This is oddly modern looking for being 500 years old.
I have read (though I can't cite a source at the moment) that what is sometimes taken as limits on talent/skill/material limits on medieval art was more often a stylistic choice.
Readit Newsrunesofdoom commented on Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect” nippon.com/en/japan-topic... · Posted by u/patrickscoleman
[Let's go on with the devil]
[quote] He looked through his emails and noticed that he did in fact receive only two emails on July 27 and July 28, stating that we had not yet paid for the car and that the full cost of the vehicle is still at large. These emails went ignored as he believed them to be a phishing attempt because we had already PAID IN FULL at the dealership. He also believed that Tesla could not have made such a huge mistake like this. [/quote]
Customer ignored Tesla communications attempts. Perhaps because he read on sites like HN that the entire internet is out to get you. Maybe we should share part of the guilt.
Or maybe giant corporations failing to perform due diligence internally ought not be a cost that they get to impose on their customers without legal consequence.
Here for this content. Also, why is that person not the one who did the Amazon series. The Tolkien fan in me is cringing heavily when observing the "plot" of the Rings of Power
The saddest part for me is that the RoP could have done something very similar to what they did, while still staying true to the canon 2nd Age, and arguably telling a much better story. Instead we got sometinf that felt more like ham-handed generic 80s fantasy, coaplaying as Middle-earth.
From the moment it opened with elf-children acting like orcs, it was clear not only that she showrunners had missed the mark, but they lacked enough of Socrates "beginning of wisdom" that they couldn't even understand how they were missing it
> It’s judges dropping the ball here by letting high power lawyers steamroll their courtrooms with this nonsense.
See also: [0], sometimes it may not be judges "dropping the ball" but rather playing the ball for their own benefits.
However we spin it, corruption in the US is a larger problem than we like to pretend it is.
[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-cr...
We (Americans) have normalized, often explicitly legalized, quite a lot of corrupt behavior in various positions of power.[1] We then look at how comparatively little illegal corruption there is, and the official line is that everything is fine, nothing to see here.
1. Officials failing to accurately provide financial disclosures result in a consequence of having to fill it out again. Members of Congress can legally practice insider trading, and often do. And even when there's no revolving door, post-facto bribes in the form of cushy sinecures are accepted. Money as protected speech. Etc.
>Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died — but it wasn’t replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:
This to me is what is really happening. A good symbol of this is income inequality and to a lesser extent, no real action on climate change.
Eventually, the "lords" will be in their castles were we most people bake. The "knights" could be the tech people.
No! *The "tech people" are not knights and never will be. The "knights" are upper management. The lords are the centimillionaires and up. The rest of us are slaves, peasants, maybe monks if we're "lucky".
runesofdoom commented on Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020) mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenoll... · Posted by u/carlesfe
"From posts here and elsewhere, I have some idea what a 'life' might be, and how I might get one. But, what is this 'offline'?"
> Science only works if contrarians get a voice.
This is more of the rather tired "contrarians are always right" meme that seems to crop up constantly on HN.
Sometimes a contrarian is right and the accepted consensus is wrong. But that doesn't happen only because the contrarian position is contrarian, it's because the contrarians brought receipts. They applied proper scientific rigor and came up with a falsifiable theory that fits empirical observations and is sufficiently predictive. They also set out to disprove their hypothesis.
Not all contrarians need a "voice". It's not worth anyone's time to rebut yet another unfounded and stupid perpetual motion theorem or electric universe bullshit. It's far easier to spam stupid contrarian ideas than to produce real rigorous scientific output.
As Carl Sagan said, "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
While he's certainly careful to hedge (much like the scientists he's critizcizing), Mr. Silver's argument boils down to, "I think four scientists published a technically correct but politicially motivated paper, so from now on journalists should consider peer-reviewed publications by reputable PhD's as the equivalent of Johnnie RedHat posting on Twitter".
runesofdoom commented on The many planned moon landings of 2023 spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-l... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Actually space is (probably) infinite, so there are potentially infinite ressources avaiable, if we choose to invest in the next step, even if that investment only will pay out in the long run.
I am not an astrophysicist, but my understanding is that due to the expansion of the universe and the speed of light, the volume of space we will ever be able to access is finite, roughly that of the galactic supercluster we're in.
Naturally, they're going to say "web scraping uses resources, stop it!" but then keep web scraping in the background.
To be clear, it's bad behavior, it's just not hypocritical behavior, as it's completely in keeping with what amoral corporations locked in constant battle would be expected to do: maximize benefits to themselves while minimizing benefits to others.