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by socksset 4y ago
It was also always "not cool" to say the label actually helped you. I remember a piece on NPR that talked about this. Many bands use to love their labels privately but in the press blast the labels as evil corporate empty suits to
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by socksset 4y ago
Of course streaming strengthens the power law distribution of the payouts in this space. Podcast, youtube channel, music, it is all the same process and payout structure. Since there is too much choice you just have to sample what is popula
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by socksset 4y ago
It reminds me of non-developers with ideas for apps/software. As if the idea of getting all our energy from the Sun is an original thought. How do we accomplish this? "I don't know, I am just the idea man. You do all the engi
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by socksset 4y ago
Even worse to me is so many orchestras have to pay the bills with performances of Christmas music or orchestral versions of Motley Crue. Imagine putting in that many hours of practice on the classical masters to end up with a low paying job
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by socksset 4y ago
I don't think this is rocket science. "The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity " Couple low BMI with a much lower life expectancy so less people over 65 and I think th
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by socksset 4y ago
I don't think this is rocket science. "The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "
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by socksset 4y ago
In the abstract, centralization bad, decentralization good. There is no deeper thought going on here than the above. These are barely thought out, quasi religious beliefs as moral justifications for get rich quick schemes and frauds. The sa
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by socksset 4y ago
IMO after Greenspan, the Fed was basically captured by Wall Street. I just don't know how anyone at this point can not say the Fed's job is to write puts under the equity markets when that is exactly what they have done for 13 yea
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by socksset 4y ago
It is hysterical Greenspan gets blamed for this when we have barely been able to keep rates off the floor the past 13 years since he left. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS If 2002-2004 was keeping rates too
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by socksset 4y ago
"Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training" is pretty classic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/
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by socksset 4y ago
That sounds crazy to me. In the US, an ambulance with its siren and lights flashing has the right-of-way. The driver that hit the ambulance would be charged. Do they not want ambulance drivers in Denmark? That is mind blowing to me.
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by socksset 4y ago
We need to just all stay inside forever. Be safe my friend.
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by socksset 4y ago
I mean you could have hired a hyperrealist oil painter to paint porn characters 30 years ago but it is so much more work and expense compared to people. I don't see how a game engine is much different for the foreseeable future. It is
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by socksset 4y ago
What makes R interesting is the amazing libraries for statistical ideas that are not completely run of the mill. You almost literally can't come up empty on CRAN.
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by socksset 4y ago
Dalio said without reservation or probability that at the start of COVID we were in a global depression. Oops, 100% wrong but no one cares. IMO the entire narrative that Americans are so divided is largely an illusion. People are highly div
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by socksset 4y ago
Phlogiston theory always comes to mind for me. I think we will see these fields as attempts at science while completely lacking the instruments to properly study the field so all kinds of nonsense conclusions were drawn. Economics though is
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by socksset 4y ago
I doubt anyone is as worried about the 4th Reich as much Germans. I am pretty sure anyone expressing these worries outside of Germany is either a troll, completely ignorant or a combination of the two.
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by socksset 4y ago
This is a mistake we make over and over and over. It practically seems like a type of cognitive bias based around technology. We use some similar technology from the past to model the implications of the new technology and then willfully ig
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by socksset 4y ago
I know people at family events who will complain about Facebook spying on them and then almost immediately after the event post pictures of the family event on Facebook. It is even more than not caring. People are willful accomplices in spy
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by socksset 4y ago
Yea because there is such correlation between being an expert in a field and being a great teacher. Come on. Most professors are not Feynman. This is exactly the problem if anything.
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by socksset 4y ago
You can't make an inflation argument when it comes to State school tuition cost. That is absurd. State school tuition cost have crushed the general level of inflation increases because it is easy money for the state and there is no sta
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by socksset 4y ago
I would look at it more as what would Einstein, Bohr or Feynman be doing right now? There is a really good chance they would be lured away to Wallstreet to work at a hedge fund or Silicon Valley to work on the latest CRUD application. Espec