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by Paperweight 8y ago
DAWs usually encode as WAVs for when you're working on stuff because it's faster. But it would be nice for them to losslessly compress your files down to FLAC when you're done and shut down the program! It would be interesti
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by Paperweight 8y ago
It's also annoying when they say you shouldn't be able to tell that PWM headlights/taillights are flickering but I sure as hell can, at least!
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by Paperweight 8y ago
24 fps is an art medium with certain features and incentives. Its moving shots are automatically blurry, and the audience is used to that, so you can use them to, e.g., give the audience's attention a rest between two important still s
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by Paperweight 8y ago
3/4 of a national park illegally logged and planted? What's it going to take for these places to get it together? Seriously. What ?
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Can you give more info?
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by Paperweight 8y ago
We're talking about places where they don't even bother to put up nets because it's cheaper to scrape them off the ground.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" = "I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say"
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by Paperweight 8y ago
And the black market is a key safety valve for a fully-functioning capitalist economy (like it or not). Hell, even the USSR had paper cash in circulation allowing some privacy and trade between individuals. Having solely account-based mon
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by Paperweight 8y ago
In the west, the classic fictional story of dystopia seems to be the complete subjugation of the individual to the collective. E.g. you become a cell enslaved to a body of "society" - a sort of emergent A.I. that's not necess
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm thinking of making Canada's only mail-order DVD/BR website. Netflix bought Zip.ca but then they shut down mail orders. We don't even have Redbox anymore. It's sad that there are
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Our store did that a few years ago, too. Skip the Dishes is widely available in our town now, and we're surrounded by restaurants, but I haven't asked them if they'll deliver DVDs yet.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Except Netflix has a couple hundred movies available where we have about 10,000.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
There's all kinds of exceptions and things in there, plus a copyright board that makes decisions. Notable is 29.22 Reproduction for private purposes is allowed if 29.22 (1) (a) the individual legally obtained the copy of the work or
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by Paperweight 8y ago
My girlfriend runs an independent video rental store. I've been thinking of ways to implement a streaming service for our extensive collection of physical DVDs from the store to customers in the local area, perhaps to a proprietary TV
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by Paperweight 8y ago
"What you need to know about the Windows 10 Star Squeezer's Update"
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by Paperweight 8y ago
We're kind of like rats.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Let me guess... 1% of the time, it works 99.5% of the time?
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by Paperweight 8y ago
It still bugs me. Yeah, that part would work, at least until it got loaded weird by high winds or by being hit by a truck or something. They were very unconventional in this design (new type of concrete, single row of struts, prefabricated
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by Paperweight 8y ago
In Canada, rates vary per card and even vary right along with the variable reward schemes. https://www.cfib-fcei.ca/sites/default/files/pdf/5513.pdf Merchants aren't allowed to charge different pric
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Keep in mind that that 2.5% gets deducted the final amount paid to the merchant. You may be fine with this, or you may feel a pang of guilt, depending on the merchant. :)
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Some explanation of what's going on in NA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentia
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How nuclear rockets work(youtube.com)
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by Paperweight 8y ago
There's also http://www.carsurvey.org/
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Hopefully plain Bitcoin SHA-256 ASICs become more-or-less perfected and commoditized, leading to mining decentralization around local electricity deals.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
IIRC the root cause was a 50 year build-up of grease, rat fur, ticket stubs, cigarette butts, and matches in the tracks that the steps rolled on. They had never been cleaned. One day a smoker dropped a match in just the right spot...
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by Paperweight 8y ago
It seems to be a common occurrence for people who grew up in a denser, more kid-friendly post-war suburb next to a walkable downtown, but are now raising kids in a new, barren, sprawling suburb surrounded by stroads and next to a 7-11.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
And by proving here that the blockchain can be forked at will, the whole thing might as well be hosted on an Oracle database at JPMorgan Chase.
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by Paperweight 9y ago
Sounds like the whitepaper for this week's hottest ICO!
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by Paperweight 9y ago
Nature has an elegant solution to the double-spending problem for physical commodities. If only there was a way to timestamp digital transactions without a write-only ledger...
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by Paperweight 9y ago
...and then the CS-assembled computer works perfectly while the EE-assembled computer has gremlins. That's how it usually works. :/

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