“Now is the time..... FOR PROGRESS!!"

We literally just did this, just 12 years ago. Do people not remember!? It wasn’t a good idea!

It’s the fool-me-once/fool-me-twice mentality. Concerned Ape didn’t drop a maliciously overhyped, steaming pile of barely functional shit built on the sweat and tears of overworked developers on your doorstep for $70. CDPR did.

The difference between Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk 2077 is that one of those games was made by just one person, and so “new patch causing a gamebreaking bug” is more understandable

I don’t understand this situation well enough to contribute anything, I just want to remark on that header image and wonder why that store is ok with birds sitting on the “t” but not any other letters.

Yep. The power the employers have in pursuit of streamlining the employing process has led to biases like this among those wanting to work. The fact they can omit ‘black or feminine’ sounding names is not only judging a book by its cover and INCREDIBLY discriminatory.

Privilege is difficult to confront. Clueing into it isn’t quite an “are we the baddies” moment (at least, not necessarily, unless your behavior has been particularly bad) but it is definitely a radical shift in perspective.

There’s nothing wrong with these companies investing in educational initiatives that promote minority education. That’s great, and I applaud it.

They just need to look harder or recruit from different places. SCS at CMU was ~10% women 10 years ago, now it’s almost 50% and more competitive.

Based on this data it looks like black representation should be about 2.5 times higher than it is, and Asians are overrepresented, which may indicate a completely different type of racial prejudice regarding Asian people and STEM fields.

The problem is that they’re not hiring the best people for the job. Just the whitest.

No, it’s more that forcing organizations to interview token candidates to meet a quota does nothing to prevent those organizations from discriminating against those token candidates in their final hiring decision if they choose. Worse, it gives them cover for their discrimination, because they can point to their token…

The only way I could see someone classify this request as “unworkable” would be if you just had no access to race/gender info when pulling applications. But if that info is available, how much of an encroachment on their ability to hire is it really? Hell, the request isn’t even asking that you hire more people of…

The key word is “over time.” Yes, investments are not guaranteed and diverse portfolios can lose value but if you invest over the span of decades, you’re bound to recoup the losses if your money is in a mutual fund - with the caveat I already mentioned that if you’re cashing out in the middle of a crash, yes, you…

So you are saying that this is a perfect storm of events that is enabling this to happen? I only have an elementary understanding of how all this works but I am enjoying the shit show that its become.

Honestly, if you just keep a diverse stock portfolio or just invest in a mutual fund, you will make money long term.

Almost as if shorting shouldn't be legal.

It’s a pretty specific scenario though. A relatively small (for the stock market) company in Gamestop, that was being WAY over-shorted. And of course shorters like to advertise the fact that they are shorting because it helps bring the price down, which serves them.

Hopefully, the reddit retail investors trying to stick it to the hedge funds are using money they can afford to lose.

Also, if the number of short positions decreases and there are fewer buyers, then the stock price will stabilize or fall. If Citron and Melvin have abandoned their short positions, but the number of…

The key thing to keep in mind is that, regardless of the wackiness of what’s going on on the /r/WSB board, the strategy here is ironclad-solid: Short-sellers got overexposed, over-bet on a struggling company to go bust faster than they naturally would, got surprised by good news, and are being pantsed as they’re…