cage433

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by cage433 2y ago
For those who find this finishes all too quickly, before it really gets started, here's Igor Levit's performance of Satie's Vexations https://www.youtube.com/live/Uu_03mUPgHU?si=ggJYSJH8SUy0AcKO
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by cage433 3y ago
I think you're right about her having personal reasons for this. I watched her video on GAC after writing the comment above. I think what it has in common with the capitalism video is that she is trying to back up a personal bias with
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by cage433 3y ago
These are fair criticisms. No matter which side of the 'capitalism is good' debate you are on this video was so bad, with errors of history and even of definition, that I was left doubting how good a scientist she actually is.
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by cage433 3y ago
On the back of his Ambient 4 album Eno gave instructions for a cheap way of getting a sort of surround sound using a third speaker. I did this as a teenager with my mediocre record player and a small speaker with almost no bass - it worked
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by cage433 3y ago
Nah - I think they're daft kids and Shakespeare is showing us that. The play begins with Romeo utterly in love with Rosaline - what's that for if not to show us not to take his feelings for Juliet too seriously And Juliet's 1
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by cage433 5y ago
> I like to refer to it as Haskell with an extra chromosome: slow, hard to comprehend, and incredibly strong. that's a weird and offensive thing to say
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by cage433 8y ago
It compares badly. Unfortunately too much private research is allowed to be kept secret - but what is known indicates it's of poorer quality - judged by the kind of metrics the Cochrane Institute use. Goldacre's book (he also has
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by cage433 8y ago
Nope - that's not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research#Privately_(in... Private R&D is around 60% - however a large part of that is making minor changes to existing molecules in order to obtain
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by cage433 9y ago
the gender pay gap was just another myth created by the Chinese....
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by cage433 11y ago
The boarding aspect was what held us back from sending them there earlier - that was a mistake I now regret. TBH I don't think daily contact with parents is _that_ important to children, certainly not mine, as long as they're in a
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by cage433 11y ago
Mine were all older than that when they went, IIRC they were 8, 11 and 13. I don't think there are many kids under 7 there right now. I'm surprised by that Neill quote tbh, I'd have thought that the worst part of schooling oc
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by cage433 11y ago
I sent my three children to Summerhill - the youngest is still there. I think your impressions were correct - I certainly consider it to have been a great success. One of the kids was of an academic bent, she studied hard and now seems hap
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by cage433 12y ago
Also by Sussman - well worth looking into http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
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by cage433 14y ago
I train three times a week - as little as twice a week is enough if you're pressed for time. My back problems gradually improved over two years of training. I had a disk that had slipped gradually over the previous several years. Exquisitel
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by cage433 14y ago
I've had my bodyweight (110 KG) stuck on my chest with no ill effects other than embarrassment. As the parents say, simply slide the weights off, or ask anyone nearby for a hand. One thing that is extremely dangerous is using the 'suicide g
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by cage433 14y ago
Same here - literally life changing. I tried free weights a few years ago after reading the article - loved them - bought the Rippetoe book and didn't look back. I'm 46 now, before I began I was overweight and had frequent, severe back prob
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by cage433 14y ago
Did you consider using the approach taken by http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ ? In that case each chapter was put online as soon as it was written, and then rewritten after taking account of comments. Only when it was finished was the hard