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Majority of the illusions seem to be 2D object projected as 3D object, they still get me every-time though. Definitely would recommend a game called Superliminal if this kind of st…

> it's not very efficient to learn how to do something by enumerating all the ways you cannot do it I think the better way to look at it would be to look at ways that it could've b…

There are just so many websites on this page, all of which have their own art style and their own experiments. Honestly makes me feel very small on the internet but also happy that…

China is much more internationally connected and densely populated than Africa is. Pretty much why the rate of international infection skyrocketed after the disease got to Italy. A…

> Many of the parents with young children at home are dreading the loss of their office space right now As someone without kids can you explain this? Where I work at many employees…

Also, there's a factor of where the people live. Someone who is a cab driver in Los Angeles might be making the same money as someone who is a mechanic in Nebraska. But the possibi…

Well it worked for China, they now have large corporations of similar (enough) caliber to their Western counterparts creating a lot more jobs than if Amazon or Google were allowed …

For me it shows the hexcode of the name but not the name itself.

I doubt that they'd lower their investment. This is more like you're investing in the economy of Saudi Arabia as a whole, just using an oil company as it's vessel.

The old adage of "If you owe the bank 1000 dollars that's your problem, if you owe the bank 10,000,000 dollars, that's the bank's problem." The "Art of Failing Up" only requires ge…

>The former beats the latter under specific circumstances only. A large part of that circumstance being the nonexistance of the former and creation of our urban environments to spe…

I'll never understand how articles like this always talk about Uber and never about public transportation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK#Ridership >The AirTrain's ride…

>The truth is that the U.S. China relationship has been extremely one-sided for a very long time now: China buys the hardware it needs, and keeps all of the software opportunities …

Honestly, a good amount of law and politics is knowing what you can or cannot do. It's not that law is complex it's that dealing with people who know law, or people that know that …

https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/wuhan-china In USD really. Unsurprisingly, people living in a large city in China are not dirt poor as you would expect.

Would the human eye see the difference between this and Vantablack? Even though it's ten times darker I feel like the returns would get smaller and smaller. Also, what would 100% l…

The question should have one added word. >Is it justified to temporarily suspend rights/privileges of 100 innocent people Which the answer is always no. Saying otherwise opens the …

I disagree and say that when human rights are removed, it doesn't matter what the context is. 1. Terrorists deserve the same human rights as normal people. 2. The removal of libert…

>If X were an impoverished country like Somalia, the tune would change and most people would condemn such a society I've actually found that the larger a country is the more critic…

Do you really need context when a country is stripping its citizens of the right of communication, movement, and religion?

Do you see how Southeast, Dunwamish, and Delridge are a rainbow of colors with barely any specks of blue while the north neighborhoods are all blue with specks of green? That's the…

The entire map is the metro Seattle area. Zoom into Seattle where the northmost dotted line is and the divide is pretty evident.

These innovation/idea competitions are almost always self-fulfilling prophecies. No one wants to submit an idea that's even slightly out of there because only viable and ideas grou…

>I read “that orange website” all the damn time. Is she talking about HN?