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Black Panther has a 6.8 on Douban, described as the Chinese IMDB, compared to 97% on RottenTomatoes and a 7.8 on IMDB.

“A torture for the eyes”: Chinese moviegoers think Black Panther is just too black

Some moviegoers disliked Black Panther because they felt Marvel was trying too hard to be politically correct (link in Chinese). While many reviewers on Douban stopped short of leaving overtly racist comments about the film, many discussed their discomfort of being surrounded by so much blackness.

“Maybe the Chinese are still not used to a film full of black people,” wrote one reviewer on Douban (link in Chinese). The commenter said he had to pinch himself more than 10 times to stay awake during the movie because “Black Panther is black, all the major characters are black, a lot of scenes are black, the car-chasing scene is black—the blackness has really made me drowsy.”

Another reviewer who came into the theater late made a similar observation: “When I entered the theater, a bunch of black people was fighting in the night… I’ve never been in a theater so dark that I couldn’t find my seat.”

Someone else said the experience was worse in 3D (link in Chinese): “The film is filled with black actors and actresses. Also, because the film’s colors are a bit dark, it’s nearly a torture for the eyes to watch the film’s 3D version in the theater.”

The movie made $63 million on its opening weekend in China, which should put it around #30, a couple spots behind Iron Man 3, which had awkward content shoehorned into its Chinese version.

I should not avail myself of my right under the laws of the State of Washington to legally consume Cannibus Sativa and code either.

I won't tell you what it is until it goes into public beta.

I've learned the hard way that it's a really bad idea to preannounce my products.

This won't be Free Software. Neither will it be Open Source. It's gonna be dammit-give-me-your-money-you-cheap-bastards-Ware.

However, there is some possibility that I give it away free so as to solicit organic links to my website.

And Facebook shares. And tweets.

That facebook and twitter have become far more important to online businesses than google just appalls me.

If I do charge for it it won't have a very high price. Less than ten dollars and more than ninety-eight cents.

My Antminer L3+ LiteCoin mining rig is chugging away as I write this. It seems to actually be working. I joint the coinfoundry.org mining pool. Coin Foundry reports the right hash rate. I've received two payouts.

However I have become quite skeptical of the claims of all the mining profit calculators:

Coin Foundry asserts that its payout policy is competitive with the pay from other pools. The Block Reward for solving a block is LTC 25. Most of the other miners in my pool have a hashrate of 1 GH/sec; the top miner has 13 GH/sec.

My humble L3+ has only 504 MH/s. That leads me to speculate that all the mining profit calculators overestimate by orders of magnitude.

However Coin Foundry points out that one cannot really determine how profitable one's rig is until one has been with Coin Foundry for at least two months. I'm willing to accept the possibility that Coin Foundry is truthful, so I will stay with them until two months have elapsed.

If by some miracle my L3+ turns out to be lucrative I'll buy more of them.

I have only three circuit breakers for wall outlets. The noise of three rigs would drive me bananas so if I should buy lots of them I'll colocate them in a data center.

Opus Interactive quoted me $299 for 12U and 15 Amps in their Portland data center. 12U should be enough for six Antminers and six Bitmain APW++ power supplies. If the mining profit calculates turn out to be truthful, to colocate six rigs would be economical.

Somehow, somewhere I got the idea that my L3+ LiteCoin rig would profit ten grand a year. The calculators now tell me it's three grand. I have no clue what led me to believe it was ten grand.

The payouts I've received from Coin Foundry so far lead me to believe that my revenue for one year for one L3+ is going to be closer to three hundred than three thousand.

He Became A Celebrity For Putting Science Before God. Now Lawrence Krauss Faces Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct.

BuzzFeed News has learned that the incident with Hensley is one of many wide-ranging allegations of Krauss’s inappropriate behavior over the last decade — including groping women, ogling and making sexist jokes to undergrads, and telling an employee at Arizona State University, where he is a tenured professor, that he was going to buy her birth control so she didn’t inconvenience him with maternity leave. In response to complaints, two institutions — Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario — have quietly restricted him from their campuses. Our reporting is based on official university documents, emails, and interviews with more than 50 people.

Many of his accusers have requested anonymity, fearing professional or legal retaliation from Krauss, or online abuse from men in the movement who have smeared women for speaking out about other skeptics. A few allegations about Krauss made their way onto skeptic blogs, but were quickly taken down in fear of legal action. So for years, these stories have stayed inside whisper networks in skepticism and physics.

In lengthy emails to BuzzFeed News, Krauss denied all of the accusations against him, calling them “false and misleading defamatory allegations.” When asked why multiple women, over more than a decade, have separately accused him of misconduct, he said the answer was “obvious”: It’s because his provocative ideas have made him famous.

Her "International Woman's Day" emojis have sparked an online backlash

Kim Kardashian's decision to launch a "women's empowerment" add-on to her personal emoji collection for International Women's Day has received a considerable online backlash.

The collection features slogans such as "nasty woman", "my body, my choice" and "full time feminist".

Some on social media celebrated the move as positive promotion of ideals of equality. Others accused the personality of hypocrisy because her other products and emojis are provocative and sexualised.

I fixed a panic.

My coworker fixed a different panic.

We both checked in our code, I did "$ svn update".

I built all the components.

I rolled an installer.

So as to ensure that my release wasn't DOA I tried out one of the cases that - before I fixed it - caused a panic.

And it caused a panic. :(

I expect QA may want to test everything else so I sent out an email to let them know where to find it in subversion, as well as that case that had been fixed but is now broken.

Maybe it's for the best: not having anything to do I was getting bored and planned to leave.

Now I'm not bored anymore.

http://bugreport.apple.com

I should not drink and test.

Coca-Cola plans to launch its first alcoholic drink

Coca-Cola is planning to produce an alcoholic drink for the first time in the company's 125-year history - with an alcopop-style product in Japan. It is keen to cash in on the country's growing taste for Chu-Hi - canned sparkling flavoured drinks given a kick with a local spirit called shochu. The product is typically between 3% and 8% alcohol by volume.

A senior Coke executive in Japan said the move was a "modest experiment for a specific slice of our market". "We haven't experimented in the low alcohol category before, but it's an example of how we continue to explore opportunities outside our core areas," said Jorge Garduno, Coca-Cola's Japan president. It was unlikely the drink would be sold outside of Japan, he suggested.

Some BBC commenterds want to ban alcopops.

Also at NPR and CNBC.

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