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by narag 5y ago
It's Newspeak. This particular manipulation of language consists in the confusion of cause and effect. Diversity of opinions exists. It's good and it's accepted to be good, even if it makes feel some people bad sometimes. Fre
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by narag 5y ago
Thank you for the detailed explanations. For some reason these details don't get to the widely available texts.
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by narag 5y ago
IIRC harmonics ignore frets. You use the fret to approach the point where it happens, but its exact position is a function of the whole string lenght and it's therefore not equal temperament related. I think you're right about the
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by narag 5y ago
But I'd like to know _why_ the author thinks "joke less, laugh less" would help with divisiveness. If avoiding "divisiveness" needs killing jokes and laugh, welcome divisiveness, whatever it is. In my mind, I tran
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by narag 5y ago
OK, I see what you mean, thank you very much. That's actually very interesting for me and explains some inconsistencies that I had attributed to too new/too old strings, badly adjusted bridge or whatnot.
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by narag 5y ago
I see you're talking about orchestal music that seems to be a world apart from pop music instrumentation, both because there's less use of electronic sound generation and because chords are played yuxtaposing several instruments.
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by narag 5y ago
Barbershop? I need a cut already... and I guess some web search. Thank you for the reference, I'll take a look later.
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by narag 5y ago
In my understanding and all the more knowldgeable people than me that have taught me music, that's absolutely not correct. Equal temperament is just the water you swim in, for all western music since Bach. "Natural" tuning by
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by narag 5y ago
Do you mean that there are issues otherwise? Which ones?
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by narag 5y ago
Unison means same sound. There's no ratio, unless you mean 1:1.
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by narag 5y ago
...the more interesting question in my mind is why do certain harmonic intervals sound more pleasing to humans... Unfortunately the first satisfactory answer that I got needed much more knowledge. The foundation is about proximity and dyn
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by narag 5y ago
When tuning by ear, if you are just minimizing the beating you hear... I assume you are talking about fretless instruments. With a guitar you just play a unison using the frets and the thicker string.
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by narag 5y ago
Equal temperament only applies to a handful of instruments that can be kept in tune long enough for it to matter, and that can play the same note, the same way, twice. I'm confused. If I'm not mistaken, equal temperament is the
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by narag 5y ago
What you describe... Those persons give my address all over the place. Don't you understand the implication? Also using unverified addresses by Paypal and other assholes is irresponsible and honestly I can't see why it isn'
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by narag 5y ago
I mostly use one single address, but I can tell you exactly where all the spam comes from: idiots whose name is the same as mine. They give my address as if it belonged to them. Probably they created addresses like narag33@server and they b
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by narag 5y ago
For me, and I don't even use Twitter, it's clear. GP means that those resorting to "freedom of speech is not for companies" are hypocrites. They're defending the right of companies to supress opinions on their servi
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by narag 5y ago
I don't think you can't explain that away, it's like fighting the tide.
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by narag 5y ago
What if most readers think that writers somehow represent a majority of Twitter or even the whole society? That belief, true or false, would leverage the influence of writers.
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by narag 5y ago
It's not foolish. Aldous Huxley explained why in his Ends and Means , more than eighty years ago. Ends don't justify means. On the contrary, if the only way to achieve some end are nefarious means, it's a very strong signal
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by narag 5y ago
They use AI to take away all human recourse with the company but want to tell others not to use it? I can't wait to see how they will manage false positives. Now not only you can't contact a human, you can't prove you'
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by narag 5y ago
First, I apologize for the confusion, I+D wasn't translated to English: R&D. What you wrote about perfume and juice are not unit "cost", but "price". Maybe "cost" has a precise definition in Economic
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by narag 5y ago
Why would 100x something only cost 2x to produce? If you create an app, the cost is mostly developing it. Once you can sell a copy, you can sell 100x for more or less the same cost. It's tricky for physical things. We tend to think t
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by narag 5y ago
I hope somebody with relevant knowledge can answer this question, please: what % of the costs is "physical cost per unit" and what % is maintaining the I+D, factories, channels...? In other words, if a chip with 100x size (100x ga
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by narag 5y ago
But Whatsapp doesn't promote any content. It's all private conversations, isn't it? I would say that Whatsapp is a big mirror, not of how humans act, but of how humans behave in other social media.
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by narag 5y ago
There's another factor that I haven't see mentioned: I have no interest in most sections of the news. And even if I select only some kind of news, say "computers" I'm not very interested in consumer's hardware
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by narag 5y ago
I agree with mr_toad's sibling comment 100%, but also: But, given the number of "is AGI possible?" comments I assume not all are religious based (HN doesn't seem to a highly religious cohort to me). There are some reli
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by narag 5y ago
“It says on their website this is the number!” "What do you think is more probable: that the website is wrong or that I don't know who I am?"
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by narag 5y ago
This doesn't seem to be a very popular solution, but it's proven useful: limit contractual freedom for adhesion contracts. That would mean forbidding some kinds of clauses that are often abused, but also forcing the inclusion of s
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by narag 5y ago
In the 70s I made a pair of barbells melting 15 kg of the pipes that were replaced. Definitely fun!
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by narag 5y ago
IMO the problem is why such stubborn holdouts exist and why can't the government work with them... I suspect the legal system is one of the reasons. Judges and precedents carry more weight than in other countries, where parliaments c

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