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·4 lata temu·discuss
It actually stops mills from working if high prices stop people buying, which turns the price down until mills can restart operations.
mblock
·4 lata temu·discuss
Didn’t Russia also say something like, laser weapons will be the future of warfare a while back?
mblock
·5 lat temu·discuss
What was that interesting Microsoft program where it was based on data vis, pixel?

Basically the premise was it was a new way to explore the web. An actual web. One topic lead to another, not just a series of web pages. See data stats, zoom into high res ads; zoom in further for what print could never give us.

Pretty sure there was an impressive Ted talk on it, at one point.

Edit: it’s called pivot https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_poin...

May have gotten it confused earlier with a ms photosynth talk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Pivot
mblock
·5 lat temu·discuss
Why are we shocked about marketing?
mblock
·5 lat temu·discuss
Everyone is hopeful about continuing remote work in the comments, but my job isn’t allowing that option to anyone. I want to maintain remote work, but it’s not possible to shift atm, in my current situation, and the commute would be over an hour.

Disappointed to say the least.
mblock
·5 lat temu·discuss
Write stuff down, the act of writing it down and reading it more than once will help you remember