This isn’t unique to Netflix. The replays in syndication are also 16:9. As are the blu-ray releases. I finally bought the full series on DVD as I’d rather the original aspect ratio.
Readit Newswhitehouse3 commented on Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password fastmail.com/1password/... · Posted by u/davidbarker
I do this with fastmail already. I have a domain that accepts email to *@domain.tld —- all the messages reach one inbox. All my online accounts have the form service-name@domain.tld
Makes it easy when I receive spam to see who sold my email address.
There’s also zero overhead to “create” a new one. It works for any address.
whitehouse3 commented on Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout bbc.com/news/business-583... · Posted by u/shivbhatt
Good for him. Pretty cool to see especially given that paying him these shares was agreed 10 years ago and Apple stock has crushed it since then.
It's kind of weird to see some other comments attacking rich people just because they're rich, or completely misunderstanding the role of a CEO.
The weirdness to me is judging whether the ideas expressed across this thread are altruistic or just garden variety envy. Maybe the answer is “both/and” depending on one’s perspective.
Yeah but you could apply the same exclusions to black people and be rightfully named racist for that.
I don’t disagree. However, the principal objection to racism is not discrimination, but rather that on the basis of immutable characteristics. No one chooses their biological skin colour. So we reject discrimination on that basis.
Age gaps are not an immutable characteristic. Nor are they culturally common in the USA. So they are fair game for discrimination just like any other exercise of free association.
I'd like to see some research to back that claim that over 50% relationships with significant age gap are exploitative.
Unless by more likely that not you mean a bit more likely than average relationship between a doctor and a waitress.
EDIT:
I'm sorry. While rephrasing the claim I changed its meaning. Please disregard my comment.
I think it’s simpler than that: wide age gaps in relationships are rare and thus call
attention to themselves. That a culturally significant body of fiction exists to cast negative attention on them (Lolita, American Beauty e.g.) just amplifies the American sense that “this is unusual”. Prejudicial perhaps. But most people choosing where to live and with whom will optimise for familiarity and security. No one is saying we should ban age gaps. Only that they present perceived additional risk once imported from “society in general” to “my living space”.
The usual guidance to “mind your own business” doesn’t really work here because who I live with and where is entirely my business.
whitehouse3 commented on Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research npr.org/2021/05/18/990234... · Posted by u/tareqak
Right, but before social media other people made direct contact (phone, ICQ, Skype...) just as much as I did - now they feel it's enough to post on social media, and if you don't participate in that then you must make the contact.
My grandmother gets 2-5 random calls from her friends daily, the last unexpected call I received from a friend was in 2013 as we all switched to social media posting/commenting then.
This is a fair point.
Somewhat disagreeing with my previous comment: but I’ve definitely seen this effect between iMessage / Whatsapp vs SMS. I’m more likely to interact with people one-on-one through those platforms instead of SMS because of the link/image/gif handling. My android friends without whatsapp/telegram/signal don’t hear from me as much because of that added friction.
whitehouse3 commented on Researchers, lawmakers want Facebook's mental health research npr.org/2021/05/18/990234... · Posted by u/tareqak
Mine don't but it's always me who has to send them. I don't mind but I can imagine people can feel forgotten.
I don’t see how social media changes this. Life is filled with people who don’t reach out first. It’s not like instagram changes them. The number of direct, meaningful messages between you and them is probably the same, independent of the platform.
Social media facilitates indirect interaction (seeing posts from one another) but it won’t make “Han shoot first” more often.
Stated another way: if you long for others to make first contact with you, social media won’t scratch that itch.
whitehouse3 commented on Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands en.mercopress.com/2021/04... · Posted by u/pedro-guimaraes
somebody actually posted it as an 'ask hn' last night! I'm actually physically hurting right now. I wonder how much google will pay to get their precious domain back.
Can't they forcefully take it? [0]
[0]: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cybersquatting-2013-05...
whitehouse3 commented on A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015) current.org/2015/06/a-top... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I was always impressed with how crisp remote guests or hosts often sound. Rather than sounding like they've called in, they sound like they're in-studio. Not terribly difficult to achieve, the remote person likely has a good audio setup and sends that recording to the engineer to mix together. Still, a nice touch.
In my experience the hardest part of this is syncing the remote audio files. For T>30 minutes the drift can be substantial.
For me it's mostly defining the undefined. I don't do it for the sake of gaining knowledge, it's more like "oh, so that's how it works". I like the feeling of taking something that feels like a magical black box and systematically breaking it down to the point where it doesn't feel magical anymore. Often times you only need a little bit more than a surface level understanding to get to this point.
This is also a good working definition of “engineering”.