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This is pretty fun, but my response got truncated:
You lurked here from nowhere like a digital ghost, still clinging to Mac OS Catalina like an Austinite refusing to upgrade from "keepin' it weird" to "keepin' it functional," all
This is hard because you want to be sure it's squarely something that's a net-negative.
I think I'd try to find the biggest lie I told and not tell it. When I was younger I had a certain kind of desperation that made me feel like I had to lie about things that I didn't. I was constantly in trouble and I thought the problem was that I had the wrong story. The lies I told were afaict harmless to the recipient, like lying about why I didn't want to work full time. Even so, I ache with regret about it.
I tend to think about the chain of events around and following a lie as lost time, time that I lost getting to be "me" in the world, and as cliched as it is, time really is the most precious thing. I tend to think the worst thing a person can do to themselves is lie to other people, mislead them, or manipulate them. We are betraying the other people, but also ourselves (our truth isn't good enough) and the world (the facts aren't good enough) we are living in.
To be clear, I’m NOT recommending emulating them. I’m recommending improving on them.
Instead of thinking of this as a be-like-rsync post. Think of it as a post advocating for finding great external links to things.
Rsync was at their WORST when they posted links to things they didn’t use or understand.
They were 90% noise but we lost the other 10% when they left. If you can’t tell the difference between the 90 and the 10, this isn’t a call to action for you.
There isn't a single list of websites. That's part of the problem. If there's a single list of websites there's not much reason for SN to exist. The main quality of rsync that I appreciated is that they were hunting for more novel sources - not operating off a few publications.
In their absence, no one is posting the high quality stuff they occasionally did post is what I'm saying. I'm not saying I want more people who don't give a shit. I'm saying I want more people trying. They were at least trying.
The "good news" tends to be overreported, retweeted for days on X, by the time it ends up here is one of the problems I've noticed.
Stackers aren't determining what's newsworthy often enough themselves. They're waiting for all of bitcoin's influencers to tell them what's worth paying attention to. At least if all the noise is posted here, the sats eventually filter it out.
It seems like they are more of a grandpa that distrusts newness than a fiat institution with an axe to grind.
In Vanguard’s view, crypto is more of a speculation than an investment. This is at the root of our decision to not offer crypto products, whether our own or others. With equities, you own a share of a company that produces goods or services, and many also pay dividends. With bonds, you get a stream of interest payments. Commodities are real assets that meet consumption needs, have inflation-hedging properties, and can play a role in certain portfolios. While crypto has been classified as a commodity, it’s an immature asset class that has little history, no inherent economic value, no cash flow, and can create havoc within a portfolio.
The havoc in a portfolio is interesting. I recall most analysis showing that small allocations improved performance of portfolios.
It's also consistent with past decisions they've made:
The same line of thinking applies to our brokerage platform. In 2019, we decided to remove access to leveraged and inverse funds and ETFs. These products are often misunderstood and misused by investors and can magnify losses. Similarly, in 2022, we stopped offering most over-the-counter stocks, which are prone to high risk, low liquidity, and potential fraud.
They were routinely a top stacker, so there's a ecological niche that's unoccupied currently. They had a relatively poor selection process for what they posted so I imagine the ROI on their activity can be improved a lot too.
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