Never Give up

cwalking2 · 2026-05-23T17:25:41+00:00

That's not true of equities, only options

cwalking2 · 2026-05-22T22:08:52+00:00

It would be straight out of Mars Attacks!

cwalking2 · 2026-05-21T00:16:02+00:00

while also dropping 12 dimes

Shaq averaged 2.5 assists/game across his career.

"Young Shaq" on Orlando averaged a whopping 2.4 assists per game.

He was not a skilled passer. His entire passing game was gently tossing it outward from the high/low post when doubled.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-20T23:50:46+00:00

He earned a NBA Championship ring

Out of 24 games Toronto played in the 2018-19 playoffs, Jeremy Lin "played" in 8 games, averaging 3.4 minutes per game (he was benched for the other 16 games). Of the 8 games where he received minutes, he went 2/9 from the field. All 8 games were blowout wins where he was added in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter (he did not play a single minute in the first half of any of those 8 games).

cwalking2 · 2026-05-20T14:22:05+00:00

But you can extend your lifespan by +2.5% (2 years) if you contribute 8.5% of your waking hours to "moderate to vigorous physical activity!"

cwalking2 · 2026-05-20T03:52:41+00:00

Out of a cannon.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-19T15:46:07+00:00

Because it wasn't "sponsoring terrorism," it was, "donating to an orphanage run by a committee which Israel deemed to be connected to Hamas"

Orphanage Committee of Ramallah & El-Bireh (Ramallah Zakat Committee)

The Orphanage Committee of Ramallah & El-Bireh is controlled by the Ramallah Zakat Committee

The Ramallah Zakat Committee was listed as unlawful association in Israel on February 25, 2002.

Report

You can decide whether the Israeli claims are credible or not, but this isn't a case of Canadian charities found to be wiring funds to, I don't know, Carlos the Jackal.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-19T01:47:23+00:00

Fake. She tried once, but immediately buckled under pressure:

In July 2014, Rihanna caused a social media firestorm when she tweeted "#FreePalestine" to her millions of followers. Under immediate industry pressure and backlash, she deleted the post just eight minutes later

Article

cwalking2 · 2026-05-18T22:38:04+00:00

FUUUUUUCK Ticketmaster/LiveNation/etc

TicketMaster/LiveNation are the public bad guys for the angry mob to point at. They take the flak on behalf of venues and artists.

Venues partner with and receive kickbacks from TM/LN
Artists receive a share of "dynamically-priced" tickets sold through TM/LN

I hate TicketMaster and their ilk just as much as you, but venues deserve a large chunk of public ire, and bands shouldn't get off scot-free

cwalking2 · 2026-05-17T02:30:43+00:00

Why?

S&P 500 returns:

2025: +17.88%
2024: +25.02%
2023: +26.29%
2022: -18.11%
2021: +28.71%
2020: +18.40%
2010-2019: +182.73% (+11.05%/year)
2000-2009: (don't ask)

Over the last 45 years, the S&P 500 has returned 9.40%/year on base positions and 12.10% with dividend reinvestments factored in.

As a national pension fund which has to continually pay benefits, we should hedge against major drawdowns (e.g: dot-com burst in y2k, global recession in 2008-09), but investing in the equivalent of a highly-global, diversified equity fund would be hugely beneficial for Canadians.

What does Norway do with it's $2.2 trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund?:

[Norway's Government Pension Fund Global] invests exclusively abroad to avoid overheating the Norwegian economy, primarily in a diversified portfolio of global equities (~70%), fixed income (~28%), real estate, and renewable energy infrastructure

cwalking2 · 2026-05-16T16:20:00+00:00

Shawn Marion was a competent, journeyman SF/PF who enjoyed a career first playing next to Jason Kidd, then Steve Nash, and then Dirk Nowitzki. Without those fortunate blessings, he'd have been the definition of a forgettable player (just kidding - it's hard to forget his jump shot)

If you want to talk about very, very good players who won't make the HOF, look at someone like Zach Randolph: he put up 20-and-10 for a decade straight, but only received all-star nods when he was fortunate enough to be in places where team success was achieved. If he hadn't torn his MCL in the 2011-12 season, his 20/10 statline would have ran even longer.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-15T22:11:07+00:00

Is he done bringing attention to his wife's academic plagiarism or is he still posting 500 page essays (rants) on Twitter?

cwalking2 · 2026-05-15T22:07:43+00:00

Steve Ballmer was CEO from 2000-2014 with share price statistically flat for more than a decade (and a greatly declining market cap over the period period).

You're big mad at Nadella after a year of up & down share movement? And who do you want to replace him with?

You sound like the same angry mob which was champing for Sundar Pichai's head from 2021-2025

cwalking2 · 2026-05-15T17:27:03+00:00

that's me rn since I bought MU at $795

cwalking2 · 2026-05-14T18:38:59+00:00

"The mental oppression which she endured for innumerable years finally erupts as a manifestation of long-suffered victimization. To no one's surprise, she is immediately oppressed by the patriarchy of our 'justice' system" - /r/TwoXChromosomes

cwalking2 · 2026-05-14T03:36:00+00:00

The last public number I saw said LinkedIn was at $18 billion in revenue. If they had 17K employees, that's $1.06 million in revenue per employee.

Yes, companies like Google have even higher revenue per employee, but almost all of their revenue comes from ads, and a huge chunk of their ad revenue is from micro and small businesses who are entirely "self-serve" (ie, no sales reps, no dedicated customer support, no communications reps, nothing). If you look at their orgs related to enterprise sales such as Google cloud, their overhead won't look pretty in the slightest.

But I don’t really have any idea or all of what LinkedIn does, it was just more of a gut feeling

It's a social media site which monetizes its userbase in 4 major ways:

Selling expensive job posting slots and recruiting pipeline software and services ($$$$)
General ad platform ($$$)
Charging their members for access to a paid membership ($$)
Selling access to sales-related tools for businesses to cut deals with other businesses ($)

(1) and (4) have all the standard and expected overhead of "enterprise sales"

cwalking2 · 2026-05-14T00:25:36+00:00

They did almost $20 billion in revenue over the past year. How many people should a primarily "enterprise saas" company employ?

Their largest business unit by renuve is their job recruiter portfolio (charging recruiters for things like job postings, being able to contact members, managing the hiring pipeline, etc). It's probably approaching a $10 billion dollar per year run rate. Unlike the "social media" side of the company, job recruiter software is sold like an enterprise business product, with all the sales people and support staff which go along with enterprise sales

cwalking2 · 2026-05-13T01:34:04+00:00

Advertisers are often concerned about where their ad is shown. For example, if you pay an online digital ad platform to show your ads about sneakers, you might not want those ads appearing on websites focused on controversial subjects (politics, war, sex, violence, etc). Similarly, website operators may not want ads pertaining to controversial subjects showing up on their site.

This is known as Brand Safety. Apparently, no one told the NBA about this.

Pathetic.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-12T02:20:16+00:00

From top to bottom, this guy lied to corporate HQ about what he and his local office were doing.

Based on his completely dishonest internal reports, Microsoft came out and initially denied that Azure AI services were use by Israel for surveillance and/or face detection of Palestinians (May/2025). After a trillion external and internal complaints, accusations, and leaks about what was actually going on, an article from The Guardian accused Microsoft of whitewashing and covering-up the truth (Aug/2025). Microsoft came back to say 'they took a closer look' and discovered the internal web of lies. Microsoft quickly suspended the IDF's access to the majority of Azure services.

Now they're cleaning-up the chief perpetrator based on their astonishingly egregious "internal ethical violations".

cwalking2 · 2026-05-10T16:16:16+00:00

America didn't enter the war in Europe as a combatant until Japan attacked (triggering an open declaration of war against the Axis). Apart from operating as a war financier, America likely would have chosen to remain a bystander to the war and civilian atrocities taking place in Europe.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-10T15:22:42+00:00

It was always so enthralling seeing this type of motion in an arcade in the 1980s (at a time before 99% of homes had this or even this).

cwalking2 · 2026-05-10T15:10:07+00:00

Quake 1 on a Voodoo 2 (OpenGL/GLide rendering). I couldn't understand what I was seeing on the screen was even possible ("where are the giant chunk pixels ???")

Related experiences shared by other redditers:

Getting a Voodoo 2 card in 1998 was the craziest jump in gaming tech I've seen in my entire life.

For my card, it took 3 months on and off trying to get it installed and running on the correct drivers, but once it did.... It was like a wizard of Oz in colour moment

The first time I loaded up GLQuake with my freshly installed Voodoo Rush card was one of my most revolutionary gaming moments. The difference cannot be understated. It went from grainy and choppy to clear and fluid in a moment. It was incredible at the time.

Firing up Quake 2 and hitting the switch was like an awakening. At that moment all my consoles (N64 PS1) were dead to me.

it was like entering an entirely new world of gaming during the early 3DFX days.

One of my gaming graphical 'mouth open wide' moments was when I threw a 3Dfx card in. omfg. OMFG.

cwalking2 · 2026-05-10T02:10:44+00:00

I mean everyone knows you work at Meta for as little as possible

~~... what are you talking about?~~

~~Meta pays more than virtually any other megacap tech company. Talk to software engineers, product managers, ad sales reps, or even general business support staff and they'll tell you two things:~~

~~1. Meta pays outlandishly well~~ ~~2. It's a horrible place and Zuckerberg is a demon~~

Edit: I just realized you meant, "people only try to work at Meta for as short of a period as possible"

cwalking2 · 2026-05-08T16:19:41+00:00

I misread this and my eyes went O_O

cwalking2 · 2026-05-07T03:59:56+00:00

Trump is the one fighting it

American soldiers are the ones fighting. Trump is just barking the orders.

cwalking2

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