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largespoon··on Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff?
Maybe load up some rolling stone's(the magazine) lists on your favorite streaming service, and read the Wikipedia entry for each band/song that interests you. They aren't in chronological order, but they have top 500 lists for the most important albums, songs and musicians.
largespoon··on Chess Podcast removed from YouTube for being “Harmful or Dangerous” [video]
Agadmotor responded with extreme humility. I wish more people would be like him(myself included)
largespoon··on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down
Try aliexepress
largespoon··on In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
I wonder how much outliers like college students scew the data. I practically live at the library.
largespoon··on Facebook rejects ad of two men kissing to spread awareness on world-aids day
If only interacial marriages were recently legalized and could offend Americans' sensibilities.
largespoon··on AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
If AI is mostly curve fitting, I'd like to know how curve fitting applies to AI and chess.
largespoon··on Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends
I wonder how targeted tracking adds value to businesses in ways other than advertising profits. A large portion of interet users block ads, so what good is the data?
largespoon··on Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
I also did point (4). I talked to my grandma on the phone. I called her an hour before I took it, but she called back an hour after I took it. The surprising thing is that I actually didn't have a bad trip. It was just pretty meh after I tried everything in the vicinity.
largespoon··on Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
I recommend asking yourself if an idiot would do what you are going to do. Do the opposite. I took lsd by myself, with no one home at 5pm. And only while the effects started to take place did I begin researching the effects. I did not know that you can't sleep when on acid for instance. So maybe don't listen to me. I'm also not so hot mentally, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
largespoon··on Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
I took lsd for the first time two weeks ago and sometimes when I zone out, geometric patterns like carpet appears to morph. I'm not really good at understanding my own thought process, so I can't really tell if it affects me in other areas. From my extremely limited experience however, I would warn against casually taking any psychedelics. For me at least it was a needless experience, with needless aftereffects.
largespoon··on Burned After Reading: Endless Mayfly’s Ephemeral Disinformation Campaign
"don’t expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth." - RAND Corporation https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE10...
largespoon··on How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year
I would add time and attention as an important distinction.
largespoon··on England, Wales to urge crime victims to hand over phones
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777513
largespoon··on Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak
https://outline.com/ABYcdE
largespoon··on Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century
As far as I can tell, Andrew Yang is the only canidate to extensively outline his positions.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/

largespoon··on Russia Criminalizes the Spread of Online News Which 'Disrespects' the Government
Is there any U.N charters or resolutions that would discourage a nation state such as Russia, from simultaneously censoring its own population, and abusing free speech of another country to create strains?
largespoon··on Remembering the burglary that broke Cointelpro
The FBI is very goood at dissuading discourse about its more sketchy practices. Imagine a warrant that the FBI does not have to get from the a Judge, one that a recipient can not talk about publicly without risk of going to jail. Nicholas Merrill received a mandate(national security letter) saying he must give the FBI one of his clients files and never speak of the the mandate. He said in a interview, that one year an estimated 50,000 businesses received such a mandate. He was the first person to challenge them in court.

The funny thing is that in this case and another nsl case, the FBI later dropped the request, making it difficult to sue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Uni...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eU2wAu4qE60

largespoon··on The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram
Atheletes are vehicles for advertisers. Athetic gear is arguably a hybrid between clothing and equipment. I don't know any reputable golf clubs or soccer balls that aren't branded. I wouldn't say that old Navy is advertising themselves with their logo; they seem to be imatating the biggest players.
largespoon··on Former Tesla workers paint grim picture of Gigafactory II
The continue reading button did not work on mobile for me :(
largespoon··on Ask HN: What is the best online course you've ever taken?
Since we are on the topic of online classes, do you folks know any good advanced music theory/counterpoint courses?
largespoon··on Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
By any chance have you noticed Google serving ads on Firefox? I use ublock origin on firefox and I have been getting ads occasionally on search.
largespoon··on Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
The problem is that no consumer will buy internet advertised as conditionally rate limited.ISPs have no reason s to stop what works.