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Vanguard does get some support right as they tier their support based on how much you're worth. Businesses need to focus on Lifetime Value of their customers and realize that some of their marketing budget would be better spent in support.

Buy a copy of Careless People to read between the tears.

This is why it's important for us to show up and do jury duty even if it's not sexy. You can make a difference.

DuckDB out of the box may not be great. But you have DuckLake, Quack, and even DeepSeek made their own distributed DB based on DuckDB: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond

It's not in the current providers' interest to help people avoid the current providers' advertisement or avoid paying the providers to host the customers' email.

I completely agree with you. Data quality is the most important. One thing that's sad is how much academic data that's not reproducible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Thank you so much. I love DuckDB!

Jason Fung has preached against modern processed foods that destroy insulin sensitivity. Even artificial sweeteners can raise Insulin levels. His book "The Obesity Code" is a must read and discusses some of the pathways that link insulin and leptin (a hormone associated with eating)

TLDR; I'm a Fungster: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoyL4iGArWn5Hu0V_sAhK2w

A pet peeve of mine is that Google doesn't let you search all the options like Apple or Microsoft E.g., I have flashbacks to trying to turn off or on bells in Google Home. A simple search bar would help people trying find API keys, etc.

I see it as analogous to people are frequently rewarded for putting out the fire instead of preventing the fire.

I meant practically the right to privacy is wrong: I should have the right but I don't expect it. Similar to not being robbed is a right, but I don't expect it at times and in all locations.

I would say that the right to privacy is wrong but it's not bad. Mass surveillance is dangerous. It back fired spectacularly in like what happened in Iran: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/middleeast/us-israel-plot-kil...

please remember to start locally. If your city/town is using it, please build a coalition and show up to meetings.

Unfortunately we've experienced the basic economics of spam. It costs virtually nothing to spam emails and so the spammers exploited that. Now it costs virtually nothing to spam markets with AI slop. Platforms need anti-slop filters and the easiest one is to charge x dollars per model to publish there.

The difficult thing is people don't want to pay for things. Ads are a way to mitigate that so that people/companies can capture some value that they create.

If we simply mandated that everyone install an app on their phone so that the government can track them scales very well. The people without the app would probably be criminals,

When I heard that story, I couldn't help but thing of Steve Jobs "Real Artists Ship." The device was good but the inventor was a perfectionist instead of an entrepreneur.

The difference is the quantity. Meta has already had a face logging feature in its glasses https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognit...

So it'd be less likely that someone would film me and upload it to instagram or facebook.

If someone signs in and gives up their privacy, I don't care. Where I do care is when someone with their pervert glasses captures an image of me at my kid's little league game and now I'm getting ads based on that.

Probably different concerns. If you had a home video and I was in the background I wouldn't care. The odds of anyone recognizing me would be low. If you upload it to anyone using mass AI (YouTube, Meta, etc.) then I care a lot.

I spun up an extension to open links in incognito, something that wasn't possible with the native desktop webpage that would always refer you back to a linkedin link to redirect.

My biggest question is why isn't there something better than Linked In? I get the network effect but Linked in is crap.

Yes there are companies such as Streak. It's possible to pay back early funders so it's a win-win.

Are there any other incredibily generous offerings out there for computer resources? What are the best things that I'm not using?

I give it a 51% chance of Discovery Loop being acquired by Google

Maybe we can get the USA to get the metric system for all those men who are 1.83 meters and below. Or do people internationally say that you need to be 1,8 meters to be dateable?

Regarding Iraq, please Google “Dick Cheney 1994” he predicted exactly what happened in 2003.

If you don’t have an objective, no amount of military might is going to get you there. This was the USA’s biggest mistake in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran.

In order to be invited on TV you must be entertaining first. You don't have to be correct in order to appear more times.

Personally I'm of the mindset that the current AI prices are too rich and that AI is very useful. Much like high speed internet in 2000. The prices were too high but the services themselves are great.

If people misuse or don't understand a tool, that doesn't invalidate the usefulness of the tool.