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There's this document written by /u/sixes_and_sevens. I used it to set up mine (I'm the one who anti-recommended M&G). I might be able to answer any further questions, but it was a while ago so maybe not.
Thanks! (and thanks to sixesandsevens)
In response to
Open Thread May 23 - May 29, 2016
Any advice on what is the best way to buy index funds and/or individual stocks? Particularly for people in the UK?
I know this has probably been asked before on a 'basic knowledge' thread, but I can't find the answer.
In response to
Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016
Suprising academia
Music from my housemates!
John Legend - Tonight (Best You Ever Had) ft. Ludacris
Dirty Dike - Hold my hands - Not from my housemates, but from the loudspeaker of a teenage looking patient at a mental health outpatient unit.
Dream journal
about a week ago I dreamed I had sex with my mom and last night I dreamed my mom had a dick (non-sexual) and my alcoholic narcissistic uncle was making fun of her (almost said him)/me. Wtf.
Notes from today's appointment with my social worker Jenna
- People (esp. males) aren’t actually staring me down. Even if they are, it doesn’t matter
- I assumed my social worker only helps cause she ‘has to’ rather than ‘wants to’. According to one of the Relationship Science blog articles, that’s a sure fire indicator of avoidant attachment thinking
- I feel a power differentia whenever I’m around someone who hasn’t been open and vulnerable around me and I have. However, being able to be vulnerable like that is really a strength.
- My strategy to deal with anxious things is avoid them. If I’m avoiding, I’m probably anxious
- Be responsve not reactive, that’s mindfulness
- My goal is to learn from pat abd present experiences how to imtive my relationship, rather than from the theory of that field.
- Meet peope with zest, have zest, don't play hard to get, according to the psychlogy today long term relations article
- Direct pickup lines dominate as openers, according to the Relationship Science blog articles
- Am I just interested in health to one up my bro?
- “I feel comfortable depending on relationships partners” - people with secure Attachment agree with that statement. I don’t. Get to that.
Insight: personality
Narcissist's Sadistic Inner Judge
Everyday people's quotes
you can have a dream, but don't expect it to come true - my housemate 'A'
'Get out of my way or I will literally kill you with the knife in the breast pocket of the shirt im wearing' the writing on my sister's custom ordered shirt
personal development
What It’s Like To Not Love Your Body
Feeling Lonely?. >If you're single, doesn't mean you're not in a relationship - you're just focussing on your most important relationship, the relationship with yourself....being lonely is a mindset, not a situation.
Next time you're in transit, walking, whatever, you might like to try not to look at people to see if it will drain your will-power.
Reframe log
Your Nature is Unconditional Happiness
You cannot create happiness; you can only reveal the happiness that is already inside of you. Your very nature is unconditional happiness.
Things I learned from a men's fitness magazine (jan 2016): (1) first 3 bites of food taste get then it's all over. So, when you give into temptation proportion appropriately (2) wearing suits at work improves your career prospects (3) hungry women pick up on less romantic cues
Despite how great hiring sex is, I would probably have more fun spending the equivelant amount going to a concert like this. Now I don't feel like I'm supressing my desire, just choosing the most pleasant options in life.
The whole universe culminates in my subjective personal experience. What a unifying thought.
I'm tired of all these fucgurls
can you share tips for how I can improve my relationship with myself? no my handsome friend, you already know how to love. I know that because there are people on this planet already enjoying your love every single day. All you gotta do, is point some of that love. Be nice to yourself, compliment yourself, trust yourself. Make time for yourself, act as if you are your own best friend...it is tricky to execute...'you do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself.'
Let’s Just Say I’m Frankenstein’s Monster, and I’m Looking for My Creato
Magneto, I love that quote!
So I finally overcame my habit of checking out people,compulsively thanks to the wisdom of realising relationships are about compromise, hard work, and growth, rather than love at first site, and dramatic vulnerability.
When I feeling like looking up dumb stuff on youtube, instead I'll look up this
Fun and silliness
HYDRAULIC PRESS CRUSHING HIPPO CRUSHING WATERMELON. Bear emoticon: ʕ·͡ᴥ·ʔ YESSSS hippo eats a watermelon THIS IS SO SATISFYING
housework
I tried using wheat vinegar apple flavour from a Korean store to get rid of the lint in my wash, but it didn't work.
I dreamed my mom had a dick (non-sexual)
How can that not be sexual?
In response to
Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016
Regarding the EugeneNier fiasco, what if we were to require new users to submit a link to a Facebook/LinkedIn account or have a current active user vouch that the new account is real?
I think the plan to only allow senior members to vote is better.
Different kinds of domestic violence (against children, spouses, parents, etc.) have significant psychological or behavioral differences. I don't want to generalize from "parents of gender X more likely to beat their children" to "people of gender X more likely to beat their spouse" without evidence.
In any case, how do you propose to look at the rates of any kind of violence? If we don't trust data from the justice system, or from the police, and we obviously can't trust self-reporting and surveys, then what do we do?
All data is relative to a definition of what constitutes domestic violence. Fifty or a hundred years ago, men raping their wives wasn't violence. Today, some surveyors (or police or judges) sometimes consider a wife hitting or raping her husband not to be violence, but the husband hitting his wife to be violence. We need to agree on a definition of violence, and then to find a reliable data source that uses the same definition.
Well, this is one of the many problems with sociology. There are some obvious approaches to use, such as finding crimes which are solved far beyond doubt, such as where there are many witnesses or DNA evidence, and hope this generalises to crimes which are harder to solve, such as domestic violence.
Of course, as you point out, these different kinds of violence might not generalise, as different people commit different crimes for different reasons. So I really don't know what to do about crimes that happen in private where there are no witnesses, short of putting cameras in every room of every house.
WRT domestic violence the police do automatically assume that the man is the perpetrator, which is more likely than not the case, but also leaves the system open to abuse if being male is considered sufficent grounds for arrest in absence of any supporting evidence.
This police assumption likely increases the number of falsely accused and convicted men, and of wrongly non-accused or acquited women. The justice system sometimes has very high conviction rates (i.e. persons convicted out of those brought to trial): above 90% for federal cases in 2001-2012 (random Google link to a PDF link from 2012). Therefore, one must ask what independent evidence we have about how much more likely men are to be the perpetrator in domestic violence cases.
This is a good point. Given that men commit more violence in general, it seems likely that they commit more domestic violence. However, I'm not sure that there is much evidence as to how large this difference is. One could look at the rates of domestic violence in male and female gay relationships, as this removes the 'the man is always arrested' bias, but there is evidence of differences in violence behaviour between gay and straight people, so this wouldn't help all that much.
Perhaps look at the rates of mothers vs fathers beating children?
Yes, it is wrong, and I already said so myself. (In fact, as it happens I said it before you did.) I wasn't claiming that everything you said is wrong; only that you misunderstood one claim OrphanWilde made. (You yourself split up your objections into "First", "Second", and "Third"; I was commenting only on the "First".)
I'm not trying to argue with you, sorry if I came across like that. In fact I've already upvoted your comments in this discussion.
you need more than five seconds to assess someone's intellegence, otherwise job interviews would be over very quickly.
OrphanWilde is claiming not that you get all the information you need in 5 seconds, but that you get as much information in 5 seconds as you do from just knowing the candidate's skin colour[1]. 5 seconds is an awfully short time, but make it a minute and I think he's probably right.
And there is much evidence that the outcome of an interview is often mostly decided very, very early on, the rest of the interview serving mostly as rationalization fuel.
[1] This is, like everything else in this discussion, conditional on "HBD" being correct and skin colour therefore giving useful information (in expectation) about a person's cognitive abilities.
you get as much information in 5 seconds as you do from just knowing the candidate's skin colour ... make it a minute and I think he's probably right
I'd be inclined to agree, but that's not what he said. What he said is that in 5 seconds you can gain not just as much information as from knowing the race, but so much more information that the racial information is rendered completely irrelevant. This is wrong, if HBD is right.
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To illustrate the topic I wish to present, I'll quote a review for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which complains that
My everyday failure to handle indirect statements may relate to this (as well as the disagreements I've had with literature majors, and my own difficulties when writing): I have no patience for subtext. People saying exactly what they feel is the way I wish the world worked. Is there something wrong with me?
Subtext is harder to understand than communicating clearly, and so subtext can be enjoyable and signal intelligence in the same way that playing chess is more fun and shows more intelligence than playing tic-tac-toe.
I far prefer subtext in a story to in real life. In a story the worst thing that can happen is for you to beleive that 'animal farm' really is about a bunch of animals. In real life the worst that can happen is that the pilot doesn't realise that when the navigator says 'the weather radar certainly is useful' the subtext is that the weather is too sever to fly in, and promptly flies the plane into a mountain. This actually happened.