European tech workers come to the US for better pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

These investment ideas aren't new. This information has been available publicly for a long time. It doesn't give you any benefits above a normal index fund.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Just because an ETF exists doesn't mean it's a good investment. ETF sponsors make a percentage based on assets under management. It doesn't matter if they make money, just that you invest. Kind of like a salesperson working on commission.

I would say the fact that there's only a few managers using this strategy means it doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Right but you still can't trade on that. I mean, if you can please do, but you really won't get actionable info by knowing that someone in Congress holds some shares of UPS.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

No you see, these companies want trained workers but don't want to pay for them (training or already trained workers). Complaining is free but is ultimately a lie.

If they really wanted trained workers they'd pay for training. Same as they did during the industrial revolution, WW2, the post war period, etc. It's not rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

It's not though, because you don't know about the trades ahead of time. If you can use delayed info, the actual stock market is delayed info too. You only know about it after it happens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is the real answer. Ideally you keep track of most of the things you spend money. That way you can see how much you are spending on each category.

Maybe you eat out less to save for something you really want, like a jacket or pair of shoes. Or you stop reflexively saving and go on vacation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You are putting yourself down unnecessarily. You want your resume to talk you up. Whoever reads it is going to imagine that you embellished anyway. So if you just write it basically, they'll think you're unqualified or just don't understand how to write a resume.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I'm sure someone out there is using them in a way that helps, but I haven't seen it yet in the wild.

That's because those responses are indistinguishable from individually written ones. I know people who use chatGPT or other LLMs to help them write things, but it takes the same amount of time. You just have more time to improve it, so it's better quality than you would write alone.

The key is that you have to use your brain more to pick and choose what to say. It's just like predictive text, but for whole paragraphs. Would you write a text message just by clicking on the center word on your predictive text keyboard? It would end up nonsensical.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But not everyone wants to do the same thing or be treated the same way. In fact, people all want to do different things. You can't get 100% of people to agree on anything. If you walked down the street with a hammer and asked 100 people "do you want to be hit in the head?" you couldn't get them all to say "no".

There are other objections that are more specific:

One of the first major challenges to Kant's reasoning came from the French philosopher Benjamin Constant, who asserted that since truth telling must be universal, according to Kant's theories, one must (if asked) tell a known murderer the location of his prey.

In this reply, Kant agreed with Constant's inference, that from Kant's own premises one must infer a moral duty not to lie to a murderer.

Kant denied that such an inference indicates any weakness in his premises: not lying to the murderer is required because moral actions do not derive their worth from the expected consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

Basically, the categorical imperative is too inflexible to be practical.

view more: ‹ prev next ›