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Maybe if you can create professional-level works in that language? Ie poems, lyrics, prose, etc.

Being known as "the speaker guy" isn't a compliment.

Also, do a kickflip.

Highly recommend the book "This is your brain on music", as it explores this question (among other interesting things).

According to the author, having separate words for singing and dancing is a relatively new phenomenon in linguistics, and the concept of a performer and an audience as a distinct separation is also relatively recent. He likens it to conversation - sure in any given instance there may be people more or less involved in the dialog of a conversation, but we would all think it very strange if someone said "I only listen to conversations, I don't talk in them" in the way someone today might say "I only listen to music, I don't sing/play/dance".

And Elon's lithium mines aren't similar? Or Kanye's open support of rhetoric linked to the Holocaust?

Can you elaborate?

I think it's moreso the assumption/collective perception that foreign totalitarian governments are more nefarious in their actions towards their own people. Whether or not that's true is a different argument.

This resonates with me. I found a group of folks I loosely knew in my neighborhood, and started doing an informal "Tuesday Night Dinner". There's about a dozen of us, and on any given week about 6-7 will get together, usually at someone's house, and do a potluck-style dinner. If people are busy, we do a "no pressure" takeout night, but the point is we do _something_ every Tuesday night. We've missed maybe a half dozen weeks in the past 2 years, and lots of folks have become friends outside of the group as well. It's been probably the single most enjoyable thing about the last few years living in Seattle

Also, this reads more like an argument for the usefulness of GPT-4 over the Metaverse

To be fair, using Google as a search engine is much, much useful than it used to be

Or for maps/vehicle information for motorcycles. Blind spot monitoring? Overlaid turn-by-turn directions? Etc

This reads like "the problem disappears as soon as I'm no longer impacted". Just because cops see/treat you differently now doesn't mean they aren't still treating others poorly.

Re-stating your premise doesn't prove your point.

It's also entirely possible that Adidas decided that the overhead of dealing with public backlash + the fact that Kanye himself is unstable meant that the brand was no longer a long-term investment, and given that understanding, they made the call to cut it cleanly at once.

"Cancel Culture" is a bullshit term for "accountability"

Similar story here, my grandfather played Chamber music with his friends (he played cello) twice a week well into his 90s. He barely lasted weeks after he became too frail to play music.

I feel this, and it's challenging because visibility is important for advancement. My manager advised me to think of the broadcast emails/posts as ways to boost the people I collaborated with, and that's helped a lot. It doesn't feel like I'm tooting my own horn, people still see the impact of projects I contributed to, and my colleagues are always enthusiastic to work on projects with me because they know they will get good visibility and be "given" they credit they deserve for their contributions.

Granted my role is very crossfunctional, but I think it's pretty unusual to be consistently impactful working in your own silo. So boosting my collaborators gets me the visibility benefits, without feeling insincere, and contributes to a work culture that is collaborative and supportive.

For context, I lead an analytics team at a FAANG company.

Lets not pretend that the profits of Saudi oil et al are going to the people of that country though. If the wealth is consolidated so much, denial of service hurts the ruling class far more than the normal people

Um.. yes? Construction work may be back-breaking and hard but it often pays well, or at least can serve as a path towards a trade or higher earning.

I think I agree with you, but this argument seems like a pretty arbitrary line.

How is saying "yes we can scale" when you're not sure if you can, aren't you essentially implying that you have the infrastructure to deliver on that promise? And if you don't actually have that infrastructure yet/built/proven, then you're essentially selling a feature that doesn't exist.

It's shades of grey from lying about E2EE, but seems pretty similar imo

Not OP, but his post reminded me of a Paul Graham article [0] about keeping your identity small.

[0]http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

Applying for a warrant through a legal process is absolutely not the same as requesting data from a tech company (especially because Amazon has incentive to cooperate with police in order to continue to sell these cameras)

I think you're making the mistake of assuming people always act rationally. There are countless anecdotes of well paid, ostensibly happily employed people losing their job over juiced expense reports or similar small (in dollar terms) schemes.

A little pricey, but they're merino so can be worn a few times without needing to be washed, and they're amazingly breathable and quick drying.

woolly.clothing

AFAIK, Merino is mostly farmed in alpine regions, a lot of it in New Zealand. There's a really interesting BlisterReview podcast[0] on technical fabrics and wool, featuring an interview with one of the buyer/sourcers for a big wool company. He explains the farming/shearing/processing of merino pretty thoroughly.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3X5VBJaRvo1jjVElTjxnnP?si=B...

I've pretty much exclusively switched to Merino t-shirts. Various good brans out there (Woolly Co, Smartwool, Icebreaker, etc) and most can be found in simple, versatile colors. Can wear them with almost anything, super comfortable, and the real kicker is that they can be worn a few times without needing a wash. Makes packing for travel easy, and saves time/effort/water with freq laundry. Also, as someone who runs pretty hot, it's awesome having a quick-drying and wicking fabric. They aren't quite as durable as cotton shirts, but make up for it with everything else imo

Yeah, exactly.

Though even as someone who spends 40+ days/year in the backcountry skiing around the PNW, the 645m is plenty for me. That, combined with an inReach Mini incase shit hits the fan and I feel pretty well covered.

As a side note, those bindings are incredible. Easily one of the biggest innovation in skiing since shaped skis. I put 30 days on mine last season and didn't have a single issue; really impressive for a lightweight, finicky, and brand-new piece of gear.

+1 on Garmin watches. The "smartwatch" functionality leaves something to be desired, but the watch itself is great, with helpful training features, a great screen, and good battery life. I have the fr645 Music, and can bluetooth to wireless buds for a run.

The new Fenix 6 series is awesome, but they're a little bulky for my wrist.

If you take someone accelerating quickly from a light as a signal that you're driving too slowly, you probably drive too slowly. I don't think its a signal at all - and who really cares if it is?

Agreed - though recently I've had several packages from Amazon delivered FedEx with Sig Req'd. Can't seem to find a way to refuse this kind of shipping - FedEx regularly misses deliveries (just two weeks ago I had a signature required package where the driver left a note on my door...despite the front door being open, with me VISIBLE in the kitchen through the open door. I had my back to the door and was cooking lunch, waiting for the package, and the driver just noped out).

It's become a meme, likely due to the clusters of mattress stores that seem to pop up despite zero customers.

....and without some of that marketing spend, revenue would decrease (or be co-opted by competition) and then we're back at the same problem. Companies probably over-index on advertising spend, but it's not as simple as "look no ads, now we can raise everyone's salary 2x"

You have a shockingly narrow understanding of addiction