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Interesting viewpoint, I have heard manga artists being overworked. The deadlines are crushing. Studio Ghibli for a long time had to rely on outside animators due to cost, and american studios like Disney fired all of their hand animators. It is a brutal industry.

Chinese Panda conservation is a kind of 'soft power'. Being a place with Tigers and Rhinos is large bragging rights that I think they would be Keen to hold. Chinese Medicine can be changed to exclude endangered animals if Chinese Govt are able to handpick religious leaders.

Science headlines with the word 'could', 'could' hold the secret of eternal youth.

The language hijacking of the word 'commons' is unethical (a point mentioned in the essay). Congress does it all the time with the names of their bills though.

I see, was thinking he meant the "deactivated" thing,

Yeah, I told everyone I was concerned about data collection and deleted it, this was around year 2012. It took two weeks of not logging back in.

There's a difference between deleting and deactivating I think, I deleted mine.

That was it.

So I guess I was looking up peatbogs, they seem to be a large source, could we turn large areas of the northern continents into peatbogs? Seagrasses or maybe some micro organism I guess could help store it into calcium carbonate? Limestone. So maybe there is a way we could do something like that? I don't know, I just think it's a tall order and will need some engineered process. It's hard to see how.

"one of the scholars posits that the restorers tend to go for the most vivid and saturated versions of whichever colors they detect."

This makes a lot of sense, the artists who made the statue were likely more able at the coloring aspect than simply solid colors

Thanks for your thoughtful reply

I think it does :) if they live longer. my question is just fun and I like Japanese aesthetics.

I do seem to get many bad links, but I think it may be Search Engine Optimization? Or possibly it seems Google takes me to more social media links than in the past.

Maybe conversely, I think Arabic written script is lovely with flowing line.

I read here a day or two ago plants can be anesthetized with the same things that also knock us out.

Does knowledge of this change the equation?

A new software engineering maxim:

"The bar of complaint will rise to meet any improvements"

Right local pressure, not worldwide.

I was under the impression there was some pressure and not just lack of demand, but if that's not the case then a possibility is Taleb's use of the kosher lemonade example.

http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/subway-removes-ham-and-ba...

This post said it was removed by 'Strong demand' so you can see where I came to my understanding. Whereas it did not say removed by lack of demand, as what I think you implied.

See it is easier to remove the product, than it is to keep the surfaces clear of the offending product. Do you see how it would be wise to remove it? The point still stands.

Seems a case of what Taleb called 'Tyranny of the Small Minority" or, "the most intolerant wins", In his book "Skin in the Game".

Anyway I only gave the book 3 stars, but an example is Subway removing pork from stores after strong demand from a religious group.

"Opponents of deplatforming generally argue that the long-term reaction to the deplatforming is worse than the problem the bad person's ideas were causing."

Not just that the reaction is worse, that the deplatforming erodes the spirit of free speech. I believe free speech is an important part of democracy.

"Yup - first line of advice I give to family now is "shut your social profiles, and get off of the internet"

I don't have facebook, but I find I'm very pressured to use it and instagram for work related promotion...

I think the biggest problem is the addictive nature of it, followed by the self-esteem erosion. Does staying in contact outweigh the drawbacks?

I wonder if there's more than meets the eye behind this?

I'm actually genuinely asking? I know from him what it isn't, but what is it according to him?

Thinking more we have Turner making everything super blurry to the point that it's just fields of color.

Whistlers falling rocket (nocturne in black and gold), sort of blurs the line

I think your post is really good

But what is happiness then?

Wow! Yeah that feeling of the big storm

It's close, that's pleasure in someone else's misery? maybe it is the same thing after all? But I get this feeling when the power goes out too.

We take a special Joy when things break, I wonder if there is a word for that?

Interesting link, I just skimmed it but I don't think it quite showed top talent is a myth, but rather that our ways of measuring that talent is flawed, this syncs up with ideas from Moneyball as well. We know that pitching is a talent, but we struggle to project who will be the future star due to our preconcieved biases.

So in the story they found a stronger correlation between tacit knowledge than simply IQ for instance.

The Nature Company

Thank you!

in XKCD comic "Lisp" God also says the universe was mostly hacked together with Perl.

Edit: I see I read the story but I didn't click the first comic, just the second one, Sorry disregard.

Another language that gets holy reverence is smalltalk.