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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • On a general note. Older people want to say that social media has an echo chamber effect and reinforces bad beliefs. And you probably hear this from people with all variety of political beliefs.

    I’ve read several studies indicating that’s not true. Indicating that people aren’t as polarized as others say they are, and also indicating that social media did not lead to greater polarization. But there’s tons of data I haven’t read, so don’t cite me.

    Personal knowledge, from both myself and many of my friends, is that before the Web we were far more limited in getting information, which was a problem for people who grew up as minorities, in various ways. And I believe that was a far worse problem than whatever your Facebook group might be causing.



  • It’s because it’s a bubble. There’s no tenable product that’s worth anywhere near the amount of money that people are/were pumping into the stocks.

    Now there’s competition. So investors have to choose, who do they think is going to be more successful in the future? And that’s a decision based on the predicted value of the actual product.

    And if we’re only talking about NVidia, they didn’t have any competition until now. So of course their stock was going to tank.


  • I want to use free open source software, and if I were a business customer I would certainly want my business to use free open source software when reasonable.

    If all we’re doing is sharing files and messaging each other, I don’t know why we would need Teams. There are so many other options that work quite well.

    I don’t hate it, but I don’t think it would typically solve my problems in ways that other software doesn’t already do better.