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by BryantD 4y ago
Oh, man, I envy you the experience of seeing it for the first time.
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by BryantD 4y ago
And yet Poverty Row produced Detour, one of the best noirs ever made. The intentions aren’t the only thing that matter here; the art does. Further, it’s not purely about entertainment value. I recently watched Les Vampires, a 1916 serial fr
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by BryantD 4y ago
Follow up for posterity: the arrest affidavit is public. The FBI had the guy’s name and location on the 12th, one day before The NY Times article. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.255...
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by BryantD 4y ago
Not proven by facts in evidence! The FBI prioritizes (in theory) successful prosecution. It’s entirely possible that there are agents watching the guy while a judge processes a warrant.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Not in the US: the coal lobby has managed to get their product intertwined with culture wars and Manchin will reliably defect from the Democratic Party on related votes.
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by BryantD 4y ago
What’s the total pool of leaders? Seems a bit premature to write this off as statistically impossible without understanding the number of attempts. Also you’re not figuring in the odds that success went to his head.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Ha! I love that Presidio campus, it’s nicely integrated with the environment.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Project: Gorgon, from two of the Asheron’s Call developers. It’s got that offbeat “we can do whatever we want” feel, no classes, and it’s fun. https://projectgorgon.com/
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by BryantD 4y ago
I agree. The ID.2 and ID.1 are the likely entrants in the cost category we’re talking about.
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by BryantD 4y ago
I love my ID.4 very much but it is not the entry level EV described at 40K and up. The Leaf and the Chevy Bolt clock in at under 30K which is much closer.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Thank you for this — I had no idea you could do that.
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by BryantD 4y ago
This release seems less immediately valuable than their other contributions, but historically more significant. It’s a pity we don’t have commits although that would be a huge privacy issue. But yeah, while I would never work for Elon I’m g
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by BryantD 4y ago
Yeah, this doesn’t seem totally implausible, although postulating it doesn’t mean it’s happening. More generally, there’s no doubt that we’ve vastly increased communication bandwidth and that could easily have effects. For a few years now I
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by BryantD 4y ago
I don’t think that’s true at all. There are real differences between how we treat men and women. And the actual effect we’re seeing isn’t even addressed — if it’s because college campuses won’t tolerate dissent, why wouldn’t that affect men
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by BryantD 4y ago
That’s a powerful part of the narrative for sure. But … ugh, I need to be less lazy and dig into the supporting material, actually, some of my questions may be answered there. The big one is “does that mean there’s more self-harm, or does t
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by BryantD 4y ago
That’s interesting data. I wonder: is there any possibility that part of the change is because we’re telling kids that it’s okay to admit to depression? I.e., are we just reporting more accurately now?
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by BryantD 4y ago
The MCU hasn’t been under Perlmutter’s control since 2015. Hey, can you explain exactly what you mean by preachy woke propaganda with some specific examples?
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by BryantD 4y ago
My guess from having worked in close proximity to the executives involved is that it was more of a skunkworks/prototyping group, possibly partnering with ILMxLab, Pixar, Disney Animation, and the streaming group. While Disney is not re
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by BryantD 4y ago
That’s a movie that performed in the top 5 all time domestically, so probably better not to use it as a target.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Yeah, Marvel is Disney, and the cuts happening this week appear to be company-wide rather than focused on animation. That said, I tend to agree that both Animation and Pixar are floundering a little bit and it’s a problem. Marvel could be h
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by BryantD 4y ago
Other than Avatar, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Thor… at worst you can say that animation’s been a bit rocky, although Turning Red was a streaming release.
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by BryantD 4y ago
I may be misunderstanding this; can you help me out and be specific about what you mean by DNC email leaks? If we’re talking about the Guccifer 2.0 leaks, it seems relevant to note that in October of 2016, the US intelligence community stat
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by BryantD 4y ago
Simon Willison wrote about this on Monday, so “I don’t think people realize what a big deal it is…” seems false.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Agreed. Apple will run models remotely if necessary, but from a PR perspective they align with their stated intentions when they can run locally.
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by BryantD 4y ago
SF is trapped because there are well-organized community groups in the Western half of the city that will actively block density increase for the same sorts of reasons described here. You can get to higher density incrementally, but not if
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by BryantD 4y ago
Seattle has a particularly bad one. As far as I can tell it’s a general problem — our light rail expansion has been slowed down by the same tendency to wait until there’s near-unanimous consent. Edit: I reminded myself elsewhere that SF is
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by BryantD 4y ago
Huh. That honestly struck me as irony, given that it’s in conjunction with his grandmother’s departure from Germany. But I do see your point. Note that the dates may not be accurate; according to a quick bit of genealogical research, his gr
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by BryantD 4y ago
I think that it’s bad to amplify extremist views (see the number of shooters who glorify the Christchurch killer). In this case I don’t think that’s a huge risk, though.
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by BryantD 4y ago
This one is fairly tasteless but it’s not clear to me whether or not it’s extremist. If the description said you were chasing Anne Frank down, that would be one thing. As is, it’s explicitly framed as pushing the limits of free speech which
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by BryantD 4y ago
I’ve worked with HR departments that recommend against Googling to avoid bias, which I think makes some sense, particularly when it comes to politics. I don’t really want to know if a candidate cares deeply about (say) abortion one way or t

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