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That’s cool it just reads like an onion piece.

This article has to be satire…

Typically at this level the scales will be performed in more difficult variations, e.g. the right hand plays starting on the third or 6th note of the scale.

There are also cases of concert pianists who notoriously refused to practice scales for these kinds of exams.

> Tick-Tick

I read this as Tik Tok. I’m ashamed to admit I spent a good moment trying to figure how someone could use Tik Tok for GTD :)

Maybe I’m just bad at Vim (though I use Vim keys anywhere possible), bit I’m starting to wonder if Vim combos crowd mental space that would be better used for programming. It does take a certain amount of mental energy to constantly be computing effecient key combos. And the half seconds of moving the hand to the mouse are mindless, allowing for the brain to remain focused on next steps.

On another note, the productivity I’ve gained from using an actual IDE, particularly for things like moving files, renaming symbols, and other refactoring tasks, has probably saved me far more time and headache than avoiding to use the mouse.

> Pressuring a foreign leader to investigate potential corruption

Right, anti-corruption Trump. Just stealing classified documents, installing his kids (and fucking son-in-law) in the white house, spending a third of his presidency hosting events and bookings on his properties, blackmailing Ukraine for political dirt, Trump University, refusing to accept a peaceful transition of power...Ok. My time is being unfairly wasted here.

Abusing power to get re-elected is not the same as abusing power to advantage one's son in their career.

Again, both unsavory.

"literally the same story"?

Calling it the "mother of all conflicts of interest" is inviting a direct comparison to other conflicts of interest, unless words have no meaning. I'm suggesting they do, and what OP said was absurd given the surrounding context, which I brought up.

It’s definitely unsavory, but absolutely nothing compared to the conflicts of interest under Trump, ironically even in Ukraine. Remember the withheld US money used to blackmail for political dirt?

And AR-15s hurt no one. Yet they are purposed to have massive killing power against humans, and massively amplify the damage a single ill person can do. Hypothetically there could be some type of weapon that once discovered could end all life on this planet. If that weapon was trivial to build, it would take 1 person with that knowledge to end eveything. Human knowledge is a human construct, and shouldn’t be thought about in absolutes.

If I say, “EXERCISE is a physical activity” in the context of a discussion about physical exercise, and you say “No, EXERCISE can also be a mental exercise” you are being 100% asinine.

Emacs would like to have a word. But seriously, that would not be an important feature to me. Obviously everyone has their preferences.

Why is your tone so angry and condescending? In context, the GP is just saying that cardio and reading is not really equivalent to mediation. He's not wrong.

As someone who enjoys all of those activities I will say that meditation offers something that those activities do not offer. There is an inner clarity that can be found in a much more profound way from meditation, in my experience.

That music is terrible. Why don’t we automate away sex and conversation, too, while we’re at it.

I don't think downvotes/emojis work the same way as real life human feedback, at all. On places like reddit, downvotes more often than not incite anger or resentment in the recipient, whereas strong negative feedback in real life is a much more powerful form of feedback that can trigger embarrassment and shame, which at least can lead to self reflection. I's much easier to make a fool of yourself on reddit then in from of living, breathing people.

One thing I heard and have had great results with is pre-melting the butter and skimming off the solids

All good points for reforming the business, but none justify stealing the content, in my view. Voting with the wallet is about abstaining, not stealing.

For better or for worse, subscriptions are king in 2022, and I don’t see a meta-subscription for news being a good thing for journalism itself. Personally, I prefer something closer to the iTunes model, but that’s dead. I’m growing entirely sick of singular platforms that hold all the cards of entirely industries (and they don’t pay any better than the publishers do).

If a publisher or author doesn't mind, as is the case with the article you linked, that's fantastic. O'reilly is a good business. But it's still stealing. I think if you have the money, you should pay for the product. It's one thing for a teenager to download a bunch of songs on Kazaa in 2000. But I don't understand why so many self respecting adult knowledge workers feel the need to pirate things they can afford just because they can. Seems entitled and disrespectful to me.

So are you against torrenting copyrighted digital goods then? Because people do exactly that. They steal intellectual property and distribute it for other people to use.

Stealing for personal use may be a more minor thing, but it still boggles me that people want to consume the fruits of others' labor without compensating them in anyway, as if creators are slaves who exist only to please.

> A store can have a policy like "limit 1 per customer" but that doesn't prevent me from getting 100 of my friends from buying the thing.

Sure, and if there's urban chaos, there's nothing preventing me from looting a store. Or sneaking stuff in my backpack. It's still stealing.

As to your example about the art, it's more like if one piece of art is in the window, but the rest of the gallery you can only see if you buy the ticket. But there's a door in the alley you can sneak in to and nobody will notice. So you sneak in the back, avoid paying the price, and get to see the whole thing for free. That doesn't sit right with me ethically.

If I walk in to a record store and buy a CD, I'm not just paying for the paper and plastic that it's made of. I'm paying the record company, the record store, and the artist for their time and talent.

With a digital goods, we can eliminate the paper and plastic. It's a great thing! But for some reason, we've also decided to write the artist out of the equation too. At least if you're a pirate.

If you're a software engineer, you're being paid not to manufacture hard goods but to create something of intellectual value that could be technically be duplicated forever. What's the difference between pirating music and stealing code that is under a software license?

There aren't making it publicly available. If they made it publicly available there would be no paywall. It just so happens that people can utilize some code to bypass the paywall.

I think you would be charged with more than that.

So if I break in to Microsoft, stick a USB in their computers, and steal the source code for Windows, it's not stealing because it's just digital information that's infinitely reproducible? Keep in mind: nothing physical was stolen.

People lose their jobs because they are digital content creators and the attitude is that paying for intellectual property is uncool.

This is something broken with the internet. That website need a strong ranking on google search to stay afloat is a symptom of a much larger problem with how the internet operates in this day and age.

At the end of the day you are stealing and looting not just from the company, but the everyday people who work for that company, who are just trying to make a living for themselves and their families, and no rationalization will change that.

And to the car analogy: Let's say I was stolen from, but I'm so lazy I still can't be bothered to lock my car. Or I leave it open for some other reason. This has zero effect on the morality of the thief stealing from my car. It just means I'm an easy target for stealing. Two completely separate things.

Stealing from them just because they are trying to gain search ranking in a shady manner is still stealing. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Or they matured. Should writers, musicians, and journalists be slaves?

This is the “but she was wearing a low cut top” argument.

Just because there’s a technical workaround doesn’t make it not stealing. If I neglect to lock my car and my stuff gets stolen, it’s still stealing. I might have been able to prevent it had I locked the car, but it’s still stealing.