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by beezlebroxxxxxx 25d ago
> but things like ornate decorations and facades were still expensive additional work This again, is partially true. A lot of ornamental decorative elements in public facades were, essentially, mass produced using molds --- very few wer
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1mo ago
Clamshell phones were essentially the default design 2 decades ago and people have been talking about folding phones ever since, really. Folding is a unique way to overcome the ever present size issues/comments; however, it looks like
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1mo ago
The anthropomorphizing is part of the marketing. They'll never let up on it.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1mo ago
> Why is real journalism dying? Ads This is not really true. Ads, especially the classifieds, were often the only way that newspapers and news organizations stayed afloat aside from public funding. What happened was the major ad-tech co
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1mo ago
I would never click on the weird ads that the supposedly "brightest minds of our generation" have delivered to me via some nonsensical middleman auction system. But I go to some blogs (philosophy, jazz, and men's clothing) th
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2mo ago
A lot of that cost is labour. Look at all the spots it says "contracted" in the breakdown. If you can do a lot of the work yourself, then you can save a lot of $$$, but it's a tradeoff of course. (They also could have saved q
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2mo ago
Working on mainframes and with computers was considered secretarial work by almost everyone around that time. The role of computers in work, and the status of working with computers, has changed in incredible ways.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2mo ago
Where I live, there's just a growing sense that rent and homeownership are wildly more expensive compared to what you get. Lack of development in the urban core has made moving anywhere else (cheaper) entail buying a car, dealing with
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 3mo ago
> With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy No, you've identified the real issue: all the CEOs come from Harvard/Yale. There is a very large wealth class divide between the people who get these jobs almost exclusiv
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 3mo ago
I've found my sleep regularity to be pretty malleable. It can become a habit. When I was in grad school I went to bed at midnight and woke up at 7am. Once I started running more in the mornings, I gradually shifted to going to sleep at
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 3mo ago
Berklee Press has some excellent books with what you're looking for, one in 3 volumes by Will Leavitt. There's another that's more barebones but covers the basics well by Hal Leonard. The former, especially, essentially start
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 3mo ago
The only benefit is, long-term, hopefulyy, the people ejected from this model can often end up forming their own indie teams and creating their own games. Indie games are at an incredible place right now (I am aware it's crazy cut-thro
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 3mo ago
Even if you ignore the, frankly, incredible impact of this ruling on the very idea of a modern independent civil service, it is crazy to see this opinion come alongside another that protects the Fed from the exact same thing for reasons t
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4mo ago
It's kind of useful to only think of these things as "particles" in a nominal sense. You need to adopt a "quantum imagination". I tend to think of them as a wave or field of probabilities of energy. It sounds weird,
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 5mo ago
If you have a good external reference point. But it's also pretty easy to have your tuning drift quite a bit away from E standard if you solely rely on the strings. Getting a standard tuning is not the same as getting the standard tuni
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 6mo ago
They are very practical for travelling. I love reading physical books, but also read fast and love reading 3-4 books at a time. An e-reader is basically half the weight of 1 book compared to lugging 3 or 4 books in a carry-on.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 6mo ago
If you use Anna's for everything, essentially all of the available e-readers work just fine as a usb-stick-with-a-screen-attached. None of them in my experience handle PDFs well, but I'm sure there are large format ones that do be
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 6mo ago
I do the same thing with a kindle. I've never had it connected to the internet or used any amazon services with it. All my books were just moved over via usb. The weird thing is how huge Calibre is considering, I'd wager, 90% of p
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 6mo ago
What is shocking about youtube's advertising is just how bad the supposedly "targeted" aspect of it is. The entire original advantage these tech companies had over traditional entertainment and media companies was their acces
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 6mo ago
In principle there is nothing wrong with it, as long as the FDA or other testing body retains an appropriate impartiality or lack of bias (perceived or real). The issue, however, would be a lax system that allows revolving door access betwe
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 6mo ago
> I’ve worked in a place like this that was well past its prime and though uncanny, it’s certainly not creepy. That's kinda more what the german concept of "unheimlich" is like. Even though it usually gets translated to En
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 7mo ago
I took one class in the business department while I was in university and it felt like basically "business" anthropology without any of the reflection that the field of anthropology has done about its own research and the limits&#
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 7mo ago
> Genuine questions: what can be done in a democratic setting to stop him? Thiel is only "relevant" because he's wealthy. In a system that allows wealth to equal political power, systematically weakening the impact of weal
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 8mo ago
A lot of city governments no longer really focus on the day-to-day living experience in their city. Instead, they focus on property value and the discovery of increasingly palatable ways to limit or justify raising property taxes in order t
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 8mo ago
If you take a "brisk" 20 minute walk every day, you'll meet the recommended weekly amount of aerobic exercise for Americans. (I think people should do more.) The actual amount you need to exercise, or the intensity, is not ve
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 9mo ago
Maybe I'm unique in this experience, but the "actually more relevant to me" part is just never true. Most of the ads I see that are delivered via these auctions are just garbage or scams or "relevant" in a tenuous p
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 9mo ago
If one guy can make it, then another guy could probably too. That's how cities used to have sometimes 3 or 4 competing papers.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 9mo ago
Looking at the ingredients list on Wonderbread white bread, could you make that at home? You can make bread with salt, flour, yeast, and water. Most breads in the grocery store, however, have considerably more ingredients, which are more in
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 9mo ago
Unfortunately, that's kind of already the case. The standard of care for wealthy people, who often purchase "Personal Medicine" services, can be astoundingly better than what is available to the general public. It's more
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 9mo ago
Using samples is not the same as AI or creating AI videos. Nor is using photoshop or an editing suite. "Creating" AI art is analogous to commissioning a work of art from someone else. Person A put in a request to person B, pers. A

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