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by gluelogic 10y ago
The idea that a culture can arbitrary accept "dissonant tones" as long as they have not been conditioned otherwise suggests that I can button-mash a keyboard and maybe they would find it pleasurable. Perhaps consonance and dissona
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by gluelogic 10y ago
I agree with your your feelings about the article. I am a musician and I have been interested in music theory since I was a teenager, so I have almost always read writing about this topic. In my experience, it seems like, generally, the peo
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by gluelogic 10y ago
One could argue that they did pretty well with the iPhone
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by gluelogic 10y ago
The article does mention Marky Ramone a number of times
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by gluelogic 10y ago
The title should probably reflect the fact that the study focuses specifically on Tweets containing the words "slut" and "whore"
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by gluelogic 10y ago
I was looking at his Wikipedia page earlier just this morning and I didn't realize he passed away in February. Synchronicity.
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by gluelogic 10y ago
One thing that comes to mind is that, to me, it sounds like all of the notes' velocities are equal. It would sound a lot more natural if volume differences were incorporated
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by gluelogic 11y ago
When a very active graffiti writer sentenced in the U.S. it is often pretty extreme as well. Here's an example that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MFONE
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by gluelogic 11y ago
If your experience was anything like mine, then you grew up regularly handling technology (fixing computers, hooking up VCRs, etc.) for and explaining it to people older than you. That's the stereotype at play in the title--old person
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Crack is highly physically addictive. People aren't out robbing houses to get their next acid fix.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Why are you conflating the culture here with "hipster" culture?
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Paul Falstad's Java applets were my biggest regret about deciding to uninstall it.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Cool! Will it be something on the web?
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by gluelogic 11y ago
No, just the ones in the cherrypicked examples for this article, perhaps.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Some people might https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
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by gluelogic 11y ago
The thing about the latter form is that you can do something like '{0} {1} {0} {2}'.format('apple', 'banana', 'orange') which results in 'apple banana apple orange'
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Yes, but then you're forcing sober people to commute with the intoxicated, which opens up a whole different set of problems.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
I've felt this need for a third place very strongly lately. My office is in my house, and I work from home, but I'm such a homebody that I'm thinking about converting my garage into an electronics workshop and darkroom.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
I do understand your point with these posts, but I'm not sure that the best response to a terrorist attack is to do absolutely nothing.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Movies about hackers came after hackers had existed for a while. They were mostly male and so it makes sense that that is who would be cast to play those roles. Anyway, Acid Burn and Trinity are iconic Hollywood hacker characters.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Why put those arguments aside when it seems like that is the primary reason why non-profit banks can not exist?
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by gluelogic 11y ago
I'm looking at their list of objectives, trying to understand how any of it will benefit the advancement of STEM. It doesn't. The objectives only seek to leverage the concrete validity of STEM as a stable platform for "arts &
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by gluelogic 11y ago
You will find a lot of people, especially here, in support of the future of self-driving cars.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
You've made a good counter point here and it has left me with things to think about. I hope others weigh in.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Will everyone?
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by gluelogic 11y ago
We have a system for democratically assigning value to comments here. Artificial moderation (moderation that supersedes the voting system) definitely must be a detriment to this website.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
It's really disconcerting that you can no longer tell satire from an earnest statement regarding such blatant Doublethink.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
I imagine the difficulty lies in the fact that it has simply been sampled so frequently and over such a long period of time that the case would not be easy to win and incredibly expensive to prosecute.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
This is a very informative video on the "Amen break" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac I am sure most readers have heard it somewhere. It really is ubiquitous.
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by gluelogic 11y ago
Traffic deaths do not provide a useful scale here. They are typically not intentional and everyone understands that you take risks when you ride in an automobile. An act of terrorism, even if it causes no casualties, is cause for great conc

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