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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I’m an illustrator, have an iPad Pro and a high-end Wacom. Work with a lot of people in the animation industry. No one is regularly using iPads for anything besides sketching/toying with ideas. If Apple made a big push to improve their
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The iPad Pro is better than the Surface in terms of the digitizer, but not as good as Wacom.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I understand why Microsoft made the tradeoff - they chose to cater to a note-taking enterprise set over figuring out a design solution that would allow them to integrate Wacom tech. That makes sense from a business perspective - the majorit
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Most creative professionals would disagree that ntrig is anywhere near parity. I work in the field and everyone uses Wacoms of some sort. There was initial excitement when the 1st generation launched with actual Wacom technology, as a lot o
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
A while back, Zed Shaw was claiming to have some bootcamp takedown in the works based on dirt from students and insiders. But then nothing ever came of it. Not sure if he was afraid of getting sued or it was just posturing.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I had a similar experience recently with an employer essentially making an offer, but asking me to jump through all kinds of subsequent pre-employment screening hoops before they would disclose salary (which was, of course, below market whe
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How Facebook ads helped elect Trump(cbsnews.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
It sheds light on the captive mindset of someone inside Google. All it takes to get someone to go along with theft and underhandedness is to dress up the whole thing in bureaucratic process.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I hope you reached out to the legal team pursuing this case.
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Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads(bloomberg.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
And that kind of thinking about work is dogma, not reasoned consideration.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I think this really depends on the kind of businesses that VCs are pursuing. Many of the current wave of startups are directed at turning the poor into an app-directed servant class, or otherwise making their lives more difficult by intensi
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Where Despots Rule(jacobinmag.com)
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Deus ex machina: Levandowski is developing an AI god(theguardian.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Not the parent, but I think the mentality that the user is wrong and misunderstands their (intentionally limited by Google) options with regard to privacy is why people move away from their ecosystem.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I thought Apple killed iAds?
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I really hope this isn't driven by a desire to capitalize on the coming wave of school privatization under DeVos. What she and her compatriots have done to Michigan's school system is not only a tragedy for the communities they se
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The story of Detroit is far more complicated than what you describe, especially when you choose to gloss over decades of racist violence and humiliation that preceded its collapse. And its economic collapse was also the product of broader r
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
They also have a long-tradition of left-wing politics, rooted in a sense of “Midwestern decency.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Minnesota
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The Long Night Ahead(globalguerrillas.typepad.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
You stated that left-libertarianism was an oxymoron, which is untrue and historically inaccurate, even within the US context. The sources in the the Wikipedia etymology section point this out if you need further reference: Colin Ward (2004)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
And also avoid things like entries in the Oxford English Dictionary to prevent becoming similarly enraged.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The term was invented by anarcho-communists and co-opted by the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
This is is irrelevant with regard to Thiel, because, as the parent points out, he’s a neo-feudalist working for the abolition of democracy. He funds several “Dark Enlightment” figures like Curtis Yarvin and even says as much himself: https
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
This already exists in Samoan culture outside the kind of medical intervention you're describing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%27afafine But it's not really viewed as a "choice." Samoan societ
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Facebook and the Complete Social Graph(medium.com)
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iPhone X renders webpages with literal white bars on the sides(twitter.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
To be fair to the Austrian school, mainstream economics is about as far away from a science as are there positions. It's just that latter' ideology is more compatible with the contemporary operation of power.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
It's called socialism, but it's anathema to American culture (by design). We're so bathed in delusions of our inherent affluence and power that we'll watch the wealthy suck actual blood from young people as we're su
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
As my mother used to say, "Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first." Because of the proximity of the two countries, what you hope for is logistically impossible. Traditional artillery can't be

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