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by knolax 7y ago
Half of Netflix's anime productions have been cell-shaded 3D animation and frankly they look like crap. Most western cartoons have managed to keep their 2D animation looking like 2D animation so idk if it's a matter of cost or if
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by knolax 7y ago
Software by an American Company[0] founded by a man who's been here since the 90s[1] is now "Chinese Tech"? Is everything from Paul Graham "British Tech"? Are Apple Products now "Chinese Tech" because of t
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by knolax 7y ago
The petrodollar will keep the USD strong no matter how much "money printing" is done. The money "exported" to purchase goods represents the value that America gets to extract from the world from it's hegemony. We&#x
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by knolax 7y ago
Where are the personal attacks?
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by knolax 7y ago
> Many countries without an extensive history of colonialism have achieved the similar prosperity to the great European colonial powers That only makes it worse. > Hard to make the case that colonialism is the sole or principal factor
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by knolax 7y ago
I'm not saying they were referring to Columbus as the person who conquered Central America. I was amused by GP's insinuation that the Aztecs had somehow collapsed before Columbus. > Maya, Toltec, and Aztec societies deforested
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by knolax 7y ago
> Aztec > before collapsing (and before Columbus) In the alternate universe you come from, who was fighting Cortez?
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by knolax 7y ago
Wow that last photo doesn't even remotely look like him. I'm more surprised by how bad their facial recognition is than by the data have.
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by knolax 7y ago
In English: Every quote you hear on the internet is false. ---Abe Lincoln.
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by knolax 7y ago
Wouldn't it beneficial for a prominent atheist like Dawkins to believe that feelings of divinity are merely side effects from some electric fields near the head? If he were to lie wouldn't he do so in favor of the God Helmet havin
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by knolax 7y ago
You know this is an article about Taiwan right?
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by knolax 7y ago
> Adafruit is a great show-off business for New York City (tech, manufacturing, woman-owned) They also make quality products and turn a profit, unlike most VC backed "tech" startups like Uber and WeWork.
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by knolax 7y ago
I'll believe it when I hear it from an Italian source, in Italian. The information in this article presumably went through a linguistic game of telephone consisting of: Italian --> Hebrew --> English.
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by knolax 7y ago
Become an IRL Klingon.
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by knolax 7y ago
Assembly mnemonics and their cousin pin names are so excessively terse. I wish it was mandatory to expand acronyms in a dedicated field in datasheets. So often you'll find pin names like "NCE" where you're just expected
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by knolax 7y ago
I don't see any of that. There's some overwrought navel-gazing about masculinity but I just posted the link because it showed that apparently you can get an embolism from leg extension surgery.
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by knolax 7y ago
Reminds me of this: https://jezebel.com/stories-about-my-brother-1835651181 Author's brother died from am embolism resulting from height extension surgery.
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by knolax 7y ago
I'm aware, I'm saying there are others who don't have the convenience of saying "actually I'm white" when they get accused of being fifth columnists simply on the basis of their names. Because of that, maybe th
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by knolax 7y ago
When looking at e-paper tablets in the past I found that the ReMarkable does not support using an external SD-card. If you google around you'll find many e-ink tablets using the same screen and stylus technology (as in they literally u
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by knolax 7y ago
To the dead comment below, it's already happened. https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/unhinged-woman-slugs-asian-lad... https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/uk/coronavirus-racist-
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by knolax 7y ago
> from your username I wonder are you on the Chinese side as well? Are you not going to address the racist dog-whistle? You work in San Francisco where many of your fellow Americans actually do have last names like Dang. Maybe you should
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by knolax 7y ago
When people coming back from Iran were getting COVID-19, all the articles reporting on it were pictures of the New York Chinatown. It wasn't even to showcase people wearing masks either, in one instance it was literally just a picture
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by knolax 7y ago
knowledge panel has been so consistently bad that it's a wonder people don't complain more. Half the time all I get is a random irrelevant excerpt from some website with all the formatting screwed up. If you're multilingual i
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by knolax 7y ago
Have you considered that most normal human beings require social interaction with others to maintain mental health. Solitary confinement is considered torture by many for a reason. In addition, digital forms of social interaction are obviou
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by knolax 7y ago
This is HackerNews, you can literally advocate for genocide on here and be upvoted but don't you dare be slightly rude to some humanities charlatan.
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by knolax 7y ago
It's a commercially available bag valve mask with a motor attached and controlled by what seems to be an open loop system. I think that the real takeaway here is that bag valve masks, apparently a low cost manual alternative to a respi
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by knolax 7y ago
I'm sorry I meant University of California, Hicago.
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by knolax 7y ago
...on Twitter.
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by knolax 7y ago
The part where the article tries to "prove" that the photo was not of a real person feels like phrenology more than anything. Real people can have asynmetric ears and teeth, and most photographers deliberately try to frame photos
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by knolax 7y ago
You have to be suspicious when a British magazine starts complaining about Chicago University.

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