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Aug 13 2020

Netflix and sound whitewashing

Martín Villalba

Note: I wrote this article in August, but I didn't realize it wasn't published until October. I kept the published date as it was, but if you didn't see it before well, that's why. Are you familiar with a small streaming company called "Netflix"? If so, you might recognize their opening sound. And...

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Aug 08 2020

A hot-dog is a sandwich, but you can't call it that

Martín Villalba

I remember seeing two main camps in the old debate on whether a hot-dog is a sandwich: those that argued "it's meat between two pieces of bread, therefore it's a sandwich" and those that counterargued "if I asked whether you wanted a sandwich and then gave you a hot-dog, you would be surprised"....

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