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901.
by gfodor 5y ago
Metaverse will be bullshit up until avatarism arrives, then it will be boring and normal. But people like this will still be very confused and upset about what is happening. (Maybe I will too.) The first mainstream passthrough AR device tha
902.
by gfodor 5y ago
You can change the name, you can change the products, you can change the vision, hell, you can even change the CEO. But until you change the business model, it's just shuffling deck chairs on a ship we're now, sadly, almost all pa
903.
by gfodor 5y ago
Internet.org
904.
by gfodor 5y ago
"I don't have time to fight with people who are trying to misunderstand me" The face goggles are at one layer of the tech stack, and like the other layers, will be continually improved and swapped out with better implementati
905.
by gfodor 5y ago
Product use case is eliminating the need for physical co-presence to experience being together. It's going to happen, soon, so don't let the mis-predictions you cite mislead you (which, btw, weren't made by me, since mine are
906.
by gfodor 5y ago
And then you pay back the loan (worth 10% of your portfolio.) So now you've been taxed for what exactly? Having access to a pile of cash for some temporary period that expired? It makes no sense to me. We don't tax you on the prin
907.
by gfodor 5y ago
You missed the part where I said you pay the loan back. You know, like all loans.
908.
by gfodor 5y ago
You wrote a lot of wishful thinking here. Within a few years much of our day to day interactions with others will be modulated via sensory override devices, and Facebook wants to "win" at that. Ignore it at your peril.
909.
by gfodor 5y ago
Facebook tried to buy and takeover the term "Internet", but failed given its widespread use, so they knew it was important to not delay in taking over the term for the thing many early adopters believe will be similarly significan
910.
by gfodor 5y ago
That doesn’t make any sense, presuming you meant “collateralize.” I put up $100k of stock for a $100k loan, I do nothing, turn around and pay the money back, and now I have a tax bill? If I repeat this process, I can have an infinite tax li
911.
by gfodor 5y ago
Signal's core value proposition is radically increasing the expectation that one is having an e2e encrypted conversation. I love Element's product and mission, but a product which explicitly is eroding and complexifying privacy ar
912.
by gfodor 5y ago
Companies whose mission is centered on user control and privacy can be held to a higher standard than other companies when it comes to these kinds of questions. It's perfectly reasonable to suggest that Element should have tossed out t
913.
by gfodor 5y ago
Every time a company does something controversial, the canard “well they said they were going to do this” gets used to take a position to justify it. It is bizarre, given how much of a non-argument it usually is to say something’s permissib
914.
by gfodor 5y ago
Unlikely. Things which can be fit into Twitter threads generally are going to be more widely read and interacted with than if the same content were pushed to a blog.
915.
by gfodor 5y ago
Just wait until Facebook cracks the tech needed to mediate all person-to-person interactions via VR/AR. We are in big trouble if nothing changes.
916.
by gfodor 5y ago
“Internet famous” russell conjugates to “having what you say be heard.”
917.
by gfodor 5y ago
And they say satire is dead.
918.
by gfodor 5y ago
Ah that's true, fair point that it could leave projects in limbo.
919.
by gfodor 5y ago
I suppose I've assumed that the modern definitions of fascism that I've encountered which separate the symbology from the actual purpose and limitations of the legal dictatorship in Roman Republic are sound. Which is why I conside
920.
by gfodor 5y ago
Wikipedia aside, the idea that Pinochet was a fascist is disputed. I recently read a book that defended him as serving the role of a dictator in the Roman sense. It is not "obvious", as you claimed. You don't get to decide
921.
by gfodor 5y ago
You're right, it's relevant. If you presume he was a fascist dictator, then my test fails.
922.
by gfodor 5y ago
> I think you need to explain your scenario a bit better. If I'm developing a mastodon fork that I intend to run on a small private network for my company, and I accidentally expose it to the internet for a few minutes in error, and
923.
by gfodor 5y ago
In any case this is irrelevant. My point was that if you want to know if someone is a fascist, a good sign they are not a fascist is if they step down from power for reasons other than by force. Particularly if they had the ability to start
924.
by gfodor 5y ago
Correct. I'm not sure of your point. This would obviously be immediately rectified with a new version that addresses any judgement.
925.
by gfodor 5y ago
Even if Pinochet was a fascist, it is hardly "obvious." Dictators may step down. Fascist dictators, not so much. Trump could have kicked off a civil war and retained his power past the deadline with one or two sentences. If he is
926.
by gfodor 5y ago
One good indicator of if someone is a fascist is that if they actually stop being in charge for reasons other than death or military defeat they are not a fascist.
927.
by gfodor 5y ago
Feels to me like if this goes to court there's a good chance the AGPL will be thrown out as-is. Otherwise, it means that if an engineer accidentally pushes a configuration error to a firewall for a few minutes, and one individual happe
928.
by gfodor 5y ago
Go is a solid piece of kit. No head or hand tracking, but the benefit is low weight and power efficiency. Basically, it's an all-in-one GearVR, which is a solid minimum viable standalone VR headset for lots of things like anything that
929.
by gfodor 5y ago
I met Fred in the OG Rainforest “office” many years ago, have fond memories of him being a kind and thoughtful person to talk to. I have been happy to see your success so far and congratulate you on the launch!
930.
by gfodor 5y ago
Plot twist: pg writes the articles to generate this effect and it’s consequences.

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