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by prvc 4y ago
Interestingly, according to the IMDB, the "blue eyes" title is already the second one used for the film. Why they'd choose something so dicey by Facebook's standards, when Facebook ads were supposedly such a crucial part
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> If your not backed by Sony or Paramount, ads (especially in the first week) can be the deciding factor in whether you make it or not.. Do you seriously believe it was Facebook that caused the film to fail?
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Title (and headline of TFA) is misleading, as Facebook didn't ban a film, it rejected a user from using its ads program based on the film's title. Will be interesting to see if the lawsuit goes anywhere.
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Interesting how it is either the recipient or broader social/cultural attitudes which are blamed, depending on the demographic the recipient belongs to.
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Worth noting that currently, most UK arrests over "offense-giving" (which are increasingly common) are done on behalf of precisely those grievance-based identity groups which anti-monarchists support.
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I'll bet vanishingly few of the people with their hackles up over this spoke out in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church when it was in the news for their funeral protests.
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>why an elite private college is regarded as prestigious That's begging the question. What intrinsic quality, apart from tuition costs, makes it "elite"?
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> if you're going to the symphony you probably aren't going to learn the musicians' politics You'd be surprised.
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This college has been characterized in various places as being "prestigious", but I can't imagine any context where learning that someone is a recent graduate would be a positive signal. Yet, this notion persists.
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Any disadvantages to switching from Chrome or Firefox?
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A nice hack for advancing a hypocritical political position on HN: just say >I genuinely believe [ contradictory proposition ]. That way, anyone who was to question the value of said belief or the wisdom of sharing it with others could b
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>It looks like it's time for a government to step in with over-sight Which government on Earth is going to enforce a principle of neutrality instead of its own particular censorship agenda?
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>We are also not taking this action directly because of the pressure campaign. Haven't been following this story, but it seems they haven't considered that whatever antagonists the site has could have posted the putatively obje
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Does this apply to those who use Samsung devices without having made explicitly registered for an "account" with samsung.com? They must be made to reveal the extent to which keylogging and other surreptitious means of data collect
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Yes, but why? And isn't it more of a bike covered in concrete than a concrete bike?
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We may have to revise this principle for the present era, since there are so many examples of people who continue to rise well past reaching their "level of incompetence".
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We don't actually know that this phenomenon is due to resonance.
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There is a repeated note (or sound effect) in the song which has a pitch which sweeps through 7200 Hz. In fact, it is reminiscent of a kind of sound that can occasionally emanate from a failing drive which spins at that rate. I wonder if th
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by prvc 4y ago
Highly recommended: "The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music", which is both an accessible and conceptually coherent introduction to the topic.
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What benefit would creating a new housing provide? Very strange.
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How did he manage to finagle that?
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Any reason why he dropped SVT-AV1 from the comparison?
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Well, the specific model of HDD hasn't been mentioned yet as far as I can tell.
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Particularly the "simple installs" graphic on that page. Who wants to, using a mouse cursor, after opening an installer "shortcut", click and drag an icon onto some other icon, presumably representing a shortcut to an &q
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>t does not seem that they have any safeguards in place to protect artists From what? Until strong AI comes about, good human artists will always be able to compete on originality and relatability, and even afterwards, human art could be
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Any tips or caveats for using VS6 to develop modern software?
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They're common in public libraries in many major cities, so quite a few do.
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>Tell the complainant, sorry, you feel like you're a victim of crime Being the victim of a crime is a different thing than having the feeling of being the victim of a crime.
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He should base his defense on having posted merely a regime-approved flag, and make them argue that the putative offense is constituted by displaying it in apposition to itself.
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Maximalist book reviews are really where it's at.

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