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Re:Zvi Mowshowitz's Book Review: Going Infinite [Long Read o... by jeffjobs4000 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:21PM (#38015367)
Something most of the think pieces, and interviews with Michael Lewis, discount is just how geeked out on amphetamines this guy was.
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Re:Zvi Mowshowitz's Book Review: Going Infinite [Long Read o... by chrisweekly on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:56PM (#38016787)
not to nitpick, but at least in my experience, "geeked out" is a strange turn of phrase here
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Re:Zvi Mowshowitz's Book Review: Going Infinite [Long Read o... by tanjtanjtanj on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:08PM (#38016914)
"Geeking out" can mean to overshare or obsess about one's geeky passions but it's also used to mean someone who's tweaking on speed.

The drug-using definition predates the nerd-culture definition from what I can tell (the Urban Dictionary entry is older for one thing).

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Re:Zvi Mowshowitz's Book Review: Going Infinite [Long Read o... by voltaireodactyl on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:54PM (#38017431)
Both predate the internet so that’s not entirely unimpeachable evidence but I can confirm as a first hand source :)
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