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Ask HN: Car Enthusiasts Willing to Mentor in Santa Cruz/Monterey California?
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by wturner 8y ago
I think anyone who wants to explore the world of programming should do so, but I don't agree with this article. I fit the demographic that this article is talking about. I taught myself JavaScript for years, taught it to others and I c
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by wturner 8y ago
I'm curious what a company like Lyft (or any number of companies that have grown rapidly due to funding but still seem like they have some kind of sustainable business model) how they might look as democratically owned companies (basic
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by wturner 8y ago
Dan Lyons, one of the writers of the show recently wrote a new book titled "Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us ..."
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Modern monetary theory (2015)(youtube.com)
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Skateboarders Won(nytimes.com)
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by wturner 9y ago
It may be counterintuitive, but the most responsible thing people like you can do in those situations is to accept, play along for a year or two and then speak out publicly the way Christopher Wylie has. It's a one step back 5 steps fo
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by wturner 9y ago
From what I've come to understand personality characteristics strongly determine political leanings. The media targeting mentioned in the video can serve to create cultural associates with any given voters personality "characteris
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AudioWorklet: What, Why, and How – Hongchan Choi(youtube.com)
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by wturner 9y ago
I never said it was meaningless, I said it was subjective.
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by wturner 9y ago
According to your definition if some kid happens to get their music played across the country soley on college radio stations then they are mainstream.
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by wturner 9y ago
Okay - let's play. How many people need to hear a song or artist for them to be designated "mainstream"?
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by wturner 9y ago
"underground" is as subjective as "That's a great song!". It's all a matter of individual opinion.
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by wturner 9y ago
Summary: if you are an artist performing live shows and you are interested in building a cult of followers you can do so, and no one will stop you. If your performances and merchandise fees break through a threshold of profitability, you ar
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by wturner 9y ago
I wrote a book to teach JavaScript to sound artists that is is loosely related. http://javascriptforsoundartists.com
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by wturner 9y ago
I am not telling people what they should or should not value. *edited
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by wturner 9y ago
@tqi So when you get down to the numbers and the prevalent value assumptions we all have, Oprah Winfrey (one person) provides more value to the country than 2/3's of the nations garbage collection workers. Even though that is appa
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by wturner 9y ago
Here's how I see it: If Oprah dies tomorrow society lives on and for the most part nothing changes. If all the sewer treatment plant workers die there is a scramble to replace these invaluable workers to abate a national health crisis.
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by wturner 9y ago
I never said Oprah Doesn't provide more value than one garbage man. I am saying that I don't understand how a task that is literally needed for society to function is less valuable than one that is negligible for society to functi
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by wturner 9y ago
My point was that each garbage collector is more valuable to the person paying for them than Oprah Winfrey is, but Oprah makes hundreds of millions of dollars and the garbage collector makes a typical wage. I understand the reasoning that O
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by wturner 9y ago
I still can't get my head around the logic that a garbage collector gets paid next to nothing relative to someone who is paid millions to talk into a microphone and the reasoning is that the latter "provides more value". &quo
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by wturner 9y ago
The world "value" is always confusing. Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire presumably because she is valued for her ability to interview people (she basically talks into a microphone for large sums of money). If she left society and sh
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by wturner 9y ago
I'm directing my post to someone who is at least forty years old. I think they can make up their own mind.
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by wturner 9y ago
Okay, I don't recommend them. I'll rephrase the post to say what I've done to help me. Does that make you happy?
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by wturner 9y ago
I've mentioned this in a few comments, but Kratom is a substance that has given me a taste of what it's like to turn-off all the clutter in my head and see the world the way people without anxiety see it. It can be dangerous to do
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by wturner 9y ago
You might want to start by telling the potential mentor what you can offer in return. Otherwise, your post comes off as entitled and divorced from day-to-day reality.
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by wturner 10y ago
I have horrid anxiety ( to the point where I can literally freeze up when put on-the-spot stressful situations ) and I use Kratom lightly to deal with it. I noticed I was using a bit more than I thought was reasonable and I decided to do a
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by wturner 10y ago
This is the perspective that I hardly ever hear discussed when the issue of "human freedom" is brought up. If you assume we are a result of the big bang, then the causal relationship infers humans are not free. If on the other han
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by wturner 10y ago
Personally, the feeling imbued from my schooling in California is one of neglect and indifference. "Indoctrination" assumes some kind of educating was happening at all and would have been a step up actually.I'm speaking of th
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by wturner 10y ago
BAS in sound arts. I taught myself JavaScript in parallel with the Web Audio API and wrote the beginner book I wish I had. It's titled "JavaScript for Sound Artists". There are literally no books on the market to teach JavaSc

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