I've been visiting sp since 2005, i eventually moved there '09 and lived there till '23. I remember the pre-06 cityscape. You were bombarded by visual ads in the 100s every half hour. It was absurd. Most of the buildings were absolutely covered in low-effort graffiti, callef pixação or pixo (pronounced peeshu). Since then there really has been a flourishing of murals and street art. The quality and quantity are flabberghasting. It added a lot to the sense of discovery while out exploring a new corner of the city and sense of place for places one returns to. Many of the artists like veracidade became close to household names. Overall it was a wonderful change whose impacts subtly changed the atmosphere of the city, making it much more livable. The only problem was in the liberdade neighborhood, home to the japanese disapora of the early 20th century: their local business depended on kanji signs hanging off the facades of the buildings. After the law change the neighborhood's economy sorta collapsed for a while, but is now recovering.
It's not reflexive to critisize US foreign meddling. It IS reflective because it requires considerable consideration to puncture the fabric of US internal propaganda and reach these conclusions. The problem is that it's built on a web of lies and treachery. That's not a very smart attitude to take between whole nations of people. Maybe it is if the end goal is further ethnic domination, subjugation, and/or exterminaton-- which the US has done and still does, systematically.
There are bearings a country can take, foreign relations wise, that over the long term that lead to better outcomes and just quality-of-life improvements in general. Benevolence and smart relationship management com ined with military dominamce has immense soft power, of which the U.S. has left unexplored.
I just found this reading up on S.Pacific politics:
Weiner, Tim (9 October 1994). "C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2007.
Add japan to the laundry list where these organized, professionalized, politically motivated paramilitary "groups" involve themselves in the democratic process of other nations, with absolutely no control or oversight from the very society they comes from.
Don't confuse the US before the collapse of the soviet union and now. There is a reason it is in the position it is - it actually did stuff countries liked such as rebuilding the world after WWII. When the soviet union collapsed the US needed to pivot - instead a bunch of inept politicians have been doing expedient nothings for 30 years.
So i guess that means any university with a religous foundation is not a university? Last i checked there are quite a few christian universities. Also common schooling in christian populations was and often still is done by members of their religious order: does their faith and religious element detract from the intellectual merit of their academic teachings? Ask that to people who still pay boatloads for they and their families to attend.
I think it is a good idea considering the temporal frame of reference. Payback on projects like these take decades. Furthermore the objectives of whichever local official with any sense of wit and honor most certainly must encompass and protect the needs of local citizens and global directives at the expense of energetically and ecologically expensive tech of arguably dubious merit.
I know this is kind of out in left field, but some people also mentioned query result history. I've been using phind since it was in beta as sayhello and encountered similar a faux pas where submitting feedback sent me to an plaintext error page. Going back and resubmitting the query produced a result that didn't include the important information in the original result. It would be helpful to have search history, but furthermore (and the reason for writing this) is an idea that's been floating around in my head about git-tree esque search histories in bash. Though it's currently outside the range of my expertise. While reading the comments of this thread I had an idea for a similiar feature, something i would probably pay for an recommend.
The feature relates to a problem I've encountered as an active intermediate developer with managing the multidunious and varied queries that i might do both getting up to speed and solving problems in-the-wild. I find that what i learn and use doesn't stick right away, so rather than making the same query (and in this case sometimes getting different results) resorted to keeping 3 notebooks for each subject: a technical reference, a working notebook, and a learning log. That's a lot of notebooks!
I mention this because knowledge management and effective learning go hand in hand. And learning something you didn't know seems to be the problem domain of ai search for developers.
Organizing query results thematically by learning trees would be a gargantuan undertaking, and probably far outside the scope of what is already an excellent service. Just putting that out there.
the -s command lists metadata, but from my explorations with the bytecode using ruby std tools and grep I've found there is likely a lot more than is shown from this command.
How might I use the tool for editing geodata? Their forum seems to point to the use of other tools.
Gattaca is a good movie. I can't wait to read this. I'd also suggest William Gibson (of neuromancer fame)'s Alien script.
Lots of good suggestions in this thread. Dark City's aesthetic and story-telling style made it one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen. You are in the dark most of the movie, both in aesthetic of the film and metaphorically in the sense that you don't know what is going on, but discover it slowly, and along the way you are lead to reach premature conclusions that turn out later to be false. I haven't watched this movie in years, but it's been permanently seared into the deepest darkest corners of my mind.
Another excellent sci-fi i came across earlier this year, from the late 70's early 80's is a polish film On The Silver Globe. The special effects are nothing more than lighting, photography, writing, costumes, set design, and excellent acting, but I can still say that it's psychadelic in the way it provokes the mind, the senses, and the emotions.
>Dark City's aesthetic and story-telling style made it one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen. You are in the dark most of the movie, both in aesthetic of the film and metaphorically in the sense that you don't know what is going on, but discover it slowly, and along the way you are lead to reach premature conclusions that turn out later to be false.
I'll add that if you haven't seen Dark City and are going to watch it, you must seek out the director's cut. The theatrical cut basically ruins the plot up front assuming the audience won't get it and it changes the film dramatically.
?? I saw it in the theater when it opened. nothing was ruined. maybe there is a second cut I'm unaware of. Certainly the cut Roger Ebert gave 4/4 stars, which is the original theatrical cut, isn't the one with spoilers
"A director's cut of Dark City was officially released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 29 July 2008. The director's cut removes the opening narration, which Proyas felt explained too much of the plot, and includes approximately eleven minutes of additional footage, most of which extends scenes already present in the theatrical release with additional establishing shots and dialogue."
I originally saw the director's cut, then went back and watched a video with the opening narration. I felt that my viewing of the movie was improved having seen it originally without.
Here is an interview with director Alex Proyas where he explicitly discusses the removal of the opening narration [1]:
BLAKE: What is the biggest difference between it and the original?
ALEX PROYAS: The general pace of the movie is quite different. The director’s cut more or less is the version I had originally sent out when I was first testing the movie. We had problems in testing and it’s why the studio had us add in the voice overs, which I thought was rubbish really! My instinct then was when something wasn’t playing right to speed it up and I’ve never been happy with that, so this version is back to a more leisurely and thoughtful pace it was meant to be. The voice over from the beginning is gone of course. There is also a few scenes added back that were ditched that I think are perfectly good scenes and I have no idea why we dropped them then.
Nature ecologies are so full of examples of mutual aid across all types of life that we are still discovering new relationships everyday. I'd like to see an updated collation of all these findings since kropotkin's writigs. Any suggestions?
Collectively held norms and expectations are commonplace across cultures, otherwise how would we effectively cooperate? They are kinda like protocols. There are many ways to raise people to uphold those sets of customs without falling into the domination and homogenization traps.
