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Beardymon  ·  4120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

Very interesting short documentary about this same issue http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-japanese-lo...

Beardymon  ·  4132 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The world's first real credit card computer has been created

Am I reading a headline from 2002?

Beardymon  ·  4132 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mystery of My Google Plus Followers

Or he could just ask his followers where they found him...

Beardymon  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What kind of instrument do you play, and why?

Cello for past 13 years since I was 7 years old. The reason why Cello is because when I was a young kid, one of my parents' musician friends was playing with me and took a look at my hands. After a second, he said with his deep Russian voice, "Dis boy will play good Cello. Good thick fingers. Good soul" and so my parents signed me up for private lessons. After 4-5 years of torture and tears, I actually started to like what I was playing. There is a steep learning curve for string instruments (learning to hold the bow right takes months) but once you get ok at it, its voice just draws you in.

It's a beautiful instrument.

Beardymon  ·  4137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Questions and Answers

Very cool. I like comics that you have to reread a few times to fully grasp the ideas.

Beardymon  ·  4137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What will eventually cause Reddit to lose its popularity?

I remember every time Digg was mentioned, the next comment would be, "Hey, that's our rival!". I was surprised to find what Digg has become now, actually interesting articles without any comments. Reddit and Digg truly switched places.

Beardymon  ·  4137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Future of Filmmaking - Rendering in Real Time

That's awesome.

I remember seeing a behind the scenes feature for the making of Avatar and James Cameron was using the same screen/pad to compose the shot rendering greenscreen in real time.

I can't wait to see technology like this get cheaper and trickle down to the market. An iphone app would be pretty awesome

Beardymon  ·  4137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What will eventually cause Reddit to lose its popularity?

I've been on it for the past 5 years and it slowly devolved into a shithole. It happened so gradually that it didn't bother me until this year that even after I'd unsubscribed from all the defaults, the way people behaved pissed me off