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I doubt it. If this was true, we'd already be there. We have teleconferencing and long distance communications already, and this doesn't really happen.

You would have to go beyond mere conferencing, and create specialized tools that can be interacted with in VR so people can produce something together that they couldn't before. There is little value in just having everyone pretend they're in an office.

I expect someone to be virtuous because it's the right thing to do, not because of how many likes it gets them on Twitter.

I think that’s where the confusion is. A virtue signaler doesn’t necessarily have to be a hypocrite, they can just be someone who is motivated to make overt displays of virtue for personal gain.

Instead of "trying to understand the other side", most people would be better served by playing devil's advocate against their own side. Would you know how to identify a virtue signaler if you found one?

Without getting too philosophical, if energy is really what you want to work on, then the problem of making batteries that are as small and as energy dense as possible would be worth spending an entire life trying to solve, because a breakthrough in battery tech would easily have an impact on tons of unrelated industries and trigger a new technology revolution.

With the transparency effect and multiple images overlapping as they rotate, I wonder if this could be used to create a sort of secure QR code. Maybe a new patent is in order.

Curious to know if you tried React with Flow before choosing to go with React and Typescript.

When money is going out so easily to build 7 billion dollar stadiums, it’s hard to imagine why they can’t just throw 5 billion into something like border security.

I'm sick and tired of hearing this refrain. It assumes people have no internal values and just vote for things based on how it will personally benefit them, which is not true.

People can and do vote for things that give no benefits to them if it aligns with their concept of fairness. In this case, if you believe a person deserves to keep as much of their income as possible, you will vote for lower taxes, because it feels right.

Not every service even allows you to have a label in your email address. So what then?

Corporations are ultimately just people; a large group of people.

Think of what would happen if we punished the hell out of Marriot. Many of those people could lose their jobs and be unable to provide for their families, for something that didn’t really have much to do with them other than they chose to work at the wrong corporation.

Yes, this is part of standard data cleaning practices. You always remove whatever custom formats a provider allows to get the raw minimum email address (this is only for export, you still send official communication with a user to their original specified address).

I think you’re wrong. An asshole who cares at least has a moral compass, and knows the direction it should point. They lack motivation though to go above and beyond their own selfishness to do more than the bare minimum, but there is still hope that one day they will.

An asshole who doesn’t care at all has no hope. They truly don’t give a shit, and will only pretend to care as long as it benefits them. These are the worst.

If a homeless person is dying in the street, you really think it’s better for an asshole to just step over them and continue on without a second thought, rather than say calling 911 and then continuing with their day, just because you feel their level of care is too low?

Wow they are cheap!!

Do these ever get sold off to the public?

I don’t like when people use “wins the lottery” because it leads to distracting tangents. A person that wins a lottery could do anything. How much did they win? Maybe they’ll still keep working? Maybe they’ll go off to start their own company and take a bunch of key employees with them? Maybe they’ll be broke in a year and come back to their job? Maybe they don’t leave right away? These are just distractions you don’t need when illustrating a point.

By contrast, a person being struck by a bus and killed has a definite finality to it. There is no going back. There is no hope of extracting knowledge from the once living individual. There is not even time to prepare. Their existence and their output has ceased and everyone alive must now live in this new reality.

I wish more people understood Doomsday prepping is really more of a hobby than an actual concern over the total collapse of all civilization.

It’s fun to prepare, and to think of every scenario no matter how outlandish, and it’s fun to make people think you are super serious about something that seems ridiculous to them.

It is like a game where you collect as many resources and skills to increase your survival score as much as possible.

Soon I’ll be on the wrong side of 30 and part of the reason I strive to master important skills is because I know I’ll be put out to pasture some day if I can’t demonstrate my value. I don’t want to depend on a post-ageist society to save me.

Maybe this is also why a straight stiff neck and a head with very little movement conveys unquestionable authority.

Yes, the more standardized something is the more it just becomes an assembly line with very little room for discovering creative solutions.

Frontend javascript programming is already blue collar. Very little science left in most tasks, most of the time you are just smashing together packages and declaratively building interfaces to the point that most of the hard work has been done for you.

Any examples of what people might use these systems for? Is it mostly socializing?

I tried bullet journaling for a while.

The one thing I took away from it was how useful it was to have your own index for a book that can be filled with random stuff from all sorts of topics. All my years of going to school and having different notebooks for each class, and I never once realized this obvious technique for keeping everything in organized in one notebook.

The information you are talking about is called documentation and it should exist outside of actual code files.

If you need to read comments to understand code, you don’t know how to read code. Comments can lie, only code is the source of truth, once you gain experience you won’t bother with comments.

They are definitely holidaying. As soon as the new year starts up expect them to be firing on all cylinders.

The idea of a phone call taking up an entire screen and interrupting your activity hearkens back to the days when Apple emphasized that the iPhone should still be prioritized as a phone first. Clearly, people have evolved to richer forms of communication, and phone calls should not be put up on such a high pedestal.

Set your voicemail message to tell them to leave a message or to send a text.

A complete set of useful and practical components for enterprise applications. Have you used Ant??

Unfortunately there’s not many sensible alternatives for what Ant design does.

It’s funny because I think in China or some other Asian countries it’s considered rude to actual clean off your whole plate, you should always leave a little bit. Otherwise what you’re basically saying is “What the fuck!? You’re so fucking poor you can’t afford to give me more than enough food?”