quartesixte

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by quartesixte 10mo ago
God I had forgotten how old this law is. And how consistently it has been delayed for decades. Born of the post 9/11 world and its concerns...
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by quartesixte 1y ago
I know a couple of people through my professional network who hold this title and what I've gathered is that delegates have a lot of autonomy and authority. And Boeing does organize the company and even its information systems to pract
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by quartesixte 1y ago
Ah the Myriad system. Curious how the sinosphere adopted this alongside the Greeks. These do converge I think at 10^12 = Short Trillion/Long Billion Which makes for some non-frictionless translating since 10^6 and 10^9 are all in-betwe
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by quartesixte 1y ago
A thought just struck me, but I wonder if the difference between the Billionaires of Today and the Monopolists of Yesteryear is that the wealth and power of the Billionaires are tied up in publicly exposed assets (stocks, etc) as well as ne
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Variance can suck out any profit from cash games and can get you deeply stuck for months on end (see: any full time poker youtuber). Tournaments are even higher variance. And if you switch to doing this full time, you become self-employed,
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Farming is a low “shots on goal” business too. You only really get 1 harvest per year. In a 30 year career already marked by high variance, losing 1/6 of your lifetime profits to experimenting with methods is a huge ask.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
You also can't create actively yourself! TV was definitely a consumer only culture, with all creation heavily gatekept by an entire industry. Compare this to the print culture prior to that. The Internet definitely has changed this, an
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>He's not making a point of "television makes you dumb" (or "dumb people watches television"), but rather he makes the distinction between an "oral"-, "press"- and "television"-based
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by quartesixte 2y ago
You still have to leave the anchors when jumping position to position. And hitting the thumbs right where you need em is hard too. Good luck to your daughter!
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The heavy metal branch of the genre definitely has found ways to reincorporate them again, true. The synthetically added orchestra hits or background string chords I want to exclude because they are not the mainline voice
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yeah I guess what I was trying to get at is the instrument isn’t “naturally biased” towards a specific key in the same way woodwinds and brass instruments are.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Yup! Rehearsals also help to make sure everyone has a mutual understanding of the general tempo. But good musicians will quickly fall into the correct tempo when playing with each other.
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by quartesixte 2y ago
People really underestimate the difficulty of playing a violin well. The instrument is held in a quite unnatural position. Beginners must learn to become comfortable with the contortions necessary. You hold the violin up by squeezing it bet
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by quartesixte 2y ago
It's pretty difficult to play any classical instrument at the level required for elite philharmonic/symphony orchestras. It's why musicians all have to min-max on that instrument from an early age and go through many years of
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>What you described above is more like kindergarten You ever try organizing and managing the work of multiple skilled tradesmen that feed into a single integrated product on tight deadlines? Do you know what works really well in that kin
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by quartesixte 2y ago
So I think one thing that seems to pop up in people’s anecdotes is “well someone wanted to just talk about what they did yesterday.” Which I suspect comes from the manager/PM going “so what’d you do yesterday?” I’ve been taught, and I
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by quartesixte 2y ago
As someone who works in a hard-tech startup, where daily standups in production manufacturing teams are part of the daily culture. 1) Anything longer than 15 minutes is insane 2) What do you even talk about for an hour? 3) Why do you even
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Especially because if you are engaged in a particular trade/hobby, a lot of your time is devoted to actually working on the thing. There is no way to organically find out if Haas has released a new machine or Sandvick has new tooling u
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Were they ever "popular?" Hasn't Opera and Classical long been the domain of the highly educated and elite? The more intellectual among the middle/lower class only receiving via recordings, radio, charity concerts, and c
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>I also think this is why traditional opera and the symphony are failing. People have too much entertainment. I haven't looked into this too much, but I hypothesize this might not be the case due to attendance numbers. Top-line symp
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by quartesixte 2y ago
I guess here is an even more fundamental question: What is the purpose of the Federal Government, and what is the purpose of our representation within that government? I think answers to those questions illuminate quite clearly how you will
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Really wish one of the billionaires would fund a publishing house that worked off a very different model than the Copyright Protection Scheme that the current majors used. Something that would allow authors to capture upsides, publishers to
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>Or the same for Wyoming. Why not Wyoming just declare that it is now 4 states and quadruple its representation? So there's nothing stopping anyone from trying this, but admission into the Union requires the other States in the Unio
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by quartesixte 2y ago
US Constitutional Law and the very specific field it has created. So, in this case, Articles I, II, and III of the US Constitution + 27 amendments. Which, I concede doesn't fall under a narrow-definition of First Principles thinking bu
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Senators were designed as senior statesmen representing the interest of State Governments, and as a check against the popularly-elected Representatives in the House so that the smaller states could have a voice. That's why general publ
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by quartesixte 2y ago
>The fact that you (Americans) feel enslaved is because you choose to elect a government that doesn't care about any of that. It really depends on the income-strata that you occupy, I feel. Hourly, physical laborers and service work
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by quartesixte 2y ago
What exactly is the history of having FROM be the second item, and not the first? Because FROM first seems more intuitive and actually the way you write out queries. Really hope this takes off and gets more widespread adoption because I rea
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by quartesixte 2y ago
The industry has been poaching a lot of talented technicians away. And the OGs are starting to retire...
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Hmm interesting I was under the impression that multiple locations with ready weapons was a newish thing(2000s), and before that it was either CCW all the time + home shotgun or don’t. Either way, I see the logic. And I think it’s a good ca
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by quartesixte 2y ago
Partially what seems to drive this upward trend is how many KINDS of guns you can own now. Gun collecting now can become a hobby itself, owning many different variants of ARs, Glocks, 1911 clones, etc. Add to that the new thing of owning a

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