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So that your escape money doesn’t get eaten away by inflation. You could put it in a low-ish risk portfolio composed of some bonds, indexes, etc so that it continues to make some amount of money.

Outcompete in what sense? Certainly more working can lead to more of something, but I’m not sure we all agree on what that something is, and whether or not all of it is valuable (or even whether a significant amount is something to avoid).

I did biphasic sleep in high school (1.5h nap at 16:30, 4.5h sleep at 2:00) for my junior and part of senior year, and it was incredible. It allowed me to do nearly all of my homework right when it was assigned while also having time for my hobbies. Starting the homework right after the nap was great for focus and productivity.

I have often wondered what the best way to communicate things like that is, because of this exact problem.

It seems like you really can’t win, if you’re the one doing the messaging, trading results now against trust later.

The implicit threat of loss of funding and/or access is often enough to sway editorial decisions in a way that could appear like direct control.

This sounds like a healthy perspective and I appreciate you acknowledging that having kids might not be for everyone, as someone who is leaning that way myself. Thank you.

Linus Sebastian from Linus Media Group has said somewhere that a YouTube premium viewer is worth several times as much as an ad-supported viewer apparently. Apologies for no citation on this.

Link seems to be broken ?

I understand you don’t agree with the cheaper cars argument, and I don’t either.

To the people that would seriously make this argument though, I ask them this:

If the location or other telemetry data is so valuable that the manufacturer selling it can have a real impact on the purchase price of the car, then doesn’t that value have to come from somewhere? Other companies wouldn’t buy that data if they didn’t think they could use it to make more money than the data is worth. That money the data buyers then are hoping to make would come from the very people that the data did, in most cases, right? So the consumer has ended up with less money compared to if they didn’t have their data sold, even if they got some trinkets in return.

It seems like consequences are the only language that bad actors understand, unfortunately.

You’d be surprised what modern neodymium drivers in a well designed enclosure can accomplish bass-wise. Though you are right in that the laws of physics have not changed, and something has to give, usually what has “given” is the increase in power output of small amplifier boards, thus allowing DIYers (like myself) and manufacturers alike to throw more power into lower efficiency, but higher mass (and thus more bass in a smaller enclosure) drivers.

With Hoffman’s iron law where you can have two of efficient, low, or small, it seems like efficiency is what has gone down to get more bass extension while keeping enclosures small-ish.

I’d be happy to provide photos+construction details of one of the portable speakers I made, and frequency response measurements if you’d like, to illustrate this.