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VieEnCode··on Get started making music
"Your main motivation should be fun and enjoyment of making the music."

On principle I agree with this. Tracks made following a tick list of successful tropes with an eye on getting released are liable to be highly forgettable.

Having said that, as someone who tinkered a bit with production some twenty many years ago before lapsing, and tinkering and lapsing once again a couple of years ago, I would argue that some form of shared community outlet is essential in persisting and making something of greater merit.

I tend to think that the best music is emergent from real-life communities: people, time, place, culture, politics. That is, communities that have an aesthetic and reason for being that goes far beyond, say, craving new synths after watching youtube reviews.

Music that is not performed and shared, ever, is somehow stillborn. Fun and enjoyment come from the attribution of meaning, and to me, meaning ultimately comes from real human context. I feel that the lack of this killed my desire to keep making it and improving. It was just an expensive way of shouting into the void.

VieEnCode··on Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
In a similar vein, I've been using News Feed Eradicator:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

VieEnCode··on A Pint a Day (1996)
Does alcohol free or low alcohol beer provide all the benefits with no downsides?
VieEnCode··on Adam Curtis’ “Bitter Lake”: A Review
Curtis makes interesting films and digs up some fascinating footage.

And yet, what he offers up is profoundly orthodox, explicit, postmodernism with a capital P: the music, visuals, world view, narrative style, overlapping narratives, the intertextuality.

My sense is that he is somehow simultaneously frustrated and altogether too pleased with the fact that this is the best story he can tell. That is, that everything is connected in a bewildering, unknowable number of ways and nobody has any real new understanding as to how best to move forward beyond the old paradigms that trap us.

He frequently criticises the left for not having any new ideas—with some merit. Ultimately, however, neither does he.

VieEnCode··on Do psychedelics make you liberal? Not always
I agree that citing evidence/sources to back up the quite damning assertions made on that point would have improved it.

Can I ask what you feel he gets most wrong here, and what did he miss?

VieEnCode··on Job board to work on problems like climate change and food insecurity
Indeed, and when oil producing assets become increasingly stranded in the markets, the industry will not simply retire them at a loss. They will be sold on to buyers who face less regulatory oversight.

When the oil companies are finally out of the hydrocarbon game, they will have built their platform upon the biggest set of externalised costs in history, and their old assets will still be polluting in new hands.

VieEnCode··on Ask HN: Efficacy of homemade masks in reducing transmission?
[Edit: if readers have relevant papers to share, I'd be very grateful.]
VieEnCode··on Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Reflections on the Color of My Skin
Thanks for the link! It's a very thoughtful piece on his part.
VieEnCode··on George Floyd died of asphyxia, private autopsy finds
Why is this flagged?
VieEnCode··on What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)
I can also suggest joining the community/Slack channels at: https://climateaction.tech/
VieEnCode··on Ask HN: Intellectually simulating Podcasts/conversations/Talk
13 minutes to the Moon

Intelligence squared

Making sense

The knowledge project

VieEnCode··on Good writing is a business advantage
Very helpful resources, thanks! I've bookmarked them to go through.
VieEnCode··on Good writing is a business advantage
Does HN have some resources to share on good technical writing?
VieEnCode··on Near 90% Mortality Rate in Intubated Covid-19 Patients in NYC
Remdesivir seems far less promising now, unfortunately:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52406261

VieEnCode··on Show HN: Enviro.Work – Find and fill jobs that benefit the environment
Thanks for this, I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I'm sure you're looking at the idea, but it would be nice to be able to add drop downs to quickly filter by role/location/sector/seniority.

VieEnCode··on Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – study
Indeed, it will be very interesting to see how this plays out over time, but there does seem to be a consistent correlation. This might enable us to target responses and resources more effectively.
VieEnCode··on Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – study
The study mentioned is here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
VieEnCode··on Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination
I've bookmarked this to go in the large folder of articles on beating procrastination that I've amassed.

I'll get around to reading them all sometime soon.

VieEnCode··on Show HN: Covid-19 mortality rates per 100k persons (updated)
Thanks for this. Can I ask where you've obtained the stats from please?
VieEnCode··on Stuck at Fucking Home. I got bored and started compiling lists
Thanks for this. If you wanted to add another section, podcasts might be a nice fit.
VieEnCode··on 40 Years of Zen
"And now I'm offering the same gift to you."

At $15k, how does this constitute a "gift"?

VieEnCode··on “Our vaccine is into human beings”
Does anyone here have more context to share on this trial?
VieEnCode··on British Society for Immunology open letter to Government on SARS-CoV-2 response
The strategy of all countries is to flatten the curve to enable their respective health services to cope. My concern is that the U.K. is now proposing isolation for the over 70s “within weeks”: this demographic has been shown to be at serious risk as of now, when looking at the experiences of China, Italy and Spain. Further, in the UK, testing is only now being carried out on cases serious enough to hospitalize, so I do not understand how the UK government can have confidence in its data as to the spread of the virus.
VieEnCode··on Ask HN: How is there not a good online conference company?
Not personally, but I'd also be interested to hear from any posters who have tested it out.
VieEnCode··on Ask HN: How is there not a good online conference company?
There's an early-stage company called hopin working in this space:

https://hopin.to

Even beyond the coronavirus, events and conferences may be increasingly looking into this option as an element in carbon footprint reduction.

VieEnCode··on A Cure for a Lack of Reason
Safari reader view or similar?
VieEnCode··on Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem
Quite an incisive overview of the broad categories you set out. On the other hand, London does seem to see a fair part of the tech job activity in Europe.

Where might a developer find a better overall mix of compensation and quality of life, without this pronounced social divide, if the US is not an option?

VieEnCode··on Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22224141
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