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by naravara 4y ago
> A lot of music that gets stereotyped as background mood music has a lot more depth to it than people realize (who would have thought George Winston was such a weird rabbit hole?) I actually like that about it. Because it actually lets
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Assuming it's for overnight charging, I would guess a large apartment complex that offers an EV charging hub might like to install some sort of load balancing/switching mechanism to limit how much total draw. It doesn't take
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It could also just be the emergence of algorithmically curated playlists simply makes it easier to start playing a mood-appropriate playlist of classical songs. When I was in school I used to play a lot of orchestral movie soundtracks while
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> Surely Tyler Cowen has visited and enjoyed some famous art museums? Perhaps he has taken his kids to a local science museum? Perhaps he has benefitted from research done at universities, as pretty much everyone alive has? The departmen
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At this point I see almost no content from my friends on most social media. It’s almost entirely ads or high-follower/influencer content guiding it. What stuff comes from friends is just reposts from influencer pages.
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by naravara 4y ago
> That was the new reality a decade ago. Social media apps was how you found blog posts, not RSS feeds. The big social media influencers at the time, however, were using RSS feeds to find the stuff they would take viral. So it still had
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> This is fantastic, classical music absolutely needs a dedicated interface since the organization by composer and multi-movement works is so different from popular music. So this is true for how people organize popular music, but I can&
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Western academia has a bias towards defining religious institutions out of consideration as true academia. You see this in philosophy departments too where philosophers love to argue that Eastern philosophy is "more religion than philo
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I can imagine it, but it would require a lot of worldbuilding to explain. I reckon the primary means of computing for the lay person becomes interacting with prompts to make the computer do what you want, but the actual knowledge of softwar
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TBH I think our political system and most of our OpEd pages could benefit from an infusion of shame. Many of them are bad people and continue having prominent roles due to their complete lack of shame. Maybe in psychologically healthy peopl
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I actively shame people when they reach for the phone to answer those questions. If the conversation hits a point where the exact answer is actually important, then we can relent. But I would rather settle a bet by tapping a stranger on the
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The fact that it's sort of a period piece for a period that never existed helps. Fantasy is handy that way. Aside from the trends around color grading and film stock, much of what gives the visuals a sense of being of a specific time a
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by naravara 4y ago
You underestimate the risk-blindness that comes from having access to the bank of mom-and-dad.
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Being as how most of their analytical grunt-work is being done by fresh-faced graduates this should be expected.
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I wonder how much of this is just people being bigger jerks now than before. Just anecdotally service workers and small business owners in general seem to complain about a major shift in norms towards customers more often being abusive or e
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I can imagine even darker uses for this technology: Imagine an online poker or slots game that proposes to add verisimilitude by including AI chatter from the other players at the table, but they're all running an ML model trained on o
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There is no deflection. I was pretty clear about erosion of democratic norms being bad in both places. I made a comparison to provide a sense of perspective as to scale and then said the BJP wins fair elections to illustrate that conflating
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Thank you! I really appreciate hearing that.
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> People tend to drastically underestimate the both the scale and sophistication of manufacturing in China. I doubt Apple is underestimating it. Shenzhen wasn't built in a day. They will need to get their reps in before they can sta
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I'm a parent. I need a maid.
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I would hesitate to characterize everything happening as fascist since that's a loaded term and I think it brings in a lot of baggage when transposed cross-culturally that confuses more than it clears up. I think there has been a rise
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by naravara 4y ago
Where did you get 40%? The proportion of scheduled castes is somewhere in the mid-20s, you only get into the mid- to high-30s if you include "Other Backwards Castes," who aren't Dalits but are able to make a general case that
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Personally I think almost all of my distractions while working at home would go away if I could afford a maid or just had more spare time and energy for housework. So really the issue isn't "the home" so much as the fact that
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I people tend to have a bit of rose tinted glasses on about Apple's software quality of yore. There have always been big stability issues with new features and apps. And they've simply never been good at the UX for anything that i
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Same. They're neat tech demos, but aside from turn-by-turn directions I don't really see any of them being particularly helpful aside from being a novelty. I really don't get the demand for weird social overlays on top of peo
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JAQing off is a strategy for discrediting expertise by inundating with nonsense questions and accusations disguised as questions. There's no good solution for dealing with bad faith shit-stirring, but dignifying every bit of nonsense w
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> They’re asking that applicants demonstrate their awareness of the current lay of the land when it comes to systemic oppression. Because it's not the lay of the land when it comes to systemic oppression. It's the lay of the la
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Yes you have the interpretation right. She wasn't making a mission-statement, she was illustrating the faulty premise embedded in the question that there is some required count of women in the court that must be met in order to satisfy
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Talented debaters are not necessarily honest or knowledgable in their fields. In fact, being too honest or too nerdy is often a disadvantage. There’s a reason cases on technical matters in courts still get argued my litigators with subject-
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> Comfort discussing diversity-related issues I don't know a single person who has anything genuinely thoughtful or insightful to say on these topics that I would describe as "comfortable" discussing them in the current en

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