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> If you replace “sexual harassment” with any other accusation, do you still feel the same way?

Yes, I do.

The reason I mention sexual harassment is that a lot of people are making accusations of sexual harassment. To believe that the accused are all innocent until I hear evidence otherwise until proven (i.e., to treat the accusations themselves and their consistency as having no information value) is to believe that all the accusers are lying. Very few people are making accusations of, say, piracy on the high seas, so I don't feel like I'm really believing that anyone is lying by holding the belief that piracy on the high seas is rare or that the average person is not guilty of piracy on the high seas.

There are a couple of other accusations I hear regularly. Some of them are things like "Police can murder citizens with impunity" and "The NSA is spying on us." I do think that those accusations should be heard and understood, and not dismissed in the court of public opinion on the grounds that the police and the NSA are innocent until proven guilty.

There are other accusations like "A pizza shop in DC is running a child-trafficking ring under its basement" or "Antifa poured concrete on Amtrak rails, causing the derailment earlier this week." For those I don't believe in holding the accusers guilty until proven innocent, either; a small amount of research can demonstrate to public opinion that the accusations are false on the merits and the accusers are guilty because of specific reasons. (Or, perhaps, the court of opinion can find that the accusers are generally people who make up stories, which still avoids applying a standard of guilty until proven innocent to similar accusations in general.)
I'm so shocked at this question that I don't know how to answer it other than yes it is very expensive to render in high resolution high fov low latency
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To showcase it they'd need actual working hardware instead of 3D renders...
"we ram a bill to expand your powers through, you ease up on the investigation".
More than 'seem', that is what their videos are. Those children screaming about that whale flipping around in their auditorium? They don't have any goggles on.

Their promo videos specifically promise that you could have a crowd of 100 people without the goggles on watching the Magic Leap effects.

They are liars.
It depends on the country and/or the city.

In France, it is legal:

* in all "30 km/h zones" (which are a bit different from a single street with a 30 km/h limit), unless specifically disallowed in a specific street;

* in all "'meeting' zones" (where the speed limit is 20 km/h and pedestrians have special rights);

* and of course anywhere where it is specifically allowed.
I'm convinced it's not.
noscript is blocking scripts and xss and does all kinds of things, while mozilla intently removed the option to disable scripts in firefox.

I do not know about adblock as I stopped using it a long time ago and now use ublock origin a general purpose blocker, but I certainly remember how mozilla was vocal about never adding a blocker in firefox as this would be contrary to <insert BS PR> (actually their business model).
> Bitcoin allows me to be my own bank

Thanks suckers for giving me your warm wallet.....time to fake a hack and shut down this sucker.

> The rules of consensus define characteristics of money I believe are important

My $20 request to get on the blockchain STILL isn't done after 5 weeks!!!

> It allows me to save my money outside of the global financial system

Oh no my Xcoin crashed 50% today!!

> a system I believe is corrupt and manipulated

I lost so much money because of this stupid coin....if only someone can save me from the scammers.....

> It allows me to program my money, something never before possible

In javascript!! secure it is.

> It allows me to transact freely, with whomever I please

It costs me $500 to send $500......sob
Also, bitstamp verification time is now 2 weeks, and bittrex has completely paused any new signups.
Those plane equations are describing the pixel in 3D space.
There's a huge but subtle difference between the prevalence of ad blockers vs an ad blocker that is both backed by an ad company and built into the browser (presumably with no way to turn it off).

We've seen examples of ad blockers becoming problematic when they have too much market share (AdBlock Plus).
Ah, A/UX! As a boy I wanted nothing more than to install it on my dad's computer — but of course back then it cost tremendous amounts of money, and it may not have been compatible with the software he wanted to run.

Also, is it just me or were BeOS & Macintosh Systems 7 & 8 the high point of colour GUIs? I've never seen anything since which looks as nice.
> Abovitz' view that this first release of hardware is workable and good, could explain why they’re calling it the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition. To Magic Leap, creators are developers, brands, agencies, but also early adopter consumers. “The consumers who bought the first Mac, or the first PCs,” he says. “Everyone who would have bought the first iPod. It’s that kind of group. But it’s definitely not just a development kit. If you’re a consumer-creator you are going to be happy.”

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...
TL;DR - it's cool. Lightfields are potentially a transformative tech (and this makes MagicLeap really different than other AR companies). We'll still have to wait until we get actual hardware to see how well it works.

I follow this space fairly closely, so here is some context for this.

The first thing to keep in mind about AR is that the "target" for all of these devices is really 5 to 10 years out when the assumption is that an AR goggles/device will replace smartphones.

This is why Google + everyone else are cool with dumping a billion+ dollars into MagicLeap, why FB bought Oculus (Yes, Oculus is currently a VR company, but Michael Abrash and others have publicly stated that is only because it's a more tractable problem than AR), etc. without an immediate payback / shipping device. How many trillions is owning the tech that replaces smartphones worth?

And there's a decent chance that MagicLeap will do this as they're taking a very different approach to the display technology than anyone else. Competitors like HoloLens, Meta, and about a dozen different smaller companies all have some version of a LCD display reflecting off an angled visor.

Meta - https://www.metavision.com/ - the design is like you took a baseball cap, glued a smartphone screen under the brim pointing down and then attached a plexiglass visor to reflect the images up at you.

HoloLens - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens - you can see similar things here with all their layers of visors.

This reflective LCD approach is well understood and in relative terms "cheap" (aka you can buy good LCD screens at volume b/c of the existing smartphone market), but the result is necessarily a very washed out image, it doesn't look real or solid.

What MagicLeap is doing display wise is something very different. Rony's first company (sold for $1.2B) used fiber optics for seeing what was happening inside of a person while they were getting surgery. Imagine a light + fiber in your heart and the fiber is "scanning" back and forth to get a picture of what the valves of your heart look like.

Now _flip_ that - so instead you have fiber optics projecting light into your eye and the resulting image is indistinguishable from reality b/c it's just more light.

The presumption and rumors all along have been that this lightfield tech is real and amazing enough to open the wallets of some of the smartest people on the planet - but initially required something like the arm+lens setup that you use at the optometrist and a massive gaming PC to make it work.

What MagicLeap has been doing with all this time and money has been trying to shrink this system down. There have been leaked reports of "backpack" setups that were more or less a battery and a PC motherboard zip tied to a person. This announcement at least draws a line in the sand with regards to shipping a portable lightfield product and it may turn out to really be something special.
Helps to stunt some of the vaporware conspiracy theories though :)
I bet you're from Scandinavia!
How on earth are all your answers so informative and authoritative? Do you work in the industry? SpaceX employee? Enthusiast?

Honestly; thank you for taking the time to spread the knowledge.
Yes, yes I am.

For years, my two biggest spheres of advocacy have been environmentalism and privacy/anti-surveillance.

What I've noticed, with that background, is that privacy activism has steadily become more like environmental activism.

With rare exceptions (e.g. the ozone layer), environmentalism is an endless, grinding rear-guard action. Extinct species do not become unextinct. Destroyed habitats do not recover, at least not within hundreds of years. Draining the Glen Canyon Dam will not restore Glen Canyon; Church Rock will never be remediated. And the threats are endless and everywhere: 4,500 species are critically endangered right now, global warming is set for 3+ degrees Celsius, the Great Barrier Reef might die entirely.

Attacks on privacy aren't new, but they seem have changed. The Clipper Chip was a central, recognizable enemy, promoted by branches of the government citizens can relate to. 24 hour turnaround on surveillance legalization for intelligence agencies is part of a new and horrible political landscape. SOPA and PIPA were indirect attacks, part of a state-corporate partnership that lets each party do the things the other is barred from. And even those were too central and easy to oppose - now they're coming back piecemeal, in budget bills and trade agreements where they're harder to address.

And as with the environment, what's lost is lost. Repealing surveillance laws is rare and unsustainable. Fighting surveillance in open courts is impossible; fighting it in FISA courts is a Kafkaesque nightmare of secret evidence and lack of standing. Corporate data-gathering is unprovable, and user information breaches are irreversible. Stolen identities can't be changed or recaptured.

So yes: I'm tired. I'm tired, and it's not an accident, because we're on the wrong end of an asymmetric fight.
As someone who was already using ad block this might be bad for me. If everyone starts using ad block, and if intrusive ads are more profitable than the approved ads, then advertisers will be pressured to find better ways to subvert ad block. The good times of ad block might be in the past, and the arms race accelerating.
I don't think the problem is that we're too stupid. It's just that first past the post voting inevitably results in Tweedledee vs. Tweedledum, both of whom support, e.g., continuing the drug war, expanding mass surveillance, etc.
Cory Doctorow likened it to maintaining a diet. If see could see/feel the calories turning into fat instantly, it would be easier to avoid eating as much.
They wouldn't be adding it to Chrome if it did. That's the problem.
This same pattern seems to repeat immediately preceding any "big announcement" for pretty much every single coin/token out there. It's obvious that insider trading is rampant across the entire cryptocurrency market.

I hope Coinbase and their employees' activities are properly investigated at some point. I think they'll find a lot of "interesting" activity going back very far, assuming Coinbase hasn't "lost" or modified records to hide those activities by now.
> Answering any question might have been enough to pass the screen

Not in this area/location, not in case of this kind of company. I know of cases where the score 67% was too low (2 tasks on 100%, 1 task 0% but missing couple lines of code for 100% solution). It's basically partially automated filter with non-technical people sending rejection emails based on score in the list without digging into solution. I gave up on it not from arrogance, but based on experience.
Hope they ban the shitty cross platform frameworks at the same time.
Hololens is about the size of a smartphone at that half-arm-length distance. It's pretty significant. The question remains, what are the resolution and tracking like? The Meta 2 similarly has a wider FOV, but the visuals are fuzzy and the tracking is the worst of any device I've ever used.
You make many important points, but I don't agree that "STV isn't proportional by design". STV-PR provides voters with representatives elected by equal numbers of votes, and that's pretty close to the definition of proportionality. Given enough seats per constituency, STV-PR provides proportionality not only by party, but by any factors voters choose.

Anyway, I was responding to this:

>>> I don't think STV presents any function that would really prevent gerrymandering.

I still believe that STV-PR resists gerrymandering as much as List PR does.

> PR is no panacea. To avoid gerrymandering, you need an adequately high district magnitude.

I agree, but I expect any form of PR would deal a substantial blow to gerrymandering, even if it isn't a panacea. Perhaps the only way to eliminate gerrymandering is to elect all representatives from a single multi-member constituency. (I expect any other system with enough compensatory List PR seats would be practically as resistant to gerrymandering.) Of course, the sticking point for STV-PR is that a ballot paper for STV435 wouldn't be very user friendly :) .

What do you think of STV+ as a compromise? Under STV+ most representatives are elected under STV-PR and a minority are elected through compensatory List PR to increase the precision of party proportionality.
The market will eventually adjust and demand will come to match supply. That the "market will be flooded" is a terrible argument to justify passing anti-competitive regulations that are bad for consumers and the economy.
Do you know how much attention yet another orbiter would get? China literally landed on the moon -- the first time anything had soft landed on the moon in 37 years -- and they made some revolutionary discoveries. And nobody cared. Sending a car into orbit of Mars while literally playing Space Oddity, on loop - with a live stream available. That is something that would get massive coverage.

The coverage is not just an advertisement for SpaceX and Tesla, but for space in general. News has turned into sensationalistic drivel, driven by clicks than any sort of value. Little of what's seen on the news today will matter in 10 months, and you'd scarcely find a morsel that will matter in 10 years. This makes the absence of space coverage quite peculiar. 100 years, 100 centuries - the steps we are taking today, after a decades long haitus, into space will define the future we will all live in. If it takes being absurd to get peoples' attention in a world of clickbait, sensationalism, and drama - then, by all means, be absurd.

A big part of the reason it's difficult to get funding for space is because nobody cares. Oh look NASA's orbiter suggests our "recurring slope linaea", or RSL - an acronym more reminiscent of something a pharma ad suggested you may want to ask your doctor about than an unexplained phenomena that ought spark the imagination - may be water! How amazing is that! No, we have no real pictures and no.. we're not going to send the rover that direction.. and have no real plans to do so because of a 50 year old treaty. But think about it... in part because that's all anybody can do! Oh shit, another study just made a strong argument that the water is indeed just dust after all. Oh well. Maybe we just need another orbiter.

You're not sending an automobile into space, you're trying to capture and inspire the hearts and minds of the people. And not just the cliche nonsense of thinking of the children, but of all people. Because this experiment, if it succeeds, will probably have been the most interesting and exciting thing done in space in the past 40 years. Or we could beg for enough morsels to send another orbiter.
you are over-simplifying. If we want to be pedantic,

and assume that the two edge routers are just switches

and we would use a consumer level 10gbps port

and that the switchers are already in the same rack in the same facility

and that that rack in that facility has direct access to our distribution PoP

and that there are no firewall rules that need to be in place on that port (they can be in the DMZ sure)

and that we don't need to monitor that connection

and that we don't need that connection to be redundant at all

and that we aren't going to use a routing protocol like BGP on that port (we will just hard code routes)

and that we don't want any guarantee that you and I will operate that link at any SLA

and that we don't want to guarantee that both parties will give notice in a timely manner before termination

and... and... and...

So, which textbook are you copying from? You put out something that is technically true without considering any of the practical realities.

(edited for readability)
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Point being, it's not actually that far away.
> Unless you name what you're afraid of and what you're trying to hide

I think of it a little differently. I am trying to be part of a collective movement toward as much privacy as possible so that those who do need to protect themselves can have access to the tools they need and won't stick out when they use them. A sort of herd immunity.

I guess a good start are habits that neutralize automated mass surveillance. Targeted surveillance would be a whole other ballgame and unfortunately I don't think our tools are at a place to make this feasible for me to practice.
their key tech is not the wearable or slam it's the lightfield rendering
So people before Uber have never used taxis in foreign countries?/s In most countries taxis already have apps comparable to Uber available on Google Play. Even before that, I've managed to get a taxi in China without understanding a single word or symbol (could be said the same about driver and English) and successfully reach my hotel -- showing a hotel's reservation did the trick (I bet that pointing a finger on a location on a map would also work).
You are not mad. This thread and Magic Leap are gaslighting everyone. You said,

> but I thought Magic Leap were creating AR technology that worked _without Goggles_

Yes, that's because they lied to you and deliberately told you that the product would work without goggles. That is all over their early marketing.
Spoiler: It won't.

You need UX that is tailored for the device type and form factor. It's like gravity - you can't escape this. Both Google and Microsoft learned this the hard way.

Even Apple had to basically encourage developers to write tailor-made tablet apps. If iPhone and iPad apps can't be "universal" what hope is there to unify them across an even larger range of form factors?
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Companies release products which will change the value of their stocks all the time.. this is exactly how such events are managed. What else could be done? lock up employees at work for a week while the market adjusts?
The current generation of VR headsets serve as pretty solid light field displays. Current VR can’t show differences in focus yet, but having a large field of view and vivid colors makes for a pretty awesome experience.
You can get vastly different analysis results depending on the assumptions you make about the marginal cost to run a vehicle - If someone is leasing a high end SUV they wouldn't otherwise need the pay is far worse than if someone is driving around in a 5 year old car they already needed. It also makes a huge difference if they are doing this as a full time job or only during peak times.

And all of these factors are in the driver's control, rather than Uber's.
A company I work with did a product demo presentation (for a completely unrelated product to Magic Leap) and showed a ton of extremely ambitious features in the demo and zero development work had even been started on that project. In fact, they haven't even hired the development team yet. The end of their demo showed a "Launching in 2018" message.

Marketing's job is to make promises. Whether the company keeps them is another matter.
I don't know enough about the physics, but it could be similar to the difficulty in making glasses-free 3D TVs. Things like the Nintendo 3DS only succeeded because they naturally dictate the viewer's position. I imagine that this kind of thing would be easier to develop if you could control the focal point (i.e.: strapping someone's eyeballs into place).
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But even if it does end up being a paid service, the FCC still, potentially, has the power to determine that it either A) "offered or provided in ways that threaten the meaningful availability of broadband internet access service", or B) has "been devised or promoted in a manner designed to evade the purposes of this section"

So, the devil is in the details, and the FCC seems to have the power to write those details, if I understand correctly. Even if the present FCC writes sub standard details, a future FCC could re-write them.
You can't pay your taxes in Bitcoin.
I’m surprised that more editors don’t have a built in TeX distro. I really don’t want to install 500mb to 1gb worth of software and fonts for something that I’ll use probably once every 3 months.
The boat was built and set sail under Bush and the GOP congress, under the super-Orwellian PATRIOT Act. I am not happy Obama expanded their powers but fail to see how the GOP would make the situation better.
I’m using Edge and haven’t noticed any Bing promotions. Using DDG for my default search engine.

But I did notice google is trying to force feed me Chrome when I visit google’s web sites. I click “No I don’t want Chrome” in these popups, the popup disappears for a few days and then pops up again.
That’s cool! Thanks for sharing
You're right. My bad. It takes a significant amount of effort to design a nice/beautiful layout for an online book. Definitely not something to be underestimated.
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To me this speaks to the power of Progressive Web Apps.
There is an interview with the new CEO saying that they have a formal review process for adding new 'currencies' and BCH is simply first in line.
Having many cryptos adds legitimacy, whether there is one underneath or not..
THey can say oh BTC, BCH, LTC all crashed, but ETH only crashed by 150% so cryptocurrencies are still viable (even when they are not)
I didn't think of that but yes that is an added benefit
Going to be very interesting to see how they go about implementing this. So much is different about the UI of Mac Os and iOS, that I'm guessing at the very least you'll need different views for each platform.
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I don't think it is possible. Different hardware means different user experience.

You can pretend it is the same application, make one sale and provide different software for each device. But this is more of a marketing gimmick than anything.
I must be the perfect Netizen because I seem to be quite happy to accept anyone's judgement on whether I am mad or not.

But good, great. I'm not mad.
The Falcon 9's second stage wasn't designed to be reusable, and I'd imagine there are quite a few lessons learned they'd like to incorporate in a totally new vehicle instead of attempting to rework the F9.
Looks like coinbase chief executive saw your post ;P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969102

From the link's tfa

> The company's chief executive intervened after several market watchers posted allegations of illegal activity on social media sites.