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Bluestein
11,043karma·5,744submissions·June 10, 2020
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So, after decades of lurking, I decided to join. Please be gentle :)
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We might as well ask Kuleshov about this, father of the Kuleshov effect with his experiments between 1910 and 1920 ... In the - now famous - film below, Kuleshov edited a shot of the expressionless fa…
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Merchant Navy, milkman, nude model, lifeguard, truck driver, bricklayer, boxer, bodybuilder, street brawler (he once beat a gang of four while hanging out with Michael Caine, and another time, he defe…
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It strikes me that, perhaps, someday, people will look back at these times, and recoil seeing how we had to post content, opinion, data and speech through -somebody else's- site / property &…
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Funny to see Greene's "Mastery" mentioned here ...
Y Combinator and Paul Graham's story, are used to illustrate the "mastery" process that is the basis of the book, among…
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Indeed.
Kind of reminds me of that sayin' about how "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist ..." Sometimes I think it is a great trick s…
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Indeed, as featured here:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24667093 (A pity the Corel Draw license in the bundle is for a -subscription- model license.-
... not a lifetime licen…
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These must be the Information Purification Directives, it seems :) To wit:
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the…
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Be aware the Corel Draw 2020 included in the bundle is offered in a subscription model.-
Whatever your views on the subscription model, -nothing- prior to purchase advertises this fact.- The rest of t…
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Nice Brautigan reference there, with "Machines of Loving Grace" :)
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> unsolicited adverse event ... ... as opposed to a solicited adversity? :)
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Came in for the content, stayed for the article's format, which is quite something. Interactive, and using spaced repetition as a built-in. You can tell a lot of work has gone into this.
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The paper on
"Failure-Oblivious Computing" cited in the thread makes for an interesting read, as an approach to availabilty and resilency in software ... - https://www.usenix.net&…