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Those are different words with different kanji

松 - pine tree

待つ - wait

Japanese has a ludicrous number of homophones and words that sound like homophones to non-native speakers, so I dunno if there’s much advantage to digging into them

Man oh man, big "No thanks" to a perk like that from me

"Hey, pick through everything I say with a fine-toothed comb and treat it as the official company stance!"

Hey man, if we’re rebuilding roads for the sake of self driving cars, let’s just go back to ubiquitous light rail instead, like we had before cars got popular. This whole self-driving industry is so ridiculous when you consider that this has been a solved problem for over a hundred years..

> If you aren't using your computer, who cares. Not like you'll notice.

If you aren't using your computer, you aren't pissing away 500+ watts every hour either.

On top of that, in most of the developed world, you get less money's worth of cryptocurrency out than the cost of the electricity to generate it. So if you really wanted to donate money, you'd donate more by just paying them directly than wasting power, money, and computer hardware life on generating cryptocurrency

Yeah, I hope something similar happens for the Quest, but I'm not going to hold my breath.. Zuck spent all that money buying Oculus because he wants his own iPhone platform that he can rule with an iron fist

Right now you get muted and banned pretty quickly for mouthing off in any online game. Most games have some combination of costing $60+ up front, being pay-to-win, and/or being grind-to-win, so getting permanently banned from any of them is pretty catastrophic. Yet plenty of people get banned and re-buy the games regularly anyway

Man, if I have to dig in that deep to get basic functionality, I'd rather just bite the bullet and get a linux machine set up the way I like

OK, imagine this: A 13 year old makes an account, goes through your onerous KYC process, plays some game. Gets banned for saying something offensive under his breath when the game suddenly turns his mic on without him expecting it.

You're thinking "Great, problem solved, this kid will literally never be allowed to play another video game as long as he lives"

OK, in actuality, he's just going to use his mom's ID next time. And his dad's. And his grandparents' IDs. etc, etc

There'll be a whole gray market for IDs from all over the world to pair to your ridiculous Orwellian service, because thankfully it won't be backed up by penalty of death

Have you ever glanced at the Facebook comments under a news article? It did nothing at all to stop online toxicity when they tied your online persona to your identity, photograph, the identity of all your friends and family, etc. Plenty of pictures of smiling grandfathers holding babies next to N-word-laden rants out there

yeah, no shit

You guys can just move to South Korea or China if you want to live with that authoritarian BS

Well, this scene from Robocop is pretty relevant I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsuo3FnG4g0

ah, your parents probably didn't let you rent whatever you wanted from Blockbuster or buy porno magazines at the convenience store, seems like it's basically the same thing

Man, that would be great. I'll bet it'd be doable for anyone whose name is tied to public records via home ownership too

Scale up what they did to Trump for this NY Times piece: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...

See if people keep clicking "Allow" on their phone games after that goes out..

Of course, what'd actually happen is everyone would just attack the messenger. Maybe there'd be some super half-assed knee-jerk law thrown into place

If I ever get terminal cancer I'll see if I can throw something together before I kick the bucket, haha.

I think your average "asleep at the wheel" Facebook employee could easily do the work of 10 or 20 ethical guys from your average Midwestern consulting firm.

(Unless the work involves having some sort of strong moral compass anyway)

Man, I think you're probably right about everyone benefiting from doing immoral things, but I don't know how we could avoid it other than hiding out in a national park or something

By that logic, the linux community is corrupted by helping and accepting submissions from evil companies and evil governments

Everyone who buys and/or uses any sort of devices is corrupt too

Kinda reminds me of "The Good Place", haha

Yeah, I'm really optimistic about the labor market now

This is the first time I've ever seen restaurant workers, delivery drivers, etc taking charge of their own careers the same way Silicon Valley tech workers do.

All of our laws and safety nets are designed around the idea that people will act in their own rational self-interest and hop jobs when it suits them, but I never saw that actually happening until this last year.

Around Mountain View, 150k a year would let you buy a run-down dump of a condo 45 minutes away, or rent a crappy apartment and gradually become poorer every year as housing prices continue to inflate out of control

That's interesting, what do you think sets Boise apart as a good leading indicator?

I was thinking the same thing myself, presumably the economy will crumble from the bottom-up next time. So once my rural hometown is a flaming pile of wreckage, I'll close out all my risky positions

You've gotta admit, it's pretty messed up if you're making 3x the national median household income and your only options are run-down dumps on the wrong side of a 45+ minute commute

The workers will leave all the other companies and work for you, so those other companies will be dead in the water and/or stuck raising their own workers' pay to compete

At least, that's how it was supposed to work in theory.. Now that we see people out there going for improved wages/jobs in line with good capitalist doctrine, the business owners are all screaming in rage about a "labor shortage"

Yeah, man, most people have very flexible morals

Just look at all the engineers at Facebook, or even worse: the defense industry

What, you think the risk of inhaling scalding steam is worse than the possibility that it helps in some way?

yeah, except that I'm seeing similar devices on AliExpress for $10 to $50

It's pretty wild

People look at me like a madman when I try to explain that you can buy good-quality glasses for $7 online + $6 shipping (or ~$40 with all the coatings and fancy upgrades you could ever want)

I just buy a sack of glasses every couple of years and then treat them with absolutely no respect whatsoever. My toddler loves to rip the glasses off my face and chew on them or use them as a club to beat on random objects around the house.. This is not a problem for me. I popped the lenses out of a $7 pair of glasses and strapped them into my VR headset. When I find an old scuffed-up pair of glasses, I just throw them in the trash.

I wonder how many other parts of our society are a blatant scam without me knowing about it.. I know that the way people study English in Japan and Korea is a giant scam where they basically learn nothing, but I could only recognize that thanks to my outside perspective

Every time Communism comes up on Reddit I see a thread like OP's satirizing

I don't know if I've ever seen anyone spouting that philosophy on HackerNews though..

Man, I had a similar problem

I watched something right wing, I can't remember what, and for years YouTube was bombarding me with crazy half-truths and memes. I tuned them out just like most of the other bullshit I get bombarded with all day, but I wonder how many people have been radicalized this way..

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not from the US, so the c word isn't as rude when you use it

It's still pretty messed up that you exploded so quickly and thoroughly over a completely reasonable criticism.

Are you mentally defining "business logic" as the 20 or so lines of code in a program that are completely independent of all input, output, OS libraries, and frameworks?

Pretty much every app, driver, and framework I've worked on across the web, desktop, and mobile has been mostly glue holding different components together. Choosing a different language would require a nearly-complete rewrite in every case except for a tiny section of independent interesting logic (and of course, if you arbitrarily picked some meme language for your "business logic" you'd have to write more glue code to attach it to the rest of your software..)

I think the average coder in the USA only has about as much purchasing power as a regular old skilled tradesman did 60 years ago.. My grandfather was a dockworker, and with his dockworker pay he could comfortably afford a full-time stay-at-home wife, 4 kids, a heavy drinking habit, AND a mistress

IMO, it's perfectly fair and fine if they want to take that approach

Likewise, if I'm looking at an offer for $350k total compensation from Company X, and $300k from Company Y because they think my time is less valuable when it's remote, I'll probably go with the higher pay

Indian engineers who could do a $300k job in the SF Bay Area aren't going to just hang out in India making $3k a year for long.. sooner or later they'll get a lot more of that value they're generating. "This lazy fucking American who fixes the bugs my tests find is making 100x as much money as me??"