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A different reading of the question: your service seems specific to YC. Any plans to broaden the offering for other accelerators?

Funding sadly is probably better handled as a tax on the people rather than the industry simply because ATCs protect more than just commercial crew and passengers, and more than just their home country.

My hunch has always been: brain cleans itself. So long as brain cleans itself, infections like herpes and some of the bacteria involved in gingivitis can't trigger the amyloid domino effect that could cause Alzheimer's. But once that cleaning mechanism fails (head trauma), the body can't clean the detritus from the brain fighting the infection anymore. Apoe4's association with boosted hsv outbreaks factored in as well.

I'm oversimplifying it and am probably taking wild stabs in the dark, but I'm hoping the avoidance of high risk behaviors ends up paying off.

But the next question is whether this is all for nothing — if VZV (chickenpox/shingles) ends up having a similar effect... we're already giving our kids weakened VZV vaccines anyway. Seems like the longer term solutions will be:

1) vaccines to prevent hsv/vzv/hhv etc, but they'd end up being love and thus pose a similar but lessened risk

2) ensuring a way to excise the viral DNA from any of these

3) finding a means to rebuild the glymphatic membrane after trauma.

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My comment is a lot of wild pontification. Any MDs wanna provide a sanity check on anything I said?

Given the uptick in near miss incidents across the US the last few years, this is the kind of incident that should've been entirely avoidable through changes in policy from these past events but is also apparently the only kind that can spur along policy changes. I can see a world where the fault is on the VH-60, but absent more information, it would surprise me less to hear that it's the fault of the tower.

Knowing where AA5342 was in its approach, I see no possibility of the jet being at fault.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL5342

I'm drawing a lot of early conclusions but it's mostly because I'm just not surprised. Angry as someone who flies a bunch, but not surprised.

"It's easy to 'hold'" is literally true for precious metals, without quotes. And unless someone taints your stash with radioactive fallout or atomizes it, it's also relatively difficult to lose via Act of God.

Crypto?

It might just be the hardest asset class to "hold."

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Also, all it takes for Bitcoin to lose literally all value is for miners to stop. While you might think the risk of this is zero, the risk is most assuredly higher than the risk of gold going to zero, which would only happen if all utility for gold disappears even outside its use as a store of value.

* Many tech pioneers and leaders deep down felt an animosity towards supporting people who didn't fit the mold and finally feel free to express it (the worst-case outcome), and/or

* Many tech pioneers and leaders wish to continue supporting those who don't fit the mold but feel their own status threatened by figures with nearly infinite power[0] who disagree.

The former are simply the intolerant coming up for air. The latter exhibit a cowardice, though there's a subpoint to that second bullet: there could be some in this crowd who prefer to conform to but then dismantle the power structures enabling hatred from within, but these people likely won't be known for a while, and it'll be difficult to predict who's acting subversively in this way. Though given PG's narrowly scoped essay, there's a reasonable chance that this is his footing.

The best people can do is assume the least-worst case - the cowardice - and instead seek to either craft themselves as the people they wish to see... and/or protect oneself from the rising tides of hatred.

[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

Tiktok themselves are saying they're going to "go dark."

Except:

• the US performs these activities (data collection, algorithm manipulation allegedly, etc) for US interests, which may not always align with the interests of individuals in the US, whereas

• adversarial foreign governments perform these activities for their own interests, which a US person would be wise to assume does not align with US interests and thus very likely doesn't align with the interests of US persons.

If a person's main concern is living in a better United States, start with ensuring that the United States is sticking around for the long run first. Then we can work on improving it.

Except I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it in the US because of first amendment rights.

Probably, yes. People have a better appreciation for what they build[0] and seem to also be more mindful about the usage of what they build[1].

Wouldn't surprise me if this extends to tech, too, but I couldn't find anything that explored this.

[0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/11-091.pdf

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-018-9465-6

Related:

* MegaLag breaking the story of Honey swapping affiliate attribution as well as withholding functional coupon codes from customers. This video goes into technical depth, showing the actual process via browser dev tools where attribution is swapped - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

* MKBHD commenting on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAx_RtMKPm8

* Linus commenting on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16gHC1AQNJY

* Past discussion on HN that was cited by MegaLag - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589352

Recent updates, for context:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2024/12/17/dhs-strengthens-h-1b-pro...

Happy new year :)

Granted I'm not sure there's much of anything to substantiate this, but I imagine Apple would know better from competitive intel.

(I feel a bit bad that my mind also immediately connects "Gruber" to "Apple" in less-than-savory ways, but alas, that's the reputation he built for himself.)

All of my friends in brazil, for instance, are entirely attached to whatsapp.

I agree with the other reply. Where do you live? I'm surprised that you haven't encountered any. Every city in the US that I visited and every city that I visited internationally has people that attach themselves to one of either whatsapp, telegram, imessage, etc.

(I'm kind of excluding wechat here because wechat seems to be forced, but there are plenty of people who have this attachment to wechat as well because of its status as an omni app)

[1] https://gitingest.com/cyclotruc/gitingest

Breaking contracts seems tame by comparison.

Corporations generally don't need to worry about this.

From the link:

> To help developers start exploring, we’re sharing pre-built MCP servers for popular enterprise systems like Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Git, Postgres, and Puppeteer.

I say that because there's an idea to play with for a v1.1 that would give it staying power for me:

Do you have enough processing power on an iPhone to combine this with Augmented Reality? That is to say: can you explore "pinning" a singularity in a fixed region of space so I can essentially walk around it using the phone?

Assuming that's possible, you could continue evolving this into a very modest revenue generating app (like 2 bucks per year, see where it goes?) by allowing for people to pin singularities, neutron stars, etc. around their world and selectively sharing those with others who pass by. I'd have fun seeing someone else's pinned singularity next to the Washington monument, for instance. Or generally being able to play with gravity effects on light via AR.

We're not planting more than we're destroying. If we were, this would be great news. But since we're not, this is terrible news.

I'm a fan.