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This will lead to inflation. Once prices increase, the prices won't come down, so the inflation will be permanent.

US manufacturers will get used to decreased competition, which will lead to poor quality and decreased innovation.

Smuggling will increase, particularly from Canada. Instead of going to the Apple store to buy your next phone you will agree to meet a stranger in a dark alley and pay cash to buy a smuggled iPhone.

The tariffs will be felt by poorer Americans while the rich will barely notice.

It is surprising that no one has mentioned antioxidants and green tea yet.

Cholesterol is a substance the body naturally produces and requires for many functions. In the brain, cholesterol is essential for building and maintaining neuronal membranes, supporting synapse formation, and enabling myelin production. Statins interfere with cholesterol synthesis in the brain and have been associated in some cases with brain fog or short-term memory issues.

Cholesterol itself is not inherently harmful. It is oxidized cholesterol that causes atherosclerosis.

Antioxidants such as those found in green tea help prevent LDL oxidation.

Therapy for what, exactly? Cholesterol? A substance the human body naturally produces because it needs it (cholesterol is a key structural component of every cell membrane in the body)? A substance that has not been conclusively proved to be harmful?

Cardiologists don't do their own research. Drug companies do the research, and cardiologists are limited to just trusting the drug companies. So then the question is how trustworthy are the drug companies? Pfizer’s Lipitor raked in $125 billion between 1996 to 2012, becoming the world’s best-selling drug of all time. You don't think drug companies are even a little bit motivated by profits?

You are right about one point: You should absolutely not trust a random medium article, anyone can write medium article. Instead you should follow the links, then decide whether the experts quoted in the NYT and Bloomberg articles have a point.

And you're offering nothing to back up your claim. Literally everything written in the article is backed up by sources such as New York Times, which in turn quotes experts in the field.

- Is it not true that the existence of a link between high cholesterol and heart disease is only a hypotheses that originated in the 1950s, not a scientifically proven fact?

- Is it not true that the FDA generally has not required drug companies to prove that cholesterol medicines (such as statins) actually reduce heart attacks before approval?

- Is it not true that lowering cholesterol by different means (i.e., other than statins) is not beneficial, and does that not mean cholesterol is not the villain it is made out to be?

- Is it not true that the only large clinical trial funded by the government (rather than drug companies) found no statistically significant benefit at all?

What exactly are you saying is wrong?

The point of this test is to decide whether to take statins. But statins are a problematic drug, see here: https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...

Software is not an alternative to physical controls. You don't have to copy Tesla in that regard.

I rented an Audi Q7 for a week recently. The drive quality of the car is excellent. But the software is terrible. Just getting CarPlay to work every time is a challenge. I will not be buying an Audi any time soon.

As more and more of the vehicle's experience becomes software controlled, manufacturers who don't have good software development teams are going to lose out. German companies don't seem to understand the growing importance of software, and they are happy to collectively develop the software [1] as opposed to seeing software as a key differentiator.

[1] https://www.electrive.com/2025/06/25/automotive-industry-lau...

> In 1986 the successor to SunView was developed, the Network extensible Window System, or NeWS.

SunView with NeWS was a powerful 2D graphics engine. It ran Adobe Display PostScript. The Sun workstations ran BSD unix, had good networking, protected memory, virtual memory and so on. And it did all that with 16 MB of memory. That's not a typo... 16 megabytes. Today our computers have 1000 times more RAM, but do our computers work better? Hardly. The NCD terminals from 1990 worked just as well as Chromebooks today. What have we accomplished in the last 35 years? Computers back then weren't powerful enough to play movies. Other than that I can't think of much I would miss if I had to go back to the old NCDs.

There are 50+ deaths if you include Autopilot. Source: https://www.tesladeaths.com/

Some of them were due to the use of cameras as opposed to LiDAR for example: The May 7, 2016 crash near Williston, Florida, in which a Tesla Model S operating with Autopilot struck the side of a tractor-trailer making a left turn across the car’s path. In this incident, both the car’s camera system and the driver did not detect the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, which resulted in the Tesla passing under the trailer and causing a fatality.

> if you put a waymo in a small town that no alphabet engineer has ever even heard of, then youll see it fail badly as well.

Which is why it is a non-goal for Waymo. It should be a non-goal for Tesla too, given the state of the art.

Also, their remote control center staff have steering wheels on their desks, to take over when needed, see discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1li0swv/do...

Having taken Waymo rides multiple times in San Francisco I can attest to how awesome Waymo is. I am worried Tesla will bring a bad name to the whole robotaxi industry. Waymo has never had an at-fault injury accident. Tesla FSD has killed many people.

Excerpt: "The most powerful CEOs in tech are dangling pay packages worth more than $300 million to their most prized recruits—and even that kind of money isn’t always enough to win them over."

Singapore's rise is amazing. They don't have oil or other natural resources. Singapore adopted free-market capitalism, encouraged foreign direct investment and positioned itself as an attractive destination for multinational corporations. They invested heavily in technical and higher education, ensuring a highly skilled workforce. Singapore is consistently top-three in mathematics and science performance.

> What's funny about this is there are exactly three services that I would consider trustworthy: Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB (Azure's document storage), and BlobStore.

CosmosDB is trustworthy? Everyone I know that used CosmosDB ended up rewriting their code because of throttling.

> As I see it, the path to AGI is a three-horse race right now: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Umm... I don't think Zuckerberg would agree with this statement.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on whether AI will lead to job losses:

I would say, if the world runs out of ideas, then productivity gains translate to job loss. But over the course of last 60 years in the era of computers, not only did productivity go up, employment also went up. Now the reason for that is, if we have abundance of ideas, ways we could build a better future, if we are more productive, we could realize that better. Now, of course, in a world of zero sum game, if you have no more ideas, all you want to do is this, then productivity improvement results in job loss.

Because 'online' is the entire planet, including sellers in foreign countries. Would you like to have "digital borders" between countries, where data has to show some sort of passport to cross the border?

Wouldn't it be better to provide such pilots alternate career paths? That way they can still make a living and the traveling public is not placed under unnecessary risk.

> post-flight muscle memory (of shutting off the engines) kicked in

Possible, and if so it is too early to conclude it was murder-suicide.

See also: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/dgca-slaps-80-lakh-fi...

That's true. In addition to preventing payments, you also have to make a reasonable attempt to cancel service.

Recently in the case of Dish Network, I tried to call to cancel service, and the wait time is 45 minutes. There's no way I am doing that. (They don't let you cancel online or via chat, calling is the only option). Instead I contacted state attorney general's office and they made Dish cancel service.

If you can prove that you made reasonable attempt to cancel service then you're off the hook. In my case Dish sent my account to collections (for the 1 month it took to cancel service) and I wrote them back that I am not paying and why. Never heard back from them after that.

One of the ways to prevent unauthorized charges is to use a virtual credit card. Many credit cards provide a way to create virtual credit card based on your real credit card, for example, Citibank [1] and Capital One [2]. Then if the merchant makes it hard for you to cancel, just delete your virtual credit card.

You can specify any expiration date for the virtual card (with at least 1 month validity). You can also set per-transaction limits on this credit card, which ensures the merchant can't charge more than the agreed amount.

[1] https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

[2] https://www.capitalone.com/learn-grow/money-management/what-...

Aren't Typeform, Google Forms, Microsoft Forms all basically similar in that they are good for surveys etc. but not for much else? Airtable ( https://airtable.com ) has more typical forms and so does Visual DB ( https://visualdb.com ).

There was a viral post on this topic recently: https://old.reddit.com/r/thebulwark/comments/1ljbvtw/hottest...

Some have reportedly been offered $300 million, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.

Think about it this way: This is a lot cheaper than buying Open AI. If you hire the top 10 researchers from Open AI that's basically the same as buying Open AI except it's a lot cheaper.

So basically Zuck is acquiring Open AI for $3 Billion. So cheap!

Did you miss this: "Google in India has a workforce of over 10,000 spread across major cities in India." That's out of a total workforce of about 200,000.

Is it this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ

The destruction of American institutions continues...

Thank you. I did mean Perplexity... and it is not a very memorable name.