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by rcarr 3y ago
Yes. > The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com&#
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They've vetted over 1000 that may conflict with their interests. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
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To me, the law and programming seem very similar. Any time two parties go to court and a precedent is created, it seems to me like someone is taking the function of the contested law and adding an if statement somewhere in the body that alt
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Have you got any Ezra Miller films you recommend? From what I've seen I don't rate him at all and his off screen antics make him sound like a complete tool. If you've got any recommendations of movies where you think he excel
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He's not been in anything that I know of other than The Bear but from what I've seen of him in that, Jeremy Allen White has some massive potential. If he landed an action blockbuster and picked his projects carefully I could see h
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I might be wrong, but I think with space there’s the potential for a Gravity (2013) style situation though, where if one satellite is blown up the debris could cause a chain reaction and take out a ton of other satellites?
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Well yes if you’re taking an existentialist perspective, life has no meaning so we create our own. The invention or discovery has no meaning in itself other than what humans ascribe to it. But I’d still wager that the majority of inventors
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by rcarr 3y ago
What you're describing is literally Netflix. I can go on Netflix and watch unlimited shows with completely unknown actors from across the globe. When I was 19, I decided to make my way through the entirety of the imdb top 250 (which ac
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> tight acting and practical effects over CG is also a good indication of how people may feel about this ai stuff. This is kind of what I was trying to get at with the word spectacle. When Tom Cruise base jumps off a motorcycle, he is li
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The issue is that all the modern actors have emerged from the tongue-in-cheek Marvel franchise or similar. Tom Cruise almost exclusively plays dramatic roles (the only comedic role I can think of is the one where he's in Harvey Weinste
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Wasn't the whole point of making the technology to free up time to let people do things they love doing? Acting, drawing, prosthetics, set making, costume design - these are all dream jobs for many, many people. They're the embodi
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I could literally see a future where films and tv become more like extended video game cut scenes. The studios are already struggling to make the next generation of Hollywood stars. People like Tom Holland and Timothee Chalomet just don&#x2
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> Prigozhin got on the blowhorn and talked about the action in Ukraine in very negative terms, but mainly he seemed to want to execute it more efficiently (and probably brutally), he never truly questioned the underlying rationale of it.
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I reckon the war will continue, even if it’s massively scaled back, until Putin is either deposed or dies. When that happens, whoever takes over will end it and will lay all the blame on Putin. The Western governments and media will be happ
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Steam OS also works this way.
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What service/cloud provider would you use for cross platform? Dropbox is the obvious choice but the cheapest tier is 7.99 for 2tb nowadays.
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If you were starting from scratch today would you stick with 1Password or would you use Bitwarden or some other alternative?
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> or access is tied directly to your physical identity to access the site). This is what is inevitably going to happen. There will be some kind of service provider (probably one of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon) who will verify who yo
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This is how the majority of the planet outside of the USA, Russia and former USSR states names these ideologies: authoritarian capitalism -> fascism democratic capitalism -> capitalism democratic socialism -> socialism authoritaria
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> Nope. No tablets allowed anywhere near where I work, certainly not some random device that wants to just connect to the public internet to download some random pdfs from a defunct book subscription service. Cool bro, good for you. Not
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> Because digital books are horrible. Completely subjective. > A have a self of work-related books full of reference images (military equipment). I budget about 100/month for book purchases as many of them are 200+ each. There is
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For old books it's understandable but for modern books it's unforgivable. Even if the author is old school and wrote it on a typewriter or by hand, at some point that book has been digitised for production. I wanted a book recentl
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So just discovered these today which are apparently the first wireless ones. Seems like a company launches a pair every month at the minute - the competition is fierce! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/600385286&#x2
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I 100% recommend them, especially if you're conscious about your posture. Some people can't get over the 1080p, personally I just stick the global font size up one level larger in the settings and use browser/text editor at 1
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It's true that the text isn't great out of the box on the current batch of 1080p versions. Personally, I just stick the zoom level to 110% / 120% and then find it fine to use though.
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This. I've tried different monitors, different monitor heights, keyboards, chairs etc and I would inevitably end up hunching over my keyboard to the point where I was worried I was getting the beginnings of kyphosis. AR glasses have el
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The problem is now you have to carry another keyboard and mouse in addition to the one you're already carrying with your laptop. The ideal portable ergo solution is something like: - Any small portable computer e.g Phone with Samsung D
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This is one of the main reasons I think AR glasses are going to be ubiquitous within ten years.
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Apple already released some audiobooks using AI generated voice actors. I don’t know if they were annotated, but the AI seemed to adjust tone correctly for the context in the snippets I listened to.
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The library doesn’t have the potential to end the career of every author in existence. If anything it assists their career.

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