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by alvah 2y ago
Spotting bubbles and predicting they will burst at some point is not a particularly useful skill. Housing in Amsterdam was in a bubble for 37 years in the 1700s; identifying the bubble early on would have been completely pointless.
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by alvah 2y ago
"I'll say I agree with the Deep Research criticisms. These products are very underwhelming." I haven't shelled out the $200/month for OpenAI's Deep Research offering, but similar products from Google and Perple
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by alvah 2y ago
Ed occasionally makes good points, but he's very very angry at Big Tech, and his anger often gets in the way of his message. Reading his latest rant reminds me of Karl Denninger railing against Google around the time of their IPO, clai
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by alvah 2y ago
I can't help you with your reading comprehension. Where did I make any such statement? I am merely pointing out that hysterically calling ~50% of the population stupid, uneducated etc, while feeling smugly superior to them, was not a w
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by alvah 2y ago
There are many many examples of attempts to destroy individuals' livelihoods, as in get them fired & make them unemployable, over hurty words. These examples are not very difficult to find. I gave you the names of 2 celebrities and
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by alvah 2y ago
Ctrl-F "illegal" - 0 results
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by alvah 2y ago
A contract in itself is not law (though it can be legally enforceable), so how is breaking a contract illegal?
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by alvah 2y ago
I haven’t tried the OpenAI version yet, as I’m on their peasant-level $20 plan, but the Google equivalent is way superior to Perplexity (I use both extensively). The web search Perplexity carries out is superficial compared to the Google pr
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by alvah 2y ago
It absolutely can replace the research done by one person, for my use case at least. It’s also available on their $20/month subscription, unlike OpenAI’s $200/month.
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by alvah 2y ago
Who is making a statement about "most rationalists" here? The claim is about a trans vegan murder cult, which doesn't appear to be a natural member of the right side of the political spectrum.
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by alvah 2y ago
Why don’t you look up the ones you haven’t heard of? Celebrities are more cancel-proof in some ways than the average Joe.
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by alvah 2y ago
Not buying from a particular company is "not really that different" to trying to get an individual fired or otherwise cut off their source of income? Wild take.
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by alvah 2y ago
Men aren’t a protected class anyway.
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by alvah 2y ago
The old left right scale doesn’t really describe modern politics very well, but I don’t think its hard to argue against the Democrats under Bill Clinton in the 1990s being much closer to the Republicans 20 years later than the current Democ
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by alvah 2y ago
Not buying from companies you disagree with is massively different from trying to get people sacked or otherwise remove their source of income (e.g. Roseanne Barr, JK Rowling, Brian Leach, Christian Webb)
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by alvah 2y ago
“Voting with your wallet” has absolutely nothing to do with “cancel culture”. Lost in translation?
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by alvah 2y ago
I agree The Economist should be center right, however if you believe it to be anywhere right of center, that’s really just a sign of the center shifting far to the left IMO.
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by alvah 2y ago
Mainly due to infant mortality. Life expectancy at age 1 in the past was a lot closer to the current day than you’d think.
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by alvah 2y ago
The rest of the article did not disappoint!
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by alvah 2y ago
You’re welcome. Thanks for responding to part of my comment :)
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by alvah 2y ago
Couldn’t read it & didn’t want to make the extra effort required to. Every message, paragraph, article, blog post or company missive I’ve ever read that deliberately went the extra mile to remove capitalisation was written by the type o
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by alvah 2y ago
"> "There's absolutely no way to earn wealth now" is ludicrous: was it possible a month ago? a year ago? a decade ago? Did anyone become wealthy through methods other than gambling or inheritance a month ago? a year a
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by alvah 2y ago
At some point in your life you'll realise that not everyone thinks the same way as you do. Hopefully it happens for you before your mindset seriously dents your future prospects. Your original assertion "There's absolutely no
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by alvah 2y ago
If you really think this way, you're absolutely correct you will never build wealth. It is definitely possible though.
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by alvah 2y ago
"No doubt he voted for Trump." It must take a special effort to be this wrong. PG has vocally advocated for the Democratic candidate for at least the last 3 elections.
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by alvah 2y ago
"The solution at the time was for them to jam in a larger breaker" I've seen some cowboy sh!t in my time but jeez, that's rough.
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by alvah 2y ago
I use Google Docs and Office, and I guarantee outside whichever bubble you and the OP live in, millions of "trivial personal users" around the world also use Office, therefore didn't "move to free alternatives".
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by alvah 2y ago
"Trivial personal users moved to free alternatives ages ago" Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
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by alvah 2y ago
I’m not sure what point you’re attempting to make here, but they chose the phrase “pool fencing” and were rapidly inundated with ads for pool fencing, which, in isolation, would suggest the listening is extremely accurate.
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by alvah 2y ago
It’s definitely a difficult one to test in a scientific way. But they 100% had no interest in pool fencing, living long-term in a rental townhouse. They chose the phrase specifically to be something they had no interest or search history in

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