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I think the move you're missing is getting in on the ground floor with a solid ownership share to an experienced coffee grower. A 51/49 ownership split or a similar arrangement could be a life-changing opportunity for an experienc
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> Whereas while helping you can often expect cooperation Yes, if the person you're helping has a calibrated moral compass and is mentally sound.
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> Morally, I think people like Madoff are worse than many gang members or low-level violent criminals Out of curiosity, why do you think this? Grand theft of wealth based on fraud doesn't strike me as morally worse than gangbanging,
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> it’s the tempo of perfection I believed in this as well for many years, but I've taken some lessons with famous bluegrass guitarists and all three of them said that you can't really play fast (which in bluegrass is "bl
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> This is a very neglected area of piano pedagogy. It also relates to the great difficulty of most chamber works for piano. You are SO right. I really wish that modern composers would come up with a bunch of chamber stuff that actually s
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It really depends what his temperament is like. If he's like I was when I was young and is really stubborn, resistant to practicing stuff that matters in favor of stuff that's fun, and doesn't listen to your advice, then you&
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Great comment, I agree with pretty much everything you said. I'm definitely going to steal the "Friday recital" idea.
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It's of course my own interpretation of what's important about music, but I've found that an arrangement sounds better if everyone's in tune and playing robotically than if everyone's out of tune and playing with a
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I grew up with the same habit, and sometimes could actually see the wincing in the audience during recitals. It was so disheartening. Last year I started deliberately playing incorrect notes during practicing, ceasing to play, and getting b
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> whether a note is ahead of the beat, on the beat, or behind the beat; and by how much. Especially in Black American music (jazz, blues, soul, R&B, and a bunch of pop that's been influenced by those styles), there is a lot of
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Oh yeah, Monk is 100% right. Keeping time is far more important than both intonation and feel. (And intonation is more important than feel.) Young music students in the US are usually taught in a pre-conservatory style (analogous to how you
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That's an interesting question; if stress alone impacts executive functioning skills you'd expect to see similar reductions in high-stress jobs like surgery, finance, war, extreme sports, etc. Of course one doesn't necessaril
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> Time is a luxury poor people do not have I know a lot of poor people and I assure you that many of them have plenty of time. There are certainly many hard-working poor who desperately need time back in their day and would cook if they
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I noticed something weird once about time perception. I kept thinking I was getting texts at work, because I'd suddenly become aware of my lit-up phone screen out of the corner of my eye. But then I'd go to pick it up and it was o
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Ah, wish you'd hit them. Armed robbers deserve a quick end.
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He undoubtedly can for soccer-related visual, audio and physical stamina. I wonder if he can do it for other things, though.
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> sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of people and use cases which is lovel... After experiencing many different proprietary apps, working professionally on both Windows and Mac systems, and studying the principles of
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The only way populations go to zero is in a Children of Men situation, if the city dwelling populations all choose not to reproduce eventually the country will have a lower population by be more comprised of religious cults with high reprod
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Not a sound comment, population of Japan on 1873 was estimated to be 35M. Current population of Japan is 100M+
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There is a difference between targeted violence and destruction of property as a means to exert economic pressure on a trading entity, and untargeted violence and destruction of property as a means to express your displeasure with current l
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"All of these new social practices are going to crash society!" (Societies crash) 1000 years later: "People have always been saying that!"
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I think I agree with you. Who could predict the functionality of the iPhone 14 from the iPod and the Blackberry?
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> Is it because of playdates culture and not being free to play on the street with neighbours after school which helps socializing kids? All children need to be "socialized", which means "taught the local method of the ar
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Using a special little carveout theoretically satisfies two groups of people: 1) Those who won't engage with material if it's sexist 2) Those who think other people are stupid for not engaging with material if it's sexist As
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I came here to comment HPMoR. It's a little embarrassing because the book is very cringey at times, full of itself, and for those who care, quite sexist. But it has some incredible lessons in how to think rationally, especially in si
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Yeah, he was doxxed a few too many times and quit writing under the Alone/Last Psychiatrist pseudonym. He recently published two books "Penelope's Dream" and "Sadly, Porn" under the name Edward Teach, and he ma
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Oh yeah, I was primarily thinking of Epic, as well as an emergency services platform I almost interviewed for. If your primary product is software I think you're a tech company.
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I was just explaining to some friends recently that the only way to become a large non-entertainment tech company these days is to find a captive market (education, healthcare, power, logistics, emergency response, etc.), insert yourself as
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"There can be only one." (Lithium ion battery sputters and sparks)
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Have you come across it before? I found it in 2019 and my life completely changed as a result.

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