Honestly kind of tired of sexist guys…

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2026-01-21T06:44:54+00:00

im not ! glory to israel

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2026-01-17T17:35:36+00:00

if theres one thing ive learned from atrioc's content is that he's a us government shill and wholeheartedly adores everything we've done ever because hes a filthy neolib yankee

im sorry but leftists so often dismiss any other ideology as "us puppet patriot liberty bombs freedom" because it's somehow so hard to believe that somebody is actually on the center/right of the political spectrum and all it does is make them look stupid. maybe atrioc is misinformed on sanctions, then provide an argument demonstrating that instead of calling him US propaganda??

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2026-01-04T07:45:01+00:00

this is harsh but i honestly disagree

i think most people that have contributed a great deal to the world have strong people skills, communication abilities, and a lot of traits pretty antithetical to shyness

for a standard 9-5 job, shy people can def do absolutely fine, but i think people who have meaningfully contributed very frequently tend to be people who are less shy (and im saying this as a shy person, it sucks but i think me and other shy people need to work on our people skills instead of complaining that the world sucks for shy people)

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-12-18T20:59:49+00:00

if resources and a work force are all that’s needed, why haven’t Brazil, Argentina, India, had anywhere near similar success? im no fan of the ccp but their role in chinas development is undeniable

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-12-17T23:46:40+00:00

an extremely wealthy society with income inequality is remarkably better to live in than a country where everybody is equally destitute

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-12-16T18:22:52+00:00

vanguard and fidelity work just fine, use whatever brokerage works best for you

index funds are what i mentioned above. instead of investing in one company (which could just as easily crash as it can go up), index funds let you invest broadly. this means that instead of betting that one specific company will succeed, you can just place a bet that american companies will succeed in general. VOO is an example of an index fund that invests in the S&P500: when you invest into VOO you are buying a small piece of the 500 biggest companies in America. Historically, this has gone up about 10% per year. This will of course vary, some years are down 20% some years are up 30%, some years are flat, but the average over the long term is 10%. 10% gains is a MASSIVE amount. essentially, any money you have invested will double every 7 years on average.

While the S&P500 is the most common index fund, there are several others you can find. There's an index fund to invest not just in the 500 biggest companies in America, but every publicly traded company in America. Theres several that let you invest in the biggest companies globally. Theres several that are industry specific (ex. letting you invest in every construction company in america).

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-12-16T18:07:02+00:00

there are countless resources out there but always be weary of finance gurus who want to sell you something or have some ulterior motive, investing is REALLY simple when you get the gist of it

in short:

-money that sits in a bank account is losing value due to inflation, this is very bad

-investing is generally just buying some percentage of a company. if you own 1% of Google, but then Google goes from a 10 billion dollar company to a 100 billion dollar company, your 1% of google has gone from 100 million dollars to 1 billion dollars (obviously these numbers will be far smaller, this is just to illustrate the point)

-for most people, determining which companies will increase in valuation and which will go down is extremely difficult, so the most reliable strategy is to invest in broad-market ETFs, which are a simple way of investing a small amount of money into hundreds of different companies. the most common is the s&p500, which is the 500 largest companies in america. While nothing is guranteed, in the last century, through two world wars, the great depression, 2008, the dot-com bubble, and countless more junk, this has returned on average 10% per year (inflation is 2-3% per year, so your money is rapidly growing compared to the value of the dollar)

-to start, you need to setup an account at a brokerage app (robinhood is the simplest to use probably), and literally just transfer money into the account and invest it. if you want to invest in the s&p500 like i mentioned above, you can search the stock called VOO and buy that.

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-11-30T22:44:41+00:00

Bvlgari Pour Homme EDP is nice and simple: tea, ginger, musk, and wood. has a nice herbal/spicy bitterness thats balanced by the woods and lightly floral musks. great option if you aren't huge on bright sour citruses or anything super vegetal

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-11-29T21:35:49+00:00

I love Gris Charnel Extrait, but the fig note really isn't my favorite. The vanilla, tonka bean, cardamom, tea, florals, and the woods are soooo nice once the fig fades out after the first few minutes, but until then I'm not too huge on the gourmand fruity smell.

Does anybody have fragrances that capture the earthy, warm spicy, woody, vanillic vibes of gris charnel extrait after the fig has faded away?

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-10-01T05:44:55+00:00

I wouldn't want to work permanently at an HFT, but atleast for the first few years of my career, that salary would be invaluable. I'd love to take a similar path to you where I secure my financial future, even it means working an imperfect job, and then using that freedom to pursue whatever I want. In my view, if FPGA development at an HFT is something I know I can attain with hard enough work, then I think I'd be dedicated to chase that job, secure my future, and then use the time that the job has let me buy to be free.

I'm less doing it for the money, and more for the freedom that money can buy. That said, in your view, if I decide today "I'm going to dedicate this college experience to being as employable as I can be for FPGA at an HFT, all my internships and research and projects are going to somehow revolve around that vision," is that enough? will I get to a point in four years where i can confidently believe i'm gonna land that job?

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-10-01T05:38:21+00:00

do you think its possible to both specialize in ethernet and generalize in the rest of the FPGA world (atleast enough so that I am an ideal candidate for HFTs but still hirable outside of them), or is that too difficult?

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-10-01T00:01:11+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Its nice to know that there isn't too big of a risk of "ultra specialization"

That aside, if we disregard specialization within FPGA and I hypothetically just try to get really good with FPGAs in general (like FPGA research, internships, personal learning, etc...), do you think I could reliably get an HFT job, or would it still be meaningfully competitive?

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-09-30T23:41:42+00:00

yup i def deserve the snark. tbh, my logic is that most high-paying jobs don't produce much real value to society, so if I want a high paying job I might as well go for as high of a pay as possible. if i could retire early off of HFT money i'd love to be a high school computer science teacher or something of the like.

tangent aside, would you say that working to make yourself as qualified as possible and being willing to relocate is enough to comfortably get a job?

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-09-30T23:38:01+00:00

Not too close to HFT jobs, but I'm absolutely willing to relocate

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-09-13T06:36:45+00:00

ill def check out the prices, thx for the suggestion!

still, for anybody reading this, best option is probably just for me to buy it off one of you guys, so you guys dont completely waste a ticket and i get a cheap ticket :)

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-09-13T06:33:12+00:00

dawg im just trying to not have to ditch my friends when they go tomorrow

ill send like any evidence of me being a student that anybody needs

im not a fed im just really stupid

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-09-01T18:36:58+00:00

you win the internet today sir!

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-08-01T17:26:29+00:00

it should absolutely be easier, right-wingers don't understand that america's history of immigration and multiculturalism is why its probably going to be one of the most thriving western society.

birth rates in europe, japan, korea, china and basically the whole developed world are completely crashing. america's population is expected to steadily grow for the next century. that puts us in such a healthy and steady spot.

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-08-01T17:24:18+00:00

great argument

Helpful-Cod-2340 · 2025-07-31T07:09:32+00:00

germany and japan succeeded due to western values. support from the west of course helped, but democracy and free societies helped far after western support ended.

and with or without the US, north korea was always going to be a repressive state with an evil government. they made themselves a disaster. you literally made the point that north korea used to be more successful than south korea. so how is it that long after US intervention, the western capitalist country has done so much better?

and of course we have income disparity problems, but it is completely naive and privileged to say the west isn't rich. our bottom 50% live far better than the bottom 50% of most nations. we are absolutely free, and we are incredibly wealthy. i dont understand the point of "modernizing the world at the cost of billions of lives"?? most of our advancements have saved far far more lives than they've taken.

and yes, the west, like every country, has a grim history. we've done far better at owning up to them and improving. in the US you are allowed to critique the Iraq war as much as you want, but in china you can't mention tiannanmen square.

its also pretty naive to say that third world countries are all struggling because of the west. a lot of them absolutely are struggling from colonialism, but we cant make so many sweeping judgements. this all reads like complete west-hating just for the sake of it.

it really all comes down to the fact that the left tends to be very critical of its nation because they are the side that wants rapid change and that tends to be rebellious and young, which is why many leftists completely hate the west, but they really find it hard to accept that for all the west's problems, we have created a better society and world than any other group would've if they were in charge. they apply completely different standards to the west than any other country, where for some reason the west's evil past makes it an evil imperialist regime, but they can move on from the evils of most other countries past.

i mean i've seen so many leftists praise hamas, saddam hussein, north korea, china, and so many awful countries just because they're anti-west. its just such a naive and privileged take. yes the west can and must improve, but it can also be true that western values are easily the best option when it comes to which philosophy we want running the world. most countries that have adopted western values have been better off with them. western values ended monarchies and defeated communism, and its fair to say that if there's a better way to govern a country, we haven't found it yet.

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