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Then just disengage the conversation when this happens

Cold approaches worked better before social media and smartphones . now your awkward encounters can live forever online and cause humiliation for years to come , or some stranger looking for clout may step in. This is has become so common now , because everyone wants to be a hero.

I highly recommend talking to strangers! People are lovely. Go out and try it.

I did this a few times and it surprisingly worked. I was able to make small talk about an article I was reading. Did it matter that I didn't come off with the confidence of Tony Robbins? No.


If the market felt btc was truly 'worth' $150k, it would have gotten there regardless of jane street. this is just cope.

I observed this pattern of Bitcoin dumping when the stock market is open, typically in the morning, as far back as 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097752

Very profitable and easy pattern. still is profitable. I don't think Jane Street is to blame. It has more to do with Bitcoin fundamentally being weak and hype fading. Bitcoin has tended to dump randomly a lot.


Yeah, people are so quick to beat up on students for needing extra time or accommodations,yet elite basically act with impunity.

It's interesting how on either side of the aisle there is a lot of hostility to this, yet if you look at a modern white-collar workplace environment, specially tech jobs, people are constantly needing delays or extra time. Look how often projects are delayed. Or people show up late for work . Or workplace accommodations even for non-disabilities, such as office perks, which are very generous for prestigious jobs.

The SCOTUS delayed many times in rendering a ruling on the Trump tariffs despite having clerks and other staff to write the statements and abundant time.

People have very high expectations placed on students for some reason, and then the opposite for jobs especially as prestige of the job goes up.


Google auto-summaries have made wikipedia less relevant

more relevant but less attributed.

"...well as model outputs at this https URL."

Had no idea it was possible to put a live url in the abstract of an arxiv listing


The result again is a pervasive nihilism, where the truth of what’s being discussed matters less than the fact that it is being turned into content, the reaction to which will also become content.

as if this is a new thing? This has been going on forever. The media made this complaint in 2017. They called it 'alternative facts'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts


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