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by agar 5y ago
John Carmack (consulting CTO for VR at Facebook/Meta) said in his most recent talk on VR (paraphrasing despite quotes), "The internet has been described as people and screens. I've been arguing that the metaverse is just more
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by agar 5y ago
OP was saying the LGBTQ charity that gave scholarships to students was elitist because it incorporated criteria like leadership and performance in addition to financial need. That's what I responded to. I did not comment on whether Mac
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by agar 5y ago
You're interpreting incorrectly. I never used the word "more" in my response. My points are: (a) "merit based" scholarships are not everywhere. The vast majority are financial need based - which is not a bad thing.
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by agar 5y ago
I replied in a separate comment, but want to respond to this: > their parents had the money and ability to put their kids into good schools, good programs, volunteering, and did not throw them to the streets for their LGBTQ status. That
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by agar 5y ago
> it's a foundation to fund elitism This is a complete false dichotomy. You appear to be arguing that either an organization funds highly underprivileged or homeless youth from "bad schools" or they're funding elitism
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by agar 5y ago
I'm not sure I've ever been more disappointed in a book than reading the Rama sequels.
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by agar 5y ago
That's like starting Game of Thrones at Season 7. It's not just "starting in the middle of a series", it's starting almost at the end...after the best part of the story is well in the rear-view mirror. IIRC, Foundat
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by agar 5y ago
This article covers it more completely, with additional clarifications from Zuckerberg: https://www.theverge.com/22749919/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-m... > There were all these subtle ways in which, because the compan
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by agar 5y ago
Wow, you really have to question your motivations when you're defending Exxon's climate change contribution. But OK, I'll play that game. The IPCC was the source for the OpenSecrets statement (as they said in the quote). They
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by agar 5y ago
Why are you throwing out numbers like that while complaining about other people's unsourced information? You are also using a strawman argument. I said people should focus on areas of great impact, not "nobody has to do anything.&
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by agar 5y ago
First, the primary use case of rockets (especially SpaceX) is satellite lift and ultimately Moon and Mars landing, not "wealthy tourists." Obviously the recent Inspiration4 launch shows that there will be tourist flights, but this
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by agar 5y ago
> burn fossils for tourism purposes Like airplanes? Like cruise ships? Would it somehow be better if SpaceX just bought natural gas on the open market, reducing available supply and thereby potentially increasing price through market for
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by agar 5y ago
IIRC, there is no longer a waste gas flare at SpaceX's facilities. They are doing methane recapture and recondensing.
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by agar 5y ago
> the hive mind declare that one kind of fire produces different carbon than the other...Maybe that's the uncomfortable debate? Just a random reader here, but no one is saying this. Either you're willfully ignoring the point, o
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by agar 5y ago
Apparently. Similarly, the top comment on any article about VR seemingly must also be about hating Facebook.
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by agar 5y ago
Irritatingly, an article that bemoans a homogenous view based on race repeatedly views members of a particular political leaning as ideologically homogenous.
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by agar 5y ago
"Less than Container Load"
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by agar 6y ago
> A 4-year degree is a useless indicator when it's irrelevant to the workload. But it's not. It gives a good indication that the applicant has many, if not all, of the characteristics I listed. And for many non-specialist jobs
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by agar 6y ago
Flipping this around, put yourself in this situation: you have five open positions, and expect 300 applicants. You have approximately 1 hour per day to interview, and need to fill the positions in 10-15 business days. You would like to find
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by agar 6y ago
Have you considered that one reason businesses gatekeep based on the degree is /because/ of the well-roundedness that comes from a university education instead of a trade school or online learning? Many benefits are difficult to q
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by agar 6y ago
An official statement would run afoul of the law, yes. A concerted effort to whisper to many people in an effort to manipulate the market would be fairly easy for the SEC to uncover in an investigation. A single false statement or two, said
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by agar 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Unless you know that the Parler/Amazon contract included a cure period, the specificity of that period, that Amazon hadn't notified Parler of contract violations previously (i.e., s
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by agar 6y ago
I don't have much to add to the sibling comment. It is purely up to the parties of the contract to determine if the other breached it. The remedies of that breach are specifically covered in the contract itself. Nothing needs to be &qu
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by agar 6y ago
Are you familiar enough with AWS contracts in general, and possibly the Parler contract specifically, to know they breached the contract? (Honest question, as you may be an employee of Parler, for example. HN is an interesting place). I ask
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by agar 6y ago
I'm not weighing in on Ecosia specifically (no direct knowledge), but... It's very important to remember the legal and liability requirements associated with privacy policies. In many jurisdictions, you are subject to liability if
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by agar 6y ago
Thank you for that link. A very interesting story, with surprising philosophical depth given its brevity.
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by agar 6y ago
Not if Windows includes source code purchased or licensed from third parties who contractually prohibit MS from publishing their source code. Which it probably does.
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by agar 6y ago
That we have not looked long or hard is why we have not (yet) found a signal. Interacting with an ETI will be much more problematic than finding a signal, given speed of light issues. Or did you misread the OP? He believes ETI is pervasiv
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by agar 6y ago
Maybe the scene was switched because two of the three cameras in that view had...just blown up?
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by agar 6y ago
You're 100% right, that if I had better language skills I likely wouldn't have felt as isolated. I did try, and picked up some phrases, but intermittent trips rather than a contiguous multi-year stay made it more difficult. That s

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