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The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week

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"Collaboration" "Mentoring" Outside of thee military, few companies have any mechanism to train people to move up the corporate ladder. If you're not there watching the boss, then you have no idea how to do their job. If the boss can't see you, they can't delegate the little tasks that amount to job training. If the boss can't see you, they have no way to evaluate whether you're helping or not.

The boss got his job by watching his boss and being in the right place when some opportunity came up, so that's their entire understanding of corporate advancement.

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DepthSight - a self-hosted, federated algorithmic trading platform with a visual strategy builder (AGPL)

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Is the topic of financial/trading tools just completely off-limits here, even if it’s AGPL and self-hosted?

Not necessarily. The platform (lemmy, not just c/selfhosted) is full of anti-corporate leftists and anarchists. You're more likely to find people who want to burn the stock market to the ground than to participate in it, esp highly speculative algo trading.

I've seen plenty of people ask about self-hosted personal finance or portfolio tracking, so there are people for whom your project might be relevant. Just seems more like a r/wallstreetbets kind of thing than a lemmy kind of thing.

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ICE planning to give away – or sell – 7 migrant centers it bought for $700M: report

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Dunno if I'd be looking forward for the grift. The wannabe camp in Social Circle, Georgia had been an abandoned warehouse that DHS bought from some Russian oligarch for 4 times what the oligarch paid. That doesn't mean DHS won't give it away so some new courtier can make a few million, just that it's already been used to gift $100M taxpayer dollars to a billionaire.

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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

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The very broad funds definitely will - VTI/VTSAX - but at lower weights and under less time pressure than the rigid index funds (VOO/VFIAX). That takes off a lot of the liquidity squeeze and (presumably) reduces their loss.

But you have to remember that people who use these funds intentionally invest in obvious losers and willingly overpay for hyped stocks because they believe, in the long run, that buying obvious losers is more than balanced by also buying the unexpected winners.

SpaceX is just the first time an oligarch tried so obviously to rig the passive investor structure to his favor, and I'm glad the S&P people didn't cave.

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What are your thoughts on people who are against pacifism?

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I believe Orwell was speaking of the Spanish Revolution (1936), in which he fought on the side of the socialists.

Pacifism is a great ideal, and (I believe) a lot of conflicts can be solved by honest negotiation. Once the shooting starts, though, the time for pacifism has ended. In the US, right now, it's not clear whether the shooting has started. I mean: ICE is definitely shooting people; people are definitely being injured and dying as result of the administration's actions, but it's not Shooting-shooting, and it still seems like avoidable, poor-policy harms. The question is: will it escalate to civil war level violence? And if it does, will strict pacifists already have blocked any hope of resistance?

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Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

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So, I'm not particularly surprised that a bunch of rich psychopaths hang out together, virtually or IRL. I mean, we all find our tribe eventually.

I'm not particularly surprised that a bunch of rich psychopaths hanging out together come up with schemes of mutual benefit. I'd be surprised if they didn't.

I've always thought of the Illuminati as a thing beyond that. Like, some kind of quasi-religious thing that transcends mere greed and grift. Maybe we've just reached the point in capitalism where oligarch collusion is indistinguishable from world domination, because enough of our governments have already ceded authority to their corporate overlords.

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Those universities are gambling thousands of current-revenue tuition dollars on millions of future-revenue philanthropy. The odds are good on a J-Lo level prospect.