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Maybe that’s a good thing?

Are you sure about this? I know Whatsapp was on an exponential growth curve before it was acquired, what was IG’s future looking like?

These are conceptually interesting but like others said they don’t really fit the purpose. They’re almost all unreadable at smaller sizes.

My personal view on it is (likely) as far from making logos as it is from telling stories. That is at least one but maybe multiple paradigms away.

How is this related to the chip shortage and Toyota?

it would be interesting to figure out what percentage of Android users do side loading. In my experience, it's way higher than 1%. Maybe 10%, and way higher in young groups.

I wouldn't say they're outlandish, but this story about the SNP and Scotland is printed both here and in the Daily Mail. Whenever I see such a coincidence in the British media, it's worth double and triple checking. Might be that Lord Rothemere and the Barclay Brothers have decided to do a number on someone. You have to remember the concentration of power in the British media is immense.

The Telegraph conducts no journalism I'm even aware of. They just print "news" which fit their agenda. Even The Times is incomparable, even though they both lean right The Times actually carries stuff that's worth reading. The Telegraph is just a political party paper that happens to have national outreach.

It’s absolutely obvious that iOS has to allow side loading and other app stores. It’s user hostile and tyrannical of Apple to do otherwise. Always was. It’s a huge fat 30% margin for them but no other computer in history I’ve heard of had operated in such a closed garden.

One country (US/EU) will eventually pass legislation, that I hope is sweep enough that we will never see a situation like this again. Apple has no right to build the iPhone then seal it against the user itself. This should never have been allowed, ever.

The Telegraph is sort of a propaganda rag masquerading as a “serious” newspaper. It serves the interests of the Tory party similar to how The Guardian is always left-wing in everything it does.

Don’t listen to me - Dominic Cummings is a part of the Tory Party hates the Telegraph and has been highly critical of their pretend journalism on Twitter. The telegraph is a part of a power structure, not a real newspaper.

Don’t trust this paper. Double and triple check everything.

YouTube suppresses multi drugs treatments ?

As much as people say that there is no organic way to find films at this point in time. There is nothing like Early Access for films or TV. You need the backing of a large organisation to make a film - they’re just too expensive. So interestingly games have both a lower start cost, a better alt-funding infrastructure and more opportunities for competition through an open storefront like Steam.

There is nothing similar in Film today - people don’t open the Vimeo paid section daily looking for new stuff to watch, neither does Vimeo allow for “fund this project” drives. I have hopes crypto DAOs will emerge to solve this issue.

I think the economics of this are radically different. The movies that get released in theatres have already gone through A Great Filter - they’ve either been selected or made from the get go to movie theaters. When you have a film going to theatres you already have a lot of spend behind it, a marketing campaign etc. Sadly the most reliable correlation for whether a movie makes profit is how much you spent on marketing (and no I am not kidding).

Lots of movies, in fact the vast majority of them don’t get to go to theaters. It used to be that this meant VHS or dvd release, now it means streaming, sometimes even just YouTube or Vimeo release. If you go to any film festival circuit I no your life you will see upwards of 1000+ films in a year. But not that many of them will go to theaters anywhere in the world.

Basically the 20$M films you talk about have some reasonable chance of sucess. Gaming is a bit more of a free for all, having steam, early access, GOG. You have a Wild West capitalism type of ultra competitive env. When you launch a film in theatres, that is not what’s happening at all - you’ve already gotten a booking at the natural moated monopoly of Very Large Screens, a limited amount of which you have in the world.

Basically I would estimate that the chance to launch a game and have VERY slim returns is far higher than a film.

Where is this from! Wikipedia? Want to read more

USDC has been audited and it's solid. I know of people in large banks who are working with USDC and they've vouched for it being 100% ok.

It’s truly horrific that as an interested layman I am completely UNABLE to read most scientific papers. And to think about what they did to Aaron Schwartz…

Then you can read Reuters.

This is one of the top comments and one I 100% agree with.

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Sigh... Idiocy is like a virus. We don't have a vaccine for it, but we used to keep it under control through isolation. Every village might have its idiot, but at least the idiots were in separate villages. Thanks to Facebook and other social media, the idiots now get together all the time in online super spreader events of idiocy. Now the idiocy pandemic is out of control, and we still have no vaccine. Of course a new idiocy variant would be the denial of germ theory during a pandemic of a novel virus. We are so fucked.

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I think we might be going from a genetic to a memetic evolutionary process/society. Right now we’re on the start of something terrible, because memetically we’ve opened the organism and are letting bacteria fester.

The 1930s were similar. We allowed mass psychosis to set in through the new medium of radio. Now we’re letting it set in through the internet. Different kinds but same effect. We’re about to head into a similar mass psychosis event.

wow this is mind blowing I own several of these and I had no idea.

Because vaccination is virtually free in comparison to getting people to lose weight.

Vaccination takes minutes while getting someone to lose weight takes months.

Whatever. This whole vaccine vs obesity is a false dillemma and a logical fallacy. And if you’re smart you know this and if you’re not smart it’s not worth the trouble to try and educate you.

You can not watch the movies you know. Nobody forced you to.

Movies are just fairy tales and people enjoy fairy tales for good reason. Stories are actually a very efficient way to sharing information. I could why in detail but I’d just say it’s the way we process information is more emotional than logical. A fairy tale is essentially a hyper compressed emotional truth (when it is a GOOD fairy tale).

This is just a fallacious argument but you know this. Saying “if x is true then why not y also” is just a false dillemma. Not sure who you are but potentially just a russian bot troll of some kind.

Why would you want such a culture? People love movies and probably can learn how untrue or true they are by just googling stuff. I certainly do.

Ignoring the meat of the argument to say some straw man nonsense. Gday troll

They are doing that very same thing with sugar taxes in other countries. The USA is not the world and my argument really is focused on countries with free healthcare.

If you watch MMA you would know that this fight would be over around the 1 minute mark.

The impression of realism you get here is not real realism - just a way to simulate it, still holding onto the tropes of the genre and the “time dilation” necessary for suspense in filmmaking.

Real street fights don’t last long, and fights between trained fighters are even shorter. one sucker punch or one good chokehold is all it takes.

This is great but virtually all of this is similar to what I know about the samurai - most fighting with a sword ends VERY quickly with someone getting stabbed. We are talking about an encounter between two men being decided in a few swordstrokes. Seconds, not minutes. There is not much room for 3-5-10 minute fights and acrobatics.

Yes it’s interesting as a YouTube video, but for filmmaking suspense comes from “dilating” the moment in time, spending as much as possible in each step before the final blow.

With realistic sword fighting, this is mostly impossible afaik.

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 because you were dumb. Just dumb. No ifs or buts - we need to start calling out stupidity again.

We already handle people occupying hospital resources with self inflicted diseases, like lung cancer or liver trouble, by taxing the shit out of cigarettes and liquor (in countries where universal healthcare is a thing). We can’t put a covid tax on people I guess, so we might as well mandate vaccinations for everything we can.

People who believe vaccines aren’t at least reducing mortality by 10x to 100x can just maintain their stupidity and become pariahs to society. I idgaf anymore. These people are dumb and I won’t waste another breath defending them. It is immediately proven from vaccination campaigns globally that the impact vaccines have is at least 10x reduction in mortality. Vaccines would be worth it even if they killed 1/2 of the numbers of covid, bout they don’t. They are a HUGE reduction.

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 whole point of cinema is you choose what the f** is within the frame. That’s literally PART of the art form, and an integral one at that.

An artwork? Well, maybe.

This is no different from Miami printing dollars no? How is this legal?