peter422

I used to yield at stop signs early on while cycling, but after I was hit by a car who ran a stop sign, I switched to coming to a complete stop at every stop sign, ensuring no cars were about to run their stop signs, then going. Self preservation is more important than maintaining a little bit of momentum.

A fun bonus for this method is it seems to annoy the cars behind you even more when you actually come to complete stops, even though all drivers complain that cyclists don’t stop at stop signs.

If they start showing ads to YouTube premium then I’ll cancel my subscription and watch a lot less content on the platform.

But I’m not going to complain about something they haven’t done yet.

There is some price I wouldn’t pay but I probably watch 10-20 hours of great content a month on YouTube and that is worth $15 to me.

I find it very funny that everybody bemoans the ad supported ecosystem of the internet, then Google gives an ad free alternative with a monthly cost, and everybody complains that the cost is too high.

I pay for YouTube premium, I see no ads and the content creators are supported. I’m glad Google is going to war with ad blockers in this context where there is a paid alternative.

There is no amount of defensive driving you can do that would make driving safer than flying commercial.

This is generally the case for common stock but not preferred shares (such as you'd get from being an angel), though it obviously depends company to company.

The U.S. is a very punitive society and I think if you were to find yourself in the tarmac after an evacuation holding onto your carry on, you’d at minimum be getting a large fine for disobeying a flight attendant and possibly more. Not being in the Hudson isn’t going to change the fact that you are ending up in the middle of nowhere once you are off the plane.

“Ownership” is a spectrum obviously but owning a home still gives you a hell of a lot more control than renting.

Source: used to rent, now own

Many in the US government have been critical of Israel’s strategy in the last week or so (Lloyd Austin, etc).

I know everybody is going nuts about this, but just from my personal perspective I’ve worked at a variety of companies with “important” CEOs, and in every single one of those cases had the CEO left I would not have cared at all.

The CEO always gets way too much credit externally for what the company is doing, it does not mean the CEO is that important.

OpenAI might be different, I don’t have any personal experience, but I also am not going to assume that this is a complete outlier.

I’ve given up most of my Twitter usage but every time I go there to view a tweet the ads are always some kind of knife self defense class or bizarre right wing causes.

I’d imagine that even when IBM and Apple were still advertising, it was much less than before.

Substack’s TOS clearly states that the writer owns their list, so I don’t think Substack could even legally axe the ability to export the list.

Even if they did change the terms it couldn’t apply retroactively, and as you say, it would upset everybody. So while I can think of reasons to not use Substack, list ownership is not a particularly good one.

Source: I have a small Substack

I recently installed Windows on my machine and in attempting to download chrome and make Google the default search engine, the OS tried to persuade me not to do it at least 2-3 different ways.

I think we can and should be upset at these deals but Google is not the only person pushing their own stuff.

The CO2 released by fossil fuels also can have century spanning impacts.

Dry ice sublimates into CO2 which also suffocates the rats as CO2 is heavier than air and will fill up a burrow, taking away all the oxygen.

It is only fraud if a jury of your peers would think it is fraud, which is probably a higher bar than you think.

Most of the fraud you are talking about also wouldn’t have the explicit benefit directly to the founders the way it did with FTX. SBF took money that wasn’t his and spent it on private planes and luxury apartments and hundred million dollar investments _in his name_.

The average startup founder who is trying to close a sale by exaggerating their business a little bit is not going to have that kind of clear gain, because most founders do not use their companies as piggy banks.

Much like the infamous FTT token, just because it’s worth that much on paper doesn’t mean that is what you could sell it for today. I say this as a person with chunks of stock in a few private companies.

And obviously for the people impacted, it’s quite a loss to get all your money over a year after you tried to withdraw it, even if you do get it all.

FYI if your creditors are demanding their money back and you don’t have it… you really don’t have many other options.

The fact that 1 or 2 years later the people will get their money back doesn’t mean there was any hope of surviving this a year ago.

If that is the standard then I’d say it’s probably impossible to prove anything.

I think it’s extremely easy to prove that a covid infection is more harmful than the vaccine in aggregate in every demagogic.

Honestly that is probably the case even if you are only counting post-covid symptoms [1].

1: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewar...

But in that example a person is selling one house to buy another (presumably a cheaper/smaller one). Market conditions will even out.

Serious question: why would any employee want to work at this company? If the founder has already taken money off the table at $100M valuation, they must have an overwhelming equity stake. If they aren’t trying to reach any type huge growth exit then it seems there isn’t much upside for employees.

Chrome is not the default on stock iPhone, Mac, Windows or Linux.

It’s only the default on Android.

Search engine is a different story but people like Google enough they’ll change to Google anyways no matter what the default is.

If this is the most embarrassing document as part of this case then I don’t think anything is happening to Google.

You can increase monthly active numbers by making unsubscribing harder.

You can increase average time on site by just funneling people lowest common denominator garbage all day.

Pretending there is some magic metric here and Google isn’t meeting it is ridiculous. Google is very well liked by the average person!

It seems to me that it is irrelevant how many spike proteins the vaccines causes your body to make considering that most of humanity has had a real covid infection by this point.

The question would be if vaccine followed by covid infection produced more or less spike proteins (and overall health impact) than no vaccine followed by covid infection.

If you assume that hospitalization and death is correlated to overall quantity of damaging spike proteins then the default assumption would have to be that vaccines are highly beneficial.

As somebody that has been using lastpass for many years and continues to do so… I just do not understand how people who pick weak master passwords complain about this.

The lastpass documentation makes clear over and over that your entire DB can be compromised but as long as they don’t have the master password, you are safe. How people do not think one step past this and realize they need a very secure master password is beyond me.

And yes I know there will be a host of comments telling me they are in the password business so they need better something and guides and whatever, fine. But for anybody with the slightest bit of common sense, lastpass was and still is secure and lived up to their promise.

Just take an aggregate of every news article written in the top 100 newspapers.

That's high quality content, timestamped and about current events.

There is very little content on Twitter that compared in quality to one will written news article.

So your belief is that being infected with COVID is entirely uncorrelated with having COVID symptoms?

Even if there were a minor correlation, then you can infer some information from the trials.

I'm not also suggesting that what you describe isn't part of the story, but there is no reason to believe it's a major part of the story. Viral infections lead to symptoms (most of the time). The vaccine is not a magic totem that allows for massive amounts of viral replication while just taking away the symptoms. That isn't how the immune system works.

Many very smart virologists at the time noted that other coronaviruses in circulation didn't mutate that much (as compared to something like influenza), so it really was not known to what expect and at what speed the virus would or could mutate.

They did provide protection against infection initially, and did so very effectively.

It was not known at the time whether that protection would maintain or not, nobody knew how the virus would mutate.

The content creators could post anywhere, there is no reason they can't cross-post their videos to other platforms. Most publishers who are on Patreon post all their videos ad-free on there so you don't even need to go to YouTube.

The reason most publishers post on YouTube is because they depend on the revenue from the YouTube network.

If you don't want to watch ads, fine, but you are expressly violating the wishes of the people who are creating the content and then rationalizing it to yourself. The fact that you still rationalize not buying the ad-free premium offering is the kicker.