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by runarberg 20d ago
I started learning guitar last July, and I wanted to learn music theory (and standard notation) from day 1. I am following Absolutely Understand Guitar[1] as my music theory lessons (and Hal Leonard method for notation) along side my regula
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by runarberg 24d ago
They all suck beyond any tolerable threshold. Some of them are further away from the threshold. But at this point, how far each is from the tolerable threshold is besides any point and not worth arguing over. The least of five evils is stil
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by runarberg 24d ago
There are plenty of doom-and-gloom people to go around. Even if Ed Zitron is wrong about a lot of things, the doom-and-gloom part may still be accurate. Personally I am way to the left of Ed Zitron, I actually think he isn’t doom and gloom
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by runarberg 24d ago
The center is not always the reasonable viewpoint. And sometimes the doom-and-gloom guy is correct.
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by runarberg 25d ago
Immigrants are not bad for your country, and claiming they are is racist. If your country is bad it is because of the people in charge (i.e. the rich and the powerful; i.e. politicians and billionaires). If your job sucks, you blame your bo
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by runarberg 25d ago
Iceland already has fishing fees, which is effectively a tax to use the national resource. If you introduce capitalism into the equation you are just opening the doors for the rich to exploit the workers in a systemic manner, and the worker
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by runarberg 26d ago
Note that questions about immigration tend to be quite general and ideology based as well. People are usually asked, “do you support immigration from...” but if you ask them “do you want people from ... to be disproportionately deported” I
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by runarberg 27d ago
I think this speaks volumes about how far right the Overton window has shifted in Europe, if my run-of-the-mill leftist critique of the EU sounds so novel. I actually blame Brexit for this. Before Brexit being anti-EU for anti-capitalist, a
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by runarberg 27d ago
Described by legendery meteorologist Jón Eyþórsson who funnily enough has a lyric (well just a little ferskeytla) listed on Ísmús https://ismus.is/einstaklingar/5381
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by runarberg 28d ago
My personal opinion is that trawling should be banned. Without trawlers shoveling up entire populations and destroying the ecosystem around it, a lot of these issues will solve them selves.
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by runarberg 28d ago
What I have experienced is being in an international relationship and having to have to go through the (legal) immigration process twice. First by my married spouse immigrating to Iceland, and then again by me, and Icelandic citizen moving
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by runarberg 28d ago
Sorry I must brake away from HN guidelines here: But this is an infinitely dumb comparison. I can’t even begin to fathom what kind of endless ignorance and prejudges can possess a person to speak such stupid words. A persons house is not th
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by runarberg 28d ago
Icelandic ex-fisherman here: Iceland‘s fisheries are controlled by what we call quota-kings. They are extremely rich owners of fishing quota (similar to USA’s oil barons) who are increasingly anti-social and obviously very unpopular among I
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by runarberg 28d ago
Iceland has all the worst parts of EU (the unhindered neo-liberalism and border fascism) anyway.
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by runarberg 1mo ago
5 kyu in normal go here: I played a couple of games and got crushed by the AI. Groups are much harder to kill in this game, so having a large group of connected stones with zero or one eyes (what we call “dragons” in normal go) is a much be
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by runarberg 1mo ago
I disagree. The winning move is to organize, and stand as workers in solidarity against the owning classes, engage in direct action (including boycotts and strikes) until the ruling class changes the rules in our favor, or better yet, aboli
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by runarberg 1mo ago
Do not short it. I repeat, do not do this! Do not play the game of capitalism against expert capitalists who have spent the last few decades rigging the game more an more in their own favor. In very rare cases may be lucky but only for a sh
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by runarberg 1mo ago
They could have, but they didn’t. Another way to look at this is they could design their own font, and they did. Companies are allowed to make fun things.
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by runarberg 1mo ago
This is the “If I wouldn’t have done it, somebody else would have” . And I personally find it to be a very lame excuse. Villains have agency, and deserve to get the blame for their malicious actions.
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by runarberg 1mo ago
dang 10 hours ago: > LLMs have helped us keep HN up and still (relatively) fast amid a huge onslaught of new traffic over the last year or so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438594
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by runarberg 1mo ago
Well some of use were using R (or later Julia) and have always 1-indexed as an act of defiance... There are dozens of us... DOZENS!
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by runarberg 1mo ago
I fear this is not the only reason even if it is true. The more negative reason is a loss of skill/talent. We used to be able to know what to do in these situations, and how to fix things when they went wrong. Companies like Y Combinat
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by runarberg 1mo ago
I specifically remember there being a similar complaint about bitcoin back in the day, and I think somebody even SHOW HN-ed an HN front page without news about bitcoin (I went searching but failed... instead I found these two ASK HNs: http
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by runarberg 1mo ago
I joined HN 13 years ago (2 years after you), and back then I saw it as a bunch of libertarians and venture capitalists and some open source (and/or functional programming) enthusiast with a few interesting and nerdy projects. I was mo
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by runarberg 1mo ago
We have seen 20 years of complete inaction precisely because of this “let the market handle it” nonsense. In 2012 Europe was all in on some cap-and-trade scheme that everybody knew was never going to work, everybody told them it was never g
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by runarberg 1mo ago
I wouldn’t say so. Labor laws are still strong in the continent (at least in the more unionized parts of the continent), though salaries are very stagnant and not keeping up with the mountain rise in the cost of living. Unions are still str
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by runarberg 1mo ago
Wait are you telling me yet another supposedly ground breaking technology turned out to be yet another grift. I know a lot of people on HN are going to call me overly cynical. But this pattern should be so obvious by now. Any cynicism to an
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by runarberg 1mo ago
Traditional methods are failing because of austerity and capitalism. Pedagogy is a science which has expert studying these things. And most teachers are well aware of the science and know what works. Stuff like instant feedback has been kno
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by runarberg 1mo ago
Businesses need workers a lot more then workers need businesses. And Europes whole deal is to shift this power imbalance in favor of the the businesses. This has to stop.
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by runarberg 1mo ago
I don‘t know about EU laws specifically, but national law in Europe is often written by lobby firms in favor of their corporate sponsors. In Iceland for example the main corporate lobby is called Viðskiptaráð, and they brag about the high p

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