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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I’ve found it interesting that fashion-forward women I know have begun wearing glasses that look remarkably similar to these. A friend wore a pair this week I would have sworn were chunky smart glasses like these, even containing exaggerated black ornaments that read as front-facing cameras where the stalks met the frames.
I don’t think it’s paranoid to acknowledge that fashion trends come from relatively few designers and editors, whom could relatively easily be motivated to sync up mass aesthetic sensibilities with engineer constraints.
Luxottica has a monopoly on nearly the entire industry, manufacturing (and even directly retailing) nearly every brand of glasses you can name, and they’re both heavily invested in Meta and their own engineering efforts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica https://www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/smart-eyewear-sol...
Comment · 5 months ago
I insist you listen to them tell it: https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-33-on-the-way-to-dinne...
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
What are your best-evers?
Comment · 1 year ago
Grandfather died of colon cancer at 43.
Went into my PCP at 40 asking for a colonoscopy, he said insurance wouldn’t cover it until I was 50.
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Comment · 2 years ago
I think a lot of institutions and people would love the chance to give them money.
Comment · 2 years ago
There needs to be a large pool of government-backed capital specifically for commercial to residential redevelopment and fast-track zoning approvals for this (somewhere along the line of City of Yes proposal in NYC).
Make it 4-5%, contingent upon (or give additional subsidies for) making significant percentage affordable rentals. Use the cash to cut the centers out of the building to daylight the large floor plates.
Residential rents for much more/ft than commercial so shouldn’t be a problem floating existing commercial mortgages. Maybe there’s even a program to borrow against the future higher stream of income to get non-performing loans current so these banks hold the existing paper instead of taking the write down.
Comment · 2 years ago
> The Gini coefficient is normally used to measure how the light in an image of a galaxy is distributed among its pixels. This measurement is made by ordering the pixels that make up the image of a galaxy in ascending order by flux and then comparing the result to what would be expected from a perfectly even flux distribution.
Interesting, I’d only heard of the Gini coefficient as an econometric measure of income inequality.
Comment · 2 years ago
Joseph Cox is probably the most important journalist alive breaking stories about the darker sides of technology and its societal impact. He earned a voice here many times over.
Comment · 2 years ago
That doesn’t mean they’d have ceased to exist.
Likely shareholder equity would be wiped out and they’d reorganize. Isn’t the whole deal that investors get the upsides for taking the risks on the down?
Comment · 2 years ago
How much of an issue is lithium ion battery fires these days?
The batteries in these must be enormous.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not one-to-one (node vs layer metaphor) but Fusion is stupid powerful and free within Davinci Resolve.
It’s an incredible piece of software that, in addition to being best in class color correction, has fully replaced Adobe in my professional video workflow (Premiere, AE, AME, etc)
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/fus...
Comment · 2 years ago
The “cocktail party effect” externalized. Extremely cool.
Comment · 2 years ago
Old Wired issues made great use of spot metallics, neons, and UV too.
Hypernormalisation is a good place to start: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM