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by cageface 6y ago
Those are good films I agree but to me they do not have the same sense of excitement and discovery I get from the best of the 60s and 70s.
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by cageface 6y ago
Yeah we had all those too. Not sure where it was coming from but it was abundant in all varieties and as cheap as $1 a hit.
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by cageface 6y ago
This was in the 80s and Salt Lake City was a regular tour stop for the Grateful Dead. Which had at least something to do with it.
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by cageface 6y ago
When I was in high school it was very difficult to get alcohol. LSD on the other hand was readily available and very cheap. And this was in Utah.
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by cageface 6y ago
I guarantee one could put together a similar list of (soon to be) classics from 2017-2020 that rivals those movies from 1957-1960. I'd be interested to see your list.
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by cageface 6y ago
It doesn't prevent China from developing expertise. That's inevitable. It prevents the US from falling dramatically behind.
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by cageface 6y ago
Chinese smartphones are selling extremely well and are currently the top ranked camera phones. The reputation of other Chinese brands is getting better too. Here in Asia I see Chinese branded stuff everywhere. https://www.dxomark
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by cageface 6y ago
I think it’s naive to expect that American companies like Apple that outsource everything but design and software and reap enormous profits are going to be able to do this indefinitely. China is getting better fast at doing these things too
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by cageface 6y ago
I had a very severe allergic reaction to Powerbeats Pro and many people have reported the same problem with Powerbeats Pro and AirPods Pro. It seems most likely to have something to do with a coating on the silicone tips. Apple is stalling
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by cageface 6y ago
It’s about time scientists were allowed to bring modern tools to bear on our understanding of how these substances work.
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LSD Lets the Brain 'Free Itself' from Divisions Dictated by Anatomy(sciencealert.com)
15 points by cageface 6y ago|3 comments
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by cageface 6y ago
I’ve been on this site since 2009. Unfortunately the level of discourse has been in pretty steady decline over the last few years. Knee jerk responses and mindless downvoting are the norm here now. For a site that’s ostensibly catering to e
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by cageface 6y ago
Revise, not throw out entirely. Optimization always adds complexity. Don't do it more than necessary.
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by cageface 6y ago
Sounds like it's time to revise some of the advice web developers get about optimizating page sizes for developing markets.
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by cageface 6y ago
We techies like to believe that we can find technical solutions to these problems but I think this is misguided. Even for a very technical user completely untangling yourself from FAANG is a lot of work and a massive inconvenience. And if t
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by cageface 6y ago
I enjoyed Book of the New Sun but I’d say it’s quite a bit darker than most of the rest of the books you’ve named. Torture is a very central theme.
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by cageface 6y ago
It's very likely we're going to see another pandemic with a much more lethal pathogen in our lifetimes. Counting on overnight development of vaccines and throwing out proper testing to bail us out is a mistake.
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by cageface 6y ago
The problem with social media isn't that it's a conduit for misinformation. It's that it's an unprecedented amplifier and megaphone for misinformation. I think the real fix, which would also make them much less profitabl
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by cageface 6y ago
I'm about as far as you can get politically from Trump but I agree that China needs to be much more transparent and accountable about this.
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by cageface 6y ago
This is exactly why I use an Android phone.
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by cageface 6y ago
Aside from this recent fiasco with their verification server shutting down local apps I'm pretty happy with macOS. It's fairly secure by default and treats me like an adult when I want to make my own decisions and install software
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by cageface 6y ago
It hasn't happened on the Mac app store either. If anything it's put pressure on Apple to make the Mac app store a better experience for developers and users. It's only where users have no option as on iOS that Apple has been
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by cageface 6y ago
It actually a pretty normal feature of modern society to trust institutions or businesses not to take advantage of particular powers they have. The problem here is that Apple disallows user override, as the article explains. It's lik
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by cageface 6y ago
I think of it as the Switzerland of Asia.
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by cageface 6y ago
I know quite a few really brilliant programmers that were exposed to scheme or lisp in school but prefer other languages for various reasons in their professional work.
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by cageface 6y ago
There's an elitism inherent in this take that I think is misplaced. A lot of programmers are perfectly capable of weighing the pros and cons of s-expression syntax and deciding it's not for them. Too many Lisp programmers believe
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by cageface 6y ago
Lisp got a lot of things right and modern languages have borrowed a lot of ideas that were pioneered in various Lisps. But nobody has borrowed s-expression syntax and I don't think that's an accident.
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by cageface 6y ago
The other problem with Lisp is that it attracts a fanatical element that rejects any criticsm of the language. Every language has its zealots but Lisp takes it a step further. Google Erik Naggum for an extreme example of this syndrome.
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by cageface 6y ago
The problem with lisp is that most programmers find the syntax extremely off putting. I've been watching this debate go around and around in circles for 20 years now and nothing has changed. And as much as I appreciate the power of mac
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by cageface 6y ago
Wanting to participate in a marketplace doesn’t necessarily imply that you agree with how that marketplace is run in every detail. Especially when it seems that there is one set of rules for Netflix and Amazon and another for everyone else.

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