What could be interesting is if you could compare your attempts to the avatar climbing and receiving feedback afterwards. This would effectively be a step up from simply recording your send attempts.
When I make a request, Meta begins to answer it (I can see the answer appear) and almost immediately, a negative response shows up indicating they’re working on it (ex: I ask if it’s capable of working in French, Meta indicates that it can, the message disappears and is replaced by “I don’t understand French yet, but I’m working on it. I will send you a message when we can talk in French”). What gives?
Usually goes on my weak but improving attempts to replicate my #1 favorite BBQ, inihaw, but any kind of basic grilled meat over rice is a candidate.
I’ve been drinking Guinness and Heineken, plus other ones occasionally. Best cold. Some have been sour and meh, but they are definitely getting better and better. See also low alcohol cocktails. I used to get grape juice made from wine grapes, fabulous.
Hey bud! Similar boat; ~38 year olds, totally dead end job working in spec. ed. for the past 4 years, living on a dead end salary, in a dead end relationship. Barely can motivate myself to do anything with the kids in the classroom… man, I even wasted like, 9 years substitute teaching. been like this since 2009 when I graduated with my b.Ed. Totally messed up my undergrad in math. Can’t focus, procrastinate, etc.
When you wrote “Every night I promise myself to do/be better tomorrow and somehow get myself to sleep”, I almost cried. Same here bud. I keep looking to therapy but somehow I’ve never pulled the trigger… I’ve tried it in the past, got on some meds, only ended up with a case of ED and just feeling numb. Meds have sucked a lot.
Hopefully someone in the replies has some ideas. I like reading comments on HN. Always seems like people have insightful things to say even though I don’t understand half the things being said.
Anyway, I hope you find your solution. Sending you loving vibes as best I can.
They are not, to my knowledge, being sought for arrest at this time, I don't see any reason why they have to make their physical locations known. Their lawyers are clearly available to be served documents.
Sleep performance anxiety is a real thing. I’ve had to deal with similar issues. I try not to put too much weight when reading these studies (because they are anxiety inducing) and stick to a healthy bedtime wind-down routine as best as I can.
How about Pets.com, eToys, Webvan, Kozmo, and hundreds of others from the dot com days? It's easy to look backwards and cherry pick success or failure. Timing is also very important. Many stocks go no where for years (like MSFT for most of the 2000's)
The difference being that while everyday plebs like you and me without a quarter million to sling around couldn't have touched those at IPO, there would have been nothing at all stopping me from plowing my entire net worth into their stocks once the IPO period was over.
Or companies like Enron. Pick a random crypto from coinmarketcap and their creators likely had better financials...
One key point in approaching an IPO is the company becoming significantly more transparent. For those companies and likely every single one there would have been a pre IPO point in time where only hindsight can say it was wise to invest then.
A lot of investment is about minimizing risk. If you want examples of hyped-up tech companies that failed after IPO, just look at the dotcom bubble, it wasn't that long ago.
Well if you want minimal risk don't invest. But it's not just about minimal risk but rather risk adjusted returns. Most people (outside of WSB) do not dump their entire portfolios in a single IPO.
Most people also don't have the capital or time to diversify, to make a significant number of investments into individual stocks. They are better off with an index fund.
You can put the majority of your money in an index fund and dabble in a few riskier investments with a few percentage points of your portfolio. With fractional shares even those with the smallest of portfolios can do this.
I think it was addressed in the article, partially with:
"[...] Private companies are not just where a lot of the fraud is, they’re also where a lot of the growth is. "
I believe his point was that money/wealth is not a good differentiator of sophistication, AND it puts an unnecessary bar to anybody investing in today's opportunities (to your point).
Instead, open up the investment but ensure people are aware and reminded of the risks. Hence the tongue-and-cheek "Dumb Investment Certificate" :)
> I believe his point was that money/wealth is not a good differentiator of sophistication, AND it puts an unnecessary bar to anybody investing in today's opportunities (to your point).
that doesn't mean it's an unreasonable bar. it's sort of like the opposite of "if you owe the bank a million dollars, it's your problem; if you owe the bank a billion dollars, it's their problem". if someone with a million dollars loses a large chunk of it to a bad investment, it's mostly just their problem. if someone with $10k loses a large chunk of it, it may become the (welfare) state's problem. if the state is going to guarantee that basic needs are met at some level, it's not unreasonable to prohibit people from doing risky things that are likely to lead to them drawing on the system. this is the essential tradeoff between freedom and security.
It's not only this. An environment where the only investment policy is caveat emptor is also an environment that will encourage more scammy investment opportunities. It is also in the state/community interest to make sure investments represent real growth opportunities and not just lining some huckster's pockets. You don't want the entire market itself to end up a market for lemons.
Probably a bit dumb to invest in any single stock if you aren't already pretty wealthy, but being public has a lot of reporting requirements that make it pretty hard for it to be an outright fraud.
With a public company, your investment might lose value, but you are probably not going to get completely ripped off. That's not the case if you invest in a private company without doing due diligence.
Do you mean buying the stock before the s-1? Only place would be secondary markets and you would not have access financial reports to make an informed decision. It would be a dumb investment.
