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by wickawic 9y ago
It seems like many podcasts also have an unspoken agreement with the listener about ads and make them easy to skip. Two popular podcasts come to mind: WTF with Marc Maron: always plays a guitar riff after the ad, which is easy to hear when
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by wickawic 9y ago
> Software shouldn't be considered a cost I fully disagree. Code is a liability taken on as a calculated risk to perform some task.
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by wickawic 9y ago
That sounds more like Focault
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by wickawic 9y ago
> postmodernist imbroglio involving Derrida and lacan. Spoooky! How do they have anything to do with this?
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by wickawic 9y ago
I assure you there are just as many of us with a complete aversion to taking anything at all.
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by wickawic 9y ago
You can just squeeze it on a cracker. Some people like brownies, but using edibles to get high makes as much sense to me as eating rum balls to get drunk.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thing GP was stating that composing two “unsafe” blocks together (both of which are manually verified to work well) might interfere with each other when run simultaneously.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I think edibles will be mostly taken over by concentrates. Instead of (in WA for ex.) paying $40 for 10 10mg edibles, I’ll pay $20 for enough concentrate to make 80 edibles.
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by wickawic 9y ago
And "figure out" includes "imprison until you tell us" unfortunately.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Drug addiction is so bad because drugs fuck with your priorities at a very basic level. Asking someone to give up a heroin addiction is kind of like asking you to abandon your children. Sure it is physically possible to do it (not even that
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by wickawic 9y ago
I don’t see this being viable. Most people shop with at least a small amount of whimsy. This is why end-caps and samples and grocery store psychology exist. And I think this is a feature, not a bug: there is something satisfying about picki
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by wickawic 9y ago
You are proving the point though. Sure, there is variance among 64 out of the (say) 1000000000 people who could possibly be a quarterback. But most people could probably be in the top .1% of quarterback talent in the population if they trai
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by wickawic 9y ago
I am empathetic to your point, and the constant state of 'surveillance' of my monetary actions is something that I always take issue with. On the other hand, I don't think these are compelling points: 1. If we were using cryp
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by wickawic 9y ago
Saxaphone is 'reviled' in classical music because its tone is very crunchy and uneven compared to most of the other instruments of the band. I think in tone it is pretty similar to the bassoon, but even a chunky, honky instrument
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by wickawic 9y ago
Oh I totally would argue that position. (I am much more familar with jazz than classical). My main argument would come from how the two camps tend to practice. Generally jazz musicians will learn the 'changes' (key changes, common
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by wickawic 9y ago
It is difficult to evaluate. In some sense a city is either growing or shrinking, and shrinking very negatively impacts municipalities because it is hard to 'scale down' the local bureaucracy. On the other hand too much growth mak
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by wickawic 9y ago
I'm really interested in that. Do you have any songs/records in mind? Googling 'ECM Jazz' doesn't seem to bring up a wealth of relevant results.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I would also say that in Jazz the rhythm of the music plays an outsized role as compared to classical. If you don’t “swing”* you can’t play with anyone and certainly can’t play jazz. On the other hand, classical musicians care about dynamic
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by wickawic 9y ago
Very interesting! Have you experienced improvements from this approach?
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by wickawic 9y ago
True, but the HQ will go somewhere, right? In fact retail will probably do pretty well near wherever the campus is built.
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by wickawic 9y ago
It is also a way of thinking about death prevalent in Jewish culture.
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by wickawic 9y ago
The vast majority of humans don’t live within walking distance of the ocean, it probably wasn’t a big evolutionary pressure to be able to drink seawater.
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by wickawic 9y ago
West = Western California obviously!
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by wickawic 9y ago
You should argue the points, not label the fallacies. Would you rather White say “well there’s probably attacks, but no one knows!”? This is just as incorrect as his statement, the problem being that /no one knows./ The FUD is rea
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by wickawic 9y ago
It was a contrived example but charitably there are lots of inventions that are only useful in light of other inventions.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I agree with you because it is civil and good points are being made. As a general point though notice that assertions about women are met with requests for sources, but assertions about men are assumed true.
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by wickawic 9y ago
It is both frustrating and enlighening to see that almost all replies to your comments and comment chains therein are grappling with your note that poor women may possibly have it harder than men. HN is not a good place to discuss issues re
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by wickawic 9y ago
It seems uncharitable to glom onto a single word of the GP's statement; suburban and rural areas are also full of single mothers.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Time to let my ignorance shine: > Linearizability is a composeable correctness condition So if all I know is that A1 precedes A2 and that B1 precedes B2, how do I make assertions about the ordering of A2 and B2? Is “linear” in the contex
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by wickawic 9y ago
It’s always fun when you get to use the speed of light in a commonplace application!

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