Seems like that would be a good niche, not only for avoiding massive copyright considerations.
Also, it's some of the most boring footage where there's overwhelming amounts that's about the least desirable thing for humans to sit and watch every minute of.
First a contacts app that bombed, and now an ai assistant? I fear she’s stuck in the past and now is in a beyond crowded space. Have any of her attempts post google worked?
> Yes. She made a tremendous amount of money for herself while failing miserably at Yahoo!.
I was at Yahoo from 2004-2011, so I've got my opinions, but I think failing miserably at Yahoo is like the default option. It was a great gig to take in 2012 --- if you do well, well then it's clearly your leadership; if you don't do well, it's that Yahoo wasn't salvageable.
August 11, 2005: Yahoo acquires 40 percent of Alibaba.com for $1 billion, and Alibaba takes over the operation of Yahoo China.
Yahoo Japan was also a joint venture between Yahoo and Softbank, with Yahoo holding about 50% of the ownership.
At some point, Yahoo stock was regularly trading at or below the estimated value of the overseas holdings. The part of the company that actually did stuff was valued at zero or less. In the acquisition, yahoo stockholders got cash for the operating business plus shares in holding company formed around the overseas holdings ... Over time, the holding company sold the holdings and distributed the proceeds to shareholders and ceased operating.
Yahoo made a $1b investment on Alibaba early on, and Alibaba was growing a lot, investors couldn't directly buy Alibaba, so they bought Yahoo hoping to eventually cash in.
Yahoo was valued at $44b at one time, and the $1b it put in Alibaba was valued at $40b. So 90% of Yahoo was the Alibaba investment. There was a whole spin off core business to separate it from the investment part drama, years and years of distraction and investors and board people who wanted their ~40x instead.
She is clearly an amazing negotiator if nothing else. She made a spectacular amount of money running yahoo even faster into the ground. Imagine being paid 100M just to go away. Inspiring in its own way.
It depends on what you think she is attempting. If you consider that she is attempting to maintain a certain standard of living, then yes, it is working. There is a strange reality where you can get other people to pay you millions of dollars a year because somebody else previously paid you millions of dollars a year. You might have to keep shuffling who pays you, though.
According to the article it’s largely self paid. I’d also be surprised anyone for a pre-product startup is being paid millions a year to run it… even her.
Looking at that code I’m shocked that Postgres allows two-liner if statements without a matching {} (I’m sure someone pedantically will point out that I’m using the wrong terminology or that it was actually several lines of conditionals).
This practice is very bug prone, and has lead to high profile failures like goto fail
The project history goes back to 1982. There may have been rewrites in the later 80s, but it's some of the oldest C around, and a very conservative codebase (e.g. Linux kernel gets much more aggressive refactorings regularly).
These days people might not blink an eye at gofmt/rustfmt rewriting the AST to clean it up, but those toolchains were built that way largley because automating anything about large C codebases is so hard.
Large stable projects are very much wary of wide-scale changes their codebase. What they have is tested working by decades in production. Especially with C where tooling is brittle.
Let me put this way: If you submit a code prettifying patch to the Linux kernel, it will not be accepted. The risks aren't worth it.
The only real way forward is full migration away from C, for which a better scope is a separate project.
These days, there are compiler diagnostics for that. There's also a pgindent tool, which will align the visual presentation of the code with its syntactic structure.
Are you saying they should always be present? Or only when the condition takes multiple lines; i.e. do you take issue with the ifs in zone_name_pref too?
Personally I think the indentation does a good enough job here.
> Well, one party’s stated solution for high oil imports was not to reduce consumption but rather “drill baby, drill!”
The idiotic lie here is that the US doesn’t really have the right refinement plants to handle US based oil, so they have to swap oil with other countries who do. Building out new refinement plants isn’t easy or quick, yet would be necessary to actually reduce oil imports and become self sufficient.
Many of these things you state as fact do not match my reality.
> I have never heard of an insurance policy in the US that allows you to consume as much, and whatever type of healthcare that you want.
That’s basically my plan. I work for a FAANG, and have a low 2k/year max out of pocket for in-network, which is almost everything I encounter. I just book specialists when I want, and I see them as many times as I need. I can do PT 365 times per year, so as long as I don’t go more than once a day (which would be silly), I consume as much as I want. I recently chose to go to the Mayo Clinic — out of state, no referral, and everything is covered. I keep getting estimates from them of $0 since I hit my max out of pocket. The only thing I’ve been denied for is Botox for TMJ which they say is not medically proven (seems to be the opposite, but I understand why they’re wary).
I’ve never had a medication, procedure, or doctor visit denied.
You cannot consume as much and whatever type of healthcare. You have to consume from the pre-approved list of doctors that have negotiated rates with your insurer. I also do not believe for a second that if you found a doctor willing to give -for example - daily electrolyte IVs for your post workout recovery, that the insurer would touch that claim. Same thing with cosmetic or elective surgery. Will your insurer cover a facelift? Will they cover Ozempic for vanity reasons? Will they cover the full cost of all name brand drugs after your deductible is spent? And you still have to pay $2k before any of that is in effect.
Mind you, your extreme outlier reality is one that is essentially never experienced by >95% of people, and it still has constraints.
Except I’ve only ever encountered 1 doctor who isn’t in network. I have a 4k max out of pocket for out of network. Even my acupuncturist is in-network.
I’ve never found a doctor who would do anything daily, but if there was a medical need, I’d expect it to be covered.
Where in the world is a facelift covered? No healthcare system covers that. What a silly thing to point out.
If a doctor is willing to rx ozempic I’m sure they’d cover. I already get a glp-1 covered.
Brand name drugs are covered fully.
Yes I have to pay my $500 deductible and co-insurance until I hit my 2k max.
The primary constraint that you are glossing over is that there is a premium that must be paid that most people cannot afford (if they can even access a plan like this outside of a group). Add in the co-insurance, deductibles, uncovered procedures, etc and that becomes a VERY hard constraint on most families. Are you not aware that healthcare affordability is one of the main political arguments for the past few decades?
You must recognize that you are in a position of extreme privilege. Most people simply do not have access to a plan like yours, or cannot casually afford the many thousands of dollars on top of premiums it takes for the insurance to start paying for things. It is not a given that every employed person has 1. a health insurance plan 2. that is paid for in any way by their employer.
Simply put: money is the constraint. You are wealthy enough that you fail to see that spending thousands of dollars is a constraint. Lucky you. That you have never even heard of daily medical treatment tells me that you are also extremely privileged to have never been chronically ill or even known the health needs of someone who is. I can't speak for your insurance policy, but my experience with chronic illness and US insurance companies is that an insurance company that paid for daily treatments without at least making someone jump through many hours of hoops is incredibly rare.
Not only are you uncharitably interpreting my words, you’re making incorrect assumptions across your entire comment here. You’re also shifting from “post workout recovery” (which implies something very non-medically needed) to chronically ill needs, which is either moving goal posts or is just being difficult.
Yes, the US system works great if your are at the social peak, such as working at a FAANG. Thanks for reminding us of the level of class disparity as we struggle to pay our bills or get our children medical care.
When I was a kid, everyone no matter economic level had pretty much the same pediatric doctor group. Now the working class people around me don't really have a pediatrician, but an overworked 'nurse practitioner'.
From the GP:
> I have never heard of an insurance policy in the US that allows you to consume as much, and whatever type of healthcare that you want. Quite the opposite is most people's experience. You have to justify any visit to a specialist before going, you don't get to choose the specialist, many times the insurer will simply deny a payment request for care already received. On many plans, you have to spend 5 figures per year before they will even cover anything.
These do not apply to me. I cannot be the only one. In fact when I was a 2 person startup things weren’t so terribly different from my current situation as well. No need to accuse me of classism when I’m simply refuting the premise with my own data and lived experience.
Why? There are tons of reports of individuals getting stuck in detention for weeks for extremely minor or even no actual immigration offenses. I’ve traveled extensively across africa including some pretty shady countries and I now feel that I have to put the US in the same bucket: avoid, if not absolutely necessary, due to risks outside of my own control.
I mean, there’s literally hundreds of countries, why would I go somewhere with the risk of being arbitrarily detained, if I can help it at all?
