stuff HN says 5 years ago in Everything
That feels isomorphic to the problem of time travel.
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On screen today we have shows like Game of Thrones that really deliver at making us feel things and keeping us surprised.
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most people are differentiated by completely controllable factors
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The smartphone golden era may be coming to an end, pumped for whats next.
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we think there's a big business model/opportunity related to being the best in the world at understanding how humans perceive their own faces and the faces of others.
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Having lived through the horrors of the pre-smartphone days
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the agonizing pain of [..] standing in line at a grocery store
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I never heard about #ElsaGate before. There is obviously a pedagogic message in the videos.
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If anything, I think these devices are more a money grab on the "spies" than a significant intrusion on the targets.
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Fewer, higher value employees has been the trend in many industries for the past few hundred thousand years.
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People could eat protein paste and have it taste like filet mignon. They could walk between the same two rooms in their house but feel like they were in Versailles. VR could massively reduce the global demand for energy and materials.
6 years ago in Everything
A screen reader is going to see an SVG element and I imagine at best it will use some alt-text or other "description" of the graphic. Versus if the data is literally `123{123,234,435}424` then a person without vision can get much more information about what's actually being conveyed.
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Someone will still have to control and maintain these robots.
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My phone provides the same services to me digitally that the analog world provided.
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What's the difference if a 10 year old is posting on Instagram, to a 10 year old in the 80s with a Polaroid? If kids talk on snapchat instead of over the fence in the backyard?
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Honey bees aren't native to North America at least. If they went extinct, native plants would be fine.
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if the amount of money-throwing ever becomes too much to swallow then we might finally see some widespread solid security practices
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something custom instead of @gmail
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I want your (all yalls) telemetry data sent to Microsoft, so my Windows crashes less. As an aggregate, the worlds telemetry data has an extremely positive impact on me.
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Western colonialism doesn't exist anymore, unless you count overseas military bases.