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It's one of the inherent challenges of a democracy. When everybody has a chance at participating and making riches through hard work, people hyper-value achievenent and wealth. Contrast this with a feudal society, where the landed ge
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Neglect is a truly wretched cycle. When a child's parents cannot afford and value things like basic dietary nutrition and care, it creates cerebral abnormalities [1] due to lack of neuro-cognitive development. It's then up to hal
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Ask HN: What major changes to society can founders anticipate post-pandemic?
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How will capital be reallocated exactly? How will the new supply chains be created? We're heading into a long depression. The remaining wealth goes to bailing out and ventriloquizing the failed system until its next crisis iteration.
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My Decklink Mini 4k was under $200 and does the job. I don't know about your Apple adapter. Were it not working, then I would look at getting a HDCP splitter midway in the chain.
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Catalina will support any HDR monitor. You would just need a HDMI splitter and run it into your monitor. Alternatively, pop a Blackmagic Decklink 4k into a PCIe chasis and run it out of one of the thunderbolt 3 ports. I do this on my HDR
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The Times is committed to a larger arc about Trump [1], meaning each story reported is colored by a per-determined narrative [2]. While I may agree with them that Trump is a boob, this approach is intellectually dishonest and lacks the jo
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> I'm surprised to see the NY Times have such clickbait-ish headlines. It stopped being a prestigious broadsheet long ago. The active anti-Trump coverage (and I'm anti-Trump) is just cannibalizing their remaining credibility,
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The Curious Case of America’s Suicide Crisis(freebeacon.com)
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Coronavirus brings China's surveillance state out of the shadows(reuters.com)
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> Two weeks after leaving Google, I returned home to Maine. It’s where I was born and raised, and where I was taught basic values like the importance of working hard, standing up for what is right, and speaking the truth. The folksy tone
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Or you don't understand all of the meanings and uses of the term 'legacy'? I meant as in "legacy band"? But probably a poor choice - given there are a lot of coders here who probably associate the term with legacy
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Legacy in the sense that it exists in the company of established DAWs such as Pro Tools, Ableton, Cubase et al.
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It had an update the other day but ... yeah, why would a legacy software product suddenly be on the front page?
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Irish and found funny. Relax people.
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The Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Hollywood’s Streaming Era(hollywoodreporter.com)
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Isn't 'cancel culture' vastly overstated? We hear so much about it because media personalities (mainstream through to podcasters) are the targets of it, so they're naturally going over-value the threat of it.
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LED's also have an inferior light quality to incandescent. The color rendering index of the average LED is usualy 70-80, usually with horrible green spikes. Incandescent lights are blackbody radiators and have a CRI of 100. So the qu
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... and was later appointed by Ford to investigate the possibility of the CIA assassinating Kennedy.
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What would you say your typical response is to 2.a.? I'm anticipating this a bit when I do eventually have kids. Also, please elaborate on the insane competitiveness. This entire subject fascinates me (and others?) greatly, as I rea
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Artisanal textile workers, categorically, were not as talented as elite actors because the size of their competitive pool and the barriers to creating work were minuscule compared to that of Hollywood actors - who emigrate from all over the
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Elite actors of the world are extremely rare, talented individuals. They compete in one of the most cut-throat fields I can think of. How is that analogous to a textile worker? As long as there are humans, then actors, musicians, dancers
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How does one become a name actor then? Assuming you mean they build up a name and then license their image ... I'm not sure you've met an actor before. This goes against every impulse of a great actor. They're completely ob
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> I feel we reached transparency for professional analog recordings some time in the 1980s, and I would argue that this applies to analog film as well. Not sure what you mean by 'transparency'. Either way, go back and look at
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Talk to me about principles of the universe when you are being burnt alive because of some rogue psycho. Of course violence and mental illness aren't mutually inclusive - but serene individuals don't set fire to buildings full of
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Conversely, you made a broad claim that runs contrary to popular consensus. Cursory glance or not, the onus is on you to back up your initial wild claim with a source. Regardless, are you really going to double-down on Hollywood producing
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>Hollywood produces plenty of original stories still I'd love to see you back this up with data in comparison to previous years. Even a cursory glance at opening weekends over the years on Box Office Mojo tells me you're misi
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Can anyone else advise of some other infosec channels like Null Byte? I want a chance to binge some of this stuff in case they disappear.
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Chimpanzee IQ Starts in the Genes(nature.com)
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Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France(nytimes.com)
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