The forum-moderation article is rather appalling. The section on how to handle suicidal members in particular is horrible, and a good reminder to use a VPN and be careful not to give personal information online.
For years I have done lots of 'try to beat the markets trades'. I almost always run there by people I know at good hedge funds (Jane street, Jump. etc. Im not sure Bwater is actually good at trading but a close friend is there so bwater weighs in a lot!). A very common reaction is 'I wish I could get my fund to do that trade'. Even quite open minded hedge funds usually aren't that open minded.
The very last one about names is written in such an obnoxious style. Yes, it's annoying if your first and last names are the same and an online form demands both to be different. But if you have no name or go by six different names at the same time or so, I get that this is probably super annoying, but no company is forced to serve you; just get a simpler name or at least don't write an article this obnoxious. (I get that the author is the annoying one not actually the people with the weird names.) Apart from this the article was actually very interesting, I'd love to see an example for each wrong assumption.
This gets painful when the "company" is a government, or needs to interface with one.
The author has to juggle six different transcriptions and truncations of "Patrick McKenzie" assigned to him by different government organs, banks, utility companies, etc. He can't "just get a simpler name", because the name has to match the relevant paperwork. At least Japanese bureaucracy is extremely accommodating and will help you fix errors in their system; other countries are a lot nastier.
Anyone who has no name and is physically capable of coming up with one generally does: problems of this sort usually affect infants, unborn babies, unconscious patients, corpses.
The forum-moderation article is rather appalling. The section on how to handle suicidal members in particular is horrible, and a good reminder to use a VPN and be careful not to give personal information online.
The "email she wrote a decade ago" link probably goes to the wrong page.
Thank you, fixed!
“Effective altruists no longer own a castle.“
Do they still own the chateau?: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pbe8x4AQDqftQoaT5/espr-should-return-the-ftx-funded-chateau
It looks like China has involuntarily civil commitment.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160252720300881?via%3Dihub.
Is it practiced differently in China or just not as well known by common Chinese people?
For years I have done lots of 'try to beat the markets trades'. I almost always run there by people I know at good hedge funds (Jane street, Jump. etc. Im not sure Bwater is actually good at trading but a close friend is there so bwater weighs in a lot!). A very common reaction is 'I wish I could get my fund to do that trade'. Even quite open minded hedge funds usually aren't that open minded.
The very last one about names is written in such an obnoxious style. Yes, it's annoying if your first and last names are the same and an online form demands both to be different. But if you have no name or go by six different names at the same time or so, I get that this is probably super annoying, but no company is forced to serve you; just get a simpler name or at least don't write an article this obnoxious. (I get that the author is the annoying one not actually the people with the weird names.) Apart from this the article was actually very interesting, I'd love to see an example for each wrong assumption.
This gets painful when the "company" is a government, or needs to interface with one.
The author has to juggle six different transcriptions and truncations of "Patrick McKenzie" assigned to him by different government organs, banks, utility companies, etc. He can't "just get a simpler name", because the name has to match the relevant paperwork. At least Japanese bureaucracy is extremely accommodating and will help you fix errors in their system; other countries are a lot nastier.
Anyone who has no name and is physically capable of coming up with one generally does: problems of this sort usually affect infants, unborn babies, unconscious patients, corpses.
Examples would greatly improve the article, yeah.