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Open-source VLC alternative IINA released v1.0 today(iina.io)
2 points by drak0n1c 8y ago|0 comments
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
It's on sale on Steam for $4 for those interested in picking it up again. Also a good time to buy gift copies for friends. Interestingly, there's now a pro scene around the game.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
The article mentions that the pig brains are comatose, and that the scientists involved say that future experiments should seek to maintain a comatose state.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
As an aside - it's interesting that the New York Times uses the descriptor "left-leaning" for Chapo Trap House, a podcast by self-described Marxists who regularly advocate for mass property seizure and anti-social mischief. I
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Federally guaranteed student loans exceed $120 billion every year. That is a massive subsidy, and it may be increasing costs for more people than it helps. The glut of admissions being able to pay artifically high tuitions is emboldening ad
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Monty Python went on British national television in front of impressionable children dressed as Nazis, making their salutes, and quipping their slogans. Were they actually Nazis? I'm Jewish and I'm open to criticizing decisions an
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
I'll play devil's advocate. Part of the Charlottesville pro-statue crowd were "heritage not hate" types who grew up with those town statues as part of their local history and had no personal racial animus. While I think
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
I'm in my late twenties, and it's interesting to see "tech" and "culture" journalists around my age get more and more out of touch with internet culture. At first I thought it was deliberate misinterpretation o
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
They used a plasmodium "true slime mold" amoeba in this experiment. Here is the more technical PhysOrg source that Vice relied on: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-amoeba-approximate-solutions-n...
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
For anyone interested - Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition is on sale for $6 on Steam, GOG, and Beamdog. $2 on Android. The multiplayer scene is having a bit of renaissance thanks to it, here's the live player world (mini-MMO) list:
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
NWN Enhanced Edition is on sale for only a few bucks! Check out my other comment on on ulzeraj's reply.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
NWN Enhanced Edition is on sale for $6 on Steam, GOG, and Beamdog. $2 on Android. The multiplayer scene is having a bit of renaissance thanks to it, here's the live server list: https://nwn.beamdog.net/ Also, Darkness
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Last year I saw many large group tours of Japanese businessmen from various companies (around 2 dozen people each time) in Seattle WeWork offices. Then the Tokyo WeWork locations opened earlier this year. I visited one during a recent trip
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
The news should be read critically, without any assumptions that quoted figures are telling the truth nor assumptions that journalists are always attentive, unconstrained, or unbiased enough to sufficiently disclaim each item of information
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Legislation requiring up-front presented costs to be honored and any additional procedures/costs to be cleared with patient consent as they happen (or a consent waiver obtained from the patient with a promised limit or incentive such a
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
For non-life-threatening ER visits an app that has your insurance info and lists the Doctor prescribed treatments with their itemized cost would be ideal to see before you consent or choose what to do. For those without smartphones, the sof
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
It was available for $250k minimum previously via crowdfunding. Look up SpaceX on this page: https://fundnel.com/investor/deal-feed/funded
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The divide between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon weakens national security(defenseone.com)
3 points by drak0n1c 8y ago|1 comments
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
China holding US debt is not really a great weapon. If they dump it, they will experience incredible losses, and it is not clear if the effect on the US will actually be proportionately harmful. The USD would drop and US exports may be adva
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
It's possible for people to have lasting ideals and biases that were shaped by their personal experiences in work and life, and their advocacy in old age does not necessarily indicate that they are still on the warpath to make their ne
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Why does it matter that an organization dedicated to political research and philosophy is funded by X, Y, and Z individuals of repute? That's the essence of ad hominem. I'm glad you take on the content of the study in your second
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Billionaires are human beings capable of donating to political causes out of idealism for the greater good, not necessarily only because they think it will increase their net worth by another few million dollars. Sure, there exist conspirac
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
This common dark pattern has a name for those interesting in reading news critically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
The same concerns could motivate the opposite view. Doesn't ethical responsibility compel those with the most educational resources to raise as many creative and productive members of society as they can? Fears of Malthusian overpopula
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Before fossil fuels instead of some people spending up to 6 extra hours a day sitting in motorized transport nearly all people in every society were spending those 6+ extra hours doing back-breaking work in the fields.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
I live in a Seattle neighborhood that has suffered increasingly worse crime and longer police wait times. The Open Society Foundation was one of the top 5 funders of Initiative-940 paid signature-gatherers and PR (according to their website
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
I'm Jewish myself and I don't understand how Soros being the subject of neo-nazi memes renders his political activity immune to criticism in general. The Koch brothers are frequently vilified by angry neo-marxists, but that doesn&
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
> But it is creepy that he has snippets in there projecting them as liberal anti-conservatives hipster organizations. I don't think that means the characterization is false, though. My friends working at Facebook and Google are very
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
While pointing out funding from George Soros is an overused trick reliant on ad hominem, I do not see how it is any more outrageous or racist than the even more common trope of vilifying projects because they are linked to the Koch brothers
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
There's way too much stock placed in comp-lit inspired intersectional comparisons and reading of hidden meaning in every little facet of reality. It's getting schizophrenic - in the literal sense of the word. Perhaps they think it

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