cobbzilla

This establishes a baseline. More evidence can adjust it, and we have one data point here, but I'm going for it:

*Absent meaningful regulations, 95% of Flock searches are illegal.*

what? the big guys are the easiest to sue, they almost always settle. it’s the smaller/shady fraudsters who ignore the court summons, so you get a default judgment that you can never collect because they’re impossible to find.

Make it NOT so

RIP a legend

Fascinating; they must be bidding on the part numbers as search keywords.

Now I wonder what the median CPC is for part numbers (I’d guess very cheap), and which one is the most expensive (no idea, super curious).

yes it’s absolutely survivorship bias, fully ack that.

the funny part is contemplating that every single day we’re alive, no matter what we do, we are increasing our “survivorship bias”. Might as well play with the odds a tiny bit, roll the dice and have some fun, BUT safely on the margins of course :) Learning those margins is the biggest survivorship hurdle.

Maybe I’m weird. I like my scars. I didn’t ask for any of them. Or I unconsciously asked for all of them.

Sometimes the universe makes a mark on you; what you do with that is up to you.

I got a little bold with dear Earth recently and she smacked me pretty hard. I knew what I was doing, knew the risks, and did it anyway. It’s maturing into a decently large scar, and I’m pleased. It’s a nice memory, that kiss.

Maybe I’m weird. Regret minimization, which most people seem to follow as a life strategy, is too boring for me. I always thought I’d die young but after luckily surviving some really stupid decisions in my youth, I’ve gotten much better at measuring risk.

paste a link to this HN article and then your comment into your favorite LLM, it will be happy to guide you.

Spend more time offline! You spend too much time here. I’ve been on HN 3x longer and have a third the karma, and most of my comments get upvotes (except the rare ones like this when I happily burn a little to make a point, in spite of the HN groupthink). Your karma here is great, too great. Enjoy the world and find happiness elsewhere.

The linked article title says “flown” but that could be expressive; is there any definitive evidence of the actual transport mechanism?

agree with one minor quibble:

> load up planes and physically ship gold.

they would not load planes, they’d load ships, because it’s much cheaper.

This was very real, thank you.

About your sister, feel free to discard this thought as we don’t know each other at all: You did the right thing to save her; somehow separate that from the relationship animosity (not sure how); but it’s 2 things, don’t combine them.

California is an ocean of poverty dotted with islands of wealth.

And the islands keep getting smaller and more expensive as the ocean expands.

If the lifestyle attracts you, go for it. It’s not for me.