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drewwwwww··on Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
you’d be wrong, as far as i’m aware. almost all anime in the current system is an adaptation of a manga or LN - the anime comes at the end of the multimedia expansion project.
drewwwwww··on 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
there are substantial unanswered questions about cabin air quality, both from long term chronic exposure as well as the acute occurrences known as “fume events.”

not surprisingly, airlines, manufacturers, and the FAA are all working together to suppress a thorough understanding.

the LA Times did a good investigatory piece at the end of last year: https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covi...

drewwwwww··on Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
japan
drewwwwww··on I no longer trust The Great Suspender
that was not what people got mad at notch about
drewwwwww··on Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
that’s because you’ve fallen for their dogwhistle. nothing like what they described actually occurred, and blaming college students is coded language to allude to the manufactured and not-so-secretly anti-semitic boogie man of “cultural marxism”.
drewwwwww··on Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
do you know if anyone has written a detailed critical response?

people in the industry it is about laughing it off i think is to be expected. i doubt most traders in mortgage securitization in 2006 would have agreed the sky was about to fall.

drewwwwww··on Fired App Reviewer Sues Apple
the plaintiff’s core allegation is that the other “screw ups” were concocted (or at least exaggerated in severity) as a retaliation for approving the app and/or discussing the situation with peers.
drewwwwww··on Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud
this subject is covered at length in the article.
drewwwwww··on Former Producer: Why I’m now leaving MSNBC
it’s interesting to consider that cable news networks operated via a sort of primitive, relatively slower version of the youtube/facebook method of radicalization-by-algorithm to drive further engagement in advertising supported media.

unfortunately, i think if you fixed cable news tomorrow, it’s already well too late.

drewwwwww··on Pending Postal Service Changes Could Delay Mail and Deliveries
you may be correct - however, a lot of voter suppression is comparatively soft. more along the lines of discouragement. remove polling places, cause long lines, that gets on the news, people don’t bother to go after they get off work.

this could be similar, but for mail-in voting.

drewwwwww··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
> I do think people radically underestimate the unforeseen consequences of a free guaranteed income, even if it was low. I’d be willing to live as a poor person if that meant not having to work. Actually, where I live now I live comfortably on $1200 a month. I definitely would choose not to work or work less if that money came free from government. If I got free money I wouldn’t increase spending, I would reduce work.

this is not an unforeseen circumstance, but a desired outcome

drewwwwww··on Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes
the method described in the article uses a constant temperature of reaction.

edited to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Transcription_Loop-med...

drewwwwww··on The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
that's a bluetooth limitation likely on the macbook side, so i think the answer is "buy a new macbook pro".
drewwwwww··on Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology
that is how the message has been coopted. when meant sincerely it aims to drastically reduce both the responsibilities and budgets of law enforcement as close to zero as is practicable by replacing militarized violent enforcement with evidence-based programs that reduce criminality, often at much reduced cost.

you can google for more details.

drewwwwww··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
ah, yes, we’ll use the data collected by the same institutions doing the extra judicial murders. surely they’ve been keeping great notes. and then finally we’ll be able to prove that racism is real to some commenter on hacker news.
drewwwwww··on Google postpones Android 11 beta
it’s curious to me that you consider portland to be normally quiet - in the era of W and occupy it was 2nd only to Oakland on the west coast as being somewhat notorious for protest intensity, which was also worn as a badge of pride, and recently there have been several intense clashes between pro- and counter-fascist demonstrations.
drewwwwww··on FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours
likely because aviation is still on ft and nautical miles worldwide, i would think
drewwwwww··on Blender GIS
check out the work of keijiro takahashi: https://www.keijiro.tokyo/
drewwwwww··on McDonald's holds communities together (2016)
i have a pet theory that matchmaking in team games, and the destruction of “placefulness“ in-game, has contributed to the widespread experience of increased toxicity in these communities. it’s magnified the online disinhibition effect, as the consequences are now even more diffuse. probably the same percentage of jerks, but you can’t get your friend who runs the server to ban them.

discord servers seem to have filled the niche, to some extent, as each server can develop its own norms. i’m hoping that OW2 takes the opportunity to address this design problem in-game, via guilds, clans, or tournaments, something along those lines.

drewwwwww··on Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages
You can also get the sausages inside VW's too-weird-to-adequately-describe theme park/museum, the Autostadt[1], in Wolfsburg.

[1]: https://www.autostadt.de/start

drewwwwww··on In the middle of a butterfly crisis, California sees a burst of painted ladies
you may find this four part series on pesticide use on organic farms to be interesting: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/05/21/do-organic-far...
drewwwwww··on iGAN – Deep learning software that generates images with a few brushstrokes
Check out this rather entertaining talk from GitHub universe about the use of an LSTM to generate a film script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0bVyxi38Bc

and the short film they made, using that script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc

(disclosure: i work for github on events/AV)

drewwwwww··on Slack was hacked
i believe he's referring to this: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/authy-patches-after-2fa-bypassed...
drewwwwww··on Atom
trick #1 is to put some email address in your profile!
drewwwwww··on How to Make Perfect Coffee
Most roasters worth discussing use a process called "cupping" to profile their coffees. Even those not worth discussinh are far more likely to use this controlled, direct immersion method, than a paper filter brewer like the Hario v60. Not sure where you're getting this from.
drewwwwww··on Rover - All Your SF Transit Options In One Place
what personal data of mine are you going to sell to support the continued development of the app?
drewwwwww··on Preventing users from pouring water into coffee machine beans compartment
a coffee machine like this is guaranteed to make terrible coffee. the solution is to have better equipment.

if you see a coffee machine that has bean storage, it's almost guaranteed to suck.

drewwwwww··on How Snapchat took over Yale
the best part of this article is that we learn even yale undergraduates have no idea how statistics work. "i estimate that the contacts in my phone are a representative sample." based on what? the fact that you want to make generalizations?
drewwwwww··on Debtmageddon vs the robot utopia
do you care to respond to the argument or are you satisfied with simple ad hominem?
drewwwwww··on Adobe acquires Behance
or adobe + photoshop, adobe + illustrator, adobe + basically any product you can name.

let's not talk about the macromedia acquisition, though.

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