As a European I work hard but do expect labour laws to be respected, if that's what you mean. Minimum of 22 days annual vacation (that I use 100% of), paid sick leave, 14 national holidays per year, etc.

It's not important because it won't affect the US?

These are not morally equivalent. The office-worker wants others to modify everyone's behaviour to support them, whereas the remote worker just wants to control their own behaviour. The remote worker is completely ambivalent to where others want to work.

I'm not buying this.

- In a big team if everyone is in-office and 1 person is remote, that person certainly cares about being the only remote person. Maybe some people would be okay with it, but being the only remote person has been known to be a not-so-great working arrangement even before the pandemic. So you can't say that remote people don't care where others work.

- If enough people choose remote, they're forcing everyone else to be remote too (whether they attend the office or not) because the communication model for the whole team has to be different now. <<< This is remote people modifying everyone else's behaviour to support them.

It's entirely possible that at least some of those who prefer to work at the office are equally ambivalent about what others what to do.

This doesn't make it immune from criticism. What if the United States added "Caucasian state" to the constitution and started discriminating against other ethnicities. Would that be okay for you?

A better example would be adding a non-Jew requirement to the US constitution. I find it interesting that a people who faced such deadly consequences from discrimination based on Jewishness choose to discriminate based on Jewishness as their response.

To be fair, this is exactly why they are doing it. This is coming out of the belief that the Jewish people need a Jewish refuge state based on the constant past consequences of not having one.

If they didn’t control for their population, they’d need to decide between not being a Jewish state and not being democratic.

> This is coming out of the belief that the Jewish people need a Jewish refuge state based on the constant past consequences of not having one.

It's funny how the experience of being subjected to a racist, human -rights-disregarding ethnonationalist regime that engaged aggression based on a desire for historic ethnic territory and a desire for buffer space has provoked the creation of a racist, human-rights-disregarding, ethnonationalist regime that engages in aggression based on a desire for historic ethnic territory and buffer space.

Well, not “funny” as much as “tragically ironic”.

Not ironic is the least.

When Jews were being murdered by the millions, nothing was done. Countries turned ships full of Jewish refugees around some of who went back to Europe and perished.

It’s pretty clear that nobody will look after Jews but other Jews and Jews will have no refuge except in a Jewish state.

I recall that Palestinian leaders made a state visit to Singapore and the then Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew, famously pragmatic, said “You’ll never defeat Israel militarily. Why? They have nowhere else to go.”

I don’t think that comparing Israel to Nazi germany is funny nor is it remotely accurate.

You can use the onion location header[0] to redirect the user, as mentioned in another comment thread.

0: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...

That has all the problems listed. The header could be modified or the response blocked by anyone who could modify or block the plain HTTP(S) response.

Are there any valid use-cases? For any suggestion I've heard, it always seems that a relational database or PKI would be better.

He does state that when (not if) we move beyond the current system, distributed ledgers will become a useful tool.

> I consider blockchain, and Ethereum-style mechanisms, as technologies that will prove extremely useful once private property in the means of production ends. But, on their own, these technologies will not liberate us from the extractive power of the few.

The point remains, maybe as an autistic person they don't like eye contact or sitting still but that's where discipline comes into it.

I got an occulus quest 2 (manufactured by meta) recently and it's a lot of fun. VR is not revolutionary but it's definitely going to make money for meta and others.

I have a VR set too (not by Meta, incidentally), I also really enjoy it (War Thunder, Half Life Alyx).

That has nothing to do with Facebook's half-baked hype around the "metaverse".

For me it's just another "Libra".

I do think FB is on to something about the "gaming" community that goes further than just "playing games" that has emerged in recent years that could be sorta kinda related to VR but not really. The VR thing is just FB's foothold into the industry in general because it's not like they can compete with MS/Sony/Nintendo.

Minecraft, Fortnite, hell FFXIV and WoW are all digital spaces where people go to hang out with friends. You don't just log in to play the game but to hang out -- the digital version of "being in the room" that feels really different than something like a group chat.

I'm not at all surprised that the owners of a bunch of successful "classic" social media properties is rightfully scared of a completely different kind of social network that crept up on them and that they have zero foothold in.

Do you still need a FB account? They made some news late last year about maybe getting rid of that requirement but I haven't seen anything about it since.

I don't have a FB account and will never get one, but I'm casually interested in the quest2.

Facebook login is no longer a requirement.

I don't believe you're correct.

Facebook said something to the effect of not requiring a Facebook login at some future date, and said future date has yet to materialize. Neither did they specify what the alternative login would be, but it wouldn't be surprising if it was just a "Meta" account instead.

You have to reach out to their support, but it's absolutely possible. I did it myself with a five minute chat. It's just an 'Oculus' account at that point, like it was before the requirement.

Why would you answer this question before personally verifying?

Because I've personally done it?

My apologies please feel free to downvote.

The Quest 2 is a really nice piece of hardware that is sadly significantly hampered by its ties to Facebook. I will never own one because of it.

I got a VR headset too but there's nothing inherently "metaverse" about it and trying to claim VR as a success for the metaverse initiative mischaracterizes the situation a lot.