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I'm seriously disappointed in HN when the only responses to consumers getting $16K power bills are them getting blamed or instructed on how to live without electricity.

That's why it says "In another 20 years" and not "today". Because you can bet that it'll be on everybody's minds in 20 years.

Well, if that move keeps it from being cut (as evidently was the case), I'd prefer this over the unhealthy new forests that are ecologically unsound but are purely for bookkeeping CO2.

I never heard of these before. I wish there was a plugin that'd signal me if I visited a Google-owned platform and provided me with alternatives.

Culture used to be a generations common denominator. People drifting towards certain media, fashion or consumer products that allowed to express themselves as individuals and as part of a larger group at the same time. That concept got grabbed by marketeers, who now monetize every fledgling new trend before it gets a chance to be organically adopted. It's likely through ads and product placement that new trends will reach you first. And they will tell you what value to assign to object X or style Y before you ever get a chance to make up your mind yourself.

People older than 30 will remember a time when their generation got to shock the previous ones with their electronic music and indie movies. Newer generations never had an equal opportunity to find their own 'vibe'. It was sold to them.

They don't as much share info as live off the same ecosystem in your phone. Regular users, who don't actively block their FB apps from accessing their phones in depth, will store Whatsapp contacts on their phones, which in turn are read by the FB and/or Messenger app. Since neither knows the context, it just assumes its a new contact and show you info accordingly.

I see what you did there

I'm fairly sure you missed his point. Entirely.

Everything about the VR investment is a mid- to long-term bet. So "they really don't have the tech yet" doesn't really mean much, since they probably will have the tech in the next few years. Both in a better (data gathering) VR platform and better facilities to analyze the gathered data. Maybe it was built by naive techies but it is a new data stream and FB has shown that if they can mine it, they will.

Can you link me one of those studies? Assuming it's about modern hyper-targeted social media content based advertising, not last decade's old-school banners.

If you own an Oculus, you know how eery the boundary mapping is. Before they switched it off, you'd be able to see your boundary from outside its fencing. Some users report being able to see the boundary from a different room. So not only does the headset map your environment inside the boundary, it actually maps and parses the rest as well. It doesn't have GPS so it wouldn't know how otherwise to determine your position relative to the boundary. This means Oculus maps every space it is in, including the objects in it. Really, this tells FB far more about your life and general affluence than any type of browsing behavior ever could.

Same goes for fitness tracking. Inside actual fitness games but in other VR titles as well. Again, this generates a ton of very personal data that, combined with other databases, unlocks a ton of value for advertisers.

This is why FB is so adamant about using FB profiles, even banning users if they make a guest account: For all this data to be really valuable, you need to be able to have it down to an individual resolution (that is: You know all the data is generated by a single individual, so you can combine it).

All of this, combined with existing data-generation, is a whole new level of invasion of privacy.

You are treating VR like it's another browser. It's not. With cameras in every direction scanning and parsing your environment, data on your physical fitness and the always-on nature of the Quest 2 it is far more invasive than even Google Home speakers are. You offer a whole new set of very personal data to a company that has proven itself to mine it extensively for its own gain.

I don't know if they still operate that way, but the Valve Manual For New Employees is actually a fun read. Evidently you just roll your desk over to the project group you want to be a part of and roll with it.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployee...

Whatever he did in the past, this whining about FB not linking his database with copyrighted script -interlaced with non-issues like how a platform he does not use spells his name- doesn't help anyone much now. There are bigger digital rights fish to fry.

Pfff, such fabricated drama. This shit gives real digital rights activists a bad name.

I couldn't disagree more.

Well, it's no so much 'good riddance' (we really want you to stay) as we're all glad the awkward political tug of war is over and we all know where we stand. Even if it isn't where we would have liked to, at least we can try and move on. As for the UK: A large part of their economy is based on a service industry, compounded by being the traditional gateway between the US and Europe. The rise of China, the stumbling of the US, the isolationist movement of the UK, draconian internet legislature and the EU being forced to pull together by Covid19 all undermine this classic business hub model.

If they measure the number of click-throughs as an absolute and not a percentage, it might very well have been that more ads have been served because there were more online productions or they simply drew in more visitors. I think this is a matter of correlation implying causation.

I recognize your point of view. For me the Quest was a game changer. Just press the power button and you are ready to go. Even your previous boundary settings are retained. Just step into the circle and fly.

Well, in your metaphor he decided to get rid of all cars, forever. There are probably a ton of people who blog about that. Since there is no alternative for Linkedin and it is defacto the only professional social network out there, it is a categorical decision where quite a few people are wondering how it would affect them, of they did the same.

Space is empty. The deep ocean has things. Old, blind things with little lights and teeth and tentacles.

I just see a bunch of portal editors seeing fired. A guy picking through blurbs to post on a channel is not a journalist. Basically MS starts doing what everybody else has been doing all along: curation by algorithm.

I'm guessing they had been holding back until the campaigning season started. Now they get maximum impact.

I don't know about the last mile in deliveries, but self-driving logistics seems like a sure bet.

That reminds me: What happened to WT Social? For a while it was a shiny new thing and then it just kind of fizzled out.

Oddly specific

Wait what? A flight sim without VR? I hadn't even considered the possibility. That's kind of a bummer.

Thing thing about committing stuff to memory is that it results in a fragmented install base across the 'user base' that may not get updated regularly. Even just double-checking Google before you act on existing knowledge may prove that new insights have caught up with what you held to be true, and you need to update your knowledge. I'm fairly certain that this "knowledge in the cloud" aspect of Google actually makes us faster and more coherent as a whole. It's just going to be somewhat of an issue when there is no internet around.

And then summer ends and fall begins and we start all over again. Only longer, this time.