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What's the opposite of imposter syndrome? Some people like Holmes, SBF and Trump are so convinced of their superior knowledge that they can't see that they are really bad at what they do
Edit: megalomania
delusion about one's own power or importance (typically as a symptom of manic or paranoid disorder).
I took a look at your comment history and matched you to Stepford Smiler
Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-tell...
I'm going to be mad if California spends any of my tax dollars because a few derelicts who moved to the shore might get some unhealthy dust in their lungs. Most of them are smoking meth anyway. Move them and let it dry up. It's not an ancient lake with a robust ecosystem.
The Metaverse is a sexless, joyless world, much like Mark Zuckerberg himself. Sure, there's happy fun time, similar to the forced fun of office birthday parties if you're into that.
This is cringe. So much wrong with this. Doesn't he have grownups around him that could figure out how to fund this system in a fair way without him throwing a tantrum on Twitter? Elon, delete this.
I was around in that time frame but don't remember McKuen, but I do wonder what happened to Zamfir Master of the Pan Flute
It's not an urban myth. It's a rural myth.
"Translation: the Swedes are 100% sure they can prove the Russians bombed the lines, but they don't want the Russians to know HOW the Swedes know."
Peter Zeihan
I'm joking but I expected to get [dead] so it's nice to see HN has a sense of humor sometimes!
"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
@debihope (Boosted by William Gibson)
There's more interesting info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softalk
Seems like this case would involve some sex along the way somewhere
I've lived long enough and been around children enough to know that the curiosity of most children only goes so far. The existence of the phrase "curiosity killed the cat" implies to me that we feel there should be limits to curiosity because sometimes it's good to leave well enough alone.
Some kids won't listen and continue to ask questions until they achieve some understanding they seek. These kids usually remain curious through out life. I am not convinced this percentage is declining. I'd expect it to increase, but now even moderately curious children have access to a wealth of information and ideas over the internet that will spark more curiosity in them.
Yuval Noah Harari says civilization was a mistake but doesn't follow up with any plan for getting rid of it
California either needs to grow less water intensive crops or build desalinization plants. Recovering water from tomatoes and grapes won't put a dent in the problem.
You might want to rethink your approval of spreading misinformation
I like the prose poetry of this article. It flows in a nice way. Well done.
Musk is an amazing polymath. I'm not sure there has ever been a person in history who is an expert on so many things. I'm sure it only took him a weekend to become a nuclear weapons expert. I feel lucky to be alive at the same time as him.
Holodomor (to kill by starvation) was a famine orchestrated by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin’s Communist rule in 1932-33. Holodomor took eight to 10 million lives of ethnic Ukrainians; yet, it has been silenced and denied at all times
I watch movies to relax
Sure it can. Give me some way to build a virtual location on my desktop machine - virtual server vs. web server - and then design a protocol that lets people visit it, plus a discovery service that let's people find it. The discovery service could warn people if my site was harmful, like Google does now with web sites.
The early internet was funded and created by the US government and DNS was run by them too. Then open standards committees were created to make sure everyone spoke the same tech language. No one owns the internet. There's no reason this can't be recreated.
Cool, this is closer to what I think will ultimately be successful. From the FAQ: What is OpenSimWorld? OpenSimWorld is a directory of 3D worlds that use the open source OpenSimulator software and are connected to each other via the hypergrid functionality. OpenSimWorld is not a Grid, and we don't host or rent regions, we only provide an easy way to discover amazing virtual worlds and to advertise your own region.
That's my second disappointment. I prefer programming to playing games. Programming is my game. If I could stake a claim in the Metaverse and build Spalding Gray world (boxmonster comes from his Monster in a Box) so that Spalding was part of the virtual world then I would. Something similar to how I can build a website. Spalding Gray world just an example of what I'd like to be able to freely do for very little cost. The Metaverse should be more like Minecraft and less like AOL.
brutal and gritty world
I think that's the attraction for early adopters who build much of the foundations. Sort of like crypto, web3, DeFi and all that right now. A Wild West were only the smart survive and you can buy drugs and guns if you know how.
Zuckerberg's vision of the Metaverse is blessed by human resource managers who insist everyone follows the code of conduct and no one has genitals. It's bland and comfy, like a mall.
I've read "cyberpunk" novels so I had a certain vision of what a virtual world would look like that I probably share with a lot of people. Believe me, it's not the worlds biggest online cyber mall with cyber mall cops telling me to behave myself. Metaverse is a corporate wet dream. I regret spending money on my Oculus glasses.
I'd hoped the virtual world would start out and be built organically by people because it was fun, useful and anyone could make a little money, just like the early internet.
Foisting this mall world on us is not going to work. I hope they adjust.
Silicon Valley’s earliest focus was on pioneering defense technology, and Congress must reinvigorate this partnership to meet 21st-century challenges. To this end, I propose three areas of focus for the 118th Congress to rebuild a “Defense Valley” that supports and promotes innovation to advance our national defense.
So if you had a friend visit and say he was going to kayak down the San Joaquin you would tell that's a good idea while the state is facing a massive drought? Also, you need to spend some time in really poor areas of the country to get a proper perspective on how lucky we are in CA
That's not what I'm doing. In this case the massive criticism of California comes from right wing media