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by 21 8y ago
That agency would have jammed communications in the area so no alarm would have been raised, unless raising an alarm was their actual purpose.
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by 21 8y ago
Online music services recommendations is one vector. Another is just peer to peer recomandation. Eventually someone will listen to that african polyrhythmie, and if it's so good, it will pass it on to his friend. The fact that this is
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by 21 8y ago
Yeah, people forget or don't know how one of the last albums Michael Jackson did was a total flop despite marketing budget in the tens of millions. Marketing helps, but it doesn't make you.
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by 21 8y ago
In the 90s: trance, drum&bass In the 2010s: dubstep (minor), trap Isn't rock also a lot of copy pasting? Not to mention techno. There is only so much space in a genre.
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by 21 8y ago
> If you compare music from 1960, 1980, 2000, and now (almost 2020) you'll notice that the 60's to 80's to 00's were incredibly different. Like, they clearly come from distinct eras. Wasn't that maybe because of
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by 21 8y ago
You forget that "the good things from 30 years ago" were also called garbage when they appeared (mostly by parents). It's the never ending story, old people calling youngsters music garbage.
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I think this is a good thing. Only the strongest content will push through. Before, if someone signed you, you were pretty much guaranteed some form of success. I don't think that virality being required is a problem, all the songs I s
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by 21 8y ago
I'm not sure that was the intention. There is another trend where you would name it "Le Keyboard"
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by 21 8y ago
You are behind the times. Behavior outside Twitch can now lead to an indefinite ban: > In a blog post on Twitch’s community board, the company said that if a streamer uses other mediums to send targeted harassment or hate toward another
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by 21 8y ago
See this account which is used to organize mobs. The current target is Breitbart, and apparently the campaign is quite successful (they are listing 4000 advertisers which supposedly dropped support): https://twitter.com/slpn
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by 21 8y ago
And in Italy: > Stealing small amounts of food to stave off hunger is not a crime, Italy's highest court of appeal has ruled. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36190557
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by 21 8y ago
What if power companies "de-platformed" you? After all you use that power to spew hate, so they are morally responsible. And there is no constitutional right to have electrical power. You can just get yourself a generator, right.
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by 21 8y ago
According to various analysts, Saudi Arabia is sitting on an ocean of oil that they can't possibly find a buyer for until renewables take over completely. So they have a big problem 20-30 years from now.
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by 21 8y ago
My point was not about guns in particular. People use knifes for that too, or rocks, or baseball bats, and we aren't going to ban those. My point was that there are people who want to murder, and drones will be very suitable for that,
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by 21 8y ago
If anyone remembers the long discussions at the start of 2000s in relation to music/video pirating, this is not "stealing", it's "intellectual property something something". The content companies had giant adve
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by 21 8y ago
? Most people don't want to destroy their lives by shooting someone with a gun, yet it happens every day.
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by 21 8y ago
But there is a clear trend in increasing complexity and sophistication in the natural world, from the first bacteria to us. Some say this might even be a sort of a physical law: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodyn
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by 21 8y ago
Maybe like we now try to protect wild areas and animals, as long as they don't inconvenience us too much, maybe the aliens leave us alone and hide from us as long as they don't really need something here. Maybe aliens also hide fr
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by 21 8y ago
> The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a report that makes clear that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation F
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by 21 8y ago
Ahmed Zaki Yamani who was the Minister of Oil for Saudi Arabia for more than twenty years: > The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
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by 21 8y ago
Wouldn't this biochar be the charcoal mines of tomorrow? What I'm saying, is that if it's cheaper than regular coal people will buy this to burn. So you still need an incentive to not burn fossil fuels.
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by 21 8y ago
> I have less faith that this will happen soon, or that most species, humans included, can survive such a massive transition event. This stuff doesn't happen in a year. And we have a bunch of ways of ego-engineering, what's mis
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by 21 8y ago
> more guns lead to more shootings If only it was so simple: > Switzerland hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself. > The country has about 2
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by 21 8y ago
I agree, but I also wonder how much motivation is a factor. What would happen if the author said after the first drawing: "this bicycle is terrible and this bike would never work. Take this seriously, think about the mechanics of it, a
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by 21 8y ago
> A bicycle is an incredibly simple visual form I disagree, compared with most objects a human daily interacts with - doors, furniture, lifts, cars - a bicycle is one of the most complex visible forms. I'm talking about what can be
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by 21 8y ago
The brain doesn't work like a photo camera. It remembers strictly the minimum required to do it's job, in a highly abstract and compressed form. How a bike fits together it's kind of irrelevant for most people, even if you ri
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by 21 8y ago
Fukushima was not supposed to have a failure mode. But it did. How are we to ever believe the "experts" that the new design won't fail in another way, after which we'll hear about an ever safer design. Alternatively, if
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by 21 8y ago
> A private think tank says the total cost of the Fukushima disaster could reach ¥70 trillion ($626 billion), or more than three times the government’s latest estimate. But I guess you'll say that $626 bil is just 15% of Japan&#x2
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by 21 8y ago
> The one platform that they CAN'T ban and will ALWAYS have our live streams is http://infowars.com/show Challenge accepted. Where are they hosted? The videos stream from Akamai CDN. CNN can now press Akamai to r
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by 21 8y ago
We were told that Fukushima will NEVER happen. So yeah, some people are very bad at evaluating risks.

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