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I'm self hosting to learn. I've been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is "mission critical", so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it's helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).

Being Christian or going to church doesn't make you a good person any more than a speed limit sign prevents people from speeding.

You're spot on with accountability. Why not just legally allow people harmed by following the advice to be ableto sue the influencers and allow those with proper credentials to become certified in the topic and certification protects from lawsuits?

Or maybe not the second part. Anybody giving bad advice should be sued.

"This isn't medical advice, but drinking battery acid will allow you to live forever." Would never hold up in court.

Freedom of speech seems to be the most misunderstood right.

The US is not in a recession as of this posting date. I read something recently from Fidelity Investments that suggests that the US is heading toward a recession.

Your exact question was found on the Q&A page

Supporting evidence Key takeaways

• The US economy continues to grow, although it is sending some mixed signals.
  

• Corporate earnings remain strong even as consumer expectations sag.
  

• US tariff policy remains uncertain, and much of the impact from tariff hikes is still ahead.
  

Additionally, you may find this page interesting. It charts the business cycle across countries and quarters. If you play with the selections, you'll see that countries' economies do not always progress forward, nor are the rates of change consistent, so the page is not a predictor of what's to come.

FWIW, a financial advisor that I know said that his company is recommending that their investors shift to a portfolio with more foreign investments.

You just described most tech stocks.

As Cory Doctrow explains:

the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies.

I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I've ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.

Here's an example race: https://www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME

I think you're on to something. This could accelerate the movement of tech jobs to India & other countries vs just importing cheap labor.

In the past, when tech jobs were outsourced, it was just the coders. Lately, ilve noticed entire teams being outsourced, manager, project/product managers, coders, agilists, designers and others. Big companies are letting all technology be performed offshore and only the business units remain. This administration policy move could accelerate this trend, which could have far reaching implications.

I scrolled way too far to find this.

I don't know why there's more down votes than up votes, but I found the article interesting, even if it was a little light and fluffy.

This may not help at all, but I worked at a toxic workplace. I got good at recognizing when I was being manipulated. Eventually, I learned that if I hid the hurt and acted as if the jabs didn't hurt, it would send the toxic folks into a toxic rage, but the ironic part is that they could not complain to management about me not being affected.

One day, I was called from one of the people from a recorded line (certain customer facing phones were always recorded, you could even hear the beeps). After the call, I told my manager, we went to HR, who pulled the recording and that person was moved to another area. I left shortly after for other reasons.

This contradicts what I'm reading in that AI model costs grow with each generation, not shrink.

I came here to see if it was the early signs of the demise of YouTube. I secretly want all these content producers to move to a privacy-respecting platform, especially those who produce tech or privacy related content.

Now, for why I don't watch videos anymore, the medium isn't as easily consumed by me. I prefer text. At home, it's noisy and I get interrupted every 90 seconds. I lose interest quickly and fast forwarding isn't as easy as scanning text for a topic shift. My mind wanders on some topics, internally exploring that topic deeper. With text, i can just stop reading. With video, i need to realize that I'm processing a thought and hit pause, then rewind a bit. I get interrupted a lot. On the bus, I need to remember headphones and I hate when people shoulder surf. That's harder to do with text. Give me a plain text RSS feed that I can read anytime.