ASlave2Gravity

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by ASlave2Gravity 1y ago
Hey just want to say a massive thank you for everything you've done with this project. I've shot so much (short films, music videos, even a TV pilot!) on my pair of 600Ds and ML has given these cams such an extended life. It’s bee
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by ASlave2Gravity 2y ago
I couldn't put that book down!
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by ASlave2Gravity 2y ago
It was suggested that I could take them to small claims, but I've never done anything like that before, and looking into it seems that Amazon makes it rather hard and admin heavy to do. I've basically written off KDP for all futur
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by ASlave2Gravity 2y ago
Just wanted to chime in here and say that I, too, got banned from KDP, but in a rather sinister way. They initially locked me out of my account totally, only for access to be reinstated after an email to them. I thought, phew, that was luck
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by ASlave2Gravity 3y ago
Congrats! I find I'm using Marginalia more and more, it's especially great for researching for novel writing, and can’t wait to see what the future holds! Good luck!
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
Mirrors my experience completely. The great thing for me at university was that no one forced me to go to the lectures. I was on a computer science course, but was more happy making games in my bedroom or writing fiction, and just skipping
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
Beautiful! :D Thank you for sharing!
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
The 'does it not?' breaks the flow of the quote perfectly. It was intentional, I like to believe; it's as if your peace of a flowing sentence is suddenly interupted by the life of a fantastic writer! :D
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
Elegiac is the perfect word for it! It's a lovely quote too. I remember reading the novel and thinking, 'Holy shit, he's hit the nail on the head!' I'd happily run a class on it. Whenever anyone asks for a reading l
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
Easily one of my favourite novels. It's riddled with beauty; there is a lens held up to the shepherding of knowledge that made me really appreciate what it means to be a scholar. It's a wild ride and I think a book people should r
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
I think it boils down to public adoption, right? Like, everyone, even the bell-hop, was telling me to buy. It was beyound insane. But they said that because they all saw the graphs. It made the news, etc. But I rarely meet people who will h
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by ASlave2Gravity 4y ago
Would you mind sharing more of your thoughts on what might play out if the SEC loses? And then also, if you don't mind, what would happen if the SEC wins?
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by ASlave2Gravity 5y ago
A good techno-thriller might be some group of hackers nab the Chinese bathymetry database, which then finds its hands in some war hungry US general
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
I'd agree here for sure. I'm not sure how we even go about dealing with it as every converstation seems to spiral into madness
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Nope - good point! I suppouse I want to see more UN involvement with the Organ Harvesting. It's insanely barbaric and shouldn't be happerning. But I think people like Alex Jones have given it more credit. I don't have enough
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Have you ever met a Falun Gong practitioner?
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Ah, thanks for sharing. Yes, I'd agree on all counts. As I said in another comment, we need to be so careful with what we are saying. I just get really upset when the anti-China-goverment narrative spills into an anti-China-people one.
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Yes - I bring up Taiwan a lot and I think Taiwan should be it's own thing. Same with HK. My cloest friend often has to deal with Han peeps hating on Hong Kongers - dinners can be quite hard sometimes. We're all trying to make peac
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
This isn't satire. I knew I was gonna get a lot of flak. I'm sorry to have so many dissagree with me :(. I have no idea what the CPCs plans are. Much like I have no idea what my own goverments (UK) plans are. But what I do see is
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
I'm gonna get a lot of flak for this, but I think there's a massive anti-China narrative on HN. I see so much talk that's based off of people's view from an entirely Western media-centred POV. There's so much more t
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Great hack, both! :)
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
If prints don't work... Christ, I don't know what I'd do. Great post.
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
What if we actually got paid for the data collection? Like UBI through the tech giants. Maybe then you have an issue where it's like the more you use the more cash you get, or maybe it's just a flat payment i.e. if you have even a
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Blimey, that's super interesting. The ad model needs to die IMHO. We need regulation from a super-national level if you ask me. Bitcoin should pay the way for a paid-for internet. Anything to get ads off the web.
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Very true. We need to show the world how to do that! Got any ideas!?
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
That's why we need to educate people on digital etiquette. The script kiddies stealing stuff are just that, bored shitless kids. Universities are failing and we've got bored, super smart kids running around 'hacking' and
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Just wish I could tip my postman! He has been looking real sleepy, man.
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
I've only completed a few projects with Steam/Open VR and the Vive, and found it a little harder to deal with. It's mostly wrapping input APIs, and different friends / invite systems. But Vive don't have anything on
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
Aye, same here. It's really good!
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by ASlave2Gravity 6y ago
What struck me most with this book was the rats! Most humans die due to a virus and cities are left 99% empty. There reaches a point where all the rats flee the city (having eaten all the food they can) and arrive in endless waves at the pr

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