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I think of Charlie Munger's "good investment is knowing when it's wise to not diversify". The luckiest people I know tend to have a soft, scattered approach as advocated in the article, followed by striking hard and quad
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Article: "Did you know that geniuses like Einstein tend to be night owls?" Unemployed guy who wakes up at 11 a.m. every day: "I must be a genius!" Barba non facit philosophum: a beard doesn't make one a philosopher.
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"I feel good about this article!" - guy who reads Braille
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The most famous line from Henry the VIII's speech is? They didn't give speeches back then because they didn't give a fuck about the public.
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There are many extremely intelligent people who post here. There may not be Gandalf the Grey's here but there are dozens of tribal shamans.
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From Peter Drucker's "Managing Oneself", a 28-page pamphlet that any productivity person may find interesting: >There are people, like Churchill, who learn by writing. Some people learn by taking copious notes. Beethoven,
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Complaints about the stupidity and herd mindedness of the Reddit user base can generally be boiled down to complaints about large groups of average people gathered together. Look upon the average person, ye mighty, and despair.
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In my experience that threshold is 20,000 subs. Anything between 5,000 and 20,000 is generally good. I've seen quite a few subreddits reach an inflection point at 20,000 where they begin to rapidly gain tens of thousands of users and t
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What do these acronyms mean?
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As of my reply there's 120 other comments raving about it.
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In the states surrounding Utah, you'll often find that the best lawyers and dentists and people like that are Mormon.
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I have Taiwanese contacts. They say that roughly 30% of Taiwanese hate China, 30% would be happy to reunite, and 40% could go either way. It seems like suicide to risk WW3 to appease 30% of "never China" hardliners. And the US is
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Japanese prints aren't like Western paintings that are one of a kind. The prints were mass produced. The woodblock in "Japanese woodblock prints" means that they carved the design into a bunch of wooden blocks and then stampe
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I think high schoolers are smart enough to know that he's not literally saying "do this and you'll start the next Google".
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Man even once AI takes all our jobs or whatever there's still gonna be 8 billion people wandering around. We're still gonna need to talk to each other.
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Being really rich is awesome. There's never a downside to having more money. That's the whole point of money: the more the better.
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Lol hell yeah brother my local coffee shop regulars are well known for being the dredges of society.
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I've heard people use age 12 as well. Old enough to have had individual development, too young for peer pressure.
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I see it more as 24/7 access to a bright high school teacher. ChatGPT is far from expert at anything. Mile wide and about a foot and a half deep. (Deepening all the time, though.)
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Future already here, not evenly distributed etc
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Vermeer is the "shiny Pokemon card" of painters. Some museum recently announced they'd gathered a temporary collection of 20-odd Vermeers. Tickets for the show were sold out within minutes - a year ahead of time. Normally if
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I like the explanation that the thieves were time travelers from the future, and they knew that these specific items - and no others - were the difference between future victory and defeat.
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I've heard anecdotally that American self-improvement folklore is about "how I can improve MYSELF to be the winner" whereas alternative mythology is about "how can I gather a TEAM so that we win against other teams"
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I'm not saying it's an either/or choice, but I'd rather trust articles written by obsessed old dude experts rather than articles written by "publish or perish" academics citing 100 other p-hacked "publish
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Quoting "A study says..." has gone from a signal that you're intelligent to a signal that you're not.
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The police want to do their jobs but judges won't allow them to.
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There's no amenities in that neighborhood besides a quiet 4 lane street with some burger places on it. The beach is close by but there's just not that much room to build stuff for all these people to do. It'll be a boring pla
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I think a lot of our plans with AI are skeuomorphic. (Skeuomorphs are when an older, outdated thing is preserved in the updated thing, like how the Save icon is a floppy disk.) "Generative AI will mean that Pixar movies will be made by
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The post is aimed at an audience of software developers. Tool users, in other words. It seems reasonable to me that tool users would view writing as a means to an end, rather than as an end in itself. It might help to realize that their too
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Writing for an audience may be bland if you think your audience is stupid. Newton wrote Principia Mathematica for an audience. If you write for history you write for an audience: all of mankind.

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