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by icsllaf 5y ago
Majority of the illusions seem to be 2D object projected as 3D object, they still get me every-time though. Definitely would recommend a game called Superliminal if this kind of stuff gets you.
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by icsllaf 6y ago
> it's not very efficient to learn how to do something by enumerating all the ways you cannot do it I think the better way to look at it would be to look at ways that it could've been done better. Everyone's a genius and m
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by icsllaf 6y ago
There are just so many websites on this page, all of which have their own art style and their own experiments. Honestly makes me feel very small on the internet but also happy that there are so many people who do this kinda stuff.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
China is much more internationally connected and densely populated than Africa is. Pretty much why the rate of international infection skyrocketed after the disease got to Italy. Africa also it's share of problems and diseases.See Ebol
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by icsllaf 7y ago
> Many of the parents with young children at home are dreading the loss of their office space right now As someone without kids can you explain this? Where I work at many employees with kids come to work much later and leave much earlier
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Also, there's a factor of where the people live. Someone who is a cab driver in Los Angeles might be making the same money as someone who is a mechanic in Nebraska. But the possibility of upwards mobility and higher education in Los An
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Well it worked for China, they now have large corporations of similar (enough) caliber to their Western counterparts creating a lot more jobs than if Amazon or Google were allowed to run free. It's hard enough to compete against these
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by icsllaf 7y ago
For me it shows the hexcode of the name but not the name itself.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
I doubt that they'd lower their investment. This is more like you're investing in the economy of Saudi Arabia as a whole, just using an oil company as it's vessel.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
The old adage of "If you owe the bank 1000 dollars that's your problem, if you owe the bank 10,000,000 dollars, that's the bank's problem." The "Art of Failing Up" only requires getting an exorbitant amoun
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by icsllaf 7y ago
>The former beats the latter under specific circumstances only. A large part of that circumstance being the nonexistance of the former and creation of our urban environments to specifically cater to the latter.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
I'll never understand how articles like this always talk about Uber and never about public transportation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK#Ridership >The AirTrain's ridership has risen each year
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by icsllaf 7y ago
>The truth is that the U.S. China relationship has been extremely one-sided for a very long time now: China buys the hardware it needs, and keeps all of the software opportunities for itself — and, of course, pursues software opportuniti
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Honestly, a good amount of law and politics is knowing what you can or cannot do. It's not that law is complex it's that dealing with people who know law, or people that know that you don't know about law is complex. You can
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by icsllaf 7y ago
https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/wuhan-china In USD really. Unsurprisingly, people living in a large city in China are not dirt poor as you would expect.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Would the human eye see the difference between this and Vantablack? Even though it's ten times darker I feel like the returns would get smaller and smaller. Also, what would 100% light absorption look like?
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by icsllaf 7y ago
The question should have one added word. >Is it justified to temporarily suspend rights/privileges of 100 innocent people Which the answer is always no. Saying otherwise opens the door to more police state factors encroaching upon
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by icsllaf 7y ago
I disagree and say that when human rights are removed, it doesn't matter what the context is. 1. Terrorists deserve the same human rights as normal people. 2. The removal of liberties is extended upon all citizens making this province
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by icsllaf 7y ago
>If X were an impoverished country like Somalia, the tune would change and most people would condemn such a society I've actually found that the larger a country is the more criticized it is on human rights violations. If a small co
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Do you really need context when a country is stripping its citizens of the right of communication, movement, and religion?
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Do you see how Southeast, Dunwamish, and Delridge are a rainbow of colors with barely any specks of blue while the north neighborhoods are all blue with specks of green? That's the racial divide. Not just downtown.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
The entire map is the metro Seattle area. Zoom into Seattle where the northmost dotted line is and the divide is pretty evident.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
These innovation/idea competitions are almost always self-fulfilling prophecies. No one wants to submit an idea that's even slightly out of there because only viable and ideas grounded in reality will win but the only ideas submit
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by icsllaf 7y ago
>I read “that orange website” all the damn time. Is she talking about HN?
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by icsllaf 7y ago
Normally walkability also correlates with density of both businesses and houses which also encourages people to live closer to where they work. Compare that to a business park in the middle of the suburbs which requires a long distance comm
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by icsllaf 7y ago
A supermarket is an area designed for one purpose only which is to buy food. Everything else is given an afterthought or no thought at all. Compare that to a plaza or street which is made to encourage human interactions with benches, tables
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by icsllaf 7y ago
People living in sprawl and in nonwalkable places are more likely to be overweight, get less exercise, and spend less time walking https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629517/
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by icsllaf 7y ago
What separates Tik-Tok and other sites which also show millions of sexualized people like Instagram? There obviously is a reason to be against China in this ban otherwise they'd ban a ton of other apps as well.
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by icsllaf 7y ago
71% of China speaks Mandarin compared to 80% of America who can speak English.[1][2] >Eat Noodle and Rice. The cuisine of China is actually very varied. Rice is more common in the Southern and Middle parts of China compared to noodles wh
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by icsllaf 7y ago
For how "homogeneous" China is considered, regions often define people more than ethnicity or racial groups. A common greeting that most people ask is "Where are you from?" Both migrant workers and the growing middle cla

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