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getnormality | 3 days ago

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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rsynnott|2 days ago

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.)

ai-x|2 days ago

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