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by chasing 9y ago
Neat, but if you're going to stand outside and night and look to the sky for shining beacons that represent our fragile place in the universe, there are already thousands upon thousands of options up there. If I wanted to share that ex
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by chasing 9y ago
Curious how they're planning on technically building the "whitelist apps" and "set grayscale times" features. Are these possible given iOS's sandboxing?
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by chasing 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by chasing 9y ago
That's not what being a "member of a protected class" means, silly.
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by chasing 9y ago
What Peter Thiel did to Gawker is despicable and will no doubt become a pattern for aggrieved billionaires.
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by chasing 9y ago
"Then he published an internal memo arguing against that stance."
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by chasing 9y ago
> I hope they will settle for an amount sufficient for retirement and the dude's life won't get ruined due to a stupid political game he didn't even realize he was playing. "Ruined?" Because he might have to take
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by chasing 9y ago
The simple fact of the matter is that the President of the United States -- no matter who they are -- occupies a special place in our society. So, yes, Twitter is right to treat him differently than, say, Milo. And, yes: I'm sure this
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by chasing 9y ago
Trump using Twitter isn't the problem. In fact, it actually gives us a weirdly detailed bit of oversight into his actions and thoughts (such as they are). I actually think this is helpful when dealing with someone so erratic and uninfo
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by chasing 9y ago
This feels overdramatic. The internet has helped humanity in many ways and, frankly, the notion of an individual apologizing for it is absurd. I do feel like there are certain cultural assumptions that have not proven themselves out. Those
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by chasing 9y ago
The game design. I meant user experience design constraints. For example: - Most people will lose after fewer than half the questions have been asked and have little reason to stick around. - The chance of having a meaningful "win&quot
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by chasing 9y ago
I hope it inspires competitors, because it's a fun concept -- gathering together with a bunch of people at a certain time to play a game together. But the HQ Trivia game itself is... terrible. I'm aware they're beholden to ce
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by chasing 9y ago
(This is not a statement about their journalistic quality. But:) Axios is an interesting example of changing the format of news story writing to be both more concise and more visually scannable. And, thus, easier to glean important info fro
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by chasing 9y ago
Where's my red pen? For an essay about brevity, this has a lot of fluff. ;-)
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by chasing 9y ago
The demos have enough information to see that they can't do opacity. But I agree that YouTube videos can't deliver the entire AR experience.
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by chasing 9y ago
None of their demo videos show that. In fact, they seem to prefer shooting demo videos in really dark rooms. Presumably to cover up that limitation.
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by chasing 9y ago
The Super Bowl ad ran two days before the Macintosh was released for sale. I think that's a little different.
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by chasing 9y ago
Well, Magic Leap have given no indication that they have solved that problem.
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by chasing 9y ago
The old demo videos from a year or two ago showed that the Magic Leap could not do opaque black. Black = transparent on their clear screens. If that's still the case, then every single example image on their site is a misrepresentation
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by chasing 9y ago
'Twas a joke based on a series of other highly active threads on this site. I assumed it would be taken as such. My error!
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by chasing 9y ago
Why is Silicon Valley so interested in censoring certain kinds of speech?
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by chasing 9y ago
This is gorgeous.
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by chasing 9y ago
"Of course we shouldn't say people said things they never actually said. But that's not what we're talking about." - Abraham Lincoln
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by chasing 9y ago
? I'm not sure what you're responding to in my comment.
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by chasing 9y ago
That's a good point to bring up. I don't think those people were silenced. They went to a public protest in a public place to make a statement. That statement was broadcast across the country and the world. The opposite of being s
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by chasing 9y ago
> That’s not a good thing. It really depends on the context. For example, I think there's a certain kind of racist, sexist, and homophobic talk which simply adds nothing good to the world. I don't think it should be illegal nec
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by chasing 9y ago
> Voices are being silenced. I think we've got to be cautious in defining what "being silenced" means. Because I see a world in which people are saying all sorts of things out loud. There was a protest with a bunch of peop
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by chasing 9y ago
You can say any of those things in Silicon Valley. I mean, people might make some judgments about you. But that happens whenever you state any opinion, especially if it isn't the mainstream. I think a lot of people are used to saying w
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by chasing 9y ago
Remember that Altman is most likely paraphrasing his interpretation of a hypothetical person or class of people responding to the idea. So parsing Altman's quote too deeply might not be useful. It's entirely possible no one ever a
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by chasing 9y ago
Look, if saying disparaging things about Sam Altman is what we have to do to move physics forward -- that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

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