pastdiscovery

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by pastdiscovery 3y ago
VRChat is less LARP-heavy than SL. VRChat is more proprietary than SL. VRChat is more custom than SL in some ways and less in others. The SL people tried to make a VRChat clone. They sold it off, and now an EDM label uses it for virtual rav
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by pastdiscovery 4y ago
That the EU's overreach has made a product worse for the majority of its users. As a technical user, it doesn't bother me. When I consider many of my friends, it does bother me—most of them I know with non-iOS devices have complai
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by pastdiscovery 4y ago
From their perspective: Worker cost 50 money. How company get 50 money? Worker not work so much, maybe? How to quantify? What if spy? Company tell IT monkey to give developer monkey spy. Our computer, company can do a little spy. Company ca
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by pastdiscovery 4y ago
Counterpoint: A paperclip maximizer is a good thing. Paperclips are very useful. In conjunction with most surfaces, they can be used as musical instruments, akin to drumsticks or fingerpicks. Being much cheaper than recorders, they would se
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by pastdiscovery 4y ago
> But, Mr. Rector said, previous experiments in cash assistance, like a “negative income tax” program for the poor in the 1970s, showed ... negative impacts on marriage that lasted long after the efforts ended. It feels like using marria
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by pastdiscovery 4y ago
Can/has been done before. To make VRDs safe, they need to be dimmed with a filter, but it's achievable.
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by pastdiscovery 4y ago
It already can be and has been done. Look at Mann's Thermocam EyeTap, or half of his other papers. He revisits mediating human vision with extrasensory overlays often.