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by quadrangle 5y ago
I was hoping to find other comments processing the question of why such a lousy song was a hit beyond what the article describes…
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by quadrangle 5y ago
As soon as some rights are violated, you don't have them any more. The language of "granting" could be changed to "respecting" and it would be an improvement indeed. But rights are only natural and inherent to the e
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Paying taxes in cash is almost the most important core thing. It's utter violation of basic concepts of fiat currency for that not to be possible. The whole point of cash is that it is legal tender, and it has to be acceptable for
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by quadrangle 5y ago
> You're using "harmonic" here in a way this is disconnected from a lot of the rest of the discussion here. We are not talking about scale degrees or anything like that, but the physical harmonic series. This is such a con
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I wasn't saying that the major scale is defined by harmonics, I'm saying that the harmonics which define what tones blend into chords are the reason for the major scale becoming our primary reference scale, whether or not it is te
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Yes, ratio math works without the strangeness. Except it's unfortunate that the 3rd harmonic is the fifth letter and the 5th harmonic is the third letter. Coincidentally, from harmonics 7 through 14, the harmonic numbers match the lett
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by quadrangle 5y ago
The comment that confused you is largely wrong and confusing, so don't fret about it. But the 5+5=9 part is correct. It's a weird artifact of note-counting. C D E F G is 5 letters. C to G is called "a fifth" (which is a
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You read a strange subset of musical tuning literature and picked up a weird misunderstanding. Harmonics means all the multiples of the fundamental. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music) People ta
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by quadrangle 5y ago
No, but it is partly about beats and matching partials. See https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html which describes how the spectra of timbres affects which harmonies blend. You can synthesize inharmonic timbres to get a
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Meta: this whole conversation amounts to a bunch of people who don't really understand tuning talking over-confidently about it. There are communities of experts on the subject, and if you bother to engage with any of them, you can lea
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Well, I agree completely with everything you say in this comment. Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value#Karl_Mar... and https://davidharvey.org/2018/03/marxs-refusal-of-
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I don't really disagree enough to bother arguing. But my thermometer analogy is still the same. You can create situations in which thermometers do indeed show something that actually is an indication of something and that something isn
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Are you arguing about techno-feudalism or just being defensive about anyone criticizing businesses? The whole discussion here is about the idea of power dynamics. It isn't about the boring waste-of-time topic of just attributing "
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I don't know how squids perceive things, but obviously water pressure is correlated with gravity in their case. There's no way to have up and down without gravity. It's meaningless. It's not that gravity can't exist
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I'm not following. Yes, cryptocurrency mining and the buying of it with dollars has effects on the world, but "generate" dollars?? Economic activity doesn't generate dollars. Do you mean the standard metaphorical "m
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by quadrangle 5y ago
How did you imagine me to be a crypto fan??? I'm a total crypto-cynic sympathetic to the argument that it's all a speculative wasteful scam.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Up and down are perceptions that we evolved specifically to indirectly sense gravity. "nothing to do with" is wrong, it's like saying that thermometers have nothing to do with temperature because various versions of them can
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by quadrangle 5y ago
> It only appears as up and down to you on earth Up and down aren't anything but appearances. And since we evolved on Earth, with gravity, our experience of "up" and "down" are specifically caused by indicators
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Some short perspectives, if simplistic: Marx was basically just inspired by French Revolution idea of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" and dismayed that it didn't work out. He came to some real insights about why capitalism do
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I'm no expert, I just have the impression that the field of economics professionally is basically a lost cause, at least until generational turn-over if even that. Anything interesting has to engage with real facts like energy consumpt
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by quadrangle 5y ago
> there are far more dollars floating around thanks to crypto Uh no, cryptocurrencies can't generate USD. But if you meant "dollars" as a generic term for currency, then sure, kinda yeah, to the degree that cryptocurrencie
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by quadrangle 5y ago
You might say "threat of inflation" because we imagine (reasonably) that the effect of sidelined money moving could lead to a pattern of inflation (given all the complex ways that might incentivize people to choose to raise prices
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by quadrangle 5y ago
This is really tangential, but "up" and "down" are completely meaningless without gravity. Literally, without gravity, "up" doesn't exist. "Up" is literally just "away from the primary gravi
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Varoufakis was doing the hyperbole by saying "work for free" when he knows that people get some value. We can nit-pick the hyperbole, but the gist is still a fine enough point about the value being mainly from the users and ex
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by quadrangle 5y ago
"Inflation is not about prices" is the silliest thing I've ever heard. You might as well say that gravity has nothing to do with up and down. The only thing anyone MEANS when they say "inflation" is that it's s
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Austrian economics is all anti-empirical say-so internally-consistent models that aren't tested against reality. Traditional economics is stuff that claims to be more empirical but fails to do so and focuses almost entirely on official
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by quadrangle 5y ago
I'm sure if you mentioned it, Varoufakis would have some things to say about that (and nothing defending it). It's too bad that wasn't mentioned in this article though.
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Just to clarify, your first sentence couldn't be more wrong. Varoufakis is a Marxist-style activist who has dedicated his life to advocating for placing power in the hands of regular citizens and taking it away from those who currently
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by quadrangle 5y ago
We can nitpick the hyperbole of particular wordings. Did peasants on traditional feudalism work for free? I mean, they ostensibly got the military protection of the lords. What if everyone gave their data to Open Street Map instead? But sur
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by quadrangle 5y ago
Gosh, either you read too much clickbait or you write it. That's not what "totally annihilated" means. Bill mentioned email, and that's better in some ways, they just didn't get into it. There wasn't in 1995 mu

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