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Interesting opinions, you might enjoy testing the strong-hold in winds of an anti-depressant related discussion - https://player.fm/series/philosophy-for-our-times/e123-minds...


SpaceX has admirably ambitious goals. While cheering/hating is of negligible value, it doesn't hurt to broaden one's view about NewSpace.

Ref: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ffc-12-in_elon_we_trust


From history - KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov talks about normalisation in context of subversion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g (1983, LA)


There are so many parallels to what Yuri is talking about here, to plausible explanations behind the actions of and sentiment that elected Trump's administration, and some of the views of some of Trump's seemingly strange bedfellows such as Milo Yiannopoulos. If Trump was eloquent, this might be what he sounds like.

Yuri, in 1983, says that it takes 15-20 years to subvert a society. An undertone to his whole argument implied that the West was already at least partially subverted, and in motion even then.


It's interesting how people immediately assume only the Republicans/right/whatever are the deluded ones.

Note that these aren't tremendous sources, I'm only providing some historical facts because the narrative has been completely lost.

Bill Clinton built a wall, and kept out immigrants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZXbG5gvoC0

Bill Clinton fought against welfare and the nanny state: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/the-wor...

Bill Clinton bombed countries on a hair trigger and created enemies overseas: http://www.ornery.org/essays/2001-01-26-1.html

The fatal flaw in Curtis' documentary, and in most people who view it, is they think only Republicans suffer from hypernormalization. BOTH parties are guilty, and yes it's going to keep getting worse even if we have a D beside the president's name. Go back and watch The West Wing and see how long it takes until they're justifying the murder of innocent people in the middle east.


I don't really think that Hypernormalisation is as partisan as you suggest - in fact, listen to the Chapo Trap House interview people are linking to here. He is extremely critical of the Democrats/centrists that trade as "the left" and goes to lengths to explain how culpable they are for the current dumpster fire we're experiencing


Yuri frames subversion in a sinister way, feeding on anti-Soviet sentiment. However, what is progressivism if not subversion? Hasn't the dominant culture subtly shifted to where homosexuality and other "deviance" is tolerated, if not accepted? Is that shift not a subversion of the previous society and its norms?


This is the inconvenient truth that leftists would prefer to deny, and one of the reasons why there's so much shrieking about Trump and Bannon and Brietbart.

They've mastered using the left's tactics against them.


> They've mastered using the left's tactics against them.

No one has a monopoly of truth, or lies. And neither owns the tactic either, stop being tribal


Left, what left? What is going on in DC right now is a fight between two segments of the right wing. There has been no Left in USA sine the 70s at least.


It was, there were soviet operatives all over the place.


TouchBar will play nice with digital audio workstations like Logic Pro / Live, etc. I'll be happy to record pitch/mod/any VST param automations on a touch strip.

DJ-ing apps could show up cue points and let you trigger them.

While fullscreen mode on macOS advocated distraction-free focus, TouchBar takes a step backwards.


OT: they forgot to setup their meta tags properly. The description is set to "Responsive Minimal Bootstrap Theme"


That may be a cool thing, but the site is almost impossible to read. At least on my iPad. It might be complex to program that robot, but navigating their site shouldn't be.


A funny find, but why were you looking at their source?


Why not? For some of us it's a decades-old habit, from back when the Web was more friendly.


I just looked at the source code and, well, wow. Comments sometimes in English and sometimes in Chinese, scripts are being loaded all over the place, one tag is just commented out, one inline script does nothing but assign a global variable to a value that's presumably just an output from PHP and many more things that feel really... odd for something that's supposed to advertise a new and complex technology.


I wouldn't be so surprised. They're a robotics company, not a web design company. They probably contracted it out.


Surely it's far worse if they contracted it out as then this is the results of people who they bought in on the basis of their web design. If it was in house then there's an excuse of sorts.


Nah. If you're not a web design company, than you're not going to know what to look for when trying to contract a web design company. I'd expect shit-show engineering to be the norm rather than the exception.


I do it sometimes, just wondering if there was any particular reason that people do it.


Curiosity mostly - usually if a page is particularly nice or particularly bad.

I also tend to check HN when people make comments about the horrors of table based layouts...


The OP might have done like me : copy/paste the link in Slack and that's the preview text that is appearing


If you share the page on Facebook you should see

Segway Robot Responsive Minimal Bootstrap Theme


I'm a frontend+design guy, I tend to do it time to time.


Not the OP, but I do this more frequently than I should - probably just to think 'ah, noobs, they didn't minify their JS'. :)


I can't see the form in "pls fill out the form below"


You may also find this useful - "Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music" - http://www.analogindustries.com/b1764/


Pixel-by-pixel is an abuse indeed, sizes are huge, generation easy. It's like generated ascii art vs hand-made thoughtful pieces of work.

I like to rebound some dribbble shots with css3 http://dribbble.com/ideamonk/projects/97353-Pure-CSS3

I enjoy two aspects of this -

1. Figuring out what the overall is composed of by looking hard

2. Rendering with limited power available in CSS (no photoshop ninja here)

And sometimes I animate them too - http://heldfree.com/play/dropbox/ (best viewed in Safari)

With these I've also found a few subtle differences between how Chrome and Safari render translucent gradients, large shadows, etc.

This is a somewhat rewarding but an entertaining thing to do :)


On significantly large projects, the compass compiler can take a lot more time than lessc. Eg. Sencha Touch's sass based styling.


I just printed a super-mini version of 'one thing' for my home office - http://i.imgur.com/3oa6a.jpg (single founder edition) . Grab original here - http://heldfree.com/one-thing.png

The text shape can also easily be wrapped over a tall whiskey bottle :)


iOS can seem vast. If you know Ruby, http://rubymotion-tutorial.com is a must see. I'm finding the ecosystem around Rubymotion to be more productive.


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