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The NEA spends 1 out of every 5 dollars on its own bureaucracy, rather than art. Is the NEA good enough at 'investing' that they can justify a 20% management fee? That's laughable.

Nobody seems to appreciate the central contradiction in the argument of this article. People can apparently 'invest' their money in the arts without any guidance from Washington, so why not return the 150M budget of the NEA to the apparently art-loving public and let them allocate it as they see fit?
You can develop for Windows without Visual Studio, and Visual Studio has a free tier that includes some commercial usage. If you own pretty much any desktop computer or laptop, it can run Windows (including Macs). I think you can even get Windows licenses for testing purposes for free, if you prefer to work on macOS or Linux and just test on Windows (EDIT: on reviewing this part, the terms on those test images aren't as clear as one would like, even though they clearly are provided for developers, so count cost for 1 license if you want to be sure).
> Maybe millennials are repelled by classical music not for coherent reasons but by a vague sense of mistrust, nourished for decades by movies and media.

Growing up where I grew up, Country music had a terrible reputation for no other reason than my friends hated it. Their friends hated it. Everyone I was surrounded by hated it... therefore, I hated it. If everyone I knew thought it sucked, it must suck.

A few years back, I decided that it was time to stop with this nonsense and started exploring Country music on my own, figuring out what I liked and appreciated, figuring out what I wasn't really that fond of. I discovered that there was a ton of country music I really like. I discovered a whole genre of music I'd written off just because my peers had written it off.

Unfortunately we suffer many cultural biases like this that until we wake up one morning and realize that we have our own brains and are entitled to our own opinions instead of those of everyone around us, continue to propagate.

If millennials are repelled by classical music, given my own experience, it's likely through no other reason than their friends, friends friends and friends friends friends have decided that classical music sucks.

It probably has nothing to do with distrust bred from movies and media, it most likely has more to do with the fact that classical music isn't easily accessible, it's not popular, they can't relate to it like they can to pop music which not only tells a story they can identify with, but it's popular with all their friends and thus gives them a vehicle for social acceptance.

I grew up with classical music - and there's still a lot I haven't heard precisely because it is so inaccessible. I will agree that it's high effort... I would say that the reward often isn't comparable to the effort required to listen to it.
India has plenty of things roaming around that can kill you, but I don’t remember hearing an abundance of stories about vague spirits that can kill me. Tigers and leopards and snakes are scary enough on their own.
the worst hangovers I have ever seen were in Scotland after the New Year .. coincidence ? let inquiring minds wonder
That was an interesting read for me – thanks for the link.

I'm interested in how the centuries-old debate about protectionism and free trade has reignited over the past few years, and I'm also concerned about how Wikipedia's editorial community and processes are evolving. It was a surprise to see the two subjects combined like this, but given what you say about the power to define narrative, I suppose it shouldn't have been.
A better source:

https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/03/eating-eggs-a...

The link to the study in the WSJ post doesn't even work.

Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27284...

I personally don't think this may be a great study, as usually this type of studies aren't so rigorous. In the end it seems to say the same thing every cholesterol study has said in the past -- that cholesterol is "associated" with higher levels of chronic disease. But it's never identified as the cause of those chronic diseases.

> How the study was conducted

Diet data were collected using food frequency questionnaires or by taking a diet history. Each participant was asked a long list of what they’d eaten for the previous year or month. The data were collected during a single visit. The study had up to 31 years of follow up (median: 17.5 years), during which 5,400 cardiovascular events and 6,132 all-cause deaths were diagnosed.

A major limitation of the study is participants’ long-term eating patterns weren’t assessed.

“We have one snapshot of what their eating pattern looked like,” Allen said. “But we think they represent an estimate of a person’s dietary intake. Still, people may have changed their diet, and we can’t account for that.”
>There's also the pacing issue. Many students get lost in a math class at some point in their early learning career, //

Following pupils pace is a failing of mass education (in the UK) in general I feel. At primary school I was disengaged from maths because it was so facile.

To some extent I've seen that with my kids too -- for example entering nursery they do counting to 3 (!). But my youngster already counts beyond 20.

We sought to use Flexi-schooling to mitigate this effect but unfortunately it's down to individual schools and our headteacher isn't interested (I think that contradicts the Education Act, in spirit at least).
I'm gonna say something that everyone uses to dismiss extremist views... and say I'm not going to try to do that.

I think that behavior was terrible, but also not really generally the views of folks who might be associated with "anti-GG".

Having said that...

One of the catches is that there wasn't an organized "anti-GG" side in the same sense there was a "GG" core group. To some extent the "GG" folks were the ones who defined who the "anti-GG" people were, and they strongly believed that there was an "anti-GG" group that behaved in the exact same way they did, but I don't think that really added up. Sometimes they defined an "anti-gg" person as just someone who gave a poor review to a game they liked, a woman who had a visible role working for a gaming company, or just liked having a female protagonist, or something pretty disconnected.

Most people that GG folks associated with "aniti-GG", really was more of an amalgam of various people and personalities who had various views .... but weren't centralized on a "anti-GG" identity, they were usually people associated with other things that had nothing to do with "video game journalism ethics". There effectively wasn't really an equivalent ying to the yang as far as groups and opposing views went. Certainly people "against" GG, but usually they were tied to other things too.

What was "anti-GG" didn't even have anything to do with "video game journalism ethics" and to some extent GG found these folks views or what have you unacceptable and sort formed that concept. "Anti-GG" was often a case of who "GG" thought they were and at times simply sought them out. Like I said no doubt some folks associated themselves with "anti-GG" but it wasn't quite a ying and yang. Many of the people initially identified as "anti-GG" by "GG" folks often talked about being against online harassment, and really had no clue what GG was until things grew quickly.

I feel like this process of taking an issue, expanding into an identity and tacking on ideas, then seeking out those views and people deemed unacceptable, and in some way trying to pick a sort of social media fight, is a very common thing with identity politics type behavior, and GG certainly fit that pattern. What was or wasn't "anti-GG" largely was defined by that process.
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My project, the news aggregater Cited News (https://cited.news/), uses Wikipedia references as source for news.
Having too many races on the same ballot already compromises ballot secrecy, to an extent.

"We want you to vote for Jim Totes-Legitimate for President. But so that we can recognize your ballot paper and we can verify that you voted for him and we don't have to break your kneecaps, please also mark your other ballot races as follows: Fred Also-Ran for First Assistant Flangedoodle, Sheila Plausible for Second Assistant Flangedoodle, Hazel Placeholder for Junior Hog Counsellor."
Is that sarcastic ? It's true there are ideologies that are more enabling of violence though, but at the core it's just people that make no sense
This makes me wonder if $ per play is the right metric, versus $ per artist per platform. If you get paid less per play on Spotify, but get many more plays there would that still be a better deal?
You can look at it from different perspectives:

- Just for fun (when you watch TV you doesn't look at the opportunity cost of it)

- you have a maximum amount, that you can earn as a contractor, but a side project doesn't have a max limit (neither a minimum)
Lyft's revenue of $3.75/ride is the same for cars versus bicycles, scooters
Good. Every country should deal with their waste on their own, otherwise no one will ever do something to reduce it.
I found it quite entertaining, after figuring out that the author is Russian, when hearing it in my head with a Russian accent. I thought it well written regardless, with plenty of laughs to start my morning.
Is it possible to buy a version without self-driving capabilities? Personally just having a nice EV would be great, especially if that reduces the cost by 5-10k.
Let's not forget that you can't buy Kindle books on iOS because of this policy. Apple wants 30% of the cost of every book, which would kill Amazon's margin. (Of course, this is just businesses fighting over the lion's share of the money; the publisher is only going to give the author ten cents on the dollar in royalties anyway.) But Apple will happily sell you books in their store, which smells like anticompetitive behavior.

Steam Link faces a similar issue. Apple, apparently, considers buying desktop games through an app that can remotely play them on your phone to be the same situation, and demand that payments go through them.
One-sided changes to build configuration sounds like an issue with code reviews though. It shouldn't be possible to merge something like that without others agreeing.
GM is way ahead of Tesla in this field.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/tesla-autopilot-loses-t...
Duolingo, my friend. Takes 15 mins a day. Not a paid endorsement.
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Nice recommendation, thanks.
Also a great blog name. "Dedo i Medo" literally means "Grandpa and the Bear" in a bunch of slavic languages.
I agree that public opinion is important, because it's usually what guides public policy.

But I would just caution people to consider whether your stance is truly based on what you think should apply generally, or just because you like the person/party in the specific case. (applies to a lot of things in life)

The power of platform providers versus app providers ebbs and flows back and forth with new technology, depending on who has the most market / customer pull. And you should try to deconfuse your principles about who should be able to charge what, from your liking of the provider -- because that can change in an instant.

Craigslist charges employers a significant fee to post their job listings. Employers have far less sway than Spotify does in that platform dispute. I'm guessing you (audience) like Craigslist, and support them in what they charge? Why?

Amazon charges companies to sell on their platform. You probably don't complain a lot about that, and that's probably just as restrictive as Apple+Spotify for some sellers. Why? Is it because you like Amazon's services?

Or you maybe like Grubhub, and don't care that it takes a huge cut from restaurant owners. (a cut that is more painful than what Spotify charges per month, to the restaurant on every single order you make)

I don't choose sides either way. What is "reasonable" is what the parties had the clout and market pull to agree to, and what the law says is acceptable in form.

Separate your principles from your preferences.
You aren't off base as this is a snapshot in time so it's no way to know if those costs are linear and scale with more rides or not without seeing historical figures on AWS spend vs revenue/# of rides.

But it could very likely be true that doubling the number of rides would have a potentially material impact on additional AWS spend for Lyft.
With apologies for source amnesia, I've read that successful deterrence scales not with severity of punishment, but with perceived probability of getting caught.
Can an artist draw 1000 paintings like a farmer can (automatically) milk 1000 cows per day?

I am under the impression that farmers have automated pretty much everything that is automatizeable in their workflow. Artists still have to put pen to (virtual nowadays) paper and spend time on each and every piece of work. Same for other forms of art (be it furnitures or scupltures or animations and video).

So yeah, I don't think you can compare easily.
Having driven both, fwd ice is way better in the snow.
I am not familiar with the legal history you cite but it is intriguing. Are there other antitrust cases that hinged on whether or not two things were their own markets or part of a larger one?
"Because it was a single, continuous political entity."

It really wasn't. There were various major changes in the constitution of the Roman Empire between the reign of Augustus and the time of the Byzantines, especially during the reign of Diocletian.
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When you have limited space to show some information, sometimes the space it takes up needs to be reduced.
That requires a level of media and information literacy that is evidently uncommon in the general public.
Would memory allocation also be hardware dependent and thus vary as well depending on what hardware the OS decides to support?
It takes a LOT more time to charge than it does to fill a gas (petrol) tank. Thus the requirement to charge overnight.
That seems like a good way to look at it. However, the amount of people producing revenue in the arts sector is far greater than just the "artists". In addition, it isn't clear whether video games fit under the arts sector as reported in the OP.
I made 1000+ melodies without regard for quality, and now quality melodies are effortless. There you go.

How it works: I create good bits in every one by accident, then use those bits on purpose going forward. Quantity leads to discovery.
How about customer satisfaction?
Without the EU the UK would likely be more Orwellian.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bigbrother-ruling/britain...
Is far simply, if a character like X genre, what it is signaling?

- Classical music: Signal of a "cultivated"/intelligent mind. Similar to how many villains play chess.

Also, is a contrast of how some high evil actions contrast with the "calm" cold mind of the villain.

- Pop music: Signal of fun. Depending also, romance, liberation, etc

- Rap music: Signal of the oppressed. Street-wise.

- Rock music: Signal of rebellion, action.

- Jazz music: ?

- Latino music: Is Latino!
Our (small) company has a $500-$1000 AWS bill. About 2 months ago it was double that. This is a 3-4 developer company. When we hire another person we'll probably increase our EKS instances by one more box. We already paid down our debt - and it definitely cost us about 2 months with half our dev staff. But our goal wasn't to reduce the AWS cost, it was to reduce the time it takes to replicate an environment in K8s with one script. I'm guessing Lyft has not taken a path like that.
Why does Lyft need around the world presence? What in a primarily app driven carsharing service is particularly latency-sensitive?
Are millennials “repelled” by classical music? Is there any evidence for this claim that couldn’t be explained by just not having the money to buy tickets? As a millennial, I don’t know any of my peers who have negative options of classical music. At most, they’re indifferent.

Villains having classical soundtracks around them is a trope that goes back to shitty ‘80s action movies too, so this is hardly a millennial thing.
Yeah, I write off any home automation device that uses Wi-Fi. Currently I use a lot of Insteon devices, which aren't mentioned in the article, but are fundamentally very similar to Z-Wave. They have no software update mechanism and can't talk in an IP protocol, so the amount of impact someone can have on them is pretty bloody limited.
Cool project, but I don't see the link with the article apart from being related to Wikipedia. It might be better off as a Show HN.
This is great unless you drive you car hard. Then the system overheats your brakes before you even try to slow down. No thanks.
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>Steam has done many things to annoy users--they allow their store to be filled with absolute garbage shovelware for one.

I consider this to be an advantage rather than annoyance.
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How would you describe the trade-off between safety and the developer productivity listed as the reason in the article?

The comment seems to just be saying that it’s reasonable for someone to make this trade off when they are more knowledgeable and familiar with one language rather than another.

I think your reading quite a bit into that comment to take it as elitist.
I assume that sooner or later cities will just put charging columns on the street, like these: https://www.emcaustria.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_380...

They don't need to support fast charging, 10kW AC would be more than enough when people charge overnight, and low power chargers like that should be pretty cheap to install at scale.
Fellow Michigander! I believe the poster was referring to this program: https://www.consumersenergy.com/residential/renewable-energy...
https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/110627276452315136... »

Moderators and users on Reddit say they've seen coordinated activity on the site by pro-China accounts. "The pro-CCP effort vastly overshadows any operation by the Russians,” one person with insight into moderation practices told us.

China expert Bill Bishop said the activity fits with the Party leadership's emphasis on controlling the discourse about China outside of the country. He said said it’s hard to know which accounts are simply patriotic Chinese people, and which might be government actors.

We obtained a list of accounts banned frm r/geopolitics for what was described as pro-China trolling or related behavior. Some were burner accounts created just for the purpose of weighing in on China threads. Others seemed to be genuine Chinese ex-pats studying or working abroad

r/geopolitics mods implemented new rules as a result.

"We've had to implement a rule that prohibits posts from accounts less than 20 days old. This has helped to an extent but these redditors seem to be very patient and disciplined, and can ‘wait out’ the 20-day requirement.”
Was this a purely hands on course? How was it graded?

I guess I’m curios how much glass blowing knowledge is recorded in books vs how much is simply passed on directly from person to person.
> "purpose is to allow or encourage specific illegal actions"

And who's to determine what the purpose was? The creator of a new technology has no way to force a particular use for their creation. One can invent the cooking knife to help with all sorts of cutting tasks in cooking, and now they'll be held responsible if people decide to use those knives for murder? That's silly.
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Wakefield was fraud all along. So definitely not a good example.
Arango feels wonderful already. I'm thrilled to see how new funding improves the user experience. :)
Cheers and congrats!
I STRONGLY encourage everyone not to come to Germany, especially if you are an entrepreneur or a developer. Horrific laws like GDPR, Hackerparagraf, Upload Filter etc. are passed every week. Even the north Korea is more business and IT friendly than Germany.
They only make money by keeping customers happy. Isn't that why ESPN and Comcast want the World Series in the first place? Customers aren't giving them money in return for nothing like automatons.

People always try to make businesses out as the unitary function organizations where their profit is completely disconnected from serving a market and keeping that market happy.

The only time when companies can operate without keeping customers happy are a) when they have an absolute monopoly and (often the same) b) when they are given some sort of political protection from the marketplace whether indirectly or directly.
Hopefully far, far below 1%. If I was hitting someone once every hundred miles, the front of my car would be pretty messed up.
Something to consider in all estimates - if cloud provider could run into conflict of interest with you.
And in contrast, P-Funk, Springsteen, and even younger acts like BTS can do a solid 5-hour set, and still keep the audience engaged the entire time.

I don't think a classical orchestra could even keep me awake for half of that. And I don't think it's because of the source material.

If you traded the string section for fewer musicians with amplifiers, and added more modern instruments, and allowed the musicians to dress with independent fashion and be more mobile on the stage, you could keep the audience going on public domain music alone. It's the conservative image of classical orchestral music that kills it. A violin player strutting around a stage with an electric violin and a red alligator-leather dress that shows some skin is a lot more interesting to me than 8 of them dressed in black and white, seated in a row, and synchronizing their bows.

You could arrange the pieces for one rhythm drummer and a bass drummer, move the melodic percussion to a synth keyboard, cut the brass to one trumpet, mellophone, trombone, and sousaphone, cut the woodwind to piccolo/flute, clarinet, move the double-reed parts to alto and tenor saxophones, and pare the strings down to one electric violin, move the second violin part to electric guitar, one electric cello, and electric upright bass. Then add some guys for the mixing board, and a couple of vocalists with operatic pipes. Now you can play symphonic music in a large venue with questionable acoustics, and show movement and personality on stage.
I've been looking for the right place to post this, this may or may not be it.

I've actually been very impressed with the news coverage that I have seen of this for one distinct reason.

This was a horrific incident, perpetrated by someone with an obvious agenda in attempt to push it further. Whilst it was streamed live, there seems to have been a concious effort of news outlets to not publish any real details of who did it, rather what happened to the victims.

After all the shootings in the US, and lots of talk of "not giving the shooter their glory", it feels like the coverage so far has been much better from that point of view.
Please stop endangering others.