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Disregarding the letter of the law seems arbitrary and capricious.

Interestingly, in the US, the middle class only shrank because the upper class grew.

The ship is a pattern that persists in time.

> Live in Europe, invest in America.

And where does this leave Europe in the future?

I'd be interested to see a comparison of the median wealth by age bracket.

Third-party apps can access a single composite "front camera", but only if a "spatial persona" is found on the device.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10094/?time...

> It is generally accepted

Is it, though?

It has no inherent meaning. You can choose to play whatever part you like. But first you might try to figure out what this "you" is - is it a body, a mind? An infinite, underlying computational substrate? Maybe there are even multiple "yous".

It would be better to make schools better. Most people cannot afford to homeschool their children.

We can do both.

> And well, there must be a number two after Silicon Valley. Who would you say that is?

The Northeast Corridor.

There's billions of years of compressed knowledge in those 4 year olds. Lots of useful priors.

Might be that's what we're doing, too.

It sounds like it's an open question whether or not it is in fact carcinogenic when consumed in the quantities allowed by the FDA.

Good on them for seemingly treating their employees well, some of whom have stuck around for decades.

These are distinct from the AR goggles which they are expected to announce before the developers conference.

Espionage makes the world more predictable, and hence less dangerous.

It will be interesting to see their mixed reality device/OS - they should be announcing it sometime next year. I'm hoping that at the very least it can serve as a proper monitor replacement.

Is remote work hammering the economy? What effect does it actually have on productivity?

Please do!

> Religion enters almost every conversation I have in the US in some way.

I'm an American and this is very surprising to me. In fact, I find it difficult to believe. Can you give some examples?

If you had told me two months ago that the Russian navy would be so incompetent as to lose their flagship to the bottom of the Black Sea, I would not have believed you. Now it seems that further humiliations are not only possible, but probable.

> convincing someone with disaffected sentiments to "take action"

It's good that the FBI got to them before someone with 'legit' bombs did.

The problem is the same one posed by the consumption of pigs: needless suffering.

> I can see why hackernews was (is?) banned in china. You guys see nothing but negatives in any policy decision that comes out of there.

The idea that a site should be banned because its users 'see nothing but negatives' is repugnant.

Logseq might fit the bill: https://logseq.com/ I've been using it for a few weeks now after switching over from Roam and it's been great. Everything is plaintext (I use it in markdown mode, but they support org-mode).

A 'crystal with defects' sounds like a graph to me, but I'm only a dilettante.

...and I just read your bio - ha!

This this is the approach that Stephen Wolfram's physics project is exploring. In their model, everything is made of space, and space is a hypergraph.

https://www.wolframphysics.org/

It's more of a problem where more Americans live, is what you're saying.