karmonhardan

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by karmonhardan 2y ago
Engaging with TFA's thesis: occasionally, it's correct for institutions to insist on law over lore. For one, that lore might be just as artificial or short-lived or "mistaken" (as much as these things can be) as anything
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
It's funny you mention ticket stubs, because I also have a similar collection, and I kind of treasure it. Before my Google tracking my every step, before Twitter, as the years go by, I have some record of what I was doing at exceedingl
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
There is a direct line between the KKK, American Nazi Party, and Republicans and "moderate" Democrats who are just over the past few years aging (dying) out of office. The ideology of the latter is going strong. But I appreciate t
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
It's the kind of blame-ambiguifying ("Can't do anything, law says so," "Can't do anything, courts say so.") that happens when the opposition to a given reform are perfectly happy to beat, bomb, and shoot a
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
It's certainly funny how popular "Defund the" is when it ends with, "[agency with a track record of actually providing service and value to both individual Americans and the country as a whole]" instead of "pol
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
I'm not sure what your positive experience has to do with GPs negative experience. Is the implication that it negates it? Because it doesn't.
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
People need to stop saying this. The internet from 5-10 years ago was already post-social media revolution; it's not substantially different from today's internet, on the consumer side. Google has gotten substantially worse, howev
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
Indeed, the moon landing wasn't the universally-lauded come-together moment people like to portray it as. MLK had been assassinated the previous year and the Vietnam War was in full swing; there were a lot of things on people's mi
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
Except Valve, for their Steam service. But that's only because someone realized that you could Zerg rush them with arbitration claims, whose fees they were obliged to pay (since their ToS forced users into it). Their only option that w
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
The best thing I ever did for decongestion was to get outside and start wearing a mask during the winter. The air entering my nose is clearer and warmer, which causes less mucus production. The mucus that is produced is more likely to drai
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
This reminds me of Lukasa memory boards, analogous to written language as this is to traditional programming (or as a table is to a chart). It's amazing how the way information is encoded and presented can affect its interpretation.
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
I'm replying because I look at my post history. :)
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
IIRC Material Design actually came before iOS' pivot to Immaterial Aero We Have At Home. Metro was indeed first, though, so kudos for actually mentioning it. Everyone seems to forget that the Zune was what really got things rolling.
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
I honestly prefer this to the American version, "The governor owns a bunch of real estate that would benefit more from road upgrades than two major rail projects that have been in the works for decades, so he tries to cancel the latter
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
n=1, very scientific methodology. How do you "feel" about homeopathy?
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
Older people tend to get up earlier. There is a special place in hell for the Baby Boomers who insisted on a 7:30 start time for our office (though, of course, as the guy who opened every morning, I had to be there earlier). The anxiety tha
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
They're "integrated" the way Adobe or Autodesk's acquisitions are "integrated," which is to say that they're not, in any meaningful way - but at least you only have to log in/get your credit card out
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
People have been throwing up the, "You're just too technical," canard for years, and it's just not true. Google search does not find what anyone is looking for; it finds what it wants to sell, in a way that makes it more
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
This leaves out the perspective of the young black people who would have been the disproportionate target of police interactions. Unfortunately, moderation within a biased status quo doesn't achieve the goal of eliminating the bias. Th
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
You joke, but it's literally in the interest of many companies to prop up the SP500 et al. by wasting money on M7 products, isn't it?
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
The short hair example in particular is remarkably realistic. Immediately familiar to this guy who spent most of his childhood with a skin fade, and a massive improvement over the flat image texture or bump maps that are usually used. Becau
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
This isn't even necessarily true. High art is the basic research of culture. You'd be amazed at how many elements from your fave this-or-that are copped (often wholesale) from some obscure piece of media. Often, that reference lif
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
Reddit where upvotes are weighted by your similarity or difference to the target uploader or commenter. People who have different sentiments, identities, writing styles, etc. will boost your post faster than people who are similar. Downvote
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
People los jobs anyway, from the knock-on effects of the bail out. The bail out is more about controlling who loses jobs.
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
My intuition is that art scenes don't cause gentrification so much as they are one of many signals that a neighborhood is "safe" enough for people to begin displacing the incumbent community. It's possible - maybe even l
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
>I don’t think they are owed anything just because they have a lot of skill or are creative. I do. What's indicated here is an overabundance of pricing power on the film studios' side, which is a direct result of laws and polic
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
This is the argument always used to excuse abuse of labor, and I completely reject it. These are skilled artists and technicians with lives to live - minimum wage is far below the minimum they're owed. Just because powerful interests -
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
That's the wrong question. Paraphrasing Baldwin, one might expect from one person and not another, and only when that expectation is defeated in the former does a certain bitterness ensue. There's no reason to waste energy and emo
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
The contracts aren't necessarily fair. As with gig work, people will take a bad deal that keeps them solvent in the short term, even if it ruins them long-term, if there isn't really any other way to put their assets to use. VFX c
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by karmonhardan 2y ago
I think it's purposely meant to be camp.

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