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Surely there are no other macroeconomic factors that could have played a role in this decline too


Can you elaborate? Is twilio a bad actor?


Perhaps the incentives of said UX team don't align with those of the user. They might be optimizing for maximal time spent on the site, for instance.


Yup, and that's what I meant by them turning the pain dial all the way towards money. Presumably they can run A/B tests and will no doubt be able to prove that this change makes them $X more money (since it's 1/6 a full screen ad after all). At the cost of being a miserable tasteless change.

The YouTube team has been blindly chasing monetization at the expense of their website being useful and pleasant for a while now. Unfortunately it seems they can get away with it. I wrote this post to just shake my fist at the cloud


The thing Tom Brady is accused of (deflating footballs) is scientifically proven to be a result of the ideal gas law. The NFL admitted they had no idea that was a thing when they levied the accusations at him.

Even if you believe the NFL and it was "more probable than not" that he was "generally aware" of a scheme to deflate the balls, let's not pretend that accusation is even in the same universe as what Bonds and Armstrong did


Perhaps he failed to cheat, but the text messages that came out make it very clear that he attempted to.


Though a far cry from steroids & doping, DeflateGate was found NOT to be explainable by the ideal gas law.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191107043435/https://static.nf...

"we have concluded that it is more probable than not that Jim McNally (the Officials Locker Room attendant for the Patriots) and John Jastremski (an equipment assistant for the Patriots) participated in a deliberate effort to release air from Patriots game balls after the balls were examined by the referee

...

Our consultants confirmed that a reduction in air pressure is a natural result of footballs moving from a relatively warm environment such as a locker room to a colder environment such as a playing field. According to our scientific consultants, however, the reduction in pressure of the Patriots game balls cannot be explained completely by basic scientific principles, such as the Ideal Gas Law, based on the circumstances and conditions likely to have been present on the day of the AFC Championship Game. In addition, the average pressure drop of the Patriots game balls exceeded the average pressure drop of the Colts balls ...

...

Based on the testing and analysis, however, Exponent concluded that, within the range of likely game conditions and circumstances studied, they could identify no set of credible environmental or physical factors that completely accounts for the Patriots halftime measurements or for the additional loss in air pressure exhibited by the Patriots game balls, as compared to the loss in air pressure exhibited by the Colts game balls. Dr. Marlow agreed with this conclusion. This absence of a credible scientific explanation for the Patriots halftime measurements tends to support a finding that human intervention may account for the additional loss of pressure exhibited by the Patriots balls."


The president has called him that on occasion


Once, and in context it was "Tim [at] Apple", because he loves to name drop like that." Any future mentions of Tim Apple by the president are tongue in cheek.


Probably correct for OP to present as "Tim Apple" (hence giving some kind of hint to reflect on)


TIL. Thank you!


Overtime pay? Is this common for oncalls? Never gotten it myself, every time I ask they reply with "just take the time back on another day" as if my time is fungible. Weekend time is worth far more to me than weekday time


Some companies do on-call bonuses, overtime pay for on-call incidents, or other schemes.

In my experience, it’s not a net win. They’ve budgeted the same amount for compensation either way, so you’re probably getting lower base comp if they’re allocating some of it for on-call.

It also creates an atmosphere where on-call becomes more normalized, because you’re getting paid extra to do it. Some people, usually young single people, will try to milk the overtime for as much as they can, dragging out the hours spent doing on-call work because every extra hour spent on the problem makes their paycheck bigger.


I think they finally changed this recently to allow you to paste in- I've resorted to the same workaround in the past though.


It's a real input field now!


Agreed. Also just so you know, invaluable is one of those weird words that is intensified with in-, not negated. It means even more valuable, not worthless


> It means even more valuable, not worthless

The "in-" actually is negation; the word means something like "NOT susceptible to valuation", i.e. beyond value.


Hah, you're right - sorry for the confusion and thanks for the note, I'm not a native English speaker :)


Mullvad is an NSA honeypot? Got any sources on that?


NSA tapped the phones of the German Prime Minister.

They are the same spooks that intercept router gear in transit, flashed it with secret firmware, then put it back in the mail. Like, of course the United Stated Intelligence apparatus, agencies with an unlimited budget, a national security mission, and is completely exempt from all laws has 100% capability to spy on some tiny company in Sweden.


Yes, let me just get my tin foil roll, stand up in front of the mirror,…


I agree there's a very high chance they and the majority of other VPNs are - or if not the US some other intel org.

The US government has form (what was that early crypto machine they sold to allies and it was backdoored?), and they'd be foolish to miss such a strategically obvious play.


>Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production

For the record this exact thing does exist for bigger streamers. See Ludwig for example, he switched to YouTube exclusively because it was a better deal than his twitch offer.


I've seen paid exclusivity deals from youtube before (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/youtube-reportedly-paid-usd160...) and while I'm surprised they paid a streamer like Ludwig to defect I'm pretty sure those kinds of deals don't exist for 99% of the content that gets uploaded to the platform.


99% of page views? Absolutely. Mr Beast absolutely has a YouTube contract and absolutely drives percentage points of traffic.


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