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by soundwave106 8y ago
Not modern adulthood, but electronic dance culture in the 1990s probably (from my point of view) was possibly close. Of course, I really don't know the early punk scene firsthand, which I heard was way more DIY in say the early 1980s,
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by soundwave106 8y ago
In my opinion the "big pop guys" you mention are: A) Fantastic producers -- the production from these guys is phenomenal, and IMHO this is what really "makes the song". B) Great at writing to a formula. The tunes are &qu
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by soundwave106 8y ago
According to one site I ran into ( https://www.ancient.eu/article/1033/beer-in-ancient-egypt/ ), Egyptian beer was classified by strength or flavor. The typical "everyday" Egyptian beer would be rough
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by soundwave106 8y ago
It's a little different to me. At least for music, there are some career fallback options if you really want to pursue that path, but lack the charisma / marketing skills to be a pop lead. Orchestras / Broadway, session music
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In my opinion, you have to balance that position with the realities of the work force: what is in demand, what the compensation is, etc. To give an example, two of my passions can be said to be writing code and playing music. Of the later p
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Dapper is great IMHO. However, the Microsoft-recommended solution after Linq to SQL ended up being Entity Framework... which was an even heavier ORM. My personal opinion is akin to the parent: the more you abstract away from thinking like
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Fascist corporatism is a thing in the Wikipedia article on corporatism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatis... ) but I don't think that applies here, given the strong role of employers and
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I remember in those days there was a lot of "demo scene" music that was traded electronically. Not usually by floppy disc, but, well, it could have been. (Surprising no vaporwave artists has gone this route: release a vaporwave &q
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Others are making the good general case argument, but I will add one other thing: sometimes there's actually some very positive "side benefits" that you get from having a biodiverse ecosystem around, that you may not initiall
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There are some differences in governing style though that go beyond "culture" questions. I'll be honest, I cannot think of a Western nation equivalent of the "great firewall" in China. I'm also not aware of a n
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by soundwave106 8y ago
When comparing Hungary to Turkey, the "awareness of Soros" thing actually is a caution point to me. From my point of view, Orban is using Soros as a boogeyman, with huge over-emphasis on this single personality, far more than Soro
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Now that's a strange rant. Not everyone who wants to download Youtube files to MP3 is downloading electronic dance music for the purpose of playing it live as a DJ. In my personal case, it tends to be relatively obscure classical music
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Doing anything of value requires expending of energy, but the way cryptocurrency is right now seems to encourage... inefficiencies. That farmer driving the tractor down the field using energy in the form of oil is typically massively more p
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by soundwave106 8y ago
A couple of Stigs actually have been revealed per the Wiki on the character -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig -- Perry McCarthy (black Stig) and Ben Collins (first white Stig). Both were revealed out of show of
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by soundwave106 8y ago
There's two angles to this: general crowd psychology, and how social media tailors the news feed in response to it. In the old Internet (forums and Usenet), sure, there was crowd psychology too. There always is. However, these social
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Yes, as I said, you can cherry-pick various trade issues. Heck I can even find long-running trade disputes on certain products -- one that immediately comes to mind is the long-running dispute between Canada and the US over lumber ( https:&
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by soundwave106 8y ago
From my perspective, he is not completely wrong on China for sure. But I'm honestly not sure why his administration seems to also be targeting allies such as the EU, Canada, and Mexico. I'm sure there are "quibbles" with
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Which is IMHO why the simplistic upvote / downvote / likes / retweet system is one of the major faults of most social networks. It encourages groupthink and tribalism and discourages engagement with other opinions and perspec
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by soundwave106 8y ago
It sounds like this issue rallied AT&T / Time Warner's legal team as well. Per the article, it sounded like AT&T / Time Warner used this "issue" to demonstration that the DOJ was opposing the merger not due
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IMHO there are a lot of factors for this link and concluding negative dysgenic scenarios is probably hasty. It may not necessarily be "all bad", and it may not necessarily directly relate to intelligence per se. Speculative: Infan
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People are somewhat irrational in nature and fear rare, but spectacular events more than the mundane. This is the number one problem with nuclear that I see it: no other power source has had anything on the scale of Chernobyl. The only thin
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The problem is sometimes these "variants" are very difficult to find. Pasta sauce for instance IMHO should not have any sugar at all (tomatoes, spices, and a little bit of olive oil). If sugar is added, it should be very modest. B
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Sure, but the problem is the seemingly very high amount of shady behavior in cryptocurrency. EG: In one category, you have reports like this that say 81% of ICOs are scams. ( https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptoc
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Another possible correlation is aging populations. Among males at least, suicide is highest among males over 65. ( https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml ) The "hypothesis" might be that
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Music for the church (often written by the same composers) is a counterpoint to this. I doubt too many people are dancing during requiems and masses. :) Also, there is music as the background to a theatrical performance (opera being the cla
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But Ferrari matters greatly in the luxury sports car segment. There's no sin in tailoring a business to a small niche. Heck, I'd say "in the grand scheme of things", if you look at some of the data available ( https:&#x2
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For what it's worth, the University of Florida is ranked #42 in US News's report ( https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-florida-1... ). I'd probably consider it the top public Floridia univer
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Unlike the wolf, coyotes have thrived in part because they have adapted excellently to urban environments. ( https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160418-animals-u... ) City dwellers generally don't (in g
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The United States has a "broad ban" in place called the Federal Analogue Act -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act The definition is "not 100% exact" in its nature, but dealers have
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Is there really such a thing as "mainstream" anymore? What I think the Internet has done is allowed many, many microcosms to exist -- and exist in ways that are often unknown to the vast majority, even if they are extremely big in

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