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by eszed 11mo ago
I think you missed OP's point. "Leads to" is the key phrase, and they're talking about how both ("Great Man" and "Inevitable Forces") theories end up being used as propaganda to support political purp
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I've studied and taught Shakespeare, and been professionally acquainted with Shakespeare scholars whose names (at least) other Shakespeare scholars know. That's an... eccentric reading. There's no "definitely" in li
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I think we agree with each other, but also that you missed my point: the "mistake", as it were, wasn't to do with social skills as much as assuming Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli had crossed into the mainstream, which... It se
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Getting '403 Forbidden' at the moment.
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by eszed 11mo ago
I think GP assumes that Myazaki's films have transcended the "anime" label. They certainly have with me, and with most mainstream film critics. But based on the LinkedIn reaction, and your comment, maybe not? That's inte
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OP said elsewhere that the specific discount that produced the $10M sales + refund combo was only active at five stores. That's the sort of edge case that you can't count on being in the training data. I'm as big a fan of rea
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by eszed 11mo ago
Fair.
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by eszed 11mo ago
Interesting! I'd never thought of that. Still, though... bivalves?
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by eszed 11mo ago
> these expectations are violated regularly? I don't know what you're thinking of, but mine are. Practice of any kind (sports, coding, puzzles) works like that. Most of all: interactions with any other conscious entity. I carry
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by eszed 11mo ago
The only one I've experienced (Massachusetts) wouldn't catch any of what we're discussing in this thread. They put it on the emission testing machine, walked once around the car, maybe checked the brakes, and that was it. It
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There's an acting exercise (it's from Joan Littlewood via Clive Barker) where one speaks "gibberish" - making language sounds, but not words - which, almost automatically, once they drop their terror of doing it, opens s
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by eszed 11mo ago
Because it becomes harder to "hide" things - like, the provisions being bargained for, or politicians' actual convictions about particular measures. There are items which now get passed in omnibus bills, bargained for behind
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by eszed 11mo ago
Yeah. When I moved from the UK (back) to the US I didn't know any better, and spent a year or two storing (washed, US) eggs on the counter or in the cupboard for weeks at a time. Never had a problem. I absolutely don't recommend
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by eszed 11mo ago
So they could agree to pass two bills. This would require the two "sides" to trust each other, but it could (ideally would) also function to build trust, which would be a good thing.
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> a stock picker who only takes their fee from how much better their fund does vs the S&P 500. What funds have that fee structure? Genuine question: I hadn't heard of any, but it intuitively seems "fairer" than the con
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it builds a static charge as it runs through the projector and attracts dust. I say this because I remember holding my hand near moving film in our (home) movie projector, and as a kid enj
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by eszed 11mo ago
This one says twelve minutes of exploration at the bottom.
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I think you're right, in general - certainly AI will replace background actors, though that's already been happening for years without AI generation. I'm also pretty sure that if/when AI can generate whole films, then th
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by eszed 11mo ago
Yeah, I read the "Talent" section and it's very balanced. I can't see much, if anything, to complain about, so thank goodness for SAG-AFTRA. The strike a couple of years ago was well judged.
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by eszed 11mo ago
I don't know if I have good pictures to hand, and would rather not (potentially) dox myself by posting them. However: Picture a 9-foot (~3m) wall of local stone (so local, in fact, that they'd been pulled out of the creek that ran
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by eszed 11mo ago
Close enough, but it's the decline of the (ex-colonies) Commonwealth as a trading bloc. That was probably always inevitable, but it long out-lasted the end of direct colonial rule.
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I agree with you about the way that the entertainment unions work. They have their quirks, but they are generally excellent. Just to offer some nuance, "union members are not allowed to work on non-union projects" is not strictly
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Hence my antipathy, 20+ years ago, to the creation to a department of "Homeland" Security. Not that function of that entity itself was necessarily a bad idea, but that the concept of a "homeland" is fundamentally at odds
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> Every American citizen deserves due process Every human being, but yes.
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> people would look at the map before setting off Yeah, I drove back then. That's not, in practice, what people did, or only what people did. People did map out a route ahead of time, of course, but when they (we) got confused, or
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My grandparents did something like this when they retired, and bought a property with a long-derelict 19th church on it. They kept the stone walls intact, and built a modern structure over and through it, which turned out to be stunning. Ea
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Using a paper map while driving can be way more distracting than a GPS. We really don't want to push people back to doing that. Your last two sentences point in the correct direction: we can't micro-target every behavior that migh
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by eszed 11mo ago
I'm trying to decide whether it would be possible for super-intelligent cephalopods to use underwater lava vents to refine metals. Would make a fun SF premise, but I take your point.
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That's the hacker spirit!
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by eszed 11mo ago
Ha! They got me. Thank you.

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