Selected Micro-Quotes 0508: Being Too Eager to Progress Isn't Necessarily a Good Thing

@阑夕：My three favorite things to be scolded for:
1. You're so pretty, but it must be plastic surgery
2. You have so much money, but it must come from a man
3. If you're so capable, stay abroad and never come back ​​​

@九边Pro：People will gradually realize that the mobile internet era might have been the best era for small-town test-takers. In all industrial revolutions in human history, the largest expense has been the massive deployment of equipment, including this AI revolution, which is also crazily stacking GPUs, optical modules, and memory, with hardware expenditures far exceeding labor costs.
Only in the mobile internet era was almost all the money spent on programmers, which also shaped a generation of urban middle class. Now, this state is becoming weaker and weaker. Many computer science students graduating today can no longer catch up with the equivalent level of those from a decade ago. But there's nothing that can be done about it; the times roll forward, and no one can control that.

@陈妙歌:This is obviously my feeling this year. This year, I have used AI extensively in my work. For the parts delivered by humans, I repeatedly marvel at how they can do it so well; for the content handed over to AI, I continue to marvel at how it can do it so well. As an individual like me, I still have to keep working hard to do the "human" part well; and also make good use of AI — one of the most powerful productivity tools mankind has ever created.

@奥特快啊：I think there are only two best ways for ordinary people (no factory, not much money, never started a business) to participate in going overseas:
1. Expatriate assignments (especially suitable for those in their 20s and 40s);
2. Buying stocks of publicly listed companies that excel at going overseas.
Anything else is roughly equivalent to storybooks.

@信号与噪声：Many people look down on commercial apartments, thinking they are too far behind ordinary residential ones
Actually, if you look solely at the residential function, there's basically not much difference
The main difference is "school districts", but how many people will need school districts in the future?
Currently, the top 40% of school districts can already accommodate 100% of future students
The ordinary residential housing in the bottom 60% of school districts has basically lost its function for schooling; 30 to 60-story high-rise apartments, how much difference is there from commercial apartments?

@天宝十节度：If you rent everywhere for your whole life, living a bit better each time, calculating rent at 5k per month, that's 60k a year, and renting for 70 years is 4.2 million ​​​

@读史学文:People really need to let go of things like face and desires; once you put them down, it's actually no big deal, you can even pick up waste paper and still get enough to eat. Nothing else matters. Only by returning to the simplest life can you feel happiness; the more you want, the greater the pressure

@北漂民工的日常：Put up my old, small apartment for sale at 3.2 million, which I bought for 3.75 million (online contract price was 3.65 million). I checked the latest transaction price for the same layout and floor is 2.85 million.
Not counting the 100k agency fee + 200k renovation, I estimate I'll only lose about 900k.
I told the agent guy that those who bought in our complex a few years ago probably suffered terrible losses.
He said, Bro, you're wrong, it's your entire generation that got screwed.
He pointed at another agent squatting on the ground making a phone call in the distance: See that? That's our manager, he bought in the complex right across the street from you a few years ago, and also lost over a million.

@命若苦弦:Sometimes trying too hard and being too eager to progress isn't necessarily a good thing; for most ordinary people, this 1 million plus must be 10 years' worth of cash flow; besides, the timing of your birth is also very important, those who bought early enjoyed the dividends of the era, those who bought late, you are the price of someone else's dividend