notsapiensatall

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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
IMHO it's a classic innovator's dilemma. They get something so uncool because they spend so much money on it. Reality Labs employs what, 17,000 people? The organization is large enough to be hidebound and risk-averse, but too sm
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
It's basically the cost to list, store, sell, and ship a small item on Amazon, plus $1-2. You pay the markup to get the item quickly, and for easy returns.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". Don't bet the farm this early in the cycle.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
There's a game called "SOMA" which does a great job of exploring this question. Ultimately it comes to the same conclusion, using the player character as a foil who spends most of the game refusing to understand what is going
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Large birds don't fly by flapping their wings when they have enough lift. Look at one in a thermal updraft sometime, it's quite a majestic sight. If birds had engines on their wings, they would probably fly more like airplanes. Bu
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
A subversive element is called a guerilla. It's a loan word from Spanish meaning "little war".
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
I'm saying that you can't expect humanity to act in its own interests, because you can expect humans to act in their own interests. It's a people thing, not a cultural thing. Successful societies are ones that find ways to ma
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Part of the problem is that we don't act as a species. We act as a bunch of individuals, each responding to the incentives which are put before us. You'll never get people to stop doing something if it is easy and profitable.