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by jmkd 6y ago
This is a description of monetary assets, of which bitcoin is an example.
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By the artist's or the viewer's or the displayer's authority. Art can certainly be ugly, produced entirely without technical skill and be labelled 'bad'. It's still art. Value doesn't come from only positi
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There's nothing wrong with you at all! As a precursor another couple of useful misconceptions to discard: 4. Art must be beautiful, or crafted, or at least 'good'. 5. Art has to have meaning. It's useful to look at the e
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Based on the title I cynically prepared to dissect this article for adhering to one of three common fallacies about interpretation: 1. All artwork speaks for itself 2. A work of art has only one meaning 3. The artist determines the meaning
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There's a long history of pairing entheogenic substances with yeast and its bi-products. For around 1900 years a biannual event took place near Athens known as The Eleusinian Mysteries.[1] This was a real occurrence of which Plato, Soc
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Coronavirus: Field hospitals treating patients around world(bbc.co.uk)
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These masks are fairly standard consumer use in the UK for various DIY activities in the home and supplied by hardware stores as such. Note P3/FFP3 are higher standards than N95.
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I definitely agree there is typically a lot of chaff to sort through.
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What about easter-egg style April Fools' like Google's 8-bit maps? Not an ounce of meanness https://maps.googleblog.com/2012/03/begin-your-quest-with-go...
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I find this a mean-spirited, depressing and (ironically) tone-deaf idea. 1. People need humour in challenging moments 2. Black comedy and gallows humour can lift the spirit at even the worst of times 3. As much of the northern hemisphere en
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Paywall-free http://archive.md/xOKiu
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Starting something that matters? No better test of that than a bad economy...
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It doesn't matter how secret the details of this case may need to be for military reasons, when due process itself has been redacted beyond recognition I can no longer see the difference between this and a kangaroo court.
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Nintendo Playstation: Ultra-rare prototype sells for £230k(bbc.co.uk)
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Dirty streaming: The internet's big secret(bbc.co.uk)
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So, wait. Isn't Wikipedia's Pizza Effect article therefore an example of the Pizza Effect? You state surprise that it has existed so long, then go on to explain why it might have done, which seems to meet all the conditions you de
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Fantastic project, thanks!
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I've often thought how strikingly easy it seems to be to produce sentences that have probably never been written before. For example: I am typing these words on a mobile phone whilst sat on a train to an airport, wearing a green jacket
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"Nightmare Rectangle" is a brilliant phrase
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Such a beautiful and accomplished soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGK3usiX31s
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Ask HN: How to disambiguate coronavirus impact search from interest search?
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No sensible health authority would change dietary advice based on a single study. Consider research like this as discrete steps in one direction or another, with a much longer continuous waveform representing national and population-led un
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This is great. A calm, accessible analysis of a complex, emotive and apparently volatile topic. Well done NHS. Of interest here's a Freedom of Information request about the consultants Bazian who produced this for the NHS: https:&#x2F
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WhatsApp to stop working on millions of phones(bbc.co.uk)
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Ha, Street View in Germany is an entirely different topic.
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Holloway has an astonishing - largely untold - 750 year (at least) history of transient development. The name comes from horse-carts digging such deep ruts in the mud by 1300 it became known as the hollow way. I love that Joe Meek wrote &#x
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To coincide with the UK launch of Streetview in 2009, I worked at Tate with Google to produce similar 'then and now' images, except featuring paintings from C18th and C19th compared with the SV images of 2008/9. https:/
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones(theguardian.com)
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The autistic Russian teenager the art world(bbc.co.uk)
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'Outdated' IT leaves NHS staff with 15 different computer logins(bbc.co.uk)
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