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by dbspin 3y ago
That's not a good solution for most people. Twitter I can delete. I don't browse facebook, I try not to browse instagram - but these platform's messaging facilities, along with whatsapp, google chat, signal, telegram and more
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by dbspin 3y ago
Exactly this. Not only are objective metrics difficult - our interest in and capacity to measure social phenomena, especially self reported social phenomena varies over time, and is deeply amenable to accidental or deliberate manipulation (
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by dbspin 3y ago
Interested to know what your specs are for 4K 120FPS. That seems like it would require a very high end GPU, pricey kit these days! I'm getting sub 30fps with a 2060, which is still a decent mid range card.
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by dbspin 3y ago
I think you're leaving out the extent to which cooking is an analogue process. Your particular ovens temperature envelope, the rate at which your pan or wok heats (due to its thickness and composition), the specifics of the varieties o
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by dbspin 3y ago
His work appears banal because it's ubiquitous. It's a curse of extreme success, that your originality becomes de rigueur.
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by dbspin 3y ago
Here's hoping it doesn't already water down the utility of a service that has been made a great deal less functional by having to imitate Snapchat and Tiktok.
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by dbspin 3y ago
Instagram isn't used by most people to 'drive insane engagement'. It's a relaxing place to share pictures and memes - and one that fortunately avoids most of the political insanity which makes other social networks exhau
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by dbspin 3y ago
> Why do think the state is capable of addressing it better than the market? Because the status quo isn't working. There are by contrast state housing provided solutions that are working to allow people to live affordably, even in e
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by dbspin 3y ago
I'd suggest that this perspective is tainted by the association in the United States between home schooling and religious separatism. Home schooling in Europe (and in some places in the US) is much more often about parents coming toget
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by dbspin 3y ago
You'll be pleased to hear it is something! There's a whole school system designed around this approach - parents as staff, non-directive learning, secular, democratic, no age stratification, school as an Ivan Illich style workshop
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by dbspin 3y ago
And this remorseless ideology masquerading as logic is exactly why the US is doomed to ultimately fall to political violence.
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by dbspin 3y ago
I don't think you're romanticising at all. I visited (of all places) Mariupol, in 2013. As a city built around the Azovstal steel works, it was still horrendously, actively polluted when I visited. But it also beautiful. Dozens of
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by dbspin 3y ago
I suspect the law is all too similar, it's the enforcement that tends to vary. Recently moved from back from living in Germany. On paper Germany has similar noise nuisance laws to most countries. In practice they're super officiou
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by dbspin 3y ago
That's outrageous. Why would it unscrupulous for a client to make more prints of a given photo? Surely the primary service is taking the photograph, and the client then owns the photo? I actually work as a cam op / director (obvio
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by dbspin 3y ago
>There's plenty of money for people to pay for houses. But there has been no building for the last decade while the population has exploded. Alas that money is not in the hands of those who need them. I'd suggest that it is abs
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by dbspin 3y ago
> This is why most photo print shops won't let you print images that they suspect to be copyrighted, even if you just plan to use it in your own home. That's genuinely shocking to me, is that an American thing? Never heard of s
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by dbspin 3y ago
They are. Friend of mine worked as a junior solicitor with the libel tourism firm in the UK. The jurisdiction was used as a court of convenience for everything from the Johnny Depp trial to Scientology suing Louis Theroux. Scientology were
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by dbspin 3y ago
Just to lend an Irish perspective. This is not necessarily popular here. Our governments move to sue to prevent having Apple pay 16 billion in tax evasion fines (to Ireland), was extremely unpopular - https://www.bbc.com/new
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by dbspin 3y ago
Absolutely, they're positively the opposite of the experience described in the article. Much more chill, casual destination. I enjoy a good 3D, seat shaking multiplex experience perhaps once a year. But the casual drop into to sit on a
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by dbspin 3y ago
I wonder what the economics are of the boutique theatres in places like Portland and Berlin. Berlin seems to have several dozen independent cinemas - all radically different (although many are part of the York Kino group). These go all the
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by dbspin 3y ago
It's a problem for anyone trying to give a presentation in an educational or office environment - local sound solutions on projectors in small offices and small classrooms are often (probably 70% of the time in my experience) non funct
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by dbspin 3y ago
Valve Index, Steamdeck, continual dominance of PC gaming both in long tale and new releases. I see enormous creative and financial success, and apparently an engaging and productive place to work. What deadlock? Game releases? That hasn&#x2
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by dbspin 3y ago
Yeah - that sounds ideal honestly. And I think their success bears it out. A company driven by the passions and creativity of some of the most talented programmers and artists in the industry. They gate for self motivated people through the
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by dbspin 3y ago
Interesting... I've never heard that about Valve being a dysfunctional company. They have the higher revenue per employee than Google or Microsoft. Staff seem highly motivated and self directed, and - with the notable exception of the
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by dbspin 3y ago
One guy at the entrance collects phones and puts them in a locker. Fine for unofficial pics. Solved.
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by dbspin 3y ago
You've forgotten the effect of advertising. There's enormous induced demand for these things, which could be instantly reduced by a prohibition (or time limitation) of advertising, broadcast rights etc. Right now BAH are enormousl
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by dbspin 3y ago
Mubi's catalogue is tiny, and I find their marketing and interface (which strongly imply all the shows that have ever been been on the platform are currently on the platform, misleading). Criterion Channel ( https://www.crite
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Yes, this is key to the entire premise of the book series in all its iterations. Seldon's psychohistory is able to predict the movements of people in aggregate, with the obvious allegory being the uncertainty principle. In the later no
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by dbspin 4y ago
Haven't heard of it before. I'll add it to the goodreads list!
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by dbspin 4y ago
"just a description of some symptoms." Yes - all psychological disorders are syndromal. None are purely genetic or environmental, in fact the DSM and and ICD explicitly rule out psychosis or positive schizophrenic like symptoms ca

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