Time Is Different

Re:Time Is Different by getnormality on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:49AM (#47178207)

So if you were overwhelmingly wrong about technology fads in your lifetime by saying yes to everything, you can comfort yourself by saying that if you had gone back a century and said yes to everything, you would have been right about some things!

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Re:Time Is Different by rsynnott on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:21AM (#47178460)

But not most things; there was a lot of nonsense back then, too. We all go to work in a bullet fired through a tunnel by pneumatic pressure, right?

(This was a real thing, and they got as far as partially building a tunnel under the Thames for it, before sanity prevailed.)

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Re:Time Is Different by ai-x on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:26AM (#47181635)

Also, the ones you were right will provide 10,000x returns for all the 1x losses you have suffered.

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