If you seriously dig into literature or film you'll find that many of the stories don't fit into the hero's journey at all--or only fit if you make the "journey" so generic as to be practically tautological. As for the…
50% of global streaming revenue, you bet it its
In the US, they do.
> long track record of being happy when he moves people even marginally towards his views Most cranks are. Caplan is a radical libertarian bent on annihilating what few functioning social institutions we have left.
In 1979, 13% of US hourly workers were making the federal minimum wage. By 2025, that number had dropped to 1%. Inflation-adjusted wages have been at worst stagnant. Inflation-adjusting prices is necessary for these…
Yeah it's really messed up that middle class people can't afford to...rent movies...anymore?
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> In matters of bathroom, locker-room, and sports segregation, universities will define sex categories based on reproductive and biological criteria. In other words, trans people can't use the bathrooms matching their…
> Your example proves my point. If there are no judges, the government has to let you go free. That happens, you believe?
> For example, do all people have a right to health care? No, because, in the extreme, it leads to logical contradictions with other rights. (E.g. Doctors being forced to provide care at gunpoint.) In the same vein,…
Yes, but it's nonsense to equate identity with difficulty. The goth scene originated in a London nightclub, for goodness' sake (the Batcave). There are goths in every big city, and in a lot of cases they move to places…
Basically an uninteresting conclusion. Of course a "non-expert" reader isn't going to be able to distinguish between AI and Walt Whitman--a "non-expert" reader likely won't even know who Walt Whitman is. "Expertise" is…
This is a genuinely awful poem, and if you wrote it, you should feel bad.
Fine art is a matter of nuance, so in that sense I think it does matter that a lot of the "human art" examples are aggressively cropped (the Basquiat is outright cut in half) and reproduced at very low quality. That…
Which do you think is cheaper to produce, agitprop or deep investigative reporting? If no one pays for news, which do you think will grow in proportion to the other?
> My point is that if a musician is good, they will earn money proportional to their success. If the argument that it's the promotion that makes them successful, then the argument is less correct today than ever before…
I think his prose quality varies widely from work to work. Typically it's not great. In Atrocity Exhibition it's beyond bland, though--almost bureaucratic in its mechanical periphrases, repetitive, clinical and bizarre.…
That's an Oberheim, very good demonstration of the distinctive Oberheim sound actually.
Surely a serious musician is going to want to create music that rewards attention, not music expressly built for distracted people on shitty speakers they can barely hear.
Your position isn't in a good place if your argumentative strategy is to search out bad motivations in those who disagree with you, rather than laying out a positive case for the position itself.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Vancouver. But in my experience, bad and even extortionate landlords are not limited to cities--they absolutely do exist in suburban and even rural areas.
Living in a city isn't going to be much fun if it's a crappy city, sure. You can say it's not a dump area, but I'm sorry, a city with zero museums and only two coffee shops is just not much of a place. I've lived in…
The degree to which the SAT is coachable is a subject of debate. The biggest studies have suggested that even private tutoring has an effect of less than 40 points.
Boomkat is also good, different selection than Bandcamp but comparable in size (they definitely have some Japanese stuff that Bandcamp doesn't, e.g. Tzadik's Japanese music line).
If you seriously dig into literature or film you'll find that many of the stories don't fit into the hero's journey at all--or only fit if you make the "journey" so generic as to be practically tautological. As for the…
50% of global streaming revenue, you bet it its
In the US, they do.
> long track record of being happy when he moves people even marginally towards his views Most cranks are. Caplan is a radical libertarian bent on annihilating what few functioning social institutions we have left.
In 1979, 13% of US hourly workers were making the federal minimum wage. By 2025, that number had dropped to 1%. Inflation-adjusted wages have been at worst stagnant. Inflation-adjusting prices is necessary for these…
Yeah it's really messed up that middle class people can't afford to...rent movies...anymore?
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> In matters of bathroom, locker-room, and sports segregation, universities will define sex categories based on reproductive and biological criteria. In other words, trans people can't use the bathrooms matching their…
> Your example proves my point. If there are no judges, the government has to let you go free. That happens, you believe?
> For example, do all people have a right to health care? No, because, in the extreme, it leads to logical contradictions with other rights. (E.g. Doctors being forced to provide care at gunpoint.) In the same vein,…
Yes, but it's nonsense to equate identity with difficulty. The goth scene originated in a London nightclub, for goodness' sake (the Batcave). There are goths in every big city, and in a lot of cases they move to places…
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Basically an uninteresting conclusion. Of course a "non-expert" reader isn't going to be able to distinguish between AI and Walt Whitman--a "non-expert" reader likely won't even know who Walt Whitman is. "Expertise" is…
This is a genuinely awful poem, and if you wrote it, you should feel bad.
Fine art is a matter of nuance, so in that sense I think it does matter that a lot of the "human art" examples are aggressively cropped (the Basquiat is outright cut in half) and reproduced at very low quality. That…
Which do you think is cheaper to produce, agitprop or deep investigative reporting? If no one pays for news, which do you think will grow in proportion to the other?
> My point is that if a musician is good, they will earn money proportional to their success. If the argument that it's the promotion that makes them successful, then the argument is less correct today than ever before…
I think his prose quality varies widely from work to work. Typically it's not great. In Atrocity Exhibition it's beyond bland, though--almost bureaucratic in its mechanical periphrases, repetitive, clinical and bizarre.…
That's an Oberheim, very good demonstration of the distinctive Oberheim sound actually.
Surely a serious musician is going to want to create music that rewards attention, not music expressly built for distracted people on shitty speakers they can barely hear.
Your position isn't in a good place if your argumentative strategy is to search out bad motivations in those who disagree with you, rather than laying out a positive case for the position itself.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Vancouver. But in my experience, bad and even extortionate landlords are not limited to cities--they absolutely do exist in suburban and even rural areas.
Living in a city isn't going to be much fun if it's a crappy city, sure. You can say it's not a dump area, but I'm sorry, a city with zero museums and only two coffee shops is just not much of a place. I've lived in…
The degree to which the SAT is coachable is a subject of debate. The biggest studies have suggested that even private tutoring has an effect of less than 40 points.
Boomkat is also good, different selection than Bandcamp but comparable in size (they definitely have some Japanese stuff that Bandcamp doesn't, e.g. Tzadik's Japanese music line).