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by badsock 12y ago
The increase in sample rate to 192kHz only allows frequencies above 22KHz to be represented (i.e. no effect whatsoever on the low frequencies that you mention). Pushing the bits to 24 only lowers the noise levels (which at 16 are already d
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by badsock 12y ago
It's a M004U (AKA CN60). I should also have mentioned that I bumped the RAM to 6G (though 4 would have been fine). CPU is a Celeron 2955U, 1.8GHz dual core. Fan's moderately loud. It seems to only come on when the GPU is stress
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by badsock 12y ago
My main desktop machine is an Asus Chromebox with an upgraded SSD and Linux installed. Had a hex-core 3.8GHz tower sitting right beside it, but I found I never booted it. I spend most of my life in terminal windows, but it runs FireFox, the
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by badsock 12y ago
For the record, it is definitely possible to only sync the files you want to on your phone - it's what I do. And as an anecdotal data point (FWIW), I've been using it since the Dropbox debacle, with a pretty large data set on wea
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by badsock 12y ago
I was talking about corruption, not economic growth. I'll bite, though. The corrolation between high tax rates and economic growth is an incredibly partisan issue. There are lots of people saying that they are connected, but there ar
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by badsock 12y ago
You seem to be unnecessarily conflating taxation with corruption. There are plenty of places that collect high taxes that don't have that sort of routine unethical behaviour.
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by badsock 12y ago
Sorry, you're right - tant caps are irreplacable in some applications. I overcorrected on madaxe_again's assertation that tantalum used universally in electronics, when really the number of places that it's used, and couldn&
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by badsock 12y ago
Tantalum capacitors are increasingly rare, and are trivial to substitute. Tantalum resistors I would say are downright exotic. And other than lightbulbs, I've never heard of tungsten used in electronics.
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by badsock 12y ago
I recently had mine taken out. I had a hard look at the nonsurgical alternatives, and what studies I found convinced me that they are essentially quackery. Given that one of the largest causes of emergency room visits (and emergency surgeri
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by badsock 12y ago
I've looked into this, but I'm torn. In my mind the most compelling arguments against lead-free are: of the studies of factory workers who work every day with lead/tin solder, they couldn't find elevated blood lead leve
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by badsock 12y ago
It's more of a ribbon than a cable - it would float gently down.
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by badsock 12y ago
I agree that those who advocate communism always seem to fall back on what is essentially the "Well it's never been tried out properly " argument, which I don't find convincing at all. It also happens to be the argumen
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by badsock 12y ago
OK, well that answers the question in my other comment. So, given that this theory has never been tested, why are you so confident in it? So confident, in fact, that you imagine everyone else in this thread to be completely ignorant of bas
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by badsock 12y ago
You characterize the people who disagree with you as being both uneducated in economics and closed-minded. Have you considered the possibility that there are those of us who are well versed in economic theory, including those favoured by l
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by badsock 12y ago
This is just one of many such charts: http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif Unfortunately it's impossible to make a proper comparison since essentially all developed nations except for the USA
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by badsock 12y ago
This is nothing more than a straw-man argument. You can't possibly fail to see the difference between a government providing social services on one hand and instituting a Stalinist dictatorship on the other, can you?
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by badsock 12y ago
I'd really like it if you'd answer his actual question. My recurring issue with libertarians is that they make very grand claims based on untested, and frankly very simplistic, theory. Real economies have perennially made fools
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by badsock 12y ago
Amdahl's law is a SOB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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by badsock 12y ago
Awesome, great to hear and thank you for the link!
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by badsock 12y ago
Lately I've been looking into having CPUs run untrusted machine code (e.g. Google's Native Client). Hope you don't mind a completely off-topic question: is it anywhere on your team's radar to have provisions for that?
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by badsock 12y ago
Dropbox, who appointed Condoleezza Rice to their board, asked the US government to restrain their spying?
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by badsock 12y ago
If you'd like, there's also the option of kicking some money in for this: https://mayone.us/
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by badsock 12y ago
Maybe try this: http://www.dspguide.com/ch8.htm Really great book in any case.
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Robots Are Strong: The Sci-Fi Myth Of Robotic Competence(popsci.com)
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by badsock 12y ago
Do you have any examples of where your theory has become reality? Because there are several examples of the opposite happening (e.g. overall less crime in Portugal).
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by badsock 12y ago
Same here, except I went with BTSync. Really glad I did - it's a nice little product.
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by badsock 12y ago
Your thesis seems to be that education could be made better simply by making it private rather than public, and that it would be so obviously better that it could serve as a beacon. Given that there is evidence of very successful schools ru
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by badsock 12y ago
The capital costs of supermarkets are much, much lower relative to their operating costs. However, using that context: contrast supermarkets with the roads that are used by both their suppliers and their consumers, and you have another good
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by badsock 12y ago
I certainly suffered under that monopoly (as did the entire industry) but couldn't the argument be made that market forces took care of it without government intervention? I'm aware that there was an anti-trust judgement against t
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by badsock 12y ago
The mobile sector is a great example of a natural monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly In this case, competition is the problem not the solution. It makes no sense to build out massive cellular netw

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