situationista

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by situationista 2mo ago
Towards the end of his life, Bucky had achieved rock star status and his lectures filled stadiums in all corners of the world. At age 88, he twice circumnavigated the globe to give nonstop addresses. And they weren't short - his talks
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A SR-71 Blackbird Is Now Buried in the Mariana Trench(theaviationgeekclub.com)
3 points by situationista 2mo ago|1 comments
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Lightpath – track your flight through daylight, twilight and darkness(lightpath.cc)
2 points by situationista 6mo ago|0 comments
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AI's safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds(theguardian.com)
4 points by situationista 10mo ago|1 comments
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by situationista 1y ago
I recall being told the IKEA catalogue is the only publication ever to surpass the Bible in terms of annual print run (200 million at its peak)
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by situationista 1y ago
Argos is great, but doesn't have a patch on the old SkyMall catalogues you'd find in US carriers up to around 2010
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AOL to discontinue dial-up internet(nytimes.com)
228 points by situationista 1y ago|237 comments
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by situationista 1y ago
Related to current Starlink outage? probably not, but interesting coincidence
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by situationista 2y ago
There used to be one of these in Dubai too, but it closed down during the pandemic. I remember a very surreal dinner there in circa 2016.
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by situationista 2y ago
Ironic that for all the elite lineage captured here, the one that he ended up stuck with is a very plebeian surname of non-hispanic (Ligurian) origin.
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The MIDI notation of Laura Palmer's Theme resembles twin peaks(vulture.com)
5 points by situationista 2y ago|2 comments
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by situationista 2y ago
I don't read this as a problem of fraud within Oxfam. They audited the World Bank and found there was fraud in the bank. Or am I missing something?
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by situationista 2y ago
I once coded a machine that could make photo-books of your neighbour's living rooms. It was inspired by Ed Ruscha's "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles" artist booklet from 1967, and the output looked pretty similar, but wit
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John James, the electrical engineer who made computers paint (1970)(twitter.com)
1 points by situationista 2y ago|0 comments
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by situationista 2y ago
The services in question are provided by the local municipality - and they don’t receive extra government funding for this. So unlike a regular citizen who registers on a real street, from whom the city typically collects taxes, a homeless
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by situationista 2y ago
Do you have any reliable evidence to back up your assertion that the activity in question "wasn't a very common practice in earlier generations"? The fact that something isn't openly discussed rarely means it's not
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by situationista 3y ago
Rainforest conservation can hardly be described as being "done right" when it is paid for by selling/burning more fossil fuels elsewhere.
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by situationista 3y ago
Just to make sure it's clear to everyone who's commenting about how great this is - in return for UAE paying to protect Liberia's forests, it gets to burn more fossil fuels while claiming to be reducing its carbon output. Not
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by situationista 3y ago
I have a question. Blambla or Bibiano?
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by situationista 4y ago
The Boeing in question is a prop plane, not a jet.
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by situationista 4y ago
Arguably yes, since that curation is paid for with the cut Apple takes on sales in the Apple store.
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by situationista 4y ago
I tried googling DDP but couldn't find it - do you know the URL?
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by situationista 4y ago
In my humble opinion, contrary to your claim a lot of things about NFTs make less sense than what you suggest
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by situationista 4y ago
I have the distinct feeling that Elon's motives are genuine, that he genuinely believes he is on a mission to save humanity, and is genuinely convinced that he is the only one who is able to do it. The problem is the last point - he&#x
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by situationista 5y ago
I own a Tesla and regularly make very long trips. Travel in an EV requires a completely different mindset from ICE and takes a little getting used to. I'm not surprised that a one-off road trip experience was less than smooth, but once
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by situationista 5y ago
This is also known as the Jevons Paradox - increased efficiency leads to increased and not reduced use.
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Out-of-control SpaceX rocket on collision course with the moon(theguardian.com)
38 points by situationista 5y ago|13 comments
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by situationista 5y ago
Part of the rationale for labeling certain gas power plants as "green" is that they solve the problem of uneven supply from wind and solar. As far as I understand it, these plants are intended to supplement renewables and make the
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by situationista 5y ago
I've always observed that in India honking the horn is not just about overtaking - it's an acoustic indicator of your position, making it possible for those in front of you to plot your presence without taking their eyes off the r
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by situationista 5y ago
Except that both Tesla and the law make it clear that in a Level 2 system the driver is responsible at all times, regardless of whether Autopilot is engaged or not.

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