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hungryhobbittoday at 12:52 AM4 repliesview on HN

Read history: people always think everything is fine ... until it isn't.


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Karrot_Kreamtoday at 1:02 AM

This is one of those arguments that is so vacuous you can apply it to anything and always be right.

> "There's no way you'll hurt yourself walking to the living room"

> "Read history: people always think everything is fine ... until it isn't."

olalondetoday at 2:08 AM

And people are right most of the time. For every actual bubble, there are easily a dozen "bubbles" that aren't in fact bubbles.

aurareturntoday at 12:59 AM

Nasdaq is 5.4x higher now than peak dotcom.

So just buy the dip if it actually crashes.

JumpCrisscrosstoday at 12:55 AM

> people always think everything is fine ... until it isn't

History is also replete with people constantly predicting collapses that don't come. Timing the market is very hard with numbers, it's total nonsense if one is just going off vibes.

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