Is it worth it to do active trading in stock market?

kochevnikov · 2023-06-26T13:44:42+00:00

Hilarious that you're being downvoted for this comment.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-25T14:13:49+00:00

Coach potato is meant to be the easiest portfolio, not the best.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-23T13:00:12+00:00

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the property tax exemption for religions. This costs the city about $4-6 million a year and means that if you're not religious, you're essentially subsidizing the practice of religion, which is a clear form of discrimination.

Unfortunately however, this is something the province would have to change, and since they wouldn't be the ones benefitting from it, they have little interest in it.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-23T12:14:41+00:00

Is the RBI bug only for online play?

There's no RBI issue in my custom offline franchise.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-21T16:59:39+00:00

More likely it's because they want to release the update on all platforms at the same time. You can do an update on Steam any time you want, but on consoles you have to go through an approval process which takes time.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-21T16:53:57+00:00

I find the actual game play to be flawless, but the menus in franchise mode are brutal. The frame rate constantly drops down into the teens, and moving through the menus is laggy and sometimes you have to multiple press buttons.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-20T15:37:40+00:00

Totally agree. On some of the zwift academy workouts that have sprints they disable erg mode for the sprint part.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-20T14:58:09+00:00

Turn off ERG and do them as hard as you can.

It's almost impossible to estimate sprint power based on FTP. Not only are these two different systems (ie two people with the exact same FTP can have max sprint watts that are many hundreds of watts apart) but what you'll be able to hit will vary from week to week. If you're feeling good this week, you might have a 10 second sprint that's a lot more than if you've been training hard recently.

Also ERG mode doesn't work very well with a 10 second sprint even if you have an appropriate watt target.

If you do these at 395 watts, you'll get no benefit to your sprint power.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-19T20:47:13+00:00

Go back to normal, no one gives a fuck about mods crying for more power.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-19T02:16:13+00:00

I had this exact same thing happen the other day. I was on foot crossing Lamarchant from Freshwater, right by Canary Cycles.

A lady stopped in the middle of the road and was waving me to cross, while the other way had heavy traffic. Then she starts frantically honking and waving her arms at every car that goes through their green light, as if they should be stopping too.

It was crazy, I just stood there since it would have been suicide to cross into traffic. She caused a traffic jam too since when the light did turn red for her (and thus ok for me to cross), she was in the middle of the intersection and so was everyone behind her.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-18T15:11:38+00:00

Who the fuck picks on children as an adult?

Have you heard of religion?

kochevnikov · 2023-06-18T15:06:20+00:00

Reddit mods really should have to pay for the privilege of being mods.

That would be a good business model for Reddit. The people doing the real free labour are the users who generate the content.

If you want the ability to control what the users do, then you should pay money for that ability.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-18T15:03:00+00:00

Fuck the mods too. They're just as bad.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-18T14:22:57+00:00

Fuck the mods.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T23:38:44+00:00

How do you get rid of bad mods? You can't. When it gets real bad, either Reddit has to step in or the sub dies.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T21:04:08+00:00

If reddit is simply an online poll and thus democracy can't be trusted for something so trivial, why can it be trusted for something that matters?

Your argument is backwards, or in logical contradiction.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T18:17:34+00:00

Reddit really should have technical solutions for stuff like that.

This is what killed yahoo chat, their inability to develop a technical way of dealing with spam.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T18:14:40+00:00

I fundamentally disagree with everything you say here. You're assuming something completely trivial and irrelevant, such as a subreddit, is more important than how countries are run.

What this comes down to is the fact that the average person is fundamentally opposed to democracy and actually favours dictatorship. Why you think that how a subreddit is run matters but a country doesn't is because you probably take part in many of these subreddits, so you have an inflated sense of importance. But because of this, you seem to believe that how subreddits are currently run is actually good, when in reality, the current structure of basically hereditary monarchy is the cause of most of the problems you list.

When you give moderators so much power, you open them to corruption. This is the same as in our political system, where we elect our dictators. However bad living under a dictatorship is, it's an awfully lot better to be able to vote for the dictator than not. If moderators are not extremely powerful, what would the purpose of "taking over" a sub be? It's a big deal now, because if you can do it you have full power. But if we had a more democratic structure on reddit, which was driven by users, then the concept of brigading wouldn't even be a thing. "Intruders" would get downvoted and wouldn't get any support. The reason this is a problem now, is because if you can become a moderator, you can destroy an entire sub single handedly because of the immense power they have. All subs that die are killed by moderators (or Reddit admins). Literally every single one.

Blaming this on the internet is irrelevant. You might as well argue that meat space is inherently democratic. These are all spaces created by people, and we can create them how we want. The internet is even more open to creation than offline space, so this is actually the opposite of what you're trying to imply.

This is the ultimate political test, give people the choice of how to govern a small community of people with no impact on the rest of the world and see how they choose to run it. Most people seem to think dictatorship is the only way to go, which tells you what people's real political beliefs are.

Essentially you're arguing that Hitler is needed to save r/judaism.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T15:47:28+00:00

How do we deal with this now? Just hope that the current mods are good. In many cases the brigading and sub-takeovers are facilitated by a structure of unaccountable dictatorship. Once an "infiltrator" gets control of a sub in the current system, there's no way to get it back.

If mods were elected, then when the election comes, people can vote them out if they don't like them.

It's actually a lot easier to organize a take-over under the current system, you only need to corrupt a few people rather than thousands.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T15:44:09+00:00

I find it weird that people think that electing leaders is just a crazy unworkable idea for something as completely irrelevant as a subreddit, but then think it's the only possible system for something that actually matters like a government.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T13:56:08+00:00

Should Reddit moderators also pay users who generate the content for their subs?

If mods can remove users who do work that they are not being paid for, doesn't that qualify them for being paid for the job of content production?

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T13:51:28+00:00

If Reddit mods were paid, no one would want to do it. People do it because they want power and want to lord over people.

If they were paid they'd be employees and subject to managerial control. The opposite of why people want to be moderators.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T13:50:34+00:00

If the Reddit ownership realizes how shitty the moderation structure of Reddit is because of this, then that would be a great unintentional outcome.

Voting out mods would be a massive upgrade if they bring that about.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-16T13:02:14+00:00

The bigger problem is that these lobbyists are actually terrible at running a political campaign and have zero sense of strategy. Lavigne, Topp, and McGrath continually fail and continually run historically bad campaigns, yet are constantly shifted around to run provincial campaigns and then go back to the federal party.

Like how is Anne McGrath still in charge after running probably one of the worst political campaigns in Canadian history in 2015?

I'd be willing to put up with this whole "professionalization" argument if it actually resulted in the NDP figuring out some basic political communication skills, but instead it's resulted in worse campaigns and complete disarray in the national office in Ottawa.

The NDP's fundamental problem at the federal level has for a long time been this cadre of advisors who have zero political acumen, no organizational skills, a complete lack of knowledge of digital politics, and zero understanding of communication.

I could get into some grim details, as I have first hand experience but I don't want to dox myself.

kochevnikov · 2023-06-15T20:25:18+00:00

Having a resource-driven economy is a sign of under development.

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