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by dadarepublic 7y ago
This intro line and supporting one are fantastic: >There is a general assumption that the main professional concern of actors is the parts they play. That is not true of this actor... >It's rather that I invariably look at the jo
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
This is a good thread if just for highlighting how people will protect famous/rich/important harassers and abusers if it serves their sense of "self" in some way - whether it be attached to career, ideology, fandom, &quo
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
As a child of midwest America, I was really into jets and I would also build models of them - The Avro Arrow was one of my favorite models that I had built. It looked awesome! Too bad the model didn't survive my childhood play - I beli
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
There was a smattering throughout about areas where the US lags. There was a lot of discussion around #6 but I found #3 to be quite interesting, esp. the last sentence: > Conversely the US becomes increasingly internally focused and isol
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
I would agree but also add that the implications of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation are extremely relevant to the political sphere we inhabit today.
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Not a buzzword at all. I actually well understand your doubt on the usefulness of blockchain as I was dubious myself on crypto/blockchain. As I researched NFT (non-fungible token) assets and the concept of the ledger and applications a
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Nike Patents a System for Tokenizing Shoes on Ethereum's Blockchain(cointelegraph.com)
2 points by dadarepublic 7y ago|2 comments
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Downvoted by racists again. I can understand the parent commenter downvoting, esp if not convinced by the position of the article or the subsequent comments. I knew better than to wade into this topic on this site given the audience demo of
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
I love how my comment, which was only praise of the parent comment, was downvoted - by someone I can only assume is racist. Hacker News at its finest ;)
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
From personal experience myself and with friends, the level by which you are "startled" is in direct proportion to the proximity of the gunfire. e.g. Hearing gunshots in the distance, you recognize they are gunshots, take note, bu
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Other commenters have imo adequately addressed the major flaws in this comment/argument so I won't be redundant here. That being said what is unfortunately NOT shocking, is that anyone upvoted this comment at all and it that doesn
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. >quicker time to fight or flight response If cops are more likely to stop you because of your skin color (also further increasing the chances of further abuses), that would probably have an impact on your p
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
The thing is, you'll always be learning when programming ;) And if art & design inspires and propels you, I would encourage you to keep making art & design through programing all your life. It will keep the art of coding fresh
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Wow. An excellent, pointed take by SBC. Facebook has put profit & self-interest over ethics. They have taken a step-back, reflected, and fully embraced the damage they have caused, are causing, and will continue to cause. Some of this i
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Wow. An excellent, pointed take. Facebook has put profit & self-interest over ethics. They have taken a step-back, reflected, and fully embraced the damage they have caused, are causing, and will continue to cause. Some of this is react
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
I agree and it was what I was trying to point out. I wasn't focused on the age of the smoker at all but the length of time it had been for him as a 'regular' smoker. He obviously needed more curation and guidance. I was proba
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Choice quote for the article: >Mostly, what Lowell Cafe taught me is that I am getting old. I can’t tell you how long we stayed at the cafe, though I doubt we came near to reaching our allotted 90 minutes. A guy that used to smoke copiou
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
These replies are fantastic! Thanks for the laugh :)
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
I had to switch browsers to get more free articles. An interesting read for sure highlighting the equality/inequality impact of the local/regional (S-corp,LLC,etc) vs the national/multi-national (C-corp). I don't think t
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
I love how my non-argumentative, acknowledgement of both sides was still downvoted - exactly reinforcing my note. Thank you
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
There's a quote I thought of when you said this. It's from a very old Wired article (back when Negroponte was a part of it) titled "The Millennium Clock" by Danny Hillis: "I think of the oak beams in the ceiling of
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
This. A 1000x this. There are hurdles for people that are systemic, some of those being racially, gender, and/or purely economically based. The "personal responsibility" line get touted around these conversations quite a bit.
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Love the reference you point out :) Even the wisest can be a fool sometimes. And a fool can sometimes spout wisdom. We are only human after all.
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
True, because of the way broadcast frequencies were regulated. However the point remains the same with industry crossover into the new media space - TimeWarner x Verizon merger etc. Consolidation via acquisition and monopolistic behaviors
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
So interesting. Any number of these could make a fascinating segue to an alt-history fiction that could really move in any direction.
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
That hasn't worked well historically though has it. Looking at you broadcast media ;) Also, within tech/new media VCs are the ones feeding the beast, doing the initial investing and the reason for new competition to "spring u
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Anyone saying blanket "we don't need consumer protection mechanisms" because it's a "failing" of something or the other must be taking the piss. As a parent of children, consumer protections are overall a &quot
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
I would definitely agree with this. Video conference has helped immensely. A good example would the time my team (spread out in 4 different countries) was crunching for a launch where we set up a 'virtual' mega war room connecting
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
Someone on this thread brought up trust as an aspect of successful organization remote work. I do like this take. As a manager I have observed that trust can be hard to come by if there's not a solid metric that can help establish trus
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by dadarepublic 7y ago
No deliberate misquote. No troll. I was just pointing out what seemed to be bias in you comment. Again, the article was badly written. We just differ in opinion on the substance and therein lies the rub I suppose. In our highly charged soci

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