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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by serf »

p3rls wrote: post #296
jart wrote: post #86

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If you're poor you won't even officially have cancer, because no one will diagnose you, since then you'd be entitled to services. Someone who's actually been poor would understand this.

Eh, I made 75k on my IRS forms last year and don't have health insurance. The poor people I know all have way better access to treatment through medicare/medicaid and various subsidies, and all use the medical system multiple times a year while I look up videos on YouTube (thanks susan!) to learn how to perform minor surgeries on myself When my mother died of cancer (also in her 50s, still working as a public teacher…

it's not just access to healthcare, it's time, convenience, effort, whatever.

an impoverished single-parent 4 member family will not have time to exploit whatever medical care options are made available to them. this time deficit is one of the more common characteristics that impoverished families have in common.

in a way it's similar to the healthcare problems that startup people see early in the business; 'no time for the doctor, I have meetings -- i'll live with the ulcer' , just from a different angle.

lack of opportunity for time management.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by Aunche »

xanderlewis wrote: post #408
Aunche wrote: post #224

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YouTube doesn't print money out of thin air. They make money by making advertisers happy, and advertisers will only buy ads if their customers are happy. This isn't anything new either. Creatives have always been beholden to censorship boards in traditional media too, which are typically much stricter. The fact that you so many YouTubers make money from criticizing YouTube is evidence of how much YouTubers don't unde…

Which customers are offended by the word ‘suicide’ and would prefer something like ‘unalive’? As with all of this crap, it’s about taking offence on behalf of those who aren’t offended or don’t even exist. > censorship boards in traditional media too, which are typically much stricter. Which ones? In which country would the word ‘suicide’ be censored? There are countless other examples of topics that YouTube has deci…

I'm pretty sure that unalive came from TikTok because they wanted to keep their app upbeat.

My point is that average YouTube is going to be less censoring overall. The perception may be that there is more censorship because there is simply more content on it that can be censored and they have more stakeholders that they have to appease. BBC released The Modi Question, which got censored on YouTube. However, YouTube has significantly more Modi criticism than anything on TV in India. Likewise, YouTube censors covid related conspiracy theories, but you're still going to find more of them on YouTube than the BBC.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by badpun »

boringg wrote: post #201
badpun wrote: post #159

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Why it's a good idea to fill galaxy with life? Why should we care about it? Also, seeing that our current civilization-system is already at the brink of catastrophe, we should focus on less ambitious goals, such as preserving life on Earth.

Absolutely worth it. We wont fill the galaxy filled with life because the galaxy is huge and we are but one tiny tiny portion of it. For us to survive and do anything impressive takes all of human ingenuity. Also those two items aren't mutually exclusive. Both can and should happen in tandem. Anyone arguing otherwise is just a mentally lazy person.

Whenever you have two goals competing for the same resources, you need to prioritize. I'm for preserving life on Earth first, and spreading it to other places as a distant second.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by HaZeust »

nozzlegear wrote: post #243
meiraleal wrote: post #157

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> "Don't say things that will hurt the feelings of those who are grieving" I for one would prefer "don't get attached to evil people"

Few people are comically evil enough that you can look at them and say "Ah, yes. You are evil. I will not get attached."

You haven't talked to enough people. I probably have that inner-thought at least once a month.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by s1artibartfast »

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #357
wslh wrote: post #319

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I know many cases of no wealth, no connections, South American(s) and success. You should deep dive in hard work that helps the well prepared. Also culture plays. The world is not static. It sounds resentment to not follow the thread and argue more sustanciously.

I'm not saying people without any background or connections can't be successful. I'm saying that it is like winning a lottery to be even born to parents who even read books about how to make their kids successful. With that kind of parental dedication, i have no doubt that their kids would be successful even without reading the book above. Lets look at the timeline : 1. Be born to a stanford physics professor and his…

I think it just seems weird to call it luck when so much of it is the product of hard and deliberate work on the part of the parents and presumably great genetics.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by melling »

cpncrunch wrote: post #412
melling wrote: post #293

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This seems key: “ Following sun exposure advice that is very restrictive in countries with low solar intensity might in fact be harmful to women's health.” Thanks for the link. Now we know with certainty that lack of sunlight wasn’t a cause.

I think you have misinterpreted that sentence. It is saying that too little sun exposure is harmful to health in women. See also this study which found the same for men in Norway: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01695...

Yes, we agree. Very restrictive exposure in countries with low solar intensity “

Susan lived in Northern California. How’s the solar intensity where she lived?

“ sun exposure advice that is very restrictive in countries with low solar intensity might in fact be harmful to women's health

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by matrix87 »

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…

> Maybe I am a callous person, but I have never agreed to this "don't speak ill of the dead" thing.

If they're rich and powerful who cares... here's John Oliver's reaction to Kissinger dying [0]... tl;dr "not soon enough"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HmrJmq7d1c

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by rajup »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #330
rajup wrote: post #234

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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…

Few years ago “long burn” story telling was hot and we are still feeling the effects. Take any show on Netflix and it will be 8 45min episodes from which first 3 are absolutely garbage filler. Youtube learned the wrong lesson and started to optimize the algorithm for retention and length. It is annoying to click for a review of some product that looks like a lengthy one with probably tests and what not only to see pa…

I beg to disagree. I don’t watch movies to “get information”. I watch movies (and long form YouTube videos) to be entertained. Why travel places? You can look up photos and videos online and get the same “information”.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by ithkuil »

ithkuil wrote: post #326
namaria wrote: post #261

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Anyone who claims that there's a 'cure for cancer' somewhere that some company is sitting on for profit betrays their complete lack of understanding of oncology.

And also a complete lack of misunderstanding of profit

EDIT: lack of understanding
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