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Aardman Animation, the stop-motion studio behind the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit shorts and Chicken Run, has brokered a new deal that puts ownership of the studio in the hands of its devoted team of employees. Founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who started the company in 1972, has ordered 75% of shares [1] placed into a trust, where they will be held for Aardman’s workers.

Lord and Sproxton have no plans for retiring anytime soon, but they wanted to shift their priorities at the company. Lord said, “We’ve spent so much time building this company up and being so profoundly attached to it. It’s not a business to us, it’s everything, it’s our statement to the world. Having done that for so many years, the last thing we wanted to do was to just flog it off to someone.”

Sproxton added, “And we wanted to make sure they are all engaged in this employee ownership as well,” assuring their team that they won’t be in danger of a big studio buyout. Both men are committed to keeping Aardman’s uniquely close-knit culture. “There’s no real concern about the culture of the people, it’s just an asset that can be sold on in years to come,” he said of a corporate acquisition.

The studio is located in Bristol, U.K., where a team of 130 staffers run the beloved stop-motion animation company. During production, that number can swell to nearly three times that size for a feature-length film. Aardman is currently in production on <em>Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie, which will be followed by the long-awaited Chicken Run 2.

Sproxton and Lord will join director Nick Park on Aardman’s new executive board of directors. Park, who has been with the company since its early days, directed the Oscar winning Wallace &amp; Gromit shorts, which include The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and the film The Curse of The Were-Rabbit, which won Best Animated Feature in 2005. Park and Lord co-directed 2000’s Chicken Run, which remains the highest-grossing stop motion animated film of all time.

Lord said of his and Sproxton’s future with the company, “We’re not quitting yet, we are doing this because we love the company and because we love it we think this will be the best things for it. This is not about David and I leaving. It is a continuity deal. We always believed that independence was our strong suit. We didn’t have to dance to anybody else’s tune and could make our own decisions.”

This move towards continued independence and self reliance follows Aardman’s carefully hand-made approach their projects. Their films are beloved for their handcrafted aesthetic and their commitment to British humor and culture. Their latest move to share ownership ensures that Aardman will remain as charming and unique as they always have been.

[1] href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/10/wallace-gromit-...
White listing only helps them if you then actually click on ads, since advertising networks usually pay per click, not per view.
What about the Dyson dilemma? We've indeed detected "voids", but we're unable to confirm their origin.
I almost typed out a disbelieving response because I missed the /s :D
Do you count the American Civil War as a colonial war?
It’ll last about five minutes. The first issue will see the reviewers and editorial board subject to a hail of condemnation that will threaten or end their careers. Even if the authors are anonymous, everyone identifiable will be attacked for having the gall to give them a platform. All this does is invite people to shoot the messenger, and they will.
> but people need to become more comfortable with attaching their identities to their ideas.

You give no reason why that should be the case. Holding a controversial opinion and not being on your toes how you phrase things can easily provoke bans/deplatforming in many environments. It's a lot easier to just let another account bite the dust than tiptoe around things all the time just to maintain a persistent identity.
> To be clear, this means we cannot ever tell what individual people are doing since everyone is anonymous

Nope. This means that they tell us that they cannot tell what individual people are doing. But as they said right in the sentence before that, we are supposed to believe that they don't store IP addresses.

> And like with all other requests to DuckDuckGo, there is no personally identifiable information embedded in them, and we do not store IP addresses associated with them.

That is an outright lie even. HTTP Headers contain enough data already to make individuals distinguishable. Add some data science and you got some fancy profiles of your users.

I don't know what's going on with HN and DDG, but seriously is everyone just buying into this marketing bs? Why should I trust DDG with their claims about privacy instead of Google, Bing, or any other company?
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Bill Gates did see Netscape as a potential threat to Windows. Java with Sun's "the network is the computer" motto as well. So yeah, people in the 90s were dreaming big. And then in the 2000s people were complaining that Microsoft set computing back by a decade.
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I'm a fan of exa as an ls-replacement :)

exa -l --git will list N/M git status flags in the output and:

exa --git-ignore will obey .gitignore when you're listing files :)

Works like a charm in my experience.
DDG: Due to privacy concerns and bang functionality. !a <term> searches amazon, !yt for youtube, !w wikipedia, etc etc. If DDG's results are not satisfactory, you can easily type !g to do an encrypted google search. I see no real downside other than DDG being a bit slower than google sometimes.
It is hard and risky to create quality animation movies. But it is pretty easy to milk a brand - just witness all the cheap sequels and spin-offs Disney have produced based on classics like Bambi or Cinderella. Disney (or someone similar) might very well buy Ardman to milk the IP.

> it would be in the purchaser's best interest to manage it as if it were a butterfly.

Maybe so, but there is no guarantee they will do that. Remember that Disney fired the whole hand-animation department, despite the whole company being build on hand-drawn animation.
Would the quarter million casualties of the Franco-Prussian war push it into the category of "serious, bloody" conflict?
Click on Reader View (in Firefox, perhaps other browsers have that too) to see the text without agreeing to anything.
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I don't find this surprising, knowing that fried or baked starchy foods contain at least one carcinogenic element, called acrylamide. Its name sounds nasty and it's provably quite bad, but bread is still one of the corner stones civilization.

We need to quantify these risks, educate builders and make 3D printers as safe as possible, but TFA did give me a slight sense of alarmism.
In recent time there has been more acknowledgement of the role the commonwealth nations played in the conflict. However, that's not part of the popular narrative of WW1, and is given cursory treatment in most histories.

The article is well worth reading in its entirety.
This is not the only 2 options.

First the IP is not negligible, for a company like this the IP is their company.

Second Even if this mythical company buys them and has ever intention of "keeping the employees" and "allowing the company to run as before" a company that is consumed by a larger organization will over time loses its identity, it does not matter if both parties desire to "keep the magic" it never works. EVER. HR polices, Legal, management style etc from the larger parent ALWAYS makes it way to a subsidiary.
Nothing like redirecting the conversation by implying there's "outrage" that's somehow "manufactured", yes?

Particularly because it sidesteps the things the company actually did (areas razed to the ground include 25,000 hectares of habitations in Indonesia that are home to the critically endangered orangutan) while at the same putting the blame on consumers (just do xyz, why wouldn't you).

And who can forget those pesky journalists, reporting on stuff - how dare they.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427795

480+ points
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EU GDP: 18.8 trillion -- India GDP: 2.5 trillion

India has almost three times the population of the EU. If that is "failing" I think we can fail a bit more.
The author of the piece - Pankaj Mishra - has a track record of making racist anti-white statements under the guise of anti-racism.

Here he's calling Jordan Peterson a fascist: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and...

In the same article, writing about Peterson's friendship with Charles Joseph, a Kwakwaka'wakw sculptor, Pankaj Mishra shared the following insight with the world:

"Peterson may seem the latest in a long line of eggheads pretentiously but harmlessly romancing the noble savage."
That's what I'm wondering about. How did Boeing get away without disclosing it. Or if they disclose it how did FAA agree that this is not something that pilots need to know and train for. If they signed off on Boeing not letting pilots know FAA should be on the hook for this too.
I actually find this slows me down, even if I hit tab to use what it's suggested - it's distracting having the suggestion change as you type, and I find myself stopping to read what it's suggested before accepting it or restarting typing, which loses my thread of concentration.
Very high on the list of things that capitalism has brought: socialism. It literally would not exist without capitalism. Therefore, whatever you can attribute to socialism, it's also an indirect outcome of capitalism.
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Is all get when I try to test my website.
Try publishing via Elsevier and see what you are left with, compared to that 30% is really nothing.
A stick Pusher is not a new feature, if you're right, and the FAA signed off that operators of the NG did not need any supplementary training and that caused the accident that will be very ugly for Boeing
Explain to me like a I'm a dumb cunt.

Theses people are incredibly poor, their kids died from simple things a $1 pill would solve (prescribed by a million $ doctor... yes it's not simple.) But I get it, orangutans are cuter than someone else's dead kid.

I'm not sure what's proposed here, boycotting palm oil perhaps?

But why would they not just knock down the forest and plant something else? If palm oil is particularly productive, knock down more forest to make up for it?
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You have a very eurocentric view of technological advancement.

The technologies that bootstraped the European civilization come from the fertile crescent, aka middle east. Not only that, but what is eaten in Europe are mostly plants and animals that are not endemic to Europe. Take that away and you would have a continent full of people spending all their time trying to feed themselves, without time to innovate and with a lower population.

The European Reinassance is 99% of the time misattributed. The real causes were:

- the introduction of paper to Europe (as an alternative to parchments, made from animal skin)

- the introduction of a new numeral system

- the acceptance of secular thought

- the Latin translations of the 12th century

- the scientific method

None of those fundamental prerequisites are European merit. And yet it is hardly ever mentioned because it does not justify a messed up perspective of the world where one group of people "civilized" the rest of the world.

Before St Thomas Aquinas reformed the church through philosophy, scientific research would be considered heresy and could get you killed. St Thomas Aquinas studied from St Albert Magnus, from Latin translations made in Spain after the fall of the Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).

Copernicus developed his theories by studying the Alphonsine tables, compilation of observations made by ancient astronomers. The Alphonsine tables were also Latin translations made in Spain.

Take away the Alphonsine tables and modern numerals and you've got no Copernicus, no Galileo, no Newton. Take away paper or secularism and you get nothing at all.

Europe continued the work of fallen civilizations, did not figure it out everything from scratch.
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Ok, but why ?
Definitely not. Simple services like ipchicken.com will show you're using an IP address local to the roaming provider that you're using. If you're travelling far enough, you can try accessing local services vs home-country-services and compare loading times. Or better still, just ping various services that are local or in your home and compare the actual latencies.
> If you give your children unfettered access to youtube, that's your own fault as a parent.

How do you propose to prevent the disasters described in this thread? YouTube have loose standards and virtually no demonstrated ability for enforcement. I'm specifically worried about giving locked down PC to kid with my best effort and still kids getting exposed to content that they are not yet ready to process. How does YouTube enables me to to make sure that kids are protected?
650,000 casualties in the Franco-Prussian War. The November Uprising 100,000 casualties. Russo-Turkish War 200,000 casualties. Crimean War 800,000 casualties.

I guess I don't know what counts as a serious, bloody conflict.
> European big-pharma has discouraged generics and off-label, and has been assisted in this endeavor by the French state.

Regarding France, I find odd (hypocrite?) that the French state is pushing against generics abroad, whereas locally the (state-run) social security system and health ministry are pushing for generics, because they are cheaper (and thus cheaper to refund).
I have read that Ferrero (makers of Ferrero Roche chocolates among others) are harvesting palm oil in a sustainable manner - however even that gives me pause, because as far as I know, palm oil plantations are not really sustainable per se?

The palm trees themselves are fast growing but tend to deplete the ground soil they are on of all available nutrients very quickly, meaning that really nothing else can be planted in their place for many, many years and can be expected to grow.

It is really a 'scorched earth' type plantation in more ways than one. I really don't believe there can be a sound 'sustainable' model of farming palm oil like most other plant resources.
That's not how the Portuguese see themselves and their role within the EU.

That being said, of course, there will always be friction, just like there is friction inside nations due to unequal distribution of wealth and structural disadvantages of certain regions. That was my point. Monetary transfers and other aid to certain regions are unavoidable unless you want to get into a vicious long-term downwards spiral. That's the same everywhere, whether in Europe, in China, or in the US. If you leave the economically weak countryside without any help and perspective, they'll turn against the rich regions some day or migrate towards them, and you've made things worse than if you transfer money right from the start and try to decentralize resources and services from the beginning.

Portugal is currently doing fine, but other countries don't do so well. There will always be a region that is not doing well. It is wholly unrealistic to expect this not to be the case within a union of any kind - whether it's a union of states/regions within a country or a union of nations.
inferiorhuman appears to know what he is talking about; you can safely ignore the comments preceding his (except the useful alternative link).
I've used a bunch of Wikis:
GitLab Wiki (pretty awful),
GitHub Wiki (same),
Confluence (capable, but tedious),
Moinmoin (crufty), and
MediaWiki (kinda over the top).

Confluence's export to PDF is kinda useful: we were able to maintain manuals that looked acceptable using it.

Other than Wikis, I've used: Texinfo (it has a "look", but is pretty capable), LaTeX, troff (and nroff), ReST / Sphinx (clunky, but the end result is ok), DocBook and FOP (for structured docs), Framemaker, Word, and Google Docs.

Things I'd consider when making a choice are the skillset of the authors and editors; the balance between text and not-text (figures, photos, videos, whatever) in the content; the required output (PDF? HTML? man pages? Windows help?); and the toolset support (eg. useful diff and merge tools).

If I had to choose today, I'd probably go with Confluence (largely because the plugin ecosystem is just so much bigger/better than any of the other Wikis I've used) for internal or knowledge-base type things, and maybe Sphinx/ReST for more complex published documents, although I'd likely have a look at AsciiDoc or something else in that sort of space too. For a seriously large documentation project, I'd possibly still build a DocBook-based workflow.
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In the US, people need not resort to smuggling. Rather, they consume drugs intended for non-human animals.

https://mashable.com/2017/08/06/fish-antibiotics-america-hea...
Is there a way to go straight to the first result using Jive Search? With DuckDuckGo searching for "example !" does this. (This is the main reason I don't use Searx.)
There was plenty of important conflicts in Europe between WW1 and the Napoleonic wars, not on the same scale, but it was hardly peaceful. Europe was undergoing major structural changes with the advent of nationalisms.

And the causes of war are a lot more complicated than just Germany looking for export markets and colonies. It might be one of many causes (or rather consequences of other factors), but it's hardly the basic driver.
To put this into perspective: palm oil for biofuel and heating currently makes up around 60% of the palm oil imports into Europe.

Greenpeace has been targeting European food companies over palm oil where the majority of the increased palm oil demand from Europe that has directly caused the clearing of rainforest to meet this demand, has been for biofuels because the EU had a mandatory biofuels component in fuel. This biofuels policy was driven by anti-nuclear organisations like Greenpeace, and yet they blame food producers whose demand has actually been sustainable without the need for massive clearing out of forests before biofuels came into the picture.

The EU has now moved to ban the use of palm oil for biofuel, but it's only being phased out slowly until 2030. This is being replaced by rapeseed oil in Europe. Unfortunately protecting the seeds of this crop was one of the biggest uses of neonicotinoid pesticides which is blamed for the decline in bee populations. The EU now also put a moratorium on using these pesticides so now older and more harmful pesticides are being used instead and with the increased demand I am worried about the impacts we'll see in the future.

Yet Greenpeace targets food companies. It's because Greenpeace is a political organisation, their purpose is to be anti-corporation and they just use the environment just as a tool to that end. They target retail brands while staying silent when governments destroy the environment intentionally or through badly conceived regulation.
This is the most plausible explanation. I’ve seen this effect during ice storms.
Eeeeh. Even "traditional" products get "enhanced" with palm oil. I was buying certain mainstream-but-local cookies for a long time since they had no palm oil. I double-checked the label some time ago and they put in palm oil now. Now idea when the changed happened. I inspected every single make of cookies (I love cookies, thankyouverymuch) in several chains of supermarkets and pretty much every option had palm oil. So far, my only option is either super expensive "farmers' market" style cookies where significant part of price is for fancy packaging and buying experience. Oh, and I've to drive across town to one of the few lcoations.

I just want a damn bag of cookie without any BS :(
No it did not. Up until eighties, accuracy of ICBMs was so bad, that they were completely useless against even a brigade sized formation in an open field. There is even a theory that Khrushchev intentionally nudged USA into believing into "missile gap," as a part of diversion.

TBMs were another story, but there USSR had a sizeable lead in them.
What about the Franco-Prussian War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War from 1870-1871.

Between France and Germany, over 3 million soldiers were deployed and 44,000 Germans and 138,000 French soldiers died.

There was also the Crimean War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War from 1853-1856, in which all sides mobilized over a million soldiers and suffered 750,000 losses and casualties (including deaths from disease).

Finally, although not in Europe, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 was a foretaste of what industrialize warfare looked like with artillery, trenches, railroads and telegraphs, as well as the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure as a way to destroy the enemies' ability to continue to wage a war.
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Has anyone viewed the report? It's full of elements never used on the sites I checked.

While it is still in beta (like all Google products are) don't take this serious.
Anyone can prop their GDP by borrowing and making their children under debt. Also, anyone can get rich by looting their neighbors. That's exactly what happened in colonial times. And former is underway. So not sure what you are on about?
The thalidomide tragedy didn't happen in France too, because of a new law adding stricter controls on drugs.
Real chocolate should have 0% Palm oil, that's part of the problem
Why believe anything else he has written?

A large part of the ceremony is given over to the laying of commonwealth wreathes, which is straight after the last post.

It's a basic fact which he seems to claim doesn't happen, how much more of his writing is given over to this bias?
They’re not being disenfranchised for their opinions. It’s nobodys right to give a talk at a conference. It’s just that people don’t want to be friends with bigots.

If you spout bad opinions people like you less. If you show bad judgement people won’t want to hire you.

If you preach an ideology that implicitly concludes that a certain set of people are biologically inferior, it’s not a surprise that people who disagree will fight you about it. What else do you expect? What other outcome? “Oh cool yeah you think I’m subhuman. awesome. Let’s get to work.” In what universe does _that_ align with free association?
I remember seeing a documentary about some Boeing employees who were whistleblowing about safety issues with the upcoming 737MAX. I can't find it now. Any connection?

I don't see how Boeing will remain immune to the race to the bottom culture plaguing American business.
Not too take it too deep, but a Chocolate factory in the early 1900 is fundamentally using products involving slavery and productions from remote island where local population social well being is not really a focus.

It comes with the times, and it was just normal from an English empire perspective. Just saying, it's a matter of perspective I guess.
Gary v is extremely annoying. But what makes it porn is that it's what people want to hear. Hes just selling people what they want in the end. It's a bit sad
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Cargo cult means imitating something for the sake of it, not doing rain dances or other backwards stuff.