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trogdor
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trogdor
3y ago
> What percent of your monthly profit is from Premium viewers vs Ad-watching viewers. Around 5%
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trogdor
3y ago
I’m a full-time YouTuber. On a per-view basis, I earn slightly more from Premium views than from ad-watching views. (We’re talking tiny fractions of a cent, but they add up.) Also, demonetized videos are still eligible for Premium revenue.
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trogdor
3y ago
What low voltage wiring do you have in your house?
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trogdor
3y ago
Sounds yummy.
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trogdor
3y ago
I get your point, but it sounds like you forgot where you were commenting. Most of the people here work in tech and are very-high earners. Your overwhelmingly-non-unionized audience are hardly “poor, desperate little plebs.”
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trogdor
4y ago
“Once you get the message, hang up the phone.”
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trogdor
4y ago
>I've met a ton of folks who, like me, decided to sail off into the sunset and started a youtube channel and now that's all they do and are thriving. That is very surprising to me, and I am a reasonably-successful YouTuber. For
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trogdor
4y ago
>Plus it's obvious that the US government is doing everything in their power to have Musk on as short of a leash as possible. What are you referring to?
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trogdor
4y ago
>People have been imprisoned for receiving classified information In the United States? I doubt it. See the Pentagon Papers case.
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4y ago
I really don't know. With the caveat that this is just an anecdote, one of my family members is an extremely intelligent and highly accomplished man. He graduated from Yale law, worked at a very high level in the executive branch, and
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4y ago
I am sympathetic to stories like those, and I don't doubt that bad things happen, but it's important to recognize that people suffering from serious mental illness are often unreliable narrators. It's a difficult situation.
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trogdor
4y ago
I think some doctors don’t want to get involved with patients who are involved in litigation regarding the reason for their visit.
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trogdor
4y ago
Sounds more like you failed the Turing test rather than your friends chatbot passing it :)
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trogdor
4y ago
In fairness, that kind of thing arguably happens with stocks as well, though algorithmic trading. Though it’s not small amounts.
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trogdor
4y ago
It’s surprising to me that it’s legal to sell something and subsequently remove functionality from that already-sold thing.
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4y ago
>You should not be permitted to deliberately harass people you don't know doing nothing wrong in this way I doubt that most people who call the police about kids playing outside are trying to harass anyone. I think they are just mis
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trogdor
4y ago
> A lot of the FUD going around precludes that AGI means death. Just a friendly heads-up that “preclude” means “prevent,” or “make impossible.” I think you meant to say “assumes.”
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trogdor
4y ago
>beyond an unreasonable doubt That is not the legal burden of proof in a criminal case. It’s beyond a reasonable doubt.
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trogdor
4y ago
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13392/w133...
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trogdor
4y ago
>hit minority pedestrians because their training data was woefully inadequate What evidence led you to that conclusion? I have never heard that claim before.
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trogdor
4y ago
>since the charlie brown affair sullied my reputation among some of the legislators I don’t know what you are referring to. Mind explaining?
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trogdor
4y ago
Restorations are not eligible for copyright protection.
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trogdor
4y ago
Doesn’t China create advanced electronics?
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trogdor
4y ago
Good job! Keep it up!
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trogdor
4y ago
When Lehman Brothers collapsed, the associated insurance payouts totaled ~$100 billion.
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trogdor
4y ago
>Unfortunately, many small companies and first-time founders can't get a business account at one of the big banks. Why? I opened my first business account at Bank of America moments after I created the legal entity. Opening a busine
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trogdor
4y ago
Minus the “purchased” part. He just wants it.
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trogdor
4y ago
You can purchase insurance for excess deposits. Businesses that have to keep large amounts of cash on hand routinely do this.
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trogdor
4y ago
>I remember going to a branch of Bank of America to open a bank account for Posterous and not being able to. I believe you, but this doesn’t make any sense to me. I have opened multiple business accounts at Bank of America. It’s just pap
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trogdor
4y ago
Yes. They could have purchased insurance for their excess deposits. Other large businesses do this as a matter of course.
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