Anechoic

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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Now that's what I expect out of a multibillionaire. I suppose it makes up for him not living in a gated fortress.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Actually I think that some of those details are unreasonable, but at least (as an event planner) I would rather know that up front rather than finding out midway through the planning process and it being to late to find another speaker. P
903.
by Anechoic 15y ago
How does that cash get from the government to the people? Today it goes through the banks.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
What hard currency?
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I've helped to organize large conferences in the past, and right now I'm organizing a reception to honor some prominent Boston-area acousticians. Given those experiences, I would absolutely love to have this kind of a rider for honorees a
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> If you sit experts in separate rooms and give them the same problems, often they will converge to the same solution. As a universal truth, I don't buy this. This is partially based on my own engineering experience, but in terms of th
907.
by Anechoic 15y ago
> Depending on where you live you can save more money by simply using a good size fan blowing cold air into the house at night during the summer. I have a whole-house fan (Western Massachusetts), and the "where you live" caveat is a
908.
by Anechoic 15y ago
I saw that when when it was announced on HN. However downloading a map "for a 10-mile radius" is not useful when you don't know what 10-mile radius you might need ahead of time. Compare with Nokia maps where I can download a map of New Ha
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> How can you do a comparison of iOS / Android and not even mention Google Maps & Navigation? It's funny that I just bought a touchscreen phone with an UX that most will consider to be unquestionably worse than both iOS and Android
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> subsequent generations absorb more of the african-american culture which shuns academia If you're referring to the oppositional culture hypothesis, there's a whole body of research that show it isn't nearly as common as widely percei
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> the sales are obviously heavily influenced by the Steve Jobs death It's not obvious to me at all. Aside from your friends experience, what are you basing this on?
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by Anechoic 15y ago
(presuming you meant https://stripe.com ) Do they offer instant access to transactional cash? Also this look s like programmer-type offering (I'm not a programmer). Do they offer a bit of HTML I can drop into my website to process the tran
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Google and Amazon now both offer excellent payment systems and I've never heard these horror stories about them. So why don't people switch? I'll give the same answer I give whenever this question comes up - I stick with PayPal beca
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I'll refer you to this Slashdot discussion on the matter: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/27/1819203/ask-slashdot-...
915.
by Anechoic 15y ago
Repeating a comment I made 529 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291314 "Back in Macworld Boston 1996, I bought one share of Apple stock at $16 and got a framed commemorative stock certificate. It went into a box when I moved
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It's not that the train isn't pushing down on the track, it's that the force created by the unsprung mass is several orders of magnitude higher than the static force. The wheelset force is higher than the static force because the primary an
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> A moving train generates a standing wave that is a function of the train's weight and its speed. No, it's really not. It's a function of the unsprung mass, the roughness of the wheel, the roughness of the rails and other factors (fas
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> I find this hard to accept. As did I at first, but it's true. There are several papers that show the math behind this (including one I co-authored called "Performance of ballast mats on passenger railroads: Measurement vs. projectio
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by Anechoic 15y ago
The interesting thing about that disaster is that rail safety folks from both the US and Europe I've spoken to have all said that if it had been the Acela in that accident there would have been far fewer fatalities due to FRA crashworithnes
920.
by Anechoic 15y ago
Anything that is not a train that is on railroad tracks is prima facie evidence that fault doesn't lie with the train since trains are the only thing supposed to be on the tracks. But it doesn't matter. You then get into questions like "wer
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> what in your opinion is the worst issue that set has faced? Well the crappy infrastructure (shared ROW, lots of stops, lots of crossings, 100-year old catanary south of NYC, etc) is by far the most detrimental issue to Acela perform
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by Anechoic 15y ago
(I worked on the environmental assessment of the Acela back in the 1990's and worked with testing the first two vehicles off the line in Pueblo and along the NEC NJ "race track in 2000. The firm I was working for back then also did the nois
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> although even then many public libraries have subscriptions to the largest journals. Maybe public libraries in the largest of cities but I've never seen this in libraries in medium-sized (100,000-250,000 people) Massachusetts cities
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> I find his constant and blatant omission of inconvenient data to be intellectually dishonest. Such as...?
925.
by Anechoic 15y ago
I read this and (like most readers I suspect) smiled and enjoyed the satire, although I have to disagree with the statement "Drink more coffee" - in my day it should have been "drink more Mountain Dew". However the article did bring up two
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by Anechoic 15y ago
That could get you arrested: http://www.insideedition.com/news.aspx?storyId=371
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Serious question; would it have been cheaper to just license the patents on a royalty basis?
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Audioholics took on this issue with a bunch of bench testing back in 2008: http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/long-hdmi-cable-... BTW, even though the site was using equipment from Monster, don't take that as an indication that t
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> ask a knowlegable friend As the "knowlegable friend" in my circles this just means that I get swamped with requests for assistance in selecting laptops which means I get the joys of navigating shitty PC websites for a machine that I
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by Anechoic 15y ago
>Could we possibly, as a community, just agree that a blacklist of Gruber posts is good for us? How would we begin such a discussion? This submittal is #1 on the front page with 110 net points. I think the community has spoken.

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