Seems like an easy fix, right? Encrypt the storage for photos like you do with text for starters.
With so much new vocabulary, hard to see how contemporaries really understood his plays.
Did you get around to doing a deep dive on this? Would love to see a thorough response
Good heuristic: invert list of best/worst political leaders for an accurate representation from the perspective of the people, not the regime.
This was a fun interview!
I love getting into some of the counterintuitive math behind Spitznagel's tail-hedging thought process.
Similar to my experience. I lived outside of the US for years and only had an issue when flying to the US or internally. Pretty quickly you figure out the "random extra screening" isn't so random.
ChatGPT is still a highly under rated tool for learning. With plugins, visualize any topic damn near instantly at whatever level of knowledge you like.
Of course it will get things wrong, just like the thousands of forums I’ve traveled over the years to trouble shoot problems, but this does it instantly and for my specific request.
Asked it to visual the bitcoin network and lightening at a high level: https://chat.openai.com/share/6503c1e4-dad3-43f2-a5ba-ab0cf8e88b6f
Like any tool, it's as good as the user is at using it.
Yeah, I have been doing the same. Use the new card for gas, groceries, bills, never carry a balance and get a free vacation for the family (ok, depending on the card you might need to pay $100-300 for a one time annual fee).
Most minimum spend is really easy to achieve so you never buy extra stuff to hit the target.
Does anyone know of a good source to get non-technical users up to speed on Bitcoin and lightning?
My family is split over 3 continents and banking systems. We always are sending money back and forth and it takes ages and is too expensive. I have been pounding the BTC table for years and I think they're finally getting it, but need help getting set up.
Bonus if the resource is in Português!
It's a good book, but I wish there was an edited version. I felt I needed to take notes to keep up with all the names. Excellent work by Whitney Webb all the way through!
Hopefully the carrier pigeons the bank uses don't run into inclement weather, or you could be waiting a long, long time!
I knew you'd come around!
Consider the consequences of outlawing plastic.
Would we go back to metal cars? If so, fuel efficiency would plummet due to the higher weight, cost and emissions during production would skyrocket.
Many consumer electronics would be negatively impacted.
Most importantly, people would likely starve as a result of a sudden ban. Transportation of food would be severely limited due to spoilage.
The global south tends to be the place that dumps it in the oceans.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic-waste-pollution-by-country/
Nah, he's 92. He'll keel over before it registers.
The peer review process works the same way. I had a novel computational approach to solving a certain class of problems for my dissertation that enabled these problems to be solved in the real world, but with a trade-off that the solutions weren't optimal. Getting papers accepted by the gate keepers was a challenge to say the least and I knew every question while presenting papers at conferences before being asked. Got out asap.
Burn the TSA down. What a useless group of yokels. Just think of the immense economic waste they inflict on the country via useless rules and delays, even before considering the money that gets pissed away by funding them.
Some big media account on Twitter asked people what they think the best music album ever was, front to back.
While some albums are more iconic than others, the fascinating thing about the question is how it tends to be a sign of what era someone came of age in (i.e. which decade they grew up as a teenager), and what cultural part of that era they were more in line with. Sure, some people go back and find older iconic music and appreciate it the most, the absolute greats of the past, but the more typical outcome is that someone finds music from their coming-of-age years to be what somehow sticks out.
For me it was rock in the 2000s, and my mental answer to the question of "best album?" was Meteora by Linkin Park.
While it was a very popular album and also well-remembered, it doesn't generally go down on the ageless list of greats. In other words, it's always kind of a top two or three genre item. I could argue why other more iconic albums are better, and why they "should" be my answer. For example I could go a little bit before my time, but still close enough, and say Nirvana's Nevermind was better. That would poll better.
But basically, as a product of my time, Meteora is just the one that struck the right chords at the right time when I was a teenager. It's the one that spoke to me. I would listen to it casually, and then also listen to certain songs in it before martial arts tournaments to get myself in the combat zone. Even as my musical tastes changed over time, that's the album I listened to the most of all time, and so when I hear it in the present day, I still appreciate it a ton.
The fact that they crossed genres appealed to me a lot. Their main vocalist, Bennington, struck their melodic and emotional aspect. The other vocalist, Shinoda, was their hip-hop guy, with a rougher or more practical aspect. Mr. Hahn brought an electronic aspect, and Delson brought the rock guitar aspect. Some of their stylization was anime-aligned, and I was into anime at the time. Basically whatever vibes I might be feeling as a teenager at the time, there was something in Linkin Park that spoke to it, with Meteora being among their best and which came out at the right time when I was 15. It's like Bennington would speak to my emo aspect and help me acknowledge it, while Shinoda and the others would pump me back up, and tell me to not fuck around and get back out there, and boost my confidence. Yin and Yang.
Another reason I thought of this is that here in 2023, Linkin Park released a 20th anniversary edition of Meteora, which included a couple songs like "Lost" that didn't make it into the original. It all hits a bit harder for us fans based on the fact that the lead singer, Chester Bennington, is no longer with us. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY&ab_channel=LinkinPark
Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the second one.
Conclusion: Sometimes what hits harder subjectively is worth appreciating, rather than just whatever can be argued to be the best objective answer. Somewhere on that border between "objectively good" and "came out at the right time and hit the spot for you and imprinted itself" is your answer that is worth exploring and sharing.
What's your answer?
Steven Wilson, Hand Cannot Erase. Such a deep and moving album. Yeah, only 8 years old but it will age well.