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Unstable currencies, scams, price manipulation, all investments are high risk investments, ... your money is safer under your bed producing nothing than in the self proclaimed Web3.

Edit: on a second note, this is peak efficiency. Most crypto currency projects are a hot potato game. You buy, and then you need to sell meanwhile there are still buyers. As the technology has accelerated this game we got to the point that the only way of winning is for the founders to pull off as fast as possible. 8 minutes seems quite on the mark.

> We believe such a device can play a vital role in emerging fields such as wearable imaging, sensor networks, smart environments, and the Internet of things.

How is this better than to have an actual solar cell generating energy that can be used for more things that the camera itself? Micro solar cells are already produced and benefit from economy of scale as can be used for many things.

Really cool project, but the commercial goals seem off.

And that solves many problems stated in the article. Rewards are tricky and create a willingness to optimize on how to obtain the reward instead of enjoying the experience.

I don't know, and I don't care.

And a browser extension that shrinks it. And the AI wars continue.

I love the channel, but he is very excited about absolutely everything.

That's the Federal Reserve being themselves. Buy US dollars, use US dollars as the global currency. It makes a lot of sense for the USA, not necessarily for the rest of the world. But the Federal Reserve represents it's country interest, so it makes sense.

The people that I know about will not express such a strong opinion. But they are not sure about what to believe, and people in their circle may share many conspiracies. So, they are not strong believers but may decide to not vaccinate as they "hear things about the vaccine".

> It is being used as a control mechanism

I think that you are missing the degree. One thing is to create a reminder that we are in a pandemic, another it's to think that a government in the shadow is using control mechanisms to brainwash the population so they can take over the country.

Both are "control mechanisms" if you want that interpretation. But, only the second one is referred in the news because it's a conspiracy theory. So, it fits with the 5G desease thinking.

That the article also applies it to personal life makes sense. It's not just a company tool.

If you have been in a company where ones on ones were bad or counterproductive be open to think that it may be a problem on how it was used not inherently a problem with the tool.

I see too often companies giving individual bonuses on productivity, that creates a "if you fail I win" mentality. Punishing people for mistakes is also quite common. You end with colleagues that can't trust anybody, everything is a competition against the guy sitting at your side.

Punishment and reward systems make "office politics" toxic and a game for opportunists instead of a forum to get to the best decisions.

It's to use ID, widely used as short form for identification, part of the joke? I'm missing something.

Enough characters to add "... at all..." thinks that to specify Internet-Draft its too much.

In Europe seatbelts are mandatory, and it is forbidden to smoke in most places. I think that these are reasonable measures. I think, for the exact same reasons, that mask mandates are reasonable.

In public transport is mandatory to wear at least a t-shirt, as skin to skin contact gets unhealthy fast. And restaurants require to clean your hands after going to the toilet.

What does not fit with my idea about the USA is that you can go naked in the street, as it seems quite a Puritan country. And books being censured in schools for mildly nudeness also seem to be the norm. Is not that worse that mask mandates?

Edit: seatbelt

I find the logic flawed as it seems to imply that extrem suffering of some is justified if it benefits many others. "You can kill a person to harvest its organs to save many" seems implicit, but I just read the summary. The book may contain much more nuance.

I agree (I don't get why people downvotes). My argument is that a quality PC does not have that problems. The fact that you can get a very cheap PC creates many of this situations. But I get into "No true Scotsman" territory with that logic. And that is why I agree with your arguments.

I agree that I have found that problems. I just get the same problems with my TV (Samsung) when I have several audio devices. Maybe one can argue that is a TV problem, not a console problem. But non-portable consoles need a TV to work. So, the problem exists but it's moved somewhere else.

After your comment I realize that portable consoles are that ideal all-in-one, at least older ones without HDMI or Bluetooth.

Google does not want to lose the PC market. Amazon will get it, if there is no Google alternative.

"Though initial iterations of the software for the original Xbox and Xbox 360 were based on heavily modified versions of Windows, the newer consoles feature operating systems that are highly compatible with Microsoft's desktop operating systems, allowing for shared applications and ease-of-development between personal computers and the Xbox line." Wikipedia

> and modular hardware

This is true. There are, e.g., fake GPUs that will make your experience quite bad. I always buy pre-build PCs from my favorite tech store, and I have personally avoided the problem. But Steam forums show that some people is not so fortunate. Also there is people trying to run modern games in very old PCs, consoles solve that problem by not running new games in previous generation consoles.

American companies? Corporate profits and citizens well being are often misaligned.

> How does one prove global warming is based on humans and isnt a natural phenomenon?

The same way you prove that someone died of natural causes or was assassinated. It's not always easy but there are ways from toxicology to study of bodies in decomposition.

> I'm actually surprised _anyone_ is fighting big oil.

Big tech is the rising sun. Car makers are losing power by the day, and the same goes to big oil. They are still extremely powerful, but investment money is moving slowly to other places. So, fights that seemed impossible will become more common with time.

It's true that courts cannot do all three, I doubt that courts are trying to create policies, that seems a straw man argument. But "decide who, if anyone, is to be legally accountable for X" seems the main job of courts.

Companies lied to and/or mislead consumers with grave consequences to their health and economy. I see that to attribute a concrete amount on damages is challenging, but courts do it all the time.

Once you have a team that can keep Android patched, someone at Google is going to use them to speed up another product or create a new one.

Why not add another team more? First, the situation will repeat itself, other needs would be prioritized higher. And there is a limit on the number of teams an organization can manage without non-linear manager cost increase.

Linux runs on old hardware because big corporations own old hardware and are willing to pay to not have to replace it. Replacing a phone is a cost for the individual owner. And my experience with company phones is that they are seen as a retention perk. So newer flashier phones are worth the cost, it could be different in other industries, thou.

One common solution to these problems is regulation. The government forces phone makers to patch the software for X years. Now there is a strong incentive to do so if the phone makers want to continue operating in that market.

You want your unpopular ideas to be promoted, and you think that it's your right. Everything cannot be promoted, what is there suggestion of the article? To promote the less popular ideas, the most extreme.

I see social problems there, but morality apart, it becomes a "Nazi Bar problem", you don't want to appeal mainly to niche audiences because money.

In the author's opinion. We should also remove HN voting system, as popular ideas to up and unpopular are hidden.

That is plain theft. You will have no rights in the Metaverse. That is there future if we do not regulate tech companies.

This reminds me of how American cities were designed for cars, and the ones designed for humans were dismantled. Do not let this happen to your on-line world. Tech should be human first, corporations profits are not a social goal, human well being is.

A stable crypto-currency will not attract so much speculative investment.

For many use cases you do not need all that knowledge. C++ is fast enough to not have to care. It's when you hit a wall that you need to get the extra tools to make things work.

I have seen developers discussing obscure optimizations for a piece of code that will only be called once several minutes, and only after unparsing a JSON String. That one less instruction call by the CPU makes no difference whatsoever.

But there are rarities like https://skins.webamp.org/skin/06312f93d7b9499dc5dd0176133d6d...

It feels well designed as it's ready to read, and on theme.

Before that: Searches 'skin museum', very interesting but upsetting images found. Better to click the link in HN. (Yes, I often look for the links myself too see what other things I find on the topic)