marsa

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What's the most reliable news source in your country?
1 points by marsa 3y ago|7 comments
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by marsa 3y ago
the 'knowingly allowed' wording suggests LG literally asked them for permission to launder money on behalf of NK and these guys were like of course sure here you go, we've enabled money laundering for your account. pretty har
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Latvia donates drunk drivers' cars to Ukraine's war effort(reuters.com)
5 points by marsa 4y ago|0 comments
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by marsa 4y ago
shit man i bought RDR2 a year ago, and now i can't play it because it needs to be online for entitlement verification. thing is, even when i do connect via phone hotspot that's apparently not online enough for the rockstar games l
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by marsa 4y ago
yeah for some reason we harshly judge people who donate or help people in any way. if they do it in the open we tend to interpret it cynically as a publicity stunt, writing off the good they did as merely a fortunate side effect of their pu
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by marsa 4y ago
having worked in academic publishing, i've concluded that peer review would perform best if it were embedded in the very act of reading (so post-publication, non-formalized kind of peer review) instead of having it be a formalized proc
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by marsa 4y ago
and for folks who prefer reading there's a great book on that topic as well: Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
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by marsa 4y ago
could you please elaborate? because to me it feels like prayer (on an individual level) is very much aligned with the church's social agenda (on a global level)
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by marsa 5y ago
equal parts impressive and irritating
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by marsa 5y ago
more comprehensive than anything i managed to find so far -- thanks for pointing me to this, it's a useful resource!
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by marsa 5y ago
undoubtedly so, but i enjoy the process of curating media myself, sifting through loads of dirt and finding those hidden gems. a list in the style of 0day music scene releases but legal, instantly streamable, and limited to current releases
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by marsa 5y ago
re. digital: the last time i read a newyorker article it consumed 900+ MB of my mobile data plan and i've been avoiding it like the plague ever since. which is a shame because the writing is generally good as you note.
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by marsa 5y ago
yes you could launch a journal like that, and given enough funds -- as in plenty of millions -- and a strong network of people involved it might even become moderately successful, but the workflow wouldn't become widely adopted (=no ch
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by marsa 5y ago
thanks for the suggestion -- is this what you're refering to? https://www.ft.com/arts/music/albums i'll probably add it to my sources, but still a comprehensive list of new releases would be a dream come
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by marsa 5y ago
> It would be wonderful if scientific publishing moved to something like that, where the publication would be a subset (ex: Word output) of a process that everyone could inspect and alter. > Of course, as datasets are becoming the mos
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by marsa 5y ago
any final fantasy series related fansites? for me there's always at least 1-2 on the list whenever i reload.
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by marsa 5y ago
thing is they're often really really bad too. e.g. when i 'explore' albums on youtube music it force feeds me a limited selection of new releases based on popularity, percieved genre preference, and my geographic location, pr
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by marsa 5y ago
then you have genres like grime where -- at least in the early days -- diy white labels were the norm. white label, generic sleeve and that's it. if they were stamped it was like you got fancy artwork.
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by marsa 5y ago
> undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism this seems to be a thoroughly underrated way of discovery and it's so disappointing when websites focus solely on search, forcing users to know and articulate what they came for. browsi
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by marsa 5y ago
even if you can't manage to consciously memorize it bits of information gets stored somewhere in your mind. then let's say a few years later you're thinking about some seemingly unrelated topic and the old memory of that thin
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by marsa 5y ago
that's indeed very likely if they're using standard versions of their respective languages. but if someone from let's say east istria and south serbia communicated in the traditional local dialects spoken there there'd b
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by marsa 5y ago
with little or no practical success. but yes, standard language development is essentially an ongoing political process imo. nation states trying to prove they're unique basically. i suspect this is the case all around the world to a g
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by marsa 5y ago
when you compare serbian and croatian and find them fairly similar it's worth keeping in mind that only holds true for the standard versions of those languages. thing is these standard versions were developed and agreed upon more or le
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by marsa 5y ago
yes that feeling of awe is second to none. i experienced it in the summer of 2007 camping out on a small uninhabited island with no artificial light sources in sight and low moonlight. seeing millions of stars and hundreds of meteors streak
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by marsa 5y ago
thank you for providing the details of this specific case. that's such a bizarre policy. descendants of people who arrived by boat and settled in australia hundreds of years ago deciding that such behavior is unacceptable. do you happe
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by marsa 5y ago
thank you for the insightful and detailed reply. making this game i've envisioned is more of a carrot on a stick, a clear goal that forces me to learn loads of different stuff on the way. whether or not the game itself ultimately mater
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by marsa 5y ago
that is true, though i don't think clear night skies and light pollution were what OP was going for -- for me it was more about the experience of pitch black darkness under OP's bed cover and the religious undertones of the essay.
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by marsa 5y ago
the old night persists in spaces where the light of the world had gone out -- underground, in caves and tunnels. interestingly enough, those are the spaces we traditionally associate with hell.
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by marsa 5y ago
ah ok i see, thanks for clarifying. thankfully i don't see myself working in that industry.
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by marsa 5y ago
can you please elaborate why? i plan to start learning to code and making a game would be one of the final milestones on the loose roadmap i've set for myself -- i get it's complex but would love to know why you advise against it.

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