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There's a part in the documentary where they're interviewing the record label owner and when they ask him about it he immediately flips out and ends the interview.
I dunno about that, every time Sugar man or I Wonder started playing when I was growing up, someone would tell me "This guy isn't famous anywhere else! No-one even knows where he is!". I must have been told this factoid 20 times when I was a teenager.
Re:The Story of Sugru on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:21AM (#30599564)
FYI you can make something very similar by mixing silicon sealant and chalk powder/cornstarch
Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:14PM (#29784976)
This is just "copying to a flash drive" with extra steps.
Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:41PM (#29765221)
You forgot to mention the "click on this one specific checkbox or your source code is now leaked to the entire internet forever" part. So actually, not that simple and potentially much much worse.
Re:Be My Eyes on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:39PM (#25796109)
Lights in the UK have a small cone on the bottom of the button box that turns when the light is green https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-22706881
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:52AM (#23996302)
Tax rates on the rich are at historically low levels. Rich people would still get UBI but the top level tax rate would effectively cancel it out (and more). Current welfare wastes a lot of money on admin/staff/fraud investigations and none of that would be needed with UBI since everyone gets it.

People would still want money. UBI isn't going to be enough for a lavish lifestyle, people will still want to work. It would make lower-paying activities like art/open source more viable though.

Yes! Just search eBay/AliExpress. They work and sound great. I get the appeal of having nice things, but earbuds? They're tiny plastic things that just sit in your ear and could easily fall down a sewer grate at any moment.
Re:Drip on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:52AM (#15878583)
>We charge 5%, in addition to any fees from our payments partners.

>We will help creators securely transfer subscription and payments information to other subscription platforms. Creators will also be able to download and export their subscriber information and any content they have posted to their Drip page

Re:Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:20AM (#15859208)
>except no news site has any confirmed specs.

Because there IS no news. This is not news. This is an announcement to announce that the actual announcement is tomorrow.

You've both zoomed out in your browsers. Press CTRL+ a few times until you get back to 100%. Article takes up half the screen for me in Chrome+FF, 100%zoom @ 1440p.
Re:What Is It Like to Be Nice to Everybody? on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:19AM (#14526587)
I just noticed the "web" link no longer defeats the WSJ paywall. It is not acceptable to link to them any more IMO.
Re:Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:22AM (#12835554)
It's not as if every 3 letter acronym has one canonical definition. Googling a 3 letter acronym is almost impossible without adding at least one of the full words. The "ATM machine" pattern seems to me to be the most concise way of removing that ambiguity. It's interesting how language evolves.
Re:iPhone 7 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:52AM (#12451323)
>I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it.

Audio latency used to be a HUGE advantage for IOS vs Android. It was their biggest USP in my opinion. Android has been improving but it's still not there yet. If the next ipad has this it will be the end for musicians using IOS.

Haha, that's the reasoning google when they rolled out g+ and that worked out great for them.
Re:Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come on Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:43PM (#12240220)
>...prototype stores twice as much juice as the lithium-ion cells the Gigafactory will turn out, and which could eventually do better than that.
Re:Robot Builder Constructs House in Two Days on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:32AM (#12179429)
>At the end of the boom is a hand which grabs and arranges the bricks, securing them with construction glue instead of cement.
Op hasn't answered any of the comments asking this. I'd like to know if he even bothered changing the name and location of the rape victim.
> and asked me to take lots of pictures of her for my memory

For his memory. Clearly it wasn't a "tell my story!" Kind of moment. Even if it was, she'd been raped the day before then tried to flee the country with no money, got arrested and thrown in prison. She was clearly in a very vulnerable state and the writer was the first friendly face she'd seen. He admits he didn't contact her before posting her face all over the internet. The pictures have been taken down now btw.

Edit: OP says she asked him to tell her story. I still think he should have asked her at a time when, you know, she wasn't at the lowest point in her life.