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by zhemao 10y ago
Only of them died of pneumonia. The scientists tried to save him by taking him to a hospital for modern medical treatment, but he refused.
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by zhemao 10y ago
No their civil war ended long ago. But they do still have a lot of violence caused by gangs like Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and the armed vigilante groups that hunt them.
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So sad. I was always amazed at how many great albums he recorded. And his remastering of the old records to CD format ensured that these historic sounds would preserved in the digital age. RIP Rudy Van Gelder truly There Will Never Be Anoth
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by zhemao 10y ago
Is metrosexual still a thing? Haven't heard that word in years.
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There are non verbal cues or different nuances in inflection that help disambiguate. There's also situational context. Furthermore, people use simpler language when speaking then when writing. In Chinese, which has even more homophones
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by zhemao 10y ago
On the other hand, those countries have very low crime rates and incarceration rates, so ...
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by zhemao 10y ago
Art and sports are generally electives in US public schools. It is entirely possible (and in fact very likely) for a student to be ahead in all academic subjects, especially at the lower grade levels when there's not much specializatio
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by zhemao 10y ago
Basically. I remember talking to a younger cousin in China, and he asked if I ever had to recite texts in language class. As in, memorize a passage verbatim and regurgitate it on the exam. I said "No, what would even be the point of th
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by zhemao 10y ago
Nice list. Here are a few additions Tigran Hamasyan - To Love: https://youtu.be/jPwUe8SFOow Hiromi Uehara - Warrior: https://youtu.be/Xy8__IvtMOs Kneebody and Daedelus - Drum Battle: https://yout
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by zhemao 10y ago
Most of their students won't choose music as a profession, though.
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by zhemao 10y ago
> Yet, for some reason, they spend their time playing Jazz derivatives and covers or as studio musicians. Because that's the kind of music they like to play and know best. If they went to music school, jazz and classical are the do
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by zhemao 10y ago
A lot of fields offer those things, they just don't also offer high pay.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Yes, if the gender ratio is very imbalanced, it wouldn't be impossible for men to have had more partners on average than women. In fact it couldn't be equal, since the total number of partners would have to match. But the ratio of
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by zhemao 10y ago
Not necessarily. Average =/= median. But with a population as large as the US, they will be pretty close to each other.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Chinese culture being less accepting of foreigners has nothing to do with it being a "frontier". If anything, it's the opposite. The US is a relatively young nation populated almost entirely by immigrants or descendants of im
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by zhemao 10y ago
> His point was that China was moving somewhere Oh, it's moving somewhere alright. Whether it's in a good or bad direction is highly contestable. It's easy to take bold and decisive action if you don't have to worry a
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by zhemao 10y ago
I also play music and understand what you mean by practicing the same things over and over again. But when you are practicing, you rarely play it exactly the same each time. Otherwise, what's the point of practicing? Hopefully, it soun
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by zhemao 10y ago
I thought indoor sports like basketball were in both. But I guess that's not the case. So basically, you can only participate in the Olympics once every four years if you're lucky.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Most people don't rely on a two week gig that comes around every two to four years in order to eat.
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by zhemao 10y ago
I think the missing point behind this argument is that the Olympics are not meant to pay the competitors a salary, much less a living wage. The amateur restrictions mean that Olympic athletes don't get any money directly from the IOC.
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by zhemao 10y ago
> Somewhere in between is novelty Most 12-bar blues use a similar chord progression but have different melodies. Even the same song performed by two different musicians will sound different enough to be perceived as "novel".
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by zhemao 10y ago
The difference is the space of time between experiences. I'm a "lover of serious music" and I do have some favorite albums that I come back to every now and then. But I don't listen to the same song in a constant loop on
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by zhemao 10y ago
I think the missing element is repetition. Human-generated music uses repetition a lot. If not in the melody, at least in the harmonic progression or rhythm. This algorithm doesn't seem to attempt anything like thematic development or
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by zhemao 10y ago
As mentioned in one of the comments, D-E-F is a triad, not a tritone. A tritone is an interval of three whole tones (i.e. an augmented fourth). For instance, C and F# form a tritone.
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by zhemao 10y ago
There was a sizable French Concession in Shanghai's International Settlement and its architecture style is widely emulated. My relatives used to own an old school row house (shikumen) in the former French Concession, but sold it off fo
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by zhemao 10y ago
I don't see how this is so questionable. Frequency is continuous, so the way we subdivide into discrete notes is quite arbitrary. You don't even have to go outside of western music to find examples. Modernist classical composers o
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by zhemao 10y ago
Right, because that's the only thing to do in the Bay Area. There are plenty of cultural events in SF not involving tech. Museums, art shows, live music, etc.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Open source doesn't really preclude that. They would still have control over committer rights. There are plenty of open source projects in which the majority of code and decisions are made by a handful of core contributors.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Wow，I've heard slippery slope arguments before, but this definitely takes the cake.
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Until recently, shrinking the process led to some obvious benefits. The chip got faster, cheaper, and more power-efficient. The last part is really the important one and it's why the big datacenter companies kept buying new chips from

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