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I think his point is that escapism is fine for kids, but we're adults now and we're hindering ourselves by always escaping to a black-and-white good-and-evil fantasy land where there's no need for compromise or understanding as long as you have a big gun and supernatural powers.

Sometimes a hero is someone who unites, explains, or educates. But there's precious little of that in the kind of simplistic, violent, nuance-free "win" that continues to be perpetuated in this material. And that is to the detriment of society's ability to reason.
Vine was unnecessarily wrecked by Twitter's poor stewardship, and a fatal dispute with the community of stars who produced its top content: https://www.mic.com/articles/157977/inside-the-secret-meetin...

- pay creators

- deal with harassment

The two things, of course, that Twitter is totally incapable of doing. It's not clear how TikTok is responding to the same pressures.
Bad cinema can (and arguably must) stimulate the emotions, but I don't think that is what Scorsese is trying to get across here.

The marvel movies or whatever may stimulate emotions in us, but they do so primarily by dramatizing conditions which are so universal that we can all identify with them. That has limited artistic potential.

The critical phrase in Scorcese's quote, up there, is "to another human being". Literally almost anyone with a dead father misses their father. You aren't learning anything about the human condition by being reminded of the fact that you loved him. Being so reminded isn't bad by any means, or valueless. These movies help us process our emotions and live in the world.

But they aren't necessarily doing the hard artistic work of carrying you into the mind of someone else whose experiences, desires, pains, might be quite different than your own. They definitely aren't doing the artistic work of offering serious critique of the world.

These films are definitely escapists. I don't think Alan Moore is against escapism. I think he is worried by its total domination as a cultural form.
That makes sense, so I suppose the explanation might be that these bystanders were also outsiders, but, as turned out, presumably too late, they merely were in the wrong place at the wrong time as you say and guilty by proximity.

My initial reading was that they were known to be bystanders at the time of execution, which seemed a bit extreme even in that context. But you're right, it's equally possible to read their being bystanders as posthumous exoneration, which is much more likely.

(FWIW, I've been to Montana, and as a middle-class European, it certainly felt by far the most foreign of the 15 or so states I've visited in the US.)
I'm more inclined to think Trump's impeachment will be well timed to the date of Assange's extradition. The three letter agencies can live with an erratic president, but not one that might pardon or otherwise protect Assange. (Barr will eventually side with them, not Trump)
I enjoy deep philosophical exploratory stuff and at the same time love the quick respite that a movie like John Wick or a X-men provides. To each his own.
One could argue that real time ray tracing is a jump forward in this area.
Games are not movies though many making this connection is probably why many games are awful nowadays as they try to be something they are not. It doesn't surprise me that executives who have no idea about gaming see flashy graphics and associate them with movies.

Longevity is certainly not overrated, at least for me. Just yesterday i was playing Morrowind, a game released almost two decades ago and a few months before i was doing my 9th playthrough of Fallout New Vegas - not long after my 6th playthrough of Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines. All these are games that i have played many times over many years and have benefited tremendously from users having complete control over their computers and the files to mod them and fix them so they become the classics they are today. If anything, just VtmB alone is a great case of how much you can not rely on the official channels for support but also how much the community - thanks to having such control - can address the issues and give the game the attention it deserves. These are games i have played and had fun for years.

Of course these are just the more known ones. I have played (and even fixed myself) and had fun with games that have been forgotten by their own developers for many years now. I actively try to find lesser known and/or lesser well received older games - i spent several days playing something like Excalibur 2555AD, a clunky and mediocre game for most, yet i had fun exploring its weird dungeons and even weirder enemy designs that look like they escaped from some early 90s British comic).

None of that stuff would be possible with something like Stadia. All of those would be long gone, broken for all their short lifetime which would end to make space for the newest overhyped release and some of them - like Excalibur 2555AD - would barely exist for more than a few months after their failure.
The main idea here is that information is connected seamlessly. The idea of Web and its hyper links. But the pages on the Web grew enormously than the linking itself. Google sort of acts as the link in the middle. This is not a desirable state certainly. This needs to be fixed.
In retrospect this comment is hyper cynical even for me, and doesn't make a lot of sense that our choices wouldn't matter. I just can't get past the idea that my whole online life is there for someone with sufficient privilege to dig through. I feel so violated by the betrayal of mass surveillance because I invested most of my life into the internet thinking it was actually intended to be safe and egalitarian, not a spy machine and a tool for social control.
Interesting. Btw I have an old half-finished Java Swing diagramming (not UML) app lying around waiting to see the light of the day in ... this millenium hopefully ;)
Electron is surprisingly good-behaving and I get that it's of course attractive to develop mostly a web app that can also be deployed as desktop app, but isn't entirely without problems (for one, it isn't accepted in the App Store as it is). Things always look brighter on the other side of the fence, but throwing away your whole Java code base is kindof gross. Maybe we Java old schoolers could push JetBrains to open their Swing refactorings (of which I suppose there must be many) or sell their renovated Swing + Addons as a rich desktop appdev product. It's only in their best interest for Swing to have a future. And as IntelliJ shows, Swing isn't half bad a GUI toolkit in the hands of competent developers.
What, hitting children? It doesn't seem to work.

The only analogue in nature I can think of is violent competition among adult males.
Well, the rendering problem can be solved by using an existing game engine. Rendering is done in WebGL, and the engine abstracts away the browser-specific details.

Furthermore, because of Google's dominance, not many browser engines are left in the market. Essentially all you have to do is support WebKit, Gecko, Blink, and you'll cover 99.9% of your userbase.
I watched on youtube some Fallout4 and Skyrim gameplay and the player after adjusting some of the options seemed to enjoy it a lot, a few hours of playing seem possible for an average gamer after getting used with the technology.
If most of what you read is sci-fi or fantasy, it's possible that your entire life revolves around escapism, which isn't good for your mental development. I have found maybe two fantasy novels which can combine the real personal struggles and moral quandaries of regular human beings with fantasy themes and captivating writing.

Superhero movies can be emotionally deep or thought-provoking, but the vast majority of them are designed not to stimulate your mind, but to get you to keep buying buckets of popcorn for $15 and action figures. The one thing we don't need more of is mindless entertainment that coincidentally reinforces our biases and problematic thinking.
I can't imagine being an actual rape victim, meaning someone who was screaming in agony while being hit and penetrated by someone she wouldn't even kiss hearing that someone else who went home with a sexual partner that after foreplay tampered with the condom is going through something even remotely similar in psychological and physical damage.
Why do you have to be surprised by your entertainment?

You re-watched a movie which you found again enjoyable despite being a predictable experience now.

There are other metrics on which do judge entertainment or even art.
i can vouch for back4app, satisfied client.

Parse server OSS (and b4a service) does help us in our development.
Major US trends, but are people shilling on Reddit to support them? That's an honest question, I don't really read Reddit. I know there are a lot of people in the US who honestly believe in, say, private healthcare, so a lot of the comments in support of it could be explained as coming from Americans expressing their opinions, as opposed to government or corporate agents pushing an agenda.
> [Marvel movies are] theme parks. It isn't the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being. --Martin Scorsese

I find so much wrong with that view. Scorsese thinks they should be "something other than cinema." Cinema is just movies. There are all kinds of flavors. I like to just tune out and enjoy the ride on some movies, and some talk to the depths of the human condition. I find lots of things relatable in the Marvel movies. Loss of loved ones, awkward social interactions, elbow jabbing at friends.

When I'm searching for something to watch, I tend to go with Rotten Tomato scores as a valuable data point. One very valuable data point is high critics score and low audience score. Critics want everything to be psychological experiences, but I think a lot of them fail to realize that some movies will ring closer to home for some vs others.

An example is Joker. Not your typical comic book movie at all. With a very limited data set, I've seen people who have experienced the kind of life that Arthur experiences in that movie and it hits too close to home. Meanwhile, others who can't conceive of that as a reality dismiss the movie. Different films speak to different people.
Your explanation of the marshmallow test does not contradict the common interpretation of it. Your explanation proposes a mechanism for why the test subjects differ during the test. The common interpretation only explains that the tested difference is correlated with future outcomes.
Musk should have had his security clearance revoked but apparently some VIPs get to break federal law.
There is no name that could sell a meaningful number of $1000 systems, especially when the game is playable on a $400 system that's barely any worse than the $1000 one.
Simple Object Pool Library
Ran into a similar issue.
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>Excuse my ignorance

I really, really want to be mean to you, but I'll copy and paste the second and third sentences from the article.

Assange, who denies the accusation, has avoided extradition to Sweden for seven years after seeking refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London in 2012.

The 48-year-old Australian was evicted in April and sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.
That faint praise will transform into real praise once millions of BBC readers feel compelled to join those thousands already in Wikipedia's version of facebook.
A video of white noise was hit with multiple copyright claims:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523

> A musician who made a 10-hour long video of continuous white noise - indistinct electronic hissing - has said five copyright infringement claims have been made against him.
Only if you assume Stadia will be around seven years from now. You're essentially talking about spending $60 on game licenses, plus $130 on hardware, that may ultimately no longest exist in a few years.

At least I can reasonably assume an XBox One S digital purchased today will still "basically work" five-seven years from now. I won't assume that about Stadia.
raping women is being a dick with women.

And this wasn't the first time he was accused of rape.

It was at least the fourth time.

So yeah, being that kind of dick to women is a crime in my book.
Why is the PRC evil?
Yeah, my kids still love LEGO, but the sets don't seem to be well-designed for play (for younger kids in what used to be their primary target age-range) anymore compared to what they used to be. I bet the nicer-looking art tests better and moves units just fine, but once you actually put them together and watch kids assemble & play with them playability has clearly taken a backseat. I think assembled size vs. part count is a pretty good way to illustrate the difference.

LEGO itself is fine. Brick buckets are still great value. The sets just aren't as good for playing with as-is or for building/customizing on top of, anymore. With some exceptions I'm sure, but they used to just about all be designed, seemingly (in hindsight, now that we have modern ones to compare them to) play-first.
You've expressed a nagging feeling I've had for years beautifully here.

"Work hard and maximize your potential for... maybe someday having the luxury of time?" Nevermind that there's a cost to every hour spent working and it grows and grows with time. How many Sunday afternoons have you got left in your life? maybe 2800 if you're thirty? How many Sunday afternoons with a strong body? How many with your partner or kids? Do you want to trade those to answer some random bullshit on Slack? Is your job increasing net happiness, at least indirectly, or is it just pointless bullshit?

I think the idea is gaining traction - MrMoneyMoustache, etc. are popular but a huge amount of the things we're supposed to derive meaning from are just scaffolding around emptiness.

We live like gods compared to a few centuries ago, maybe we should take the time to enjoy it.
I'm just an n=1, but I got rid of my two Fitbits (returned to Costco as they were still within 90 days) primarily for this reason.
Sounds like you only know teachers in Illinois.
The space requirement issue keeps coming up because not everyone lives in the same sized house. Just because you have ample space to stand in your room waving your arms around with a headset on doesn't mean everyone else does.
This seems like a good argument against buying Stadia exclusives, but also against playing any MMO.

It's a matter of degree, depending on the whims of the market and dedication of the emulator scene. Not all old movies or games are available. Not all art has survived. And apparently the old World of Warcraft is back?
I'd point to that right alongside the recent obsession with bacon as a subtle anti-Jewish anti-Muslim sentiment. Certainly plenty of folks do just like the taste of the stuff, but I think often those folks are along for the ride on the coattails of a dog-whistle.

If you're someone whose faith commands that you not go near swine of any sort, a catalog with several pages of bacon-themed products might start to feel like it was written with someone else in mind...
Headbands don’t cure tinnitus
> It's as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.

Holy crap. You just blew my mind. "Silence is deafening" makes more than just figurative sense.

From a young age, I've always noticed a light ringing while in extremely quiet places. Not enough to bother me, but enough to notice my ears straining to hear sound.
Is it possible that tinnitus is actually just a person's inability to ignore natural noise in the hearing systems? More of a physchological issue like chewing fingernails or having OCD, but which can be amplified by legitimate physical hearing damage?

I ask this because for all the life I can remember, I've always been able to perceive a high-pitched tone, even in completely quiet environments. If I actually focus on it, it's quite loud and annoying.

It's just that my "default state" is to not think or notice this tone, and instead focus on "actual" sounds.

I have been tested to not have hearing damage.
Something that continues to haunt my dreams on the popularity of "anti-heroes" kind of stuff (in particular the Punisher) and some scary cultural implications and resonances is this amazing graphic essay...

https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/

It is terrifying. And definitely related to the cultural meanings of the current obsession with superheroes of various sorts that Moore is talking about.
Yes, but not the two million mentioned.
As are you - so what are you doing while waiting?
OverlayFS is pretty useful for day to day things like union folders for your media collection spanning across different hard drives.
It does have a few quirks like inotify not working properly, so changes need to be watched for on the underlying fs.
When I saw the news yesterday I thought I was dreaming. Never expected to see this, despite the many rumors of a HLVR.

I'm excited to see what the release brings, but I'm expecting revolutionary VR mechanics. I hope it'll be as big of a leap forward as Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 were.
My main issue for Stadia has been that they are trying to rebadge existing games to work on Stadia instead of making a game that uses the cloud to provide a unique experience. It's one of the things that none of the other streaming companies I am aware of have tried to make an advantage of the proximity of the actual VMs/shared runtime to make it a Mainframe-style experience where you wouldn't have to compromise as heavily of number of tracked objects in concurrent simulations as the simulations are being run spatially closer so the base latency between sims are wildly different than the current distributed model.
> but if someone clones my credit card

no

> and take money from it

Now it’s stealing, but not your card, but your money has been stolen.
All that plus an extra 20ms of input lag on top of whatever your tv already gives you because speed of light is a thing....
Not to mention all the ask-reddits such as "what serious crime did you commit and get away with?" or "what is your definition of torture? [SERIOUS]".
It's not clear to me if they used Electron's Node backend for much more than it's File API. If that's the case, they might have been better off just using a QT webview (e.g. pywebview) for the sake of performance (which they cite as reason for moving from NW.js/Electron).
There’s no reason why escapism should only be for kids. There’s plenty of ‘deep’ art in this world, and fantasy escapism isn’t preventing that from existing.
Amazon's main apps are probably the store app and the Kindle app. The store app isn't very useful unless you have the ability to pay over the internet and the ability to have packages delivered; you probably shouldn't be in a country subject to US trade sanctions either.

The Kindle app may not require ability to pay via the internet, but it helps. There's also a big step to wanting to read.

Neither of these apps are going to hit the numbers that mostly non paid communications apps will hit, because of the difference in markets.
Stadia and GFN strike me as two very different products.

GFN works and it's a straightforward product: you play for access on powerful gaming rigs and you can run your games.

Stadia seems more like a platform play where they have their own game dev framework, they plan to integrate with youtube and will probably have exclusives in the future.
But by all means, lets keep cutting taxes and letting rich people hide their money wherever. Its not at all possible that this kind of abuse is in part caused by understaffing and a general disregard in financial terms for the value of public education.
How to get Tom Hanks on your podcast
Trello alternative? Anyone using this?
Why the qualifier?

What measure of proof do you require?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_ignorance_fallacy
I hear it right now. Doesn't everyone?
This is fantastic, good work. Love the idea.
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> Yes, maximizing the log implies you shouldn't bet everything. But you should still bet 99.99%, if the odds are a googol to 1.

Not quite. If the odds are infinitely favorable, the log wealth is maximized when you bet 0.1% of your wealth. Any fractions other than that produce inferior results. This might be counter-intuitive but actually can be easily proven by basic calculus.

If you still doubt it, you can just compute it to be sure! For example, if odds is indeed 1:googol (1:10^100), the log wealth for betting 99.99% is -6.67, less than betting 0.1% which produces 2.52.
Same here, I use it on my Mac and it works great with a Steam account. I like that portability. Also the quality is pretty amazing. I only play games every now and then, so a piece of software instead of dedicated hardware is a good solution for me.
Half-Life 1’s “thing” is sort of like Breath of the Wild’s “thing”: every object in the game has physical attributes, and these physical attributes can cause the sim to emit signals from particular objects that interact with other sim objects through general interfaces (rather than only interacting with specific “compatible” objects), with the results differing depending on source attributes, target attributes, and the distance between the source and target; and with the same attribute of the target often taking on a weighted-average of the sum of the input signals it’s been receiving lately.

When an HL1 object is “on fire”, for example, it’s emitting “infrared-radiation particles” as hitscan shots off of a point-source at its center. If these hit something, the physics sim checks the “on fire” object’s “hotness” attribute, and its distance from the target it hit, and from these computes a “heat impulse” that should be given to the target, which may or may not be enough to set the target “on fire.” Different things burn with more or less “hotness”, and for more or less time before burning out, depending on the material they’re made of. Explosive barrels don’t have any special code—they’re just “on fire” for a very hot, very short time (but they’re also “concussive”, which is a separate instantiation of this same logic.) The Crossbow’s alternate fire just slides a physical object that’s intensely “on fire” through the scene at high speed. Etc.

This system continues into HL2 as well. Pheropod/bugbait objects are just a copy of this system, where “on fire” is instead “acts as ally”, and antlions can be temporarily or permanently caught “acts as ally” by getting hit by a strong enough dose of pheropod radiative signalling.

This system is basically why HL1 and HL2 play the way they do: rather than only being able to kill things with weapon-objects programmed to emit “kill” signals toward enemies, you can kill things with pretty much any object, in a variety of ways, as enemies are physical-sim objects that can die for physical-sim reasons. And it’s very easy to make a useful new object in these engines, as you can just model something, give it some interesting physical attributes, and plop it into a level. The sim will then take care of making it useful.
> Why would an omnipotent creator (who deals with Stars/Earth/Moon/All living Species) care so deeply what we do with our reproductive organs?

Why would a Creator create humans and then not care deeply about them?
I can't see this as a Facebook rival. From my understanding, this is a social news site with fact checking.

I use Facebook to post pictures of my vacations for my family, and get updates on my nieces and nephews since I moved from Houston, TX to NYC 5 years ago.

Until someone replaces that aspect in a way that works while still enabling my family to do their memes and quizzes, and all that crap I avoid, there will be no "rival". I HATE Facebook, but I can't get rid of it without losing access to my family.
Don't forget the automated ML surveillance of everything students say online.
Reddit certainly rivals Facebook for my attention.
What's bofa?