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by batista 14y ago
> And what truth is that? There was nothing of any substance added or removed to the image, indeed adding the black only served to make it aesthetically appealing. The truth that if you make it "a little of this is OK", "a little of th
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by batista 14y ago
First, "the author's visceral reaction" is simple journalist ethics. They teach you that at journalist school. Doctored images are bad. Second, noticed how I haven't mentioned NASA in my reply about doctored images? I gave some examples of
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by batista 14y ago
> I think what happens is people get this picture in their mind of someone that looks like a damned ghoulish skeleton if they live to be 150, which is just silly. Far from silly it is what has happened to everyone who lived to be even
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by batista 14y ago
> Some people faced with certain death will go to very extreme lengths to prolong their lives by the tiniest amount. Others will accept it. And I wouldn't want to be with the first guys company. They would screw you or everybody to ach
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't, ever. Will, give it time. It's not like we have a choice on the matter.
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by batista 14y ago
> Not hardly. Keep in mind that most people believe in some form of afterlife, so they don't actually think they're going to die at all. I don't think people believe that "realistically" to that afterlife, including religious people. E
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by batista 14y ago
> You mean buying an app for personal use in the US and then taking your laptop to Sweden means you have to pay Swedish tax on that app? No, but that is not what the guy did. He bought the app in the US and then went and changed to a b
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by batista 14y ago
> Which, if you take a step back and lose the journalistic tendentiousness, you will realize makes this about as cool as any picture ever taken. If I want to depict Neil Amstrong, the "coolness" of a picture showing some other guy does
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by batista 14y ago
> Neither is likely to happen. You'd be surprised. With the cost cutting of proof checking and editorial departments, and the rush to catch internet time news, I've seen much much worse misattributions and even hoaxes running around in
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by batista 14y ago
> Comparing the photo that Neil Armstrong took on THE MOON to a sketch of his cat is silly, and you know it. Sure, but not much sillier that saying that putting up a picture of a different person is a "slight inaccuracy". > Also, e
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by batista 14y ago
> But Apple simply doesn't allow for people who reside in multiple countries, and have credit cards in multiple countries. I guess that lifestyle doesn't fit the "Apple way" -- it's thinking too different. Yes, the irony is very fittin
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by batista 14y ago
> It's mind boggling that for the author people are either alive or dead, no one's sick or incapacitated, and everyone have access to the Web. Utopian much? It's mind moggling that you raise this point and call it "mind boggling". What
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by batista 14y ago
What background? Looks like a bog standard gray background with some noise thrown in for interest.
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by batista 14y ago
> If the caption to the picture reads "Buzz Aldrin as captured by Neil Armstrong", who cares? I _effin_ care. E.g. I want a picture of Neil Armstrong for my article. Not a picture that _he_ took of somebody else. Not a quick sketch he
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by batista 14y ago
> Well, that's another data point to suggest that we remain a culture of suicidal, negligent barbarians - quick to accept the suffering and death of billions, and happy to condemn our future selves to the same. Actually it's a sign tha
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by batista 14y ago
> To the best of my knowledge, (this isn't my field) nobody has ever made a visible-light metamaterial. http://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/dl-mft010407.php?... http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=42007 http://www.pop
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by batista 14y ago
> .. And who cares if it isn't a picture of Neil? Editors searching for pictures of Neil? Because he was the one that died recently and they have to write stories about him?
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by batista 14y ago
> I always assumed that the poor composition of the original AS11-40-5903 (and many other photos from the Moon which suffer from the same problem) was because every pixel was precious, so they didn't want the uniformly black sky to take
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by batista 14y ago
> From prior experience, when I make something I can use on a daily basis, I would find it hard to use something different. Well, I think he feels that Gnome failed to build something he can use on a daily basis. Back in 1998 it was al
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by batista 14y ago
> This is slightly off topic, but I don't really understand Miguel de Icaza. It might be that you have a narrow view of free/open source software. The idea behind it is not all about GNU or Linux or anything. iTerm 2 is a mighty fine o
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by batista 14y ago
How about the median age depends on reach on the general population? If the general population median is mid-30s or 40s then any service that gains users in the overall society will end up with a same-ish median.
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by batista 14y ago
4 years have passed since the article, Facebook haven't been affected much by the situation described therein, much less it has been "killed". Citations are only needed when you cannot directly observe some reality for yourself. Here we can
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, but other people working on the GPL project, including more major contributors didn't have a problem with the porting and availability on iOS. I guess all it takes is a misguided picking of licence in the beginning and a zealot that co
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by batista 14y ago
> It's not a magic bullet, but it'll be a good thing unless they abuse it. An example of Apple's track record in this regard would be GPL apps on the App Store - they'll pull the app from the store but I have yet to hear Apple 'remote w
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by batista 14y ago
Then the validator is not really a proper validator yet. It's 2012. HTML5 is a proper spec alright...
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by batista 14y ago
>* The reason why SV is the scene for startups is simply because of the people here. It's expensive in SV, the traffic sucks, nightlife is mediocre, etc, but nobody cares about that stuff when they need to create a company. They only ca
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by batista 14y ago
And this is different to any other services, like GAE, AWS, etc, how?
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by batista 14y ago
> Virtually all activities everywhere are carefully planned by the Korean labels. Which is beside the point. Why wouldn't those Korean labels want to negotiate deals with US labels for their artists?
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by batista 14y ago
> Admittedly it is missing lots of the features of Mathematica That's quite an understatement.
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by batista 14y ago
Only 10x worse.

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