Hallucinaut (u/Hallucinaut)

Hallucinaut commented on Microsoft Hosted Sting Performance in Davos on Night Before Announcing Layoffs wsj.com/livecoverage/davo... · Posted by u/GrigoriyMikh

agilob · 3 years ago

Just listened to The Economist podcast that hyped them that CEOs and politicians can meet once every few months, thus saving lots of jet fuel from private jets. Why do they need to travel at all? Have we forgotten that most travels don't need to happen because we have that online meeting thing?

It was supposed to sound like a good thing, but it was out of context, so made me think, why even mention it, almost like they have an agenda to sell here.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

Online meetings leave evidence.

Hallucinaut commented on American Express: your last name is improper twitter.com/linayapot/sta... · Posted by u/big_al337

mdaniel · 3 years ago

The addressing system in New Zealand is also some especial "I have seen things" and I never worked on it but my colleagues said that Tokyo was also "you should pull up a chair"

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

NZ is exceedingly plain so I don't get that comment. Most are of the form 1337 Great North Road Pt. Chevalier Auckland 1002

You could even omit Auckland as it's implied by the simple 1000-series postcode.

The property boom may have led to subdivisions making a 1337/2 necessary but the vast majority of buildings outside of metro areas are detached, single family properties.

Hallucinaut commented on George Hotz wants to ‘make driving chill’ with next-gen assist theverge.com/23548094/geo... · Posted by u/tromp

nso95 · 3 years ago

Hotz is scary smart

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

His Twitter internship put paid to that notion for me.

Hallucinaut commented on The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks twitter.com/torynski/stat... · Posted by u/danso

Andrew_nenakhov · 3 years ago

Physical buttons are far harder to produce and, once made, are set in stone until the car is recycled. Touch controls can be reprogrammed, updated, improved, etc, mixed with voice input, etc. Far more possibilities for improvement.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

if only someone could invent a device with physical buttons that could connect to a device like a tablet or other computer.

Hallucinaut commented on Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals trends.aax.com/important-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

lui8906 · 3 years ago

Name one Crypto chain that takes hours to confirm a transaction. Bitcoin has a blocktime of 10 minutes and Ethereum is 10 to 20 seconds. More modern networks process transactions in orders of magnitude less time, eg. Solana has a slot time of 0.5 seconds and time to finality being 1 or 2 seconds.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

All things are liquid if the transaction fees are big enough

Hallucinaut commented on Apparent size of Andromeda galaxy compared to the Moon astronomy.stackexchange.c... · Posted by u/sieste

dm319 · 3 years ago

I know exactly what you mean. I saw it with a £40 amazon telescope.

You know that weird feeling when you, for whatever reason, take another route from somewhere you know well, find you've arrived at an unusual end of another place you know well. The moment of connection, realisation that these two places are linked in this way.

I felt that, but on a huge level seeing Saturn's rings for the first time. For years outerspace, without me realising, occupied a place in my encyclopedias, books, internet images from NASA. Maybe subconscious me didn't really 'believe' it was actually just above my head this whole time.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

Great analogy. Lovely way of thinking about it.

Hallucinaut commented on The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be vox.com/the-goods/2338803... · Posted by u/imartin2k

Arbortheus · 3 years ago

My mum has a philosophy that when travelling you'll have more enjoyment by visiting the second or third best version of everything. You'll turn up at a tourist attraction and be trampled on by a biblical quantity of people, then turn a corner to the lesser-attraction and it'll be practically desserted.

In Rome, don't go to the Colosseum, go to the Baths of Caracalla.

In Cambodia, go to Angkor Wat for a little while, but spend more time exploring the other temples - because you'll find there are a fraction of the tourists and there are plenty of fabulous temples to explore!

I think in a world of almost 8 billion people some compromise when travelling is necessary and healthy, for the preservation of these locations, but also your own enjoyment.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

Also try to go outside of regular hours, often meaning finding alternative transport. At least in Angkor Wat you don't have to take a bus and then outside of those core hours you have lots of alone time.

Granted this experience was pre-iPhone so the specific example may not hold!

Hallucinaut commented on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 twitter.com/techemails/st... · Posted by u/boulos

A4ET8a8uTh0 · 3 years ago

Yes. Normally, I do not think it has to be explicitly said, but this time it may be necessary. Speech that is not offensive does not require protection. If I say sun is shining, people will not try to deplatform me. Offensive ( and legal ) speech might cause that to happen. This is not acceptable and not part of the promise of this nation.

<< Any platform that protects the freedom of speech for fringe groups will become a haven for them and will be eventually abandoned by mainstream users.

And this is where some universal standards are necessary. But right now it is just wild west of internal guidelines and moderator's mood ( FB level 3 violent rhetoric or whatever Orwellian language they used to describe it comes to mind ).

Parent is right. The idea of undesirables has to be let go. The public square belongs to everyone. Companies with a reach in billions can't pretend to not be a public square.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

If it is a public square, then it is so because the majority of people choose to use it because of the controls and filtering and exclusion of "undesirables". If it's a company with a reach in billions that's because it provides, in its current form including filtering, a service that is valued (in attention time, if not dollars) by its users.

If one compels a Twitter to host things it has decided people don't want to see, why aren't we compelling the Kochs and Murdoch's of the world to support equally "leftist" positions? It's frankly an incoherent position that Twitter should be compelled to behave a certain way and yet Rupert can continue spouting his propaganda for literal generations unimpeded.

It's still an absolute dumpster fire regardless.

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ianmcgowan · 3 years ago

Maybe rebrand UBI as the government funding a few million startups? That and universal healthcare probably would free up enough people to start their passion project. Enough to cover the ones that want to be artists, caregivers, or just go surfing/play video games.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

My favourite brainwave on UBI was to brand it a negative income tax. Would stymie a lot of the more traditional fiscal conservative arguments (albeit not going to counter the drive for regressive rates).

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SpelingBeeChamp · 3 years ago

> He's also saying on the video linked by OP, that he donates 100% of all revenue back into these troubled communities.

Sounds like the kind of thing someone would be transparent about. As far as I know, there is no evidence that any of his claims are true. They could be, but he has a huge monetary incentive to lie.

Also, his vague language is a bit of a red flag. I put money back into my community when I spend it. But I call that shopping, not altruism.

Hallucinaut · 3 years ago

If you're saying there's no evidence in terms of accounting audit for money going to addicts on Skid Row then, well, good luck with that bar of evidence.

I have seen him let the Whittaker family buy trolleys full of stuff from Walmart for their house. I have seen that prostitute (Angel maybe?) interviewed a second time after he paid for her rent and gave her money multiple times after the first video and it turned out she was just giving it to her pimp (and she doesn't refute any of this on camera).

So does he deserve total faith based trust, no, but it's easy to see enough of his videos where they are clearly benefiting from the funds and that's probably enough for many of us to say it's net positive.