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		f17 on July 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Success stories are propaganda (2017) No one ever says they saw a great opportunity and passed on it I had the opportunity to buy Bitcoin in 2010 and didn't. I was simultaneously correct (about the moral value and nature of the thing) and utterly, utterly wrong (about what it would do between then and zero, and thus from a personal financial standpoint). I had too much faith in humanity to invest in Bitcoin. Whoops. Turned out degenerate nihilism was the winning bet.

wolverine876 on July 15, 2022 | [–]

IIRC Churchill said about the US, hoping for entry into WWII: 'They always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities.'

d0mine on July 16, 2022 | [–]

The famous: "markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."

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