advrs · HackerTrans

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

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

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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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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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Where? Can you share a link / description?

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

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

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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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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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> 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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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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"social justice" ? Explain

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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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