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by Green_man 6y ago
you're right, there are more important numbers when considering headphones, and I forgot or neglected to mention them.
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by Green_man 6y ago
yes, but the curve is actual numbers, while I haven't seen an effective (or standardized) objective measure of soundstage or detail. Even though the frequency response curve isn't _everything_ that matters, because it's both
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by Green_man 6y ago
A frequency response curve should be included because it provides useful information to (some) consumers, not because a "flat" curve is necessarily desirable. While the entire experiance cannot be discerned from a curve alone, an
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by Green_man 6y ago
As others have stated, it's usually more about compatability. Most (nonportable) headphone amps will have a 1/4" plug rather than the 3.5mm, and it makes more sense from the "female" amp side to convert the larger
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by Green_man 6y ago
I expect the total force required to turn depends also on the vehicle's weight, degree of turn, etc. My manual, 90's Japanese sedan (approximately 3,000 lbs iirc) stalled on me while I was exiting a freeway at ~30mph, along a rou
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by Green_man 6y ago
I'm pretty ignorant of design styles, but what always bothered me about "Corporate Memphis", and styles like it, was the very weirdly caricatured humans depicted within it. The people usually look incredibly weird, and while
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by Green_man 6y ago
representation of all N (where N = 2^n) states simultaneously is due to superposition, not entanglement.
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by Green_man 6y ago
1. Complex numbers are especially useful to describe systems dealing with rotation, or if you want to describe a 2-dimensional space, corresponding to a single variable. Instead of x/y, you can just have a real/imaginary componen
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by Green_man 6y ago
The converse relationship seems well represented by some recent digital music access like iTunes and Spotify. Many would-be customers turn to piracy when piracy is _more_ convenient than legitimate alternatives. I think movies and tv show
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by Green_man 6y ago
In the above example (consumer 70-300 [often f4.0-5.6], vs pro 70-200 [usually f2.8]), when these lenses are placed on the same cameras, the pro 70-200 will give 4x the light compared to f5.6, or 2x the light compared with f4.0 (consumer zo
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by Green_man 6y ago
I read somewhere that the *gulf stream (orig jet stream, thanks!) makes similar latitudes more temperate in Britain/Europe than Canada/America. whether it's attributable to the jet stream or other effects, it seems to be tru
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by Green_man 6y ago
>But no US law can prevent you from saying it in the first place. neither does youtube removing videos.
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by Green_man 6y ago
I have ~350/20 (just tested 342.6/20.9) in a small city in the USA (300k pop). I currently pay $80, but on nonpromotional pricing, its about $100 for internet only. Reliability has been great, but it's important to note that
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by Green_man 6y ago
Like I said in an earlier comment, comparisons between polls and a model aren't completely fair. Part of the model's calculation is that 8.8 points or whatever requires an enormous polling error to swing for trump. I do agree th
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by Green_man 6y ago
I'll be interested to see the final count and compare on all states, but Trafalgar's issues are deeper than just deltas in my opinion. They had an arbitrary "shy trump voter" factor, which may be justifiable, but any &q
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by Green_man 6y ago
I agree with you, and that's why i made effort to differentiate between margins vs winning. In my opinion, 2020's polls were a lot worse than 2016's, but because of Biden's much bigger lead (in the polls and in key stat
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by Green_man 6y ago
We can't measure the deltas with as much confidence, because counting is far from finalized in many states (especially non swing states). But if trafalgar is the only group putting out polls where trump is ahead in several states, and
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by Green_man 6y ago
Trafalgar almost certainly got more states wrong (counts aren't all finished, but we do know likely winners in all states). Other sites like 538 predicted all states correctly, except NC and FL (50.5%/48.8% and 50.9%/48.4% r
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by Green_man 6y ago
I'm very curious about the type of math you have learned this way. Every math class was heavy on repeated exercises and memorization, but real understanding didn't come until outside of class (or after the semester) where reflect
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by Green_man 6y ago
Online classes really emphasize how irrelevant closed book/notes/neighbor tests have always been. In cute terms, this environment is the strongest possible counterexample to "you won't always have a calculator with you!
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by Green_man 6y ago
When I first heard about the problem, I struggled with the seemingly 50/50 chances. either you picked the right door and now switch and lose, or you picked a wrong door and switch and win. Switching seemed a zero sum game. The explan
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by Green_man 6y ago
This can depend widely on the altitude you are acclimated to (what altitude do you live at, how regularly do you hike/climb/run near the target altitude, etc.), as well as how quickly you go. For some, finishing the mountain with
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by Green_man 6y ago
presented as a negative because it is contrary to some group's views, not Aaronson's. Or to use a phrasing from his line of research, relative phase matters, not global phase.
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by Green_man 6y ago
the "'affirmative action' solution" would allow the school to keep its rigorous entrance exam system in place, which is what Aaronson seems to actually care about, not some demographic percentages.
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by Green_man 6y ago
I think a good faith interpretation of this section requires the context: >the Fairfax County School Board is “embarrassed” to have a school that, despite all its outreach attempts, remains only 5% Black and Latino—even though, crucially
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by Green_man 6y ago
from the very biased "endcoal.org": "Coal is responsible for over 800,000 premature deaths per year globally and many millions more serious and minor illnesses." https://endcoal.org/health/#:~:text=C
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by Green_man 6y ago
The worst case scenario from fossil fuels is not failure at a coal power plant. Even mining coal is more dangerous, and deaths directly from coal pollution dwarf mining accidents. But the worst case scenario is climate change that strongly
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by Green_man 6y ago
It's important to distinguish current rates and worst case scenario rates, but the worst case scenario rate for fossil fuels is astronomical as well.
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by Green_man 6y ago
I'm not a doctor, but running can definitely work out your back. Long trail runs with lots of elevation gain leave me with a sore lower back, mostly because "leaning into" the hill keeps my lower back muscles working to main
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by Green_man 6y ago
tldr: my point is that people at high income levels still care about marginal income differences, not the morality of the tax. "asked to contribute back to the society" is a generalization. how much should people be asked to give

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