You're assuming that their end goal is a slick and streamlined webpage with minimal bloat and high utility. The time of those smart programmers isn't going towards that, facebook is using all that brainpower to figure out how to cram in more advertising.

I can't tell if you're being intentionally contrarian, a facebook shill, or just too old and grump to understand the tech, but to fix your half baked analogy: Participating in VRChat from desktop mode is like participating in the internet while having dial-up. Dial-up users aren't banned from the internet, they're just going to have a painfully subpar experience. In VRChat desktop mode you can stand there and talk to people, your avatars face will attempt to lip-sync your mic input, but you don't have anywhere near the full experience of people with headsets (or better yet, full body tracking). You don't have the same field of view, your avatars arms/legs/feet/hands/head won't move around with your natural body language, you can't dance, flop down on a surface, or experience phantom touch when another avatar brushes across your arm.

Yep, that would do it. Maybe Disney will figure out a way to solve what very few MMOs have been able to avoid, but I doubt it.

It already has in VRChat, and it works way better than you'd think. There's a shader that will cause things to shift and bend to visually line up with stuff, and it can even integrate with bluetooth vibrators such as the lovense line of products. Add in some full body trackers and maybe a beanbag chair to lay on so you can contort around to a comfortable position that roughly aligns with the visuals and you're all set.

So if I'm reading this right, you're claiming that:

1) The covid (and other?) vaccine(s) has/have nanochips in it/them?

and

2) At some point the nanochips phoned home and got you help before committing suicide?

Is my understanding correct? Does your psychiatrist know you're experiencing breaks from reality?

If you go by strict dictionary definitions, then sure. I think what he was getting at though was that the value of a thing isn't always readily apparent, especially to a shortsighted and risk averse market. If we made decisions only based on value *right now*, we'd still be sitting in a cave beating gronk over the head with a club because the time he spent making that weird round thing when he could have been hauling fish back from the river and generating actual value wasted the shareholders money.

I clicked the article to post exactly that. I've been burnt far too many times by google arbitrarily abandoning a service that I refuse to use any of their other services like drive, hangouts, or even the free photo backups that came with my pixel.

Yeah. I measured a friends minivan with the seats removed and it had space comparable to the bed of the family tacoma. Not only that, but the "bed" is lower down, more secure when you're parked somewhere with stuff in it, and with both side doors open you've got nearly as much access as with a normal pickup.

Only downside is that minivans (even used ones) are ridiculously expensive compared to trucks (at least trucks of the sensible variety rather than the "make a statement" kind)

A few of them are doing zero money down at 0% interest, which, at the rate inflation is right now, is essentially paying you to buy the thing.

Since they're talking about nailing and installing them like normal asphalt shingles, I'd guess that they're about the size of a normal asphalt shingle. The conventional shingles I've worked with before were about 36"x12", but a considerable portion of it (1/2? 2/3?) was overlapped by the shingle above. If that's the case with these, then I'd imagine that each solar-shingle is maybe 36"x6" of actual electricity generating part, aka ~1.5 sqft of solar with the covered part above handling the electrical connections and routing. Compare to a typical residential panel which is more on the order of 15sqft.

oof, I had a similar experience. 2/10 would not repeat it.

So now we're duct taping instead of zip tieing? Firstly, that's starting to cross the line into permanent damage (leaves sticky residue). Secondly, link me the most cut resistant tape you know of and if it's not horribly expensive I'll buy some and test it out.

5 seconds to whip out my pocket knife and cut through a zip tie counts as slowing things down considerably?

Sure, but he's also not the best MMA fighter.

I think you're actually arguing for my point here in that the end goal of "The Game" isn't efficient employees who add value and do actual meaningful work.

This is kind of the same fallacy as expecting evolution to produce an optimal result when in reality it's just producing some local maxima that's better than the competition. While what you say does tend to happen, it tends to happen very slowly, and winners aren't picked based on efficiency alone. Competition is often squashed by the bigger players leveraging their size. Tactics like regulatory capture, selling at a loss to drive out a competitor knowing that you can take the hit for a couple of months but that they can't, poaching a new competitors key people so that the project never gets off the ground, or just flat out buying them up and gutting them are arguably inefficient and a net loss.

To sum it all up in a simplistic analogy: Let's say you have the right genetics and resources to become the best MMA fighter the world has ever seen by an order of magnitude, and in one timeline you do so. But then consider a parallel timeline in which the shittiest MMA fighter in the world drives to your house and beats the shit out of you while you're in your early teens and before your training had time to get off the ground such that you're left crippled and unable to be the best MMA fighter. In this parallel timeline, it would be a system that's not selecting for the best, but rather the already established "good enough".