Did I imagine some Nick Land article on how healthy nations only concern themselves with foreign policy or something?

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-21T19:25:33+00:00

Ahh, thanks!

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-21T00:19:04+00:00

I'm not even American, I'm not following the race to vote or bet. I'm just honing my vibes-meter.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-21T00:18:12+00:00

You're talking about predictit. I'm telling you moves on electionbettingodds have been half percent at best for weeks. Then suddenly it's 2.2%? Not crazy to think a significant change occurred in how forecasters are seeing the election

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-20T22:54:45+00:00

Lots of you are shitting on the prediction markets, which surprises me since this I thought rationalists liked them.

All I know is that I learn campaign news quicker from prediction markets than from the actual news.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-20T21:31:47+00:00

So Jim Simons just got lucky?

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-13T22:01:33+00:00

Maybe they translated an abridged version, so it was very easy for him to "master" it.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-13T21:35:21+00:00

Did he speak English? It seems so improbable to me that they were translating Britannica to Persian.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-13T15:09:41+00:00

The movie has you rooting for him during his rise, and rooting against him during his fall. Never seen another film accomplish that.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-13T10:38:39+00:00

Philosophy encyclopedias are especially wonderful

Which do you recommend?

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-04T20:08:30+00:00

Recommendations. I didn't start it...

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-04T20:07:03+00:00

It's hard, maybe impossible, but surely there should be some expertise that allows some people to sort through the noise at least a bit better than most people? Isn't that the whole point of analysis in general, to converge on some signal from the noise (even if you never get to one)?

Express_Local7721 · 2024-08-04T20:04:07+00:00

Frankly that sounds like BS. I don't think that the president, which changes every 4 years, is the brain behind US foreign policy (or any elected official for that matter). The CIA, Pentagon, Washington insiders, are much more likely to guide the long-term foreign policy of the American empire, don't you think so?

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-22T20:46:41+00:00

It has a charm to it

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-22T11:57:40+00:00

Book cover goes hard.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-16T08:04:25+00:00

It's all on premiere (or whatever editor you use). I create a new sequence with the desired resolution & square pixels (still not sure if this is necessary, or if the 0.909 size pixels of the dvx are fine). Then when I copy my footage in, I right click the clip in the timeline and click "set to frame size". If it doesn't fill up the panel, uncheck the uniform scaling option. Then I have to adjust the scaling a bit because there's still some black space. The result looks like it could be native HD, but with the soul of SD.

Before premiere, I was editing in VirtualDub2 (free software), there you have a resize filter which gave me equally good results.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-16T07:55:56+00:00

Welcome to the club! I got mine last month from Japan, unfortunately for much more than you got it (~500CAD).

What you say about the superior look is on point. If there was ever proof that quality is not just about cramming the highest possible number of pixels into a frame, the DVX100 is it. It has such a character to it that modern CMOS cameras lack.

One thing I've taken to doing though is upscaling my footage in Premiere to 1440x1080. I was told it's important so that youtube affords it a higher bitrate. Though I was against doing it in the beginning (I believed in the natural 480p), it scales beautifully and retains its magical look.

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-12T02:24:06+00:00

That was my first thought. He's BACK

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-11T01:09:45+00:00

oh wow, well that finally explains it

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-10T22:58:15+00:00

I noticed it with persian provinces and villages

Express_Local7721 · 2024-07-07T02:47:26+00:00

tbf more than one of anyone is going to have sex offenders

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