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by Hoasi 8y ago
Indeed what Rubingh did was implementing Enki Bilal's idea in real life competitions. The idea of the sport itself is explicit in the Nikopol comics: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&q=enki+bilal+ch.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Only a few years ago, even people who hated ads saw ad-blocking software as akin to stealing. > I've never felt like I was stealing nor do I know anyone that feels that way. Never understood that concept either. It probably ori
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> How exciting! youdontneedthat.app is available. There is still time!
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> I don't really understand your complaint. "What about going outside or spending time with your family and people you love?" - that is exactly how they pitch this initiative. They want you to feel that their technology is
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Let's do a quick game. If you had all the money in the world, would you still do your job? Probably not. Just one data point but I absolutely would.
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by Hoasi 8y ago
> Great technology should improve life, not distract from it (Almost) everyone agrees. > Great technology should improve life, not distract from it Google then goes on to offer something superficial. > Learn more about your time
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by Hoasi 8y ago
In other words, this is marketing applied to itself.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
I wonder how many people would take this at face value though.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Reassurance is valuable in itself. That would be one valid reason. Building a network would be another.
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Chinese scientists say North Korea's nuclear test site has collapsed(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by Hoasi 9y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Perhaps they would need to send false sensory stimuli to emulate a ghost-like body illusion and maintain the isolated brain in an induced state of normalcy.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Stanislaw Lem, "Summa Technologiae", translated by Joanna Zylinska, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis-London, 2013, ISBN 978-0816675760 Phenomenal work, well worth reading and re-reading.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
The best advertising copywriters are old drunks, that is just a fact.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
True, but you didn't pick your country of birth either—although it is possible, for some, to chose their country at a later date. Voting is only a partial choice (at best).
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by Hoasi 9y ago
This could be a great plot for a sci-fi novel.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Intuitive and methodical drawing aren't mutually exclusive. You can derive a method from intuition. Skilled draughtsmanship is somehow technical but will always lack something when confined to purely methodical rendering. Most people w
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Well, that's smart.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Thanks a lot. This is great — always nice to try new tools.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Flabbergasting. Krita's development started almost 20 years ago... and it is the first time I ever hear about it.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
> But this is a problem outside the game industry too There is definitely a parallel in film and animation as well. Underpaid, worn out talented people are legion in production and post-production. > “You’d get a lot of people coming
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by Hoasi 9y ago
The article stresses how little his work seems to carry on other composers influences, which is true. There were many composers going in this direction at the time—Erik Satie perhaps closer to Debussy than anyone else. But let's agree
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Some excellent photographs indeed, in-between incredibly annoying ads, defeating the point of having a gallery of pictures—which you can't see with an ad blocker on. Not to mention how disrespectful these disruptive ads are for the wo
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Selling advertising online could be automated for the most part, unless Twitter really does offer personalised offering to ads buyers—which I'm not sure is the case.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Indeed that would be a much more elegant way to go about it.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Jekyll + Tachyons CSS running on GitHub Pages + Netlify
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Hypothetical at best. So this theory says they made recurrent trips every 30 years. But no physical remains of these historic Greek settlements in North America exists. That pretty much settles it until an actual discovery takes place.
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by Hoasi 9y ago
> Good-vs-evil narratives are not some progression, rather the inverse. This Good-vs-evil narrative also tends to infantilize whole mediums—say Film or Comics, but the same is true with Journalism. There is no way this is a progression w
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by Hoasi 9y ago
Medium works great as an amplifier and as an aggregator. It can get you additional traffic for your blog, product or site. But yeah, own your own content.
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Major enhancements unveiled on 'Closer to Van Eyck' web application(phys.org)
1 points by Hoasi 9y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 9y ago
> WordPress 4.9... no longer allows you to edit any code through their editor. WordPress 4.9 still allows you to edit your templates through the editor. Although it shows you a warning if you want to do so it is still possible to change

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