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by bsanr 6y ago
I'm not sure where you're going with that, as all of the mentioned works still represent a time before people in general were forced to reckon with a post-Soviet world. Even with it on the horizon, it would be several years before
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Insofar as there is any hierarchy in among the orcs, it must have come from certain individuals showing themselves to be more capable, brutal, commandeering, or whatever else, than others. I have not read LOTR and got about 10 pages into th
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by bsanr 6y ago
Well, Terminator 2 was 1991, and obviously filmed before that. If we're being honest, there's a small confluence in that Soviets were often portrayed as robotic, and anxieties about Communism were often pushed onto various movie m
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by bsanr 6y ago
>When you come to the end of the 90's and the beginning of the 2000's you have movies like Fight Club and Matrix denounce technology as the destroyer of the society or humanity. No, the late 70s-80s gave us Terminator, Alien, T
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by bsanr 6y ago
I think that wraps around to the issue one of the other comments raised, which is the contention that less effort has been put into this area compared to, say, the civilizations whose languages are represented on the Rosetta Stone. Who&#x27
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by bsanr 6y ago
What is blond , in a two-thousand-year-old context? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg
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>Artistic interpretations are, by their nature, more art than science but I’ve made an effort to cross-reference their appearance (hair, eyes, ethnicity etc.) to historical texts and coinage. I have to agree with the grandparent, this se
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by bsanr 6y ago
Crucially, AFAIK digital lending systems aren't based on the number of physical copies a library owns; they're separate licenses. Thus, in a scenario where a physical library is closed but digital lending is still available, a sig
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>The problem is, did the books actually exist in the quantities being lent? IA has no proof that they do IIUC that's not how this works, legally. The publishers have to prove damage; the defense isn't just automatically assumed
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by bsanr 6y ago
1) The president was threatening physical harm to people who were destroying non-living objects. Violence and destruction are not the same thing. 2) An exceedingly large proportion of those statues were erected during exceedingly specific h
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by bsanr 6y ago
That's a joke, right? Police aren't so stupid to have institutionalized petty corruption with an actual laminated pass, right?
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That history is - surprise, surprise - closely related to the region's race and class relations. Boston has always been the flashpoint for such issues, more so than New York City, in part because of its smaller size and more pointed an
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The Glyph was simply a display with speakers. I agree that the form factor visually pleasing, and they weren't uncomfortable to wear (save for extended periods, where it was easier than even with VR sets to develop dry eyes), but addin
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by bsanr 6y ago
If this is really what went down, it's highly disappointing, and potentially a market-losing choice akin to Microsoft chopping off the internal processing for the original Kinect (which left it far too under-powered to perform its core
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by bsanr 6y ago
Gear and training dovetail. Like at many companies, LEO training has been "game-ified", and much of it consists of playing with toys procured at taxpayer expense. Have fun with this one, folks: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by bsanr 6y ago
I think it depends on the quality of the text. Richly-detailed and well-written (read: well-edited) descriptions as well as quippy dialogue are all welcome, but the mountains of poorly-written copy you find in many visual novels are a chore
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by bsanr 6y ago
So, a tangential query: have we already lost Africa to the Asian sphere of influence?
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*Raytrix/Former Lytro employees who now work for Google
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These remind me of the holography exhibit at the MIT Museum. If you haven't seen it before, I highly recommend it. For those of us whose main experience with holographic images are the little foil sticker on the backs of credit cards (
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No, the first argument is that you, and others, are underestimating the certainty of the examples given coming to pass. Should they, the assumptions under which the market seems to be operating become falsified. >Here are some facts that
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This too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053272
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>No — a bubble is "a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future." "AirBNB or something like it will exist in 2 years." "Monetary policy will not begin
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by bsanr 6y ago
Didn't they lose a pretty significant suit because their salespeople were denying mortgages or significantly adjusting their offered terms to black people based on their race? I'm not convinced that their strategy is necessarily s
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>The only difference between the Web of old and the modern Web is that the wild Web sometimes is harder do find due to the instrumentality of the Google search engine, for good and bad. For a brief period of time, every human with an int
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by bsanr 7y ago
I can see how someone on the other side would view things this way, deaf as they are to the protest of the lower half of the wealth pyramid. However, if the conversation is one-sided, it's not because poor people are quiet, but because
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The tech industry is a class-, gender-, and race-biased inter-generational wealth transfer scheme masquerading as an industry. Past a post of base-level competency, and excluding strategy-level technical roles, employment and compensation i
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The issue is that this behavior doesn't come out of some inborn bloodthirst, but rather a scenario akin to, "We're taking you're stuff." "I'll kill you if you try." "Well then we must defend ours
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The "faceless horde" angle is still in line with the "other uprising" allegory. Day of the Dead's predecessor, and the origin of the modern zombie in pop culture, had fairly overt racial undertones, and its sequel,
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by bsanr 7y ago
It's not pennies, and it's supposed to be evidence of fiscal sophistication. That's what Capitalism is marketed as: the people who are most responsible and talented gain the most wealth. Are you telling me it's not true?

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