My theory is that video games require more thought than watching Youtube videos or getting hit by a baseball.

All his music has already been released. All he has to do is write it.

So a presence in the metaverse is itself a metaverse? Therefore the metaverse must be multiverse.

Right. It seems to me that the PRC's technological dominance would lie not in big-ticket high technology but in those little IC-enabled devices, including the so-called Internet of Things. I'd be more afraid of what would happen if the PRC did start mass manufacturing backdoored "smart" bulbs, plugs, sensors, etc. Imagine some unglamorous hack that would trigger a blackout not in some high security military facility but in a few high-volume meat processing plants. Bye bye Big Mac.

Not surprised. This guy's no stranger to legal trouble.

The RIAA doesn't need to sue every single alleged violator. They just have to make one or two successful prosecutions/persecutions, and then spam the others with "offers" to settle for a small "fee" or face the legal consequences of the supposed violation.

It's possible to be a vegan without killing anything. Just eat the fruit but remember to spit or poop out the seeds. Eating a whole lettuce probably should be considered plant murder, as one would be eating the whole plant. Which makes me wonder, why object to the eating of animal corpses? It's not as if they're still alive.

A lot would depend on how the EU punishes non-compliance. Would non-compliance be punished by arrest or even jail time? If so, then Clearview executives should be careful about making any stopovers in the EU.

Dominance hierarchies cannot explain while the poor in the US and other first world countries are better off than the poor and even the middle-class in third world countries.

You should try developing for Meta then.

That seems to be my impression when scanning reviews. Apple hardware are rarely the fastest. As an indirect proof of this, Apple appears to be the only major, still existing personal computer manufacturer to have changed CPU architectures, at least thrice in the past two decades in an attempt to again achieve parity with the high-end Windows fpPCs offered by other manufacturers.

Not an Apple user, fan or hater. I'd always assumed that the reason iDevices were expensive was because they were made of the best components/materials. Is this no longer the case? My last hands-on experience with an Apple product was with a 10-year old pre-iMac that left a very bad impression on me at the time, mainly because it was dog-slow when compared to the "modern" Windows PCs. Now, when I look back at it, I'm pretty amazed that a user-facing computer could actually run that long and still be functional.

I don't think your observation would apply to a Big Data company such as Meta. It's not as if they're involved in the production of something essential like food or medicine, or even something less essential but useful in the real world, like BEVs or rocket ships (for delivering satellites not billionaire space tourists). Whatever they do, they're bound to be wasting their resources on something. So it's either this tech, which might at least prove useful (medical imaging or engineering previz), or another social media sharing app.

When I think about words like "understand", I just realized I can't really explain what I mean when I say I understand something. The closest I can define the concept would involve producing some output, so that others may check if I really understood what they've written/said. So to prove that I understand you, I've written this post. Now if a program can produce a sentence similar to this, won't that qualify as understanding already? Or maybe I've misunderstood you.

I'd settle for tactile feedback and directional sound. The way I see it, if counting pixels is all there is to virtual reality, then how different could any future display resolution enhancement be from the experience we already get from 3D glasses?