That is, you pay an affordable monthly subscription fee in exchange for completely unfettered access to almost every published book, and authors are compensated per book/page/line read, or something like that.
While there are many possible explanations for this, a particularly compelling theory is that this is self-medication: nicotine directly alleviates some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, so schizophrenics naturally gravitate towards becoming heavy users.
Along these lines, albeit very anecdotally, many people take up smoking as self-medication for high levels of stress and anxiety.
Debussy's music is at this equilibrium point where the harmonic language is complex and atonal enough to evoke a spectrum of iridescent colours and haunting, ambiguous moods inaccessible to traditional common-practice harmony, but just constrained enough to avoid the descent into hostility and noise.
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I am a math grad with reasonable coding skills and a nontrivial amount of CS education, but no real-world development experience. I've completed a few personal projects of various degrees of complexity, but that's it.I might soon be getting a part-time/contract position as a full-stack developer. I would be working alone to build a small prototype of a moderately complex web app. I'm about 70%...