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people forget that what makes art impressive is also the skill of the artist in the respective medium
if someone creates a perfect color gradient fill in Photoshop nobody is going to be impressed but make it with colored pencils and people may regard it as stunning
the beauty is also in the effort it took to create, not only in what the result looks like - i don’t need to take time to look at stuff people didn’t take time to make
exactly, the web was created on open protocol specifications, not T-Systems or AT or whatever getting money and renting it to everyone
i have a business case to become the major player in the chip industry: buy the planet’s economy
yeah and productivity increase has decoupled from wage in 1980, while productivity rises wages stay the same - why should anyone who’s not a multimillionaire find that acceptable?
yes they do (am German) but politicians are dancing on eggshells with Israeli behavior and the antisemitism-accusations
imo, uncritically supporting what the Israeli government is doing hurts the rememberance of the Holocaust - how can you sell ‘never again’ when civilians have to suffer like this?
Getting ready for GTA 6 I see
they got billions to invest into new drive technologies and didn’t
they have really tight contracts with all of their suppliers but didn’t act in time to get the electric vehicle suppliers into similar contracts
Back when business was done entirely by paper, you’d have catalogues, books full of tables of things you could order with their prices. You have limited space for printing item names and those abbreviations were used there (e.g. in the 1920s).
listen to the director’s commentary of the thing or escape from new york - both are extremely entertaining. Kurt Russell and Carpenter are drinking and laughing their asses off.
“Johnny 5 chan” and i set the voice to Japanese. I have no idea what it’s saying exactly but it sounds very polite when it’s stuck.
Wikipedia is not the Achilles heel of free access to information. The Achilles heel are the sources: libraries, websites.
Consider donating to the internet archive instead or as well. If the sources are poisoned, Wikipedia just repeats bullshit. It’s secondary literature.
Yeah there is no conspiracy here only arrogance and party politics involving West Jordan.
Utilitarianism would lead you to that decision, you can justify any atrocity with it.
you could understand it as: the technology has the capacity to receive power that fast without breaking or catching fire
Yeah, there it is, in the first paragraph: net-zero carbon. And they reach net zero via offsetting schemes…
they get all content for free though, unlike netflix etc.
Star Trek TNG had it pretty right in terms of what’s moral or what is desirable