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nice try, guys


Many see a value in "natural" objects that is absent in those engineered by man. There is a raw energy and story behind it. Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?


Many marketers have convinced you of that. To many, the story is a story of blood and tears. Diamond mines are terrible places.


Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?

Why wouldn't I be? Human creations can be every bit as awe-inspiring as anything found in nature.

No waterfall is as impressive as a smartphone, if you know what you're looking at and what it took to make it happen.


I've seen some beautiful waterfalls.

But none of them filled me with awe the way that the Hoover Dam did.

What story is there behind a rock in the ground outside of a middle-school tier earth science lecture?


^ What he said. There's something in story/branding/nostalgia too.


The Bellagio in Vegas is pretty awesome.


Isn't 202TB (for comparison) way too small to contain every permutation of information? That filesize wouldn't even be able to store a film enthusiast's collection?


Well it all comes down to encoding, doesn't it. We can represent almost everything with just 0 and 1 as well, can't we? The description of that data is way bigger than the elements used to describe it of course.


i.e. investment bankers in hoodies


I'm having this problem too.


Also having this problem. I think it's some kind of A/B testing, but not directly associated with accounts. I had 2 friends in other cities try a search on mobile, and for one it worked correctly, and the other got bullshit results for other sites.

Sometimes, but not always, if you scroll to the end you'll then get all of the actual site: results. This may or may not indicate anything, such as it being a bug.

This is NOT because the site: being searched had a lack of results.

Other commentary: “They kill site: for some % of the users and then gauge the number of complaints. but unless they get some kind of overwhelming backlash just short of actual rioting, they’ll probably go ahead/have already decided to fully kill site: and even further degrade the utility of the search engine. It’s hopelessly frustrating because the barrier to entry for a new search engine is gonna be very high, millions of dollars.

And too many people just do nothing, their lives are worse for it, and everyone who does do something has to do it for 10 other people just for a chance that it might not get ruined, and it can be exhausting”


Ok seriously that was supposed to be a reply to the post, not a comment FFS

Edit: Apparently I can't reply to the post anymore, due to undefined reasons.


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Genomics data has entered the chat.


Impressive, but it seems to have hallucinated Lilly's location.


Understanding the Universe, an Introduction to Astronomy[0] -- a video lecture series by Alex Filippenko

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncSF2QwpCB9C...


first world problems..


You mean like the entire history of "civilization"?


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