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Lol of course you get downvoted by a bunch of well off software engineers.

So many here are so fucking full of shit.

"I make 150k a year man, its not fair man, we need more communism"

I would try Jazzmeia Horn on vocals. She is an absolute monster.

Mark Guiliana on drums is as good as anyone ever too.

If you don't like So What without an explanation then I just don't think it is for you.

I love lamb vindaloo too but if you take a bite and don't like it..maybe a few repeated exposures might adjust your palette or it just might not be to your taste.

Nothing wrong with that. So What though was just instant love for me.

It certainly helps to be a musician though too. I can't really separate Coltrane's playing from the appreciation for his virtuosity.

I am huge fan of Sheila Maurice-Grey and Kokoroko. She plays super chill like Miles too.

I would put Cassie Kinoshi on sax as my fav sax player too.

I don't know how any Jazz fan could not love Kokoroko.

America has a warrior culture even though we pretend to not be. Even though there are few times in our history we were not involved in a war.

A huge % of the population spends Sundays watching enormous men try to kill each other in American football play war.

If athletics aren't your thing then you probably are going to war in business or the arts.

If none of these are your things and American, there is a really good chance you are at war with yourself.

You could look into the actual baroque guitar too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_guitar

For modern guitar, there are many transcriptions of Bach and Silvius Leopold Weiss lute music.

The problem with Bach is the 1100 pieces he has. It took me so long to hear things I really loved.

For me, it is his lute music that really shows his genius.

Part of the problem with the classical masters is we speak as if we love all their work the same.

I love Pink Floyd too but that doesn't mean I think all Pink Floyd albums are equal.

It is really outrageous looking at the price of 2 X 8 gig sticks right now.

It is exactly why I haven't bought anything from Apple since the ipod.

Everything sounds amazing/wonderful and then one mind boggling deal breaker that doesn't even seem to make economic sense but just feels petty.

I don't disagree but on the other hand, I never run into problems with the language model being censored because I am not asking it to write bad words just so I can post online that it can't write bad words.

Both sides in this to me need to get a life.

Totally agree. Audiobooks for me are for long car rides or my daily walks.

Going for a walk with an audiobook is prime thinking time for me.

So much depends on the voice actor for me though if I can really get into the book or not.

It is because your view of inequality is bullshit. Your views are exactly in line with Khmer Rogue.

Cambodia in 1977 was a much more equal society than America in 2024. Can't argue with that.

There is no mystery here. It is expensive to bring someone new on and train them.

There is an arbitrage too by the company that once most people are comfortable, they chose stability and the known quantity they have over the unknown opportunity they would have with changing companies.

The real question is how can someone not understand that a company is not going to pay more if they don't have to? Seems kind of obvious.

Even if you do this, a state backed intelligence agency is going to eventually find you if they keep trying.

The idea "the west" can protect any single person from a state backed intelligence agency set on eliminating that person is totally delusional.

I would question what is going on in a person's head to believe this is even possible. Maybe if we incarcerated the individual under a fake name then put that individual in solitary confinement for life, this would work!

The biggest reason is because it is a recent ambition.

The US Navy on the other hand had to fight the Philippine-American War in 1899.

There is also no point in talking about forces in separation. There is a unification with the air force.

To me, to really understand the US Military, look up the B-2 spirit videos on youtube and look up the 4.5 megaton explosion video on youtube.

The full fleet of B-2 spirit have about 116 of 4 megaton explosions. These are 1 megaton bombs though so they have 400+ of those. 400 megaton bombs being dropped by an invisible UFO.

Then force projection to do what? Invade the US? We have enough guns to arm every man, woman and child in the US. It is estimated there are 12 billion rounds of ammunition sold in the US every year.

It is fun to talk about these things in the abstract but all out war with the US is basically delusional. The PLA has done an amazing job of catch up but to surpass the US you have to become the most deadly unified force that has ever existed. That is no easy task and Americans love war. There is not that many years in America's existence that it was not involved in war in some way.

It isn't that bad. Look at the Nasdaq after the dotcom bust:

2000 -36.84%

2001 -32.65%

2002 -37.58%

If you think now is bad imagine trying to get a job in 2002 in tech. Tech was deader than dead.

This is just a normal job market now. You went to college but you don't know shit or have any experience. It sucks but you have to grind and eventually opportunity will find you, you just have to not squander it when it does.

Opportunity will find you in ways and in things you won't even expect.

The reason you should not worry is because you are young and have all the time in the world. If it takes 5 years so what? I would gladly trade my account balances to be young and fresh out of college right now. Figuring out how to become not broke after college is the most fun game of your entire life. The more it wears on you and gets you down the better the payoff feels.

I use to be in this situation but found a much better job. My hard work is actually appreciated now even though it is not as much work as my previous job.

Pretty sure the business strategy at my old job was to keep giving more work until the person quit or figured out a way to handle it. If you said no, you weren't going to be the one progressing.

I stayed to my breaking point, didn't over stay, but so glad I left.

I like difficult tasks, completing difficult tasks is really fulfilling to me. I just don't like impossible situations.

It is because the world got that much wealthier. When you get wealthy you start eating like a king and not a starving peasant.

GDP per capita in China in 1990 was $320 A YEAR.

GDP per capita in India in 1990 was $360 A YEAR.

Then you get people posting on the internet about how bad things are economically, on a device that costs 5 years of labor of the average Chinese person in 1990. As if the modern world is just a given and has always been this way.

For me this has become a feature.

I am forced to save things instead of all the times in the past that I have lost important data.

If my system blows up right now, I will be wiped clean with a fresh install in less than 15 minutes.

I don't really care what other people do with their computers. If someone doesn't want to use Plasma, they are the ones missing out.

I am pretty sure it is just a hold over. The NYSE use to be closed on Wednesdays in the 1960s to catch up on paperwork.

Hang Seng still even takes a lunch break.

As opposed to when in the past?

This linen of thought is just so lacking gratitude for the time and place you were actually born.

You basically won the lottery in the grand scheme of things but still complain.

Would it have been better to be born in 1950? Certainly not if you happen to be born in China.

How about in 1910 so you hit your 20s right as the depression hits. Or 1920 so you grow up in the depression then go fight in WW2.

How about Cambodia in 1970?

Yea life would be better if I was 6'4, strikingly handsome with a dead rich uncle that left me all his money too.

This is seriously might be the worst post I have ever read online.

To say it is clueless would be too nice.

"mathematically perfect alien star system" is a pretty good clickbait example.

I mean I guess it could be worse "We found a mathematically perfect alien star system, and then..."

Yea all creative people are the same. No creative person would ever be interested in new mediums of expression.

The truly creative are just looking to do the same things over and over lol.

Even if they were in the ball park intelligence wise, humans are absolutely ruthless animals.

Personally, I don't think there is all that much mystery what happened.

Animals seem to have this habit of vanishing when humans move in.

I remember watching streaming video on the real player on a 56k modem. It was a complete joke but you could envision things getting much better.

Is it fair to say TV broadcasters/production professionals were in danger of losing their jobs in that moment? Kind of, but TV broadcasters/production professionals were also the people in the best position to take advantage of the new advances.

Of course, that was predicated on being open to change and not clinging to the past.

Surely, anyone on HN talking about AI right now is in good shape.

We are inside the bubble. There is a huge % of even young people who have no interest in any of this. It is like 50% of 18-29yo haven't even used chatGPT themselves in the US.

It will also be no problem making a video look like it was shot on a camcorder in 1996.

That is what still blows my mind about Midjourney images. Not just that it can do photo realism but photo realism as if it was shot on a specific type of film.

In ten years no one will care about the difference because years will have passed by then with people not knowing what was real vs AI.

I totally understand what you mean by growing up on a different internet.

The mistake I made as a kid was in believing people wanted things like intellectual freedom and to contemplate things they don't agree as to potentially grow and learn something new.

People don't want that at all. I think we can see that largely, people want to be told what to think and then demonize those that think differently for entertainment. That is basically what defines our culture in 2024.

This is just the start of this new culture too. There is so much room left to run when you still have people who remember what things were like at the start of the internet.

What is gen alpha going to save the culture? I think that will be a really comical thought in 15-20 years.

We are still pretty close to the surface. Maybe I won't because of old age but as a society we are going way deeper.

The poster child of survivorship bias.

They didn't just sell books and CDs either. They sold tax free books and CDs. It is easy to forget now that no one paid tax for anything sold online in 1999.

Of course, no one brags about how they bought Borders stock in 1995 today. I am sure if you did you were up huge in 1999 but not so great if you held.

The real problem is that "bubble" is a poorly defined word.

We shouldn't use the same word to describe the tulip bubble and the dot com bubble.

The tulip bubble to me is what we really think of as a bubble. A collective mania causing price to go up in a completely irrational way.

If we can agree the valuation of a company should be all future discounted cash flows of a company then it doesn't strike me as irrational for the price of stocks during dot com or today to go through the roof. Valuation is really hard and really uncertain and then all the harder for something new and highly disruptive. The problem with using the word bubble in the tulip bubble sense with AI is there is surely no guarantee the price of NVDA is going to fall sharply from here as if it was a tulip bulb selling for the price of a house.

It is a toss up what is more shocking between this and one of those "Giant pet alligator kills owner" type stories.