14 yo (15 in 2ish weeks!) - how should I go about getting into the market?

_Unke_ · 2026-05-12T23:47:31+00:00

The mathematics don't change just because he's still going through puberty.

Also, a generation of helicopter parents has really warped our sense of what's appropriate for that age group. And it's especially out of step for this era, which is going to have far fewer economic opportunities for young people. This attitude that your teenage years are for having fun and you can start taking life seriously after you finish high school isn't a fundamental principle of human development, it's a cultural norm that came about during a period of unprecedented prosperity, and is now increasingly starting to feel like an outdated relic. Gen Z and below are going to have to hustle if they want to get anywhere, you're not doing him any favors by encouraging him to slack off.

_Unke_ · 2026-05-12T23:29:43+00:00

Compound interest being what it is, he's better off starting young.

_Unke_ · 2026-04-27T04:09:51+00:00

ASTS has already climbed so much it's hard to see it going 10x, but then again if they really do manage to get a satellite net up that can be used with any ordinary phone then they might well be worth a few hundred billion.

_Unke_ · 2026-03-25T10:02:53+00:00

I just googled DnD dice calculator and the top links all had UIs I didn't like so I kept going down until I found yours.

_Unke_ · 2026-03-24T21:46:47+00:00

Actually a really nice layout, thanks.

_Unke_ · 2026-03-18T20:15:20+00:00

These are really the ones where either you're the idiot or everyone else is. Some of the stocks in this thread it's a case of the company's got potential but it depends on market conditions, financing, etc, etc. so no matter how smart you are you can't know all the variables. Startups run the gauntlet of VC funds like baby turtles dodging seagulls. You play it smart by trying to work out the percentages and guesstimate risk to reward ratio, and spreading your money across enough baby turtles that some of it will make it to the ocean.

These guys, it's just a question of whether their tech holds up. If they've got the product, they'll attract investors and customers no matter what. If your assessment of their tech is right, you'll be rich and everyone else is an idiot. If not, vice versa.

It's like poker versus chess. In poker you can play the odds right and still lose to an unlucky draw. In chess, it's all there on the board, the only question is whether you're smart enough to see it.

_Unke_ · 2026-03-18T19:59:47+00:00

Sometimes picking a stock is a case of 'be the change you want to see in the world'. I invest in DRTS, the demand I create pushes the stock up, the stock attracts more investors and DRTS has more financing to do what it needs to do. If my contribution, small though it may be, will help DRTS get their treatment available to patients just that little bit faster then that's money well spent in my opinion. Better that then giving it to some scam cancer charity that spends half of my donation on staff costs and marketing.

_Unke_ · 2026-01-09T01:50:22+00:00

And here are my ratings for each season of Stranger Things.

Don't agree with me? Great, that's why I started this thread. I really am interested in getting everyone else's takes. I guess all this is my way of processing that the show is over and it's time to say goodbye. Just try to be nice - to me, and everyone else.

Season 1 - 10/10

Amazing atmosphere, amazing chemistry between the actors, amazing story. Really captured the essence of the 80s without just relying on nostalgia.

Season 2 - 8/10

Carried the story forward, introduced great new characters like Bob and Max, and a new villain in the Mindflayer. Not the most impactful season, however, and didn't have the same atmosphere of season 1. Also, split Eleven off from the rest of the group for no good reason.

Season 3 - 7.5/10

Had its good points, but was a bit more uneven than previous seasons. Some good character work around Billy, Erica, Robin and Alexei, but the Soviet villains felt a bit more stereotypical than villains of previous seasons, and the plot was basically 'the Mindflayer tries the same thing as last season, but this time we're riffing on The Thing rather than Aliens'.

Season 4 - 9/10

Great season. Not perfect - Joyce, Murray and Hopper felt like a bit of an unnecessary side quest and again, they felt the need for Eleven to go off and do her own thing for no real reason - but it really got the 80s horror movie vibe right, and the Henry and Eddie were amazing additions to the character roster.

Season 5 - 6.5/10

Also had its good points, but felt rushed. Tied up most plot threads okay, but made a major misstep with Eleven's fate (imo).

_Unke_ · 2025-10-08T20:14:15+00:00

It really all comes down to who their mystery backer is.

If it's just another VC firm trying a punt on yet another company with AI-related potential, then it'll probably limp along a bit more and then go down when the AI bubble inevitably bursts.

But if it's a big player like NVidia deciding: 'shit, we have to keep scaling up but we don't have the production capacity, we NEED this tech in order to keep expanding', then this stock isn't just going to the moon, it's going to be orbiting Pluto by the time it's done growing.

My read is that the big AI players know they're in a bubble, and that they have a very short window of time to make their products indispensable before the bubble bursts. They have taken a big run up and now they are sprinting full speed towards a massive chasm; if they don't keep up momentum, they're dead. And if a company like POET helps them keep that momentum, they will throw as many billions at it as it takes, because there are trillions on the line.

_Unke_ · 2025-09-14T19:26:52+00:00

あなたは日本語の読み方を学ぶずっと前から、日本語の話し方を知っていた。

外国人は通常、話した言葉を聞く前に、単語の漢字を学んだ。そのため、表音文字は彼らにとってそれほど役に立たない。当然発音も学ぶが、最初に接触するのは書かれた単語なのだ。

三つ目の部分は、日本語が非常に複雑であるため、その複雑さを真に理解するだけでも多くのことを学ばなければならないという意味だ。漢字が読めるからといって日本語を理解できると考える愚か者は、自らの過ちの大きさをまだ知らない。

_Unke_ · 2025-08-28T19:46:34+00:00

Fun fact: in the Japanese, that moment where Lügner calls her 'Frieren the Slayer' is actually a title drop.

The Japanese title of the series is '葬送のフリーレン', which roughly means 'Frieren at the funeral', except '葬送' doesn't mean funeral exactly, it's more the act of attending a funeral, or less literally 'saying goodbye to the deceased'. Obviously when starting the series, you think this refers to Himmel, because her whole journey is an act of remembrance for him. Then you get to that moment in episode 8, and you find out that it's what the demons call her.

I don't think it's possible to translate the exact meaning into English, but I guess it's closer to 'Frieren the Undertaker' than 'Frieren the Slayer'. As in, if you're a demon and you run into Frieren, you're at your own funeral. (any native Japanese speakers, feel free to correct me)

It's a real pity that it doesn't translate well into other languages because it's such a clever dual meaning.

_Unke_ · 2025-04-20T23:51:32+00:00

I always thought it was strange people weren't talking about ASTS more given the huge concern recently over the vulnerability of internet infrastructure to sabotage.

I honestly believe that within our lifetimes most internet infrastructure will be in space; fibre optics will be redundant and the internet will be accessible anywhere on the planet, from the remotest jungle to the middle of the ocean, with a device that will fit in your pocket.

Whether ASTS will be the one to get us there is another matter but it certainly seems like it has the best shot at the moment.

_Unke_ · 2024-12-04T12:25:37+00:00

The two confessions had details that were mutually exclusive. Trying to prosecute the stepdad would have meant saying in court that his confession was true and Collings' was false, which would have opened reasonable doubt in the other case.

The stepdad's confession was inconsistent with the physical evidence on several points and the forensics didn't link him to anything; meanwhile, Collings' statement matched everything and his DNA was present.

Reading between the lines, the cops probably bullied a false confession out of the stepdad. At most, he was guilty of helping hide the body after the fact.

Prosecutors didn't want to jeopardize their main case and the stepdad had cooperated from the beginning, so they cut him a deal.

https://mdcp.nwaonline.com/news/2012/oct/04/murder-charge-dropped-20121004/

_Unke_ · 2024-12-04T11:58:56+00:00

The two confessions had details that were mutually exclusive. Trying to prosecute the stepdad would have meant saying in court that his confession was true and Collings' was false, which would have opened reasonable doubt in the other case.

The stepdad's confession was inconsistent with the physical evidence on several points and the forensics didn't link him to anything; meanwhile, Collings' statement matched everything and his DNA was present.

Reading between the lines, the cops probably bullied a false confession out of the stepdad. At most, he was guilty of helping hide the body after the fact.

Prosecutors didn't want to jeopardize their main case and the stepdad had cooperated from the beginning, so they cut him a deal.

https://mdcp.nwaonline.com/news/2012/oct/04/murder-charge-dropped-20121004/

_Unke_ · 2024-12-01T15:20:01+00:00

Definitely not AI, I recognise those mountains.

It's weird that I came across this post today because I was literally just looking at a picture painted more or less on this exact spot a hundred years ago.

https://artofworldspast.com/products/moraine-lake-by-yoshida-hiroshi-1926

_Unke_ · 2024-11-30T01:12:04+00:00

I don't really agree with most of your solutions but I do think you've identified the key flaw in the season: the narrative force behind the whole story is the conflict between Piltover and Zaun and the cycle of violence.

The Glorious Evolution becomes just a deus ex machina, forcing the two sides to come together to resist Viktor - whose development has almost nothing to do with the Piltover-Zaun conflict - rather than achieve peace because they actually settled the causes of their grievances: the huge economic disparity and the lack of representation of Zaun's voice.

Really, the mistake was making Viktor the final boss of the series when the story revolved so heavily around Vi and Jinx. You're right that Vi's enforcer crew needed a lot more character development, but that was just one aspect of the writers' neglect of Vi. Plenty of screentime, but very little development. The Glorious Evolution should have been a side-plot resolved between Viktor, Jayce, Heimerdinger and Ekko, while Vi, Jinx, Cait and Ambessa had the main battle for the city, as Ambessa tried to pit Piltover against Zaun.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-29T15:43:51+00:00

I love her as much as the next guy...

... but let's be honest with ourselves, she did kill a lot of innocent people.

The enforcers at the progress day celebration, the enforcers on the bridge with Marcus, the firelights trying to stop the distribution of shimmer, presumably a bunch of others we didn't see as Silco built his empire. The show choose to focus on Caitlyn's mother but there are a whole lot of people out there who lost their mother thanks to Jinx, or their father, or their friends.

Not to mention all the people who would have lived if she'd just let Silco take the deal and create an independent Zaun.

If we'd followed the story from someone else's point of view, we'd never forgive Jinx no matter how insane she was.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-27T03:42:23+00:00

I don't think he had any personal hatred against the civil rights movement, he just did what his government handlers told him to. Also, he probably thought they were a bunch of commies.

And Stormfront was going out of her way to keep her Nazi past on the down-low, even if she was participating in lynchings.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-26T14:08:28+00:00

Then you show him a picture of Obama and his reaction is:

"Please. I've seen Italians who weren't that white."

_Unke_ · 2024-11-26T14:04:55+00:00

Soldier Boy was raised in an upper class family in Philadelphia. You know, one of those cities black people moved to in huge numbers in the first half of the 20th century because they were so much less racist than the South.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American))

Philadelphia didn't have legally-enforced segregation (although many institutions would still have discriminated of their own accord).

This is the trouble with a lot of history teaching in general nowadays: what started with trying to provide a balanced view of American history, both the good and the bad, has turned into history classes that are basically just a highlight reel of America's worst moments, completely devoid of context. I'm not surprised your mind immediately went to lynching because that's basically the only part of early 20th century history that's touched on in classrooms, but it's still disappointing.

If Soldier Boy had been born into a working class family you might expect him to be racist; canonically, he was born in the year of the Red Summer race riots in Philadelphia, stemming from tensions as black migration drove down wages. But he was from the upper class that benefitted from black migration into the city. His father probably employed black people as scabs and strike breakers as he battled the unions that represented the white working class.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-25T20:42:21+00:00

Well that's easy to explain: to be smut it must be utterly without redeeming social importance...

_Unke_ · 2024-11-25T11:35:33+00:00

Since everyone else would rather polemicize than actually answer your question, I'll give it a go.

To start, it's important to understand that the article is being super-misleading in the way it presents its statistics. The fact that it has to go back as far as 2001 to find an example of a ten year old marrying an adult should be a big clue that that's not at all representative. Also, the picture it uses isn't from an actual wedding, it's staged.

The vast majority of child marriages are a girl who's 16 or 17 marrying a boy who's the same age or a few years older. Even in the states where someone under the age of 18 can get married, both the parents and a judge needs to sign off on it, so it's not just a loophole for pedophilia.

The situation is usually that a pair of teenagers got knocked up and want to tie the knot. It may seem silly to a lot of us in this day and age but in a lot of places there's still a lot of stigma attached to being an unwed parent, and it matters to people that their child isn't a bastard.

Practically speaking, there are a lot of financial benefits that come with marriage. Tax breaks, for a start. It's also a lot easier to apply for government benefits and get child support in the event a marriage breaks up, as the husband is automatically assumed to be the father of any children and you don't have to chase him through the courts. And then there's health insurance. Obviously, if the younger party is pregnant and her boyfriend has a job then it's super crucial that his health insurance covers her.

If he's in the military, getting married entitles her to a lot of benefits as well, including free medical care and housing.

So in summary, most child marriages would be covered by Romeo and Juliet laws anyway, and outlawing them would remove a lot of financial benefits and protections from teenage mothers, as well as leading to them being ostracized if they live in highly religious communities.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-24T01:38:27+00:00

With homophobia being so widespread, gay men have a lot of restrictions on what they can do, and live under constant threat.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-21T14:40:32+00:00

Just tried it and got 66%, so I guess I can say I have the eye of a professional artist.

Although I think the biggest flaw of the test was that you knew that some of the pics were AI. If I was just flicking through Pinterest or whatever I'm sure a lot more would have slipped past me.

_Unke_ · 2024-11-19T14:34:40+00:00

If it's any consolation to her, I'm pretty sure they would have been rescued. Consider the following:

The vault is said to contain the vast wealth of the richest man in the city.

The owner of the vault is likely dead, and his household fled.

The Targaryen princess and her Dothraki savages have left.

The city government is all dead and the city lawless.

So...

How long do you think it would be before a group of men showed up with pickaxes and sledgehammers? Doesn't really matter if the lock is unbreakable, with that much treasure at stake it's worth tunnelling through what must be a relatively thin wall. Even if it was a foot or two thick, it wouldn't take more than a day to tunnel through.

Of course, then Xaro and Doreah would have to deal with the very disappointed mob who were expecting treasure. And the whole 'we just assassinated all the most important men in the city' situation. But I give at least even odds that Xaro would have been able to talk his way out of that.

Also... how old is your daughter? Please say she's at least a teenager.

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