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Did anyone read YouTube's actual policy? They're restricting direct firearm sales and DIY manufacturing instructions. Seems reasonable for any controlled device.
She was an artist. Making money isn't a requirement for something to be work.
Totally. I'm 23 and I'll readily admit I can't program to save my life without taking piracetam and a light dose of dextroamphetamine. I was sick and tired of living with my parents, no money, no friends. After a year and a half of DIY binge learning I have an incredible job. It's really messed up that that's the only way I felt I could dig myself out of the tar pit and find a job that doesn't make me hate my life.
I mean, when has society not ever been sick? Think of the gold rushes, oil rushes. There's always been desperate people willing to risk it all. It's only now they have access to these options. The only surprising thing should be for people who don't understand the weird new societal pressures placed on people in this age range.
I entered "Self Destruct DO NOT PRESS!"
...FWEW! Just the adrenaline kick I needed.
Which begs the question as fish was released 10 years ago.
Yes. It's about phonetics, not the first letter. The y sound in "you" is a consonant, like "a ukulele", whereas the h in "an hour" is not.
there better be a cute little guide-bot who shoots flares at bad guys
True, but unfortunately, under our economy that free time just gets used as an opportunity to out-work the competition.
Higher signal to noise ratio. Dr. Barry Blesser suggests that "raising the loudness of music, like a double shot of whisky, elevates the intensity of the experience". Listeners undergo significant, measurable changes in mind-body states and Blesser reckons that "loud music is simply a stronger stimulant than soft music".
Blesser - The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud Music:
http://www.blesser.net/downloads/eContact%20Loud%20Music.pdf
Psychoacoustic tricks such as compression and EQ allow us to increase perceived loudness without crossing the threshold of pain.
3, 4, and 6 in this article explain this psychoacoustic phenomena pretty well:
http://getthatprosound.com/hacking-your-listeners-ears-9-psy...
And this article argues in depth, that the relationship between actual/perceived dynamic range is ultimately an artistic choice, yielding different feels. What people who complain about loudness are really objecting to is the improper use of these techniques:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep11/articles/loudness.htm
The hegemony of consumerism is falling apart and the things people increasingly "value more" than work is free time and to be loved by the people they love. That's something work won't give you in exchange.
I was actually just reading Max Weber today. The radical change in Christianity over time is astounding.
Jesus: "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin thread"
...I don't think he meant that literally, but he definitely didn't mean, "work as hard as you can so you can give a little to charity yet still anonymously hire tons of people to make you nice things"
The bitcoin community is tremendously ignorant of critical social theory and proud of it, which is a cause of concern. Some people care about more than themselves believe it or not.
that's the fun part, silly!
I think the problem is that education has a deeply embedded tradition of disciplined austerity. I grew up with plenty of "fun interactive multimedia education" but the people commissioned to make that stuff are frumpy and boring as hell and probably hate their jobs.
By comparison, very few people who upload educational videos to YouTube do it because they were told to. It's something they're passionate about. All the best teachers I had made heavy use of YouTube in the classroom.
I don't know about you guys but my Kindle paper white shows footnotes in a pop-up dialog box. No page fumbling. I thought DFW's books were great on Kindle.
But yes, learning-oriented Ebooks I always read on my laptop. Nothing can compete with the power of cmnd/ctrl+F and multiple windows IMO.
Obviously. To anyone who's ever had an authentic encounter with film/art, money and the doctrine of utilitarianism no longer mean anything to you. It's dust.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that conservatives have very little original thought to contribute to the field these days beyond what's already been long established by old school thinkers. The progress I see happening today is in the way far left: actor network theory (Latour), speculative realism (Harman), McKenzie Wark, and so on