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Similar but different anecdote. I installed i2p the other day to see what had changed/improved over the last year, and mentioned to my 12yo son that I had done this. He asked what i2p was, and I said it was the dark web. He immediately thought he knew what this is, and asked "aren't you worried about getting in trouble because it's illegal?"

Some other comments here make the assumption that Dreams is like Roblox or Minecraft. But from what I can see it is way more than those games, and a person should be able to tell that without even playing the game. You can watch videos of the content people are creating within Dreams and see just how varied this is in comparison to other tools.

Another related (possibly identical) question: How do we stop polarization/toxicity (or general negative attitude) IRL?

One possible answer: Disconnect, ignore, and avoid it while at the same gravitate towards positive, solution-oriented actions/people.

Stop banging your head against the wall, it's not going to work.

unity and unreal are very visual when compared with text editors. They are also very popular apps for creating entire classes of applications, like video games.

At best, this seems like a very weird thing to get up in arms about.

But worse, and I think more likely, it shows you are intolerant to change. I think that, equally likely, it shows you are just plain intolerant to some people.

I was working at a large tech company with awesome coworkers and cool technology, but I wasn't applying my experience/time/skill towards something I cared about. But I likely would have stayed if it weren't for my SO getting an opportunity for a position in an awesome new city/country.

I have been interested in education, healthcare, gamification, and video games for a while. When my SO's opportunity came up, I found that one of the companies I follow and that is focused on most of those interests of mine (gamification of education, educational video games) was located in the same city.

I applied, went through the interview process completely remotely, and was eventually offered a job.

This is a good example of the type of debate that well-meaning, thoughtful people decide just steer clear of due to the (lack of) perspectives of the majority of those currently taking part in the conversation.

The United States spends the better part of a trillion dollars per year on its military. A relatively small fraction of that would solve any issues their social welfare programs currently have.

It's a matter of prioritization and the perspective of those leading the discussion. Instead of turning focus towards changing priorities (the priorities are already seemingly in their favor), they turn to how expensive and unmaintainable the programs are that they wish to further de-prioritize. In the process, they draw attention away from the stark contrast of funding between various government programs. Namely social welfare vs military, or improving their society vs destroying others.

He's not showing off. He used vs code for a while but I believe got frustrated with issues, so he went back to something more stable and familiar for him. I can't blame him there.

Scuttlebutt is the first one that comes to mind. One of the more popular clients is Patchwork, which can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/releases

Another awesome one is Fritter (a twitter clone), which can be used with the dat protocol and through the Beaker browser. More details here:

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter

I came here to make the same comment.

But at the same time while advertising a glowing review for an Apple product. To me it seems like a good way to claim something is awesome and that everyone needs it without actually having to write that themselves.

I can't help but feel that it is very likely our ancestors (if we make it long enough) will look back on the limited understanding we have at this point in time regarding spooky action at a distance, the theory of everything, general relativity meets quantum mechanics, etc. and be astounded for a number of reasons. The biggest reasons being 1) that everyone could be missing something so obvious while at the same time 2) going down such wrong but entertaining rabbit holes.

Anecdotally, I haven't been on Facebook in months. In spite of that, I wouldn't be surprised if my account is counted somehow in the daily usage for some of those days just because of the extent to which their services have extended throughout many other websites. I've joined, canceled, then joined again, but never really used the site to any large extent. It is a very unnatural (yet at times necessary) way to communicate with people.

The decline of Facebook is in no way the decline of technology-enhanced socializing. People will hopefully just find other more natural ways to do so. My hope is on decentralized apps that allow people to own and control access to their own data.

How is the integration of Pocket in any way similar to the Mr. Robot scenario? You just pointed to a recent article where they are explaining exactly the what/why/how details of this integration. There is nothing surprising or being hidden about this integration, and it's been a long time coming if you have paid attention to the beta/nightly/dev channels.

First bit of literature I have read in second person for quite some time. I actually really liked it as a refreshing change to the usual format. I feel like it lends itself to a deeper connection with the subject (in this case Tony).

The issue is that the features we use along with git, many of which github provides, are not decentralized. The true but tired argument that git will continue to work when github goes down totally ignores this issue.

Yes, git still works. But we don't just rely on the features git provides.

Happy to see patchwork and secure-scuttlebutt mentioned. These apps and the people behind them are, in my opinion, looking at decentralization in the most complete way from an application standpoint.

Now if we can combine these apps with routerless ad hoc or mesh networks, that would be a very good start towards an unstoppable communication platform.

Another good resource, from Tensor Programming : https://youtu.be/LNABJvABhos

I stopped following Musk after he made this childish remark. Glad to see it's getting noticed more widely.

I like how, at the end of the video, they start going from person to person as the just say a buzzword or phrase.

For some reason I love this.

Thanks you Mozilla. As long as you continue to exist for your stated reasons then I'll never stop using Firefox for what it's good at.

Dead Cells

Multiple links to demos are easily accessible from the linked page. Better than most submissions.

I can't​ agree more. After using both there is no question that, for me, mobx is better. It is more intuitive and has much less boilerplate code. I've tried to understand why redux is chosen over mobx in some projects, and at this stage I feel it is mainly just momentum and visibility/marketing.

The article does not claim that we have no control over speeding. We do have control over or speed in numerous ways. The article merely says that signs have little impact on how fast a community goes on any stretch of road... other factors end up being more of a factor. At the same time, road safety is not as strongly tied to the speed of traffic.

This article has an attention-grabbing headline (cop says to increase speeds!), but really it's drawing attention to how there are many factors that go into road usage and laws and there are places where people are starting to take these other factors into account. Sounds like a micro-level revolution in how the executive branch of US government operates.

More and more lately, I think about how any future intelligent life will be looking back at how we live now and will do so with increasing disbelief the more and more they learn about us.

Well looks like I'm done with hacker news, I have found a better news source.

I find your lack of regard for the well being of Uber drivers, and workers generally, concerning. I understand that the startup funding model you are focused on may not be as lucrative for founders and their startup backers if they must begin to adequately take into account the well being of their employees, but workforce compensation and well being cannot continue to be ignored and even actively fought against as is the case with Uber.

I can't wait until they start making displays that just show stuff when you connect another device to it.