Grustaf

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by Grustaf 5y ago
You keep talking about "expected standards" all the time. These are YOUR expected standards. Poor people, students, backpackers and many others have different standards. And please try to understand what is being discussed. In thi
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Elitistic moralizing? The only ones moralizing here are those that think dorms are inhumane. Anyway, in most countries we do build social housing, it's not a question of not building at all, it's a question of being able to build
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> expected standard The places you see on the market are not free housing, so it doesn't really say anything about what we are discussing. > entirely unacceptable to impose it on anyone This is just silly. Nobody wants to impose
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Millions of people, like myself, grow up comfortably middle class, and yet have no problem adapting to dorm life. What is objectionable about expecting people who receive free housing to live under the same conditions as students? Are stude
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by Grustaf 5y ago
"Substandard" is not the complement of "luxury". And nobody is saying that middle class people won't pay the extra cost of private bathrooms, clearly they are doing that. The point under discussion is if it's i
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The point is not that sharing bathrooms is neutral, the point is that if it's something that huge number of middle class people are happy to do while students or young professionals, it's pretty far from the human rights violation
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Sharing bathrooms is not the same as "substandard accommodation". That's the point. You can (and do) build perfectly modern, clean, safe high standard living quarters with shared bathrooms. You can also find terrible slum apa
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Different people have different views on what privacy is. In many cultures it's considered normal to have your parents in law living with you, here it's most people's worst nightmare. Some people think it's important to
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Is this sarcasm? Obviously there are places in the world where dorms, hostels etc are in exceptionally good condition, like in Japan, or here in Scandinavia.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I have never seen any statistics about that at all, so I wouldn't know if that is the case. It would be interesting to see how much more people are willing to pay for an equivalent apartment with communal bathroom being the only differ
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Of course it's not for travel, I understand that. But neither are dorms. And people stay in youth hostels and similar accommodations for longer periods too. > upon a fundamental need for privacy that people have I don't think y
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why would you be _more_ averse to sharing a bathroom if you're low income? I think it's more about American germophobia or new members of the middle class feeling that sharing bathrooms is beneath them now that they've made i
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by Grustaf 5y ago
What's wrong with sharing bathrooms? That's a dorm, or a youth hostel for that matter. It's totally fine. Pretty common all over the world, not just for the poorest.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I mean any server application needs compute. Not sure how many clock cycles are needed to run a mail server, but since the Ethereum world computer is like a 10000 times slower than a single laptop, I figured it wasn't enough for really
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I’m mostly thinking about real life navigation, when I worked on this the idea was to help blind people get around. But I’m sure lots of interesting games could be made using the technology.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Alright, the data can be stored on IPFS, but where will the computations be carried out?
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You can locate sounds within 20-30° or so, which is pretty good for navigation at least.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
By hosted, do you mean that the blockchain would act as the mail server? Wouldn't that be incredibly slow and inefficient?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Not really, this is people I know personally. I know some of them have mentioned it publicly but can't find any links. Would be in Swedish anyway. I know two people off the top of my head that had their personal accounts suspended for
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why would that solve anything? Google could still cancel my gmail if I say something politically incorrect, regardless of their database technology. It's not like making my email public would change anything, they are not reluctant to
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> This is because we work for businesses that are fixated on generating revenue and profits rather than on improving the human condition. Not quite. Few businesses have ever been focused on improving the human condition. The new thing is
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by Grustaf 5y ago
We already have state run (more or less) digital ids in both Sweden and Denmark. I don't know if anyone has been denied for ideological reasons though.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
No sure, I didn't mean that navigation itself was hard, more that it's hard to know where to navigate to. If you can see, you can quickly scan a page and get some sort of understanding of what is where, but at least with audio tha
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Good to hear that you have protections around this in the UK. I know that in Sweden several political, and even ideological organisations have had their accounts frozen because of things they said or held true. Entirely legal things I shoul
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yes that is true, as software keeps eating the world, software mores will eventually rule everything. If it has a microchip in it, it might ban you. For cars I don't think this future is distant at all, ten years max.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
When you put it this way, it's really quite remarkable how tenuous our hold is on even paid for digital services. There is really nothing you could do with a car to prompt the car maker to take it from you. And the state will only take
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Not sure what you are referring to, but when interviewing at e.g. Apple the whiteboard is not meant to suss out impostors, it’s to get a better understanding of the person’s thought processes, to separate the smart from the brilliant.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I guess the point was that they are not interviewing enough people for there to be any risk. This was just a fluke.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
There have definitely been attempts for mapping the real world, but the ones I've seen have been quite primitive. I started my own project around this, but I never had the time to finish anything useful.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
That part is old news, it's called Head Related Transfer Functions and even using a general HRTF works quite well. I presume you've tried Spatial Audio with airpods, or some similar system? https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F

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