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There are dozens here:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=try+galaxy

From this search I also learned this used to be called "iTest" 2 years ago.

San Francisco is 75 per 100K. (620 last year, population is 800K)

> It feels weird that they're using Cash App to indict the company as a whole.

Cash App is 60% of their revenue.

No because SVB has assets with value to sell. That's the "dividend" the FDIC refers to in the press release.

I also used to work on email at scale (XXX million per day), and even then I encouraged everyone to click spam[1] for any email they did not expect to receive and do not want.

My email address and phone notifications are a direct link to me and are sacred in terms of getting my attention. Yet many companies confuse getting my email address with permission to mail me anything at any frequency. They also believe that "unsubscribe" should be able to redirect me to a website with a bunch of confusing checkboxes. Neither is acceptable.

So, when I click "unsubscribe", that should immediately unsubscribe me forever with no extra efforts, but so many emailers don't do this that I just gave up and started reporting spam.

> emoji in the headline was the campaign that caused 9% of people to mark spam and 20% to unsubscribe, but it was enough to have us blackholed for 2.5 months

A guess with no info, but it sounds like a case of not removing unengaged recipients, then suddenly getting their attention with a different looking subject line or an email that came at an unexpected time.

If people receive bulk for a long time and they never engage, remove them from the list or pause sending to them to avoid this effect.

[1] - For those who don't know much about email, two things should happen when you click the spam button in Gmail and select "Unsubscribe and report spam" (it's been a while, correct me if this changed):

1) List-Unsubscribe should be triggered and this should unsub you from the list. In 2023, I personally expect this to be immediate and receive no more email but I give senders a window of a day or so.

2) The FBL should give the sender a signal that this specific campaign was considered spam.

I agree that measure of success is relative and like the principles you list, but your reply lands reinforcing the point of the tweet.

Does 2 out of 9 successful startups mean your tenets listed here will lead to your level of success 22% of the time? Or do they only lead to success 0.022% of the time and you're the 1 out of 5000? How do you know?

It's not just this topic, it's a problem with general advice humans give to other humans without applying any specific context.

It's not like they were hammering on some obscure startup. The world's richest man promoted FSD at every opportunity for years and sold it to customers.

> but the rate of overdoses from prescription opiates is, as i understand it, very low, because the dosage is predictable

Over time, addicts do not get the same high from the same dose of opiates. They require higher dosages, until such a point where they have to turn to illicit narcotics (which are also cheaper). Prescription drug abusers are 40x more likely of becoming heroin abusers.

This is all in the article I linked above (click on the subheadings).

> for that matter, how many opiate overdose deaths would be avoided if you could buy pure, safe heroin of known concentration over the counter

Since 2000, 75% of US opiate users started with prescription drugs[1]. So my guess is overdoses would be substantially worse if any opiate was freely available over the counter.

[1] - https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/prescript...

> That said BA earned a hell of a black mark when it chose to divert to Heathrow rather than Stansted or even Gatwick when its engine was on fire

After declaring an emergency, if they landed at Heathrow, that was at the pilot's discretion or due to limiting factors like runway length at Gatwick and the weight of their plane. The article is light on detail but they circled over Kent as well, so the pilots must have thought it was safe after shutting down the engine.

Out of curiosity, can movies and shows use them? Do they censor it out if the movie is ever shown on broadcast TV?

Naturally the example that came up when I searched is The Purge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns8t4Y9G4wU

Maybe the correct comparison for computing is ENIAC to Viking.

We had a computer the size of a room and then sent one to Mars in just 31 years

I appreciate memory safety, but feel memory safety is often discussed to a panacea-like degree, like in this article, that ignores the risks of rewriting to achieve it.

From your example, the idea of porting existing C and C++ code in the kernel or Chrome that has been stable in production for years, or sometimes decades, to Rust. The rewrite itself can create new exploits via the logic, especially considering the level of code being rewritten combined with Hyrum's Law. So is it a higher or lower risk to continue to solidify existing code with better practices and tools (asan, msan, smart pointers, etc), or to rewrite it all in Rust?

I don't know the answer. Because I don't think there's a clear way to evaluate and compare that risk profile ahead of time for any particular piece of non-trivial code. But I do think too many people are discussing rewrites at scale with the justification of memory safety, without considering the risk the nature of a rewrite adds back.

> People should be taxed for driving ICE

They are. Heavily. In California, right now with gas at $3.59 (Costco), gas taxes are adding around 50% to the price of gas. ($1.15 of fixed fees, plus sales tax)

> All the money from these taxes should go to planting forests, renewables projects etc.

Those types of taxes get passed, but eventually end up in general funds or borrowed against to fund general funds. But people still keep proposing these like next time it won't happen.

"2 Gs", in the US at least, means "two thousand" (G as in Grand)

Why wouldn't you use C++?

What was illegal? Disney was selling character stuff for decades prior. Star Wars toys were licensed by Lucas before that movie came out[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenner_Star_Wars_action_figure...

He took $1bn in a personal loan and execs in total took $4bn in loans.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/11/17/sam-bankma...

Related:

Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions 82 Percent

https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces...

How much of that $500K is liquid?

I think you meant 12 work weeks

That's 36 hours of normal use, with a 60 minute workout[1]. My Fenix 6 lasts 8 days of normal use and currently tells me it can record a 14 hour run even with only 42% battery.

[1] - Details in footnote #1 on https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-ultra/

> I think it’s simple enough to see why Nokia thought Windows would be the right choice. It was far more polished than Android at the time

Everyone knew at the time Elop had made a terrible choice crafted to sell Nokia to Microsoft. Here's a nice HN comment I saved that was written a few days after the memo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206437

And then the Nokia transition was supposed to take two years! Posting a memo like this and then taking two years to transition while expecting customers to buy inventory on the old platform? That's just a way to kill a company.

No California water thread is complete without the Delta Smelt

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256930082.html

> 5. What is the current model for education based on? [...] Education is about checking a box on a list of requirements that was developed 150+ years ago.

This is very well put. IMO nothing better illustrates how deep-rooted that model is than distance learning in 2020-2021 in the US. That was an opportunity to innovate quickly, and yet no state or district I know of took it seriously. Instead they had students on Zoom for 3-5 hours a day, including 1st-3rd graders, structured as if it was a regular classroom. It served no educational purpose except adhering to the model and requirements you mentioned.

GE appliance repair guy told me not to give up my 2006-era washer/dryer when he was replacing the drain hose. Unfortunately I had to. A year later an LCD screen went bad and would cost $1K to fix. So I bought a new LG.

The problem is they aren't built to last well nor be economically repairable. I'd take one or the other (or both!).

Have you ever successfully billed oncall hours as overtime when you weren't called?

Related: Los Alamos' Roadrunner was based on the CELL as a co-processor, and was #1 in TOP500 in November 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner_(supercomputer)

One of Plowshare's proponents was Edward Teller. Teller designed the bomb that was tested as Castle Bravo. Castle Bravo's yield was far above expected and was a fallout disaster that was known at the time[1].

Castle Bravo was in 1954. He began to push for for Plowshare in the late 50s. Here he is in 1965 advocating for it.[2]

Read "The Firecracker Boys" if you are interested in a lot more detail.[3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo#High_levels_of_fa...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa-IqOHDr_k

[3] - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Firecracker_Boys.ht...

Last time I tried taking an Uber from SFO to SF, the quoted price was $150.

Taxi downstairs was $40 and was waiting for me to get in. Didn’t smell like vomit. But if it did, I’d roll down the window and remember I’m saving $110 for a 20 minute ride.