throwmeme888

there isn't much out there which is well known and completely open source other than risc-v. mayb urbit

this is a common misconception, which I think arises from the ideas of index investing. one must remember that while the index itself increases over time, many of the names on the index in eg the year 2000 simply don't exist anymore; consider companies like Kodak Eastman

if you held all of the energy drink companies including a placement into monster for 25+ years you would indeed make money on the 1-2 winners and end up net ahead.

But if you missed monster, you could very easily have just bought a basket of dog companies that all completely fail and the money is gone

the chief challenge is: how does one actually value land?

if I own 1000 acres in the middle of nowhere that holds an enormously profitable business, I could end up paying almost zero tax simply because I dont have any nearby real estate development

the rest are hypnotised as they try to understand urbit, which is to computers as the Bogdanov mathematical thesis was to pure maths.

this article is just a summary of things curtis yarvin originally said over 5 years ago and a Marinetti article that was in new scientist a few weeks back

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535290-100-how-futu...

in short, this substack article share by op is probably just ai generated slop

eggs are homogenous in nature, so a blind test between two eggs can reveal the superior quality of one type of homogenous product. Especially when it is an egg, which is entirely "natural"

a chicken nugget is not the same thing as whole chicken, because it has many chemicals, additives, flavouring agents, msg, organ meat, etc and is then battered or crumbed and deep fried before being packed. It also has a different texture altogether, and is eaten with the hands which children find easier than using cutlery.

compare a child tasting two different varieties of dark chocolate in comparison to a milk chocolate with caramel filling, or two varieties of whole milk to chocolate skim milk, et cetera.

it was 2-3 days after deepseek paper release on Christmas Day. I read this paper too and drew the exact same conclusion (that nvda was due to decline)

but I dont think its insider trading, just informed and reactive trading - not eoy profit trading either though