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I mean, a single person's vote has pretty much the same weight as a single person boycotting Chinese goods. So I'm not sure what you. At least with a personal boycott, I keep my peace of mind and diminish the number of Chinese goods in my possession. Voting doesn't exactly have the same direct effect.

This piece is more likely an ad for the recent Lion King movie.

Strictly anecdotal obviously, but having spent a majority of my 20s in and about the Ayahuasca "peace and love let's dance with flowers in our hair" crowd, I can tell you that a lot of the empathy and mental growth is very superficial. At least seemed that way to me.

You're right. Although someone like Terrence McKennna would categorize cannabis as psychoactive. Very heavy doses have that almost borderline trippy visuals effect once in a while, in my personal experience.

The sqlx package is a similar Go wrapper around SQL. Very handy for scanning into structs.

Agreed. I've been keeping a 3:30am-9:30pm schedule for a couple years now and I don't see it working if I had to share a bed, or even a house with a partner. I suppose people have to make certain adjustments if the relationship is worth to them, and most people end up doing so.

Good to see ongoing Haiku development. I tried it on an older macbook-pro a while back but couldn't get ethernet/wifi working. Perhaps I'll give it another try soon.

Also, I love how the website has that 2002 PHP-nuke cms kinda look and feel to it.

Your government isn't doing this out of strong ideological principles in order to protect the freedom and privacy of it's people. Your government is salty because big tech gets to screw you over without giving the govt it's cut. Don't be fooled, big tech is not your friend, but neither is the government.

The Miles Davis autobiography is really really good. It's a great primer in jazz history too, and how he'd helped shape it. I listened to all the records by Dizzy/Bird/etc while reading the book and it was sort of transformative experience. Highly recommended read.

It's crazy how he wasn't just a musical force in terms of writing music or transforming the genre itself, but how he consistently found/groomed some of the best musicians as part of his various bands. I suppose Joe Zawinul is somewhat similar in his Syndicate projects, consistently discovering the best musicians, especially bassists...

I recommend you study the human history of politics and warfare, to fully understand why your comment is supremely naive.

I guess it's $100k due to the fact that it's not the original Lucille he saved from that fire.

I'd like to buy some guitars from my favorite players one day. I wonder if the person who ends up buying Lucille will actually play it. I hope they do!

Maybe not, but the freedom to have that chance, no matter how small, is worth having. To me personally anyway.

Thanks for sharing. I'm familiar with his records with Vijay Iyer. They're amazing!

> Jazz has moved past the standard 'swing and ballad' forms that were popular throughout the late 20th century

I mean, that's not really saying much. Jazz moved past the standard stuff with Ornette Coleman, Coltrane etc in the late 50s and early 60s. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew led to the whole jazz fusion thing a bit later.

I somewhat agree with the GP about no groundbreaking new jazz artists. There are many great musicians great at their instruments today, for sure. But I just don't hear anything radically new happening. Although I do admit that it may be due to my own biases.

This is judgement I happen to agree with. However, I would like more consistency across every other field as well. Should it be legal for someone fraudulent like Stephen Greer to take people out to the desert to have alien/UFO experiences? Or psychics providing non-free services?

I suppose health services being in a category of their own is quite sensible. Losing one's savings to a psychic doesn't have the same mortal consequences as health-coach advice that could kill you.

Sorry to hear that, friend.

I'd forgotten how much I loved Megadeth, having not listened to them for well over a decade. I realize that Peace Sells and Rust In Peace are phenomenally written, in whatever musical context you'd want to judge them by. There are some amazingly iconic riffs on these two records. I also realise how I got sucked into playing/learning all this other music as I got older, when all I ever really wanted to do was play some Megadeth riffs in my bedroom.

The last time I did a bit of frontend for a side project was in 2004. Then I took a long break from dev and computers in general. Earlier this year I'd decided to brush up on the whole frontend/JS ecosystem. It was weird initially and there was a lot of friction, as I was especially fixated with a "why can't I stick this in a <script> tag, what even is NPM..." mindset.

I have the say, after getting the hang of typescript, react, Vue and the tooling in general, I don't exactly hate it as much as I was led to believe I would. Also, typescript is very nice.

It's hilarious that the "neck hammock" product is being advertised as being better than chiropractors. I would avoid gimmicky products like this, especially if it involves your neck. Best to have a daily stretching/yoga routine, or see a physiotherapist if there are more serious issues with neck pain.

Zig is very cool. Not sure whether it has a community yet. I liked the authors talks and livestreams on YouTube.

I've been meaning to check out urbit thoroughly for a while but they seem to have gone overboard with the esoteric terminology, at least for me personally. I was put off by the naming schemes in the docs last I looked at them about a year ago. I suppose I'll have another look again. Maybe they grow on you once you are familiar with them.

Syncthing is amazing. Have it running on a few machines. It's been Rock solid for the last 6 months. I primarily use it to sync org-mode files on different machines. The client worked great on Android too when I last used it. Syncthing-fork package from f-droid to be exact.

Probably not very useable at all. But it points out how independant actors are able to access weapons that are otherwise not sold to anybody who isn't the state.

Which leads to the question, if an incompetent party that was careless enough get busted has access to an old and useless missile, then what do the competent independent groups have access to?

I understand all of that, but still am willing to be in the Stallman or tinfoil-hat conspiracy nut camp just to be safe. I'm too old to be actively trying to figure out whom to trust, and whom not, especially since there are so many actors involved. So it's best to distrust everyone.

We can have a discussion about which life jacket brand is the most reliable, and what advanced underwater-breathing technique we could practice, or the hundreds of ways to save ourselves from drowning. But the only way to be absolutely certain is not to get into water in the first place.

I would advise everyone to be actively paranoid about security/privacy issues. Nobody is on your side. Every corporation and state actor will screw you over if it comes to that. It is human nature to feel comfort knowing that "someone" is on your side. Nobody is, however attractive and privacy-hip Apple pretends to be.

Did they buy it recently? I recall Google owning it for a bit through an acquisition? Yeah it certainly would be nice if ddg rebranded and pushed duck as it's name.

I'm not so sure about search being fantastic anymore. I'm frustrated with how most times Google will completely ignore the exact query terms and return very clickbaity/popular links from medium/quota/etc. It's been happening for a bit now and usually for any serious search, I'll compare results with duckduckgo just to be sure.

> I see things like migrant detention, police shootings, discrimination against minorities (and especially the targeting of trans people), climate change, etc.

I'm not American. Literally none of those things are relevant to me.

> You are saying, "Those people don't have genuinely held opinions." Implicit in that you are saying, "... but I do."

I didn't say that. You did.

> But calling for the elimination of outrage is calling for the silencing of voices..

Again, your words, not mine.

No disrespect to the author(gwern) but I do kinda agree with you. From reading a bunch of their posts linked from HN/Reddit, I get the impression that they're a little bit like the guitar player who is always talking about the best amps, pedalboards and shred techniques... but haven't really written any noteworthy music.

Not a value judgement, just the feeling I get.