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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
I am missing the part where TFA said that the goal was to help with "basic song writing". And what is "distracting level of nerdery" to someone can be the key that helps unlock a deeper level of understanding to someone
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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
How does it confuse people? There is "western music theory" ala Schenker, voice leading, serialism etc (to mention a couple of names that some people might have heard of) but that describes things to do once you've got a sc
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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
Do you think the Egyptians called it Europe? When do you think people began calling "America" "America", and why? Or referring to the largest continent as "Africa" ? I understand what your point was. I was thin
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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
> Europe existed far before the EU and will continue to exist after the EU finally comes to an end. First clause: indisputable. Second clause: maybe, maybe not. Europe hasn't always existed as a concept, and its longevity is unknown
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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
I have indeed. I think that the gap between the MAGA crowd and, say, Santa Fe progressives, is much deeper than the one between Wilders and some progressive NL equivalent. It might be as wide, but depth matters too. The USA contains a lot o
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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
Counterpoint: what you want to claim are core values are actually window dressing to hide how people see the out-group. Who doesn't "love their kids" or fall in love, or want a sense of belonging (ok, a few), or a sense of pu
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by PaulDavisThe1st 1mo ago
In all likelihood, that leader of the party your neighbor voted for does not hold views that you consider an existential threat to yourself, or those you love. I say this because you live in (or are from) NL, and while there is certainly a
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
For myself, the biggest cost to doing DIY over many, many years has been an unwillingness to hire contractors because I know I will do the job better than them. There are a few exceptions: 1. pouring a concrete pad (too dirty, too much work
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
uBO + Steven Black hosts list + firefox. Peace, for now at least.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
RAM doesn't really fall under the concept of "commons" as outlined by Hardin (or Ostrom). Hyper-inequality makes it more likely that greed and selfishness will succeed at dismantling whatever management structures exist for a
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
Birthright citizenship is explicitly written into the Constitution, yet about a month ago, 2 SCOTUS justices provided opinions and votes suggesting that this detail doesn't matter much.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
Just around, or slightly around the level of testing that Roe vs Wade prior to Dobbs. Or a bakers dozen of other established precedents that were "one of the more tested legal concepts" until ... recently.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
"Distributing" is doing a lot of work here. A file hosted on foreign server might functionally be a system to "distribute" that file, but it is doubtful if a US state could prevent it from existing. They could theoretica
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
I question it every time I see it on HN. Every time. Same on mastodon. Same on Lawyers, Gun, Money. One of my own personal quests. So many people know about "the tragedy of the commons", an idea that really does only go back to Ha
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
Agreed that it's not novel. But Ostrom's novel observation wasn't that. It was "all those stories of how shared ownership of resources leads to tragedies? they're wrong, and part of a mostly uncoordinated attempt
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
Saw a car once near my house with the license plate "4745454B". I was slightly uncomfortable in realizing that I immediately knew what it meant.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
> you probably don't need to bring shorts on the off chance it's 85F one afternoon - you just wear your lightest pants that day. or even bring pants that can have the lower leg sections removed, so that even if it is 95F one da
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
> If you slob it like a 19 year old backpacker, sure. Had an interesting trip when I was 55. First 7 days: my niece's wedding, a cross-country + transatlantic trip away, with lots of occasions (or need, if you were so minded) for go
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
> In either case, the tragedy of the commons issue is well known in other guises throughout the history of philosophy It really isn't. There are lots of anecdotes that appear to illustrate the tragedy, throughout history. But what t
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
My understanding of Ostrom's work was to show that basically almost all commons were managed, and that when they were not, that was the result of selfish actors deliberately seeking to dismantle the management structures to further t
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
> Also, the tragedy of the commons concept is far older than 1968. The term "common" refers to common grazing land upon which anyone could graze animals. That's an English term. The American equivalent is "open range&
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
I remember many hikes in Snowdonia, the Peak District and a few in the Scottish Highlands in which those 62.5g Mars bars played a significant role in the nutritional planning and overall success.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
Citation not required, but it would likely help make your case...
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
> I like how the author defines dystopia as [ ... ] rather than [... ] There's no need to choose. Dystopia is more than one thing, and both of the sets of things you mention are just different kinds of dystopia.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
That also elides the distinction between "the server" as a piece of hardware and "the server" as a piece of software, which in an HN context is not insignificant.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
I recommend reading up on the actual history of chiropractic ... I've seen articles that seem to make it clear that it was long con right from the start. I acknowledge that this is not the only view on the history.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
I have absolutely no doubt that the next LLM/ML startup will be able to confidently, rapidly, productively and correctly fill in the missing data. Onward science!
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by PaulDavisThe1st 2mo ago
> It might be a new scientific revolution to have computer-driven discovery. And ... it might not.
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
The comparison with France right is interesting. They are shutting down nuclear reactors because the drought means they don't have enough water to cool the reactors. Base load, eh?
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by PaulDavisThe1st 3mo ago
Nope. That doesn't offer per-line .. or does it ?

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