Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Putin is intelligent, no doubt Russia was a super power with some of the best engineers in the world. Today it needs to use war to keep another Slav country on its side. Even the UK keeps the commonwealth in place even with very divers
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> There needs to be liability established for publishing private and personal information; Europe has the General Data Protection Regulation.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Is not that the nord stream 2 pipeline? Germany was able to buy Russian gas without problem. Why build the new pipe? It seems that Germany thought that Russia was a rational player interested in growing their economy, but it seems that it w
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That happened in the Spanish civil war. Guernica famous painting depicts the bombing by Italian and German aviation of the city of Guernica. The United Kingdom didn't wanted to be part of it, thou. Ironically, I think that more countri
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by Hokusai 5y ago
"Learned helplessness is behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control." The key part is beyond their control. As a society we are being trained to see software beyond our control. &
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by Hokusai 5y ago
This reminds me of each time people criticises the European Union for "condemning" something. Big organizations do things step by step. First you talk, then you act. Even Russia prepared a prerecorded pantomime of a discussion bef
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Americans talk in hyperbole. Average is an insult. Any experience less than life changing is boring. And most people in other countries are not aware. I see how much money goes to American companies like Tesla meanwhile European companies l
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Our obligation to enforce crimes against the nation’s financial systems includes both informing the public on how digital assets work and partnering with them to identify, arrest, and prosecute those engaging in crimes involving digita
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by Hokusai 5y ago
My understanding fits with the dictionary definition. megalomania /ˌmɛɡ(ə)lə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/ noun: megalomania. obsession with the exercise of power. delusion about one's own power or importance (typically as a symptom of manic
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> can help you get a lot done That is survivor bias. I have worked with such people and they destroy companies and make employee life miserable. It is impossible to get anything done in the company that does not help the megalomaniac ego
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Ali is not guilty, marketing is purely scam these days, he is just following the trend. Following criminals is not a valid justification in front of a jury. Crime is a common occurrence, it does not make it not crime. Everybody is the
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by Hokusai 5y ago
In many parts of the world that goes against labor laws. You cannot harass or ostracize someone to make them leave. That is not just a toxic environment but way worse as there is intent to make the employee leave.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
For me the first version of photo editing happened in Russia. Enemies of Stalin were erased from photos and from Russian history. Copy pasting images is kind of different. Photocopies have been part of the comic book trade way before using
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I recognize that I did not read the article. Nor I will. Elon was funny for a while, but to give attention to all his tantrums makes the web a worse place. - https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-dogecoin-accepted-teslas-...
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That makes a lot of sense. And it is not just about simplifying, it is also the general disdain against taxes that facilitates tax breaks for the rich.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> That sounds way less awesome, when you consider it only had 256 colors, so allmost all content did indeed loose a lot, by converting to gif. Nonlossy can be used for pixel perfect animations, lossy formats cannot. > Because file siz
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by Hokusai 5y ago
People do what they see others doing, people buy what they see others buying, and what it is available in the supermarket. If in 20 years it becomes difficult sand expensive to buy meat, would most people still center their diet around it?
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by Hokusai 5y ago
This is a common problem with statistics. Ask someone to answer "if Saturday has 25% of rain and Sunday another 25% what is the probability of rain during the weekend?" The intuitive, but wrong, answer is to add probabilities capp
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Japan? Japan is currently closed to the world, and it had a history of doing so. So, I share your desire. I do not expect it to happen, thou.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Fainting works in reverse for me. Everything becomes harder to understand, sound becomes muffled like in low motion, vision starts to fade until you are in total darkness. And it's not similar at all to fall asleep, it's quite sca
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Microtransactions do not fit well with some kinds of mods as it could enable players to access new content not in the company control. Mods are great for players and the most dedicated fans, thou.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Or not. Short term bonuses are key, achieving quarter goals is extremely important, that the company crashes and burns in 10 years may be someone else problem. Big corporations are giants with clay feet. From inside one can see the real hum
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> many of whom choose Apple for the very reason this is trying to negate I already use apps in iOs that bypass the store to transfer money, pay for train tickets, parking, etc. Many people in Sweden likes Swish and probably will be ok wi
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That is just a Archimedes' screw. Well known way before DaVinci. It's cool that DaVinci got to the conclusion that if moves water it can move air, thou. There original design used materials from the time, but with an enough powerf
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by Hokusai 5y ago
And someone has added imaginary places like Finland, as a joke.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes. That is a felony in many places in the world. Companies do this kind of harassing, thou. That is one of the reasons that companies need to be taxed way more and use th
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by Hokusai 5y ago
"After years of ridicule and harsh press coverage, Amazon has finally disbanded its Twitter army. Part of a perplexing guerrilla PR campaign, the Amazon FC Ambassadors were a group of Twitter accounts belonging to employees who were pa
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> no one's challenged it so presumably it's true Amazon is well known for training employees to defend the company on-line. Aren't you being too generous with an anonymous comment that you provide no link to? Is not possib
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by Hokusai 5y ago
So, if Amazon employees work 4 days instead of 5 Bezos' yacht would be smaller and fit under that bridge? That seems a good solution that the Dutch did not take into account.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> FakeFakeFakeDataStoreThatLosesAllYourData So it is fake, so that means that it does Not lose all your data. Did I got that right? I will just use it as a temporal solution and remember to change it later.

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