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The worst part is that authors honestly believe a title like: "Why Remote Working is Good" can't get traffic.

It's in the comments here (lines 168-193): https://github.com/impress/impress.js/blob/master/js/impress...

> Browser should support CSS 3D transtorms

> Browser should support `classList` and `dataset` APIs

> But some mobile devices need to be blacklisted, because their CSS 3D support or hardware is not good enough to run impress.js properly, sorry...

It looks like Spain has almost reached the US' rate of economic non-participation.

http://www.ine.es/en/prensa/epa_prensa_en.htm

Isn't this kind of the point? Just stop buying Apple shit. If there is no Spotify app on iPhone, and everyone has to use iTunes and Apple Music, the iPhone platform becomes less valuable.

Of course Apple is allowed to do what they're doing. They are begging people to stop buying their products. Anyone buying an Apple product today deserves that money less than Apple.

I feel like at any point this functionality becomes desirable it would be trivial to implement in any language humans actually use.

I don't think Leave is particularly interested in fulfilling their promises.

In every game that isn't a point to teleport slideshow your character is going to be moving around and you're going to be sitting still. That's exactly why people are getting motion sickness, and why we still have no solution for this problem.

I personally think it's not ready for the following reasons:

* Many people are getting sick. They don't even know why it's happening; we're years away from it being fixed. VR right now is the 3d on the 3ds. It's not meant for human eyes and they're rushing it.

* No eyetracking. Your camera focuses on the direction your head is pointed. This is not how humans see. I am virtually never looking the exact direction my head is pointed. This is one of the reasons people are getting sick. Their eyes want to focus on something, and that technology is VirtualBoy level underdeveloped.

* Ouya games. The vast majority of games right now are really bad. They're definitely working on getting real games into VR, but it's going to take time, and most developers will see it as a Vita type situation where it makes more sense to wait to see if people buy it before investing developer hours into implementing an entire different display method for the game. Right now VR companies are paying people to make them games. That money will dry up.

* Price. Most people can't justify spending $300 on a video game console they can hook up to their TV. The market for a $500 head TV for that $300 console (or a $1000 computer) is comically small.

* Version. It's too easy to wait for the next one. At some point they'll make a headset with eyetracking, that doesn't make people sick, that has 4k in each eye, that weighs less, that attaches to your head more comfortably, and it will cost less.

* VersionS. Right now it looks like certain games won't work on every headset. This immediately tells consumers to wait for standardization. It's a fucking monitor. You don't get to have exclusives for your monitor.

* FOV. Human FOV is around 180. We have binocular vision for 114 of that. Oculus and Vive fovs are at 110. That's literally horse blinders.

As an aside, I like moving my focus with my mouse. It's incomparably more accurate than hoping my deviated septim is pointing exactly where I want to look. If you can't disable headtracking that's an immediate red flag for me.

I really like VR, but (like basic income) it is going to lose credibility because of how early it is proposed.

Even with a robot driving you're going to need gas / electricity and food every 4 hours.

I might be a bad millenial, but I just use my phone for talking, text chat, and chrome. The apps are pretty much the same so every few years I can just pick the best looking phone at the time with no lockin.

Google lockin is a lot more significant because they offer actually useful services that I do want to centralize.

Yeah the ironic thing is that I've chosen to not purchase apple products more than the author, and still have less animosity towards them. You have to really want to like something to be that upset not to like it.

I long for days when it won't really matter how you feel about stem cell research.

Imagine if you had to wait two decades after the iPhone came out to make any other touch screen phone.

Theyre trying to extract the last ounce of value out of the name.

I think even with follow up questions there's only so much you can ask. It was entirely possible to design a response such that your solution takes a good 20 minutes and doesn't leave much time for discussion. I ended up going over time on a recursion problem but still got in.

I actually liked the problems but it seems like there weren't enough different kinds of questions to filter out people with the answers beforehand.

When I took the technical interview ~3 months ago there were very specific questions about functional programming ("implement foreach" kind of questions). Makersquare had the same exact questions, so I assume someone just posted them online and people could easily prepare without understanding.

Except, like in every thread in the past week, people are reporting unique random entropy passwords being compromised. If one thing is clear it is that this is a lot more complex than reusing Linkedin passwords.

It's also pretty easy to look at their downtime last week as a huge red flag.

You're misunderstanding what highly likely means. It means there's a high probability of something.

The use of an idiom doesn't change the definition of the words.

Probability is not causal. Just because something is "highly likely" does not mean it is true.

Based on scale...

If the universe is of infinite age, the chances of our being the first civilization in infinity to create a realistic simulation is one in infinity. It's not magic, it's the simplest possible train of thought.

That's why you're supposed to think about it.

Technology advances -> Simulations exist -> We're either the first civilization in infinity or we're a simulation.

It's possible we're the first civilization in infinity, and it's the simplest explanation given no additional information. However, just because something is true doesn't mean the probability of it being true is very low and just happened to end up that way. You can believe in both probability and reality.

This is such a basic way to think. How is someone supposed to save the world? How is someone supposed to help humanity escape earth and colonize Mars?

Elon Musk is as close to doing those things as anyone has ever been in history. What else is he supposed to do to appease you?

Ideas don't need qualification. Think about it.

What he said was that there is a one in a billion chance that our reality is base reality.

If you agree with Occam's Razor, there's no reason to believe we aren't in base reality and just the result of incredible luck (the same incredible luck that leaves us the only known life in the universe).

Understanding the probability of something is not the same as claiming the majority result of that probability.

Yeah maybe my experience was uncommon, but every teacher I've ever had knew I was smart in the first week. When everyone else is a child and you have an adult brain it's hard not to notice.

> We have been told that international free trade benefits us all.

If you have 10 jobs paying people $10, and replace them with 50 jobs paying people $1, but keep the prices of the products the same; 10 people now don't have jobs, and 50 people each don't make enough money to buy any products. You've increased productivity 5x and cut costs in half but all of the gains go to shareholders.

> A more educated workforce should be able to produce more and better goods for us all.

Same as above.

> Automation...has, at times, apparently made us vastly richer.

Same as above.

> I think there is a larger issue at the root: debt.

It's the same issue. Debt is just another thing to rent to poor people.

Why is even easier. Rich people want more money and have better means of getting it.

To me it's the fact that Amazon / Google is already making more than the cost of these things in the data they extract from every sound in every house they're in. They should be paying people to use them, not the other way around. I'd be interested in a free alternative even if it's just to say "what time is it" when I wake up and "weather" before I leave every morning and not have to press anything. The technology itself seems very easy to integrate into life. I'm just not trying to pay someone to eavesdrop on me just so they can be there to say it's raining outside.

> Neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk is affiliated with any Hyperloop companies. While we are not developing a commercial Hyperloop ourselves, we are interested in helping to accelerate development of a functional Hyperloop prototype.

http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

Unless this has changed, Musk just had the idea; he's not doing any of the implementation.

No one is changing their mind about politics after reading something on Facebook.

The Streisand effect is when trying to hide something becomes publicized and the thing becomes more popular.

This is not that.

I think it's a matter of scope. You can respect Stallmans contributions to technology and "no thank you" his views on politics and society.