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Interesting about "supplementation of vitamin D-replete individuals does not provide demonstrable health benefits". The OP article does clearly call out that the benefits of vitamin D are in cases of _vitamin D deficiency_. It goes on to state that there is a "worldwide vitamin D deficiency pandemic" and mentions that 32% of children and adults have a circulating concentration of 25(OH)D < 20 ng/mL (i.e. vitamin D deficient).
So I think the broader point of the article was that many of us are vitamin D deficient, and those of us that are, have increased health risk, and that's why we need to supplement our vitamin D.
Also, subscriptions are charged at 30% for the first year, which then drops to 15% for subsequent years.
When we sold software through resellers years before the App Store we often paid 40%-45%. We found it absurd at first too, but we learned that large businesses only bought from certain resellers or the resellers could sell into businesses we couldn’t reach (a sales staff in business or marketing to consumers). In some rare cases we negotiated to 30% so I don't find these fees out of the norm.
I had a similar question and after reading far too much I put together https://coinpoet.com
I'd love to have others here try it out and give me some feedback on how I could make it useful. It's only a couple weeks in but already seems valuable to me. What am I missing?
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Well done. Now that I've seen your getting started video (https://aiconfig.lastmileai.dev/docs/getting-started) this seems obvious. I feel really silly that I copy & paste from the browser back into a file just so I can save different prompts and results to see what I liked best. Thanks for sharing and for open sourcing!
Thanks. I hadn't dug into that link, but I did based on your comment. It is a Congressional investigation that is rooted on a report from The Markup [1] that, as you note isn't about an accidental breach by Google, but one where multiple companies send extensive PII to Google about site visitors. While not necessarily a "breach", I think this lead of personal data plays to Signal article's point though. The Markup article's git repo with HAR files of what was sent to Google was convincing.[2]
I almost skipped reading into this article because I love Signal and it's mission (and their rare commitment to stick to it) and would have known it's good. Yet, the details on expenses and infrastructure was a good read. $1.3M/yr for temporary storage! $6M for verification codes during sign-up!? Toll fraud!? GOOG & FB data center spend, data breaches from GOOG, MSFT, et. al 50 full-time employees vs 3K or 4K for similar apps! All interesting.
Following on the heels of a recent thread about the downward spiral of small websites due to Google and other factors, Medium was a savior for some of these small writers. It seems Medium is contributing to the attack on small websites now to. The article mentions:
> I have been writing for Medium for more than a year. It has been a great experience and I was fairly compensated for it.
> It all changed on August 1st when Medium decided to modify its Partner Program. Before, Medium’s writers were compensated given the time that readers spent reading their articles. It seemed fair and correct to me. Now, we are only compensated if readers clap, highlight, or reply to an article, and if they stay on the article for more than 30 seconds.
> ...
> The consequence is that, while I’m writing for Medium behind its paywall, I’m now only paid a few cents a day for it.
Google buying up Feedburner only to shut it down didn't help the small websites federated via RSS/Atom either. Seems like it was replaced with centralized medium now. BTW Is there a good feedburner alternative out there?
Managers and marketers have more say on the software that you write than you do, but why? It’s easy to shrug and move on to the next incremental improvement. They are easy and gratifying to complete, but you won’t influence and you won’t innovate. Making an argument about a bigger, better idea is risky. Although you and I both know that you have a great idea in there somewhere (not good, but great) it’s hard to prove it, heck it’s hard to explain it, even to yourself.
I have cited sources that include a balanced account of Jews living alongside Arabs in peace throughout the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years. Neither I or the source I cited indicates there was zero violence. If you read into it, you'll find violence started escalating in the 19th century after nationalism was introduced. Over hundreds of years, is there anywhere where anyone didn't encounter "multiple" violent confrontations? If zero violent confrontations is the standard we're judging by, I don't think any country will meet that standard.
I'm not sure why a factual account of history is "bizarre" because it starts in 1885. The "Jews were there first" argument, the idea that we should redrew the world as it was 2000+ years ago (but ignore the subsequent ~1000 years), isn't a new one. I just always wonder why the logic only applies to Palestine, but somehow not the rest of the world.