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by sparkzilla 8y ago
"Havana" had 11 writers?! God help us all.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
I wish people would stop with this. Human-powered transportation for mass transit is slow, does not work over long distances, requires effort that most people are not willing to provide, and is a poor choice in the rain or snow or cold.
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
Similar to this experiment, where people continue to follow an order even after the original group members have left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keBh_LK5Ha4
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by sparkzilla 8y ago
It's Eugenics by another name; where only the anointed should inherit the earth.
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
It depends what you mean by "discoverability". YouTube's algorithmic search may surface related videos, but what if you want to discover other views of a topic, for example, a timeline of all the news, including videos, on a
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
>The sequel does the same at the end, isn't it? Father and daughter are reunited, and K finds meaning in the struggle. I should have said 'escape' rather than 'meaning'. In the original Deckard and Rachael escap
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
The film, especially the original theatrical release that has the voiceover, echoes Film Noir and 1940s cop movies that you may not have seen, but many people in the 1980s would have had in memory. The sequel follows the visual style of the
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
"downsides"
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
This article is based on the false premise that a person with 300 friends will have 1500 posts a day. This was a lie manufactured by Facebook to sell the algorithmic feed to journalists, who passed it on as truth to their readers. As we all
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
I actually thought it was easier to read in this form. I can't be bothered with articles that have too much padding.
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Actually, the best question for a recruiter to ask is "Why wouldn't we hire you?" You'll be amazed what people say.
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Google makes billions while the Wikipedia contributors providing their fact checks and knowledge graph data get nothing. https://newslines.org/blog/google-and-wikipedia-best-friends...
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
For some background on Key's case check this timeline: https://newslines.org/matthew-keys/
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Matthew Keys released from prison after two years(arstechnica.com)
2 points by sparkzilla 9y ago|1 comments
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Snap!
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
I often meet people who want to use <insert tech here> for their generic MVP or website, and seem quite eager to spend thousands on programmers replicating what you can easily find on WordPress. But even though I tell them they should
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
In case of sonic attack, think only of yourself. Do not panic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8pGS4cWbHo
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Polar Bear populations are not declining. Also, the plural of anecdote is not data. https://polarbearscience.com/2017/02/15/baffin-bay-and-kane-...
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
I see you got downvoted too. So much for facts.
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Just a reminder: When floating ice melts in water the level of the water does not rise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOCqHRpQh88
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Try http://fiskkit.com/
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
The thing news startups need more of is neither news nor investigation, but distribution . Too many news organisations think that quality content is the driver of news, when the challenge is to get distribution, and then you can make news
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Infobitt had a more radical strategy - to strip the news down into individual facts and then reconstruct articles from them. The problem was that the site used crowdsourcing, which is too slow a process to use for news - a problem Wikitribu
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
I have lost the same amount from about the same weight in the past eight weeks or so, and will have no trouble continuing. The key (for me at least) is to eat a big lunch (around 1000 calories) of whatever you like (today I had burger and f
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
Many journalists are happy to censor opposing views.
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
>And then a couple of other guys came to support him. And there's the rub. On Wikipedia, 'truth' is determined by the most powerful players on the page.
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
It's not really a choice between a feed tuned to extract cash from small businesses and a newsletter though, is it? People were seeing my business's posts without any complaint until Facebook throttled the reach. I was also a Face
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
The business closed. And, I'm doing my part...
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't mention that Facebook has a history of screwing small business owners. A few years ago I spent more than $4000 on Facebook to build up about 4000 fans for a karaoke venue I ran at the time. I'd
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by sparkzilla 9y ago
It doesn't shit all over your floor.

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