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Scientists solve the mystery of Rembrandt’s “impasto” paint recipe
A lead mineral called plumbonacrite was used to create a thick, paste-like paint.
The 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is justly considered one of the greatest artists of all time. He's particularly praised for his masterful depiction of light and shadow in his oil paintings, an almost three-dimensional effect achieved with his signature "impasto" technique. The recipes he used to mix his paints were believed to be lost to history. But now a team of Dutch and French scientists has used high-energy X-rays to unlock Rembrandt's secret recipe, according to a new paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
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Leopard cub found in passenger's luggage at Indian airport
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Cameroon: Opposition party cancels Saturday protests
The main opposition Movement in Cameroon called off demonstrations planned in several cities on Saturday, a party leader said, following a government ban on protests
“The MRC will not demonstrate today,” Emmanuel Simh, one of the MRC vice-presidents, told AFP on Saturday, with no further detail about the reasons for this decision.
The demonstrations planned in the capital Yaoundé had been banned by the regional head who, for “the preservation of public order”, asked organizers to renounce.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Leopard cub found in passenger's luggage at Indian airport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47103009
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
EU-Japan trade: Five things about the world's biggest deal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47086737Free trade is good
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Central African Republic agrees peace deal with rebel groups
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US fake university: India protests after students arrested
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Egypt mummies: New tombs found in Minya
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Who knew McD's is a patient troll.
Very patient, they've waited many decades.
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YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?
YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?
YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.
The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.
Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.
Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.
Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?
YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.
The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.
Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.
Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.
Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .
It could still be comment bombed, lol.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?
YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.
The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.
Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.
Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.
Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .
So what if it couldn't be?
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button
Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?
YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.
The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.
Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.
Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.
Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .
It could still be comment bombed, lol.
no where near the same effect. In fact - it would likely have the opposite effect. A vid with hundreds/thousands/millions of comments is likely to bring more attention, not less.
If you see a video with 100K down votes, you might just skip over it.. but you see a video with 100K comments, you might watch it - at least for a min. And if that video has a pre start ad - they just earned more money.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
So what if it couldn't be?
I don't think it's a particularly horrible issue if it couldn't be. But videos that receive upvotes on YouTube get pushed to the top of the page and recommended videos based on the number of votes.
Hate speech is just an example of something that could be voted up. Even if it should be voted down and left to moderators to remove.
That's about as PC as I care to get today.
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Views, votes (up and down), comments, and followers, along with who knows what other metrics all push a video to the "Recommended list".
By removing the ability to lower the recommendation rating by removing Down voting they're just messing with their platform.
Granted I understand the issue that they don't want bots or false accounts down voting things that are bad for a brand or whatever. But there has to be some user control. If 100K people genuinely dislike a video and downvote it in 15 seconds of it being posted why should Youtube try to protect the video creator?
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Views, votes (up and down), comments, and followers, along with who knows what other metrics all push a video to the "Recommended list".
By removing the ability to lower the recommendation rating by removing Down voting they're just messing with their platform.
Granted I understand the issue that they don't want bots or false accounts down voting things that are bad for a brand or whatever. But there has to be some user control. If 100K people genuinely dislike a video and downvote it in 15 seconds of it being posted why should Youtube try to protect the video creator?
How are they protecting against bots upvoting those same things though?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
How are they protecting against bots upvoting those same things though?
Like Alphabet it protecting both.I don't know, but the conversation is about preventing downvoting. Not upvoting.
