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New comment by panda888888 in "Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production"

panda888888 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:06:07 +0000

19 subjects? I'll disregard the results. That's not a big enough sample size to be meaningful.

New comment by panda888888 in "Facing life-threatening miscarriage in Arkansas, calls to governor didn't help"

panda888888 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:52:36 +0000

If you read the article, it said it was a 4 hour drive in a rural area. Too much risk of bleeding out, even if you're in an ambulance.

New comment by panda888888 in "Ontology vs. Semantic Layer"

panda888888 — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:38:15 +0000

The concept of an ontology is really simple: thing - relationship - thing. Example: peanut butter - goes well with - jelly.

This is in contract to a taxonomy, which is hierarchical:

(upper-level category): Sandwiches

(sub-type): peanut butter & jelly

(sub-type): grilled cheese

(sub-type): BLT

(upper-level category): Soups

(sub-type): tomato

(sub-type): chicken noodle

Taxonomies are kinda boring because they're just hierarchical lists.

Ontologies are cool; the relationships are usually the important thing.

New comment by panda888888 in "Ontology vs. Semantic Layer"

panda888888 — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:32:20 +0000

Ontologies have become much more mainstream over the past year or so. Case in point: Microsoft's new Fabric IQ product, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/iq/overview. I don't know how good this product is, but there's a LOT of interest in the space.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:54:56 +0000

Eh, maybe. I feel like once you're a sellout, the situation is out of your hands. As a founder, you have to accept that, or you shouldn't sell the business in the first place. Or you could structure some very strict buyout terms, I suppose.

Companies pay obscene amounts of money all the time for things don't end up using. Google does it all the time. Was Disney acting a fool here? Absolutely. But is it within their rights to do so? Also yes. (I'm actually kinda surprised they didn't sunset it sooner, since I don't think it was making much money.)

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:49:27 +0000

I guess I read the tone of his blog post a little differently than you did. I basically interpreted it as boiling down to "disney sucks" and while he did admit to making some mistakes, IMO he didn't take nearly enough personal responsibility for the situation ending up with what we have today. I can empathize because it obviously is a disappointing result, but I interpreted the blog post as basically a complaint against his ex-employer (a "how could they have done this!" type of thing), not as a mature reflection that recognizes that he himself effectively caused this result. If he had said, "I shouldn't have been a sellout to ANY big corp," I'd feel differently.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:35:31 +0000

Maybe it's just a stylistic choice, but if this happened to me, I wouldn't write a long post about it. I'd tweet, "They deleted the archive; what a sad end to this chapter of my life" (or something like that to let the world know what happened & that I was disappointed), but I wouldn't write a long rant. Maybe a short blog post, maybe.

I don't view his post as useful or insightful, but instead view it as demonstrating a lack of understanding of normal business practices. It's like he didn't anticipate that this could happen, whereas it's always a risk when you sell out. The exact same thing has happened to lots of other small blog/media outlets, like Kara Swisher's Re/code. This isn't an unexpected situation, but he's acting like it is. And that simply demonstrates a lack of maturity.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:26:15 +0000

Sore losers absolutely complain. It's one of the biggest traits of being a sore loser.

A mature person would be disappointed, vent to their close friends/spouse, and then shut up about it. They wouldn't publish a long blog post to air their grievances.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:22:48 +0000

You hit the nail on the head with your last sentence -- he agreed to sell to a big corp, and this is the kind of thing big corps do. I get that it's unfortunate, but this is the kind of thing you have to anticipate when you sell a business.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:36:03 +0000

Yes, but he's failing to see the big picture. Selling any small company to any big company leads to this risk. To hold water, his argument should be: "we shouldn't have sold the business at all," not "we shouldn't have sold to ESPN."

I personally don't love ESPN/Disney/ABC, but basically all major corporations that make acquisitions do this. Google does it all the time. It's very clearly a known risk when you sell a startup. I don't have much sympathy.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:31:33 +0000

I agree, and am getting downvoted in other comments for this position. If you sell a small company to a giant one, there's a major risk that they will sunset your work. It's the risk Nate knowingly took on when he sold the company.

No surprises here, no sympathy from me, and his blog post reads like he's a sore loser.

(Disney sucks and isn't blameless, but this is very much a standard business practice.)

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:27:45 +0000

I guess I feel like Nate should have anticipated this situation. By choosing to sell his company to a big conglomerate, this is the type of risk he opened himself up to. ABC/Disney certainly isn't blameless here, but this is the risk that any smaller company takes on when they get acquired. (The exact same thing happens to the startups that Google buys and then sunsets 12 months later.)

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:23:56 +0000

I can easily see the argument that once an election is over, people don't read the content anymore. Granted, storage is cheap so this is kinda silly, but I bet the old articles weren't getting very much traffic.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:21:36 +0000

I wrote this exact comment elsewhere on the thread and got downvoted for it. Business is business! It sucks for Nate but he's acting like a sore loser, when this is a totally normal and expected outcome. Businesses acquire other businesses and sunset them all the time. Zero sympathy from me.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:18:11 +0000

I view Nate as basically acting like a sore loser here, which is why I find it unprofessional. I'm not arguing that we should clamp down on free speech or anything like that.

If a company wants to buy another company and sunset it, that's a normal business practice. I get that it's disappointing, but in no way is this "mistreatment." At least to me, this is a perfectly normal business situation that doesn't merit this level of complaining. It reads as an ex-employee being petty.

New comment by panda888888 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

panda888888 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:57:49 +0000

Am I the only one who finds this whole blog post to be super unprofessional? I agree it's sad that the content is gone, but airing grievances about your former employer leaves a bad taste in my mouth (assuming you're not a whistleblower talking about illegal activity or something like that). I feel bad for Nate Silver, but business is business. I guess he had to learn that lesson the hard way.

New comment by panda888888 in "DAG Workflow Engine"

panda888888 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:41:41 +0000

How is this different from Airflow or commercial data orchestration tools, like Astronomer, Dagster, Prefect, etc.?

New comment by panda888888 in "AirPods Max 2"

panda888888 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:21:16 +0000

The problem I have with these headphones (at least V1) is that the ear cups don't tilt horizontally. Maybe my ears are more angled backwards that most people's ears, but with theses headphones, the headband part sits really far back on my head. This creates a lot of pressure on only the back edge of headband.

Until they make the ear cups tilt horizontally, these will be a no-go for me. My ancient 10+ year old Bose QCs 35s can pivot and are a million times more comfortable.

New comment by panda888888 in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

panda888888 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:54:31 +0000

I really don't understand what a claw is. Can someone ELI5?

New comment by panda888888 in "Several Anker power bank models recalled: Supplier's batteries pose fire hazard"

panda888888 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:54:34 +0000

Only some batches of these model numbers, though. I got an email saying mine had been recalled, but when I put in the serial number on their website, it said the batch was unaffected so mine is still safe to use.