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For me too. The headline question however was not "Is playing music good for people?", but "Is playing music good for the brain?"

That's not nearly as easy to answer.


If we're talking about long-term benefits, I certainly can't answer that, but I can say all of my interactions with music have been positive from merely listening, learning to play several instruments, learning music theory, etc. Music has been one of the great joys of my life.

Sorry, but the hospital ship is in Greenland, providing free health care to people who already have public healthcare.

https://apnews.com/article/greenland-trump-denmark-us-b2624b...




Why not?

This 'Modified MIT' is not a license that has been through the OSI process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition#Com...

You can't just add random terms to an existing license and use its name. "Modified MIT: Like MIT but pay us 50 million dollars."

Perhaps CC-BY would've been more appropriate.


Ah yes, a document titled "*THE* Open Source Definition", describing *THEIR* definition of open source.

Their definition matters more than most, I mean, anyone can define anything however they like. Hell, Windows is open-source, because I said so.

Also, even if it were not for the OSI, this still wouldn't be open source. Because there's no source code available. It's open-weight, which is a different thing. The models weights are, essentially, the "compiled" output. The input and algorithms, we don't know.


Correct again -- CC- applies to data, not code -- weights are data, open weights suggests a creative commons approach …

“ CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.

BY Credit must be given to you, the creator. ”

it's annoying the open source term is being cargo-culted around and I hate to say it but that ship looks like it has sailed.

funny that free software people were infuriated by the open source term and now the open source term is being completely misused in another context


Ban it on which grounds?

I have never in my life placed a sport bet, nor a polymarket bet. It strikes me as one of the dumbest things to do with your money and time.

But a lot of people seem to genuinely enjoy it. Gambling is part of human heritage. Regulate? Sure! Ban? I don't understand why


> Ban? I don't understand why

Many things that people enjoy are banned because it causes harm to other individuals or to society as a whole.

Not a difficult concept to understand.


That's why I was asking for a rationale. The devil is in the details. Otherwise motorcycling will be next, alcohol, excessive gaming, etc. etc.

Motorcycling does not cause immediate harm to society or to the individual, and is a regulated activity anyway.

Alcohol and tobacco are regulated too. Perhaps less than it should, in no small part for cultural reasons. I say this as someone that enjoys the occasional whiskey and smoking a pipe.

I am unaware of evidence of gaming causing harm to society. Maybe it exists. I can't comment on it.


I generally share the same perspective but the article provides a good rationale for doing otherwise.

I do not think so. We can hold these people accountable otherwise, there are laws for that already.

It's the same administration that stated that they sent a hospital ship to a country with public healthcare to take care of the sick people there.

Boy, I will miss this administration for their sense of humor and ingenuity. They always find something new. A firework of performance art.


If I understand gp correctly, the web of trust comes after finding these human nodes, and will not help you in the process.


It doesn't work for I2P due to its design, but for things like Nostr, it works well. Essentially, the goal is to build up a list of "known" reliable relays over time, while simultaneously blacklisting anyone who joins and proves to be unreliable relying on the statistic that collaborative individuals outnumber hostile ones in any sufficiently large cohort.

Of course, it's far from being 100% effective, but it mitigates the issue significantly.


Hostile entities generally have a lot of money they can use to perform a Sybil attack.


Sure, but can't break the trusted part of the network who can remain operational in that case, even if not really anonymous anymore.


Also worth reading, Donald Kagan's [1] "The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone" [2] that sets the context of this context. TL;DR Stone's story is not very strong.

[1] eminent historian of ancient Greece, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kagan

[2] https://www.commentary.org/articles/donald-kagan/the-trial-o...


How did you make that happen?

I use swipe keyboard in iPhone. I turned off all "autocorrect" features they offer.

Still their random generator keeps replacing perfectly fine words _and the words before them_ with random crap that makes no sense.

Heck, I even turned off all features, and still it happens.

So I switched to another keyboard from appstore.

I would switch to another OS, but I find the others even worse in some respects I care for deeply.


it is under "Keyboard" in settings. I turn off:

auto-capitalization

auto-correction

smart punctuation


I hear you. At 49 I also discovered an extra octave up there above the high e. Also baritone. The YouTube singiverse did it for me


Got any youtubers you'd recommend?


Bob Smeenk helped me personally a lot. But I guess it depends a lot on your background, experience and goals.


How cool is that! Congratulations!


This post made my day. Beautiful.


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