The anticompetitive part refers to social VR. Today we have multiple social VR apps (Rec Room, Altspace, Bigscreen and more). While Facebook aims to be a big player in social VR they're not there yet; their Facebook Horizons app is still in closed beta.

Requiring a Facebook login to use the Quest puts the competition at an immediate disadvantage, as they'll have to use their own login or submit to Facebook login as well, often at the cost of cross-platform compatibility. Onboarding friction will always be less with the app where you already have an account.

Facebook told Bigscreen developers to join Facebook or "be crushed": https://twitter.com/DShankar/status/1295825809496629248

Presumably, if you're smart enough to make a time machine, you'd be smart enough to calculate the target position in both time _and_ space.

I suspect if you had that much understanding of orbital mechanics, you'd be a billionaire already and not worry so much about time travel.

No sensible protagonist or villain use time travel to become a billionaire. There are usually better pursuits involved.

Except Biff of course

That was a super interesting read (and view), thank you. I've been in Linux land for almost two decades, but I've also spent a week (or so) porting our Linux-based development environment over to Windows with the help of WSL. This sheds some light on how it actually works. Maybe I'll have to look over it once more armed with this new information and see if I can squash some of those remaining problems with our solution.

You can also dive into the Drawbridge research papers, and how they used the LibOS concept to bring SQL Server into Linux

The new package in Ubuntu Trusty seems to be broken. Not that Trusty is supported for much longer. See https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/591

My phone is made in China, from a Chinese manufacturer. How can we know this software isn't either pre-installed or installed via OTA updates?

You can't. Hence the problem with using ZTE or Huawei etc.

HTC are not a Chinese manufacturer

I like it! Just chiming in to say that, to oppose all the nay-sayers you'll always get on HN. I think I heard a similar concept pitched on a Startup Weekend once. The problem then was to make it so easy to use (seems you're on the right path there), maybe even without having to scan the QR code (add a 'Get in touch with my owner right now: ottomon.net/3az4xy' under the QR code, or something).

And to repeat what the other commenter said, why wouldn't you just print your phone number or email on there? Privacy is the biggest (only?) reason, I guess. Maybe you should focus more on that on your landing page. You want people to contact you if you parked someone in, but you don't want them to know your name and show up at your house at weird times just because they wanted to be friends with 'that guy with the expensive car'. People are weird.

How will you make it profitable, though? Only obvious thing I'd pay for is to get a nice pack of customized stickers/iron-on-patches/etc in various sizes.

Thank you for the encouraging feedback. Yes, privacy is one of the reasons. And you got it, the high quality stickers and pre printed accessories is what i intend to sell.

Looks like burning man.

I am the only remote person at my work. Sometimes I feel there's too much going on on Slack at the same time, and I haven't had any issues getting the information I need in a long time. There's always exceptions. Even though we've hit a few bumps in the road before we got to where we are now, I think it can work even for a 'traditional' company like ours (as long as you obsess about procedures and keeping things documented and in writing, which we've always done).

I agree with this being frustrating. I had to explain to so many people that even though my watch doesn't have a SIM card, integrated 4G, GPS or a memory card slot for music it is still exactly what I wanted. Pebble watches do what smart watches should do, without trying to be a tiny phone on your wrist.

I guess I can only dream, but I hope they some day open up parts of it so that the phone app can continue working even with changes to Android/IOS down the line (if Fitbit doesn't want to keep the old Pebbles alive).

But with that said, a smart watch makes me feel hyper-connected. Putting it in quiet mode (and/or taking it off my wrist) every now and then is liberating and definitely makes me more productive.

Wow this is so true with me, I just want a watch that is a small extension of my phone. Not a watch trying to be a phone. Now I got to figure out wtf to get next if anything. A watch I have to charge every night isn't going to happen.

> But with that said, a smart watch makes me feel hyper-connected. Putting it in quiet mode (and/or taking it off my wrist) every now and then is liberating and definitely makes me more productive.

I feel that you probably did not configure notifications. Each time I received a notification that is not important I went to Pebble, and disabled it, after a while pebble was no longer as annoying.

I agree completely. And to expand on that, TypeScript with an IDE is a joy to work with in comparison.