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Hiroo Onoda, the soldier who refused to surrender, 1974(rarehistoricalphotos.com)
2 points by Hoasi 6y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. It is also said to wane with age. If it is true, there you'd ha
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by Hoasi 6y ago
Escalation may not be an efficient tactic, especially in this case, it would also mean a downgrade for businesses and consumers who benefit from said regulation in many countries.
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> Also, it's always amusing to arrive at an article about data collection and be greeted by this: https://i.imgur.com/d4Z4sdd.png Meta amusement: https://i.imgur.com/E5bFeb3.png
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> If the music itself isn't the thing that you need to make money from, then instead of charging a bunch for it, now you want to spread it as widely as possible as cheaply as possible. That's a good thing! It is, but only if th
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by Hoasi 6y ago
Ultimately music is a language. Again, there are plenty of arguments about the benefits of learning (a) new language(s). That said, I don't think teachers can argue in good faith that learning a particular will make you smarter versus
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> The question becomes 'as opposed to what?' A better question is: why do you learn or teach music? Learning music provides plenty of benefits for the development of children, but nobody teaches music with the specific goal of
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by Hoasi 6y ago
Kids used to be the future, and still are, in a future with less of them.
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GitHub's new repository design: Give us back the old version, say developers(zdnet.com)
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by Hoasi 6y ago
This level of dedication is so inspiring.
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> I think a reliance on advertising is what has pushed things to the degenerated state we have now. And social media has practically dictated that reliance. True, but the press relied on an advertising-based business model right from the
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> A for-profit model is just not compatible with the nature of social media. I agree and would add that the same argument stands for the traditional press as well.
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> Storyboards are the instruments of the cowards It is Mr. Herzog's slightly pedantic tongue in cheek, semi-flamboyant, original way of saying that his type of cinema doesn't require storyboards. That is fine, as long as no o
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Founders of YouTube, Tesla join forces to create first real MBA alternative(global.thepowermba.com)
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> If I search for something I want to get to the source, not some middleman It's unfortunate, the only mitigation, for now, is for the source to use the middleman to link back to the source.
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> It’s kind of funny the worship of the sun, which a) actually exists; and b) is responsible for life on earth (not to mention stars generally are responsible for the elements that make up life) is cult status...but if you worship a “God
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> Hadn't heard of Plausible, maybe that's the one for me! Plausible is pretty good, found it useful to monitor traffic and usage for small projects.
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> Also it hasn't happened yet. Or maybe that's the twist.
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> LinkedIn is the only social media that has had a positive impact on my career. It looks as if the site is beneficial when used strictly for professional contact(s), it's working as expected most of the time. The marketing side, wh
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> Now that I think about it, most of my complaints about LinkedIn is about the "news feed". I am always wondering who reads that? It turns out that a lot of people do read (or at least see) the feed.
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A great piece of advertising and art history, I wonder what would be the equivalent against today's online ads[1]. Ad blockers are great but don't quite cut it the same way in terms of creativity and wit. On the other hand, digita
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The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t (2015)(nytimes.com)
1 points by Hoasi 6y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 6y ago
Neat, would be useful for students' homework.
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Manchurian Plague(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Hoasi 6y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 6y ago
Here is a trove of similar thinking tools to generate ideas, for those interested: http://creatingminds.org/tools/tools_ideation.htm
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> Humans don't have emotional object permanence. > if you're not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer. You nailed it. I usually work remotely, but always try meet
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by Hoasi 6y ago
> Well, I'd blame the pandemic itself. Exactly. In most countries, people are willingly staying mostly at home. More, they continue to restrain from shopping and eating out after the lockdown ended.
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In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how(thecorrespondent.com)
1 points by Hoasi 6y ago|0 comments
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by Hoasi 6y ago
Blogging is not dead. It is just unevenly discoverable. And that creates an interesting problem that is still waiting for a solution.
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by Hoasi 6y ago
RSS are great and there are plenty of good RSS aggregators. Been using NetNewsWire (free and open source), again since it returned to its original creator.

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