There were two versions of the game originally, one with tax and the other without. The trick is to figure out a way of taxing that offsets the random and unfair aspects of the rules of the economy/game. However, I believe even the taxed version of the game wasn't very successful at it.
-Sagan’s 1995 predictions are now being heralded as prophetic. As Director of Public Radio International’s Science Friday, Charles Bergquist tweeted, “Carl Sagan had either a time machine or a crystal ball.”
Prophetic, time machine, crystal call.
That's exactly the lenguage of darkness and superstition...
They acknowledge the irony in the very next sentence:
"Matt Novak cautions against falling back into superstitious thinking in our praise of Demon Haunted World. After all, he says, “the ‘accuracy’ of predictions is often a Rorschach test” and “some of Sagan’s concerns” in other parts of the book “sound rather quaint.”"
The statement is misusing words, in that rewards make you happy by definition. This is a typical postmodern statement, trying to reorganize deep rooted cognitive structures, with words, which is completely backwards.
It makes a lot more sense than the usual psychology frameworks, so I would rather approach it from an evolutionary psychology point of view than not lol.
I love this thread, everyone is sharing their expert opinion on something that is right down the corner.
It would be a great exercise to review this thread 6 months after the headset is on the market, and see the true quality of hn on forecasting.
I had this tab open for awhile and was just re-reading the comments after talking to a retired Intel director. It's interesting to look at other innovative Apple posts here, maybe you'd like to check them:
Something interesting is that a lot of the most popular links for these from algolia are not the announcement. The M1 in particular surprised me. The announcement discussion is a few pages behind many other posts about various M1 things.
I've long thought that there's a lot of interesting research opportunities for hn discussions (see Dropbox announcement). Maybe ChatGPT can summarize it.
My wife is a calligrapher. To a calligrapher or artist is like a baton is to a conductor, a Stradivarius to a violin player, a classic Gibson to a guitar player.
So yes, to many people an expensive guitar is just a status symbol, to a true artist it's something that adds a great deal to their lives.
It's the same here, my wife and I aren't lawyers, doctors or politicians, these pens aren't status symbols. These pens are used for creative pursuits, to design, art. Many of them are vintage classic pens that have deep history, family value, etc.
Just because you value certain things in your life, doesn't mean that others don't value other things.
if you ever write a lot with pens then using a Fountain pen is a dream to write with on good paper. I always used to get a cramped hand from using rollerball pens, gels were a bit better but not much.
Tried a Lamy Safari, a "cheap" for fountain pens at least (23 euros), and I have never looked back. I love writing by hand now, and take every opportunity to do so. It's just so much more fun writing when your thoughs can just slide out from your hand on to paper.
Daily drivers are my Lamy Aion (a 80Euro pen)with my Safari as a backup.
I once worked with a company that have a whole business around this technology (for some reason their website isn't working):
https://il.linkedin.com/company/sonarax
