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> I don't care that it shines when using Garage Band because I don't really use Garage Band.

Who uses Garage Band, ever? Such a limited piece of dumbed down Logic X garbage. I go buy good software for music and delete that st but, man!, that program is like cancer—it just keeps coming back.

Now, THAT is frustrating.

Don’t worry, Facebook. I was affect by this (even though my account has been disabled for 2 years) and realized I should leave finally. So I did. And nothing will bring me back to any service you have since you’ve only demonstrated CYA and uncaringness. If you really cared, you’d compensate me monetarily for my loss due to your negligence.

I thought the strategy was always to to create a bunch of threads so it’s very opaque what chrome is actually using.

That is to say, I’ve only seen chrome get worse in this regard.

True. I didn’t factor in costs and cost savings (especially with regard to time), so you have a fair point.

If there is a name, I don’t know it.

Not to criticize, but you sound like a can’t-put-the-Kraft-single-cheese-on-if-it-didn’t-come-out-of-the-package-right person. To each their own. This bed might not look “clean” but it does make sense structurally and the author has a complete working knowledge of how his bed works and can do any repair he wishes. It’s the author thinks it’s good, then he can deal with it.

I’m sticking with my 2015 15” until it bites the dust and then probably getting something else if Apple hasn’t figured this out yet. Even there software is degrading. I feel like I’m doing better by not running updates (I know this is not so, for security reasons, but...)

Not surprised given how thin the thing is.

Yes. I've talked with some in the social media industry about addressing GDPR. What it means is a massive shift in the way data is handled.

What's the difference? Well, it's helpful to have some context on how data is used in a place like FB. Data originates (for the most part) with the user. It get's dropped in one of the many operational data sources that back the service. From there, it's mostly waiting to be used by someone for some reason, which might be a ML project or something else. So, then you will want to move the data. You'll make some sort of pipeline from the source to where you want to work, such as ETL the data you want out or set up some sort of messaging system to handle things in an online way.

Maybe now that you have the data, you'll share it with other people working on the project. The data might be distributed (best case) through an environment meant to work with the data (e.g., Spark/HDFS/Hadoop) or might just be sent piecemeal as CSVs. Once the project is done, the data might just be left in place. Who knows where those CSV's go?

One of the big requirements of GDPR is deleting an individual's data EVERYWHERE. And while the above is a sort of simplified view of user of data in a logical manner, I can assure you someone out there somewhere is doing something that doesn't make sense. In light of that, getting rid of a person's data everywhere is a HUGE architectural/infrastructural/process problem for a platform like FB.

I love the internal attitude here. Everyone is (at least portrayed) to be assuming that the leakers were being "evil". One think I've been taught is to assume everyone's intentions are the best they could be (aside from the reality of what they are), and I always try to put this into practice. It seems like the attitude is "everyone-is-out-to-get-me".

Different article and different source.

The author is correct in saying that music theory is not a "theory" the scientific sense.

But as a musician/producer/composer I'd never want that anyway. Having studied many forms of music, I know that there is no "right" and so a proscriptive/predictive "theory" of music is not at all what we want. On the contrary, what is "right" in music comes from a long line of collective cultural reasoning. This is much more evident in the distinctions between the development of eastern and western music, each having their own "theory". Notably, eastern music has a lot lower emphasis on harmonic progression and tends to use different tuning, sometimes "perfect" tuning (something which western music must eschew to support flexible harmonic motion). This leads me to my thesis, that music theory is primarily descriptive in nature and there are many theories of music, driven by historical-cultural development.

Music "theory" should lie outside of the domain and concern of science. There are fields which address the human response and other scientific natures of this such as psychoacoustics, electrical engineering and signal processing, and mathematics. Music "theory" has in its view aesthetics which lie outside of the domain of science and is a tool for use in describing things which have been found pleasing aurally and culturally.

How can we expect people to be moral when the prevailing philosophy is existential, deconstructionist and postmodern which has no absolute ethic and even eschews ethics from its philosophy? What even is morality in such a society?

To the contrary:

They criticize Paul Ryan and current ACA proposals: https://mises.org/blog/ryancare-failing-%E2%80%94-what-shoul...

Criticize Trump for problematic policies: https://mises.org/blog/donald-trumps-whig-showing

Criticize Rockefeller and are generally anti-war: https://mises.org/library/rockefeller-morgan-and-war

Critical of the CIA historically and today: https://mises.org/blog/when-cia-partied-lsd-taxpayers-dime

and these are just articles published in the last two weeks.

In general, Mises is pro individual liberty, pro-immigration, anti-war, and generally critical of both the Left and the Right. I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative".

Besides. This comment is just an ad-hominem and fails to address that actual argument of the article.