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God I had forgotten how old this law is. And how consistently it has been delayed for decades. Born of the post 9/11 world and its concerns...

I know a couple of people through my professional network who hold this title and what I've gathered is that delegates have a lot of autonomy and authority. And Boeing does organiz…

Ah the Myriad system. Curious how the sinosphere adopted this alongside the Greeks. These do converge I think at 10^12 = Short Trillion/Long Billion Which makes for some non-fricti…

A thought just struck me, but I wonder if the difference between the Billionaires of Today and the Monopolists of Yesteryear is that the wealth and power of the Billionaires are ti…

Variance can suck out any profit from cash games and can get you deeply stuck for months on end (see: any full time poker youtuber). Tournaments are even higher variance. And if yo…

Farming is a low “shots on goal” business too. You only really get 1 harvest per year. In a 30 year career already marked by high variance, losing 1/6 of your lifetime profits to e…

You also can't create actively yourself! TV was definitely a consumer only culture, with all creation heavily gatekept by an entire industry. Compare this to the print culture prio…

>He's not making a point of "television makes you dumb" (or "dumb people watches television"), but rather he makes the distinction between an "oral"-, "press"- and "television"-bas…

You still have to leave the anchors when jumping position to position. And hitting the thumbs right where you need em is hard too. Good luck to your daughter!

The heavy metal branch of the genre definitely has found ways to reincorporate them again, true. The synthetically added orchestra hits or background string chords I want to exclud…

Yeah I guess what I was trying to get at is the instrument isn’t “naturally biased” towards a specific key in the same way woodwinds and brass instruments are.

Yup! Rehearsals also help to make sure everyone has a mutual understanding of the general tempo. But good musicians will quickly fall into the correct tempo when playing with each …

People really underestimate the difficulty of playing a violin well. The instrument is held in a quite unnatural position. Beginners must learn to become comfortable with the conto…

It's pretty difficult to play any classical instrument at the level required for elite philharmonic/symphony orchestras. It's why musicians all have to min-max on that instrument f…

>What you described above is more like kindergarten You ever try organizing and managing the work of multiple skilled tradesmen that feed into a single integrated product on tight …

So I think one thing that seems to pop up in people’s anecdotes is “well someone wanted to just talk about what they did yesterday.” Which I suspect comes from the manager/PM going…

As someone who works in a hard-tech startup, where daily standups in production manufacturing teams are part of the daily culture. 1) Anything longer than 15 minutes is insane 2) W…

Especially because if you are engaged in a particular trade/hobby, a lot of your time is devoted to actually working on the thing. There is no way to organically find out if Haas h…

Were they ever "popular?" Hasn't Opera and Classical long been the domain of the highly educated and elite? The more intellectual among the middle/lower class only receiving via re…

>I also think this is why traditional opera and the symphony are failing. People have too much entertainment. I haven't looked into this too much, but I hypothesize this might not …

I guess here is an even more fundamental question: What is the purpose of the Federal Government, and what is the purpose of our representation within that government? I think answ…

Really wish one of the billionaires would fund a publishing house that worked off a very different model than the Copyright Protection Scheme that the current majors used. Somethin…

>Or the same for Wyoming. Why not Wyoming just declare that it is now 4 states and quadruple its representation? So there's nothing stopping anyone from trying this, but admission …

US Constitutional Law and the very specific field it has created. So, in this case, Articles I, II, and III of the US Constitution + 27 amendments. Which, I concede doesn't fall un…

Senators were designed as senior statesmen representing the interest of State Governments, and as a check against the popularly-elected Representatives in the House so that the sma…