Readit News>America is a rich country, but the majority of middle-class Americans are poorer than people in the Southeast Asian backwater I’m from.
I think this is a real case of [citation needed]. Many people will, rightly, point at a myriad of statistics to demonstrate how this can't be true, and that's fine. But, I think we can just use some common sense; what are we talking about? There is no way this is true. Why would even need an immigration policy if this was true? This is just some kind anti-Americanism or anti-capitalism nonsense; that is really the only explanation for such an assertion that I can surmise. I'm also not really sure why working in tech you would be "constant fear of needing healthcare". If that is true then if nothing else the placebo of effect of moving to Europe may have been the best treatment psychologically, certainly cheaper than seeing a therapist.
Why would working in tech shield someone from our healthcare system?
“Most bankruptcies occurred in middle-class citizens with health insurance” https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-93430900525-7/fulltext
If you haven’t been harmed by our system, it’s not because you’re immune. It’s because you’re lucky.
There is a virus lab in Wuhan because a lot of coronaviruses originate in that region. Its existence/location is not evidence of a lab leak.
If anything, the lab leak “theory” has received too much media attention when the primary evidence (location of a lab) is easily explained by other factors.
Imagine a virus was spread from penguins to humans. It would not be surprising if research on the virus were conducted in Antarctica!
I hope the next time there is a pandemic like Covid that we do more sensible things like not ban access to outdoor activities, shutdown beaches, shutdown everything for months, destroy the economy, etc..
Also ironically WFH is great unless you are the poor soul who still needs to work on the “front line” every day like warehouse workers, delivery drivers, etc.
Work from home is good for people who have to work in-person, because it lessens the spread.
Also, just because I have a job that has some level of risk does not mean I would expect others to have a similar level of risk. Especially if it can be easily mitigated.
Tesla Full self driving has been coming by the end of the year since at least 2018. Expect this to follow a similar timeline.
I actually think we’ll get break even fusion energy before mass adoption of robotaxis in a variety of locales.
AR/VR is in a hype superposition, large companies have made large investments yet the tech is arguably in the "trough of disillusionment". Few people think it will break into mainstream use anytime soon.
So far, 99% of sales are in the "expensive gaming accessory" category. There is fun and interesting UI and gameplay innovation happening here.
The one non-gaming thing everyone seems to want is just a large virtual desktop workspace. Apple has probably come closest here. It sounds like an easy problem but without a high resolution and a wide field of view, it's not a good experience.
Because their prophet was murdered by the state. It seems weird that a religion would be pro-execution when their founding was, in part, "innocent man was executed".
I'm sure believers have jumped through the hoops required to justify it but from the outside, one would expect a country that is majority christian to oppose executions.
drewrv commented on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses about.fb.com/news/2024/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I agree, and I also think that walking around to items positioned statically in space is a really dumb way to do embodied computing. I mean if an app is associated with your kitchen fridge or whatever fine, pin it to your kitchen fridge, but if I'm going to be enveloped in an omnidirectional high def display, I want a way to bring the windows to me, not have to move my body to different windows.
Anyway, Logitech made an awesome little handheld keyboard for home theater PCs, called DiNovo Mini HTPC, I was able to pair it with Vision Pro.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/226367904044?_skw=Logitech+DiNovo+M...
That’s a great little keyboard, it reminds me of early smartphone keyboards in a good way.
I wonder if Apple decided against a controller in order to allow third party solutions to flourish . They can take their time and see what people gravitate towards.
drewrv commented on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses about.fb.com/news/2024/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Decent hands on article from the verge with more info
https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...
Wireless compute puck. 70 degree FOV. Resolution high enough to read text. Wrist band detects hand gestures and will be used in another product.
From using various VR systems, a hololens, and reading reviews of the vision pro I really feel like hand gestures are a bad way to interact with AR systems. They might work in a pinch (heh) but some sort of small controller that can act as a pointer and has a button or two is superior in every way.
It's interesting that meta went through the effort of bundling an accessory but stuck with hand gestures anyway.
Wasn't the full video released and it established that they did edit the video? The article is making it sound like they are being forced to settle a false allegation?
edit: the response was edited, not just the video. details: https://x.com/i/grok/share/KODjBWCrzF8oPmKyPCFuVj1c7