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811.
by bena 3y ago
Grimes's dad was a former banker working on "the business side of biotech". That's two very solid incomes. And then she was with Devon Welsh, a singer/songwriter whose father was an actor. And most famously has been
812.
by bena 3y ago
Or maybe it's a candid snapshot and no one goes around with expressions of elation all over their face all the time. And "thousands of dollars for a multi-week holiday in hell"? That's a lot of exaggeration in little spa
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by bena 3y ago
People aren't looking to improve the quality of the honest attempts at reproductions of frames, they are looking to have each frame be an honest attempt at reproducing a frame. There are so many frames where there was no attempt made.
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by bena 3y ago
It is if your goal is to recreate Bee Movie. By claiming those are not problems, I can present 60,000-ish frames of random scribbles and call it a reproduction of Bee Movie. There should be some effort made to actually achieve the stated go
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by bena 3y ago
Yes, this is something I believe even users don't quite understand. Certain things should be a little harder. They should require deliberate action from the user to ensure as much as possible that they are engaged with the task at hand
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by bena 3y ago
That's still a problem with management. The entire system is designed to incentivize this behavior. If your people's individual compensation is tied to their personal billable hours, your people will maximize for personable billab
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by bena 3y ago
The issue Randi had with Geller is that Geller claimed to be performing these feats in reality. That he had genuine powers. Randi had no issues with magicians, had no issues with lying on stage. That's literally the job of a magician o
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by bena 3y ago
Always could. Because everyone else can see if the theater is on fire or not.
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by bena 3y ago
That’s part of the point. It usually is obvious. So when it’s not immediately obvious, we should err on the side of caution rather than action. Chesterton’s fence is another adage in the “try not to assume things” category.
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by bena 3y ago
Like most things, it depends. If I recite them to myself, in my home, it's fine. If I do it at a gathering at my house where we're playing D&D, fine. If I do it as a performance, in front of a crowd, or as a recording, now I&#
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by bena 3y ago
> "I suspect no deep diving sub did 50 MOD dives before non-essential crew were taken," Rush said. This right here. Just a casual dismissal of what an expert said because he didn't want to do that. An expert whose advice h
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by bena 3y ago
Our high school did a showing of this in our theater when I was a junior, circa 1996-1997. It was an urban legend. Slight disagreements about which lion roar to start the album on. Reasons why each song correlated to the events on screen, e
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by bena 3y ago
I think it does a fair job if you realize that the entire thing is semantics. Every prompt is asking either one or both of these questions: "Is this a vehicle?" "Is it in the park?" So you have to ask yourself what is
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by bena 3y ago
"Chicago" and "false confession" turns up way more hits than it should. I couldn't find a story that matched those particular details. I've found others, like one where a kid was put in prison for confessing to
825.
by bena 3y ago
Who cares? Moore's Law is not something that needs "saving". It was an observation of the time. It was bound to run up against physical reality. In 1965, he predicted a doubling of components every year for the next ten years
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by bena 3y ago
A single power. And I don't think it's a power all mods have. If it is, it would only take one rogue mod to re-public the subreddit. And really, whether or not the mods continue to moderate is the thing being tested with such a
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by bena 3y ago
Which is why I used the past tense.
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by bena 3y ago
All reddit has to do is remove the ability for subreddits to be private. Or put the ability to make subreddits private behind a paywall. Much like how Github treated private repos. End of the day, reddit is going to have to figure out how m
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by bena 3y ago
It usually gets contained to a branch however. You can choose not to engage with that branch and instead start your own.
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by bena 3y ago
I've watched that one too. That one has a sort of resigned feeling to it. Situations are over, but nothing is really resolved. It's kind of like a serious version of Burn After Reading. Here are these various lives and stories and
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by bena 3y ago
I've only watched the movie. But after having watched it, I facetiously recommend that you only watch it if you are currently happy. Because damn, is it just the biggest fucking downer. It will make you more depressed after having watc
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by bena 3y ago
So you're saying that technically , it isn't what it looks like it is. That technically , TRU is buying itself. That technically KKR isn't actually the new owner. Technically, it's still predatory.
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by bena 3y ago
> When KKR buys Toys“R”Us or when Carlyle buys the nursing home chain ManorCare, the debt is held by the company that they bought That right there is what should be made illegal. Somehow. There's probably all sorts of technicalities
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by bena 3y ago
That's probably because some status games are counter to cooperation and niceness. Because in some situations, the way to get or preserve status is to cause friction for others.
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by bena 3y ago
> Left to your own devices, with no task demanding your immediate concentration, you tend to spend a good deal of time thinking about other people—your judgments of them; their evaluations of you. That one kind of baffles me as well. Lef
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by bena 3y ago
We've "convinced" you of the thing you came into this thread with. Or is this just a thinly veiled attempt at making others backtrack their words or apologize for impugning your integrity? If you were truly concerned with &qu
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by bena 3y ago
There's nothing to debunk. That's the entire point. He's trying to prop up his claims with more claims. If we cannot determine the veracity of his anecdotes, they are of no use to us in determining the validity of his conclus
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by bena 3y ago
What you're missing is "branding" in general. Branding has almost transcended physical products. Apple Computers and Apple Corps were allowed to exist in the same markets because computers are not music. However, the now Appl
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by bena 3y ago
Well, if you said it, it must be true and we must accept these anecdotes as the complete truth and you as the best source of it.
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by bena 3y ago
Because they don't have final approval of the article. Someone contacted them and told them they wanted to interview them about an article they were writing about the troubles their company is having. Zhu and Davis see it as an opportu

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