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by puranjay 6y ago
I think you're talking about popular music. Popular music is pretty much defined by youth culture. And to create music that appeals to youth culture, you have to be young yourself. Musically, I don't think you lose your abilities
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These people are never going to come back to Facebook. No one moves to last generation's social network. The lifespan of any social network is effectively only one generation long. Which is long enough to make a lot of money, but not l
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I'm amazed that smart people have been advocating Sweden's strategy. Sweden has a population of 10 million. New York alone has more people than that. It's as if population size, distribution and density aren't even a con
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I swear the pro vaxxers are as much of a cult now as the anti vaxxers. I've been attacked so many times for simply saying that I would wait a while for results before trusting a rushed vaccine, especially one that has a massive financi
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You have to see things in context. The "whitewashing" happened at the dawn of independence. We'd just come off a massive human rights disaster in the form of the partition. Religious tensions were simmering. The country was b
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If nothing else, it's a gross oversimplification of history - a basic "us vs them" narration. When in reality, alliances were driven more by political necessity than by religion. There were Hindu generals in Mughal armies, ju
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Nations are usually built on lies. Most countries would likely fall apart if they were completely truthful about their histories. In India's case, the whitewashing of Mughal rule was a necessity because there are still a substantial nu
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I'm always amazed whenever I mention the Indus Valley Civilization and most people have never even heard of it - they think "ancient civilization" means the Egyptians and Mesopotamians!
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That's awesome! Would love to see a comparison to hyped cryptos on /biz/
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Their brains hooked to Neurolink, no less
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I just keep thinking about all the money I was wasting on things I never truly enjoyed but bought because they were convenient and available. A cup of mediocre coffee, an overpriced sandwich, clothes I wasn't particularly comfortable i
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In countries with massive income inequality, public parks are usually the only places where everyone can congregate, regardless of income or status. I go for a walk in the park near my house and I see people hanging out there whose daily in
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At what point would it be unethical to continue using Amazon?
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Check the backlink profile for pages ranking for spam-dominated queries such as "buy CBD oil" or "buy viagra" and you'll see an incredible amount of spam and fraud. Sucks that despite this being a 20+ year old probl
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A lot of SEO spammers buy old but popular Wordpress plugins to inject hidden backlinks to their websites, so it's entirely possible
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That's a very narrow viewpoint. Several species and ecosystems are certainly going through eco-pocalypses even right now. Lots of very poor people have also gone through their own versions of eco-pocalypses
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Just because they got the dates wrong doesn't mean that they got the trend wrong.
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Except it's not the "same" software. If I have to make native iOS and Android apps, I have to essentially create two separate pieces of code. If I was selling my software at Walmart, I have to change nothing to sell it at Tar
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I thought I'd be a millionaire by 30 too. But I hit 30 last year and found that what I truly wanted to do was make music, write, and spend time with my family. I don't advocate mediocrity, but everyone doesn't have to be a hi
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> Here you have how SpaceX looked like in 2002: https://i.redd.it/00ikcxo2z0f01.jpg I've seen that dancing Elon picture everywhere but now I finally know the source. Thanks for sharing!
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Hard to feel any sympathy for these trillion dollar companies. I'm sick of it all. Large corporations have way too much power in our world.
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I moved to a Thinkpad from Macbook. Honestly, I love the form factor, the keyboard, and the all black finish. But the screen is still below par - 400 nits max brightness is too low. And the trackpad is substantially worse than Macbook'
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Helps that the Lego video games are all surprisingly very good - far better than the standard for most cash grab themed games
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To play devil's advocate: the west is now in a soft Cold War with China. Given China's opaqueness, any media report about China has to be taken with a pinch of salt, especially considering how the media has acted as the mouthpiece
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Did you go yourself or use an agency? I was in Uzbekistan last year and from what I gathered, Turkmenistan isn't a place you can really do much solo travel.
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I think the poster meant how you create a TikTok not to follow your friends, but to follow creators. Following creators is something that emerged out of Instagram organically. You first logged in because you wanted to see what your friends
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I'm not American so I have a more dispassionate take on things I guess. I've watched a lot of the videos and honestly, so many of them are just blatantly egregious use of force - something even cops in my third world country would
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If you're interested in this, I highly encourage checking out Sonic Pi [0]. It's an open source music programming language. Also works very well as a tool to teach coding. [0]: https://sonic-pi.net/
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I've been considering taking the leap for quite a while. Is there anyone from India here who has used Stripe Atlas? Would love to chat!
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I see brutalism as a response to WW2. If your civilization had just gone through the worst war in history, you'd feel a lot more comfortable in a fortress-like building than in a glass skyscraper.

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