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Comment · 6 years ago
UPDATE: Thank you for this advice. My girlfriend was able to recover her account by telling Oculus support that she wanted to buy a product, but wouldn’t commit to it unless she knew her account would be usable.
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Comment · 8 years ago
I've been playing the piano since I was 4. Learn from my mistake: don't "cheat" by skimping on scales and other technical skills! I know it's not as fun as playing actual music, but as with anything, there is no royal road to piano proficiency. Now that I'm at a more advanced level, I really regret that I didn't put better effort into my scales when I was younger.
Comment · 13 years ago
That is exactly correct, for wind instruments at least: and in fact, some wind instruments have more than 10 holes or keys. But many combinations produce identical sounds, limiting the range of the instrument. The limiting factor on a wind instrument is the fact that it can only play a single note, (yes, with resonant frequencies, of course) and the length of the instrument, which determines the lowest note it can play.
Comment · 13 years ago
The graph is just slightly misleading -- the horizontal scale starts at 20, not 0.
Comment · 13 years ago
Their site is absolutely hammered right now. The live video feed here (http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion?live) has details. They have video of 2 suspects, one of which set down an "unusually heavy" backpack.
Comment · 13 years ago
I just found it ironic -- and possibly suspect? -- that 1 week after this XKCD What If? article (http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/), something like this happened. Could the XKCD article possibly have inspired the method of execution?

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