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by badsock 12y ago
It's not the libertarians specifically, it's the idea that governments are incapable of improving anything, which has much broader support. The EU ban on this practice has been effective. Whatever it is that makes the US governme
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People have covered a lot of the rational reasons, so here's an emotional one. I've been coding a bunch of Rust lately, and I'm happy to discover it has my favourite thing from Haskell: the "if it compiles it's usua
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by badsock 13y ago
Good plan! I made an electric tenor violin once (twice as big as a regular violin). The only difficult part of it was the fingerboard - very complex because it's curved in all three dimensions. It can take a luthier who knows what the
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by badsock 13y ago
Thanks for the link! That's just what I was looking for re: interpolation. Looking their acquisition rig, however, it seems like a choice between a large array of cameras, or one camera and a still image. It will be interesting to se
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by badsock 13y ago
There's something I don't understand: I've heard that one of the keys for avoiding VR motion sickness is having both rotational and positional head tracking. A naive interpretation would be that for that to be possible from
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by badsock 13y ago
I remember this - we had to play D&D in secret because of several of our friend's parents. It's interesting to have seen, first hand, part of our long unbroken chain of freaking out, from rock and roll to instagram; this giant
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by badsock 13y ago
You're conflating views with actions. The linked page talks nothing about Rice's views, it talks about the way that she has used her power in this world, and what the outcomes have been. If you're advocating that the business
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by badsock 13y ago
All modelling is based on past experience. The usefulness of a model is the degree to which you can abstract it from that experience. In the case of the pot of water, you can observe the energy input into the system and combine that with s
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In many systems you can predict larger scale events (when the pot of water will boil) despite being unable to predict smaller scale ones (turbulent flow inside the pot).
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Or Zuckerberg's examples: seeing an avatar of your doctor in 3D, or your classmates in a classroom. It's got the whole "imagine a fridge that can tweet you when your milk is about to expire!" smell of having to work far
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by badsock 13y ago
I can't help but be reminded of eBay's acquisition of Skype. Back then people talked about how it must be part of some grand strategy that would surely be revealed as eBay played its hand, because it didn't make a lot of sen
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I disagree based on my experience with equally bureaucratic and wasteful private organizations. My take is that we simply don't have the right organizational frameworks to undertake large, ongoing tasks involving lots of people. I don
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You know, you're right - I'm extrapolating too much from the "released in whatever format the masters are in" claim.
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by badsock 13y ago
I think we agree on the 24/192 thing being foolish, but the one significantly positive aspect of Pono is that it would allow access to remastered recordings without the loudness-wars style compression (Californication being a great exa
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by badsock 13y ago
In case you're wondering, everything was at the front because he was trying to hit a price point for DIYers, and the custom-cut end panels were a big line item. By putting everything in one panel, the other could be left unaltered at
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by badsock 13y ago
Even then, there's still Android 2.x, currently 1/4 of the Android population. Though it's a safe bet that WinXP will be the more tenacious of the two.
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by badsock 13y ago
Your question's been well answered by ars, but often the next question is: how dangerous would it be to people on earth if it broke? The answer is not at all. As lutorm points out the cable would be vanishingly thin - there would be a
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by badsock 13y ago
I ordered from them exactly once, and it took so long that I eventually got in touch to see what was going on: they had forgotten about my order. Soon after, I received 4 rush packages from them (all from the same address), with only a cou
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I'm conflicted about Hillis. On one hand there's stuff like this, and especially his involvement with the Long Now foundation (if you haven't checked out his design for the 10,000 year clock, you really should; clever soluti
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Also, for anyone interested, one of my favourite talks is about a study of political forecasters and their accurancy over the years, seen from this perspective: (the video is paywalled, but the audio is free): http://longnow.org&
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by badsock 13y ago
What's your reasoning for places like Switzerland and Norway, where the government is much more involved in day-to-day life, but less militarized in that involvement? Same goes for most of the European countries, and Canada/New Z