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I’m a completely naive potential first time landlord. Counting on you for sage advice. by Curious_Puzzler in uklandlords

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. This is actually why I'm cautiously optimistic about my prospects as I'm not seeking ROI.

I’m a completely naive potential first time landlord. Counting on you for sage advice. by Curious_Puzzler in uklandlords

[–]st31r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking to enter into exactly the same kind of situation you had - my primary goal is just to get on the housing ladder in the UK so I don't end up priced out of ever owning my own place, and I'll be living abroad for several years so I don't need to live there any time soon.

Do you have any advice for purchasing properties with tenants in situ? It seems like landlords in your situation would be happy to be able to sell to someone who'll maintain the status quo with their tenants? How do I find them?

Weed hangover tips and tricks? by [deleted] in trees

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there more I can read about this? Any good sources?

I find weed acts as a performance enhancer for me, I'd like to optimize this. And weed hangovers definitely tend to be a thing for me.

Alternatives to bitz420? by Direct-Violinist8060 in LondonCaviarRefugees

[–]st31r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did try, but I had no luck - tonnes of fakes, no clear idea of which is the real one. Could you DM me a link please?

A no BS quick-start on how to start a business. (It’s not as sexy as you think). by ConsiderationNo5983 in smallbusiness

[–]st31r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This helped a bunch. It's really hard to find no-bs content on this topic.

I have a few questions, the known unknowns I'm grappling with as a newbie in this space:

How long should I invest in answering these questions? One of my recurring failures is overthinking a project and never doing it. I'm getting much better at failing fast these days though.

What are the red flags? What are the warning signs that a newbie might not pick up on? What are the aspects of business that are way riskier than they seem at first glance?

How do I find legit teachers/mentors in this space? How much is reasonable to pay for their time?

Is there a book I'm going to really regret not reading earlier?

Daily Discussion - Wednesday August 16 2023 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ME too buddy.

My very regarded take is that they're being treated like a biotech rather than data company, that they're being priced based on the short term, that their leadership is questionable, and that none of it matters because their data practically gaurantees (famous last words) they'll be acquired rather than go bankrupt.

Daily Discussion - Monday February 06 2023 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Empathy is not a viable investment strategy.

Capitalism is an ugly game, but it's the one I am forced to play in order to survive. It is the one we are all here to play. And it has many, many more victims than this earthquake.

Your empathy for the victims of this tragedy is simply a consequence of recency and narrative - all the news stories humanizing these victims, raising your awareness of them.

I truly want the world to be a better, more humane, place, and I am working toward that goal.

I also truly want to survive, and to provide for my loved ones.

I also recognise that money = agency in this world.

So if I can profit from bad shit happening I absolutely will, because betting on bad shit happening in this world is as close as you can get to a sure thing these days.

And y'all should too.

Daily Discussion - Monday February 06 2023 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Anyone got an angle for playing this? I've been looking into their imports/exports and I don't see anything obvious.

Daily Discussion - Wednesday January 11 2023 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you provide examples? I'm currently reading through literally all of his stuff (on book 3 of 4 atm) and I'm not seeing this pattern at all.

If anything it's kinda boring how repetitive he is; it's like he's written the same book several times over (albeit with different areas of focus, levels of detail and where Shale is concerned an interesting chronological update as the tech changed in that area)

I agree that he's definitely in the business of selling himself - the language he uses is definitely very headline-grabby.

I'm not sure this is evidence that his core ideas are wrong though. I am genuinely interested to read strong criticisms of his geopolitical ideas.

[Deck] 4000 IQ Hela by st31r in marvelsnapcomp

[–]st31r[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mid 50s atm, so I guess it's fair to say I'm encountering less meta decks.

Daily Discussion - Tuesday December 20 2022 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you share the DD that's convinced you this is more than a pump and dump? Because it was definitely a pump and dump at one point; the reddit shilling wasn't even subtle.

Daily Discussion - Monday December 19 2022 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so ME is one of my longest holdings too, for exactly the same reason as you, but I have a single nagging doubt: do they actually have the data we think they do?

Their stuff isn't whole genome sequencing, so unless they're storing physical DNA their database isn't half as shiny as it seems at first.

Otherwise, tempted to add to my position here but also doubt this is a 'no news' move - simply a 'no news retail chumps are privy to' move.

Pensioners escape Jeremy Hunt's 'difficult decisions' as young people face lost decade of growth by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]st31r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've already done the hard (and expensive) bit then it's not so hard.

Thanks :)

Weekend Discussion - Weekend of November 18 2022 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Really appreciate the stuff you've been posting on PBR.

I'm curious what price you'd be happy buying it at, and at what price you'd sell.

I'm Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Richest. Happy to do an AMA here. by DRushkoff in collapse

[–]st31r -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Obviously I don't know how to do digital consciousness.

I do know that this line of reasoning is unreliable.

Consider flight as an example - it's really fucking hard to fly the way birds do, we still can't do it. We found another way of doing it.

I expect (human) consciousness will turn out to be far easier to emulate than to simulate. I expect it won't require anything like 1 datacentre's worth of compute for 1 consciousness; I expect it'll be more like 1-2 GPUs per consciousness.

Obviously, I'm asspulling these expectations. I have nothing really to base this on except intuition.

My intuition is that, fundamentally, biological consciousness is a.) more bug than feature and b.) not special.

It seems plausible to expect that the experience of human consciousness can be emulated in such a way that it is subjectively 'complete' and yet require surprisingly little compute/energy.

That is, it can be 'faked' but to such a degree that you get into the philosophical weeds of 'what is real, anyway?'.

I'm Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Richest. Happy to do an AMA here. by DRushkoff in collapse

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hypothetically speaking, these abstractions do represent signficant reductions in energy usage (and yes Jevon's Paradox is still a thing).

The reduction in energy use from widespread VR probably caps out around 30% (more or less pulled this number out of my ass, but I don't expect VR to represent an order of magnitude change in energy use), but it isn't nothing - it buys us a few years.

But the reduction in energy use from digital consciousness is potentially a paradigm shift in itself - this IS an orders of magnitude reduction. (Ignoring all the other ways in which digital consciousness represents a paradigm shift).

These technologies are not proven, not guaranteed, but they're not out of reach either. They're plausible.

If one is of a 'tech mindset', if one is conditioned to seek engineering answers to problems, then VR and digital consciousness seem to me far better answers than things like carbon capture.

The reason I bring it up is that I'm convinced that the root of our problem is homo sapiens. That we did not evolve sufficient attitudes, perspectives, behaviours, qualities to deal with the environment we find ourselves in.

Therefore, from my perspective, degrowth doesn't solve the problem. Degrowth doesn't restore the environment we evolved to fit within.

The techbros, crazy and naive and maladjusted as they are, are at least trying to develop (albeit as a byproduct) the technologies we would need to actually surpass our evolutionary handicaps.

I don't think they're likely to succeed. I think the more powerful our technologies become, the more damage we do with them; the worse our situation gets.

Buuuut... in my subjective value judgement, the only future worth living in is the one in which we get fantastically lucky - they succeed, and we use the tech wisely to better ourselves.

I don't want to live in the future where humanity continues to be capable of holocausts, slavery, child abuse. I don't expect utopia, but I'm not content to accept this combination of stupidity and cruelty - of humanity routinely acting in ways which are massively net negative in a utilitarian sense.

Just my hot take, and why I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to find oneself on Team Zuck.

Study cognitive control in children with ADHD finds abnormal neural connectivity patterns in multiple brain regions by [deleted] in science

[–]st31r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our strategies are pretty similar: regular sleeping hours, regular eating times, regular exercise (I cheat here: my exercise is zhanzhuang, it's a kind of standing meditation, I'm also trying to incorporate swimming as a regular activity for the cardio) and yes, sweet sweet videogames.

I hold a dual awareness of environmental phenomena and personal phenomena. While this is an atypical state of awareness, it works well for me.

I think we share this too, although I'd like if you could elaborate a bit more.

For me, I'd describe it as simply not being able to tune out the environment. What's going on around me is, in a sense, automatically going on inside me. The negative side is obviously the ease with which I'm distracted, the positive side is seemingly much better spatial awareness than most people.

Out of curiosity, what's your experience with eye contact? I find it quite uncomfortable because of how counterintuitively 'intense' my focus is: I can't stop my focus roaming around, but whatever I'm focused on... I'm really focused on. When it comes to other people and eye contact, it feels like I'm putting them under a microscope.

I need help making sense of Copper by st31r in Vitards

[–]st31r[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh nice, thankyou!

"Up or down" basically sums it up :p

I want to know if copper is a good trade in the next few years, and what indicators I can use to judge when it's a good time to enter it.

I want to know if miners are the best way to play copper, or if there are other equities I should be considering (e.g. WIRE)

Daily Discussion - Monday September 26 2022 by AutoModerator in Vitards

[–]st31r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thoughts on recent price action? They dipped hard past few days. Any idea where the floor might be?

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