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Maybe something like Polya's "How to Solve it" and/or Solow's "How to Read and Do Proofs" would help. When I studied math in college I very much struggled with more advanced mathematical reasoning and those two books helped me tremendously. I would also venture to say that being able to better reason using the techniques presented help in many other areas of life than just math.

Frankly I'm surprised they didn't nip this in the bud years ago. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess.

I like how you prompted for a 50 year span and the response claimed to be over a 28 year and 55 year span in the same sentence.

> According to a comparison of 28 years > 1961-2016

Very curious how governments will approach taxing these as gas tax revenues shrink. I know in some places your registration is higher but after talking with a coworker who pays more to register his EV, he admits it's negligible compared to the amount he'd pay in gas taxes with an ICE---just not an "invisible" tax like gas is. Doesn't seem as clean (ha) as Fed gas taxes, state, etc. Federal level car registration sounds a bit nightmarish, though I guess a registry is probably already being managed given the EV tax credits. Anyway, just thoughts.

YouTube I am not so sure, I have a feeling it has to do with how little sway the content owners have in the ads that play on their videos. If you are a big channel you may have enough of an audience that more traditional brands would like to reach but for most I imagine you take what you can get. Though I really am not sure how YouTube does things--they are one of the "walled gardens."

The same commercial 10 times in a row is an awful experience and most media owners try to avoid it, but depending on the content it could be the only ad bidding against you as a viewer. Generally there are frequency limits in place to avoid this from happening. On more mature platforms this tends to be the case. Sometimes it can't be avoided due to glitches, poor ad tech stack integrations, or greed, the owners would rather prioritize the cash over UX.

I wonder:

a) if there actually was an issue or if the team just upped his exposure after a tantrum

b) when Elon will pull the Tom from myspace strategy and just add himself to everyone's following list.

Interesting, could be my particular market. I work mostly in the video space, not display. I imagine the media matters too--I'm involved with higher quality media owners.

I work in the industry and ad blockers are not a significant concern. It's a cat and mouse game for sure, but the vast vast majority of traffic is doing nothing to block ads.

I guess an immeasurable userbase's potential spend is hard to measure against total realized ad spend, but in my corner of the world traffic, users, and revenue are only increasing YoY.

It's impressive the amount of effort the Runescape community puts into these projects. It's amazing how many people have abandoned the game at one point in youth, yet come back and contribute as an adult. It makes me wonder what current games will still exist in 20+ years.

He also claimed that water is indeed wet.

In my experience noncompetes aren't enforced, unless you are very high up in the company and even then C-level folks usually get nice incentives to stay away from their competitors.

Reminds me of the Homer Simpson's control room, #5 especially so