Nothingtoofferanyone
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Nothingtoofferanyone
10mo ago
It was really interesting hearing a master talk about specific games he'd played. It wasn't just "these pieces are better at this stage of the game" or whatever, there was a surprising amount of "I knew Jimmy liked to bulldoze people with aggressive plays, so I insert strategy.
It surprised the hell out of me. Not that psychology was important, but that I got to hear about it at an all-ages community chess class that I only attended to spend time with my nephew.
Nothingtoofferanyone
10mo ago
Sacred, not "scared," I'm assuming.
Fingerpicking can achieve the same result. Undeleted and edited to add: The easiest example is probably the intro to Stairway To Heaven. All the higher notes work together as the melody. The low notes are a much simpler melody, descending from A to E chromatically. That means without skipping any out-of-key notes. Just for reference, there are 12 notes in an octave, and most scales are 7 of those 12. And, as the other guy says, the lower part isn't "officially" a melody because there can only be one melody, but if you played it on its own it definitely counts as a melody, albeit a boring one.
One of my favorite things to play is a solo acoustic arrangement of Scarborough Fair, which has two (and a half?) melodic lines. Sure, when you put it all together it's more like a melody with parallel thirds and occasionally a third voice, but the main two voices are separate melodies. The melodies move together at times, contrary at other times. (Contrary in this context means one goes higher, the other goes lower).
Tapping greatly improves the ability to play separate lines with larger intervals within the voices, but it's entirely unnecessary. The distance between the lowest string and the highest (assuming standard tuning) is two full octaves. That's 24 notes on a piano for any laymen in the audience. Who am I kidding, I'm a layman too.
If this is hard to follow, I blame holiday drunkenness.
Nothingtoofferanyone
11mo ago
The initial wariness during early COVID was reasonable under ignorance. To sum up what my faulty memory tells me I thought in early 2020: "New respiratory virus, something about 5% death rate, seems to spread very quickly." It seemed reasonable to stay home a bit more.
I believe you're correct about government/media messaging, more correct as the pandemic (response) went on, but in the initial stage I think the "panic" was much more organic.
Nothingtoofferanyone
11mo ago
What does any of this have to do with minimizing cognitive bias and making accurate predictions? I'll admit, I haven't read anything from Big Yud in a few years, but your use of "rational" seems closer to "maximizing economic value" than anything capital-R Rational.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
The twitter post (tweet?) is in this article:
https://extradeadjcb.substack.com/p/10-you-can-save-her
The tweet:
https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1432558778541559808
Alternatively, the tweet:
Certain bad actors feigned horror when I said feminism was "curable", but this is all I meant
If she's still a feminist, you're not the guy
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
Right, I misunderstood. That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
I don't understand how you can say that "having some excess" (paying 20 extra people) costs nothing but morality points. It costs economy points, however many it takes to compensate 20 people to work for you.
I suspect I'm missing something here.
Those economy points (err, dollars) could be used to pay the remaining workers more, to buy the owner a yacht, to invest in the business (new machine, new/expanded building, lowered sale price of produced good, whatever).
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
Thanks, I might grit my teeth and check it out.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
Which Foundation stories are adapted? What's the plot?
If they wanted Strong Female or Male Of Color, doesn't the Mule story center around a female? Bayta something? And isnt Hober Mallow (maybe I got the name wrong, I mean the Trader protagonist) some kind of colored? There's already diversity! And do they really portray Hari Seldon as arrogant? Jesus.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
I considered making a comment with a similar angle. As nice as it is for L to work for a better life and all that, it's also bad when a bunch of Ls undercut people's wages. I see the "a bunch of" as the problem, not L himself.
It's also morally questionable that the US incentivized him to take a dangerous journey, too dangerous for his family by his own account, in order to get here.
Beyond that, all the authorities knew was "this guy showed up at the border," and they just released him with a joke of a court date. L seems nice, he knows a trade (or so he claims), he's certainly courageous, and I infer that he's a hard worker. A model immigrant, in other words. Most people who show up at the border probably aren't L.
A question for you, KMC. If the US accepted fewer immigrants, would you mind L becoming a citizen? Pick your ideal number of immigrants accepted each year for the hypothetical, whether 10 or 1000000.
Put another way: Do you absolutely hate all immigrants/foreigners in the US, or are you reacting to the ever-increasing number entering the country? Something else entirely?
Your vitriol seems misplaced. L isn't the problem, it's the people who made the policies that convinced L that migrating here was a good idea.
Epistemic status: Not DuplexFields.
(I read the Neil Boortz book over a decade ago and briefly looked at the FairTax website just now.)
In a nutshell: If we adopt the FairTax, many taxes are gone, replaced by a 23% sales tax on new products and services. Taxes that no longer exist include income and payroll. As a side effect, the IRS is abolished and the 4 million word tax code is shredded, which warms my directionally-libertarian heart.
Also, everyone gets a monthly prebate (pre-rebate). Everyone gets the same amount. Not sure what the exact figure is, but I'm fairly certain it was 4 digits It's just under $300, thanks Duplex. Basically, that's to keep the tax progressive. A poor family that spends responsibly might end up making money off of taxes due to the prebate. A mega-rich guy throwing a big-ass cocktail party pays taxes on all of it, and gets the exact same monthly prebate.
Another term for the prebate is "Universal Basic Income," now that I think of it.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
You and your cronies gathered in your locked cigar-filled room and decided to false-flag downvote this comment, purely so you can point to it as a demonstration that you're correct. Typical [outgroup] behavior, I shouldn't be surprised.
(This was a joke.)
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
"Presumably the people currently living in Sioux Falls are happy enough with what that currently entails".
From a local:
I'm not happy with the weather, but it is what it is. Living in Fort Collins, Colorado was quite pleasant in comparison. Less extreme seasonal temperatures, much less snow buildup across the winter months, a bit less windy.
This thread is entertaining. I never realized how unusual it is to experience >100°F and <0°F temperatures in the same place the same year. I knew Siberia was cold and the Sahara was hot, and that large bodies of water help stabilize temperatures, but I didn't realize how much seasonal variation could...vary.
I grew up walking/jogging 1-3 miles through negative temps, wind, and snow just to go to a friend's house (protip: face away from the wind, walk backwards/sideways if need be). Alternatively, sweating through >90°F/32°C. I recommend jogging in the sun and walking in the shade.
And I felt lucky: Hearing Dad talk about "walking beans" under the Kansas sun for hours on end, my 15 minute jaunts to visit friends seemed like nothing.
apologies for this turning into a diary entry but I'll hit post anyway
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
You understand that your post is a lawn, right?
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
It seems to me that he's making a parody of a popular song, changing the subject of the song from "rock and roll" to the famous evil terrorist/based monke Uncle Ted.
I love Uncle Ted
Put another bomb in the mailbox baby
I love Uncle Ted
Humanity over industry
•
I saw him thinkin' there 'bout man and machine
The boons and banes that come with industry
Critiques both true and strong, but
Just like old King Kong
I could tell it wouldn't be long
'Til he was razing, build-ings
I could tell he couldn't abide
In-dustrial so-ciety, singing
•
I love Uncle Ted
Put another bomb in the mailbox baby
(Note for the nerds: The song is a cover. Originally by The Arrows.)
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
What are said developments?
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
I was quoting the article, not Signal's words.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
I'd resist acknowledging that for a female victim too. Text vs visual porn is a significant difference in my mind.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
Since we live in a "fractured and siloed America," we must teach the children to love their neighbors with... VR? You can't love your neighbor unless you know them, and you can't know your neighbor by VRing a reproduction of a Yiddish theater.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
Could you try explaining without going meta? You're talking about assumptions, evidence, and objects, but there's no actual object level example for idiots like me.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
This was a fun subthread. Thanks for humoring the troll, and I appreciate the links and arguments.
Nothingtoofferanyone
1yr ago
Appreciate it. Ghosts is cool and i haven't known where to go with Donovan since I fell in love with the Sunshine Superman album. This "children's music" is solid! Trouble is, I really just want to listen to Bert's Blues again.
If you read or heard that from someone else, what would you think?
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