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by l33tbro 9y ago
Funny that Da Vinci remains the most bankable 50 years after he first sky-rocketed the perceived value of art. Basically, In 1962 the Mona Lisa was loaned to Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Louvre. Huge marketing campaign resulted in ove
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by l33tbro 9y ago
It's interesting to revisit the press and get a temperature on the expectations (dare I say "hype") around RealAudio. It really was something else in the offering when I first encountered the web as a teen in the mid 90s.
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RealAudio is the real deal (1995)(wired.com)
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Well if you want to talk sanctions, I'd say selling them $110 billion in weapons a few months back is slightly more concerning than slamming shut the bank counter screens on them.
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Dunning, have you met Kruger? I'm not sure how one could extract this sentiment from my initial comment and progress to such a patronising and paternalistic dressing-down, save for a thoroughly uncharitable disposition.
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Design can certainly be beautiful. What I was trying to articulate (unsuccessfully, as usual) is people describing things as beautiful in an objective way. Ie, as if certain objects or products are impervious to changing trends and tastes
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> This isn’t a knock against the Braun style — there are many beautiful products that have sprung from that well. A slight nit-pick, but does anyone else shudder a little when people use the adjective of 'beautiful' as an objec
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by l33tbro 9y ago
I'm guessing that OP is referring to the publicly owned $1trn oil fund that the government has only recently dipped into. They're actually now claiming they're going to minimise withdrawals due to an increase in revenue (1)
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43 Group(en.wikipedia.org)
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“I am completely an elitist in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love
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It's amazing in low-light, but I find the colours are pretty washed out and the image can band pretty bad once you apply post processing to get it looking half decent. That's been my experience with it anyway. Didn't know t
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I thought they added a switchable global shutter mode, no? Maybe i'm getting it confused with another model. Probably! I'm only now looking into DSLR's for a low-light option. Funnily enough, the ones that stand out to me
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It's more to do with the way motion is captured by the sensor than shutter rates, ND or applying motion blur. Someone else posted an article about global-vs-rolling shutter, which gets to the heart of that jittery video look common to
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Wouldn't you think that's the global shutter of the camera? Raw definitely helps with pushing the image in colour grading, but I always thought the nice motion cadence on the BMPCC comes from the fact that the global shutter scan
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My pet-peeve with modern DSLR's is that none of these manufacturers seem to care about motion-cadence with their video offering. There's been amazing leaps with 4k video and now 10 bit image depth with the Panasonic GH5, but the
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Extended Adolescence: When 25 Is the New 18(scientificamerican.com)
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I thought Peterson was a psych professor who has interesting perspectives on the bible. What are his toxic views on gender? Genuinely curious.
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The lack of awe is what surprises me. Just how quickly we take each breakthrough for granted. Sure, we're spinning faster and faster, as you say. But sometimes I think it's actually the FOMO mechanism built into social media tha
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This merger would threaten food supplies around the world(theguardian.com)
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I've been through many listed here. Audio Technica ATX-M50, Sony MDR 7506, Sennheiser HD598, etc - all really great cans with their own strengths, but ultimately lacking in build quality and EQ curves that are too bumpy. Over time, I
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Is one enough? Why having an only child can be good news(abc.net.au)
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I've really enjoyed 'Waking Up' with Sam Harris lately. Some fascinating and eclectic conversations.
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Okay, slipping into my bomb-squad EOD suit to comment on this topic. But, seriously, the more I read about Damore, the more it seems like this was a cunning plan to get fired and then sue the roller-hockey pants off Sergey Brin and Co. Whi
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There's an unspoken scorched earth policy for lame humour and Reddit-style puns (which, btw, is marvelous). Also, intellectual honesty will take you far.
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I think "throwaway charges about how the U.S. is horribly bad" lacks charity for what the author is getting at in this piece. While exploring shadow narratives to American exceptionalism may not be everyone's cup of tea, you
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It's rather unfair to call Ferris out as disingenuous or a snake-oil guy. I believe he genuinely thinks he is helping people, and there are actually some pretty fascinating interviewees and conversations on his podcast. If I have to
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Will be interesting for the manufacturing space when multiplied by torrents.
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I think the point is that 'sociopath' has become used as a tired catch-all for anyone displaying a few traits of the disorder, as in this case.
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I struggle with this so much that I even managed to unearth a buzz term (1) for this syndrome of reading too many advice blogs. That aside, I think a lot of this is relative to where one is at in terms of education, network, support structu
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by l33tbro 9y ago
First question: which PR agency hand-crafted that disingenuous apology on Dave McClure's blog? Second question: did 500 Startups foot the bill (the allegations are kryptonite to their brand)?

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