advrs · HackerTrans

4 years agodiscuss

I am very open to critiquing Bill Gates (and other personally wealthy folks disregarding experts in a messianical manner), but isn't this kind of what he spends all of his time on now (malaria, ebola, etc.)? From the article itself, he links to a TED talk he gave about epidemics in 2015, as well as a paper he had published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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4 years agodiscuss

This is extremely cynical - do you find all abstract art to be unimpressive?

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5 years agodiscuss

This is just unfortunately the default state for STEM-trained individuals (disclaimer: I am one of these).

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5 years agodiscuss

This is an oversimplified take, and completely glosses over macro social effects beyond "individual choice".

This is the social science equivalent of reasoning about human behavior and focusing on the behavior of individual neuron connections, or the behavior of an OS by focusing entirely on the I/O drivers - wrong scope of analysis.

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5 years agodiscuss

Yeah, they really jumped the shark with that release. The meta has been changing drastically, and I don't know if the dev team really is interested in patching it back up.

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5 years agodiscuss

Where? Can you share a link / description?

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5 years agodiscuss

Second this - it is way too hard for me to see a full FOV and high-res look at the actual product!

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5 years agodiscuss

I imagine the entire idea of it being a worker-owned (and thus democratic) cooperative is pretty different...

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5 years agodiscuss

That word has completely lost all meaning and historical context at this point, hasn't it?

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5 years agodiscuss

Are you suggesting that jail (aka expensive housing funded by the public) is the most effective solution to these crimes/behaviors? For example, do you think the population of people who defecate in public are going to be deterred due to the threat of imprisonment?

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5 years agodiscuss

Have you tried VR at 1080p? I understand your point (one number does not adequately represent "quality of experience") but for VR, 1080p is simply not enough due to the distance to the display (pixels are very visible).

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5 years agodiscuss

> As someone who has only really started using Twitter in the last few months

Seems like a little bit of a self-report right off the bad. The OP is not very familiar with Twitter and the ecosystem and user behaviors of the platform, and is coming with (admittedly biased) perspective as a blogger.

For example:

> someone that I follow re-tweeted Tweet number 47 in this ridiculously long thread.

This is actually highlighting one of the benefits of Twitter threads as a text - chunkable content. Blog posts are great for a long narrative that requires full context of the intro/supporting/conclusion, but Twitter threads excel in areas where the content is more a series statements/points that can stand alone. Think more like "bullet points" of a topic rather than a longer-form narrative.

But then, the OP transitions into the quick assumption that the problem is the difficulty in setting up a blog, which is a big assumption that I think misses the actual benefits of this format vs. traditional blogging.

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5 years agodiscuss

I don't understand how you say this when Oculus Quest 2 (owned by FB, of course) is probably the best + most popular VR experience. Is it early days? Yes, of course. But this quasi-religious idea that only Apple (or Microsoft? lol..) can create the "2.0" or "3.0" VR experience is a bit lacking in evidence.

Not that I am saying FB will necessarily be the ones, but I think the only honest position is that "the jury's still out" on who owns this one.

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5 years agodiscuss

"social justice" ? Explain

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5 years agodiscuss

I would imagine the intent of this "surrealist approach" is to disincentivize the commodification of housing (as a form of political pressure against consolidation of large real estate portfolios)

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5 years agodiscuss

The difference is that the interstate highway system was not simply built for mass civilian transit, but as part of a post-WW2 initiative, functioning as emergency landing strips and providing easier access between airports, seaports, rail terminals, and military bases (which tend to reside near interstate highways).

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5 years agodiscuss

Laws are not written overnight. I am not really sure what kind of `SLA` you have in mind for drafting and passing legislating for new fields (especially massive paradigm shifts with countless unknown-unknowns), but history would suggest that it takes...a lot longer than you expect.

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5 years agodiscuss

Afghanistan is strategically located at a major crossroads between Central and East Asia. This is useful for trade and military operations.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline

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5 years agodiscuss

You do realize languages change (constantly), right? This gives me the sense of someone echoing talking points picked up from spending time listening to reactionary Youtube agitators (especially the gender-focused dogwhistle)

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5 years agodiscuss

I find it troubling that people can find themselves so wrapped up and agitated by culture war wedge issues that they would characterize the rhetoric and actions of Jeff Bezos as aligned with "far left ideology", when Amazon is currently working to prevent workplace solidarity/unionization (a very core component of moderate leftist ideology in the context of a capitalist state).

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