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by sprafa 5y ago
By not getting vaccinated you are pushing the onus of responsibility to society. When you occupy a bed in a hospital for a preventable disease (like covid post-vaccine) you are a detriment to society. You are occupying precious resources be
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by sprafa 5y ago
What do you mean the HD version of Seinfeld is 16:9? That is a complete distortion of the intention of EVERYONE involved with making the show. I hate when they do that. I can’t watch the HBO HD copy of The Wire for the same reason. The whol
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by sprafa 5y ago
An artwork? Well, maybe.
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by sprafa 5y ago
This is no different from Miami printing dollars no? How is this legal?
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by sprafa 5y ago
It’s interesting and most likely not applicable - for the very same reasons you cant get realistic sword fighting (or even street fighting) in most Hollywood movies: realistic fighting doesn’t look as exciting as the fake thing. Glad the au
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by sprafa 5y ago
This is tiny steps. I agree there is some evidence of movement in the right direction, but I can't agree that ESG puts a price on carbon - I don't know how much of an impact it has, but it's doubtful that it has the impact a
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by sprafa 5y ago
The market won't be able to adapt fast enough, I think. I don't think all prevailing narratives in the media are false. The idea that most of our industry benefits from climate change being considered an "externality" is
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by sprafa 5y ago
There's a difference between knowing you don't understand something and thinking that you do - that's the difference between cargo cult thinking vs actual thinking. Cargo cults are antivaxx, anti-climate change. Things that a
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by sprafa 5y ago
That's the evidence that the climate change "doubters" are really concentrated on the decision-making/ruling elite. But the reason for that is simple - if you don't support climate-change legislation you get more fu
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by sprafa 5y ago
was Seinfeld shot on video or 35mm film? Interesting to know. Also Netflix's obsession with 4K is slightly anti-scientific and counterproductive imo. They are really boxing in their content creators at times, plus 4K can't be reso
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by sprafa 5y ago
69% of Americans believe climate change is real. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans ... That's an overwhelming majority. The 'doubt' is media-created FUD being replicated to pret
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by sprafa 5y ago
69% of Americans believe climate change is real. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans... That's an overwhelming majority. The 'doubt' is media-created FUD being replicated to pre
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by sprafa 5y ago
another way to look at it is that cargo cult thinking is the default mode for human thinking. This is something I've noticed recently and increasingly believe to be true. The vast majority of people do NOT take the time to build an opi
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by sprafa 5y ago
that's what happens when most people are vaccinated. This whole thing is dumb. We know vaccines work. Let's move on to interesting and productive things.
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by sprafa 5y ago
A bit of a tangent but you can scan virtually any film made between 1915 and 2000 or so and get a pristine, super sharp 4K to 6k copy. That’s because they were shot on 35mm film. 35mm film is estimated to have a “resolution” of around 4K. E
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by sprafa 5y ago
How did they manage that ?
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OpenSea Becomes First NFT Unicorn(thedefiant.io)
3 points by sprafa 5y ago|0 comments
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by sprafa 5y ago
it's a monster, Unesco is absolutely right to say that this is not congruent with a world heritage site.. They were also warned multiple times apparently.
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by sprafa 5y ago
That's the whole point. You can repurpose the buildings within reason, that's what they've done in Porto where I've spent some time. Porto used to have lots of derelict buildings in its Heritage area, they've been r
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by sprafa 5y ago
lol look at what they are building on the site - http://stadiumdb.com/designs/eng/bramley_moore_dock_stadium Liverpool clearly lost interest in the World Heritage state and decided to go in another direction. Have
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by sprafa 5y ago
Gosh. Thanks this actually forced me to review the literature and actually yes you’re right and I was wrong. Turns out some pop econ articles I read recently where deceitful. The thing I did read about and seemed to hold up was rent control
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by sprafa 5y ago
Let us keep remembering that there is no evidence that raising minimum wages increases unemployment (The Big Lie the economists use to defend their hypothetical model of how this works).
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Fifty people close to Mexico’s president among potential targets of NSO clients(theguardian.com)
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by sprafa 5y ago
Do you really think this was comic book supervillain? I remember this happening at the time and my impression was that it was happening without a doubt. Particularly when they announced the results a few days after the election. My thinking
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by sprafa 5y ago
Final Cut Pro most likely.
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by sprafa 5y ago
It’s really long-term planning. Valve gets shut for not following through on game projects these days, but building Proton and preparing Linux for gaming will yield 10x to 1000x the returns on making a game… Let’s not forget they were the s
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by sprafa 5y ago
if the microSD card slot works ok, I think the price is exactly right. Doesn't the switch run games from SD cards?
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by sprafa 5y ago
The Valve Index is working just fine. If you follow VR devices, it's actually now the only one with good support and no huge privacy issues.
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by sprafa 5y ago
The Valve Index was a testing ground for their hardware efforts. I 100% believe they are serious, they've built a hardware operation.
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by sprafa 5y ago
Youtube is well managed. They might have a real shot with this. I sense Instagram stories potential to disrupt an up and coming platform.

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