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by antonymy 4y ago
Reading this article as a straight man is like listening to a rich friend complain about how they have too many rooms to decorate in their mansion whilst I struggle to make rent in a single bedroom apartment. Particularly this bit >She r
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by antonymy 4y ago
The two movies the author had never seen were two of my favorite films by Miyazaki that I watched in my formative years. Of course the acclaim always went to Nauiscaa, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke, but I've always adored Porco
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by antonymy 4y ago
All they did was automate a process living, breathing human redditors have followed for over a decade: farming karma with reposts. The fact nobody noticed the switch over from human repost spam to bot repost spam is pretty indicative about
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by antonymy 4y ago
I've read so many articles like this that point to similar things, the zoning issues, the over-regulation, the fact we need to build more housing as the fundamental fix. Yet all I continue to see from government is the same old heel-dr
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by antonymy 4y ago
A surprising and welcome move by the FTC. Wish they'd hold something like this for how telecoms are regulated.
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by antonymy 4y ago
DRM only punishes paying customers.
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by antonymy 4y ago
Have enjoyed this series a lot. His whole blog is great and you can easily spend hours reading through his lengthy, well-researched posts if you have an interest in premodern military history or topics that brush up against it (i.e. strateg
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by antonymy 4y ago
Completely forgot about Google Fiber, just assumed they'd abandoned it like so many other Google projects. I was so excited for it back when it was announced. Anything to disrupt the corrupt local monopoly I have to deal with here. The
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by antonymy 4y ago
Weird how Zuckerberg's red flag for low productivity was employees avoiding meetings to work on personal projects. In the first place, I was under the impression FAANG companies encouraged employees to pursue personal projects for the
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by antonymy 4y ago
>In fact, standardized tests items must be well-defined problems, because they require indisputable answers. Matching a word to its synonym, finding the area of a trapezoid, putting pictures in the correct order—all common tasks on IQ te
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by antonymy 4y ago
Only if they're extremely naïve. A common theme I see in pro-censorship people is they assume the ability to censor will never fall into the hands of horrible people, that somehow the government will always remain in the hands of peopl
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by antonymy 4y ago
Amen.
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by antonymy 4y ago
Still over $4.70/G here. I dread going to the pump.
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by antonymy 4y ago
What's the scoop on the US Forest Service? Obstruction, grift, or waste?
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by antonymy 4y ago
I've never tried to give advice to people in my life since my career is mostly founded on a series of coincidences and lucky breaks. I know that luck factors into a lot of people's experiences, but in my case luck is the foundatio
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by antonymy 4y ago
Netflix and other streaming platforms have made inroads into anime production committees, but you are correct in that so far very little overall impact is seen in the industry. The Japanese domestic market is still the chief driver of deman
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by antonymy 4y ago
I don't personally care one whit about the fortunes of Pornhub but this sets a very bad precedent for the internet. The payment processing duopoly is a huge problem, they are able to dictate way too much of what is allowed to exist on
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by antonymy 4y ago
I did very little guessing on the regular puzzle, which took me a little over 6 minutes, but the master-level one did require some brute force at first and took me much longer to finish. Once I got rolling, though, I was able to solve it in
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by antonymy 4y ago
Ditto. I own a great many movies on physical media, and then have digital pirated copies that I actually watch. These digital copies are much easier to store, can be viewed on pretty much any device with no hassle or setup, and are easy to
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by antonymy 4y ago
I'd like it that if a work has been out of print for more than 10 years then its copyright should expire, regardless of the remaining copyright duration. Let them have their 100+ year copyright, but its forfeit if they don't bothe
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by antonymy 4y ago
433.7M dollars is still pretty good. Depending on age, it might also be the smart way to do it. A guy in his 20s winning the lottery and a guy in his mid 60s is two very different use cases for money.
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by antonymy 4y ago
Yup. My exact thought upon seeing the headline. Reading the article didn't really bring me away from this reaction either, still feels like a whole lot of bunk.
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by antonymy 4y ago
Climate science community really needs to rein in its doomsayers. I get that exaggeration and fearmongering is an easy way to get attention for issues but it ultimately hurts the cause. Like James Hansen back in the 1980s predicting New Yor
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by antonymy 4y ago
Every time the point is raised that this just opens the door for mass surveillance of all private communications we just get vague assurances of "no it won't" like this from the article: >whilst the privacy considerations
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by antonymy 4y ago
The people making the videos are much more aware of who their audience is and how to communicate to them. They make the assumption their audience is intelligent, but unfamiliar with the subject material. So they avoid industry terms and jar
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by antonymy 4y ago
If they ended the legacy system they could kiss all donations from millionaire and billionaire alumni goodbye. In the first place, this whole "racial diversity" thing is a diversion in order to maintain their legacy system. Can&#x
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by antonymy 4y ago
Ivy league schools have finite space for new students, you can't really fix this with more money. In the first place these schools don't need more money, they're some of the richest institutions in the country and only growin
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by antonymy 4y ago
>Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff. So, what I'm hearing is, we need to bring back dueling.
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by antonymy 4y ago
Ditto. I have no idea why bookmarks are so hard for some people to use. RAM is far more limited than regular storage, and bookmarks are minuscule in size compared to browser tabs. This "problem" was solved decades ago and yet I st
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by antonymy 4y ago
A modern-day Akhetaten?

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