verticalscaler

Brigadiering is indeed loony and lame ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry I misremembered. The Pharma pricing thing just made him an easy target for the media you are correct.

Sounds great. I wasn't aware he has a reputation as a stock picker. All I know about him is that he had some shenanigans with Pharma price gauging and that's both how he made his money and ended up in jail.

The trolling is uninteresting except maybe the Wu Tang thing.

I'm only after pure Excel-fu here. It is actually weird for me that people use it to analyze stocks instead of Python but I probably don't know what I'm missing.

Edit: The first few minutes seem neat, I'm biting the bullet

So there's this weird playlist about Excel by Martin Shkreli of all people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI_riscmviI&list=PLJsVF3gZDc...

It keeps popping up as he is apparently quick and knows the ins and outs. But I've never bothered to go through it as it is seven years old at this point and focused on finance.

Can anybody recommend something similar but up to date with the new goodies so a fella could be competitive at this? I'm talking more keyboard shortcuts and advanced features (many of them overlap). The latest versions of Excel sort of open it up anew.

puts on headband and cracks knuckles

Your entire being rubs me the wrong way.

> The only people I’ve talked to who oppose DEI efforts were either blatantly sexist/racist (just my experience, you might not be).

The only people I've talked to who are proponents of DEI efforts were both incompetent and disruptive to the extreme (just my experience, you might not be).

> Mr Wang, thanks for helping me know to ignore the next Scale recruiter email. And good luck in building your so called meritocracy, I want no part of it.

Great, Mr Wang is effective and nature is healing. We want no part of DEI let us not intermingle. Problem solved.

You claim your way has such great benefits; No need to impose your woke sharia unto others, compete.

You are like a broken clock with the cheap rhetorical devices. No thanks to the struggle session I feel no burden whatsoever.

Who on earth said anything about minorities? I have no clue what special group a gumbo is supposed to be part of. And you have no idea what kind of minority I am, it is none of your goddamn business.

And yet without knowing personal details about you it is very clear that we should not work together or even be in the same building frankly.

I would no sooner allow anybody with this attitude to guilt trip their way into my company than to hire a KKK member. That's how strongly I feel about it. Get out of my life and stay far away.

You said it yourself. Once a group muscles in under such pretenses it slowly attempts to reshape the company in its image and bend it to its politics.

No thanks and no more.

Start a separate company and compete if your way is so much better.

There are a multitude of conflicting bad ideas burning through the zeitgeist.

They try to grab a toehold by appearing more popular than they actually are.

By all means do the poll as best you see fit. I’m none binary when it comes to polling.

I think these threads on HN need to come with a poll.

There is a very loud DEI crowd and marxists tankies stomping around here whenever these subjects come up manufacturing reality.

This is a message board for a startup accelerator. I bet 95%+ of actual humans here are founders and engineers who love capitalism and meritocracy.

I’m tired of the bs and the pearl clutching. There is nothing remotely controversial about this post except maybe that it even needs to be written in the first place.

Enough games.

It is almost like they only came out with this to appease wall street.

I'll just remind you about one of the features: You heard of Memojis, now you have Genmoji!

Generating a squirrel on a jetski emoji on the fly will save you loads of time and make your life better. There aren't enough stickers in your chat app.

Pick from three googley eyed cartoon styles to show off your unique personalities and creativity.

They all look like Pixar and smarmy Dreamworks face nightmare fuel memes from over a decade ago (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamWorksFace).

This was an actual part of the demo. I'm not being factitious.

What is dead may never die! RSS is only resting. One of these days it will muscle up to those bars and voom.

I support you 100%. Could you, erm, point me towards this indy web?

I'd just like to point out to the vim curios Emacs users lurking in here (hi guys, you will succumb eventually) that he doesn't mean the R programming language.

Definitely nobody uses that, true. And we aren't going to make you when you decide to switch over, it isn't like a prerequisite to use the editor.

Nor is some weird shitty lisp from the 80s. There was an abomination called Vimscript until Neovim decided to murder it. Praise be.

It is now scriptable with Lua, Python, Ruby, JS if you're a satanist (who am I kidding, you probably are), whatever you want.

So honestly you're running out of excuses at this point. ;)

P.S. - Since a vim-mode will always only support the subset of Vim the authors care about it is rather pointless. Also, Neovim has a robust ecosystem of plugins this Zed thing is leaving behind. There is no escape no matter how hard novelty editors will try to fix what isn't broken.

There can be only one! /Sean Connery accent

Your post makes perfect logical sense only if the first 7 words are removed. It is literally the argument for why they shouldn't set their money on fire and yet..

Germany sponsors such projects for the one and only reason that greenie weenies are all about the perception of doing good rather than rational decision making. They really really really want to burn large sums of money in effigy to demonstrate how good they are. Each election cycle they must burn larger sums than before whether or not there is something actionable or not is rather besides the point.

The inevitable and only possible result is on full display here.

I approve. I've had this conversation over and over on what.cd back in the day.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

We can even get a little more meta and observe how this type of essay itself goes through the very same process and you end up with:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9IucBIoCzc0

It always happens, without fail, for every genre and subculture.

Thanks anal_reactor

That is very rare and admirable. Can you share more details? Perhaps without linking to them as to not ruin it.

Only one I can think of is The Well. I don't see how you could ever recreate it.

Your problem is that my punching over the internet device is still just a prototype.

It isn't as bad as the literal dumpster fire 70s era either, sure, but good grief what a delusional take. Come visit.

You sir are simply bigoted against people who don't adhere to mainstream standards of temporal stability OK?

As an interdimensional shape shifting being I see nothing wrong with the beautiful images in the article.

Are you under the impression that zoomers never ever fight or that punches are only ever thrown by the brain damaged or that American cities are crime free now or...

Just, wat.

Every week you hear about people getting randomly assaulted on the subway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odqMwSMU9NM

P.S. - The possibility of getting smacked is not the same thing as aggression. It simply keeps people from misbehaving because of the implication. ಠ_ಠ

I feel like you aren't getting this at all.

wat?

Starliner wasn't selected based on merit in the first place so only after people will die will it become impossible to pretend otherwise. What incentive do the current decision makers have to own up to their mistake? They'll double down first, watch.

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

> This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties). And if it's possible to keep the sales people away, or at least invite-only.

You can't keep sales people a.k.a phonies away it will always happen. Every underground subculture gets appropriated as soon as even one of these people shows up.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_punk_subculture

Imagine you run into Patti Smith and her friends in the 70s, if you're lame you won't be staying long. In fact you might get punched in the face. There is proper gatekeeping.

Once the scene grows even a little there's money to be made. A different sort shows up who understands the culture and likes the music OK but don't truly give a fuck it is about selling t-shirts and bootlegs for them. And/Or getting laid.

They'll start promoting it to grow it bigger and make more money. That's when the real sharks show up and the original members start leaving. Later still normies shop your style at the mall with no idea what any of it means or where it came from.

Sadly, can't punch people in the face over the internet. Even worse everything is all about forced inclusivity now.

This ain't a technological problem.

Thanks, I'm not a male prostitute.

I'll do you one better, I'd pay good money to avoid these people. They aren't any more physically attractive then any other cohort of women (not to be mean but some of them look like Lena Dunham) and are a nightmare to be around.

A chance at what? Hahahaha. Ew.

Awesome as always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHqEwk7YHs

Did the patent expire yet? Would you consider releasing the code? It sounds of historical significance and an interesting doom-like read.

Alright, well that was disappointing. No whimsical fruit to be found anywhere on that page. My imagination went wild for a moment.

I don't know what exactly I was expecting but I'm pretty broken up about it. :/

> I’m not talking about the the pandemic. > Then why even mention it?

Listen bud, you can treat antivaxers and bogans like lepers if you want. It is not my problem, they are your cross to bear as fellow citizens. I also think they are retarded, but you seem incapable of understanding this or where we differ.

Read the thread again and observe how you jump to conclusions about strangers (I must be an American who fell down the rabbit hole with those people online and am also like them) and the way you treat people you don't like. That's all.

I don't think you are quite your old selves and don't want to get caught up in your culture wars.

> Why? Whether I refuse to give him my PIN; or I give it to him and he finds nothing of interest; or he does find something of interest: none of that relates to the attitudes of people regarding the pandemic, because none of the things they're searching for are even remotely related to the pandemic.

Hard to believe they are sifting through phones at the border "just looking for kiddie fuckers". There is a reason why you think their approach is completely wrong. You know that makes no kind of sense, it is security theatre.

There is a fellow Australian in this thread describing being searched three times.

In reality you are at the mercy and at the discretion of the border guy. And if he acts like you've acted here and comes across an antivaxer I have a reasonable expectation he would give them a hard time out of spite. Or indeed whomever rubs them the wrong way.

I get how it is supposed to work, I am not claiming anything remotely like they are actively targeting this or that group as defined in the law. I'm talking about how it is enforced.

It isn't something I read online either. Because of this atmosphere people have bad experiences. Normal people.

No point in talking in circles, I'm guessing you'll stay with your cognitive disonnance and keep yelping at me like I'm an antivaxer and this isn't registering at all so I'll wish you the best and stop here.

> What mentality?

> Well you're a foreigner who yet again made pretty ridiculous claims about Australians and their thoughts regarding how the government handled the pandemic.

I keep telling you I’m not an anti vaxer. I keep telling you I’m not talking about the the pandemic.

Those people who disturb you so is the outgroup I’m talking about.

I’m not that, has diddly to do with me, but you can’t snap out of that fixation.

> How many times do people have to tell you that these measures are unrelated to COVID and pre-date it? COVID is thus not the "original reason" for the law in question, and never has been.

I never said that Covid is the reason for the law in question , look carefully, you got on that all on your own!

How many times can I clarify that? That’s the mentality I’m talking about.

Snap out of it.

A border guard searching your phone pre and post Covid is no longer the same. God help you if he starts assuming wrong things about you now, like you are about me, understand?

That’s the entire point. Covid is over, the animosities remain and run deep.