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OldfieldFund commented on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)   bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2... · Posted by u/renameme
jay_kyburz · 7 months ago
Hold on.. did you just say there is a drug I can take that will making talking to people less boring and doing housework fun?
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
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.

OldfieldFund commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs   cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever
t-writescode · 7 months ago
> Every business owner, regardless of the size of the business, wants free labor.

Yeah, no.

I’m no longer an entrepreneur - ran out of runway - but it was always my goal to have aggressive profit sharing as part of my company. Acceptable salaries - years of those salaries saved “in the bank” and profit-share the rest.

I never wanted free labor. In fact, the reason I didn’t have employees is because I couldn’t afford them at the rate they deserved. People deserve to be treated as people. People deserve to be treated well.

OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
If you want these things, you're playing the wrong game
OldfieldFund commented on Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition   academic.oup.com/humrep/a... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
privacyking · 7 months ago
True but one of the proposed mechanisms of action is on the same pathway as NSAIDs
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
You are right COX-1/2 difference
OldfieldFund commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
dkiebd · 7 months ago
Most people in websites like HN have absolutely no idea what 4chan is, how it works, and what kind of things people post in there. It shows because every time you read a comment here about 4chan you are confused as to what website they may be talking about.
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
Twitter is really not far from 4chan in 2025.
OldfieldFund commented on Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP   browser-use.com/posts/pla... · Posted by u/gregpr07
nikisweeting · 7 months ago
That's not really true, https://github.com/daijro/camoufox is at parity with patchright on stealth, it's just that Firefox has way less market share so it's not worth the >2x maintanance effort for us to support multiple browsers.
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
oh yeah I love your project. I just mentioned patchright cause it's more universal - a drop-in for playwright and also used by browser-use

pydoll is also a fantastic project, but, again, chromium: https://github.com/autoscrape-labs/pydoll

OldfieldFund commented on Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP   browser-use.com/posts/pla... · Posted by u/gregpr07
pjmlp · 7 months ago
Then people complain that Google is taking over the Web, well don't help them in the process.

Guess how IE became what it was before the lawsuit, it was the cool browser when all nice developer features came first.

Dynamic HTML, HTML Applications, CSS shaders (backed by DirectX), VS debugging integration (via Frontpage)...

Apparently a lesson gone after one generation.

OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
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.

OldfieldFund commented on Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP   browser-use.com/posts/pla... · Posted by u/gregpr07
pjmlp · 7 months ago
Note how "browsers" is all about Chrome.
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
Chromium is the only browser that has extensive undetectable/automation support. Look at patchright: https://github.com/Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright?tab=readm...
OldfieldFund commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
laweijfmvo · 7 months ago
wouldn’t be the first time a massive investment from someone like sequoia sparks the death of a previously great tool/service
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
That's true. Sequoia is often a death sentence for power users. And a huge gamble for the founders
OldfieldFund commented on It’s OK to block ads (2015)   blog.practicalethics.ox.a... · Posted by u/hvenev
npc_anon · 7 months ago
When I say "all" and "zero" it's obviously tongue-in-cheek, not a scientific assessment that is to be taken literally. Of course there's exceptions.
OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
These are not exceptions, but a whole industry built around the notion that digital content is worth "something"
OldfieldFund commented on It’s OK to block ads (2015)   blog.practicalethics.ox.a... · Posted by u/hvenev
npc_anon · 7 months ago
People block ads and/or not pay for content because they can. Simply because it's possible. People have been conditioned to consider any and all digital content to be worth zero. Yet continue to consume it for hours on end every day.

When not paying at all is an option people will reliably pick that option. They'll even go into extremes to avoid paying. I know somebody that plays a particular mobile game about an hour each day. Every round (taking 90s or so) it's interrupted by 1-3 mins of ads. It's maddening. She suffers through this instead of paying a one-time $4.99. We're talking about somebody firmly upper middle class.

OldfieldFund · 7 months ago
"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.

u/OldfieldFund

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