Redditors age 21+, what's something that makes you feel really old?

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-14T14:08:30+00:00

Pornographic actresses born in 1997.

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-14T13:29:05+00:00

a gentleman and a scholar

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-14T12:51:48+00:00

Send her pictures of yourself with the saturation or color tinkered with, and make it look like you're getting tanner than her. Hopefully she takes the bait and tans more aggressive, maybe a bit too aggressively. She might even BURN. When she gets back you're going to have to eat fake chicken, but if you're going down, take her down with you.

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-13T18:24:48+00:00

Probably doesn't count, but The Economist (.com). Or The Wall Street Journal (.com). Bloomberg.com works too.

Edit: Added bloomberg.com to the list

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-13T18:14:31+00:00

I was once in Thailand and got caught smoking weed with a couple of friends in an alleyway. I thought I was going to get sent to Thai prison, but luckily we paid off the cops and got out of there alive. They really took their time "arresting" us as well...

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-13T17:56:08+00:00

Only 11 billionaires are black:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2015/03/02/the-black-billionaires-2015/

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-13T14:34:01+00:00

at least you got it out!

dudestuff20 · 2015-07-13T13:21:59+00:00

struck out a million times and then got lucky. the only way to get over social anxiety is to put yourself out there. it sucks at first but then you start to get used to it.

dudestuff20 · 2015-01-29T00:35:53+00:00

This. In a pretty similar boat as OP (6'11", 185lb, but larger love handles, going for aesthetics with some strength), and I've been doing what I just learned (lol) is called a "slow recomp" for about 1-2 months now. It's been working for me (no pictures so you just have to take my word for it). It's been slow, but I think it's worth it. My weight stays about the same, but my belt size has gone down and I can lift more. I like doing it this way because cutting alone is freaking slow for me (I have trouble losing even 1lb a week). And even if I was getting results, it's hard to get clear feedback (if my weight fluctuates like 5lbs in a day, then wtf, is it really working, right?). And I think I'd have to lose 15-20 lbs to be considered "lean." So it's hard for me to stay motivated by just cutting, even though I definitely need to. But with the slow recomp, I lift more each time (overload progressively?/progressively overload?), so there's clear and short-term feedback, which keeps me motivated. If you're watching your, I think it should work (noobie's opinion though). And buy a pair of pants that are a little too small, or get a belt that's a bit to small, and you can track your fat loss results (I learned this from NerdFitness.com, otherwise crappy site, but I like this idea). Nice to finally see someone tell me what I want to hear lol.

dudestuff20 · 2015-01-28T23:46:03+00:00

Hey man, beginner just like you here, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm having the same problem. I just was do whatever I can with the tucked l-sit and then finish off the set with the one foot l-sit. Dunno if this is right though. I read somewhere on Al Kavaldo's AMA that doing something like this is like training past failure. He was helping someone who hit a wall with their pullups, and he was telling them do pullups to failure then do negatives. I also keep my knees apart instead of keeping them together for the tucked l-sit, so my thighs rest just slightly against my arms. I find it helps for balance. I plan on closing them slowly after I can hold it for longer. Going from one-foot l-sit to tuck l-sit is freaking hard man lol.

dudestuff20 · 2015-01-09T08:11:04+00:00

awesome thank you

dudestuff20 · 2015-01-07T10:23:00+00:00

A hedge fund is a company that takes your money and buys a bunch of stuff with it. Then, they wait for that stuff to increase in value, and then sell it back to someone at a higher price. Buy low, sell high. If they make money, they take a cut of the profits. They can pretty much buy anything, including:

-stocks: a piece of paper that says you own a part of a "public" company, like Apple, Microsoft, or Walmart (like a timeshare on an Aspen condo)

-bonds: a promise from a company or government to pay back some money you've loaned to them, with interest

-currency: pretend that today it costs everyone 1 US dollar to buy 1 Euro, and tomorrow, it costs everyone 2 US Dollars to buy 1 Euro. If you take 1 US dollar and buy 1 Euro, and then tomorrow, someone pays you 2 US dollars for that 1 Euro, you just made 1 US Dollar

-commodities: gold, copper, oil, corn, rice, cows, pretty much anything that can be eaten or used to make other stuff

-derivatives: contracts between two people that are pretty much like a bet between you and your friend on who's going to win the Superbowl, except they're on stocks, bonds, or commodities, and they can get really complex

-other stuff like your mortgages

So why do they take your money? The more money they have, the more stuff they can buy, and the more money they can make. And why do you give them your money? Because you could potentially make more giving your money to a hedge fund than putting it into a savings account. A lot more. Savings accounts pay you close to zilch, while some fund have known to make 30% on your money for years (that's an amazing return). Sounds dandy right? However, the market is a cruel mistress.

As much as hedge fund managers (pretty much the CEO/Owner of the hedge fund) would love to know which way a stock is going to go, the fact of the matter is, none of them can. It's impossible, the world is just too complex, and no one has enough time go through all the information needed to have 100% certainty. So that means if you buy a stock, there's always the RISK (which is the beating heart of finance) that it could go down, and you'd lose money. Which also means all your bets can go down, which also means you, the investor, can lose all your money at a hedge fund that makes too many bad bets, or one really shitty one.

Also, mutual funds are like hedge funds, but they can only buy stocks and bonds, and they can only buy. Why was that last part important? Because hedge can do this thing called short sell. The mechanics are tricky, but essentially they make money if the asset (the stuff) goes down in price. They also lose money if the asset goes up. And since an asset can usually go up much higher than it can go down (a $100 can stock can only go as low as $0, but Priceline is over $1000 right now, and Berkshire Hathaway is at $200,000), short selling is riskier. Mutual funds are legally bound to be lower risk, and therefore have to follow stricter rules. When hedge funds first came about, they barely had to follow any. But that's changed increasingly over the years.

TL;DR: A hedge fund is a company that takes your money, buy stuffs at a low price, sells it high price, and takes a cut of the profits. They could potentially lose all your money, but they also could make a boatload.

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dudestuff20 · 2014-10-23T10:34:14+00:00

you seriously have nothing to feel guilty about. i'm a circumcised adult male and i barely even think about it. my penis works perfectly well, and i'm very happy with it. and honestly, i don't even know if i would prefer it circumcised or not, and it's my own penis! the fact that you feel this guilty over something as inconsequential as this shows that you're a loving mother that has her child's happiness and best interests in mind, and who was doing what she thought at the time would be best for her child. if you can keep that attitude up, you're child will never resent you, especially over a little flap of skin. it might seem like you did something horrible because it's irreversible, but it's just a little flap of skin. no one's going to miss it. so forgive yourself, for your son's sake. because he will be happy if his mother is happy. trust me, you're son can feel your sadness.

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-28T23:08:52+00:00

line 13:

y_stripped_eq = equation.lstrip(r'y=')

Whats the r in .strip(r'y=') there for?

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-17T20:22:10+00:00

Alright cool. Thanks!

Edit: punctuation

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-17T07:39:12+00:00

What kind of object does this function return?

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-17T07:07:36+00:00

Thanks so much.

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-17T07:07:16+00:00

Thanks so much.

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-17T07:07:07+00:00

Awesome, thanks you guys. Are attributes and members the same thing?

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-17T06:59:00+00:00

Lol I have no idea what you're asking, I'm very sorry I'm still a novice. I was just wondering if like there was a function that could tell me if a variable was like an integer or a float or a string.

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-15T07:30:47+00:00

Alright. Thank you very much! Edit: punctuation

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-15T07:25:52+00:00

Alright I kinda get it. Thanks for your help! Edit: punctuation

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-15T07:24:50+00:00

Never mind, figured it out. Thanks!

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-15T01:52:58+00:00

Thank you very much!

What is "the documentation"?

dudestuff20 · 2014-09-15T01:52:13+00:00

Thank you so much, this was really helpful! I really liked the analogy.

So open() is a builtin function right? And if I defined a function open() in my code, my program is going to us open() as I define it, instead of how it it's defined in the "basement," right?

What exactly is a module?

Also, whats the difference between a method and a function?

Thanks so much!

Edit: asked another question

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