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by jmkd 8mo ago
The central idea that we all have the same tools which now represent an infrastructure baseline, therefore we need to look harder to establish our moats (not just in knowing things although that's one) is sound and well put. Thanks.
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by jmkd 8mo ago
Nice, except, first game I clicked is now only pay-to-play on major platforms. I'm not against that, but it doesn't feel like a Show HN game anymore which I kind of expect to be a little rough and ready and certainly free to play.
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by jmkd 9mo ago
Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts & Culture).
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by jmkd 9mo ago
Not familiar with Mr Kraus. Shortcut to remembering how to pronounce Sòller is to say 'So yeah'. We're surrounded by scarcely-maintained groves with owners pleading to do something with the fruit and there's only so many
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by jmkd 9mo ago
That may be true of modern farms elsewhere but is not the case for historical groves here. They are sometimes spaced appropriately but that's about it. Usually on vehicular-inaccessible mountainside terraces.
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by jmkd 9mo ago
Plenty of orange trees in public places, plenty of abandoned groves around and a handful of eco-fincas where you can pick for next to nothing.
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by jmkd 9mo ago
I think the best bet for juice would be to export frozen concentrate. And despite the logistical challenges you cite, lemons imported from places like Argentina are now cheaper to buy at Palma's wholesale market than the average wholes
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by jmkd 9mo ago
The story of soft drinks on the island is astonishing. 130 drinks companies at one point. My understanding is that Coca Cola took over distribution for the countless small companies and - once embedded - said we don't need your product
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by jmkd 9mo ago
I live in a mountain valley in Mallorca where hundreds of tons of perfect Canoneta oranges fall to the floor and rot each year because the cost of picking them outweighs their market value. The valley became wealthy from this fruit in the 1
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by jmkd 9mo ago
Walrus product looks good. Here's another one worth knowing but may be difficult to acquire outside UK: https://workshopheaven.com/alfie-shine-hard-wax-polish-fragr...
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by jmkd 10mo ago
I got a result using coins but could find no link to the hexagram so had to look it up on another site. While I was clicking around your site trying to find the hexagram then I lost my reading and back button didn't work, so changing l
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Doesn't make sense to use Osmo Polyx oil as the baseline when Osmo Top oil is the slightly friendlier and equally beautiful food-safe version.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Because really we can split into three or more. US on one side, EU, middle and far east on the other. East of Madrid is booming, West is in decline. More accurately the line should be in Lagos but many are more familiar with EU film product
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by jmkd 10mo ago
This a highly focussed western lens but is not representative of global media culture and business. If you completely discount Tencent Video, iQIYI, Youku, Bilibili, Kuaishou and so on in this outlook then that is the whip of many thongs in
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Quite true thanks I was just shifting the discussion further east.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
You might be referring to the remnants of broadcast television. I'm referring to the screen-based productions capturing the eyeballs of tomorrow. One serious strand of America's whip of many thongs is the inability or refusal to
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by jmkd 10mo ago
A current example (although not Netflix) is The Secret Agent with an award qualification run in NYC and LA before wider release.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Netflix has had a large production studio outside Madrid for several years already.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
They won't be American. The balance of power has already shifted east. There are now more productions, more money and more facilities east of Madrid than west of it.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Cinema is indeed second behind streaming. The theatrical window is now so short (~40) days that audiences are happy to wait for the increased benefits and reduced cost of watching at home.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
This deal is an indicator of huge changes in global film & TV production. Hollywood's struggles amplified after the writer's strike with a perfect storm of issues around unionisation, technology, fragmenting audiences, new for
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Netflix is already the sole client of a huge studio outside Madrid.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
This excellent article is about user interface mechanisms and their physical metaphors, a pretty small subset of interaction design, despite the author's attempt to define the term. More broadly, interaction design inhabits the elusive
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Should be a doc on the harder skill of how to schedule meetings, then you wouldn't need a guide on how to attend them.
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by jmkd 10mo ago
Stopped / crashed Dec 31 2005 with $358K return. Cannot proceed. Fun until then.
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by jmkd 11mo ago
Quick note your average wait time might increase to more than half the interval, thanks to the Waiting Time Paradox, a transportation manifestation of the Inspection Paradox. https://medium.com/data-science/the-inspec
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by jmkd 11mo ago
London had a spiral escalator in 1906, sadly not captured on film https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/spiral-escalator-engineering...
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by jmkd 11mo ago
Layperson question: aren't the nopert candidates just increasingly close to being spheres, which cannot have Rupert tunnels?
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by jmkd 11mo ago
Quibi was 5 years too early. Vertical micro dramas are now an $8B market, just exceeded box office in China and expanding rapidly elsewhere.
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British parts found in Russian drones, Zelensky says(bbc.com)
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