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by classicsnoot 7y ago
~50% of this archive is just Terri Gross telling people about themselves to them. I was always so perplexed at how she could secure interviews with so many interesting people, then just talk through the whole thing, literally talking over i
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
From the page/producer: " A neural network imagines a person. Then, one by one, neurons in the network are being switched off... Project page: https://aitold.me/portfolio/i-will-not-forget/ The audio tra
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What I Saw Before the Darkness [video](vimeo.com)
1 points by classicsnoot 7y ago|1 comments
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
It is probably a good thing that Asimov, Clarke, Feynman, Sagan, and Tesla don't have to see who inherited their legacies of thought, ambition, and deed. Imagine explaining to any one of them that the imagination and impetus of the fut
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
What are the "qualifications of a journalist?" They are people with opinions that write stuff. If you think journalism and writing departments are teaching rigor and factual veracity, you are mistaken. I've only come to it re
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Remember kids, if it isn't the science you like, it isn't science at all. For me, the best thing about this person's interview from TFA is their call for others to do the same. Just like me ubering to school or work is not sc
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
> centers power in the hands of the few Power inevitably becomes centered in a small group. This seems to be an immutable trait of either power itself or people-groups in general. Regardless, it is unavoidable everywhere except on paper,
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Carrying a smartphone is exactly that.
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
That fairness effect is downstream from the expectation of self-interest being the primary motivator behind market decisions.
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Thank you for the well worded responses. I was responding in good faith, and herein also. >isn't consistently This is the beautiful thing about socialism. It need not be perfect, or even dominant. It just needs a foothold. From ther
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Why would you? The zealous are continually perplexed by the lack of natural conviction they witness. I am adamant in my interpretation, but I am very aware of how much of an edge case my perspective seems to be.
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Democratic Socialism is socialism, and socialism always finds a way to murder people and increase poverty in the name of equality. Socialism is a deeply religious belief. It has its priests (professors, journalists, entertainers), its churc
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Your use of the term "evil" says a lot about the warped Western perspective. Without diving too deeply into pedantry, it is the West that claims the cognitively dissonant idea that religiosity is subject to the State while also de
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The Cypherpunk Program (2008)(jim.com)
1 points by classicsnoot 7y ago|0 comments
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
You are making the assumption that criminals pay taxes. I'm sure some of them do, but I would be interested to see some real numbers on it.
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
Then what was it? I get that it holds a special place in peoples' hearts, but her best on offer was Azkaban and the transition from 04 to 06 is evidence that she started writing for the screen. She had a great idea. She had excellent r
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Ask HN: Why do I never read about “Masers?”
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The Life Expectancy in Every NJ Town, Mapped(nj.com)
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by classicsnoot 7y ago
I am not surprised that people think this is new. Open source Intel, counterintel, and subversion SOP is to use media to find the pulse as well as set the tone of a society. The idea that evil Russians despoiled a pristine US media environm
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The Black Scholar Who Gave Up Her Family to Earn Her PhD(zocalopublicsquare.org)
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Operation Bayonet: Dutch Police Darknet Sting(wired.com)
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
I haven't read the paper yet, but the headline/summary keeps getting bandied about reddit, imgur, facebook, and twitter. The implication seems to be that because complex society formed without complex religion(s), said religions a
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
You've been given evidence ITT and you've shifted the goalposts. From your posts here it is very clear that you are making a concerted yet subtle effort to minimize an issue at least 4 other posters and myself have had direct inte
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
It feels like you keep moving the goalposts and your initial argument was "I have no personal experience with [x] so I don't believe [x] is a thing." I can't leave links to my life experiences, but as I finish my undergr
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South Korea Went Crazy over a Handful of Refugees (2018)(foreignpolicy.com)
14 points by classicsnoot 8y ago|4 comments
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
More than a few comments here lay the blame on "puritanical Americanism" and, as an American, I'm wondering where these so-called Puritans are when it comes to gay wedding cakes, homeschooling, residence based cotton industry
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If you lay down with dogs...
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
Or the botnet that appeared and disappeared in a few hours back in 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken_botnet?wprov=sfla1
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
Your guess is as good as mine. It looks like a MTO kiosk. It feels like an ATM. According to [redacted] their money went straight ether.
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by classicsnoot 8y ago
Here[1] is the United Nations definition of genocide. Do you think what is occurring in South Africa (or what occurred in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe specifically as well as in Zimbabwe ~2 decades later) qualifies? [1] https://www.law.corne

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