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What are the concerns about the “plastic” carpets in American homes?

They are pretty much everywhere. They shed fibers all the time. We’re in contact with it all the time.

Do air purifiers help with micro plastics in indoor air?

good one haha... nologic but savage... (commenter's handle is nologic, this is supposed to be a pun)

Burning seems to be the only good idea over long-term. But someone on HN explained that there are some toxic byproducts to burning plastic. Dioxins for one. So we need some way to capture those waste and store it along with the nuclear waste lol.

But can the big big companies afford to lose a few good employees to apply a hybrid/in-office culture? For whatever are the trade offs.

Their bulk of hiring will be younger folks. Those people generally move closer to work and show up everyday at office.

Smaller companies will be pragmatic in a different way. They will try to retain good employees. They realize the benefits of remote workers.

Fitness and gaming wasn't demoed much yesterday, but are going to be insane on the Vision Pro - so I guess it was just too obvious to demo. Or is it?

Also Meta could catch up if it was just software. But how big of a deal is the M2+R1?

Anyway the metaverse was already being retracted, else this Vision Pro could have hammered Meta.

Clearly Occulus has to evolve to match VisionPro. Controller has to be optional. It has to have better AR. Meta has to be the more "open" alternative to Apple's ecosystem barriers.

right.. so maybe Apple just thinks it is not good enough yet. They must be stretched on onboard compute capacity already.

And some might argue you just switch apps to find that "screen".

Personally I would put something interesting on the ceiling and look up at it.

why do you guys say this? Amazon's "View in your room" feature does a decent job of placing a furniture in AR. We can even walk around/towards it. And that tech is just Apple ARKit right?

In the demo, I was hoping to see some app/screen/display anchored to certain walls or being fixed in a 3D spot. That way I can walk to a place to see that "screen".

why so?

Hope it is real sustainable performance in SEA. My fear is that it will be easier to run the "venture backed grow at all costs" model in Asia.

This sucks the oxygen out of the ecosystem, very anti-competitive, short-sighted and not great overall.

The operators involved do not learn to be real, thoughtful and long-term oriented. I have friends who were out-spent by newer venture-backed plays, which aren't doing that well either.

In short, the highs will be high, but the lows could be very bad too.

all of the above

Except for reading thru some shared Reddit posts or Google search results, I find Reddit very unintuitive.

Maybe Reddit never put in many dopamine triggers like other social media (but Twitter is more than dopamine hooks). And maybe they didn't monetize hard also.

These days, building community is better in other tools now: eg. WhatsApp works (shrug). Knowledge-share type discussions is better even in google groups tbh. Maybe Reddit is a good place to vent haha?

Gaming could be much be better on a VR/AR device, and a reason to put on a "ugly sweat box" initially. Apple did not go deep into that, only a brief segment about the Unity collab. Maybe gaming is not their forte right now.

Apple Vision v3 will not be a sweat box. And even right now, Occulus interface has to evolve to match this. Controller has to be optional. It has to be AR.

such a simple point -- how come no one will accept this? And the rich nations with heavy footprints "wants" the rest of the world to "achieve" the same lifestyle.

There are a few big problems - waste management, particularly plastic and other toxic forever chemicals; overuse of toxic chemicals in agri that ends up in the food chain; depletion of soil and water; not enough will to tackle problems sustainably.

So a few people can consume more and more -- exacerbated by marketing ads and infinite profit motives.

just today I had an idea - pick up the book I'm reading whenever I hit HN or other SM. A book is just a better distraction (:

Anyway, good luck to all trying to fight distractions!

I hate plastics. But I hate things that say “made from x% recycled plastic” more and avoid those - just to vote with my wallet that it is not an acceptable solution.

What’s the remains of burning plastics? Are there any toxic remnants?

+1. I just opened 100+ tabs in a new window. Where do we see this infinity?

Also OP, please show something in a ShowHN haha

This has to just be a side-effect of the revolving-door grace of government subsidies - Currently/lately, short-haul airlines are being subsidized. Even though those subsidies are costly and least effective.

This will never get attention it deserves. Plastic is everywhere. It cannot be avoided. It is very toxic. People have become numb to the facts. The plastic problem is too big and complex now to tackle.

It is almost certain that shorter air routes were subsidized by government. No way it was economical. I read somewhere that many smaller airlines have gone bust.

Also trains in America are very poor. So Americans reaction to trains is expected.

Trains can be a lot more comfortable also, like seat space. Just curious. Is there a TSA (long messy security checks at airports) equivalent for trains in France?

No reason to downvote your comment btw.

sea world tycoon!

List a few. For the ppl who downvoted your comment.

And is GPT replacing google search for folks?

Engineers tend to perceive other engineers as micromanager? And it’s broadly actually true also?

Elon being a micromanager (assuming he is) can not be the only reason a rocket (re)flies each weekend.

There was and is a world where “goods once sold, no returns”.

Is it predatory on unsuspecting buyers? many times. Is it worse for a slice of the economy? Yes.

But free returns is unsustainable. Hence it eats into quality of products sold.

Even in the US, there are countless things you cannot return.

Free returns seems like a greedy and arrogant policy. I wish more people were surprised by the free return option; and refuse to buy relying on free returns. My state is that I end up buying very little. I even donate stuff I order without enough thought instead of free returns.

Good point also about how various online ordering pushed brick-and-mortar beyond recovery; with many such loss-leading and predatory practices.

If there was no free returns, both customers and sellers will ensure better fit before sale occurs.