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by firasd 9y ago
I definitely get the casting issue, but I also don't think it's a reason to dismiss the whole movie. (I saw a lot of people on Twitter who were excited that GITS underperformed Boss Baby.) My view is that, weak script and other is
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by firasd 9y ago
Well, I don't know about "dying", but there's a lot of frustration and playfully desperate rhetoric. Check the comments on the petition, and the fact that they hail from all over the world: https://www.change.
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by firasd 9y ago
I have some sympathy for Paramount in this. First the social-justice types went after them for not casting an Asian lead, then the critic reviews were unkind, then it really under-performed at the box office, and now people are upset about
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by firasd 9y ago
I wrote this to try to prod some bloggers/writers to look into this, as this puzzle is being pondered on the internet but not 'breaking through' to the larger media. My title (Biggest Hollywood mystery of the year) is not hyp
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Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery(medium.com)
31 points by firasd 9y ago|36 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
You know, that could be true, it would be consistent with the fact that multiple entities involved have no real comment about this...
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Biggest Hollywood mystery of 2017 (Ghost in the Shell OST) is questioned online(medium.com)
2 points by firasd 9y ago|2 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
We started this campaign a few weeks ago and have the support of multiple people involved with this movie including Lorne Balfe. We just crossed 1,500 signatures, thought I'd share it here for people who are into cyberpunk and electron
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Petition: Release the Ghost in the Shell OST by Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe(change.org)
1 points by firasd 9y ago|1 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
Between this biometric ID system (Aaadhaar) and demonetization, India is a great example of how quickly utopian tech ideas that appeal to corporations become tools of government authoritarianism. I wrote about this here: https://
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by firasd 9y ago
Cultural changes among engineering teams would be helpful, but the bottom line as far as business apps are concerned is that, to prioritize security, the financial liability of letting hackers access customer data needs to meet the financia
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by firasd 9y ago
This series of epigrams is one of the best things I've read about building software products.
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My Heroku Values, by Adam Wiggins(gist.github.com)
4 points by firasd 9y ago|1 comments
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by firasd 9y ago
Yeah. I was thinking maybe execs got spooked because the movie didn't make a return on its massive budget but (1) it costs virtually nothing to put the album on Spotify, iTunes etc right? and (2) as you said, the last minute cancellati
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by firasd 9y ago
Just for context, this record label recently released the OST for the new CHIPS movie.
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by firasd 9y ago
There is some 'speculation' about the issue in this podcast at the 58 minute mark. https://www.acast.com/thesoundcast/soundcast-ep.-87-the-soun... But nobody really knows. Someone in Youtube comments claims t
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by firasd 9y ago
Haha. We just crossed 700 signatures in about 10 days but consider that these are people who heard of the fan campaign and made the effort to go to the link, fill out the form and sign the petition. The much greater latent demand is clear i
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by firasd 9y ago
When mysterious corporate hijinx subdue a work of art from reaching an appreciative audience, why should The People not demand they Free The Music! Especially as consumers who are willing to pay for the album. We don't really know what
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Something happened to Ghost in the Shell soundtrack; 100s of fans want answers(medium.com)
36 points by firasd 9y ago|17 comments
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by firasd 10y ago
Interesting reflection. I agree that you can be part of the 'open source community' without committing code. As an aside, this discourse of 'community' that has been developing over the last few years has never sat perfe
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by firasd 10y ago
The mechanism they pinpointed is illustrated in "Figure 7": OPs (star) enter the human digestive system via food and are metabolized into acetic acid (trapezoid) by the gut microbiota (oval). Subsequently, acetic acid was absorbe
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by firasd 10y ago
Raymond once had an article about why the date/time control panel is not a calendar https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050621-04/?p=... In Windows 7 they've finally given up and the UI lets y
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by firasd 10y ago
Oh snap, I didn't expect this headline sentence to end this way. It was so lauded in the media for a while. Good PR. (File under sama's warning about founders falling in love with personal press? http://blog.samaltman.c
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by firasd 10y ago
In fact the trend to replace butter with vegetable oils has led people to ingest more trans fats which are provably more dangerous than saturated fat.
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by firasd 10y ago
This “zero rating” was the bone of contention in the big fight against Facebook’s Free Basics in India, where this sort of price discrimination for data was eventually blocked. We did this after the grassroots movement for Net Neutrality in
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Technocratic Despotism: when startups become crony capitalists(medium.com)
3 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 10y ago
Agreed. I wrote this on FB last year when people were calling hacks 'cyberwar': I’m still not sure what to think of the Sony hack. I instantly rejected the idea that it amounted to “cyber war”, but beyond that, I think governments
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by firasd 10y ago
What was the public interest in his lobster recipe? Or creating a paranoid frenzy that got shots fired at a Pizza place? Randomly dumping personal emails isn't the same as Ellsberg and Snowden working with reporters to blow the whistle
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When Startups Become Crony Capitalists(medium.com)
2 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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I Boycott Paytm(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments

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