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by olavk 9y ago
There was/is nothing magic about epicycles. Epicycles was part of a model which described the movement of the planets. Now we have better and more precise model, but that does not mean epicycles was "magic". There is nothing
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by olavk 9y ago
I think you are missing the point of the case. The obscene lyrics did not actually exist in the song. The various versions of obscene lyrics were most likely created by kids themselves for fun. This was at a time when obscenity was scrubbed
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by olavk 9y ago
I think you are being deliberately vague because you haven't anything except handwaving.
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by olavk 9y ago
It is a film festival for cineastes - film lovers or film snobs if you will. Its whole culture. For them there is a big difference between the big-screen cinema experience and watching home video. It is certainly a bigger difference than ju
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by olavk 9y ago
Never mind the word "cinematic", the point is the festival and similar movie awards have a certain definition for what kind of moving picture entertainment they consider eligible for their awards. The definition includes that the
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by olavk 9y ago
Where do you get "less value"? They are just delimiting what kinds of movies the will considered for their festival. The Academy Awards also have certain restrictions on the picture format in place to prevent straight-to-video mov
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by olavk 9y ago
AFAIK the Academy Awards have a similar rule - a movie must have a cinema release before it can be considered for nomination. (More specifically, a run for at least seven days in a Los Angeles County theater!) Made-for-TV movies have their
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by olavk 9y ago
I find hermeticim fascinating, but I don't really see the connection. Where is hermeticism talking about genomes and neurons?
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by olavk 9y ago
Moderation is political, it is unavoidable. There is no such thing as neutral.
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by olavk 9y ago
The theory the bodies were violators of social customs, are not something Nazi-specific, it is a common hypothesis. They are clearly ritualistic executions, and it corresponds to Tacitus which states that "traitors", "cowards
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by olavk 10y ago
There are really two different concerns which are often conflated: 1) Semantic markup for the sake of screen readers (and Google and so on) 2) Separation of concerns for the sake of maintainability I don't know how separation of concer
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by olavk 10y ago
Constantinople were deliberate attempt to move the capital of the empire, but it was still the same empire, and they still considered themselves Romans. The Holy Roman Empire did not really have the same continuity from the Roman Empire, it
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by olavk 10y ago
Gopher were not hypertext. It had hierarchical menus which were separate from the plain text files.
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by olavk 10y ago
He invented the URL, which is the most important component of the web, since this is what makes cross-system hypertext possible. Hypercard was not networked and Gopher were not hypertext, and neither allowed you to link to external objects.
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by olavk 10y ago
The book is basically a Lisp tutorial using metaphors rather than code examples.
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by olavk 10y ago
How about Making a Murderer? That one had plenty of substance.
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by olavk 10y ago
Almost all animation is fully computer animated these days. Even Disney have given up on hand drawn animation. So when a film is hand-drawn like this it is a very deliberate choice to eschew computer animation.
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by olavk 10y ago
I happen to agree. Video games definitely qualify as art in my opinion. Math does not. I don't buy his argument either. But the underlying mistake is thinking "art" means "valuable and worthwhile" (and "not art
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by olavk 10y ago
Because we use words when we communicate. So even if it is "just words", words matter.
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by olavk 10y ago
I didn't intend to claim it way, just using examples.
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by olavk 10y ago
Maybe the word "art" have such positive connotations that it seems disparaging to state that something is not art. But that is not my intention at all. I'm just noting that in the usual sense of the word, math is not art just
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by olavk 10y ago
So is astronomy, but that does not make it art. Of course you can define art however you want, it just not how the word is usually used. (Unless you take it in the colloquial sense of "something to appreciate", like in "that
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by olavk 10y ago
> Mathematics can be true, beautiful, compelling, creative, unique, etc. Yes, but that does not mean it is art. Art literally means something created by humans, which is distinct from the natural sciences which is studying nature. Both a
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by olavk 10y ago
The book is extremely harsh, but I don't really think the law as expressed in the book is applicable to Scandinavian culture in general. Also, the Law of Jante made him kill a sailor at a deserted bay in Newfoundland. So we should be c
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by olavk 10y ago
If you have experienced the nature in Norway, you will understand having holiday cottages is a nice way to spend money.
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by olavk 10y ago
I think you misunderstand Janteloven. Scandinavian countries are capitalist societies (even if Americans believe the health care and high tax makes us socialist) and prosperity and success based on hard work or talent is generally appreciat
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by olavk 10y ago
The Law of Jante is not about success as such, and not really about criticizing success either. It is a law that says you should not pretend you are better than your peers. If success makes you act as if you are actually better than other p
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by olavk 10y ago
Not at all, you can do lots of "clever" things in plaintext, like ASCII-art or aligning table columns with whitespace. This is much less accessible and adaptive compared to semantic HTML. No protocol will prevent people doing fun
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by olavk 10y ago
Are you suggesting there are some people who only browse Gopher?
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by olavk 10y ago
I don't get this. It seems to me Gopher basically supports a subset of what is available on the web. All the benefits of Gopher (low bandwidth requirements, no flashy design or interactivity, strict hierarchical navigation etc.) can al

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