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by marricks 4y ago
Uh, isn’t COVID damaging on your system every time you get? Basically risking long COVID and death? Also the more cases there are the more chances for mutation. The reasoning is like one step away from antivaxer logic.
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by marricks 4y ago
Can anyone in this thread link to an actual article and describe how horrible it is? It's perplexing that I'm getting so downvoted and the replies have absolute zero information besides "it's just horrible" which su
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by marricks 4y ago
Okay, but an aspirational "Zero-COVID" policy seems to be working out better than the US's "burrying-our-heads-in-the-sand" policy. I get it may have an impact on economy but, seriously, how can people value human l
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by marricks 4y ago
Wait, how is it a failure? I get that their cases have doubled in recent months, but that doubling is from 250 cases a week to 500[1] and their highest spike was a brief 5,000 number of cases in April. Whereas the US, with a much smaller po
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by marricks 4y ago
So when Zuckerberg's social world was Harvard he violated the privacy of the school. Now his social world is different and he'd have less reasons to perform those same crimes. Way more power and reason to perform an entirely diffe
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by marricks 4y ago
Yep, our current system sucks. I happen to think Facebook is much, much, worse than Apple but who knows in 5 or 10 years. Apple is building its own VR headset and making money off VR hardware seems like a stretch.
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by marricks 4y ago
I don’t think “progressing in a field” is worthy of applause if you’re just going to use that progress to hurt people. Technology doesn’t just magically make peoples lives better, sorry but the cats out of the bag on that one.
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by marricks 4y ago
I think there’s a lot of hate because Facebook is an immensely hate-able company that needs its next cash cow and it sure hopes this is it. Look at the history of it’s core product to see where VR will go if it takes off: Facebook was the c
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by marricks 4y ago
Man is our financial system messed up when a company can lose money for 14 years just so it’s impossible for any company to undercut them. You know once they’re fully a monopoly they’re gonna jackup those prices.
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by marricks 4y ago
Makes me wonder what system US security agency has for these. Can they ask Apple to disable them for certain areas or by device if you happen to be a target of interest?
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by marricks 4y ago
It's not just a few days though. I can only speak anecdotally for the pacific north west but... We used to be known for clean air, rating were typically below 20 AQI for almost all of the year. Now, come fall we have weeks/months
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by marricks 4y ago
> and drastically increased his equity stake But he also to roll a critical three times in a row on a D20 to get a payout. Just to make it have the same feeling as small and scrappy, you know.
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by marricks 4y ago
That lines up with the impression I got. They lose money CURRENTLY on the high end cards, it sure wasn’t going to get any better. Might as well get out while the getting is good.
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by marricks 4y ago
Yeah, it feels like society loves coming up with ways to “handle” problems but never actual solve them. The future will likely be upper middle class folks walking around in habitat bubbles with VR suits across a toxic desert of miasma.
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by marricks 4y ago
That's still implicitly making a pro-royalist community, at the cost of making a less flame-baitey community. Pro-status-quo comments are inherently going to be less divisive because they don't challenge people, and seeing this th
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by marricks 4y ago
Gotta love mocking people who were just fired.
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by marricks 4y ago
Yep, blockers like: - should we do this? - who do we hurt by doing this? - oh god people are hurting why are we still doing this?
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by marricks 4y ago
> This status-quo bias is what you would expect of a forum run for the benefit of a Silicon Valley for-profit institution I wanted to reach a broader audience with my phrasing so I didn't call that point out, but I completely agree.
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by marricks 4y ago
What are you even advocating for? Continuing to prosecute and lock people up when we already have millions in prison? That isn't helping anyone. The war on drugs is over and the drugs won.
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by marricks 4y ago
> please don't post flamebait, including ranting against monarchy or railing against "the nobility" like it's 1770 > Positive-empty comments aren't substantive either, but as pg pointed out way back when HN wa
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by marricks 4y ago
Who cares whose it's actually targeted at. Some of them will get lost and some of them will have this smart watch. And some of those may have an expired feature which could save their life.
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by marricks 4y ago
I wasn't even thinking about those folks actually, more referring to all the hikers who get lost during a day trip.
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by marricks 4y ago
It's an unfortunate fact of human nature that once you get used to something existing you expect it to exist*. Something one could easily forget to pay (say you overspent and denied the charge) could end up killing you. I sincerely hop
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by marricks 4y ago
A lot of if there was an independent web consortium which agreed on standards. Which, hey, we do have and the more power chromium gets the more Google can just ignore that.
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by marricks 4y ago
Hey the tinfoil can go wha deeper than that. Mudge brought up these complaints internally in January of this year which is right when Musk started buying lots of twitter stock.
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by marricks 4y ago
What I find most wild about this story is Mudge reported this in January which is right when Musk started buying Twitter shares. And now both of those things are coming to a head at the same time.
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by marricks 4y ago
> add nothing of value for almost a decade To have one stagnant social media company which offers you basically the same experience for 10 years has to be a defining feature. Everything else seems to change beyond recognition trying to c
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by marricks 4y ago
The title should be “oldest reconstructed song” besides on through five there’s a song from 4,000 years ago we know of which can’t be reconstructed.
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by marricks 4y ago
Saying we should expect companies to destroy the free tier is a bit of an insult. The internet was full of free things and companies have been shoving them in our faces for decades. - "Free gigabytes of mail storage!" - "Free
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by marricks 4y ago
If the unstable lenders folded and the mortgage holders could buy out their loans on the cheap, no? Then the shareholders of the lending company wouldn't be rich-people-broke-where-someone-buys-them-out-and-somehow-they're-all-sti

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