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I understand now that this line >and Meta pays out to the affected parties probably won't come to pass, which I agree is not nearly as good. But I was responding to that possibilit…

Let's be accurate. We're a first-world shithole. I'll be explicit in saying that this is because "third-world shithole" is often used as a pseudo-euphemism for "brown people reside…

The point of a fine is to change behavior. It's not outsize if it's enough to do that. >If this fine remains, and Meta pays out to the affected parties, these kids could end up rew…

Because environment makes culture and physics are the environment at relativistic speeds and cosmic distances.

I'll give you one thing: you're bold to try to spin a comment like this. There's not a sentence here that isn't a falsehood or working in service of one. Ghandi was not poor. He wa…

You regulate cartelization in part by reducing their access to capital and redistributing it to non-cartel rivals, i.e., reducing wealth inequality. >if it doesn't work don't blame…

You're either under the mistaken impression, or have constructed the impression as a strawman to argue against, that any of the concepts and states which we're talking about are ab…

No, it doesn't, and no, they weren't. They were depicted as more comfortable and capable with the technology that they'd never known a world without. Some adults weren't able to ke…

It's used correctly here. Advertising to children is a moral hazard because the money used to buy the advertised product comes from the parents, not the children (mostly). The poin…

>we knew that apple would only release something when the user experience was right. And, as has been the case since the iMac release, they can only get the user experience right w…

VR can be transformative, if the people who work on it decide that they want to make something transformative, rather than a walled garden that they control and that exists primari…

I think they weren't naive enough for either, and that they released exactly what they wanted to release. It's just that what they wanted to release was as much about preempting th…

I don't know that that's an accurate description of the circumstances in the books. They were born into a world of ever-present and almost-ubiquitous connectivity, and heavily enco…

What.

I think it's the opposite. None of the players in XR wanted to be Apple'd, least of all Apple. That is, create a base product that someone else would refine in order to drink their…

His read on the Apple Vision Pro (both the circumstances of its creation and its path forward) are incorrect in quite the discouraging manner for me. AVP wasn't released early (lat…

Literally Rainbows End. Vinge was an oracle. It's a real shame that no one ever got that book in front of Hayao Miyazaki's eyes.

Part of the (relatively) happy denouement included the Chinese coming in with the nondestructive process and everyone being quite happy with that. So yes, the Shredders were the vi…

>Dictionaries are easily available. You should use one. >He said, without citation. Also it seems you don't know much about poor people. It is a structural impossibility for a poor…

>Impossible if there's competition between producers and it's at world scale. That's a goalpost move if I've ever seen it. Maybe a No True Scotsman fallacy, too. Geography confers …

>A stronger or armed person has a power differential with a weaker person. A smarter person has more power than a dumber one. These are all examples of inequality. >There's is poor…

"He" being "ryandrake".

Well, no. The low-trust society comes (partly) from corporations betraying the trust of consumers, not consumers recognizing that the corporations saying, "Trust us," are probably …

Need to pressure banks to achieve feature parity between their websites and native apps. I'm forced to use Paypal to remote deposit checks because my banks limit that feature to th…

>implicit social contract Sounds worthless (in court).