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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by edanm »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #161
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…

> It's also not a business that rested on it's laurels. I would say it’s more a business that rests on its monopolization of the market. As a product there’s plenty I like about YouTube, but it dominated the market through the use of many highly anti-competitive strategies, and has what many would consider (and what may well be proven to be) an illegal monopoly. You can’t deny its impact, but to give such high praise…

In what way is YouTube an illegal monopoly?

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by sytelus »

tsimionescu wrote: post #170
sytelus wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube is absolutely the business that is resting on laurels, just like Google Maps and Gmail. Sometime I wonder if these products have any real active development teams at all besides ads. YouTube massively screwed with users by forcing poorly executed botched migration to YouTube Music. Even outsiders can see that this was entirely internal Google politics which powerful people like Wojcicki should have been able…

> It never got around to incentivize creators to produce concise content and to this day creators keep producing massive 30 min diatribe that could have been done in 3 mins. Why on Earth would you want shorter videos? The best thing about YouTube is that it's one of the only places you can find quality medium-to-long-form content.

Why on earth you want 10X longer video with same information content as the shorter video?

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by yabatopia »

trhway wrote: post #100
reducesuffering wrote: post #57

Her son just died of a fentanyl overdose just a few months ago too? Not even a billion $ will protect you from America's problems with cancer and fentanyl. We need to fix this. I mean, just look at this chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-incidence?tab=char... Is it pesticides like this recent HN thread alludes to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182121 Idk. But the US is uniquely doing something…

It is a strange chart. It for example shows that Belarus has pretty much the same rate all those 30 years. Cancer takes bunch of years to develop, and Belarus has had significant cancer numbers increase starting 10-20 years after Chernobyl. You can look up the articles on doubling rate of say breast cancer there which even without Chernobyl like events presents like 20% chances - now calculate what doubling of those…

Very strange chart. The US has more relaxed regulations on food additives, pesticides, hormones used in livestock farming, and environmental pollution compared to the European Union. But that still does not explain the differences with, for example, Australia or Asia. Obesity may play a role, but obesity has also been on the rise in the EU for a few decades.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by FireBy2024 »

cpncrunch wrote: post #128
troll_v_bridge wrote: post #83

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You can’t really say it does or doesn’t. Research shows stress can be a contributor though. https://med.stanford.edu/survivingcancer/cancer-and-stress/s... .

Main factors are sleep, sunlight, diet and exercise as well as stress. You can see her schedule here: https://press.farm/susan-wojcickis-daily-routine-youtubes-ce... Sleep about 6hr, which isnt ideal. Not much chance to get sunlight which significantly reduces cancer incidence. Not much relaxing time. The question becomes, is the work worth it?

Funny that watching YouTube was not one of the things she did, whereas most people spend hours on YouTube/social media.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

mrkramer wrote: post #145
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…

>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. I was always critical of YouTube from the sort of technical perspective than just pure UX. The core product and the core UX are great and I'm even considering getting YouTube Premium because I use YouTube so much. All in all, YouTube was and still is internet ph…

YouTube has worked well.

However, I did try their YT Premium, for a while, and was incredibly disappointed in their UI.

I assume that the Premium UI was designed for people that use their free tier, but is very strange, to folks like me, who come from other paid services.

But I am likely not their target audience. I suppose that YT Premium does well.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by stufffer »

pavlov wrote: post #163
Nemrod67 wrote: post #141

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What’s your specific beef with Moderna’s three-phase clinical trials? The New England Journal of Medicine in February 2021 published Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy. Further studies confirmed it. If you know better than the reviewers at a leading medical journal, it would be interesting to know why you’re so qualified.

>Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy

Yet strangely every person I know vaccinated or not still got COVID. YouTube banned people for even simple observation like this.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by AbstractH24 »

sva_ wrote: post #140
DanielleMolloy wrote: post #95

RIP. Her son just died early this year, from a drug overdose. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/31/marco-t...

> Troper's autopsy found high concentrations of cocaine, amphetamine, alprazolam (Xanax), What a strange mix.

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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by polotics »

sytelus wrote: post #172
tsimionescu wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It never got around to incentivize creators to produce concise content and to this day creators keep producing massive 30 min diatribe that could have been done in 3 mins. Why on Earth would you want shorter videos? The best thing about YouTube is that it's one of the only places you can find quality medium-to-long-form content.

Why on earth you want 10X longer video with same information content as the shorter video?

Clearly the add-supported side, that likes to pad and pad and show more adds, is working against the premium/fee-supported side, that wants to maximise value and engagement. Premium subscribers should be able to give feedback on a video's density IMHO...
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