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Absol, really cool mythology, dark was always my favorite type, plus it’s a vaguley amusing homophone for a certain rapper

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THIS is a man of good taste.

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Call him scholar-in-chief President Obama Publishes Scholarly Article Calling for Public Option - Fortune

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He balls so hard. As Brit it’s so weird to see such a great man at the helm of a country

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Lightning Bolt are known for their guerrilla-style live performances, where they typically play on the ground rather than a stage, with the crowd gathered around them. The band's sound is typically loud and aggressive, though the group cites composers Philip Glass and Sun Ra as compositional influences. Lightning Bolt (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Haha, amazing shade

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This is the Gap I set out to understand. While reporting this story, I spoke to dozens of people who have worked with Clinton in every stage of her career, going back to her time in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. Every single one acknowle... Understanding Hillary: The Clinton America sees isn’t the Clinton colleagues know. Why are they so different?

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I know this point has been made elsewhere but I have to make it out of personal catharsis: this is the ugliest conceit I’ve heard in a long long time. And I go to poetry readings. It feels like what happens when the siblings personal brand and clickbait meet, they put on “serious longform” outfits, and fuck.

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Myron Magnet, City Journal’s editor-at-large and its editor from 1994 through 2006, is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. His latest book is The Founders at Home. America’s Worst President? | City Journal

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I can’t really add anything to the analysis provided my the other annotators here, who know American history and Obama’s place in it far better than me, so I did some digging on Magnet’s publication history.

He wrote the following book, which claims that Charles Dickens was a social conservative:

https://www.amazon.com/Dickens-Social-Order-Myron-Magnet/dp/1932236376

I found this pretty telling. I’m no Dickens expert, but the novels of his that I’ve read care deeply, in their outmoded, Victorian way about social justice and are full of brutal satire about the class system, the machinery of justice etc. Literature, it could be argued, exists to make us realize that people act on a range of ethical beliefs, and to appropriate Dickens to this brand of white dude regressionism in 280 pages seems like a pretty pathetic whimper.

I shan’t be reading anything else by Mr. Magnet.

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After Thursday’s terrorist slaughter of policemen in Dallas, it’s fair to say that Barack Obama might well be the worst president in U.S. history. Here’s why. America’s Worst President? | City Journal

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Jfc now everywhere is using Vox-style social sharing ledes

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...hat it means. This weekend I went to the recently opened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and wanted to know everything about the art and various installations, beyond what was posted on the walls. I felt as if I should be able to lift my phone and get more details on the process of the creation of the art work, rather than having to type a search term into my browser. Pokémon Go had changed my expectations on how to access information. That shift in expectation, perhaps, is the game’s true importance. Pokémon Go Will Make You Crave Augmented Reality - The New Yorker

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I don’t see this as a huge breakthrough. I can search something in Google on my phone in the time limit given by quiz machines in pubs. And as anyone who’s been to a semi-famous gallery will know, phones pretty much destroy any sense of engagement with works of art.

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How much more engaged with that work of art do you want her to get? Short of putting a ring on it…..

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...ia Research in 1999 and started playing around with head-mounted displays to experiment with augmented reality. It was clear to Suomela that it would be a while before the technology went mainstream. “I have been thinking Pokémon Go could be the product that creates the market for augmented- and mixed-reality gaming, and I am optimistic this is happening now,” Suomela—who has since started a new company, Lume Games, which competes with Niantic—said. Ville Vesterinen, the co-founder of Grey Area, said in an e-mail that “now is an ideal time” for work on “lo... Pokémon Go Will Make You Crave Augmented Reality - The New Yorker

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I disagree. The success of Pokémon Go is because, imo, the AR system meshes so well with the fundamental premise of Pokémon, and the fact that the game was a juggernaut franchise to begin with, and all the people who used to play it on Game Boys have now grown up and rock insanely powerful smartphones.

To expand: Pokémon is ostensibly an RPG, but it’s fundamentally a game of wandering around and catching cool Pokémon. What’s cooler, and more elegant, than just chucking that game model into the real world? Moreover, we remember the things we were into when we were young. When we can play them again, and they’re on crack, well, that’s gonna command a huge amount of attention.

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I’ve been trying to think of the right words to say “the AR system meshes so well with the fundamental premise of Pokémon” for a few days now. That’s undeniably a huge part of its success. The original game had almost no plot, many glitches and frankly made very little sense, but it was so fun to catch and battle Pokémon that it didn’t matter. Go is just like the original game, but with GPS instead of a D-pad. It would be awful if it weren’t a Pokémon game.

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My son played it for a few days and seems to be already bored and ready to leave it behind. After you’ve caught the easy Pokemon that show up in your neighborhood, what else is there to do?

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For those who have been believers in augmented reality, these are exciting times. Riku Suomela joined Nokia Research in 1999 and started playing around with head-mounted displays to experiment with augmented reality. It was clear to ... Pokémon Go Will Make You Crave Augmented Reality - The New Yorker

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*investors

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Not at all… lol My friend has been talking about this stuff for over 5 years and he is insanely happy that it’s arrived.

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@ewokABdevito It’s the dream, man. We’re finally Pokemon trainers! I can personally be a Gym Leader!

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...users might not be getting new information at the exact same time. Financial-trading systems also run on a single source, because everyone needs to know the correct price of a stock at the same time. “Since everything is changing constantly, this is more like a real-time financial system,” Hanke said, pointing out that the usage on Niantic’s system was “a lot, even by Google standards.” Pokémon Go Will Make You Crave Augmented Reality - The New Yorker

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So the effects of the server crashing have the potential to be equivalently catastrophic to a financial crash? That would be pretty exciting.

MAH POKÉMANZ! WHO TOOK MAH POKÉMANZ!

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Considering that the game is generating over $1 million a day in sales, I’d say it’s not the most excessive statement I’ve heard.

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This paragraph is interesting but highly simplified. I’d certainly be interested to see a long-form article on what they’re doing, but it may be a competitive advantage and not be explained for some time.

There are ways to build in redundancy and withstand outages, and I’m sure they’re using them.

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