It appears to be using a downloaded/pre-cached sub-set of words from Google Translate rather than a live Google Translate query.
I assume it doesn't include any proper nouns. I tried putting in country names because I always find it interesting what different countries are called in different places, but it didn't return those either.
I don’t think a lot of viewers, in the last few decades, watch it without the context of knowing it’s film-historically very important.
FWIW—subject matter aside, even—it was among my least favorite in a silent film binge I went on a couple years back. Of the 50ish silent dramas and art films I’ve watched (setting aside the comedies) it’s in the bottom 5. It’s actually one of only two I’ve bailed on (Tabu was the other). Only made it about halfway, the draw of “it’s important” wasn’t enough to keep me watching.
I dunno, for some reason I found the first 30 minutes or so excruciatingly dull and just didn’t care about where it was going. I really enjoyed Nanook, so was surprised. Possibly I just wasn’t in the right mood for it.
[edit] and The Last Laugh, and Sunrise, though I was less enamored of Nosferatu than I expected to be. Enjoyed those too, to connect it to Murnau as well as Flaherty.
let's keep it going because "parasites" are fascinating. Dodder plants are usually generalized obligate plant parasites. Dodders have "stolen" at least 108 genes from various plants its parasitized.
Bonus, dodder plants also seem to be able to double as a sort of above-ground mycorrhizal network, allowing plants (even across species) to communicate with each other and send warning signals about pests/stressors/etc
Oh, geez, that reminds me of the Mimics from All You Need Is Kill (the basis of Edge of Tomorrow. In the novel, the Mimics are not the alien invaders themselves, but rather nanomachine colonies sent by the actual aliens that infest and control the bodies of starfish, adapting them to combat use.
You can guess that they're overselling phosphorous as a landmark
Finding organic carbon everywhere used to seem very exciting - turns out that's just the fate of low-number metals in the universe. Who'da thunk such a thing.
There is also the question of where to put Placozoa, they still might be the true sister group to all others. But these are so simple and little known that there might just not be enough data to know for sure. If we disregard Placozoa, I would also have bet on the sponge-sister scenario.
> Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data
I know nothing about carding, but how does it actually work? How is that website able to verify a card's validity, and why can't competitors easily build a similar service?
They had access merchant accounts to do pre-authorizations. Which is risky, because it's easy to trace back and shut down, so you would need lots of them. I imagine they had found a large-scale way of gaining merchant account credentials, or somehow triggering ONLY a pre-auth, that nobody else had figured out.
Maybe abusing services that have "free trial, requires credit card" ? I bet a lot of those do pre-auths.
This was also my understanding. I think he became some kind of leader in the Monero community at some point, but he isn't the founder. I think Monero was originally forked from some other project (Bytecoin?).
> The reason stores use credit payment networks in the West is because it’s better. We have cash transferring apps but we don’t use them for a reason.
In many (most?) European countries, debit cards and cash transfering apps are more common than credit-based payments. I have a credit card but I don't use it often (mostly for some online transactions, such as buying plane tickets), and many people only have a debit card.
