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by zwkrt 8y ago
I've always found the opposite, in that Spotify points me toward music I'm sure they are paying almost nothing for.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It seems to me like musicians have always been in a precarious relation to the economy, same as all other artists. The only difference is that for a brief time in the 20th century the average person was willing to spend money on music, unli
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This argument is very common against people with fringe political beliefs. "If you don't believe in property rights, why do you have a car?"
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I think having empathy for those directly around you is a good start. The saying "all politics are local" goes the other way around as well, that most change is local change. It is unlikely that I can help people gain asylum from
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by zwkrt 8y ago
"uttering a word is like striking note on the keyboard of the imagination". Except this time in reverse!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I reduce information inputs and cognitive load because it helps me focus on things I find to be important. Current things I do to relieve the stress of information overload: I do not use Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter and I only
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Yes I was doing that annoying thing physicists do where if we are off by 100x we consider ourselves to have succeeded greatly.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Using your money to create a business you believe in is the most direct form of "voting with your wallet".
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by zwkrt 8y ago
As a physics smell test, TMS seems to be performed using quickly releasing a capacitor to create a 1-10 (order of magnitude) Tesla magnetic field over a very short period of time. 10T is similar to the magnetic field generated by an MRI. Fo
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I like it, it's the exact opposite of Inbox
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This is the real key for me. Every day I play an instrument for at least 10 minutes, sing for at least 10 minutes, and exercise for at least 10 minutes. Sometimes guided practice, sometimes noodling, but always something. A great mentor of
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by zwkrt 8y ago
We have not yet rewritten any of our own code (i.e., DNA), and if we do we still have to prove that the "re-written" person is more capable of re-writing subsequent people in an even more efficient way.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Why do people have this notion that Facebook is some unbiased public space, like an undisturbed forest or a beach where passersby can pedal their wares or something? Facebook is like a dystopian shopping mall combined with Clockwerk Orange
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by zwkrt 8y ago
As I recall (this was almost 10 years ago now), Salesforce had tools to allow you to make your own websites and custom integrstions based on Salesforce data, but you had to use this web-IDE for Apex. Apex is like someone saw PHP and JSP and
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Is Apex still a thing? When I was at my first internship that environment was one of the only things that has ever made me consider quitting programming.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
In photography it is practically a steadfast rule that to take interesting photos you need to be in interesting places. Written journalism seems to have the same restriction.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Saying that something moves to China because minimum wage is too high has always been an interesting topic for me. With a positive spin this argument becomes "the American government has set a standard of living which is too high to al
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Wait, if twins got the same type of cancer at a 30% rate we would definitely consider a genetic factor. When you say "innate" that can mean many things, do you wish to elaborate?
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by zwkrt 8y ago
In a baysian mindset, I could have the hypothesis that homosexuality in humans is innate. At this point in time I have no proirs so I think the chances are 50/50. After gathering additional evidence that other animals "natuarlly&q
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by zwkrt 8y ago
As a gay person myself I agree conceptually, but it is hard to back the "even if it's a choice what do you care" argument when discussing something that from my perspective is so obviously and irrefutably not a choice. I like
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by zwkrt 8y ago
You are right, I was quick to be judgemental.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Yes but in the "middle of nowhere" these houses are owned by the middle-of-nowhere gentry. Saying something that is 300k is not expensive shows a lack of perspective I see a lot in this corner of the internet. Growing up in a rura
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I get your point but this seems to also be an argument in bad faith. The point is to show that it is likely that homosexuality is more innate than "a choice" or something you can catch, for the purposes of informing our moral judg
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The houses she lambaste are almost exclusively upper-middle class and high-class houses. I think she is railing against lazy/incompetent architects more than the owners of the properties.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Just today I swear I was served an ad that didn't have a yellow bar, so we can all look forward to that hell. At least cable is produced to have ad breaks that make sense, as opposed to cutting sentences in half.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Sometimes it can be hard to give up sysadmin work because people consider it to be a core competency and to let that go feels like a loss. Kubernetes hits the sweet spot where you get to use a tool to manage sysadmin work that is at least a
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by zwkrt 8y ago
IANAL: I would assume it depends on the situation. If I move from company A to B, and I own a database in both, it is reasonable to expect that mistakes I made at A I won't repeat at B. If A and B were pharmaceuticals and I know A secr
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I'm not worried about using the arrow keys or anything in particular. I don't even think vim is an especially good program. But whatever tool you use you should be effective with it. All the comments insecure about vim practices a
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Agreed completely. There are few great songwriters who can't play an instrument, few great mathematicians who don't know arithmetic, few great golfers that don't understand how to hold their clubs, etc.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I don't disagree, but I find it interesting that if you were the last person alive you would spend your time reading the literary artifacts of other people, thereby continuing to grow and define yourself through social action.

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