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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by theGnuMe »

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.

Living in poverty and Being broke is stressful too. Living in a shit family as well.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by throwaway2037 »

akira2501 wrote: post #79
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…

If you live long enough you will most likely die from either heart disease, #2 killer, or cancer, the #1 killer. Accidental self inflicted injury is #3. We're not doing anything wrong. Quite the opposite. Since not even having a billion will allow you to cheat death, perhaps we shouldn't allow billionaires to cheat everyone else in life.

    > Accidental self inflicted injury
What does that mean?

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by throwaway2037 »

viraptor wrote: post #67
mieses wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the pharmocracy will allow a cure for cancer?

We've got a number of working cures and preventions for cancers, just not most types and many are not 100% reliable. I'm happy to complain about pharma and we've still got a long way to go, but this is a bad take. Yes, they've "allowed" it for years. (Did you get your HPV vaccine already?)

As I understand about the HPV vaccine: It only prevents new infections. It does not cure existing infections. And you need to get it very young to reduce chances of infection before vaccine.

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Post by HPsquared »

polotics wrote: post #180
sytelus wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Length is shown in the thumbnail. Too long, no click, less views. I also wouldn't be surprised if the recommendation algo uses premium status as an input

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Post by smcin »

jart wrote: post #191
pavlov wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube’s algorithm feeds increasingly radicalizing content to young people. It makes celebrities of people like Andrew Tate and is a primary enabler of fringe belief bubbles. Any time someone posts a YouTube link to a political discussion, it’s guaranteed to be the worst nonsense that pries on people who “do their own research.” (No matter if they’re left or right on the political spectrum, there’s endless junk on Y…

> It makes celebrities of people like Andrew Tate By banning Indian school children and sucking the oxygen out of competing influences like Pewdiepie.

Who's banning Indian school children?

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Post by yzydserd »

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…

> I've probably watched tens of thousands of hours of YouTube at this point.

More than 20,000 hours over at most 18 years is at least 3 hours per day on average. That’s a lot of watching.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by yyyfb »

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.

It's not about them opposing each other, it's about priorities.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by quonn »

surgical_fire wrote: post #186
meiraleal wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't kill Chomsky, he is still alive

Oh lol. I thought he was dead. The point still stands

The point doesn‘t stand, because you made a claim about what people supposedly said or didn’t say after Chomsky passed away. And he didn‘t even pass.
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