Not that weird, hello.com was also founded by Orkut Büyükkökten [0].
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[EDIT]: I personally believe that humanity has been conditioned to expect, perhaps even crave, a timeline/feed based social network, and therefore a non-feed based social network will be up against a general "expectation" of what a social network is by the populace. This expectation is driven in part by an "addictive" feeling that networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat have fostered over the past decade.
Have you used GPT-3 with any of the methods mentioned in the docs?
I’ve seen that GPT-3 can produce quite starkly different results when prompted differently and when samples have been uploaded.
It’s better to generate a diagram as needed than to archive an outdated artifact that could lead to confusion.
In what ways do you feel like TiltFive supersedes what Dynamic Land is doing?
[EDIT]: After reviewing the marketing materials, it looks to me that this project is orthogonal to the goals of Dynamic Land, and they don’t really serve the same purpose.
1) Dynamic Land is intended to allow for computing by interacting with real physical objects, and seeing the outputs displayed back in the real world without augmented reality hardware.
2) TiltFive seems intended to allow for holographic display of traditional or specialized game content onto physical objects. More like advanced AR than tangible or physical computing .
1) Bret brought the computer into the world, instead of bringing the world into the computer, e.g. Oculus or Vive.
2) The operating system that senses the world and reads instructions from objects is influenced by Smalltalk, and from what I understand allows for Smalltalk like programs to run on it in the form of object instructions and interactions.
Dynamic Land might be the most interesting approach to collaborative computing in person that I’ve seen to date.
Bret designed the system, wrote the operating system, and the libraries used to interact with the OS via physical objects. It’s awesome.
Setting up a well organized PR to preview environment deployment pipeline, that can be automated by CI passing is time consuming and full of yak shaving opportunities.
Just clicking “enable” for a small team is a huge win.
This reads like the honest description of a Ponzi scheme.
As long as the originating parties, or newbie rubes, continue to prop up this sham it will not collapse.
People who ascribe to the FLOSS ethos are often opposed to the terms and conditions Apple dictates.
The only works of comparable quality I am aware of are classics like the Moosewood Cookbook[0] (famously completely hand typeset), Allen and Mikes Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book[1], and Anybody's Bike Book[2].
Hand illustrating technical content is so much better than sterile diagrams, and it lends a sense of personalization, especially if the illustrator is also the author, which is a rarity.
[0] https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/katzen-mollie/moo...
It's not as simple as that. States can indeed apply their laws to interstate commerce in a myriad of ways, but not to the degree that the U.S. federal government can. States for example can force e-commerce companies to apply sales tax to purchases made by customers based in the given state, even though the business is based in another state. By your logic, the state should only be able to enforce their laws on the resident customer, but that's not true, they can apply their law to the online retailer who doesn't have a presence in the state and force them to collect the taxes on the state's behalf and remit the taxes to the state. [0]
As a second example, a state's minimum wage laws apply to any person who resides within the state, even if that person works remotely for a company based solely in another state. If you have a company in Illinois, your minimum wage is $12.00 per hour. If you employ a person who resides in California for remote work, you still must pay them the California minimum wage of $14.00 per hour. You must also adhere to other labor laws for the employee who resides in California for overtime, maximum hours worked per day, and others. [1]
> We simply disagree here. I see that they are purchasing IP within their state lines, you see something completely different.
We do disagree, but your opinion also disagrees with one-hundred years of U.S. employment case law, and so I would argue is factually incorrect.
Your comment confirmed that the value originated in one place, California where the company could not access it, and was transferred to another place, Illinois where the company could access it. The employee was compensated for the transfer of this value. That is interstate commerce, and therefore the jurisdiction of the originating state, California, can apply.
> It may be worth something to someone in California before it's exported, but that transaction never happened. In this case though the actual transaction took place in exchange for a product inside Illinois.
The company in Illinois compensated the employee for their time to generate intellectual property, so the company valued their work and exchanged payment to the employee for exchange of that value. So then the work clearly has value prior to being packaged and sold to the end customer.
> I buy ammunition online from a company in Oklahoma, where all the business and employees of the ammunition company resides. Yet I pay sales tax here in <my state> based on recent court rulings regarding 'internet sales tax' which state the tax is where the transaction took place, not where the company and/or workers physically resides.
The exchange of value and compensation between a company and their employees is governed by employment law. You seem to have conflated the concept of an employee with that of a business or an independent contractor, which are not the same thing, and are not governed by the same laws. When you hire employees across state lines, you are extending your business operations across state lines, and are subject to state jurisdiction. That is the cost-benefit trade-off of hiring outside your state, if you hired employees outside your country, for example in Canada or Mexico, then you would be beholden to inter-national laws governed by treaties.
> The employer is buying IP within their state lines of Illinois.
No, the business is not "purchasing IP within their state lines", the business is employing a person who resides within another state, and therefore the business must abide by the employment laws of the employee's state, as well as the business state of origin. An example of buying IP would be purchasing a legal contract template, or a software license. In the examples I provided sales tax for the state where the purchase originated would apply.
> You may be arguing the 'employee' is actually misclassified and is an illegal exporter who is a business owner in California with an export and bit smuggling business. Go after this 'employee' (bit smuggler), not the person buying bits in Illinois.
I'm unsure if you are trolling or just very confused, but your statement makes no sense and does not fit within the logical framework of United States inter-state commerce law. Employees are not classified as an independent business, they are and extension of a business's operations.
Why would the intellectual property the employee generated be worth nothing simply by originating in California?
In other words, if a bottle manufacturer in Illinois sourced raw glass pellets from a plant they owned in California, they would be deriving value from a source in California. The glass is not worthless because it hasn’t been converted into bottles yet.
The employee is providing intellectual property across state lines, which is why the state can enforce laws on that value that originated from within their jurisdiction.
I didn’t read the comment above as accusing you of not following the laws, but of being caught off-guard by your business falling under the jurisdiction of the state, and disagreeing with that. You said in the blog post that you were surprised by this, and that implies that you “did not know the employment laws” prior to hiring a person residing within that state.
In other words, you assumed that only laws within the state where your business was registered would apply, which was incorrect.
National governments are allowed to enforce laws outside their own borders, such as intellectual property and copyright. While challenging to enforce, it is possible.
Are employees shipped equipment and served internationalized documentation that defaults to French, and then allowed to choose their preference afterwards for all services and applications?
I said they were a sock puppet account created three minutes before leaving their one and only comment as a reply to my own. These claims are verifiable, and their behavior lowers the standard of discourse in this forum.
The downvote button is for low quality comments, not for disagreement. If you had been here for any significant length of time, you would know that.
It’s also a bit ironic when you say “stop spamming” from a sock puppet account you created specifically to reply to my comment, but you probably already knew that when you did it.
That’s not the dynamic occurring today, social media is available in even the most rural setting, albeit in a reduced form to support low bandwidth.
Do we really want to allow Facebook and Twitter monopoly status and then treat them as defacto government entities? Will that result in better services? I do not think so.
As we’ve seen with TikTok’s rise, competition within the space leads to better outcomes, not treating social media companies as “utilities”. Social media companies are not in any way comparable to a sewer system, an electric grid, or a phone line network.
In other words, the Russian regimes free speech has given rise to authoritarians who would in all likelihood, limit free speech in other countries if or when they rise to power.
“Free speech for me, but not for thee.”
Telling someone what criteria they should use to make their own decisions is quite arrogant, and out of line.
If you want to use the stock price as your sole metric for deciding on accepting an offer, that’s up to you.