advrs

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by advrs 5y ago
I am very open to critiquing Bill Gates (and other personally wealthy folks disregarding experts in a messianical manner), but isn't this kind of what he spends all of his time on now (malaria, ebola, etc.)? From the article itself, h
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by advrs 5y ago
This is extremely cynical - do you find all abstract art to be unimpressive?
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by advrs 5y ago
This is just unfortunately the default state for STEM-trained individuals (disclaimer: I am one of these).
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by advrs 5y ago
This is an oversimplified take, and completely glosses over macro social effects beyond "individual choice". This is the social science equivalent of reasoning about human behavior and focusing on the behavior of individual neuron
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by advrs 5y ago
Yeah, they really jumped the shark with that release. The meta has been changing drastically, and I don't know if the dev team really is interested in patching it back up.
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by advrs 5y ago
Where? Can you share a link / description?
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by advrs 5y ago
Second this - it is way too hard for me to see a full FOV and high-res look at the actual product!
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by advrs 5y ago
I imagine the entire idea of it being a worker-owned (and thus democratic) cooperative is pretty different...
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by advrs 5y ago
That word has completely lost all meaning and historical context at this point, hasn't it?
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by advrs 5y ago
Are you suggesting that jail (aka expensive housing funded by the public) is the most effective solution to these crimes/behaviors? For example, do you think the population of people who defecate in public are going to be deterred due
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by advrs 5y ago
Have you tried VR at 1080p? I understand your point (one number does not adequately represent "quality of experience") but for VR, 1080p is simply not enough due to the distance to the display (pixels are very visible).
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by advrs 5y ago
> As someone who has only really started using Twitter in the last few months Seems like a little bit of a self-report right off the bad. The OP is not very familiar with Twitter and the ecosystem and user behaviors of the platform, and
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by advrs 5y ago
I don't understand how you say this when Oculus Quest 2 (owned by FB, of course) is probably the best + most popular VR experience. Is it early days? Yes, of course. But this quasi-religious idea that only Apple (or Microsoft? lol..
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by advrs 5y ago
"social justice" ? Explain
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by advrs 5y ago
I would imagine the intent of this "surrealist approach" is to disincentivize the commodification of housing (as a form of political pressure against consolidation of large real estate portfolios)
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by advrs 5y ago
The difference is that the interstate highway system was not simply built for mass civilian transit, but as part of a post-WW2 initiative, functioning as emergency landing strips and providing easier access between airports, seaports, rail
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by advrs 5y ago
Laws are not written overnight. I am not really sure what kind of `SLA` you have in mind for drafting and passing legislating for new fields (especially massive paradigm shifts with countless unknown-unknowns), but history would suggest th
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by advrs 5y ago
Afghanistan is strategically located at a major crossroads between Central and East Asia. This is useful for trade and military operations. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline
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by advrs 6y ago
You do realize languages change (constantly), right? This gives me the sense of someone echoing talking points picked up from spending time listening to reactionary Youtube agitators (especially the gender-focused dogwhistle)
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by advrs 6y ago
I find it troubling that people can find themselves so wrapped up and agitated by culture war wedge issues that they would characterize the rhetoric and actions of Jeff Bezos as aligned with "far left ideology", when Amazon is cur
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by advrs 6y ago
No one is arguing about right/wrong, he is simply saying the term has an accepted definition (especially in historical context, zooming out past the modern US political media landscape)
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by advrs 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by advrs 6y ago
This is a very idealistic view of the Prop 22 debate, and I encourage you take a more material analysis to this issue if you want to understand it. It was a cheap way for VC-backed companies to "buy" a legal method to skirt existi
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by advrs 7y ago
I highly recommend you visit a well-reviewed physiotherapist. I have struggled with back pain for about 10 years, from a high-school football injury. Turns out, beyond the "injury", I have a really skewed pelvis, which is causin