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I hate it when i get a voice message from my family through whatsapp.

Reading stuff is so much quicker.

One college asks me if i have time to do a short video chat for the update i need; The coordination take sprobably a higher effort then just writing it down.


The product provides searchable transcriptions.


The core feature/idea/thought on this product is still a voice message.

Otherwise you can just use whatever you have used already anyway.

Having something like this as main feature, means thats the default. In my opinion therefore not a good tool.


Its the responsibility of you to communicate your state so people can act on it. you might not be very good in transporting to people who need to know, what you are doing and how it is going?

And don't get me wrong but when your solution is to disable/block communication ways instead of communication with others on how you want/need to communicate, then the issue is on both sides.


I would be just to afraid for certain ideas like the shop thing.

One credit card fraud going through my system and i might in a big dept if i did this under a company format which doesn't protect me from personal liability.

While i like the idea very much of getting exercise in this way, i'm wondering what the main motivation is?

I would like to earn money through my own company but only with my product i like and find 'worthy'. Trying out small concepts over and over again, might not bring any fruit in finding the thing you are passionate about and then the question arrives if it wouldn't be much more beneficial to optimize your own career instead.


If you're using a reputable payment processor (like Stripe), they should be handling fraud detection and remediation for you. The real thing to watch out for is using your marketplace to sell illegal things. It was even mentioned that there were people for sale... I'm guessing that was done as a joke but it also happens for real.

I've considered many ideas like that One Item Shop and turned away from them because I wasn't sure how to keep people from listing and selling things that will get me sued out of business or thrown in jail. And at £1.63 in revenue, I'm not hiring a lawyer.


And thats just two things we know about.


I find that passion is much more about investment than inherent joy. When I invest in a project, I become passionate.


I do think its possible to become passinate about things over time.

If you ask me if i want to work on x or y, i will tell you quite easy what i would prefer which i would relate to passion?

Wikipedia would agree on both ways of seeing passion: "Passion (Greek πάσχω "to suffer, to be acted on"[1] and Late Latin (chiefly Christian[2]) passio "passion; suffering" (from Latin pati "to suffer"; participle: passus)) is a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something. "

But i think what makes it more interesting or more motivationg for me is that one thing might have something special in comparison to other things i wanna do.

Like if i work on a product which helps the world vs. a product which is 'just a normal product' i might see more reason to work on the first product.

I probably need to ask you what makes you invest in a project.


We are already doing this with James Webb Space Telescope. That one will be further away from sun than earth and moon.


JWST is not being assembled in space


yeah my fault; I interpreted the question as 'hey sounds difficult to do that, can't we make it easier?' in sense of the person asking without knowing the JWST exists.


And when you think about ending your life, new questions arrive:

Will someone external force me to life my life again? Should it make more sense to optimize my current life and try to stay alive as long as possible?

If i'm reincarnated, should i start to make the current world a better place to life for the risk of me being reincarnated somewhere else?

Should i spend my time and effort of trying to find a mechanism to keep my knowledge and try to reconnect with my previous me?

Of course all funny interesting thoughts, at the end of the day, i saw enough people around me living a normal life, dying and thats it.

But i'm curious when we create an AI what logic it will come up to kill or not kill itself.


Lets assume, for once, that what they wrote, is what they stand for.

I think this is a very very good / exemplary reaction.


Why didn't they start with youtube-dl though? They will defend developers and err on their side "going forward" but no not that one?

Surely they already had the legal manpower when the youtube-dl removal started making waves. The fact that they did nothing for over three weeks and are publishing this blog post right after the issue was fixed by someone else (EFF) makes it hard to believe their "changes".


In large organisations, with lots of tape actually getting the ball rolling on what is proposed with all the sign offs, funds allocated, people/resource allocated for the tasks.... It takes months, not weeks.

They probably published this off the back of a signed off proposal and may start implementing off the back of it early next year.


My daily work is often not adhoc or that fast;

I'm not sure why this is so unrelatable to you but for me, daily business is, that things just take 1-3 weeks.

Legal manpower still means, that people interrupt their current tasks, which they properly have plenty of, to reprioritize something, others might even not care about at all or never heard of.

I stay with my statement and i have enough live experience, that i don't expect a 3 minute solution and answer from github.com


I didn't expect any "3 minute solution", but realistically they didn't even have to get the problem fixed. They could have pledged to assist youtube-dl by now, helped them file a counter-notice sometime this week (surely they can get 1 lawyer's time for pressing PR matters), and figured out how to deal with the human resource situation over the coming months.

Instead they found a million dollars (!!!), wrote a blog post with explicit commitments, but then waited on somebody else to step up. It just doesn't add up.


Someone on github had to care for this project; Then someone with the proper level had to care for this and understand the situation.

Then you need meetings.

You need to 'coordinate' your message or whatever.

You need to talk to the legal department and stuff.

What is not 'adding up'?

And why is it an issue that it took a little bit?


I agree with you completely. Someone high-up needs to care for this to get going.

GitHub's CEO claimed he cared, October 27: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1321221940774723584

The fact that he didn't get a coordinated message or anything at all in the following three weeks shows how much he really did.


I don't think 20 apples is that much.

And we are talking about people who are obese, they are consumgint oo many calories per day, every day.

Now lets take a real example: obese people tend to drink juices and replacing soda with juice because they assumed juices are healthy.

I can easily drink 2 liters of water or 2 liters of juice/soda every day. 470 calories for 1 liter -> 900 calories additional.

easy


Juice is not apple, that is competely different argument. 20 apples is quite a lot and dude I picked is small - I intentionally made him smaller then average.

I am 100% confident that pearl clutching over need to replace fruit by vegetables else people will be obese is really not even close to why people get fat.


I think its a combination of all.

I myself stoped drinking soda because of it; Its surprsing how quick you consume extra calories due to needing caffeine.


Let me formulate it different:

Its 'healthier' to consume the same amount of sugar through fruits than through pure sugar due to its being easier for your body.

It does not change your calorie intake at all as its the same amount.


> It does not change your calorie intake at all as its the same amount.

Glossing over what an insulin spike makes your body do with those calories is a bit disingenuous.


Exactly this.

The most common and pervasive misconceptions about nutrition use the extremely simplistic view of it, believing that in the end all matters is that you end up with N grams of say sugar.

The effects on the body of consuming an apple versus the equivalent two table spoons of raw sugar are not even remotely similar.


They are when you look at the calorie intake.

That is the point i made and still make.


The problem is that there’s no study demonstrating what was stated. Consuming a fructose concentrate will not have the same outcome as consuming the same amount of fructose through fruits.

There isn’t a study that shows the outcomes are equivalent . I have no idea where OP got his conclusion that fruits are an issue.

Yes, keeping an eye on glycemic index or FODMAP for people with metabolic disease works but I can’t find studies showing that you can eat so much fruit to get diabetic or gout.


> I have no idea

Here

> I drastically cut back on fructose, limiting myself to no more than 10g/day. I have been gout-free now for 7 years.


You're implying that total calorie intake is the most (or even the only) important factor.

This is starting to resemble a political thread.


To add to your very generic statement:

Fruit juice contains a lot of sugar; Oranges contain a lot of sugar;

Make sure you check how much calories you take in regardless of the food.

A good understanding of food healthiness is to understand what you are eating.


The difference between fruit juice and actual fruit is massive. Volume for starters it’s far easier to overconsume juice than whole fruits. Then there’s the matter of the rough fibrous matter being strained out and the glycaemic index ... (EDIT not to mention the various adulterations for shelf life and added sugar and stuff)

It’s far harder to go wrong with whole fruits.


So my statement, you are commenting on, is wrong?

"Make sure you check how much calories you take in regardless of the food."


I was agreeing with you, and reinforcing your point.

It's such a shame our reflex is that if somebody responds to something they must be disagreeing.


Impressive that this whole list doesn't matter really on a day to day basis.

My chrome, lightroom and games (a lot) work very well on my windows desktop.

On my nas, freebsd is doing a great job.

My servers? Ubuntu doing what it does best.

MacOS on my work laptop; Also not bad.


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