Susan Wojcicki has died

Post by Nemrod67 » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 11:10 AM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #131

briandear wrote: post #121

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Government-coordinated censorship during Covid. That’s my negative opinion. Covid vax concerns were allowed during the last months of the Trump administration, but it suddenly became censored after Biden was elected.

The timeline of the election coincides with the development of the vaccines. Moderna reported positive phase 3 trial results in November 2020. FDA’s review was completed in December and an emergency authorization was granted. The full trial results were published in medical journals a few months later, around the same time as Biden entered office. So maybe it had nothing to do with Trump/Biden and simply was a reacti…

Post by ChrisNorstrom » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 11:11 AM UTC

TMWNN wrote: post #109

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A lot of YouTubers have been very critical of YouTube’s approach to things and treatment of creators in the past. Also, just as an example, YouTube demonetises (and therefore effectively punishes) you for using words like ‘suicide’ so now we have to say silly things like ‘unalive’ — at least until Google/the advertisers catch on. These days YouTube is more censored than traditional TV.

I think the "unalive" nonsense is idiotic too, especially when it increasingly bleeds into elsewhere online (and probably offline, too). But that's not the same thing as "mixed opinions" in general on HN. That would be more accurate of, say, Twitter (where we are nearing two years and counting of the imminent collapse of the site any day now post-Musk acquisition, as opposed to seemingly every news event proving that…

Post by mrkramer » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 11:17 AM UTC

lchengify wrote: post #73

Was shocked to hear this news. I worked for Google years ago but I was in the NYC office, so we didn't run into the YouTube folks much. Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN, but it is objectively one of the most successful businesses in tech or media to emerge in the past 15 years. If it weren't buried inside Alphabet, Youtube would be worth on the order of $400 billion, more than Disney and Comcast combine…

Post by sebzim4500 » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 11:30 AM UTC

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Two things can be true. Money does buy comfort and care. Also, it does not make one immortal. We can choose what we take away from events. I could choose to feel unlucky that I haven't made as much money as someone else, and I would be justified in it, because being rich absolutely makes a difference. I just choose to feel lucky to be alive instead, and I'm just as justified. You are free to choose your own perspecti…

In general if you want people to take you seriously, don't make statements like "Two things can be true." It reeks of reddit condescension where they can't make a simple statement without implying the other party is stupid enough to think that only one thing can ever be true at once.

Post by RobertDeNiro » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 11:33 AM UTC

chr1 wrote: post #126

yyyfb wrote: post #45

Next time you're thinking "I wish I was the one who had made a billion dollars with my startup idea", remember that only health and family matter, and to have fun while you're alive. RIP. Edit: some people misinterpreted my comment. I'm just one anonymous voice on the Internet, but am deeply saddened by the passing of Susan Wojcicki, who meant a lot to me as one of the many people who crossed paths with her professio…

Health is only temporary, and everyone in your family is going to die, until someone makes a trillion dollar startup to cure aging. So it is fundamentally wrong to put health, family, and work as things opposing each other, ultimately they are all needed on a way to get all of the galaxy filled with life. And as Susan have shown one can both do great work, and have a big family with 5 children.