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by oska 7y ago
> And they even pollute your imagination with the limitations of the director's choices. Exactly why I never watched the films, despite being a huge Tolkien fan from about age 9 to 16. The thought of how Hollywood would depict elves
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by oska 7y ago
I see SpaceX and Tesla as different. They are engineering/manufacturing companies and have a legitimate need for venture capital to help meet the very heavy capex demands on such companies in their first 10 or so years. (I also wouldn&
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by oska 7y ago
There's only two on that list that I use and both on the desktop, not as an app. One that I regret signing up for and am in the process of moving away from; the other I use anonymously and would like to see displaced.
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by oska 7y ago
Happy to get pushback on this article submission. I did take note of the source (China Global Television Network) but the thesis presented of demographic change and increased wariness about taking on debt seemed plausible.
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by oska 7y ago
> Most of the apps we use on a dAily basis exist thanks to that model. Don't count me in that 'we'; an app coming from a VC funded company is a red flag for me not to use that app. Any app that I've used from that c
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US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019)(america.cgtn.com)
172 points by oska 7y ago|282 comments
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by oska 7y ago
Interesting to note that Ryanair is currently exclusively a Boeing 737 airline. It has 367 Boeing 737-800 aircraft in service (the largest operator of this aircraft) and 135 Boeing 737 Max 200 on order. [1] [1] https://en.wikiped
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by oska 7y ago
No part of this story happened in Iran. It was a US American sending money to a US American media website. > On January 3, a reader tried to make a donation of $10 to The Grayzone through PayPal. The small donor, a US citizen who lives i
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PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran(thegrayzone.com)
66 points by oska 7y ago|82 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I agree. I'll be boycotting the Max just on principle, regardless of what extra safety measures are implemented to get it re-certified. I'm hoping (and kind of expecting) that people will build simple apps or websites to check whe
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by oska 7y ago
These types of file-managers are called 'Orthodox file managers'. [1] In answer to your question of which was the first, the answer appears to be PathMinder (1984) and Norton Commander (1986). Both were for DOS so it seems to be a
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Cultural evolution caused historical declines of large mammals across China(phys.org)
1 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
From an article [1] about Oppenheimer's (invited) visit to Japan in 1960: > As Oppenheimer began his trip, he found the Japanese people grateful, even enthusiastic, at his presence in the country. Aspiring scientists were eager to l
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by oska 7y ago
> If Oppenheimer was japanese and he helped build bombs for the japanese and the japanese dropped nukes on say Baltimore and San Fran during the war, he would have been tried and executed after ww2 by the victorious US. Your hypothetical
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by oska 7y ago
Gates and Bezos absolutely dispensable. Both just very aggressive opportunists. Gates actually suffocated innovation, not fostered it. The only one of the three you name where you could make a case for them making a real difference would be
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by oska 7y ago
> Realistically adults don't think about the morality of their actions much at all. If you're basing this on personal experience then either you or I are atypical because I think of the morality of my actions all the time (and
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by oska 7y ago
I'd suggest not even using the word 'jaywalk'. It's a propaganda word.
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by oska 7y ago
This story has been run for a long time now. The best refutation I know of appeared in 2015 in an essay called The myth of the dark side of the Energiewende [1]. I'd recommend reading it for critical balance. [1] https://e
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by oska 7y ago
HN discussion from first submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10387071
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by oska 7y ago
Question: can you read the advertising (i.e. read the native language)? Because for me at least, chinese & japanese advertising can look 'picturesque' but I think I would feel differently if I could actually read the banal mes
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by oska 7y ago
> They allow new businesses to break into markets owned by old dominant suppliers. Tesla broke into the automotive market - one of the most resistant markets to new entries - without doing any advertising. (Tesla does do marketing but
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by oska 7y ago
> I quite like that actually, where else would I find about some shows or things to do. How about in a free magazine which advertises all such events? Or a website that does similar? Also listings of "What's On" in more ge
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by oska 7y ago
It's mental pollution as well. I don't see any need or moral justification for push advertising, i.e. showing advertising to people who are not looking for a certain service or product. Fine to have directories for services and
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by oska 7y ago
Quoting from the Code of Hammurabi (Ancient Babylon): > If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death. Ther
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by oska 7y ago
The Fukushima nuclear disaster came close to forcing the Japanese Prime Minister to shut down and evacuate Tokyo. [1] Also, you are making an error in how you calculate risk. It's not just how many fatalities are caused by each source
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by oska 7y ago
This is giving him quite a soft pass. If he's made specific claims about thorium reactors then it's good that they're being fact-checked.
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by oska 7y ago
> There are numerous ways we've discovered to do so post 2008. All of them bad. Companies should fail and keeping bad companies alive via artificial means is bad. You get zombie companies and eventually a zombie economy (see Japan
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by oska 7y ago
> They just like to complain when dying is caused by somebody else. Which is completely legitimate.
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by oska 7y ago
Could also be a win for Lenovo laptop users if they improve their support for GNU/Linux, including offering it pre-installed. Which is the only option I can see open to them if they are replacing Windows.
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by oska 7y ago
> 80% reliable contraception is of dubious utility. You realise the quoted reliability rates are per year, not per act? For example, the withdrawal method (available to everyone, for all time) has a reliability rate of 78% for typical us

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