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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Despite the hope for a more democratic China in the 80s being mostly dead, contemporary China must still reckon with the immediate economic disaster being an military agressor and being sharply cut off from American trade would entail. By s
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Electronic self-tuning machines are still a thing, its just returned to totally aftermarket. Its just too niche and really mostly useful if you use a lot of alternate tunings in a set and can't bring multiple guitars.
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Man there are digital pianos that have an entire keyboard and hammer assembly right out of a acoustic piano but the hammers strike a force sensor instead of strings. Definitely more on the ridiculous side of things but the fact there's
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Because Japan's population problem isn't a wealthy nation problem it's a population collapse problem. It's not just that birth rates have gone down because the average Japanese person has become wealthier or more educate
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Cars is often hated because kids absolutely adored it, Disney is wringing as much profit out of that IP as possible, and I think the part of that movie that is for adults is not as upfront and center as it is for Pixar's previous work.
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Is absolute pitch actually a desirable skill? I'm a total amateur but from my perspective once your instrument is tuned up and you have some sort of reference point it makes more sense to think about things in relative terms. Like I do
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
Voice control is a bit of a nonstarter as the speech recognition (perhaps combined with the weird acoustics of a moving vehicle) has never worked for everyone; eg my father's accent never seems to work in his Honda. My car is from 2014
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by CoolestBeans 3y ago
A thought I’ve had for a few years now is that the loss of the Flash runtime (and the rise of mobile) might have been the proximate cause for the end of fun small web based videos and games but what is really missing is an authoring tool as
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
2% is an arbitrary target. According to Volcker in his autobiography its has its origins in an offhand comment in a news story from then RBNZ governor during a bout with inflation that they would be happy if they brought inflation down to a
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
McCarthy never came to the Dems to strike a deal (publicly) and its clear to me why that would have been a very last resort. Being seen negotiating with the enemy probably would have lost him votes in his own party as one of the big reasons
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
Zeihan is similar to Taleb in that both have an interesting idea worth reading about, but then proceed to write a bunch of nonfiction paperbacks you might see being sold at the Hudson News at the airport. No shame in them making some money
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
Right so continue the money cycle. Lets say you take out a loan from the bank. There’s a low interest rate but it’s not zero so you better do something with it because you’ll have to pay the bank back. Maybe you could start a business makin
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
The problem with purchasing assets in an environment like this is that you are transferring money from one cash hoarder to another. The velocity of money is low. In the stock example, companies are also wealthy entities that hold cash when
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
Came here to recommend Managing Gigabytes as well. People these days are managing far more than gigabytes but the fundamental ideas remain useful.
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
This is absolutely the implication. If you’re getting paid for everything else, then that is what is generating the most value. The point is when someone says “how could you not love programming?” The answer is because “programming” is just
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
To use another sports example, I watched "The Last Dance" recently. There's footage of Dennis Rodman working out and he says to the camera, "Its not just basketball we have to deal with on this team... Its the pressure o
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
It is a good point although I wonder how much of the top 0.5% simply employees with big paychecks or are employers and business owners who are personally invested in real estate and companies that are based in the state. While some do thing
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
With both Rust and node, it isn’t easy to do the things that should be easy. So developers will take the path of least resistance to make it easy. And both Rust and node make their package manager their project manager so everyone is an “np
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
Normally you start raising prices when you’ve snuffed out the competition and growth has slowed substantially. The problem Twitch is leaving a nice big opening for YouTube to start grabbing up marketshare. Perhaps Twitch has correctly deter
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
In college I used pandoc to write in markdown and then use LaTeX math notation inline when it was needed.
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
This is from a United States perspective, there are four things blinking red. 1) Negative growth in GDP. The United States has seen two quarters of negative growth in GDP. What is a recession but the economy shrinking? However this is not t
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by CoolestBeans 4y ago
Creedence Clearwater Revival may never be endlessly talked about like Hendrix or the Beatles or the Stones but their music will probably outlive most of their 60s contemporaries. First, everyone loves Creedence and their music crosses the p
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by CoolestBeans 5y ago
While these factors may contribute, it doesn’t account for the consistent large uptick in cases when Omicron is introduced to a population when you consider that behavior was largely the same the moment before and the moment after the cases
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by CoolestBeans 5y ago
Morale. Not too many things upset people more than messing with the food. Upset soldiers means uncooperative, unmotivated soldiers. Yeah, MREs aren't great but at least they're warm and taste like something recognizable. For examp
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by CoolestBeans 5y ago
The conservative Toyota you're describing is the Toyota that exists today, not the one that developed the Toyota Production System in the first place. Maybe they weren't bleeding edge but their engines had fuel injection, variable
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by CoolestBeans 5y ago
Your translation is correct. This billboard is a reference to the home of former ayatollah Khomeini. Regardless, the hackers are trying to point the finger at the clerics.
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by CoolestBeans 5y ago
Not sure about “state of the art” but if you’re on Mac, VDMX ( https://vidvox.net/ ) is a good place to start looking. Its sort of like a DJ mixer for video sources but lets you do other things like control parameters of you
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by CoolestBeans 8y ago
Sure, but Microsoft after the lawsuit was not the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" powerhouse from the 90s it used to be. They couldn't be, they couldn't risk another antitrust suit that might have real consequences. I thin
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by CoolestBeans 8y ago
Yes "data is the new oil" is a clumsy buzzwordy metaphor. But I don't see how the author's hypothetical refutes this. He claims that because data is only useful to it's generator. But this doesn't hold water to
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by CoolestBeans 8y ago
Nah, I think this is just typical Amazon corp speak. It's a phrase often parroted within Amazon that companies that run with "customer obsessed" mentality succeed the most. And that while following competitors works it isn&#x

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