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I recently read a story here about someone spending a significant portion of their yearly income on a Fate game in Japan. I think it might be a mistake to assume that the only whales are rich.

A few times a few at least, and that’s only counting extermination in the KZ’s and VZ’s. If you consider the total casualties of the war, including combat deaths (even German) and civilian casualties outside of the camps, it’s more in the realm of 50-80 million. Subtract 3-5 million for the Pacific theater, and it’s still a lot.

It also doesn’t help that neo-Nazis work today under the same banner.

“Eventually” is quite the weasel word in this context. Yes, eventually it will, for values of eventually which may exceed the average human lifespan.

This is arguing dishonestly, as you presumably understand the difference between using examples to illustrate a principle, and a direct comparison. Why not just address the point, instead of being “outraged” by his presentation?

I’m not sure, but I think you just tried to compare the technological platforms of VR/AR with virtual cat trading for money on existing platforms? I’m not even getting into the huge amounts of time, money, and hard work that’s gone into VR/AR, because as far as I can tell you just compared apples and bricks.

Too soon for info, too soon to say anything of substance. It might be better if this were not here at all until more is known. In a vacuum, online, things tend to devolve.

Sorry to say that MAgic Leap’s only relation to light fields is in their marketing and now defunct patents. Their actual product apppears to be a less impressive early Hololens.

That sounds about right. Reddit just isn’t a fun place to be, and hasn’t been for years. I’m not sure what the value proposition is for Reddit anymore, other than for the owners of Reddit.

I stopped using Reddit a while ago when it became clear that they had a pretty adversarial relationship with their users. Their moderation is terrible, the community ranges from unpleasant and repetitive to downright toxic, the content is better found elsewhere, and the administration is incompetent and amoral at best.

I’ve never once felt like I missed out on something by eschewing Reddit, and every time I check to see if it’s changed for the better it is markedly worse. Reddit, Imgur, Instagram, Facebook, are just bad places to be. There are a couple of good subreddits to read occasionally, like askhistorians, but you don’t need an account to read it. Actually participating gets old, fast.

Responsibility is hard, and most people are machines designed to find paths of least resistance.

Consider the source: Cressida Dick, and the Met Police. Look into their history, conduct, competence and attitudes, and you’ll understand why. I’m decidedly not a fan of much social media, but this is the usual deflection you get from the usual sources. Dick is so far to the authoritarian Right that she walks with a limp. She’s definitely not going to say that years of failed social and economic policies have predictably led to a rise in violence, but blaming social media? Oh yes.

Some background on the recent history of violence in the UK might help too. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42749089

Note that most knife attacks are during the commission of another felony, usually robbery. Unless social media is somehow being used to coordinate robbing people, you can safely dismiss Dick’s claim.

You know how it goes, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

It’s all over this place, regrettably.

When it’s Tunisians and Egyptians using FB and Twitter, everyone is quick to take credit and talk about the “transformative” power of social media. When it’s genocide, suddenly everyone is mumbling and looking at the ground. You can’t have every job listing include “changing the world” and then duck responsibility when you actually do change the world, just for the worse.

Hypocrisy is an untenable position. Watching people argue that social media is equivalent to rallies, on HN would be funny if it weren’t so desperately sad. You can make this comment disappear, but you know I’m right about this. Even a brief glance through comment histories and submission histories bears it out.

'I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.'

What do you need, a flashing neon sign reading “tech” to be interested? He’s directly pointing to one of the 5 big Tech firms, it could not be more relevent. Given that, what’s your problem?

You can argue a lot of things about this, but “not related to tech” isn’t one of them.

I’ll hold off on votes or flagging, while I wait for some evidence commensurate to your claim that courts favor women. Is that acceptable?

Sorry, if I had tried to add that I wouldn’t have had any room for the title itself. Thanks to whoever edited it.

Where you’re deported to seems like a key factor here, along with whether or not you had to flee from that place, and if you have any connections there. In this case it’s Somalia, he had to flee along with his family, and he has no connections. It’s hard to argue that it isn’t a punishment, with potentially dire consequences.

It’s not that latent, it just got a little quiet after WWII, but it’s been roaring back to life for years now.

Or they care, but don’t really understand, and now with something concrete they both care and understand. Well have to wait and see, but the weakness of your argument (restating your thesis not being much of one) strikes me as obvious.

This is 100% anecdote: A friend of mine test drove a Tesla, and said that when he was in the far right lane on a highway, the autopilot would get a little sketchy at off ramps. It didn’t ever off or anything, he described it as “jiggling” like it wasn’t sure what do when the right lane marker disappeared. He found that less than inspiring, although he did find the acceleration intoxicating.

I would trust the data, because lying at this point could be criminal, or civilly significant. I wouldn’t trust all of the fluff and interpretation and hand-waving around the data though.

I feel like the “Nobody cares” line was clearly wrong a while ago, and now it just smacks of desperation. Clearly people care, a lot, and while you can try to denigrate or dismiss them in a number of ways, or play games of tu quoque with “Obama did it” the cat is out of bag. Maybe it took an association with Trump to kick the media out of bed on this issue, but now it really does have a life of its own. The Boz memo, articles like the one we’re commemting on, do not thrill people. As the steady drip feed of FB scandal continues it also promotes discussion about the merits of the platform.

In my opinion though, the biggest change is that saying, “FB is spying on you, and manipulating you” no longer gets you weird looks and sighs from most people these days. The narrative of FB as a kind of tentacled monster also fits into a larger narrative of big tech run amok that has been gaining traction. Uber killing that woman, Tesla’s autopilot fatality, YouTube and Google banning what a huge portion of the internet considers reasonable content, is starting to annoy and scare people.

Dismiss their concerns and fear at your own peril. People, and societies at large always have breaking points, and there’s nothing worse than being dragged to the guillotine screaming, “But we’ve been fucking you peasants over for years, why now?!” It’s now because there is always a straw that breaks the camel’s back. Trump, CA, may just be a straw, but you have to see it in the full context of a greatly overburdened camel.

It’s also a car, and not a plane. Do they also call the wheels propellers? It’s a misleading term for the majority of people who don’t fly their own planes.

This may be more my emotional/irrational reaction than anything, and if so please correct me. Seeing how WalMart treats it’s own poeple, and the lack of concern they’ve ever shown to the impacts of their stores on communities, I kind of doubt their commitment to my health in this scenario. I wouldn’t trust them to deliver what’s best for me, just what’s profitable for them.

Could haptic feedback be “granular” enough to mimic specific shapes of knobs and switches?

I don’t think you’ll be charged with naivety, more likely that’s what your attorney will desperately try to plead. Of course, your words cited by GP will make that impossible.

Good luck, you’re really going to need it!

This graphic can explain very clearly, although it’s a little old. The result is that constraints today are even tighter though, so for these purposes it’s still useful.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UN8jPwzj2qI/V9hRVCG1HBI/AAAAAAAAC...

It feels a lot more like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic to me.

You didn’t really respond to anything I said, just complained that people aren’t agreeing with you and some ad hom that those people are mob-like.

Anyway, I'm not here to argue in favor of FB

You’re just doing a really great impression of someone who is? My initial reaction was an unrealistic belief that you and others singing a similar tune work for FB, but I doubt that. I think it’s a very rational fear that FB is the first domino to fall, possibly along with Uber. Fear and self-interest, and the simple desire not to see your industry facing a prolonged public backlash ending in regulation makes more sense as a motive.

Is that about right?