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Post by s1artibartfast »

AbstractH24 wrote: post #222
shortrounddev2 wrote: post #190

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They weren't being funny, that is a strange mix to OD on

By and large overdose is a result of irrational thinking, or misguided attempts to apply logic. So it doesn’t make sense to make judgements about or apply ration to the drugs someone ODs on. Also, it doesn’t seem so weird for someone to try and mix uppers and downers. And those are all commonly abused drugs. For those reasons, I can only assume this comment was a poor attempt at sarcasm and/or humor.

Cocaine and Xanax is a strange combination. I have never heard of their mixing before.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by meiraleal »

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

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Don't kill Chomsky, he is still alive

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

He is living in Brazil, but unfortunately it seems to be his ending days too. Every other week there is a fake news about his death.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by rajup »

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

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> 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?

Why on earth would you watch a 1.5 hour movie when you can watch a 2 min TikTok that explains the entire story?

In a world full of distractions I for one love the more slow-paced videos than “shorts” churned out by content mills designed to feed the modern day digital ADHD…

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by magic_man »

santiagobasulto wrote: post #78
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…

This has nothing to do with business or entrepreneurship. It's cancer, it's a bitch. It can take a 10 year old boy, or an elite athlete.

But it is more likely when you are old. It is you your immune system unable to kill mutations.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by ethbr1 »

ghaff wrote: post #207
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…

To a fairly casual observer like myself, YouTube early on looked like mostly a platform for massive video copyright infringement--especially before home video became so relatively cheap and easy. I don't use it nearly as much as some here but it definitely transformed into something much different for the most part and managed to make it work as a business (at least as part of Google).

Younger folks forget that YouTube launched (2005) a few years before both the iPhone launched and Netflix pivoted to streaming (2007).

In that weird era, (a) average home Internet connections became fast enough to support streaming video (with a healthy adoption growth rate), (b) the most widely deployed home recording device was likely still the VCR (digitizing analog video from cable to burn to DVD was a pain), (c) there was no "on demand" anything, as most media flowed over centrally-programmed cable or broadcast subscriptions, and (d) people capturing video on mobile devices was rare (first gen iPhone couldn't) but obviously a future growth area.

So early YouTube was literally unlike anything that came before -- watch a thing you want, whenever you want.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by ethbr1 »

pavlov wrote: post #162
lotsofpulp wrote: post #152

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That is not an “algorithm” unique to YouTube. See 24/7 news channels for a much earlier example. It is simply the nature of loosening standards on broadly available media, and throughout history, even strict standards have not always prevented the “bad” stuff from getting through.

News channels don’t show random 30-minute programs created by viewers themselves. YouTube does. Fox News and CNN may have low journalistic standards, but at least they have some. They also have liability. (Fox paid $787 million to a voting equipment manufacturer as settlement for lies they published in relation to the 2020 election.) YouTube has neither. Their algorithm will happily promote any nonsense that has trac…

The greatest sin of YouTube's current recommendation algorithm is its optimization for eyeball time (aka more ad capacity).

Any tweaks around the edges will never be able to compete with that.

And unfortunately that central tenet incentivizes creators to make clickbait content that plays on emotions, because that's the most reliable way to deliver what YouTube wants.

(YouTube could decide it was optimizing for something else, but that would put a big dent in ad revenue)

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by jszymborski »

santiagobasulto wrote: post #78
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…

This has nothing to do with business or entrepreneurship. It's cancer, it's a bitch. It can take a 10 year old boy, or an elite athlete.

I took that to be OPs point in a way. Death comes to us all, rich and poor. True wealth is your good health and the relationships it lets you foster.
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