Isamu

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   by Isamu 4y ago

   Yeah, I can never find a reasonable price on a first century Roman antiquity, and believe me I’ve tried.
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   by Isamu 4y ago

   >This is shameful, and it points to the hollowness of Disney's long-running holy war to get us all to "respect copyright." Disney respects copyright only to the extent that it serves as a charter for corporate abuse of cre
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   by Isamu 4y ago

   > We’re launching a new coin, intended to be used for payments just like the dollar or the euro. As adoption grows, we can slowly create additional money and give this away for free, to people directly. It sounds like the plan is, get pe
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   The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy Creek(news.bloombergtax.com)

   79 points by Isamu 4y ago|197 comments
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   by Isamu 4y ago

   Long before the Internet I spent a lot of time in libraries and bookstores, and it was difficult back then to find much beyond basic information about almost anything unless it was somewhat mainstream. When you did find something unusual or
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   by Isamu 5y ago

   Anybody trying 1.1.1.1 for families?
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   by Isamu 5y ago

   Film critics are still a thing? I honestly thought they died out along with newsprint and the shift to streaming media
8. 518.▲
   by Isamu 5y ago

   So which countries are meeting their carbon emission goals? Is there a scorecard or summary of approaches that are producing results?
9. 519.▲
   by Isamu 5y ago

   So why is it row 4 and not row 3?
10. 520.▲
    by Isamu 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing this, I like it a lot, and yes it does remind one of the Blade Runner atmosphere. It seems a lot of commenters here are opposed to artistic photo manipulation, but maybe it’s a reflection on the expectations of photograph
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    It’s fun as a snapshot of Usenet culture from way back.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    “Britain Stands Alone”
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    Before the pandemic I was able to WFH but usually didn’t, because as luck would have it, it always seemed like a crisis would occur and everyone would be looking for me. Now it’s more normalized and not a problem. It’s less my attitude, mor
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    You are correct about the origin except it came from French into English long ago.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    But aren’t the “debunkings” rather cursory and dismissive? Instead I think real engineering relies on tradeoffs, certain areas of a multidimensional space where an idea makes sense - and others where it doesn’t.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    Ha, yeah I remember doing many repeated mount/unmount requests on the school’s DECSystem20 before I realized it was a request for the human operator to find a magtape and thread it through the reel-to-reel. I was reading font data. Tim
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    Pro < Max < Ultra < Ne Plus Ultra < Steve
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    > I hadn’t realized how negative the prevailing sentiment is on Hacker News. I think cryptocurrency is polarizing. While the technology is interesting, the current landscape of related businesses is discouraging. > One argument seems
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    I should explain I didn’t mean literally that you used the Connection Machine interactively. Supercomputers generally were treated as batch mode, with other machines scheduling jobs. I think you are right about the SGI workstation being use
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    Yes. Did anybody else cheer at this point in the theater? I mean, come on. At last your nerd skills enable you to save the day in an action motion picture. Get to your feet and cheer for the Unix prompt on a Connection Machine. https:&#x2F
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    I think here it is used (incorrectly) to mean “leading”. I think we are always reaching for superlatives in our click-bait headlines.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    I don’t want to pick on them specially. I mean I get that nobody’s going to name their project Just-Another-Disappointment-Son-Get-Used-To-It
23. 533.▲
    by Isamu 5y ago

    Delivers on the title, well done. Half the time on HN I am disappointed to find that I have mistakenly clicked on an article about some new software framework that has co-opted common words to make me think I’m about to read something more
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    More fun at a party to be had when you find out what a person’s true expertise is and probe that until you find something surprising. Doesn’t take long to find something that can change your views or offset your ignorance.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    Yeah we used a cowbell- farm living.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    So Magellan? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    > “Poverty is only now starting to decline” More like: progress has been made at extreme poverty ($1.90/day) and now we can upgrade our expectations to start to address basic poverty ($30/day).
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    Definition: A metamaterial is any material engineered to have a property that is not found in naturally occurring materials. FTA: for applications from wave guiding to artificial bone.
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    So they mention money laundering. Serious question: does that explain at least some of the hype surrounding NFTs?
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    by Isamu 5y ago

    > transform your smartphone into a microscopic scanning device which allows you to re-convert your physical data into a digital file. So the reader is just an app. A normal smart phone is supposed to have the resolution necessary to read