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by ashark 9y ago
I don't think giving in a New Star Trek makeover would do any good. The whole movie only makes sense in its time . If we made a film kinda like it now with our own ideas of what the tech should be like and how the future would look, w
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by ashark 9y ago
You've gotta develop ways of thinking, ways of appreciating art to enjoy the better stuff. Without more finely-tuned perceptions and, in many cases, a base of knowledge and a kind of vocabulary , taken in a broad sense, you'll mi
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by ashark 9y ago
The content addressing and peer-to-peer architecture are the main differences.
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by ashark 9y ago
I can't figure out whether this means that OS-level mitigation of the problem doesn't prevent all avenues for exploitation. The headline implies it (and probably made it to the front page based on that implication) but TFA doesn&#
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by ashark 9y ago
Maybe offline or rarely-online screens would work? An RPi2 (no wifi) stuck in some corner, running Linux? That kind of thing. I think the Web's far and away the most dangerous part of screens. I grew up mostly with OTA TV, an NES, and
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, I get that, but there's screwed up and there's screwed up , ya know? Sure you can be in the top 50% of parents by just not actively trying to screw them up, but I'd like to do better than that, within reason, and tec
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by ashark 9y ago
If your parents had eliminated screens when you were very young (including theirs) save maybe one publicly-placed crappy terminal for wikipedia or looking up business hours or maps or learning you some programming or whatever, but loosened
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by ashark 9y ago
Eh, I wouldn't put Harry Potter or a lot of other Juvi Fic in the "total disaster" category, certainly. Hell, I thought The Hunger Games was occasionally pretty good, and in a few cases almost managed to be very good (she k
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by ashark 9y ago
I don't mean things-I-don't-like—there are lots of things I don't like that aren't bad—I mean books that are the literary equivalent of some of the worst films that make it on MST3K or Best of the Worst succeeding in a
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by ashark 9y ago
Considering that (IIRC) other OECD states typically sit between 40% and 60% of US spending on healthcare per-capita, and they presumably haven't actually eliminated these sorts of inefficiencies (so some percentage even of that 40% i
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by ashark 9y ago
There's plenty of competently-written trash to choose from, though. Most of the better genre fic falls in that category, and there's no shortage of it. Incidentally, I think it's fair to describe The Last Jedi's polarizi
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by ashark 9y ago
Books that are cringe-worthily bad in every possible way are sometimes, unaccountably, wildly successful and make their authors tons of money. It's frustrating if you're a) an author, and/or b) care about the genre or topic o
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by ashark 9y ago
Anecdata, but my circle of friends spend about 20x as much time playing board and card (we're just getting into Bridge and... we may not need any other card games now?) games together as we do board games. Probably more like 40-50x if
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by ashark 9y ago
See also: attempts to replace whiteboards/blackboards.
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by ashark 9y ago
Or, you know, government happens to be the best solution we have to certain types of coordination problems, some of which plague market economies. But no, I'm sure literally everything government does that interacts with the market jus
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by ashark 9y ago
There was also commercial ad-supported content before tracking advertising. You know, 100% of ad-supported content before the Web. The world will for sure not end if spyvertising goes away.
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by ashark 9y ago
The Olive Gardens around here are worse than the middle tier of frozen Italian dinners you can grab at the grocery store, these days (they've definitely gotten worse over the last 10-15 years—I think they've preferred lowering qua
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by ashark 9y ago
Lots of people in the US with enough income to swing an occasional $250/couple dinner out consider The Olive Garden fancy and go somewhere like that for their “special” dinners. Source: personally know way more people in that situation
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by ashark 9y ago
Cost of gas. Cost of maintenance. Cost of insurance. Cost of replacement car from time to time. Cost of parking, both at home (garage is part of the cost of your house, if you own/mortgage) and at work. Direct time lost to gas pumping,
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by ashark 9y ago
> Cars are great for transportation and have enabled humankind to travel further and more often then ever before, but they are also 2000+ lb. death traps and combined with alcohol they are an absolute threat to everyone's safety. T
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by ashark 9y ago
I believe the punctuation you intended was the em-dash—so called because it is the width of an "m" in typical typography—which acts as a kind of weaker replacement for semicolon or parentheses. You can type it with option+[-] on a
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by ashark 9y ago
> '“examiners” scored individuals lower on the same task when they were told that the pupil came from a less privileged background.' I'm not sure how well-backed-up the assertions actually were (I've not followed up o
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by ashark 9y ago
> “Sometimes, watching him, I thought of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, a simulacrum of the human that entirely failed to express any true humanity.” But that of course is a remark inspired by film images rather than the novel. For the deba
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by ashark 9y ago
Oh, yeah, it’s immeasurably more influential than anything else either wrote. I just dispute the “mentions of name in classroom” and “who is probably intended by a bare, contextless reference to one ‘Shelley’” metrics.
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by ashark 9y ago
First, yes, yes, all my yes. The more good guides to best-editions for various works that are written, the less time I have to spend tracking them down, which can take a long time for some works (ugh, Eastern works in English translation
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by ashark 9y ago
I’ve hated it since pressing play stopped being necessary to start video playing. Now I have to keep the focus bouncing around or else whatever it’s currently on will start yelling at me. Can’t just stop and look around at what’s on screen.
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by ashark 9y ago
Unlimited streaming has its own problems, because your kids know it's never impossible for them to watch their favorite show, unlike with the bad old days of Saturday morning cartoons and just a handful of OTA TV stations. You can ju
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by ashark 9y ago
> I just think that the sky isn't falling. You said it was worse in quite a few ways, but I think it's really just 1-2 big ones that can be fixed. Well, it was several ports they replaced :-) But yeah, it's not that I th
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by ashark 9y ago
Mostly the lack of ports. We had to buy a ton of new monitors at work because most of our existing ones wouldn't work or didn't work well, even with adapters. If you travel with them you have to carry adapters, because there'
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by ashark 9y ago
The non-touchbar model has (IIRC) a weaker processor, and removes two of the USB-C ports for no reason aside from Apple's strong desire that you not buy it (instead paying way more for a Touch Bar you don't want, to get those two

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