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there are many drugs that can do that but they have massive side effects ;)

Benzodiazepines, opioids, stimulants, opioid-like substances like carisoprodol (there is a reason why people call it Soma). these are the first that come to my mind. contrary to popular belief, downers often give you euphoria.

If you want these things, you're playing the wrong game

You are right COX-1/2 difference

Twitter is really not far from 4chan in 2025.

I think blaming people who are trying to make a buck using the fastest route is not the way to achieve non-monopoly.

A practical point: Mozilla made design choices in the past that made it harder to hide the automation footprint. For some time it was more difficult to disable the navigator.webdriver flag in Firefox compared to Chromium.

That's true. Sequoia is often a death sentence for power users. And a huge gamble for the founders

These are not exceptions, but a whole industry built around the notion that digital content is worth "something"

"all digital content to be worth zero."

People are making millions/year just by writing articles on Substack. Just look at the "paid leaderboards", number of paid subscribers, and multiply by 70% of the annual price of the newsletter.

Our newsletter is doing mid-6-figures. You simply can't find that content anywhere else, and I am not aware of a newsletter-piracy phenomenon. Even if it existed, I think many people would pay to have guaranteed day-1 access.

I would say that the average Hacker News user is negatively biased against LLMs and does not use coding agents to their benefit. At least what I can tell from the highly upvoted articles and comments.

it's all gonna get leaked every quarter

hey, let he who wasn't there cast the first stone! /s

Btw, you can buy a MacBook Pro Max M1 16" 64GB SoC RAM, 1TB SSD in excellent condition, with warranty, refurbished by Amazon with a brand new battery for $1,500 right now.

Corporations are switching laptops on a 3-year cycle.

Next year, there will be a flood of M2s, in 2 years, M3s, 3 years, M4s, nada, nada.

I think this might give Google some ideas...