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by tavavex 1y ago
> 15-year-old amendment mandating a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations agency that accepts Palestine as a full member As a non-American, doesn't this seem a little ridiculous to some people in the US? This s
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by tavavex 1y ago
I'm not some crypto evangelist, but as far as I know, crypto at its foundation is a lot less "watertight" in terms of ascertaining who is who. Your government could pass laws to pressure your local money-to-crypto exchange se
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by tavavex 1y ago
The fix is legislation that ensures that payment processors aren't allowed to extra-legally moderate transactions based on "I don't like it". They need to be forced to process all legal transactions. Because these entiti
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by tavavex 1y ago
Out of curiosity, which drugs do you consider to be the exception to the "almost all drugs are terrible" line?
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by tavavex 1y ago
I still think it's mostly puritanism. "Adult transactions" is a massive category of goods and services, and I'm willing to bet that John the average guy buying an overpriced subscription on generic porn website #729 and
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by tavavex 1y ago
Yeah, I agree, sorry. I went on a bit of a tangent, but still wanted to post it. But hey, I tried to bring it back in the last sentence.
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by tavavex 1y ago
All humans are susceptible to addictions and addictive behavior, but the 1% that you mention are mostly shielded from their negative effects. It's far less of an issue for them, and it's not even just about choosing the less destr
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by tavavex 1y ago
It's not about just fulfillment or price-setting. This is just a narrow-scope experiment that tries to prove wider viability by juggling lots of business-related roles. Of course, the more number-crunching aspects of businesses are tho
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by tavavex 1y ago
On one hand, this model's performance is already pretty terrifying. Anthropic light-heartedly hints at the idea, but the unexplored future potential for fully-automated management is unnerving, because no one can truly predict what wil
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by tavavex 1y ago
I'm inclined to believe what they're saying. Remember, this was a minor off-shoot experiment from their main efforts. They said that even if it can't be tuned to perfection, obvious improvements can be made. Like, the way how
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by tavavex 1y ago
Is this true for ecstasy? I thought it was more of a short-term thing. Regardless, even if it elicited some response in him... being a modern billionaire usually requires stepping on lots of heads, being ruthless and very self-interested. S
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by tavavex 1y ago
It's actually photogrammetry, not LiDAR (or at least, the LiDAR scans aren't done by Street View cars), which is why it's limited only to certain pre-scanned cities instead of everywhere with modern Street View.
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by tavavex 1y ago
I agree as a Canadian. It feels like there's vastly more reporting on this than there are actual people fully supporting this movement. These things may be getting more coverage because they sound so outrageous and novel, but it's
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by tavavex 1y ago
Some people despised the XP UI when it first came out to a lot of fanfare. To this day, "Fisher-Price UI" is strongly associated with it. Most people seem to think that whatever design language they got used to at a certain age
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by tavavex 1y ago
I really don't understand what people are losing their marbles about. I know (re)designs always face some controversy, but the reception here on HN seems overwhelmingly negative. It's not even a full redesign - they're advert
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by tavavex 2y ago
This isn't really the point of the post. Even a 10mb compact native desktop app is in the wrong if it forces itself into appdata with no alternatives - it's just that modern web-app-likes seem more likely to do this. Some of them
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by tavavex 2y ago
I feel like we're reading two different posts. In my interpretation, the post describes the whole accusation as a logical contradiction. It's not your normal insider trading - it's an accusation based on the fact that the CEO
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by tavavex 2y ago
Isn't Sharepoint like an enterprise management tool? I've never interacted with it once. As for appdata... There's many faults to find in modern Windows changes, but I'm not willing to pin this on MS. Microsoft stuff ten
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by tavavex 2y ago
Is there a huge difference in outcomes, really? On average, I feel like the people who live in dead-end cities and towns that have no hope left in them would move on their own, given the money. But the places that still have promise in the
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by tavavex 2y ago
Is VD actually better than USB link? If that's the case, I might look into buying it. I thought that the post reaffirmed this, but I may be wrong. I was under the impression that the inconvenience of using a USB cable is compensated by
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by tavavex 2y ago
> It is not. Not even a little. I'm pointing out that you and I have wildly different value systems, alien to each other in ways so profound that you could be forgiven for thinking I'm exaggerating. I get that your values are d
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by tavavex 2y ago
You redirected me to this comment from my other one up the thread. But for #1, your blog post mentions that going with the USB cable option provides the best quality, which is what I use. Maybe a better wording is that VD is preferred for p
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by tavavex 2y ago
I'll admit that I'm not up-to-date with all the updates and developments, nor do I play DCS, but I've never felt like Virtual Desktop was required. I just hook it up with a cable, open the Oculus app and then I can use whatev
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by tavavex 2y ago
All modern VR headsets are going to have head tracking - even for something as simple as outputting a monitor signal, you need to have it occupy a point in 3D space to avoid motion sickness and to let the user naturally look at it up close,
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by tavavex 2y ago
Bigscreen as a company isn't really looking to expand the VR market, it's just making an enthusiast-grade product aimed at people who know exactly what they want. Quest focuses on being a smartphone-like device with an integrated
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by tavavex 2y ago
> "But it's good for you!" they scream, and the word good is, in their head, something they've decided meets a goal or end result that I should be pursuing. That's just strawmanning the argument, no? Why not argu
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by tavavex 2y ago
To add on what the other person said, the rich getting rich can indeed directly lead to the poor getting poorer. Money is influence, and especially in the US, a sufficient amount of money can buy anything. As the ultra-rich category of peop
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by tavavex 2y ago
But the thing is that you don't need to take Nat Geo-level photographs to be considered the owner and sole creator of the photograph. I can pull out my phone right now and press one button - and I'll be the rightful owner of whate
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by tavavex 2y ago
> They didn't create a market in this case. They created a product, which is the Apple Watch. I think this is the biggest disagreement point between you and the other poster. Whether it constitutes a new market is up for debate, but
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by tavavex 2y ago
If you like it, use it. Why not let other people augment the ecosystem? If Apple allowed Pebble to get full permissions and it all turned out to be the extremely unsafe, buggy disaster that everyone here chooses to portray it as, then you c

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