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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by reducesuffering »

trhway wrote: post #120
reducesuffering wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with pointing obesity as the culprit is that ourworldindata has the same chart for obesity, where almost all countries are increasing at the same rate as US. But just US has this stark high cancer rate.

US is a standout in obesity - only Arab countries and Native Pacific are close to it where obesity has different character than in US. And may be the obesity and cancer has the same cause - high processed sugar diet for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.16.24302894v... "The United States (U.S.) is the leading country in ultra-proce…

It doesn't pass the smell test.

In 1990, US was 18.7% obese with a cancer incidence of 1,760, UK and Australia at 780.

Most recent is 2016 showing Australia and UK at 30% obesity, yet their cancer incidence is lower than ever at 750 and 682, respectively.

Everyone but the US (and Poland) are increasing their obesity while their cancer incidence is flat or decreasing: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-defined-a...

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by gunapologist99 »

anon7725 wrote: post #300
boringg wrote: post #196

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Isn't that person and stress source dependent. Also working until late in life actually improves mental acuity and fights off dementia. So maybe work but not in excessively high stress loads is your point? Though i think your implied underlying assumption that because she was a leader in tech and under a high workload somehow caused this is unfounded and unnecessary.

There must be a difference between the stress experienced by a financially independent CEO and a marginally-employed gig worker. One is the stress of essentially playing a game or working on a challenge and the other is existential.

This sample size of one would seem to disagree. Stress is stress, and the outcome can certainly be the same in the end. RIP

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by fsckboy »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #229
sva_ wrote: post #140

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

The amphetamine is almost assuredly from the cocaine, so that just means they were doing coke and Xanax. Xanax as a party drug is just strange in general.

perhaps he took prescription xanax on the regular, and, feeling anxiety, popped some

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

lokar wrote: post #268
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #226

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No, it was the movie channel. I tried it out, because YT Premium had a particular show I wanted to see. The biggest issue that I had, was that I couldn't find shows that I wanted to see. YT kept shoving a bunch of stuff into the UI that I wasn't interested in. All my searches were littered with results that were not relevant to me. I suspect they were paid. The Apple App Store has the same problem. It's infuriating.…

Do you mean YouTube tv?

Sorry. I thought they were the same.

Anyway, yes. YouTube TV.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by kubectl_h »

talldayo wrote: post #334
mrkramer wrote: post #145

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>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…

> and I'm even considering getting YouTube Premium Why? Serious question, too. You can sideload clients that give you every single feature of YouTube Premium for free. Unless you're expressly lazy, like being taken advantage of or enjoy watching advertisements, there's really no excuse. YouTube Premium is the "I'm trapped in this place and you people have finally gotten me" fee - you can circument it all together by…

> I run SmartTube on my dirt-cheap Amazon FireTV and don't get a single ad when browsing. Subtotal is $0.00 for the installation and usage of Open Source software.

I have YT Premium and it works perfectly on every device I have and I have never had to configure anything nor research anything to not see an ad. I only vaguely understand some of the phrases or words you are using (have no clue what a newpipe is, but kind of understand what sideloading) is. I do not care to ever fiddle with my devices, there are more important or at least gratifying things in this world then futzing around with and tweaking devices.

> Paying for YouTube Premium is your eternal reward for submission to the Walled Garden.

If this is the great battle you have chosen to wage with your precious, fleeting time on earth, by all means, go with God -- but a lot of people really don't give a damn about Walled Gardens.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by vsuperpower2021 »

lasc4r wrote: post #321
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…

My dad uses it to get fascist/right-wing propaganda for about 4 hours every night. All nicely monetized for any grifter willing to debase themselves for a potential fortune. Truly novel, but not well thought through or done with any care at all besides profits which is par for the course in silicon valley.

Tech companies should spend more time banning people from talking about things I would personally prefer they didn't.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by vsuperpower2021 »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #147
vsuperpower2021 wrote: post #113

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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.

For what it's worth, I thought his comment was fine whereas yours is insufferable.

It's not worth much!

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by DannyBee »

tomohelix wrote: post #58
daveed wrote: post #49

I'm not a Googler, but would still ask commenters to show some respect for the person who died, and save your opinions about youtube for another day.

Maybe I am a callous person, but I have never agreed to this "don't speak ill of the dead" thing. People live and die. It is inevitable. To the grieving family, I can understand why refraining from insulting the dearly departed is necessary. They are grieving and can be irrational. No need to make things worse for them. But between unrelated people? Why can't I discuss the legacy of the dead? We are defined by our de…

"We are defined by our deeds in life"

We are but most folks here basically know nothing of her deeds, or really anything about her. They see one piece of a thing she was a face of for some time period, and that they also knew mostly nothing about, but appear to love to have strong opinions on!

If you want to speak of her deeds then go and learn about them. Otherwise, people aren't speaking of anything other than some small myopic view of a human being they knew nothing about. Folks don't get to say that she is defined by the small piece of stuff they saw, just because they want to have an opinion on it.

Besides being disrespectful, it's not even interesting, and it says more about the people doing it than the person they are talking about.

It's like saying you are defined by the small and short interactions you had with grocery store cashiers who happen to like to post about their experiences with you on the internet and nothing else.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by akira2501 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #212
akira2501 wrote: post #79

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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?

Typically? Falling off a ladder and cracking your head.
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