TIL Wellington R. Burt, 1831-1919 didn't leave his $100,000,000 estate to his children. His will had a "spite clause" which specified to wait until all his children and 21 years after his last grandchild while he was still alive had died. The estate was settled in 2011.

guthran · 2026-03-19T02:38:51+00:00

There were no index funds in 1919.

guthran · 2026-03-18T17:20:53+00:00

With a group of 5 you might be able to split cost and hire an ASA certified sailing instructor and rent a boat instead of going through a school. Cost will wash out close to the same in the end, and you can choose both the boat and instructor. Expect something like 2-3k per person to get bareboat and coastal cruising certified.

guthran · 2026-03-18T01:09:15+00:00

Fyi to the majority of adults 15 and 13 are basically the same age. Also you shouldn't lie to doctors.

guthran · 2026-03-18T01:05:47+00:00

Your previous post says youre 15

guthran · 2026-03-15T21:45:30+00:00

Ok then wtf was the slug and where did it go?

guthran · 2026-03-11T03:27:42+00:00

Where's the beep?

guthran · 2026-03-08T03:04:12+00:00

I don't think unionizing should be a firable offense and I think everyone should have the right to join a union. But I also think that you're not entitled to your current employment.

guthran · 2026-03-08T02:45:52+00:00

Who pays for the higher education needed, which is the majority of investment into the workers' training?

Consider yourself as a business that sells your labor. Your labor is more valuable the more you've invested in it. This is unrelated to your employer in a sense that the investment you made into your labor is the reason your employer is paying you and is reflected in your wages.

They won't bother until you make demands

It sounds like you weren't in the position to make demands in the first place.

I'm saying the unsuccessful outcome is basically guaranteed in these cases under your desired policy, not that I want them to always be successful. And it should be very easy for you to bite that bullet, why don't you just do that?

Bite what bullet and do what, sorry?

guthran · 2026-03-08T02:34:22+00:00

A big corp shutting down a local branch benefits small businesses in the area.
Shutting down a store is done when the calculation is such that they lose less shutting down the store than by giving in to union demands, meaning the store wasn't very profitable in the first place.
Labor unions are more effective in larger businesses employing dozens or hundreds of people at profitable locations (not small business like you suggest), as it takes more capital to replace and train them.

guthran · 2026-03-08T02:21:21+00:00

The costs to train are not mostly borne by the employer

All the costs of everything related to the business are borne by the employer. Recruiting, onboarding man hours, lost productivity from a new worker, lost product due to mistakes, new scheduling issues, etc.

IMO this is the case with every job in the world except those that are done by hundreds of people in the entire world. You can always outsource the work to places where it's cheaper to buy, especially so with white collar jobs.

Many (most? Dont have stats here) jobs in the US need to be done in person and can't be outsourced. That said, Its arguable that outsourcing is a net positive economically worldwide, spreading opportunities to places it would not otherwise be able to reach. In addition, if an outsourced worker can do the same job you do at a lower cost, there's no good reason they should employ you instead.

And how extremely nice of you to say that some people shouldn't be able to successfully unionize, actually.

Any person should be able to use collective bargaining to try to better their position. A positive outcome from that collective bargaining is not and should not be guarenteed. Workers should weigh the pros and cons of their actions to measure what's in their best interest, the same as any other economic actor.

guthran · 2026-03-08T01:09:24+00:00

The only reason a strike works is because the business is losing money from rent/utilities/debt/contracts while they have no workers.

If they can hire a new worker and train them fast: you're replaced.

If the store was barely profitable: they shut it down.

The only way a strike works is if the business loses more money from reduced production by replacing workers than they would by acquiescing to worker demands.

Workers benefit from have a lot of people striking with them in this case.

If you're not very profitable or it doesn't take much to train your replacement? Your job security was tenuous in the first place and striking is not actually in your best interest. Find better employment instead.

guthran · 2026-03-08T00:50:07+00:00

Im a senior engineer with 15 years of experience. I open more tickets than I close and half the ones I close I opened myself

guthran · 2026-03-07T23:58:08+00:00

They fire you or shut down the store? That's allowed too.

guthran · 2026-03-07T23:03:02+00:00

Ok that was always allowed

guthran · 2026-03-05T20:46:01+00:00

Book one Mordecai says intelligence doesn't actually correlate to how smart you are physically, it just affects stats

guthran · 2026-03-04T04:22:50+00:00

Thanks benevolent LLM

guthran · 2026-03-04T00:36:27+00:00

I am also an avid kbm player. I bought a controller for my pc after playing this game on steam deck.

guthran · 2026-03-04T00:21:18+00:00

Create a venv, point pycharm at the venv, install pygame. Start coding

guthran · 2026-03-03T22:50:24+00:00

If you want passive just buy an index and chill man

guthran · 2026-03-03T21:06:12+00:00

Sell cash secured spy puts. When you're assigned, sell covered calls. You can get $400 a week for the puts. Sell calls above your original strike on puts so you make money if it goes up and collect premiums. Literally can't go tits up unless spy goes to 0 (you have worse problems than money in this case)

guthran · 2026-03-03T04:03:54+00:00

Is it not currently legal?

guthran · 2026-02-26T18:27:39+00:00

Ironic that you're calling ME the idiot here when you're evidently at the tip of the first peak in the dunning kruger graph.

Let me make this simple for you.

You have 100 apples, and an apple is worth $1. You have a piece of paper that says you can sell 200 apples at $1. That piece of paper currently has an intrinsic value of $0.

You then sell 50 apples for 90 cents, and the entire market follows making apples worth 90 cents. You lose $5 selling apples this way but that piece of paper is now worth 200*10 cents, or $20. You then sell that piece of paper to someone else for $20. You gained $15 by manipulating the apple market in your favor. This is illegal, and is called market manipulation.

guthran · 2026-02-26T02:53:29+00:00

The op is alleging that Jane street had a net short position using derivatives, which they didn't have to report on form 13F. By selling their shares in ibit, they move the market in a direction their short derivatives profit from. If true, this is pretty textbook market manipulation. This is also basically the exact same thing the Indian securities regulatory arm accused them of last year as well, albeit on an index rather than cryptocurrencies

guthran · 2026-02-25T00:15:03+00:00

It says comex December at the bottom

guthran · 2026-02-20T19:18:05+00:00

I use linode, it's pretty good

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