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I think its a matter of scale. Say Costco makes a Kirkland brand cereal, there are other stores that you can buy cereal at and there is competition. For a lot people, all online shopping comes from Amazon. Amazon uses this position to their advantage in many ways (high quality customer data, branding, etc.). This actually disincentives people from making compelling products because of the risk that Amazon will just steal the product.

Speaking of excel files, Does anyone know of a good way to port sheets with equations/functions to python? Sometimes I need a calculations from a sheet and I have to manually copy them over.

> The U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database cites 152 reports of tinnitus among 25,072 COVID-19 recipients of vaccines from Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna.

Pointing out here that this reporting system (VAERS) is not an official scientific source of vaccine effects[1]. These reports are completely self reported with no follow up/verification. You can basically report any symptoms and it will get accepted.

Take this case:

> Indeed, an autism activist named Jim Laidler once reported to VAERS that a vaccine had turned him into The Incredible Hulk. The report was accepted and entered into the database, but the dubious nature thereof prompted a VAERS representative to contact Mr. Laidler, who then gave his consent to delete the report[2]

So there actually has been no study here to see if there is a link been the vaccine and tinnitus. Its possible that these people developed tinnitus independent of the vaccine.

Often VAERS is used by anti-vaxxer's to spread misinformation.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaers-deaths-idUSL... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Adverse_Event_Reportin...

I find goodreads has a bit of bias problem on their ratings. Most books are rated between 3 and 4. Its really hard to tell if that rating is accurate because most people who didn't finish the book (an indicator of low quality) will not leave a review.

Totally relate to your experiences. I think WFH while living alone is super hard! You have to take a lot of responsibility for your life that you normally don't have to. I.e you won't see anyone in person unless intentionally plan to leave the house. Its surprising how big of an effect in person meetings can have!

I wonder if you could use another model that describes music and feed that text into this one?

Even something based on spotify's music labeling api would be super interesting!

> Slack is about to become a nightmare

> On Wednesday, the company made good on that promise by opening Slack Connect DMs for anyone currently paying for their Slack subscription.

So where is the nightmare? I was expecting at least some analysis on why this is a bad thing.

I thought the point of universal basic income was that it is universal. Everyone gets it so you don't have welfare cliffs.

The python >3.8 requirement broke the use case for me. I know that there is support for creating API's on python 3.5+. It's just not worth it to upgrade to 3.8 to create docs and then downgrade again to 3.7 run the actual code.