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I wish I, just a guy, could invest in companies like this with no vote stake. I believe in the company and the leadership and I'd like a stake in it and to provide money but I know that if I have the ability to put money in so will all the guys who want an opinion.

It reminds me of Kickstarter. I really enjoyed it because I spend $100 now and then for someone to take a shot at building something. If they fail, so be it. If I get scammed, so be it. I explicitly don't want refunds so that the guys can take a risk. But then other people get involved and they have these high expectations and it ruins everything because then I can't get to the guys who are doing risky things. The way I do it is I fire the money into the ether and then months maybe years later I get an email saying "Sorry, we couldn't do it" or "Where do you want us to ship to?"

i.e. I want an escape hatch for investing and for consumer purchases as well. If the government would let me take a cheap online exam that allows me to exempt myself, I'd love that.
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This is laughably wrong. Social mobility in the USA is the lowest among developed nations. Indeed, most social mobility in america is downward, not upward.
Windows used to completely dominate the world.

And when it comes to PC operating systems, it still does even though according to you Apple has this magical ability to keep the masses ignorant and uninformed about alternatives.

Also, all of this is a complete SMOKESCREEN for the fact that Apple could easily introduce something like WebPayments, a driver model for payment providers, and reuse the same UI for Apple Pay to delegate to partners who are vetted.

Does any retailer have a method that allows consumers to avoid payments? Can I buy imaginary money from Epic from another payment provider and use within Fortnite?

Likewise, they already allow 'side loading' in the enterprise, so the question is, why can't they allow THOSE WHO WANT IT to flip a switch

You are perfectly allowed to buy an Android phone like 85% of the rest of the world.
Why can't Elon Musk be as uncharismatic and uninteresting as Mark Zuckerberg, sometimes I don't like his tweets! :__(
This is sad to me. I would like hardware to be hardware and services to be services and I don't want a piece of hardware to require a particular service, particularly when the hardware is of general purpose. I can accept that an XBox wants an XBox live account because an XBox is for one thing, playing games. An Oculus device really ought to just be a display peripheral that is used for communications, for content creation, and yes games. I want something like that to be as open as possible.
Hmm, I'd be fine with getting even an experimental vaccine, it's far more likely to fail by being ineffective than to actually harm me. Not that I'd want to discover it wasn't effective of course, but our immune systems are challenged all the time by all kinds of viruses and bacteria.
Worldwide population is still projected to grow for many decades.

Birthrates are dropping.
He/she made his/her points of why he/she believe so. I think that this is the important part, because after that anyone can make their own minds about it.

Sure any prediction is pretty difficult to make, but languages can be "cornered" and have a harsh time to grow beyond their original umbrella, if it dont manage to be adopted in other scenarios.

Problem is, in a lot of those scenarios, its already a "blood bath" with several programming languages already doing the same.

We have seen this trend and with this historical knowledge we are free to speculate about its future as if there is no 'black swan' events, which nobody can predict.

We know that any prediction is risky, but it looks to me that he/she at least layed down the foundations of his/her thinking, and i must say it looks good as it matches with the previous experience and patterns over other technologies.

Its too crowded, and a lot of great technology are having a bad time to stay relevant, so no wonder that Kotlin will have a difficult time too. And you dont need to be an oracle to understand that.
If paid freelance is banned, then free freelance is banned because it's trivial to say "no I didn't get paid".
A mindlessly self-replicating pathogenic molecule just doesn't make for a good character arc.
The funny thing is that you strive as hard as possible to minmax and break the game when you're playing an RPG - that's part of the joy of playing a game.

Sure you need some STR but if you're playing a mage, keep maxing out that Mana pool at the expense of everything else!
Palmer Luckey, the original creator had this to say over on /r/oculus:

I am already getting heat from users and media outlets who say this policy change proves I was lying when I consistently said this wouldn't happen, or at least that it was a guarantee I wasn't in a position to make. I want to make clear that those promises were approved by Facebook in that moment and on an ongoing basis, and I really believed it would continue to be the case for a variety of reasons. In hindsight, the downvotes from people with more real-world experience than me were definitely justified.

A few examples below so people won't make up their own version of what I actually said:

- I guarantee that you won't need to log into your Facebook account every time you wanna use the Oculus Rift.
- You will not need a Facebook account to use or develop for the Rift
- Nope. That would be lame.
- I promise.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/ic4ye1/new_oculus_u...
how does the avalanche photodiode provide more electrons that required to generate the external field?
The project group is aware of the Blender foundation, but I appreciate the tip!
Your immune system is being exposed to pathogens all day long just from your immediate environment. You don't have to be exposed to thousands of people to develop a healthy immune system.
Pretty much exactly what I was afraid of when they were first acquired, and what they initially promised they wouldn't do. Looks like the success of the Quest has emboldened the reinholders. That as of this posting, 100% of the comments are a variation of 'WTF', it's pretty telling they felt they could get away with it regardless.
AOC does not have more political power than Jeff Bezos and to suggest otherwise is tremendously foolish. Political power is far more than just the ability to change federal statutes, it includes things like being able to get faster approval for the zoning of your particular projects or getting your company tax breaks.
Yeah, they just lowered the resale value of your hardware... HTC Vive it is then.
For testing i care a lot about repeatability.

Specifically, i'm interested in testing a web dashboard/app. So if I use synth to populate my db, how would I know whether the backend's endpoints are giving me good data? Is there a way to guarantee a specific set of test data each time (so i can precompute what the values should be), or will i need to start a test run by querying the data base a bunch to see what's in it to figure out what i should expect the test results to be?

Also, is there a way to prepare data for import into an existing db? Right now for some of our testing we have a single staging instance and we deconflict multiple tests by including a randomized 8 character string in all the relevant IDs for precomputed data we insert as part of the testing initialization. For this testing it's not as important that the data is repeatable, but the testers have a few different scenarios they want to test, so I'd need a way to make a low-data, medium-data, and high-data test set where the backing data fit within some ranges.
yea, I manage to fit in an hour with the wife and an hour gaming CoD/VR before going to bed and getting too little sleep.
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To follow the thread of skepticism about the whole story: it's a bit like the customs entry form you have to fill when entering some countries. One question asks "Are you a member of a terrorist organization?". People laugh when they see this, and say "Why would any terrorist check 'yes' here?!". But the idea is, if they do catch a terrorist, if they can't satisfiably prove he's done anything wrong, they can still say "He lied while filling a customs form" and jail him.

So... maybe the company/boss has other issues with the guy, but no solid ground to fire him, until they caught him "violating" this "conflict of interest" rule.
> I'm shocked at how often I see people put these on an equal level. We forgave our last rocket guy for being a literal nazi.

Put like that, it does somewhat raises the bar for Mr Musk. Though the 60's compared with today's social standards would yield many difference for the better. Heck, many in the 60's would be in for one heck of a culture shock if they suddenly time jumped into today.

That all said - "We forgave our last rocket guy for being a literal nazi." is just begging for a Farside cartoon. Made me laugh.
But then this isn't the first time we read about an Apple Employee being majorly mistreated / Apple having a questionable work culture on Hacker News.

If I should guess such kind of article pops up around every half a year since I'm following Hacker News (I have an account since 4 years so more than that).

Some even came from people much higher up then this person seems to have been.

My guess is that they have a policy against it, but normally either don't hear about "private support" or don't care about it. But do use it to get ride of anyone who thinks differently in the sense that they don't agree with everything Apple does, like complaining to another employee that it's petty of Apple to sue some small company with a peach logo.
You’d still need the slots and some raid modes are limited by the size of the smallest disk. Drives being as cheap as they are, it’s often not economically viable to retain the old drives.
What's insidious about that, exactly?
The Razer accounts are in no way mandatory. They just have an app that auto-updates drivers (and probably does a lot of data mining) but you don't need to use it to use the device. It is a funny comment though, I laughed when I read it.
How to immediately lose a segment of your customers? Hmmm ah yes, require FB for login! Way to go!
As far as I know, Musk's ideas do not include mass genocide on the scale of billions. Gates, on the other hand...
If losing the job was not enough, what about a bunch of tech people siding with your enployer saying your are hiding something, not telling the truth
This TBH
Bezos's power is entirely predicated on violence, as the ownership of any assets he holds are marked as belonging to him through the backing of violent institutions. This is arguably moreso than AOC as she has no executive authority.
Well, as someone who has been social media free since 2015 this really just encourages my feeling that I must not need one. (Even though I want some VR setup )
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The SDK for iOS, sure. The comment was about Mac apps though.
The Krusty Krab?
Their profits are all being sunk directly into Starlink and R&D for Raptor, Starship, and Superheavy. It's not that reusability isn't netting them a profit, it's that their ambitions outstrip their savings from reuse.

Something to consider is that one of their goals is to be able to operate with relatively little constraint even in the event that government contracts, NASA grants, and/or commercial contracts hit a dry spell. That's the whole point of Starlink, for example — a continuous, launch-independent source of revenue to fund Mars ambitions.
Welp...I now have an Oculus Rift S for sale.
He’s accounting for the population growth by 2050.
Engineers consume capital that was raised to produce highly valuable products that create enterprise value that justify the capital that was raised. Those who call engineers as cost centers in today's world are doomed because they don't understand what's the most value creating activity in their value chain.
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> discourage risky, high potential ventures, thereby skewing entrepreneurship towards smaller, less risky projects.

That's a good thing, and I disagree completely with your assertion that "there are too few of the big, risky ventures". My impression is just the opposite: there are too many stable companies with modest success that are being killed by VCs who insist they have to adopt go chasing mega-growth that has no chance of actually materializing. Dropbox, Kickstarter, and Patreon are a few prominent examples of this trend: they achieved success in the marketplace and could've been happy with that, but their backers would rather take a 1% shot at meteoric mega-growth, and so now the products increasingly suck while the companies hopelessly go after initiatives way outside their core competency until their loyal customers get sick of it and leave, the company crashes and burns, and the VCs write it off as just another failure.
Yeah 2 years is enough for me to enjoy the Quest and then move on.

I deleted FB for a reason and it will stay that way.

A shame that their shitty growth hacking position will contribute more e-waste to the environment unless the headset can be fully jailbroken.
What worked for me:

- Making a pourover coffee in the morning. This slow process forces me to keep my mind clear and free, and "adjust" to the work day ahead.

- Take advantage of working from home! There's a heatwave right now and it is impossible to work during some hours for me. I take that time off to workout/do the dishes/chores. I then put in a couple of hours of work to make it up later at night where it is cool. Bonus: no meetings or coworkers to distract me at that time. which brings me to the last point:

- Plan your day well. Try to have a no-meetings day, or no meeting blocks for you to prepare and clean up lunch etc, heads down time etc. Put everything on your calendar.

YMMV.
Well this is horrifying. I bought a Quest for a relative. He loves it, but he doesn't have a Facebook account, and has no interest in signing up. I have a Facebook account, but I don't use it, and I certainly don't want to connect my Oculus account. I guess we'll both have to sell our Quests. That means we'll lose all of our game purchases.

I came to Oculus with eyes wide open knowing it was a Facebook company, but this news still sucks.
I know what RAID is :-)

Not really, disks are cheap enough that I'd rather keep things simple. I have redundancy in various ways in addition to using Backblaze.
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Not sure what we could do here, but feel free to drop me a mail at patrick@ga-insights.com
Respectfully, I'd argue we are already overpopulated. The contraction will take a while to really take hold. Eventually we will no longer be overpopulated. I just don't think the Earth can sustainably support more than 2 billion people. But it will take quite a long time for us to fall that far and it will come with other issues. Additionally, it will take far longer for the oceans and atmosphere to recover but it eventually will.

I also don't understand how we think we'd do better on Mars than on Earth. We have near infinite resources and advantages here and we trashed it. We have none of those on Mars.
“Over”-population depends upon your definition and judgement on the planets ability to sustain us etc.

But population declining? Nope! Here’s a great and accessible explanation:

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_global_population_gro...
The comments on the original article seem to indicate that only facebook thought this was a good change haha.
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I certainly think that's a fair question - as you see the contracts they have been awarded and wonder how do they not have adequate cash flow for that given their rocket tech.

The article makes me think:

1) mostly looking for money to build the Starlink satellite network as that is not brining in the necessary cashflow yet

2) it explicitly mentions the round was larger than originally intended and oversubscribed. Sure, if you haven't yet proven yourself it's certainly not always great to raise extra, but I don't think that applies as much here
The fish feed of today contains far less animal protein than it used to - a lot of the protein now comes from soy.

Salmon farming, for example, can be incredibly efficient - Norwegian salmon farms typically get 1 kg of fish for every 1.15-1.2kg of feed. That's an amazing conversion factor.

That said, there are serious welfare concerns with fish farming. Even in Norway, which has some of the highest standards in the world, sea lice are a huge problem, and the mechanical and chemical treatments used are horrible. Another issue is the welfare of "cleaner fish", which are places in cages to eat lice from salmon - AFAIK there are still no regulations around their welfare, and mortality rates are shocking[0]

https://sciencenorway.no/animal-welfare-fish-farming-salmon-...
Yes. Many US tech founders weren't born in America. So they would be going back to their families. And taking their immediate families with them.

Eduard Saverin (facebook) did renounce his citizenship.

There are many immigrant founders: Elon Musk (South Africa, Canada), Sergey Brin (Russia).
... and the personal data on how much time you spend in which game, whether those are day times or night, whether it's regualr or irregular etc. from which different information on your situation an be derived.

If it's connected to your desktop, it can also use all the dark patterns Facebook knows to tie it to your other activities ...
I mean, academia has been pleading with politicians to do something about global warming for my entire life to no avail.

If we use Hanlon's razor and attribute the rich and powerful's incompetence on this issue to stupidity instead of malice, then forgive me if I don't find that comforting.
Sure - drop me a mail at patrick@ga-insights.com. Happy to chat.
The comments here reminded me of Tulpas: https://www.businessinsider.com/hearing-voices-in-your-head-...

We are capable of holding more than one identity in our minds and switching between them. Some people use that ability to create "characters" (tulpas) that they interact with or even allow to take over their bodies. Apparently some people go as far as replacing themselves with a tulpa they've created (they call this ego-suicide).
A much more complete version of this is tiddlywiki:

https://tiddlywiki.com/
Rich man angered by wealth tax, film at eleven.
False equivalence; your house, car, and fridge are not subject to the same pressures to be increasingly smaller. Modern consumer tech is expected to get smaller with each generation.
Economists actually love recurring land value taxes because they're non-distortionary, but almost all land value tax proposals exclude primary residences under a certain value, for the reasons you've described.
Basically a rip off of https://www.linear.app
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Browsers became a functional part of an OS a long time ago. What is the real problem? If you are on windows and worried about bloat? WTF?
join a social club or some other activity at night so that you are required (or rather want) to be there at a certain time. then you have the push you need to get out of the house at a certain time. personally i go to an AA meeting every weeknight at 6:30 pm so I had no choice but stop working at 6 pm and leave the house.
>In hindsight, the downvotes from people with more real-world experience than me were definitely justified.

I don't want to assume bad intent, but I find it hard to believe that someone could be so naive about the project and the organization controlling it.
I'm not sure we can make this conclusion. Certainly the effect you're mentioning does extreme damage but it is localised. Acidification is nowhere near as localised, therefore whilst it doesn't affect individual areas as strongly it is much more widespread. When looking at the accumulative effects the question of which one is worse is up for debate and non trivial to answer.
it's on our roadmap and will try to add support for multiple files and zip in the upcoming release
So please tell us one law that the government passed in the last 30 years related to technology that was actually good for consumers.

After everything you have seen the US government do with regards to technology, you still want more government power? I haven’t seen anyone on HN that supports the DMCA, laws trying to make encryption illegal, etc.

My fight against government control is because I don’t trust the government. I can more easily leave a company than I can a government.

Why was Apple able to survive the consolidation behind MS DOS and Atari, Commodore, etc. weren’t? They all started around the same place.

Don’t blame Apple for other company’s failures.
Our next steps as a company are to deploy our reporting and AI-backed alertings into any data-source.
Google was/is the biggest in the space, so that made sense as a V1. Our vNext will connect to much more.
Because believe they will get a good return from accelerating their development instead of moving at whatever speed the return from their current launches can sustain.
Connecting to Wiimmfi on the DS is surprisingly simple. Thanks to a mistake in the SSL certificate verification code on the DS [1], all that is needed is specifying a custom DNS server (164.132.44.106 [2]). The hardest part is finding an open or WEP hotspot, as most DS games aren't compatible with newer Wi-Fi security types [3].

[1]: https://github.com/KaeruTeam/nds-constraint

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh0AZR-tKwM

[3]: https://wii.guide/wiimmfi.html
That excuse by apple (it was so old!) is nonsense; Li-ion batteries should not degrade nearly as quickly as they did during the whole apple-battery saga (less than a year to less than half capacity sometimes!) Clearly apple had a design defect (whether in its use of the battery or in the battery itself), and equally clearly apple didn't admit it until the public uproar was significant. The timeline of the whole thing involved a whole series of phones only a little more than a year old, and by that point there had already been a bunch of grumbling online.

Anecdotally, the situation has improved in those I know, but the batteries still degrade more quickly than those in similarly-priced android phones or windows laptops. But perhaps that's just sampling bias.

In any case - the issue is not huge now, but it was a real issue a few years back, and apple tried to cover it up, which pisses me off to this day. Yay for screwing over your customers, and not offering refunds or repairs under reasonable terms until the public outcry is huge: i.e. they certainly will screw you over to cover their collective ass if they can get away with it.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate talks of sept/oct 2015 phones and apples dec 2016 response; so: not old phones.
Isn't it against Facebook TOS to have more than one Facebook account, or to open a Facebook account for someone/thing that isn't a real person?
Well one could always starve more quickly, or stop paying rent. "There are always options," as they say.
And the Facebook account was in no way mandatory for Oculus until today's announcement we're commenting on. What's your point?
Capital can move globally, but if you remain a citizen, you still owe on the wealth tax, because again, no instrument is restricted. If you want to renounce your citizenship to the US and pay the exit tax instead, be my guest, I'm sure we could tighten up any loopholes and remove access to American capital markets for those that want to flee.

I also love how creating liquidity is now considered being a financial parasite. The US is nothing without the financial innovations that we have developed and embraced over the last 150 years.