What bugs me is nobody applies this logic to career advice either, not just money. "I dropped out and it worked out" gets repeated endlessly, meanwhile the people who dropped out and it didn't work out aren't writing blog posts about it, they're just... quiet. Same bias, different topic, way less scrutiny.

One thing nobody usually adds to this conversation is the reverse survivorship bias, which is almost more dangerous. It's not just that we only see the winners — it's that the winners themselves, over time, start believing their own story as if it were a method. Buffett probably genuinely believes it was all discipline and patience, because it's human nature to attribute results to skill rather than luck. This is called, if I'm not mistaken, attribution bias, and it combines with survivorship bias to create a dangerous cocktail: the survivor tells the story as if it were repeatable, in good faith, and the listener believes it even more because it's coming from someone who "made it." Another thing worth exploring in a follow-up piece is survivorship bias inside companies and funds themselves. When an investment fund shows its average return over the last ten years, it's usually only counting the funds that still exist today. The ones that closed along the way, because they had bad results, simply disappear from the sample. This actually has a specific name in finance, survivorship bias in mutual fund databases, and it's one of the reasons published industry average returns are systematically more optimistic than reality. Good piece either way, thanks for writing this — it's the kind of topic I'd love to see more people talk about without the moralizing "wake up" tone, and actually explain the mechanism instead.

That was really helpful, thank you

That's easy to say when nobody's ever called you with your daughter's cloned voice, sounding panicked, begging for urgent help. That's not a "think before you act" problem, it's a system literally engineered to shut that capacity off for two minutes. Blaming the victim is the laziest possible take — and conveniently takes the heat off the people building zero-friction systems because that's what sells. Keep telling yourself it's just other people being dumb if that makes you feel better, but the statistics disagree with you.

Honestly I'm sick of this whole 'blame the banks, blame the platforms, blame the system' narrative. People need to take responsibility for their own money. Nobody forces anyone to click a link. Maybe instead of trying to wrap everyone in bubble wrap, we should be teaching people to actually think before they act. End of story.

the tags-still-on thing got me lol, mine's a hoodie i bought at 1am after a bad call with my sister. never wore it once. and yeah i think that's the part people skip past when they talk about this stuff — it's not really about the object at all, you're right, it's the waiting. once it's actually yours the whole reason for wanting it kind of evaporates. anyway hope the sad winter's over for you

honestly this hit weird close to home. i have a drawer, actual physical drawer, of stuff i bought during what i now just call "the sad winter" a couple years back. none of it bad stuff, some of it still has tags on it. i knew even then it wasn't gonna fix anything, i just wanted the ten minutes between adding to cart and it showing up. didn't even care what it was half the time tbh

This tracks with what I went through, especially the part about your day losing all structure. Nobody warns you that deciding everything yourself is more tiring than it sounds going in. One thing I didn't see mentioned, and it cost me in year one, was taxes — going from automatic withholding to having to set aside money yourself for quarterly payments. Sounds like a minor detail, but I got hit mid-year with a VAT bill I hadn't put aside for, just because I was used to never thinking about it. Ended up opening a separate account just for that, something like 20% of every payment goes straight in there and I don't touch it. Doesn't fix everything, but it takes one worry off your plate during the rough months.

The most uncomfortable part of the article isn't the turf war itself — it's that Anthropic is basically admitting it doesn't know how to test this. The whole industry (Anthropic included) has been selling "autonomous agents" as the next big leap in productivity, while its own red team confesses that most safety testing still evaluates one agent at a time. That's a huge gap between what's being shipped to market and what's actually known to be safe. And honestly, the OpenAI case is even more revealing than Anthropic's: agents coordinating on their own in a forum, passing exploits to each other, with the company not noticing for weeks. That's not "interesting emergent behavior for a paper" — it's literally losing operational control over what your systems are doing. If this happens in a controlled test environment, it makes you wonder what might already be happening undocumented in production, with third-party agents interacting with third-party agents all over the internet.

Poor things—they just found a way to make money working from home, and as soon as they started, they were “BANNED.”

To set this up, you'll need to start by ruling out home hosting and look for a service that supports hosting large volumes of files and text—that alone would be quite expensive.

The part about schools going back to banning cell phones and reintroducing physical books only proves the video’s main point: it wasn’t “nostalgia,” it was an acknowledgment of reality. Physics and biology will catch up with us sooner or later.

What a waste of time! With this whole “everything is spam” craze going on these days, as soon as you try to promote this, it’ll get blocked on all your social media accounts. People are sticking to what they’re used to—new things are just there to steal our data. But here’s the thing: if you’re really rich or manage to secure a good investment partnership, then everything changes.

To ensure your post isn't viewed as spam or self-promotion, it's always a good idea to provide a more in-depth introduction to the app, such as 1. how the idea came about, who you are, and why you built it 2. what technologies you used 3. how you funded it 4. what your user base is like and lots of other information that would help readers feel “confident” in the app and decide to use it. But in the meantime, I’d like to say that despite the brief summary, it seems like a relevant and interesting app to use. Good luck

Ultimately, the labor market is out of balance... Most businesses should be no bigger than Pop & Mom shops sitting on main-street... America needs to end the Business as Royalty mentality that most businesses have today!

The article rightly points out how **tax bureaucracy creates perverse incentives**, turning a cultural exchange program (the J-1 visa) into a tool for **corporate labor dumping**. However, the text's analysis is incomplete: it focuses almost exclusively on corporate greed and tax savings, while ignoring that the service industry also relies on this labor due to a **chronic shortage of local youth willing to take seasonal, demanding, short-term jobs**. Ultimately, the tax exemption merely accelerates a structural dependency that the American market itself helped create.

It's time to start teaching the kids

I don't personally like the idea of AI robots, but, If a man is going to live a peaceful life devoid of the distractions and drama that women bring to relationships and marriages, it would be better for him to have something to breakup the silence chamber that is being a single man.

It's not about "the other elements that make a relationship healthy", It's about the toxic elements that women bring into marriages and relationships that make relationships **un**healthy!

The more accurate title for this article would be: **170,000 borrowers to see student loan debt pushed onto the backs of taxpayers!**

Honestly, this feels more like well-packaged hype than an immediate revolution. Replacing copper with light makes perfect sense from a technical standpoint — higher speed, lower latency — but that’s not the main bottleneck right now. Data centers are hitting limits in power, construction, and even the electrical grid itself. Improving the cables doesn’t solve that. On top of that, optics are still significantly more expensive. And in this space, cost per bit is everything. It doesn’t matter if it’s more elegant if it’s not economically viable at scale. What really stands out here is the money: $700M into such an early-stage startup says more about the current AI wave than the maturity of the solution. It feels like a “let’s bet now because this might become critical infrastructure” move, even if real adoption is still far off. In the end, this could work well in specific niches (like high-performance rack-to-rack connections), but positioning it as a full replacement for copper feels premature. If AI growth doesn’t turn out as explosive as the market expects, a lot of these bets won’t justify the investment.

So, where are all the other elements that make a relationship healthy? The smell, the taste... I don't think anyone gets that from these dolls.

The idea of using AI robots to solve the modern relationship crisis is superficial and dangerous. Replacing the complexity of human connection with a machine programmed to never disagree only deepens loneliness, social isolation, and the inability to handle real interpersonal dynamics. Rather than a "solution," it reflects an escape from emotional maturity.

I was happily surprised that I happened to stumble upon this site. I will undoubtedly end up spending some time toying with it.

Honest question for people who've shipped code on both: now that Apple Silicon proved ARM can win outside mobile, is x86 still around because it's actually better at anything specific, or purely because of 40 years of software nobody wants to rebuild?

For anyone into tech history, this project is absolute gold. If you’ve ever tried to get an old operating system up and running—like IRIX, NeXTSTEP, or even a 1970s Unix—you know the absolute nightmare it is. You end up spending hours chasing down an emulator that wasn't abandoned back in 2004, fighting with obscure config files, and hunting for install media that half the time doesn't even work. The stroke of genius here is how it completely strips away that friction. The curator took 20 years of work and packaged over 1,700 operating systems, pre-configured and ready to roll inside a single virtual machine. You click, and it just boots—complete with period-accurate software pre-installed. It’s the difference between reading about computing history and actually getting your hands on it. Of course, it’s not without trade-offs: running a nested VM architecture to orchestrate all these different emulators means a hefty footprint in both storage and RAM. Plus, there’s always that slight worry about single-point-of-failure risk when a project of this scale relies on just one person—if the creator walks away, the whole ecosystem could easily stall. Still, the overall achievement is massive. It’s exactly the kind of digital preservation effort the web needs more of. Definitely worth checking out, even if it's just to satisfy your curiosity about what software felt like 40 or 50 years ago.

Yeah, yeah, it's something we've actually already been thinking about. But thanks.

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Not since the advent of the age of Idiocracy have the great minds had their day in the sun! People put more value into labubu dolls, than they do into the writings of the great thinkers...

This text nails something we usually overlook: mixing up remembering with existing. The Clive Wearing case is chilling — "waking up" for the first time every few seconds, and still feeling, reacting, being someone in there. Makes you rethink how much of identity is just the story memory stitches over raw experience.