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The central idea that we all have the same tools which now represent an infrastructure baseline, therefore we need to look harder to establish our moats (not just in knowing things although that's one) is sound and well put. Thanks.

Nice, except, first game I clicked is now only pay-to-play on major platforms. I'm not against that, but it doesn't feel like a Show HN game anymore which I kind of expect to be a little rough and ready and certainly free to play. Perhaps this could be noted in the listing? I mean it's a success for the developer, not a downside. Game was Holedown.

Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts & Culture).

Not familiar with Mr Kraus. Shortcut to remembering how to pronounce Sòller is to say 'So yeah'. We're surrounded by scarcely-maintained groves with owners pleading to do something with the fruit and there's only so many marmalades (wrong kind of oranges) or Aperol copycats one can make. Orange blossom ice cream a big success this year.

That may be true of modern farms elsewhere but is not the case for historical groves here. They are sometimes spaced appropriately but that's about it. Usually on vehicular-inaccessible mountainside terraces.

Plenty of orange trees in public places, plenty of abandoned groves around and a handful of eco-fincas where you can pick for next to nothing.

I think the best bet for juice would be to export frozen concentrate.

And despite the logistical challenges you cite, lemons imported from places like Argentina are now cheaper to buy at Palma's wholesale market than the average wholesale price paid for local fruit, which has subsequently plummeted even further.

The story of soft drinks on the island is astonishing. 130 drinks companies at one point. My understanding is that Coca Cola took over distribution for the countless small companies and - once embedded - said we don't need your product any more, adios. Don't know if true but a tale often told here.

I live in a mountain valley in Mallorca where hundreds of tons of perfect Canoneta oranges fall to the floor and rot each year because the cost of picking them outweighs their market value. The valley became wealthy from this fruit in the 19th century but the economics no longer add up. [0]

At the same time the price of orange juice (elsewhere) has skyrocketed [1], yet this rural community seems unable to take advantage.

What would you do?

[0] https://ruralhotelsmallorca.com/guides/The-History-of-Soller... [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c397n3jl3z8o

Walrus product looks good. Here's another one worth knowing but may be difficult to acquire outside UK: https://workshopheaven.com/alfie-shine-hard-wax-polish-fragr...

I got a result using coins but could find no link to the hexagram so had to look it up on another site. While I was clicking around your site trying to find the hexagram then I lost my reading and back button didn't work, so changing lines etc were lost. I would love to use this more but not in current state.

Doesn't make sense to use Osmo Polyx oil as the baseline when Osmo Top oil is the slightly friendlier and equally beautiful food-safe version.

Because really we can split into three or more. US on one side, EU, middle and far east on the other.

East of Madrid is booming, West is in decline.

More accurately the line should be in Lagos but many are more familiar with EU film production centres.

This a highly focussed western lens but is not representative of global media culture and business.

If you completely discount Tencent Video, iQIYI, Youku, Bilibili, Kuaishou and so on in this outlook then that is the whip of many thongs in action.

I realise some of these platforms operate behind a wall you can't see over but don't think for a minute that wall isn't coming down.

Quite true thanks I was just shifting the discussion further east.

You might be referring to the remnants of broadcast television. I'm referring to the screen-based productions capturing the eyeballs of tomorrow.

One serious strand of America's whip of many thongs is the inability or refusal to acknowledge the rise in power and influence elsewhere.

As Gandalf - the last remaining talkshow host - gets pulled off the bridge into the abyss, he looks up to see a motley brigade of multi-cultural hobbits dashing for the surface with their wits and wallets thankfully intact.

Please excuse my excruciating reimagining of your wild fantasy metaphor.

A current example (although not Netflix) is The Secret Agent with an award qualification run in NYC and LA before wider release.

Netflix has had a large production studio outside Madrid for several years already.

They won't be American. The balance of power has already shifted east. There are now more productions, more money and more facilities east of Madrid than west of it.

Cinema is indeed second behind streaming. The theatrical window is now so short (~40) days that audiences are happy to wait for the increased benefits and reduced cost of watching at home.

This deal is an indicator of huge changes in global film & TV production.

Hollywood's struggles amplified after the writer's strike with a perfect storm of issues around unionisation, technology, fragmenting audiences, new formats, asset liabilities and enormous competition to the east.

Now LA soundstages are empty while production centres in Europe, UK, India, China, Nigeria are booming and vast new studios cropping up in the Middle East.

Proposed tariffs will do little to stem this tide as the money has moved on already.

In addition, traditional production methods are unsustainable and decision-making is opaque in an era where sustainability, transparency and democratisation are taking over.

The main benefit to Netflix is of course the IP, but the traditional studio assets of WB have their days numbered.

Netflix is already the sole client of a huge studio outside Madrid.

This excellent article is about user interface mechanisms and their physical metaphors, a pretty small subset of interaction design, despite the author's attempt to define the term.

More broadly, interaction design inhabits the elusive void that occurs between people, products, services and environments.

Once you're down to deciding between one interface mechanism or another you've abstracted the bigger, more important picture relating to what and why the interaction is taking place, or even if it should.

Just a reminder to zoom out every now and then.

Should be a doc on the harder skill of how to schedule meetings, then you wouldn't need a guide on how to attend them.

Stopped / crashed Dec 31 2005 with $358K return. Cannot proceed. Fun until then.

Quick note your average wait time might increase to more than half the interval, thanks to the Waiting Time Paradox, a transportation manifestation of the Inspection Paradox.

https://medium.com/data-science/the-inspection-paradox-is-ev...

London had a spiral escalator in 1906, sadly not captured on film

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/blog/spiral-escalator-engineering...

Layperson question: aren't the nopert candidates just increasingly close to being spheres, which cannot have Rupert tunnels?

Quibi was 5 years too early. Vertical micro dramas are now an $8B market, just exceeded box office in China and expanding rapidly elsewhere.

That was the case from 2011-2016. I can't say with as much certainty now, but anecdotally, probably similar.