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srcnoon Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome

Article title: Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google

srcnoon YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

I pay for my car. Why would I pay the supermarket for the groceries it will transport?

srcnoon AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN

How about the price of EBS volumes as well? I believe the price for gp2 has been $0.10/GB (USE1) since 2014 and gp3 only reduced the price slightly.

srcnoon How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom

I've used a few variations of this in the past and seem to run into a similar issue with Firefox: if you go to a different vanity URL (someothercompany.zoom.us), the tab will close before you can authorize the site to open the zoommtg links (the specific DNS address gets approved instead of *.zoom.us)

srcnoon Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

It will be overseen by the individual states in the US.

srcnoon When Will Coronavirus Social Distancing Be Over?

It would be longer than that. At 14 days, some people would just start exhibiting symptoms. However those can be mild enough to disregard. I believe recovery would still take another week. Then multiply that by the number of people with whom you cohabitate. And that assumes you didn’t go food shopping or collect your mail.

srcnoon Why pessimism on Social Security could come back to bite millennials

I don't understand why Congress doesn't incrementally, predictably, and slowly raise the retirement age for Social Security. It was never intended as a retirement program - instead it an insurance for those those that lived beyond the average life expectancy.

I don't think it's unreasable to expect people to save enough to cover then between their age of retirement to say 70 or 75. Then let the insurance kick in after that.