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I'm sorry, but this is a very naive perspective. And completely chronocentric. The "arms race" started when the first hominid learnt how to throw a rock at his fellow species. Do you really think we are simply going to "end" this arms race?

I don't mean to be snarky, but with the inevitable colonization of space, do you really expect people to just be super awesome peaceful and loving? And not have an arms race?

There is no such thing as "objectively wrong". Please do elaborate on this. We as a tribe/culture/country/etc can come to an agreement amongst ourselves about what "wrong" is, but that is all.

I've owned a lot of great guitars but I find myself picking up the Squier Strat more than any other guitar I own. It did take some setting up and pickup replacement, but it plays so beautifully now. I'm willing to bet that nobody can tell the difference between the Squier and a proper vintage/boutique Fender Strat in a blind test. I know I can't.

Great read. I love the Hammond sound. Joey DeFrancesco[0] is an amazing organ player, whom I instantly fell in love with while listening to him featured on Pat Martino's "Live at Yoshi's"[2] record. I think it's my favorite live album ever, or at least up there. Martino's playing is on another level.

I think Martino is still touring. His 70s jazz-fusiony records were amazing. My favorite are probably his post-break records in the late 90s. Those licks are impossible to play. And forget about improvising that way...

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFIupVoVKc [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyJJltEhvkc

Concurrency is not parallelism, friend.

I think it's okay to want to do that. Yes, I don't want anybody spying on me, but as someone who's neither from the US nor China, I'd much rather choose to have the NSA/etc have access to my data than the Chinese.

I would recommend learning a musical instrument, even if you already play one, or multiple.

Sure, but getting less people killed than ever before.

Yes, very much so.

I heard a very interesting talk on Crowley by Robert Anton Wilson once. Crowley did have some rather far-out ideas. Also, I seem to recall him being in cahoots with the British Intelligence services at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8TZ0hYHiE

Yeah, I wouldn't use tox after reading this.

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

But this requires a Mailspring account right? At least it did when I tried it a while back.

I just switched over to neomutt a while back, after years of Thunderbird and evolution before that. I don't know why I didn't switch earlier. It's beautiful.

Maybe an hour or two on the site itself, but it usually spawns off a couple more hours of reading/research etc.

It's so difficult to answer this as everyone's experience will be different. I do know that there were certain periods of my life where I didn't smoke pot because I was just very active with something or the other and did not want to be lazy. But I was probably using an upper during that time to "be productive".

There's also got to be some kind of chemical/medical aspect to how a certain substance affects you individually, apart from how it affects everyone else. I was more of a cafeteria drug user and got bored really quickly and the only objective was to be high(or low), not necessarily an obsession with one kind of drug. For instance, heroin withdrawals were never stereotypical for me. I'd always thought of it as a high wearing off, and would fix it with any other drug that was available, it didn't strictly have to be heroin.

In my personal experience, cigarettes were far more difficult for me to quit than opiates/meth/etc or even alcohol. They are very sneaky that way.

I agree with you. I think the "I simply grew out of it" is a realization that comes when I think about it after a couple years clean. It's obviously not that simple, and there were many other factors involved. It's also the easiest answer when I ask myself why I'm clean, rather than the hundreds of other reasons I would actually have to list. So I think it might just be a lazy answer for most people who are clean. I know it is for me.

Good on you for staying clean, friend.

Can't read the article for some reason. In any case, I somewhat agree with the title. Obviously it isn't going to be the case for every addict. Using/abusing just seems off-putting after a while, and is a major turn-off. I'm not sure how much this has to do with boredom, or a sense of "I'm clean now, addicts are losers, I'm not a loser any longer".

In my case, it was just a massive waste of a decade for little to no gain other than some momentary feelings of almost-euphoria. It's just so superficial and a kind of escapism, at least was for me.

Anyway, addiction is a lot more complex for generalizations, obviously. I met an older gentleman in rehab who was there for the 50-something time. That kind of put things in perspective for me.

>Breatharianism

I recall a recent story of a breatharian guru-type who was exposed as a fraud. I understand why people fall victim to believing this stuff, but I'm still shocked when I read about any of these weirdos that have a following.

The official docs were great when I learnt Python more than a decade ago. They still are. After that, maybe pick up Fluent Python to understand the internals in detail.

On a slightly related note, Chopin was also a highly technically proficient pianist, much like Paganini on the violin. There were great many amazing composers back then, but technicians of the instrument were perhaps rarer?

In any case, I imagine that the last century has perhaps produced the most technically proficient musicians on possibly every instrument, across all genres. Sometimes I'm blown away by some of the younger players and their flawless technique.

What exactly do you mean? Answers like these are too chronocentric.

This automation will be no different than the early proto-hominid hunter put out of his job because someone made a spear. Or the scribes that died out because of the printing press.

Everything that can be automated will eventually be automated.

Whatever you're comfortable and already know. If you'd rather learn something new, then perhaps Elixir + Phoenix.

It essentially boils down to convenience, or "what do I have to hide, i'm not doing anything shady". People who understand and do care will still do a cost/benefit analysis.

I mean, I just installed Telegram to talk to a girl I like. We all have to decide how strict we are going to be and how it ties in with our principles.

I dislike the gmail trash waiting for 30 days to empty, so I have cron-job running a small Go script that cleans up the trash using the Gmail API. Right now I use Gmail's filters to send stuff I don't like to the trash, but I plan to do the filtering in the script too, when I find the time.

I'm still wondering why there isn't a "delete every email from this person automatically" built into either Gmail, or the underlying email spec, which I don't really know anything about.

Yup. Have you tried a higher octave? Depending on the timbre, usually a higher octave will be more sensitive. At least for me.

The best way to stop it is to stop using GoDaddy. About 10 years ago.

Great read.

To anybody that isn't very familiar with jazz in general and wants to explore it, I have a fun suggestion: Take your time to read Miles Davis' autobiography over the next few weeks while listening to some of the artists/music he mentions. First the Dizzy and Bird that he absolutely worshiped, and then his contemporaries that he liked and hated.

I've done this a couple of times so far and it's great every single time. It's hard to put that book down, and even harder to turn off the music.

I've always wanted to delve more into E-prime, general semantics after hearing about it in a lot of Robert Anton Wilson's lectures. Language definitely has an effect on the way we think and feel. I recently bought a book called 'The Tyranny of Words' by Stuart Chase that I need to find the time to read too.

Keep in mind that general semantics is mostly pseudoscience, or at least ont the fringe.

I spent a lot more time this year listening to audiobooks than music. Most of it was Will Durant's history audiobooks from Audible[1]. Highly recommended.

[1] - https://www.audible.com/series?asin=B00G2H1JW8&ref=a_search_...