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by spoonjim 4y ago
They're going to 1) rent it out as a paid API and/or 2) let you use it to create ads on Google platforms like YouTube, perhaps customized to the individual user
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Think about where this stuff was 2 years ago and then think about where it will be 2 years from now.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is not surprising as Zuck is clearly 100% focused on VR and probably just wants to squeeze his apps for as much income as he can to fund his VR stuff.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you want this functionality but not with some sketchy startup, Microsoft PowerPoint has this built in for free (not free exactly, but with whatever you pay for the Microsoft bundle of crap)
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Hogwash, I have a hardwired PoE Ring doorbell camera.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I assume ~80 year lifespan and that you start going to the sauna as an adult.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Most men have only about a 10-year period when they care about their semen quality, you can use the sauna the other 50 years.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Ah, so now it's a good thing to change PoC lived experiences to match the stereotypes held by the majority-White American YA fiction market?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Of course JK Rowling doesn't have to apologize, her net worth is like a billion. Cancellation is most public when targeting extremely famous people but it's the less famous people who actually get harmed: https://www.ny
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Well T-shirt companies already let you upload any image you want, and usually have a human reviewer checking for copyright violations. So depending on the risk profile of the manufacturer they will either use the same system or just wing it
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, the cancellers know that self-publishing is not the solution, and the authors know that going that route is the road to perdition and permanent unpersoning. The authors know that they have to write a long mea culpa and promise to &quot
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by spoonjim 4y ago
But there's a disproportionate power wielded by the "cancellers" that isn't really dependent on the public's willingness to buy the books. Note that the cancellers never go on a big publicity campaign to get people
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes, Reddit's "watchpeopledie" forum was very instructive in just how damn good we have it in the West, and how precious it is and how much we need to protect our society from enemies foreign and domestic. On /r/wat
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL. Yale is five years behind the trend as usual. Online shame, and shame of all forms, is in fact now in precipitous decline, where people proudly or at least unashamedly do things that would have once invited shame (scream at retail empl
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by spoonjim 4y ago
"Harm"? Not really. But this guy is not much different from a millionaire pretending to be homeless and bumming quarters at the train station. Might he find it an interesting experience? Sure. But it's fundamentally just a fo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Working in an Amazon warehouse can be refreshing and restorative when you can quit after 10 weeks and have millions of dollars in the bank. Not so much when you get tendonitis after 6 weeks but have to stare down another 30 years of this an
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Almost everyone "smart" has a really good memory. Turns out it's a lot easier to think of things when you have everything in RAM instead of tape storage.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Canada built an exquisite society and is now handing out the benefits to whoever asks.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s not vaporware, I’ve used it myself. Would I buy it? No. But it’s not vaporware.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you think a Simula One VR is a substitute for a Magic Leap you probably should be reading more and commenting less about this market.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This already exists. There was actually someone who posted something on HN that would use your public profile to find your anonymous Reddit username and it found mine. That’s when I stopped anonymously using Reddit.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is why you learn to code. Because just showing up and doing what you’re told you make 3 times as much.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I mean it depends on what kind of company it is. If software development is the company's core activity I think that this kind of setup is likely to fail slowly.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Cultural norms around tooting one's own horn vary widely, but the United States is a far end of the "toot away" spectrum (with Israel and some parts of Central America)
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I think it still matters because of hiring. The type of people rewarded with promotion at the top tend to promote those people and so on down the levels. A nontechnical CTO will start promoting nontechnical people managers and eventually yo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The idea that a programmer is “aging” at 40 is just nonsense that the tech industry made up to cut costs. Nobody would suggest that a 40 year old doctor or lawyer or civil engineer is “aging,” they’re widely acknowledged to be getting bette
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by spoonjim 4y ago
No. Do you celebrate programmers fixing 1 in a million cosmetic bugs when the software crashes on boot and deletes the user’s disk?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I think many virtue signalers are earnest and think that Tweeting #BLM or other useless actions are actually useful.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL. This is classic “virtue signaling.” Your iPhone battery is not even a rounding error on your electricity consumption.
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The history of law and courts have decided that "different things can be treated differently."

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