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Maybe. I think that AR has the potential to be far more pervasive and unescapable. AR makes the entire world a canvas, and the possibilities of public ridicule and negativity are endless. Especially if we as a society embrace and then “require” AR devices like we did with cell phones—-required not so much by law or policy but by societal norms and expectations. Imagine growing up as a child in an AR environment. Imagine what bullying could look like then—nobody would need to look at their phones to see the gossip about you, they could just look at you and see it painted all over you. This is going to fracture us completely as we begin to paint our internal filter bubbles onto the real world around us building deeper feedback loops. People will look at things and truly see different realities. Perhaps the dystopian AR reality will actually drive more VR addiction as people try to escape their shitty realities.

That’s not true. If you only look at CEOs you won’t be able to tell which behaviors are unique to CEOs and which are not. If you don’t eliminate these potentially universal traits and behaviors you’re setting yourself up to be be wrong due to biased data. More generally: how can you possibly understand what something is without understanding also what it is not?

Yeah probably best to not make it about being fired—since your boss is ultimately their boss—makes them wonder when the axe might come for them next… That said I’m definitely a fan of some self-depreciating humor to help others relax and build rapport. Humor can be a wonderful tool really.

Love it. So dystopian—-giving one the illusion of space while giving none at all. Create your own panopticon…

Wow. I had a similar experience last Monday. A coworker I like personally, but who I consider myself more senior than, was given an important role on the team that I had been working towards and discussing with my manager. I felt this incredible, irrational anger as soon as it was announced and it stuck with me for days. I went to bed angry and woke up angry. It really surprised me how visceral and uncontrollable my reaction felt. It consumed my thoughts. I’m halfway through a four day weekend to disconnect and try to reset myself mentally because while I still think it was unfair, I can’t actively feel this way and still function well at work. Time will tell if this weekend was long enough...

The measure of what is better in all these companies is determined internally and generally by the business. So it ultimately serves the business and only serves the user indirectly—-if at all. Obviously you optimize for different things—-performance, reliability, simplicity perhaps. And the business has more stakeholders who want different things, more metrics, more integrations with their third-party tools, etc. That’s not to say your measure of better is wrong. It’s probably not and I probably agree with you! But it’s coming from a different place I think.

Yeah, I feel the same. I’d be curious to know more about where this recommendation comes from. I much prefer #222 or #333 if it’s on a white/whiteish background.

They’re ultimately saying the Alcubierre Drive can’t go superluminal speeds because negative energy is not real, but it will work just fine if you go slower than the speed of light.

Can you expound more on why you think this? Do you think it’s okay to write in a book you own and don’t plan to get rid of?

Saying it’s vandalism seems a bit extreme to me—-unless we’re talking about a book borrowed from a friend or a library.

I don’t really write notes in margins much anyway. It never seemed useful to me to bind my notes directly to the pages that they come from. They become too hard to find.

There are winners and losers here for sure. Long commutes are gone but many people relied on their commute keeping their work hours more strictly bounded. You’re right that the the office camaraderie is mostly gone—-assuming your office ever had any! I do miss lunchtime chats with coworkers—-and morning chit chat as we settle into the day. Unfortunately as more people shift their hours to better fit their different lives the possibility of a lunchtime connect goes away entirely.

But, this has given me an idea to try and start a lunchtime video chat at work. It might be harder with teammates in different timezones, and God forbid should it ever become mandatory. But it sounds nice in theory...

Your template string logic doesn't actually mitigate the problem. Short-circuit evaluation in JavaScript means that `falsey && something_else` will always evaluate to `falsey` and then you'll still get undefined in your className string. You would have to use a ternary to avoid this.

Does this mean the connectome is doomed or faulty since it maps only neurons and not glial cells?

Nah. It’s still ambiguous. I also read it to be referring to the state of Georgia in the the US Nation. It would be a lot clearer to say Nation of Georgia. Then there’s no ambiguity.

Except that bitcoin relies on a whole network of middlemen to prove the validity of that transaction. Without miners you have no transaction.