It’s probably fairer to say that when there are no consequences for their actions, a statistically significant portion of people are awful, and those people are loud and obsessive.
I recently read a story here about someone spending a significant portion of their yearly income on a Fate game in Japan. I think it might be a mistake to assume that the only whales are rich.
A few times a few at least, and that’s only counting extermination in the KZ’s and VZ’s. If you consider the total casualties of the war, including combat deaths (even German) and civilian casualties outside of the camps, it’s more in the realm of 50-80 million. Subtract 3-5 million for the Pacific theater, and it’s still a lot.
It also doesn’t help that neo-Nazis work today under the same banner.
This is arguing dishonestly, as you presumably understand the difference between using examples to illustrate a principle, and a direct comparison. Why not just address the point, instead of being “outraged” by his presentation?
I’m not sure, but I think you just tried to compare the technological platforms of VR/AR with virtual cat trading for money on existing platforms? I’m not even getting into the huge amounts of time, money, and hard work that’s gone into VR/AR, because as far as I can tell you just compared apples and bricks.
Too soon for info, too soon to say anything of substance. It might be better if this were not here at all until more is known. In a vacuum, online, things tend to devolve.
Sorry to say that MAgic Leap’s only relation to light fields is in their marketing and now defunct patents. Their actual product apppears to be a less impressive early Hololens.
That sounds about right. Reddit just isn’t a fun place to be, and hasn’t been for years. I’m not sure what the value proposition is for Reddit anymore, other than for the owners of Reddit.
I stopped using Reddit a while ago when it became clear that they had a pretty adversarial relationship with their users. Their moderation is terrible, the community ranges from unpleasant and repetitive to downright toxic, the content is better found elsewhere, and the administration is incompetent and amoral at best.
I’ve never once felt like I missed out on something by eschewing Reddit, and every time I check to see if it’s changed for the better it is markedly worse. Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, Facebook, are just bad places to be. There are a couple of good subreddits to read occasionally, like askhistorians, but you don’t need an account to read it. Actually participating gets old, fast.
Consider the source: Cressida Dick, and the Met Police. Look into their history, conduct, competence and attitudes, and you’ll understand why. I’m decidedly not a fan of much social media, but this is the usual deflection you get from the usual sources. Dick is so far to the authoritarian Right that she walks with a limp. She’s definitely not going to say that years of failed social and economic policies have predictably led to a rise in violence, but blaming social media? Oh yes.
Note that most knife attacks are during the commission of another felony, usually robbery. Unless social media is somehow being used to coordinate robbing people, you can safely dismiss Dick’s claim.
When it’s Tunisians and Egyptians using FB and Twitter, everyone is quick to take credit and talk about the “transformative” power of social media. When it’s genocide, suddenly everyone is mumbling and looking at the ground. You can’t have every job listing include “changing the world” and then duck responsibility when you actually do change the world, just for the worse.
Hypocrisy is an untenable position. Watching people argue that social media is equivalent to rallies, on HN would be funny if it weren’t so desperately sad. You can make this comment disappear, but you know I’m right about this. Even a brief glance through comment histories and submission histories bears it out.
'I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.'
What do you need, a flashing neon sign reading “tech” to be interested? He’s directly pointing to one of the 5 big Tech firms, it could not be more relevent. Given that, what’s your problem?
You can argue a lot of things about this, but “not related to tech” isn’t one of them.
Where you’re deported to seems like a key factor here, along with whether or not you had to flee from that place, and if you have any connections there. In this case it’s Somalia, he had to flee along with his family, and he has no connections. It’s hard to argue that it isn’t a punishment, with potentially dire consequences.
Or they care, but don’t really understand, and now with something concrete they both care and understand. Well have to wait and see, but the weakness of your argument (restating your thesis not being much of one) strikes me as obvious.