jrajav

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by jrajav 5d ago
High oil prices affect them less than any other country in the world. They have the largest oil stockpiles by far, eclipsing even the US, and they have unique access to oil sanctioned by the west. China is essentially the only actor in the
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by jrajav 1mo ago
I make beats with Patterning on iPad all the time. It's a fantastic sequencing surface. The main advantage over a traditional horizontal sequencer is that time at the measure level is represented much more naturally (as a loop), which
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by jrajav 2mo ago
Let's roll with the futilist attitude for a second; what is it you suggest that we actually do, once we're focusing the anger on the correct source?
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by jrajav 2mo ago
Grassroots campaigning and hardline support for candidates running on rule of law and overturning Citizens United. Overturning any status quo is possible in a functioning democracy - it just takes a lot of unskippable effort.
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by jrajav 3mo ago
This was certainly the rallying cry behind DOGE and the general push to rip the entrails out of many federal agencies. Combatting "waste" and "inefficiency," with strong implications that most of what those agencies do i
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by jrajav 3mo ago
This is conflating businesses that solve billion dollar problems with people who individually contribute so much to a business that they solved the billion dollar problem all on their own. The latter is probably possible, but it's not
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by jrajav 3mo ago
Not much stops them from saying it's due to national security, when it's actually due to the guy in the chair having a fit of emotions. And the current admin has a very long streak of declaring things as national emergencies when
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by jrajav 4mo ago
Who's breaking down your door with muscle to make you pay for Ryobi?
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by jrajav 4mo ago
It can be simultaneously true that the US has a serious wealth inequality problem (and other serious problems), and that other countries have problems far more severe, causing people to want to relocate to the US.
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by jrajav 5mo ago
This is exactly the remedy to the PR issue. I've "lucked" into owning a Prettier formatting pass at two different places now, and did the same process at each - full pass on master, simple step-by-step process to follow to up
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by jrajav 5mo ago
Thanks for your well considered response. I disagree with the notion that extensive classical training is required in order to make beautiful, noteworthy music. There are innumerable counterproofs of this in every era of music. I also disag
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by jrajav 5mo ago
Can I ask what the specific markers / qualifiers are for you to consider (let's call them) 'classical' generative and algorithmic techniques fair game in creative composition, but LLM agent based techniques not so? To me
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by jrajav 5mo ago
I guess the guidelines don't apply to you, as long as you disagree vehemently enough with the OP's basic intent.
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by jrajav 5mo ago
It's not _completely_ shrouded in mystery - it started after Facebook got slapped by the EU for irresponsible handling of underage users, and since began a heavily funded lobbying push to drag competitors down with them. https:/&
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by jrajav 5mo ago
This is almost verbatim the same argument that people make in support of allowing child labor in factories. Children do not need, nor are they entitled to, any kind of "freedom" to work for a living.
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by jrajav 5mo ago
Only one of the individuals in this comparison has a Wikipedia page dedicated to the event and coverage of it.
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by jrajav 6mo ago
Why is Safari as bad as Chrome?
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by jrajav 6mo ago
I daily drove Zen for months. The design and implementation are overall fantastic. Unfortunately it still has chronic performance issues, gobbling up CPU randomly - and they don't seem to be too focused on despite it being a commonly r
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by jrajav 6mo ago
Allegations of cherry-picking scant bits of evidence to support a claim are less effective when that claim is held up by vast quantities of distinct, high-quality evidence.
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by jrajav 7mo ago
> This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with a car.” Which of course, people would like to have but certainly isn’t required to be comfortable. This is a debatable goalpost. It seems more reasonable to me to a
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by jrajav 8mo ago
Signal reproduction matters quite a bit more for music production than it does for music listening and enjoyment. That's why producers and engineers look for 'monitors', rather than hi-fi speakers. Hi-fi speakers, tube amps,
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by jrajav 10mo ago
You've either been very lucky or haven't been using much older software. macOS updates routinely cause issues early in the release cycle, particularly with backwards compatibility. Working in creative fields with lots of niche app
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by jrajav 10mo ago
China is the only country that is not aligned with the US and has the military might and production capacity to go toe to toe with the US in an all-out war. Russia would drain their coffers within a year. China is likely to start out produc
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by jrajav 11mo ago
Not quite a counterexample, since piracy derives all of its value from commercial works, and those who want access to them.
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by jrajav 11mo ago
What makes you think the decline is _mainly_ due to this, and not due to other events this year that could plausibly have a significant effect on the value of the dollar?
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by jrajav 1y ago
What does this have to do with anything here? The only common thread is that it's related to PhDs. You just have a bone to pick with our higher education being so desirable that people upend their lives to come and participate in it at
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by jrajav 1y ago
Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inj
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by jrajav 1y ago
I'm not following your reasoning. Your only objection is that this technology has the potential to meaningfully replace meat production? And therefore, because it is so amazing, no one should be allowed to profit off of it after they d
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by jrajav 1y ago
"hey, speeding down the highway 35mph over the limit could kill you, especially if you are fat and old. you SHOULD drive under the speed limit, but you don't have to." No, the point is that it could kill other people. Speed a
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by jrajav 1y ago
Someone just read Atlas Shrugged for the first time. Despite the attractive purity of this worldview, modern technology and prosperity has only been possible because of the wide spread of reason, empathy, cooperation, and mutual respect on

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