why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Supported
Kevin Rose: Gemini Search Grounding Bypasses Scraper Blocks on Sites Like Reddit
“Oftentimes they won't come out and say this, but they kind of crawl the article and give you back what the article actually says. And they might reword it a little bit, but it's largely what the article says. And I can prove that because they can, you can do t…”
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Reddit grew yearly for five years despite zero product investment
“Like, Reddit for five years between, I left in 2010, I came back in early, you know, late 14 as exec chair, had Almost no investment by con and asked in the product. The product didn't improve for half a decade, barely stayed online. Okay. There's no business …”
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Van Horn's 'Last 30 Days' Claude skill searches recent social data
“It's called slash last 30 days. And it's gonna, for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use Claude bot to what are the greatest rap songs right now? It's gonna search X Twitter and the web f…”
Assertion Supported
Chou: Top Reddit comments for VPN searches are dominated by NordVPN
“Why you know this works is if you search for any VPN keyword, you'll notice the top comments are always NordVPN. These guys are already dominated.”
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Isenberg: StumbleUpon was once larger than both Reddit and Twitter
“I was at StumbleUpon and StumbleUpon was bigger than Reddit. And that's crazy. It's crazy to think it was bigger than Reddit and at one point bigger than Twitter.”
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Ohanian: Reddit's first revenue came from merchandise sales
“The first revenue Reddit made was merch.”
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Isenberg says the ComfyUI subreddit ranks in Reddit's top four percent
“Their subreddit has skyrocketed in terms of membership. So it's now a top, you know, three or four percent subreddit”
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Isenberg: r/TeachersInTransition has 34,000 members, ranking top 3% by size
“Teachers in transition. Okay, so it's pretty massive. It's 34,000 members. It's actually a perfect size. Top three percent rank by size.”