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Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

stoly ,

Well everyone wants to be Zuckerberg so what else are you gonna do except get consultants?

stoly ,

lol yeah century club with a 16 year old account here. I got nothing.

stoly ,

I found it this morning. I don’t read reddit but never closed the tab and there was a noid. I read it, laughed, and moved on with my day.

stoly ,

Business bros didn’t care, you say?

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

stoly ,

I finally went back and checked reddit and I received the email too. I laughed as I read it.

stoly ,

Set up Robin Hood or Acorns and drop like $100 a month into random stocks. NVIDIA is doing really well because of AI and is growing in leaps.

stoly ,

LOL i remember how people would rage on Reddit about Netflix and act like they were the worst company with the worst lineup in all of history. Then the following month, subscribers increased. It really became a hate meme.

stoly ,

LOL can't believe you got downvoted for talking about things you saw with your eyes. I saw those same things.

stoly ,

I still feel surprised that people remain on Facebook and am slowly beginning to feel the same about Reddit.

stoly ,

So people shouldn't get into low-stakes investment for some reason? Do you think that most poeple in the US have the money to do higher-level investment?

stoly ,

Please don't extrapolate based on what you read here. The people who are saying they do this are among a very elite group of people who came out of high-end technical programs. They have the pedigree and are sought after so they can do this as much as they like. You most likely cannot get away with this.

stoly ,

Also hiring manager here and I agree with you--I wouldn't hire even the best person if they displayed this behavior.

For most people, this is the case. But for the super elite tech worker, this is not the case--they are sought after. The stories you read here are from the elitest of the elite CS/CE program graduates.

stoly ,

People in Seattle are seriously the coldest mofos you've ever encountered. They really don't want anything to do with anything outside their bubble. As a result, the only way to make friends is to share activities like sports or whatever.

stoly ,

In my experience, you can only make friends through work or through shared activities like skiing or the knitting club. Otherwise people aren't interested in you. If you're super active, then you'll have tons of friends. If you're an introvert, you're probably better off somewhere else.

stoly ,

I'm 45 and have interviewed 500 people easily.

stoly ,

IMO this is exactly what happens. the sort of person who acts this way isn't interested in becoming a better person and learning, they were in it for the diploma and the paycheck. this person stopped growing somewhere in high school.

stoly ,

Entitlement, narcissism, chose your poison. This person believes they deserve more and more and more and finds ways to justify their behavior.

That said, I agree that corporations are bullshit so I get it. This person isn't a hero, though.

stoly ,

That is also very true.

stoly ,

I suspect that a lot of these get into companies during those gigantic hiring waves that result in massive layoffs a year later.

stoly ,

You know I missed the "hired" part there. That does sound like someone who never actually gives any particular candidate any time or attention and rather looks for a series of arbitrary checkboxes to fill.

Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling, addiction therapist warns (www.cbsnews.com)

Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling, addiction therapist warns::There's been a surge of young problem gamblers since sports betting was legalized. An addiction therapist warns AI-powered sports betting has spurred a public health emergency.

stoly ,

I suspect that a lot of this will blow over as time passes. It's a novelty now, but people will quickly grow tired of it.

stoly ,

Not gambling in general, THIS form of gambling. But I guess it's easier to not show charity in your interpretations and go on the attack.

Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone." (gizmodo.com)

Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."::The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."

stoly ,

One presumes that there is at least one case where it was determined that rice particles did something to the phone. Then Apple analogized and extrapolated from there.

stoly ,

LOL build quality is very high on all Apple products. To get the same level in mobile, you have to go higher-end Samsung or Lenovo in the computer market.

stoly ,

Money won’t make you happy for sure.

stoly ,

I’ve seen one of these and they suck. Took me three attempts before it decided that I succeeded.

stoly ,

I had the misfortune of finding one last week.

stoly ,

lol a bot will definitely be better at this one day

stoly ,

LOL nice!

stoly ,

I was indifferent to the brand before, but will now actively avoid it.

stoly ,

This was always going to be limited. Eventually, it doesn't matter how much data you dump in, it won't be unique enough to train anything new out of the model.

stoly ,

Business people really are just monkeys chasing shiny things. They tend to be less developed emotionally and are often very insecure on top of the entitlement. All they have is the chase, nothing else.

The most useless degree a university can grant is one in business administration.

stoly ,

Almost isn’t good enough for government use.

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    stoly ,

    I have had to explain to employees they I will not use intimation or analogy to ask someone to do something, I’ll just say it. Now I know why.

    stoly ,

    I’m a linguist and this is the answer. The correct usage is however people use it, not how a book editor, dictionary, or your third grade teacher think it should be used.

    Example: “there’s” for both plural and singular rather than “there are” versus “there’s/there is”.

    stoly ,

    The language is evolving. "Literally" now means "literally" and also "very much so.

    I have worked as a book editor, and so my instinct is often to be corrective/prescriptive. The linguist side of me usually wins out, though.

    stoly ,

    There is the concept of an ideolect and you can very easily argue that something is correct as long as some native speaker thinks so..

    stoly ,

    That's going to be a lot more work since comments and posts are decentralized here. You can probably easily get some of it but it will be hard to get all of it.

    stoly ,

    You know something you never hear? Someone speak positively of Air Canada. They seem to be just as evil as United.

    stoly ,

    I don't know if small claims create precedent in the same way that a normal lawsuit would.

    stoly ,

    We did learn a lesson from Facebook. It was fine until the Boomers got involved. Once the masses get in, we're toast.

    stoly ,

    So...stupid people with too much money to burn jumped on something they neither wanted nor needed and then got bored.

    stoly ,

    There was a position open in that company that I am well qualified for, but when looking it over, I really felt nervous. There was strong small dick energy going on with a lot of all-caps "THIS POSITION IS 100% IN PERSON". I know it would have paid lots better than what I make now, but it really scared me off. Since then, so many articles like this have come out that convinced me that moving on was the right choice.

    stoly ,

    This is basically old Palo Alto VC money propping things up. They don't even have to earn a profit as long as they stay in startup mode.

    stoly ,

    It was, but they misjudged where support was and lost out. My guess? The company goes around for several years more before collapsing or being bought up wholesale by Microsoft.

    stoly ,

    I had an applicant very obviously read to me that Wikipedia article about Active Directory.

    stoly ,

    Worse, it was just a generic question about exposure for a low-level position. I.E. Can you tell me what big thing this is used for?

    stoly ,

    So big vehicles are good now. Can’t wait for cigarettes to get good again.

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