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Completely fascinating video on this topic just recently: https://www.wsj.com/video/the-race-to-commercialize-the-worl...

> Do you even know? I've wondered about this too. Did Ridley Scott and crew set out to make the greatest movie ever (IMO)? Or did something magical happen? My guess is "auteurs" of…

The complete opening sequence of Blade Runner is "fucking amazing". The entire movie is "fucking amazing". It is a beautiful, visually stunning masterpiece that I will never tire t…

Also the subject of a 2021 Netflix documentary, "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible " with stunning 4K imagery. Very sad.

That's true and when the Netflix DVD service arrived, I thought it was really a situation where the consumer had finally won. (No late fees! Yay!). That said here in Boulder we had…

> I'm intrigued how often the most mundane products and things are in fact multi million dollar industries. Absolutely. https://www.wsj.com/business/making-money-wealth-boring-8cc6…

Incorrect. These fires basically create their own weather systems. All that smoke also contains a lot of water in the material that is burning. (That makes sense. They are trees, a…

I don’t have the reference on my fingertips, but patients who are involved in their own healthcare have better outcomes. Moreover, for those of us (and there are many of us) who ha…

Ummm, yes. Especially for those of us who may have had less than ideal schooling.

Extraordinary. Thank you for sharing. If there would ever be the possibility of seeing European Gothic cathedrals in this manner, that would also be really cool.

He was also interviewed on RFI recently [0] (in French). [0] https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/de-vive-s-voix/20260401-etien...

The photography of the bird eyes in the article is stunning especially the 3x3 grid.

For those of us who came of age at the start of the web, CNN had a pioneering presence on cnn.com. I still check it pretty regularly due to old habits. (Also https://lite.cnn.com/ …

Having dealt with hackers (not the HN variety unfort) who go to extraordinary lengths to cryptojack pennies, I completely agree. They always use Monero for some reason. In sum, wha…

Related story and wondering if the OP may have been chasing red herrings. I recently noticed an unauthorized charge for a small amount on my credit card (something about FB/Meta). …

TLDR: when humans work with AI as intellectual sparring partners, they perform better than when working without AI or just copy/pasting the results of AI. Interesting article. Here…

> I deeply wish the democrats had run a better campaign in 2024. The problem is that there was no primary. That really (really) hurt Democrats not only for that election cycle, but…

> best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established The way I am working with AI agents (codex) these days is have the AI generate a spec in a series of MD documents wher…

I have not studied this situation in depth, but this is my thinking as well.

That, or I also wonder if this may be a prank or a hoax.