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by dailyplanet 1y ago
Brian Wilson cited "Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles as one of his favorite songs -- he apparently had to pull over because he was having a nervous breakdown after hearing it on the radio, and he was in tears and said &qu
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by dailyplanet 2y ago
I used to look up to YCombinator, but now I am disappointed in the role YCombinator played in platforming anti-democratic figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin, etc. who espouse scientific racism and eugenics with th
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by dailyplanet 2y ago
It's amazing how right-wing billionaire figures have captured social media platforms and news media outlets, such as Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter/X, Jeff Bezos's takeover of The Washington Post, Patrick Soon-Shiong&#x
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by dailyplanet 2y ago
Feel free to live outside civilization :) You can have the anarchy you desire in a cabin in the woods or on some a random island away from society. You won't have to adhere to common decency or common currency there.
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by dailyplanet 2y ago
You are correct. It's ironic that they wave the American flag and claim to be patriots, and yet no one hates the American government more than the Trump MAGA cultists who wave the American flag the hardest. The cruelty is the point. Mi
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by dailyplanet 2y ago
It's a technocratic coup in broad daylight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment Arrogant Silicon Valley CEOs think the world belongs to them. They want liberal democracy to fail and transition to a &
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by dailyplanet 2y ago
Reading into these weird power abusers. Scary stuff! They seem to want to take down America's liberal democracy and install an "American Caesar" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21&#
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by dailyplanet 3y ago
What scanner and scanning method did you use?
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by dailyplanet 3y ago
SE is probably the better choice, instead of SWE.
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by dailyplanet 3y ago
I'm trying to write a book and researching some niche old stuff and trying to extract info from 90s websites (some of the websites are dead and I don't know how to search Internet Archives), and Google Search is becoming hopeless,
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by dailyplanet 3y ago
The next step would be digitizing the books and manuscripts so scholars can collectively research the finding. https://www.medievalists.net/?s=digitizing&submit=Search I wonder what the cost of this digitization process
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by dailyplanet 3y ago
Would the Super Museum count as niche? Superman Museum in Metropolis, Illinois: https://supermuseum.com/
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by dailyplanet 3y ago
The page displays the movie title logos for Superman I-III but not Superman IV or Man Of Steel. I suppose that's a selection bias from the website owner Reagan Ray. Here's his page on Marvel Comics title logos: https://
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
I'll reveal the answer by the end of this decade when the copyright expires. The main reason I bought it is because it's not archived and transcribed on the internet already and it was frustrating me, so it became my Holy Grail, a
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
I have a question for anyone who might know about this sort of thing. I bought a book from a Manhattan auction in NY for about $100,000. I would like to digitize the book, but there is fading from light degradation on several pages. The boo
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
This works, as long as you don't have to paypal people. Is there a way to make paypal transactions anonymous to the other party?
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Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Twitter?
2 points by dailyplanet 4y ago|2 comments
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
Spotify already has a "Discovered On" section on the Artist page which has playlists that include the artists.
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
I'm still mad that Fandom killed LyricWiki. I spent so many hours and hours adding the lyrics to my favorite songs from obscurer music, and all that effort and work got wiped.
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
The feet to meters conversion, or vice versa, doesn't work.
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by dailyplanet 4y ago
If it annoys you, then you're probably an extrovert. I am an introvert and I like being alone and being able to choose how much I self-express and communicate. In person, I do not have as much choice about my time and energy commitment
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WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar exits ahead of merger with Discovery(nytimes.com)
1 points by dailyplanet 4y ago|0 comments