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by borepop 5y ago
Shoot, the subject of the book interests me but the review makes the whole thing sound rather deflating. Maybe deflating is good. After all, I think I admire this period in some ways because I associate it with my parents and all the osten
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by borepop 5y ago
Me three. I used to get colds that would regularly ripen into sinus and ear infections, and I haven't experience a single such infection in several years since switching to about 95% plant-based eating.
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by borepop 5y ago
When an author is (1) simultaneously lamenting the loss of "roots" and "real culture" and attacking internationalism, (2) taking gratuitous shots at "wokeness," and (3) dressing the whole thing up in an intenti
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by borepop 5y ago
I relate to this energy.
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by borepop 5y ago
Singapore has no minimum wage. If its underclass were not destitute, I would think that would be rather surprising.
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by borepop 5y ago
This resonates with something I've thought about as a surfer, which is that humans have a really perverse tendency to overvalue scarcity and undervalue what is good but common and easily accessible. In the surfing context, humans clust
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by borepop 6y ago
>literature (or art) is not "something that makes people feel good". The notion that art can't be "good" if it makes people feel good is really misguided, in my opinion. People turn to art for all kinds of reaso
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by borepop 6y ago
I'm not a coder, so perhaps I'm missing the appeal of this project. My main takeaway is that I can't understand why somebody would go through the hard work of re-creating this but not bother writing a single line explaining
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by borepop 6y ago
Attack Magazine put out a book called The Secrets of Dance Music Production, which has some fairly good "beat starter" breakdowns of how a 16-step beat would be sequenced different styles of electronic music, such as deep house, t
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by borepop 6y ago
Turing's work has some independent value, it's not just a mess of philosophical/moral opinions like Wallace is offering up in this speech. If nothing else, Wallace's suicide illustrates to me what a gulf there is betwee
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by borepop 6y ago
Yeah honestly it's pretty weak compared to an actual music sequencing DAW like FL Studio or even an app like Patterning 2.
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by borepop 6y ago
>'War is a losing strategy' Except in virtually all of human history, which is written by the powers that win wars.
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by borepop 6y ago
I'm constantly repeating Justice Holmes' adage that "the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." In my opinion, non lawyers vastly overestimate the extent to which legal writing and legal argument h
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by borepop 6y ago
>People on HN are already primed to appreciate this style of writing. My perception is the reverse. Probably 60% of the articles linked on this site, day in and day out, are a thicket of impenetrable jargon. Endless blog posts that mak
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by borepop 6y ago
Well I agree that there are some bigger societal shifts going on that are indeed pretty destabilizing. I was just commenting that nuances of the curriculum of high schools, or even undergrad education, around questions of race/gender&
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by borepop 6y ago
>There is simply no possible way this country can survive when the value systems are so opposed to each other. That strikes me as a rather hyperbolic take. It's rather like the Jordan Peterson vision of reality in which certain ide
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by borepop 6y ago
>this comment is so brilliant. Eh, this is the tone of virtually every top-level comment on HN. "Actually, ... blah blah blah."
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by borepop 6y ago
>What the article calls quietism has to do with inner non-resistance. That doesn't imply outer non-resistance. In the abstract, I agree. But certainly for many people they may seem intuitively to go together -- see, for example, the
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by borepop 6y ago
Wonderful stuff. The bleak tone reminds me of Robert Frank's book "The Americans."
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by borepop 6y ago
I think the quietist thread in Beckett is a strong part of his aesthetic, but let's not omit (as the author does) the reality that Beckett also worked with the French resistance against the Nazis. His art explored the suffering and fut
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by borepop 6y ago
It occurs to me to that sometimes "silly" projects can also lead to practical applications. Mainly I think I'm struck by how many techy people have the impulse to pursue these quirky projects, and how there is sort of a poet
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by borepop 6y ago
It's interesting to me how frequently on HN I read about people using their formidable technical expertise to pursue projects with really impractical and anachronistic technology, whether it's this project, or retrofitting some re
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by borepop 6y ago
This looks great, thank you.
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by borepop 6y ago
Okay.
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by borepop 6y ago
For a couple of years I wrote a blog called Drug Law Blog, back in the days when medical marijuana was getting going in California. It became pretty popular, but I felt uncomfortable about monetizing it bc my interest in drug regulation rea
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by borepop 6y ago
>Why would I want to spend my leisure time experiencing that? How is that entertaining? As another commenter above noted, it's a form of wish fulfillment and imaginary transgression, which is particularly appealing to teenage boys,
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by borepop 6y ago
I don't think the person to whom you're responding was trying to "ruin" anything, they were just pointing out a complicating fact that is objectively true, which is that Frito Lay is in the business of selling junk food.
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by borepop 6y ago
I don't love the terminology either, but it's like a lot of evolving linguistic culture: it tends to stick in the craw of those of use who grew up using different words, not because it is "wrong" per se but because it is
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by borepop 6y ago
Interesting, thank you.
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by borepop 6y ago
Automate the Boring Stuff is one of the sources I have used. I think perhaps I just need to be patient and keep at it and trust that I will find an application for the techniques.

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