We need votekick, but in real life. Clearly this is a concept that could have no practical downsides...
You're reminding me of Team Fortress 2 server nightmares from last year with all the hackers and bots
Readit News0max commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
People died while trying to get better, more humane working conditions.
I tend to think we forget that things we enjoy today were won through, sometimes violent, struggle, and we take them for granted, what makes it easier to lose them.
To me this is one of the most important celebrations.
I’m thankful that the career I’ve had helped me learn about the organizations that had an impact in that history and a new lens to see the world with.
0max commented on Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy design-milk.com/portland-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Natural features and characteristics are becoming in-vogue with airport design. Cebu and Clark in the PH have a similar timber roof design, as did Bangalore Kempegowda when I flew out of it.
California needs to just fully invest in nuclear. And regulate or use eminent domain to buy PG&E to socialize it. Costs would go down, executive pay would go down, reliability and issues related to forest fires would likely go down.
And they need to invest in better public transit. Imagine LA with SF-level public transit. Or SF with NYC-level public transit (or better).
LA county and the adjoining counties are roughly the same size as the Kanto Plain around Tokyo. The main difference is that Tokyo rebuilt their street car lines as heavy rail instead of turning them into automobile arterials.
FWIW, I live in China and have a couple of Uyghur friends and none of them seem upset with the CCP or concerned about what's going on in Xinjiang. And you don't need to be "under the close supervision of the PRC authorities" to visit Xinjiang; anyone can freely visit with a regular Chinese visa. So I would also take the Western reporting with a grain of salt.
I've only caught wind of this through independent journalism on YouTube. The Hui people of China are also Muslim and you're not hearing about them being put into forced labor camps.
The west is creating hyperbole of fringe groups that were mostly active decades ago at this point, and using that narrative to economically subjugate them.
If a westerner sees a Uyghur work in a factory, the manufactured narrative leads to the assumption that the labor is forced, and this keeps these folks from finding good work and social mobility. This would then put these folks on the path to radicalisation due to this economic exclusion, and affect the social stability within the PRC.
Is public housing the fix there? It seems like that would only work at a scale such that a vast majority of the market is publicly owned, i.e. communism.
Financialization of housing may be much better controlled by limiting what financial mechanisms can be made on top of real estate assets. As it stands, housing and related derivatives prop up a huge amount of "money" and investment portfolios. Government owned housing won't fix that directly, and the government is incentivized to not solve that because it would likely mean economic or monetary collapse.
Austria has highly available state housing of high quality. I don't think they qualify as a communist state, despite one of the more prominent complexes named after Karl Marx.
0max commented on Tesla's Robotaxi event still not started after 40 minutes [video] youtube.com/watch?v=6v6db... · Posted by u/sorenbs
Waymo already beat Tesla to Full Self Driving. I use Waymo frequently in SF and it's great. It makes this Tesla robotaxi with an undefined release date not very interesting.
Based on some of the viral videos out of SF lately, I think we need Delamain from Cyberpunk 2077 more than Waymo at this point. I've been in a Waymo with other drivers trying to test its intelligence (trying to cut into the Waymo's lane with the signal on while right in the blind spot) and it's not fun.
0max commented on What our childhood shows taught us about cities (2019) thomasbardenett.com/blog/... · Posted by u/omnibrain
Related note: It'd be great if cities were more child friendly. A big challenge is cars, the 4000+ lb fast moving metal boxes... It'd be great if there were more car-minimal areas in cities, enclosed areas with parks and restaurants that had parking on the outside, but no cars and parking on the inside. And, in areas where there are cars, it'd be great if it went: sidewalk, bike lane, barrier, parking, then cars. That way there's a big "margin of safety" between where kids walk and where the cars are.
You're making me think of malls in LA like The Grove which are simulacrum of walkable, people sized neighborhoods which aren't available in that region outside of Disneyland.
There's even a rail trolly in there.
0max commented on We're Cutting L40S Prices in Half fly.io/blog/cutting-price... · Posted by u/LukeLambert
> You can run DOOM Eternal, building the Stadia that Google couldn’t pull off, because the L40S hasn’t forgotten that it’s a graphics GPU.
Savage.
I wonder if we’ll see a resurgence of cloud game streaming
Is the services that PlayStation Now uses publicly known? That's the only streaming service I've used so far.
0max commented on Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months matthewball.co/all/applev... · Posted by u/retskrad
I think the moment when vr/ar becomes really popular amongst regular people is when the size of the device is the same as a pair of sunglasses. Maybe just slightly more bulky. But till that time its not becoming a successful story. People feel akward wearing the thing. Its uncomfortable and a bit of a gimmick without a real purpose. When the thing could replace my raybands. It looks awesome and contains software that enhances the real world I see with information, it might become something.
There's an anime from 2007 called "Denno Coil" that focuses on AR compute with devices that look like normal glasses and integrated with everyday life. This is the piece of culture I'd compare against, and use as a barometer to compare where this type of interface can reach a critical mass.