crazynick4

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by crazynick4 8y ago
Is it legal for a doctor to refuse treatments that may cost you your life? I understand that an insurance company may refuse to insure you due to preexisting conditions (or at least they were able to at some point), but I think insurance is
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by crazynick4 8y ago
I knew one person who owed 300K for cancer related surgery and another who owed 30k for appendicitis and they didn't have any legal action issued against them. One was close to minimum wage and one stopped working entirely for years af
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by crazynick4 8y ago
If you have an extreme health care incident, why pay the bill? Sure it would hurt your credit score not to, but if it's between that and tens/hundreds of thousands, I think it is worth it to take the hit for 7 years. I know health
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Quoting David Doty from Just Intonation Primer (highly recommended if you can find a copy): "7:4, 7:5, and 7:6 can be identified with the flatted seventh, fifth, and third beloved of blues and jazz musicians". He may not be the mo
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Scales in Indian music are also built around integer ratios.
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Ok I see what you are saying. I guess I didn't really get this across but I'm not saying that more consonance always means more listening pleasure. As with the Pythagorean tunings, all consonance and no dissonance can become bland
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Yeah that's what I meant, I edited my post to clarify.
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I think there is more to it then that. By that argument alone, I should enjoy a song more, the more I listen to it. Then why do we get tired of old music and look for new music?
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by crazynick4 8y ago
I'm curious, which musical traditions favor music built on scales from dissonant intervals? Do you mean music which is more percussion oriented?
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by crazynick4 8y ago
This article did not mention overtones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music) Combinations of frequencies that form simple integer ratios are
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Yes but why does some music elicit dopamine and some does not? If I just play random notes for you, even if I do it with some sense of rhythm, will your body still produce dopamine?
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That are already happening
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Have you ever met an American? We're not as wealthy as you might think. Income is offset by cost of living, we're not exactly bathing in gold-plated rose petals. Quality of life for the average citizen is not that different from a
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by crazynick4 8y ago
What I meant is that even if he was right with his statements entirely, even if Google did bias search results against him, his reasoning of 'they did it because they didn't like me' will drive people to side with Google beca
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by crazynick4 8y ago
> Google did lose 2 EU lawsuits, 2.4B for search manipulation and 5 billion for android antitrust. > It's not an opinion about Google has tweaked its search, just the scope. I think this is an example of Trump saying the right th
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Yes but what are the chances of that happening when it's a case involving a man accused of supporting terrorists? This is exactly the purpose of the program, so there won't be much of an argument there. If anything this will set a
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by crazynick4 8y ago
They must have been doing a great job because 'this site can’t be reached'.
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This seems to be more about the 40s-50s. From what my dad/stepdad told me, dating was extremely easy in USSR in late 70's and 80's, supposedly much more so than in US today (I wasn't there so I only have their word to go
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by crazynick4 8y ago
I see what you mean. Still I would argue that both tritones and minor thirds only appear to possess the symmetrical property as a result of temperament. It doesn't exist 'in nature' as such. The frequency ratios that they rep
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by crazynick4 8y ago
> Also, the idea that symmetry sounds nice is intuitively appealing, but nothing sounds better to us, more pleasing, than the (highly irregular) major scale, or scarier, more ominous than diminished and augmented chords - musically, a sq
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by crazynick4 8y ago
I think a tuning is a set of intervals which an instrument is configured to play. A tuning is also a temperament if it is a compromise of another tuning in order to make the configuration technically feasible (or for other convenience reaso
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Yes, also this one, which is for microtonal piano (also in JI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkaGm8B8CZI
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Part of it could be due to conditioning but part of it is due to the fact that 15 TET is just another type of compromise, one that actually puts the perfect fifth even more out of tune than 12 TET, even though some of the other intervals ar
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Exactly. I would like to see this done using integer ratios to define the frequency intervals. You can still use the octave as a 'start' and 'end' point for the scale to make things simple (although there's no axiom
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by crazynick4 8y ago
I'm surprised to see as liberal a paper as The Washington Post supporting this. Or really any news source coming out of a democracy.
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> “Stop blaming the Russians”, it seems to me, makes clear that the focus is those Russians who are currently being blamed Yes, if you were to stop and think about it, this is the intended meaning. However, when people constantly hear &#
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You don't have to say it explicitly in order to carry the connotation across.
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I would agree with labeling automated bots but I think stopping anonymous accounts is going too far. What is wrong with anonymity? You can label the account as being intentionally anonymous but I don't think we need to go past that. If
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It would be more accurate to say 'the Russian government and affiliated parties' (or just 'Russian government', if you're into the whole brevity thing). Most Russians don't care what happens with American polit
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I was spelling basic words and reading by the time I was four. So was my mom around that age, and from talking to her I wasn't exactly exceptional, many kids did back then (this was 1990 for me, in Russia, regular people didn't ha

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