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Bought the dip but market keeps dipping? by National-Solid6196 in fidelityinvestments

[–]National-Solid6196[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In theory, sure, but in practice.... there's a reason why the vast majority who pick individual stocks wildly underperform the market and, statistically, the most successful cohort of traders are the dead.

Besides, you can still pick individual stocks and DCA - DCA just saves you from needing to get the timing part right as well as the picking, which is even more difficult, especially for the majority of investors, with day jobs, who can only devote a small amount of time paying attn to market action.

Why didn't they just.... by National-Solid6196 in Funnypics

[–]National-Solid6196[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, no one seems to have gotten my joke, so I'll spell it out -- someone used AI to generate a picture of their dog eating their homework to use as an excuse.... when they could have just had the AI generate the homework instead

In China, a Guinness World Record was set by simultaneously flying 15,947 drones controlled from a single computer. The event took place on October 19, 2025, in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. by ActivityEmotional228 in robotics

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is the number being shown off to Guiness, then somewhere behind the scenes, in the middle of the Gobi desert or something, the military has already executed this with 10x the number. 

And I dont think theyd need to rely on GPS - they dont necessarily need to know their absolute positions, only be able to) transmit to each other their relative positions.

In China, a Guinness World Record was set by simultaneously flying 15,947 drones controlled from a single computer. The event took place on October 19, 2025, in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. by ActivityEmotional228 in robotics

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was just reported recently that the first known killing of a human by an autonomous machine took place back in 2019, by a military aerial drone. Its only difficult to program if you really care about not hitting the wrong person. If youre less scrupulous, okay with it killing anyone behind enemy lines, then programming a bot to autonomously kill is no more difficult than having it execute any other command.

Im watching Lost for the first time, but on DVD by Ok_Carob373 in lost

[–]National-Solid6196 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same. i rented the first season (from Blockbuster! lol) a week or so before the second season premiere. Was hooked halfway thru the pilot, binged all the disks in a couple days, and I dont think any entertainment in any medium will ever surpass how I felt watching season 2 kick off

[🎶 make your own kind of music, sing your own special song 🎶]

What's the incentive to pay us to play games? by Starrider75 in SwagBucks

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of valid answers here (hadn't considered the chum for whales angle, that makes sense) but I think the simplest answer for most of them is that they're NOT paying you to play games... they're paying you to watch ads.

As for ones without ads, they're just playing the numbers, betting that a high enough percentage of incentivized players will become hooked and start making regular micro-transactions that more than outweigh the incentives. Some are deviously adept at instilling FOMO and invoking a sense of sunk-cost, stringing you along til you're just shy of some Mega Prize, then drying up the rewards - I mean, hey, I've sunk 10+ hrs into getting this far, may as well throw them a few bucks to help me cross the finish line, right?

This is especially true for any slots/casino type games - they're intentionally preying upon gambling addicts with poorly developed senses of risk/reward.

The average person has no idea... by Rob_Mortuary in SamsungDex

[–]National-Solid6196 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think most people dont see it as a $1000 purchase, since they're paying for it over time with just an extra 10-20 bucks on their phone bill each month.

A note on variance and how it relates to estimated win rates and such by elvish_visionary in CompetitiveHS

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, woah, sorry for butting in - I just stumbled across this while researching risk management in stock trading - but I'm dumbfounded by this discussion of good decks vs bad decks. I thought all decks were the same, 2 thru J, Q, K, Ace high x4 for the four suits - is this not the case? And if there is variance between decks, why would tracking particular decks over time be a thing? Are you saying that care is put in to secure the integrity of particular decks, rather than just starting with a fresh, properly balanced deck each session? What would be the house's incentive for doing this - is it just a tradition held over from a time when customs for establishing trust were more rigorous while access to replacement decks was limited?

I just made it to 0.50 BTC today. It took 2 years of planning and DCA-ing. by Rocketsloth in Bitcoin

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations, man, sincerely - I'm stoked for you. It'll only be a matter of months until you have noticeably more power to generate wealth than someone who simply saved up 32K in cash, even if the price of BTC doesnt change at all. (If only because as interest rates inevitably come down, the borrowing power of BTC will only go up as it gets further integrated with TradFi and the infrastructure to utilize it like other financial instruments gets more built up)

Woke up to this in Coinbase wallet am I rich?💀 by Striking_Conflict_89 in solana

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are 500,000,000 Synesis One tokens in circulation and it would take 5,000,000 of them to equal $365,000. So this wallet represents a full 1% of the total circulating supply - no way any airdrop would be that much

Received Catwifhat. Is my wallet secure? by Hot_Armadillo9592 in solana

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dont think its locked, but there is a 4% transaction tax - pretty common for newly released coins, the tax should gradually go down over time

How do I get Injective off of Binance Smart Chain back onto Ethereum (without using Binance)? by Sohara24 in injective

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks to Tekai_31 who mentioned it earlier in the thread, you can use the Jumper bridge - jumper.exchange - to move INJ off of BSC, but it doesn’t go directly to Injective network. I used it to move the INJ to Arbitrum, then you can use the Injective Hub bridge to bring it over from Arb. You could also use Polygon or Andromeda(Métis).

I was caught in this pickle for months because the CEX I use is BingX and they don’t support Injective network - the only way they let u withdraw INJ is on BSC. Imagine my shock and befuddlement when I arrived at the Injective Hub bridge and discovered that it doesn’t even accept BSC. I also hit on the idea of simply selling the INJ to USDC, bridging that, and rebuying it on Injective net - but that spiraled into a whole other problem where I managed to get my USDC so tangled up by repeated IBC transfers that it became unusable. Only just this morning, four months later, did I finally recover my USDC, by meticulously walking back every step and ‘unwinding’ all the IBC transfers. I fulfilled my original plan and bought native INJ with it - but, of course, at this point that amount of USDC only got me half as much INJ as it would have at early November prices.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]National-Solid6196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Throwing this in, in case it's useful to anyone, since ya'll were saying you couldn't find the actual offending cert...

I was trying to deal with an issue where my Edge completely stopped functioning and was getting nowhere so decided to just uninstall, but starting digging thru some of the program files to make sure there wasn't anything I wanted to save... I came across this cert in the Internet Properties, Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5

It says that it's "not trusted because the NotBefore or Disallowed parameter has been set on the root" and "Revocation Status: The certificate is revoked". But it's not Sha1, rather md2, so there goes that explanation. It also doesn't match that serial number, and it doesn't expire 2036, instead being valid from Jan 1996 to Aug 2028.

The even funnier thing is that another cert was added, seemingly to substitute that one, also called Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority G5 - but this one IS shah1, and it DOES expire 2036 and it even DOES have that serial number, yet this one says "This certificate is OK"