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by agency 5y ago
As an American, it seems like a perfectly reasonable creative decision to me. The film quite consciously is focused not on the moon landing specifically, or even the space program more broadly, but on Neil Armstrong as an individual. In thi
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by agency 5y ago
Is there any evidence regarding that “First Man” anecdote? I remember this being a big thing in the conservative culture sphere in at the time but it seems like a manufactured controversy. Are there not American flags in all manner of big b
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by agency 5y ago
I’m curious about this as well. Is anyone working on building text search on top of FDB? It’s kind of astounding to me that last time I checked Elasticsearch was still essentially the only game in town.
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by agency 5y ago
I would not say “no different.” Religion is a protected class[1], web browser preference is not. The law does not treat all kinds of discrimination equivalently. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
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by agency 5y ago
This article strongly suggests that Dadd’s psychosis was precipitated by consumption of hashish based on seemingly no evidence at all? Just that its use was widespread in Egypt where he traveled and that it can cause paranoia. This seems li
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by agency 5y ago
https://www.futilitycloset.com/ “Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible.” The
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by agency 5y ago
I think this is called lock out tag out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout–tagout
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by agency 5y ago
Are you aware that there has been more than one famine in history?
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by agency 5y ago
Do you think attitudes towards homosexuality are any more progressive in Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc? No, but they’re “good” US client states and help further US interests in the region so it’s okay when they dismember a journalist inside an emb
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by agency 5y ago
Look also at the sanctions we imposed on Iraq after the first gulf war. Conservative estimates put the death toll at a quarter to half a million CHILDREN alone. I guess those kids should have risen up and overthrown Saddam, because that’s w
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by agency 5y ago
I mean this is the same forum that whipped itself into a frenzy trying to track down a random kid they collectively decided must have been behind the Boston marathon bombing.
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by agency 5y ago
I have no particular love for MSFT but I don’t think any of the issues you mentioned began after the acquisition.
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by agency 5y ago
It literally started dropping the minute the tweet came out...
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by agency 5y ago
Isn't Electron rendering to an embedded Chromium and therefore the DOM as well?
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by agency 5y ago
My cats do the same thing. Any novel surface will be sat on. Cardboard boxes (full or empty or collapsed) especially but their favorite seems to be clothes. I personally chose to believe it's because my clothes smell like me and they l
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah can you imagine if it affected young people in the way Spanish flu did? I honestly think we’d be lucky if our civilization didn’t collapse in the face of something like that, given how this version went down.
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by agency 5y ago
I'm very sad I can't view the figures, which appear to include at least a couple of shots of cats sitting in things. It looks like the Kanizsa square illusion they're referring to is this: https://puzzlewocky.com&#
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by agency 6y ago
Yeah the whole "mapping of brain region to concept" feels very over-simplistic so it's hard to know what to make of it.
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by agency 6y ago
I found his “origin story” very interesting too. One theory I’ve heard for foot fetishism, which is the most common bodily fetish by far I believe, is essentially a neural equivalent of crossed-wires: Brain areas associated with the feet an
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by agency 6y ago
Reminds me of a scene in the movie Canadian Bacon, a satire where Americans try to start a war with Canada after the end of the Cold War to keep the military industrial complex humming along. At one point they're driving through Canada
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by agency 6y ago
You don't think funding social safety nets affects the crime rate? Of course we in the US don't lack the money to fund ours, just the political will.
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by agency 6y ago
Essentially. The creator, David Simon, spent 12 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun.
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by agency 6y ago
They also have a $1T+ (trillion not billion) sovereign wealth fund (from North Sea oil), the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world amounting to $200k per person.
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by agency 6y ago
Bullshit. This guy had decades and decades of compounding returns. The article itself admits: > Had he just parked $1,000 in a basket of equities when he turned 18, it would have been worth $2,048,400 at his death.
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by agency 6y ago
And the guy is clearly a real scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0g9Hm1cAAAAJ&hl=en...
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by agency 6y ago
I am reminded of Matt Levine's column from the day after the 2016 election, concerning legal realism: > But in the back of my mind I thought about Llewellyn. I thought about the fact that those principles can't automatically en
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by agency 6y ago
Interesting stuff but I would question how much you can infer about our society based on rodent behavior.
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by agency 6y ago
I don't have a horse in this race re: Road and Track but in what sense is this video "cherry picked"? It's a genuine video of Tesla's FSD feature. You can watch it yourself and judge the quality of driving. I don&#x
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by agency 6y ago
I have also experienced this pain where a company I worked for went too hard on splitting every thing into separate repos, such that updating something deep in the dependency tree becomes very painful and involves a protracted "version
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by agency 6y ago
Yep, did so the day I was able to. I was pretty bummed not to get into the beta, especially after torturing myself by periodically checking /r/Starlink which was just wall-to-wall posts of people celebrating their invites. Just gl

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