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Agreed, the newest movie in particular was borderline unwatchable.

It was entirely technobabble and metaphysical nonsense with no character development.


That's more the weakness of the 3rd than the 4th. The third movie felt like there was a whole volume between part 2 and part 3 that was missing - I get the appeal of telling the story from Shinji's perspective and starting in media res, but you can't just use terms like "failed infinities" and the "chamber of guf" without a little establishing context.

The 4th brings it back somewhat, but ultimately the finale is still the typical Eva "here's a bunch of religious babble half-explaining what happens overlaid with crazy imagery" which imho had its last hurrah in EoE.


3.0 was garbage except the opening rescue scene and the end battle, I would not recommend it at all. The 4th has too much eye candy that wasn’t even babble.


The whole villiage sequence was character development?

I agree that the CGI scenes where kind of weaker than the old animated fights.


As cheesy as it sounds, afterwards I sort of felt like the bad cg (and copy pasting assets) was intentional. Maybe it was meant to contrast the eva specific parts with the rest of the regularly animated sequences with human characters. The scene that made me think this way was near the end the giant Rei head exploded into a bunch of 3d eva models (about 2:20), where afterwards they decided to animate the contrasting scene with humans without 3d, which was probably so much more work that I felt it must have been intentional for some reason.


I thought it was for fakery but I don’t know, 2.22 had excellent 3D.


Children are a vector for spreading the virus, this really isn’t complicated.

The psychological “trauma” of wearing a mask is nothing compared to what these kids will feel when they give grandma covid over Christmas.

It’s not about them.


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>Asymptotically spreading COVID has been discussed and documented all over the world. I don’t believe this question is in good faith.

Then you should easily be able to back that up with data. So please provide it. Hypothesis are not evidence. I have plenty of evidence that shows the opposite.

https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/7/618

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200710100934.h...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32430964/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32914746/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.26394

Have fun. If you'd like more to keep you busy let me know :).

>Some people would like to spend time with their families this Christmas without having to worry about their children being vectors for a fucking plague that has now mutated to dodge the vaccine.

Normal people will not be wearing masks to Christmas. Why would we worry about children being vectors? "The science" doesn't back this up and even if it did there's a vaccine for it. Are you confused about how the vaccine works? If COVID is this big of a deal then you should just avoid Christmas and leave the rest of us alone. Why are you venturing out if it affects you that much? I have a hard time believing you're acting in good faith when it comes to stopping COVID infection and then talking about social gatherings. It appears that you just want to control others.

>Wear a mask ffs so we can move on with our lives.

Massive strawman happening here.

I've already moved on with my life.. That happened like year ago when everyone was able to get the vaccine if they wished. You have health anxiety, get it treated please and stop turning your personal fears into authoritarian rhetoric you think you have the right to shove down other people's throats.


https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...

> Asymptomatic cases had a significant but lower secondary attack rate when compared to symptomatic individuals.

Curious what your searches look like, because that took me like 2 seconds to find.


That's one link vs several I gave you. Are you implying that your science is better than mine? Why? What standard proves this? All of the links I gave you are peer reviewed studies. You've proved nothing.

I'll choose my studies over yours. You're just bloviating cult like adherence to "the science".


> Then you should easily be able to back that up with data. So please provide it.


Teaching has to be the worst job in America right now.


Where does all of the money go?

New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.


Bloated administration, expensive tech that doesn't work or is less good at educating than pencil and paper...


Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)


Want to do some good with your coding skills? Build open source edu-tech.

Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.


I imagine good edu-tech requires some expertise that not every open source developer has, though.

On the other hand, look at the massive amounts of high-quality data in something like Open Streetmap. It should be possible to do this.


> Build open source edu-tech.

They existed, they just didn't get adopted really. E.g. https://moodle.org/

There's so many ways of justifying not open source. Heck it's so easy to create FUD around open source projects.


Is it too much to ask to first spend money on teachers and basic supplies, and only if money is left over after that, spend it on extras, new tech, experiments, and administration?


Why is it that the most asinine crypto projects get upvoted on this forum while actual behemoths like AAVE, UniSwap, Compound etc don't get discussed at all?

I get that you guys like being an anti-crypto echo chamber, but you are really doing yourself a disservice and frankly embarrassing yourselves.


I think there's a taste for extensive parody in this sort of community. This reads like the classic Signetics "Write Only Memory" datasheet, or even the Chicken PDF.


ESOP and fundraising for startups are such good fits for cryptocurrency that few acknowledge.

Having to trust your employer to treat you ethically when the time comes is such a terrible bet. I've been fucked on more than one occasion during acquisitions, since then I do not accept ESOP at all.

Conversely I have been doing a lot of consulting on web3 projects lately and it is such a breath of fresh air to have actual transparency and liquidity of my compensation.


I agree that play-to-earn is still very early, but there are several projects in the space making significant progress towards making it a reality.

I view investing in these projects no differently than my TSLA positions. Over hyped for sure, but the potential upside is massive and I am unwilling to sit on the sidelines.

Right now I am active in a few communities and it’s been a lot of fun watching these games evolve on a near weekly basis. I relate it to Kickstarter but you actually own a part of the company.


Pretty bold claim with 0 evidence.


0 evidence? I think you mean endlessly endlessly evidence for fake decentralisation

https://twitter.com/dydxprotocol/status/1468293558360805381

Here is a "decentralised" exchange going down with aws


Please make the effort to understand the difference between frontend and backend.

The nice thing about the decentralised exchanges such as Uniswap or -dydx- is that you do not need their websites/ frontends because their smart contracts/ backend is available on the blockchain. Anybody can make a website that interacts with any smart contracts on the blockchain. There are even aggregator websites (e.g. https://app.defisaver.com/).

Do you know any website that aggregates the services of any TradFi banks and brokers?

Edit: Actually dydx is layer 2 now: https://dydx.exchange/blog/layer-1-wind-down


Nice condescending tone you got going

Backend/frontend? I thought this was a decentralized network. There should just be users with nodes. Backends point to clear points of failure from a disingenuous misleading project


If you made even a passing attempt at understanding this space you would see how wrong you are.

Anyone can interact with a contract directly, you don't need any FE or BE at all.

I can't speak to the specifics of dydx since I am not a user and haven't done my due diligence on them, but with every other dex I have ever interacted with it is entirely possible to use their service entirely from the contract interface.

Its usually the first thing I do to ensure that I can access my funds without any external dependencies.


How can I make a passing attempt to understand the space when I've already been teaching decentralised tech for 6 years


Then as an educator you are doing your students a disservice and allowing your personal bias to impact their future.


You are just contradicting the parents comments while trying to claim they aren't being misleading. The exchange when down with aws and they were lying about being decentralised to sell tokens


dYdX is a layer-2 zk-rollup-based exchange that is definitely not decentralized in the sense that e.g. Uniswap is on layer-1. It still, however, inherits the security guarantees of L1 despite not being directly intractable with from L1.


I already know they aren't decentralised

And yet they claim right on the front page "Decentralized"

Also L1 exchanges on Ethereum are arguably not decentralised. They delegate power to miners as a shortcut


even your L1 is 70% hosted nodes , why not just run an api on a trusted company's servers that verifies your balances using pub/priv keys and signatures

you guys are up for rude awakening when this rube goldberg machine bricks


its been over a decade now.

would like to point out that HN was also saying BTC was over valued at $1k.

Didn't listen to you guys then, not going to now either.


What does this have to do with bitcoin? Their claims don't relate to bitcoin


exactly


Bitcoin is decentralized, 13,000 nodes - mostly residiential nodes, not hosted.

You're assuming too much.



Pretty bold counter claim with 0 evidence.


Uniswap, ApeSwap, PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, AAVE, Compound, Relay, and many many more.

Check out dappradar for a more exhaustive list of the literal thousands of decentralized finance projects that are currently live.

You can interact with any of these directly from the contract interface itself.


where is the code being executed ? hosted nodes or real peers in a "p2p" network?

why does it hard fork so much and make prior clients incompatible? why do they have a monetary policy? isn't that what fiat currency is?


These comments brought to you by the community that dismissed Bitcoin while it was still trading at sub $1k.

You could create a viable investment strategy based around doing the opposite of what HN thinks and you would do extremely well.


Some useful tips in here, but to be honest a better bash is to just install python and use that for scripting instead.


> Some useful tips in here, but to be honest a better bash is to just install python and use that for scripting instead.

It's not a better option, it's "an" option. Bash is very good for this purpose and very portable.


Bash is only portable if you don't shell out to other commands.


Bash becomes extremely portable if it can shell out to multiple platforms’ external commands.


Would like to second Rabby, been trialing it for about a month now and I love it.


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