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by avaer 9y ago
Hm, is this an officially licensed HBO marketing stunt? Or does SeeFood Technologies Inc. actually exist as a corporation? If not, I'm curious what the legal ramifications are of doing business as a corporation that does not exist.
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by avaer 9y ago
I guess it wouldn't be misogynist if everyone at the office felt free to hire themselves sex entertainment regardless of gender. But that's allegedly not the dynamic here.
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by avaer 9y ago
If it's a commodity like telecoms -- and not like rice -- then I'm not too excited as a consumer either.
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by avaer 9y ago
That reduces to the absurd conclusion that otherwise smart people doing $500m investments do zero due diligence and don't care about being legally bound by fiduciary duty.
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by avaer 9y ago
> The company believes it has developed revolutionary technology with its Spatial OS operating system ... allowing small developers to create massive simulations without much infrastructure of their own. If that's the case I can&#x2
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by avaer 9y ago
Thought experiment: under the premise that a human brain can theoretically be simulated by a beefy Turing machine (not a foregone conclusion to be sure), then wouldn't it follow that human experience can indeed be reduced to a concept
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by avaer 9y ago
Except the article is all about a future in which this might very well be a senseless pursuit -- in which the technology keeps things healthier better than we ourselves could. In which case the position you've forwarded is in trouble.
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by avaer 9y ago
I don't think it's about being upset -- it's about pattern recognition and learning from one's mistakes as a consumer.
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by avaer 9y ago
> that you seem strangely interested in Not sure why that's being zoomed in on. The very manifesto of HN is to post things that are strangely interesting.
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by avaer 10y ago
If everyone agreed this was "of course", Ether would be more than $100 today.
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by avaer 10y ago
Tangential to the article content: I don't usually read articles on mobile witbout adblock, but I tried here and I couldn't finish the article on a top of the line phablet. Do people really consume content these days with contextu
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by avaer 10y ago
Notably, modern JS engines _do_ pull the same tricks that GCC does, which is why they're fast. But that's indeed a solution to a different problem, on a different computer.
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by avaer 10y ago
> Essential skill for taking over a big company: ability to play a perfect game of PacMan. Upcoming generations see Youtubers as their idols. It sounds stupid on the surface, but the ability to play a perfect game of Pacman wouldn't
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by avaer 10y ago
It also required ridiculous metered long distance fees, forced you to lock up the family telephone line, and buying and installing a modem was much harder without the help of the internet. I would advance the hypothesis that the prospect of
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by avaer 10y ago
> The article argues "VR will also enable immersive concerts, reinvented museums, and live, court-side sporting events", but what is it doing now outside of games, which have been hit-or-miss? It's literally doing all of t
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by avaer 10y ago
The ability to plan falls out of experience. All you have to do is listen to your users and do what's necessary if you have scars to remind you that sticking IO here will bring the system to its knees on a real user load, or that this
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by avaer 10y ago
Surface still exists. And there's still warts in the uncanny valley between mouse and touch, but I wouldn't call Windows 10 crippled. I'm more puzzled at UX problems in OSX, where there isn't the excuse of having to supp
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by avaer 10y ago
They're not interchangeable. They're not even particularly related. And almost nobody is using ReactVR, for the simple reason that almost no browsers support it yet.
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by avaer 10y ago
A part of it is that the data models are genuinely different and different orgs want to do things in different ways. Another part of it is that orgs recognize the value of stamping their brand on what they believe is a candidate for the nex
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by avaer 10y ago
Prediction: AI ad blockers become accurate and automatic enough; ads mutate into AI-based transformation of content to include paid placements. The price of the news article or Youtube video of the future is that when you see someone drinki
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by avaer 10y ago
Open source software has to be one of the least efficient markets out there. If you sum up the very real value PhantomJS has delivered to very real companies over the last several years, napkin math tells me we wouldn't have the projec
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by avaer 10y ago
Testing, rendering, scraping, streaming, botting, and many more. Think "what could I accomplish with a browser, with the slow human replaced by a fast program" and let your imagination run wild. The space is interesting enough tha
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by avaer 10y ago
Surprisingly capable in terms of what you can do -- if you're willing to get your hands dirty and debug your way out THREE.js corners. Nonetheless surprising considering it's all JS running in the browser, and it definitely works
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by avaer 10y ago
Are Websockets and WebRTC not realtime enough? They need to bake more, but they're literally standards. I wholeheartedly agree that probably the biggest problem that needs solving is that of siloed experiences. But this is also somethi
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by avaer 10y ago
Another thing that seemed really implausible not long ago: that Javascript could be used to build an application. At all. Many people are already getting 90 frames per second out of the browser, so I don't think it's even a matter
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by avaer 10y ago
I'm huge on VR -- especially WebVR -- but this isn't what comes to mind when I think of the metaverse opuses in the post. Telepresent chat rooms were never an important part of these stories. That's not where the magic is. My
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by avaer 10y ago
This got me thinking of a tangential business idea: a user-hostile site blocker. You take a quick quiz of stuff you personally consider unacceptable from a site (such as blocking disposable emails), and then it comes up with an autoupdated
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by avaer 10y ago
So you're saying app publishers have full control, as long as you approve?
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by avaer 10y ago
So are you vetting apps, or are you giving the publishers full control? You can't eat both sides of this cake. If you're curating for your idea of quality, you're controlling which ads publishers can display where. This isn&#
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by avaer 10y ago
> That's why I've started working on an ad network for mobile apps - where the advertisers buys directly from the app publisher the ad spot - and the publisher has full control over which ad is displayed and when. I like the id

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