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This paper uses actuals that end in 2020. Things are happening fast enough to make that dated. Especially in batteries.
I believe it’s more likely social media is supercharging FOMO and the facade vs historical cultural references.
> “What we found was a really strong connection between feeling badly about your money situation and how much time you spend on social media,” Isabel Barrow, director of financial planning at Edelman Financial Engines, told CNBC.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-media-reason-millennia...
You think pomp and ceremony weren't a thing before the TV/social media age?
I’m not trying to be hostile to OP. I’m addressing the fact that he feels the need to engage in a bunch of throat clearing just to say that it’s bad to devalue work that women disproportionately do and want to do.
IMO a government subsidy for homemakers will in reality be a subsidy for corporations who can now pay the working parent even less. What needs to be normalized is a single salary being enough to support a family of four, like it used to be.
Additional citation:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-11/how-di... | https://archive.today/NrKzp
It is highly unlikely anyone here will ever have to worry about this problem, the odds are worse than winning the lottery [1] [2]. ~90% of startups end up in failure [3], for example.
[1] https://medium.com/@13032765d/the-chance-of-becoming-a-billi... | https://archive.today/CwENd
[2] https://medium.com/@RisingUnicorns/reality-of-95-startup-fai... | https://archive.today/NCzaX
[3] https://www.ycombinator.com/library/D0-startups-for-students
Related:
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and...
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Articles at the time noted that a significant part of the ongoing investigation was the FBI linguistic analysis of the manifesto but that the brothers own reading led to the identification. This article seems to be shading the story.
> honey is just sugar syrup
That's factually incorrect. First of all, obviously it has tons of extra flavor, which indicates a whole range of additional chemical compounds.
> But that's what the honey cult is, homeopathic.
Honey has scientifically proven antibiotic properties [1].
> adulterated honey is difficult to detect
I don't know what you mean by "difficult", but it can certainly be detected [2]. And it can be observed how the antimicrobial properties diminish as adulteration increases.
Now, does this mean honey has health benefits when you eat it? Not necessarily. The antibiotic properties have traditionally been utilized when applying honey on top of a wound to prevent infection -- not by eating it.
You may very well be right that consuming honey isn't any different from consuming HFCS. But it does have a lot of additional chemical compounds in it (as the antibiotic properties demonstrate), so the best answer is that we really don't know.
In any case, it is demonstrably not "just sugar syrup". But yes, you're probably correct that it will give you diabetes just as fast as Mountain Dew.
> have not and never will be able to predict further than that
Is this a chaos theory prediction? Why 14 days?
They have a handy tool for it.
Cables can be buried in trenches in the ocean bottom. There are cable plows for this. [1] They're huge and slow. Undersea power cables are routinely buried, but comm cables are only buried near shore.
The downside of cable burial is that repair is harder.
Trust is hard earned and easily lost.
I have a Steam Link and a Chromecast with Link installed, and neither of them works. Whenever I launch Link, the sound will come through, but the video just stays stuck on the splash screen. It's a pity, Steam is great otherwise.
> It's not very clear (at least to me) how and why
It's good at the initial stages and unproductive later on. The problem is that when you need to remove it is also when its recipients are most powerful.
> If that were true, we’d see a lot more sabotage
It is true. There is a lot of critical infrastructure out in the open that a dude with a pick-up truck of fertiliser could trash. (I'm not even getting to our electrical or natural gas distribution systems.)
Right.
Dickies and Vans were and are both units of VF Corporation.[1][2] VF also owns The North Face and Timberland, and a bunch of other "lifestyle brands". They have headquarters all over the place. VF corporate HQ is Denver. Vans HQ is in Costa Mesa, CA. There's a HQ in Shanghai, which manages manufacturing. Timberland HQ is in New Hampshire. North Face HQ is in Denver. And for some reason, there's an IT unit in Greensboro, NC.
Too many HQs. Looks from their job listings like they're consolidating apparel in Costa Mesa, except for North Face and Timberland.
> It’s not like iPads are 10x the price of a cheap Android device. They’re like 2x.
I’m seeing about 3-4:1 comparing reconditioned iPads to cheap-but-not-reconditioned new Android tablets, 10:1 is closer than 2:1 for new-to-new.
> Regulation can ensure that businesses doing things right can actually complete
Regulation adds fixed costs. That always increases barriers to entry.
The aim is to make that barrier worth it. (You can also directly mitigate it, but this is less common.) But in the cases of food and medicine, regulation has absolutely forced consolidation. The pitch from Big Pharma and Big Ag when buying out biotech and food start-ups (or small producers) is they've mastered the global compliance network, and can thus scale and thus outcompete small producers.
What it does seem we need is liability by large distributors around selling fraudulent products. That still adds a barrier to entry, since those distributors will have a testing programme. But at least you get multiple programs that have an incentive to reduce costs.
They also still tell you Delaware also (and why they tell you this particularly in law school) Delaware has the most well-developed body of corporate law, meaning (policy preferences aside) how to achieve particular goals with formal structure and outcomes of particular decisions are most predictable when Delaware corporate law is being applied, which mitigates risk for all parties.
> The only people who can change it are voters and congress themselves.
Most of the participants in the system are eligible voters, so asserting that voters can change the system is very much asserting that nearly everyone in the system has agency to change it.
(The fact is “voters can change it” is optimistic, because the US is not a direct democracy and, due to gerrymandering, campaign finance, and other factors, only loosely a representative one, being functionally more of a plutocracy. The people who benefit from its inefficiencies and inequities have disproportionate power over its structure.)
> $80k isn’t even a year of rent for many here.
$80k is more than the median annual rent on a three-bedroom house in San Francisco; if its "not even a year of rent", even in the "SV crowd", that's because of lavish personal choices, not location-based necessity.
> There’s a reason people get paid $400k+/yr in SV.
Yes, because the jobs paying that are highly selective and there is lots of competition for talent. The cost of living in SV is a consequence of the concentration of high-paying jobs, not its cause.
> Just what?
"Oh... come on! Just... <waving hands angrily>"
Pretty clear to me :).
> CCP is not subject to US laws
The Communist Party of China is, in fact, subject to those US laws with extraterritorial application (with the limitations and exceptions the US has chosen to include in those laws), or when it acts within US territory. For instance, see the litigation over Missouri’s claims against the the People’s Republic of China, Communist Party of China, National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, People’s Government of the Hubei Province, People’s Government of Wuhan City, Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences under US law over COVID-19 related actions. [0][1]
> Bytedance is a Chinese entity and US first amendment and equivalent don’t apply to it.
The First Amendment is applicable based on the US government being the actor, not based on who is acted against.
[0] https://tlblog.org/missouris-covid-suit-against-china-revive...
[1] https://lettersblogatory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2224... [PDF]
Agreed, I always felt honey was one of the easiest and best products to buy locally.
Patel is an unelected bureaucrat, just like the current director.
>meaning trying to innovate and strategize within their current company to make the job more fun, gain more autonomy, and advance their career prospects
Assuming that's in an environment where it's possible (no shitty office politics, etc), the monetary returns from that ain't gonna be competing to a succesful project. Nor is the freedom and satisfaction ever going to be the same. And of course all progress in that front, is a round of layoffs or a change in management away from being nulled.
So, it's a safer path (as much as being an employee is safe these days), but not achieving the same thing.
And then I come back with 3 paragraphs about the legislative history of the assault weapons ban, which began by singling out a bunch of weapons by name but with a catchall of semi-automatic weapons with detachable clips, and got lobbied down to its cosmetic definition by the NRA.
You might believe I'm completely wrong about all of this, and that's OK. That's how message boards work. But do you think "you haven't read the assault weapons ban and don't know how silly it is" is going to work as a rhetorical strategy here?
Or we can just accept that reasonable, informed people might disagree on these points, and there's no winning this.
> Consistent, long term industrial policy is very effective.
Yes. This is what kills the US in rare earths, cobalt, gallium, etc. US mines shut down when the price goes down. Sometimes they restart when the price goes up. Sometimes they don't. All this churn makes the business unprofitable in the US.[1]
[1] https://mpmaterials.com/articles/mp-materials-reports-third-...
> The only way AI can create information is by doing something in the real world.
Everything done is done in the real world, but the only way an AI can gather (not create) information about some particular thing is to interact with that thing. Without interacting with anything external to itself, all information it can gather is the information already gathered to create it.
> Publishers know they cannot publish false information without spoiling their reputation.
How did that saying go? You sweet summer child...
Reputation doesn't matter. It hasn't mattered for a while. There's too much confusion, you can't get no relief, and there's definitely not enough time in a day to care.
Most non-fiction publishing either is, or is funded by, advertising industry. I.e. pathological liars. You better believe most of the stuff those people publish is intentionally at the very least bullshit (in the sense of not caring whether it's true or false -- see most content marketing), and a lot of it is plain lies.
ChatGPT gets confused and fabricates stuff as much as a person speaking whatever comes to their mind. But at the very least, it's not lying to you intentionally. Which is why it's, for now, useful as a bullshit filter for the rest of the Internet.
No. Three points and one comment do not make a dupe. You‘ve been here long enough to know that.
If you’re not already, consider scraping and building a list of company workday public instances and pulling job postings from there as well. Should be straightforward to find breadcrumbs in search engines with those URLs, or render permutations for testing based on known domain patterns.
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Not sure I understand this. You've basically set up a job board where employers can post listings for free and job seekers have to pay a monthly fee to access them. So what value does one get over visiting Indeed/LinkedIn/Glassdoor etc. which are free for applicants and charge the companies instead?
By that definition we invented AGI during the industrial revolution.
FastMail, Dropbox, Apple iCloud (Photos, Keychain, etc)
My concern is that the value a project brings isn't always objectively measurable. You can try to approximate it, sure, using # of downloads and whatever else, but then those metrics can also be easily gamed if the incentives are large enough. For example if you applied this same logic to the npm ecosystem then the creator of is-odd would retire a billionaire.
Regardless, donating something is always better than donating nothing, so kudos.
If you haven't heard of the musical genre before, here's a decent example:
Eiichi Ohtaki - A Long Vacation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Ox44_7puU
Won best album of 1981 per the Japan Record Awards.
The same "internet sleuths" who have had a 0% success rate in this kind of thing? He is probably more likely to get caught now that they're not involved and adding confusion by accusing innocent people.
In this particular instance I think it's less a question of virtue and more the issue of internet sleuths having an intimate understanding of the power of the internet and fearing the backlash that will be visited upon them if they participate in finding the murderer. It's a form of self-censorship.
"Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward, published in 1980, is a hard sci-fi novel about intelligent life forms living on a neutron star. It's superb.
Oh they're not sitting on their asses doing nothing. They're reinvesting the rent into buying, renting and/or flipping more property faster, screwing up things further for everyone.
Yet it has relatively fast compilers, than a couple of modern languages, even on aging hardware versus the gaming rigs required for those modern languages.
"... a solution to one of the most pressing issues in the green energy landscape – how to produce small-scale, affordable, generators of clean wind energy."
Wrong problem, unless you're in an isolated area. There are already good wind turbines for isolated plants. That's more a ruggedness problem than an efficiency problem.
There are good reasons wind turbines have become huge. The big ones are far more cost-effective, partly because wind speeds are higher around 100-200m from the ground. 1970s wind turbines were in the 10KW-20KW range. Pacheco Pass in California had row after row of them. Now, 1MW is small, and the little ones have been removed.
Here's a video of the thing.[1] No info about how much power they get out, but it's probably under a kilowatt. Three standard solar planels will produce more than that, and would fit in about the same ground space.
This is a decorative object, not a power source. It's in the same category as energy-generating sidewalks.[2] These are Rule of Cool devices, not useful energy sources.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StLyTZazgVE
[2] https://www.archdaily.com/911965/sidewalks-that-generate-ene...
No it wouldn't, as there are garbage collected systems programming languages with them, already 40 years ago, but as usual in Go, we ignore computing history.
Additionally, just having actual enumerations, Pascal / Algo style, not ML style, would already be an improvement over the iota/const hack.
> It essentially mandated that everyone get coverage
Given that for the four tax years for which there was an actual penalty associated with that provision, the average penalty paid ranged from less than half (2014) to less than double (2017) the average monthly cost of individual health insurance, it essentially did nothing of the sort, even for the brief period where it might superficially have seemed to if you didn’t examine the details much.
> Now that most employers have self-funded health plans
Most employers (either by count of employers, or by count of employees) do not have self-funded health plans. Most large (>500 employees) tend to have at least one self-funded health plan, but smaller employers generally don’t, and large employers employ only about 1/4 of the workforce.
2 years living in a big city enjoying entrepreneurship, hacking, socializing, music, sports, climbing, triathlons – all without the shackles of a 9-5 office job – sounds like a dream. Resourceful people find ways to pay their bills, and I'm sure you will as well. Best of luck!
See "The Gamesman" (1978). Craftsmen, organization men, jungle fighters, and gamesmen. Same concept.
Am I missing something about where this guy is getting money? He posted his bank account, which is essentially empty, and it seems his only current income is $600/mo, which is less than half of his rent. So how is this guy surviving currently?
I don't mean to be one of those people that shout "privilege" at every turn on the Internet, but most people with no savings and barely any income would be freaking out unless they had some family or support network to lean on, which I noticed any discussion of is suspiciously absent.
The problem with that is that in Go, I need to be able to put methods on those things, for reasons possibly unrelated to the interface in question. For that they need to be named. For that you might as well do what has worked since Go 1.0 and just put an unexported method in the interface and declare several instances of that interface in your package.
Honestly interfaces with unexported methods are 90%+ of what people want. It's just not spelled the way they expect. And if you're not going to be happy except at absolutely 100%, a position I can and do respect, there's no point waiting for Go to get any better because I can guarantee you no Go proposal for sum types will fix that you will be forced to have a "nil" value in the sum type, so there's no point in waiting.
I asked it:
> I have a sorcerer character on D&D 5e and I've reached level 6. What do I get?
It confabulated a bunch of stuff. I also asked GPT-4, it confabulated a bit. Claude was spot on.
That was going to happen regardless. From Meta's perspective it's better for their platforms to contain their own AI slop than OpenAI's.
EasyKnock
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/easyknock
Related:
With $215M capital raise, EasyKnock launches product for home shoppers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19918430 - May 2019
I think it's a mistake to project changes in US society onto that in Japan. Kids there are still largely free range.
Some combination of investments and labor, those are your choices.
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee...
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/11/29/how-to-retire-for...
And yet, many firms continue to offshore to Central America, South America, Eastern Europe, and India for technology labor (Africa as well for ML/AI data labeling). Lots of room for policy to run here.
Was there voter fraud? If not the election was legitimate and you should not complain. Trust me when I say that as someone who is from a dysfunctional democracy, where rioters recently overthrew the government that had won the last election in a landslide.
Once you start saying that the election results are invalid because “the people were misled” or because of ancillary legal violations, or similar excuses, there is no logical stopping point to how far that goes. This is what happened in Bangladesh, where I’m from. People always complain that there was this or that reason why their party didn’t win, they have protests over who won, they boycott elections and then complain the results are invalid because their party didn’t participate. You cannot run a democracy that way. It’s impossible to have a democracy when you try to second guess voters’ reasons for voting the way they did.
How about we go further, and replace "Governments" with "human civilization" and "tax-free status" with "continued existence"?
It really amazes me that the president of one of those bad franchises like Subway or Quiznos hasn't been shot by the owner of one of their sandwich shop. Or that somebody hasn't been shot over those timeshare scams.
Wonder what he'd think about my very lispy chess engine I'm writing in Python. A player like that might look like
opener(ender(mcts(ender(ply1(pieces+squares,temperature=25))
Rivian's R&D center is in Palo Alto, but their charger map doesn't show a public charger anywhere near there. They have zero chargers of their own in Silicon Valley.
There's a standards group at SAE working on making US charger payment compatibility work.[1] BP Pulse, General Motors, Ford, ChargePoint, Electrify America, Tesla, Toyota, and Rivian are on board.
It's good to see more higher-powered chargers. When and if solid state batteries with 9 minute charge times ship in volume, they'll need big chargers. QuantumState and ProLogium announced "breakthroughs" again this week. They do that a lot.
Samples of solid state batteries do exist. It's quantity production that's hard. Ehang, the flying car company, demonstrated a 48 minute flight using prototype solid state batteries recently.[2]
As I've said before, I think the future is one for one replacement of gasoline pumps with fast chargers. Once charge times drop below 10 minutes, a charging station doesn't have to look like a parking lot.
[1] https://www.sae.org/news/2024/12/sae-itc-plug-and-charge-fra...
Be thankful that it's not China doing the invasion, because you'd all have to stop buying anything except maybe local produce, and boycott all brands, foreign and domestic alike, because approximately everything is ultimately made in Chinese factories, thus contributing money to the Chinese government and its propaganda machine.
If you're "conspiracy theory"-ometer is asking you for evidence for the proposition that "countries do not simply lie back and fervently hope for things to go their way but take concrete actions to advance their interests", your meter is tuned waaaaaaaay too sensitively. Whether that's a conspiracy is up to your definition, but that it's a theory that somehow needs substantiation is absurd. It's a plain and obvious fact of the world. Organizations of any size in general do not generally just sort of sit back and hope things go their way, but take action. "People take actions to advance their own goals" is not a "conspiracy theory".
When I was there I met some of these dogs. Here are a couple of photos of the very friendly pooches: https://imgur.com/a/8vsKxzp
Right after they finally repeal Obamacare, one presumes.
Oh, it's been closer to 20 years for the rest of the world to catch up to Unicode than 30. We aren't at "perfect" now but we're certainly down to the trickier corner cases that are difficult to even see how you solve the problems at all, let alone code the solutions, and that's just reality's ugly nose sticking in to our pristine world of numbers.
But there really isn't any other solution. Yes, there will be an uncomfortable transition. Yes, it blows. But there isn't any other solution that is going to work other than deal with it and take the hits as they come. The software needs to be updated. The presumption that usernames are from some 7-bit ASCII subset is simply unreasonable. We'll be chasing bugs with these features for years. But that's not some sort of optional aspect that we can somehow work around. It's just what is coming down the pike. Better to grasp the nettle firmly [1] than shy away from it.
At least this transition can learn a lot from previous transitions, e.g., I would mandate something like NFKC normalization applied at the operating system level on the way in for API calls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence Unicode case folding decisions can also be made at that point. The point here not being these specific suggestions per se, but that previous efforts have already created a world where I can reference these problems and solutions with specific existing terminology and standards, rather than being the bleeding-edge code that is figuring this all out for the first time.
[1]: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/grasp-the-nettle.html
> from a situation where you could just pay with cash/card for fuel to having monopolized single-brand car fueling stations?
The Model T was released in 1908 [1]. Standard Oil was broken up in 1911 [2], 6 years after Bowser added a hose attachment to his pumps [3].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jers...
> and are doing anything possible to get rid of him.
As long as it's legal, there is nothing very wrong with it. If he committed crimes that influenced the election, then the election is void and he should be banned from politics.
Why wouldn't that be? We've had several generations of LLMs since ChatGPT took the world by storm; current models are very much aware of LLMs that came before them, as well as associated discussions on how to best use them.
> you can't get rid of hacking through a bit of legislature
We can make it harder. Switch our telecoms to E2E by default.
We’ve shown the current set-up can be exploited by adversaries. It’s not a huge leap given the prevalence of encrypted messaging apps. And you can market it as a finger to the deep state on one side and a limit on the executive to the other.
Eggs are dying out, pointed out by this 2 year old blog post:
https://about.scarf.sh/post/python-wheels-vs-eggs
The metadata problem is related to the problem that pip had an unsound resolution algorithm based on "try to resolve something optimistically and hope it works when you get stuck and try to backtrack".
I did a lot of research along the line that led to uv 5 years ago and came to the conclusion that installing out of wheels you can set up a SMT problem the same way maven does and solve it right the first time. They had a PEP to publish metadata files for wheels in PyPi but I'd built something before that could suck the metadata out of a wheel with just 3 http range requests. I believed that any given project might depend on a legacy egg and in those cases you can build that egg into a wheel via a special process and store it in a private repo (a must for the perfect Python build system)
My understanding of it is that in eukaryotes the genome is folded up like the pages of a book and that one function of non-coding DNA is control of the opening up of these "pages" which in turn plays a major role. You are not just looking at RNAs being expressed but also sections of DNA that those RNAs bind to, pieces that bind to each other to keep pages shut, probably things like the hinges and springs in a pop-up book.
Genetic engineering always had the problem that you just don't want to express a gene that makes a protein but you want to express that gene a lot. For instance the first version of Golden Rice produced detectable but not nutritionally significant amounts of Vitamin A. It took them quite a few more years to get Golden Rice 2 which produces enough to matter.
It's been known a long time that a lot of genes associated with diseases are non-coding, but looking at what my RSS reader shows me it seems that very rapid progress is being made right now on understanding these hidden regulatory networks.
> While the court today decides that the Act's divestment mandate survives a First Amendment challenge, that is not without regard for the significant interests at stake on all sides. Some 170 million Americans use TikTok to create and view all sorts of free expression and engage with one another and the world. And yet, in part precisely because of the platform's expansive reach, Congress and multiple Presidents determined that divesting it from the PRC's control is essential to protect our national security.
To give effect to those competing interests, Congress chose divestment as a means of paring away the PRC's control-and thus containing the security threat—while maintaining the app and its algorithm for American users. But if no qualifying divestment occurs—including because of the PRC's or ByteDance's unwillingness-many Americans may lose access to an outlet for expression, a source of community, and even a means of income.
Congress judged it necessary to assume that risk given the grave national-security threats it perceived. And because the record reflects that Congress's decision was considered, consistent with longstanding regulatory practice, and devoid of an institutional aim to suppress particular messages or ideas, we are not in a position to set it aside.
One of the best HN redesigns I've seen in that it's not just "add whitespace" but is a totally different layout.
My take on social media is that you have to have an image in a post if you want people to engage with it.
Because they still cost 3x as an inkjet in most places, and then a toner cartidge costs about 100 €.
Doesn't matter if they happen to print longer, most folks care about the money on the spot.
Can you not just use the URL with the token that signs you in automatically?
More practically, the fallout would blow in their direction.
> Searching for real time information that happens within a day is way worse than google
This is fair. On the other elements, I’ve found Kagi to be superior. In particular, having shopping results separated from recommendations (and summarising them with quick answers). As for favicons, uprank or even anchor your favourite domains [1]. That’s what the favicon was proxying.
[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/website-info-personalize...
James Goetz is a partner at Sequoia and joined the board in November 2019. He has previously served on networking-focused boards. He has a degree in electrical engineering, is likely semi-technical, and understands the industry. He’s relatively new but likely does not have a technical background. He’s been on the board long enough to be partially to blame.
I crossed paths with Jim Goetz at Accel because of the company Vital Signs that he started. I am not sure why they say "but likely does not have a technical background" because I can attest that he clearly did. Weird.
What's your preferred solution for representing the CJK languages?
In that year I finally migrated from a Timex 2068 to a 386SX PC at home, I could have bought a PC with OS/2 and decided against it.
It would have required additional 1 000€ in todays money on the bank credit, to get a PC with OS/2, instead of one with DR-DOS 5/Windows 3.1.
Yep. Elephant in the room of media economics.
Look at ads on daytime broadcast TV and it is: medicare advantage, something you can get from medicare, a medicare scam, personal injury lawyer, some drug your insurance might pay for, personal injury lawyer #2. Ads for something you spend your own money on are few and far between (maybe you will get a car ad because if nobody bought a car who'd get hit by a car and call William Matar?)
People in that demographic don't have money to spend so they get subprime ads.
In the day newspapers and magazines thought about the balance of ad and subscription revenue a lot.
On top of (1) people have money for a subscription being better qualified than people who don't, (2) people who are motivated to get a subscription are qualified because they care about the topic (you can get a free magazine about construction equipment but you'd better convince them you are really in the industry) and (3) in the current era, subscribers give up their name and other personal details and will be more definitely tracked.
Usually when a the founding CEO of a public company steps into a strategic non-operations position, it's basically their way of saying "I'm taking the money and retiring" without tanking the stock by just leaving.
By taking a strategic role, investors are less worried because they know the CEO is still around.
But in this case it looks like it is legitimately a health reason. I hope he heals quickly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge
> In 1992, Apple and IBM cofounded Taligent, based upon Pink, an operating system with a mass of sophisticated object-oriented compiler and application framework technology from Apple. Pink became CommonPoint, the partnership was dissolved, and CommonPoint was absorbed into VisualAge starting with the Compound Document Framework to handle OLE objects in VisualAge C++ 3.5 for Windows. In February 1997, the first mass release of Taligent technology came in the form of the Open Class within VisualAge C++ 4.0 ... The original prototype which led to VisualAge was an attempt "to make something like the NeXT interface builder" within the Smalltalk/V development environment.
That's why I keep saying[0] advertising is a cancer on society.
TV and news are one of the first media it consumed so thoroughly people don't remember there was a time where ads weren't expected, or default, or integral part of anything.
--
[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
The Syrian government has fallen. It no longer governs Syria.
For 50 years, the Syrian government has been controlled by the Assad family.
The Assad family controls the governance of Syria no more.