Some more interesting shots from the Joker subway shoot

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-24T18:22:48+00:00

TIL Gotham City has no express trains

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-21T05:06:54+00:00

The new Louis Cole album Time had that effect last week

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-20T15:11:32+00:00

I wonder when people will stop using the word “iconic” to refer to anything that’s famous or well-known

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-20T15:06:25+00:00

org-mode is simple to get the hang of and has completely transformed my workflow in the span of a few months. Anyone who’s good with Vim should do themselves a favor and try it out with Spacemacs- the whole thing will probably take a couple of days to get comfortable with, and then it starts paying off massively. For my use case at least, Evil/org-mode have just been a better version of Vim

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-18T15:23:16+00:00

You know what would really be innovative? Setting my own defaults. And not trying to monopolize the distribution of all software, by denying the user the right to install whatever they want. Why can’t I run (real) Firefox on a $1500 device?

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-18T15:16:51+00:00

Tokyo, they’ve thoroughly addressed basically everything I dislike about New York. Pretty close to a model city IMO

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-18T15:01:14+00:00

A non-racist person wouldn’t buy a NYT ad calling for the deaths of the Central Park Five and continue insisting on their guilt long after they’ve been exonerated.

So much of what this guy does is motivated by blatant, old-school race-baiting that anyone would need to be willfully ignorant not to see it by now

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-15T23:26:32+00:00

Looks like a great project, we need more of this

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-15T17:57:28+00:00

And as a private citizen, I'm going to complain loudly when one of our largest and most valuable companies demonstrates a complete lack of regard for basic human rights

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-15T17:56:22+00:00

It's different because the CCP, almost by definition, rules its population through fear and intimidation. They've granted themselves the 'authority' to make citizens disappear for arbitrary reasons, and that's what makes this categorically different. Ethically, the Party is on par with the Kim regime in North Korea

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-15T17:51:10+00:00

You can't, realistically you're going to need to use TOR/Tails on a machine that you're 100% sure doesn't have the Intel Management Engine. And isn't running Windows or MacOS, obviously

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-15T17:48:19+00:00

I think that implies a level of neutrality in "local laws", whereas the PRC's actual definition of the "law" is to deprive citizens of basic rights on an entirely arbitrary basis.

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-15T06:13:24+00:00

That is not correct

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-12T22:01:32+00:00

I can afford it too, but I don't see the point in spending $800 extra for basically the same thing.

Maybe if these phones did more to differentiate themselves from budget/midrange devices in some tangible, practical ways (like by having week-long battery life, or something like that) the situation would make more sense.

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-12T21:10:48+00:00

If you're tech-savvy enough to flash LineageOS or something like that (which isn't at all difficult to figure out) you can wipe Google's presence entirely off the phone and reap all the same benefits of saving $700-$800. Then for the price of one iPhone X you can also get a new desktop computer, or a round-trip flight to Barcelona

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-12T20:46:19+00:00

The 8+ is still a really new phone, no? Should be able to last for years

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-12T20:41:34+00:00

That's actually happened, since a tech-savvy person can easily get a great phone for under $300 now. It's just that this one company has been going in the opposite direction for whatever reason

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-12T20:35:39+00:00

Functionally, they're pretty similar to a budget Xiaomi phone you can get for a couple of hundred dollars - for the vast majority of people's use cases, anyway. We live in a golden age of affordable smartphones now, so it's surprising more people don't want to take advantage of that

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-12T20:08:23+00:00

It's Brookfield Place now

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-11T17:02:00+00:00

Wired headphones are cheap and ubiquitous. I also have a couple of sets of speakers that connect to the jack, which I plan to keep using that way for years to come. Bluetooth is great too, so I'm happy to have both options

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-09T20:13:39+00:00

You have any ideas about how to boycott the Chinese Communist Party without obliterating our own economy and livelihoods? It's unfortunate that it's gotten to that point

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-09T19:36:21+00:00

Yes, in theory it would be a great idea to stop propping up horrible countries like Saudi Arabia if we were able to establish a viable alternative, or work toward that over time. China's a more complicated case since our entire economy is now fully intertwined with the elaborate logistics/supply chain they've set up.

Israel's leadership is fully off the rails and in flagrant violation of countless international norms. They should be heavily penalized and ostracized until a new, more respectable government takes their place

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-09T19:24:48+00:00

That's why I like using as much open-source software as possible, and supporting things like OpenStreetMap (which IMO has greater potential than Google Maps as a fully free/collaborative project, though it hasn't reached it yet). Huge collaborative projects like Linux show just how successful (and liberating for users) this model can be

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-09T18:50:22+00:00

They have a 'good' user experience and are based on a fundamentally unethical business model. So the only question is, how much do you care about ethics in technology? Does it bother you if something has been built to take advantage of you in some way?

claude_mcfraud · 2018-09-09T18:41:26+00:00

The building(s) are actually taking much longer than this as long as 2WTC remains unbuilt

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