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by bigtones 5y ago
Awesome project !
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by bigtones 5y ago
Apple Lossless HD Audio is not spatial audio. They're two different things. Lossless HD Audio is uncompressed audio at around 9216 kbps. Spatial Dolby Atmos audio is compressed audio at between 384 and 768 kbps
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by bigtones 5y ago
Agreed - Ben Horowitz, A16Z Founder, loves the Rap genre of music. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ben-horowitz-loves-rap-2...
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by bigtones 5y ago
This article published last night by the ACLU is in direct response to the New York Times piece below published yesterday to counter the narrative the ACLU is in an identity crisis. The identity crisis as detailed in the NY Times article st
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by bigtones 5y ago
Yes, the DOJ subpoenaed Stack Overflow as part of the investigation. It's pretty standard. Normally the DOJ gets access to all the emails of the target of the investigation, then from there they look through the emails and subpoena any
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by bigtones 5y ago
Facebook monetizes that type of engagement on their platform just fine.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Super speed self driving ;-)
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by bigtones 5y ago
Right, it's pretty much the standard already.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Wow, his comments were super honest as to his reasons for stepping down. It's refreshing in such a transition that it's not smothered in corporate speak written by lawyers or HR, or the common go-to of 'spending more time wit
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by bigtones 5y ago
If you fall in the water strapped into a chair you will drown.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Because you said you're "self hosted" on 'some cloud'. You don't need to pay Elastic if you're self-hosted and not using the Elastic Cloud - you can just download it and use it for free.
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by bigtones 5y ago
Are you even a customer if you don't pay Elastic any money ? Your a user, sure, but not a customer. These other opinions and negative voices you reference come from actual customers who pay Elastic large sums of money, and they feel th
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by bigtones 5y ago
I agree - they're definitely different from the Big Machine versions and no where near as lively or enjoyable (and I'm a Taylor fan). Seems like they were all recorded in one day one after the other just to pump them out.
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by bigtones 6y ago
1inMM also used contributions from new investors to pay out to older investors in this scheme as well, which is one of the hallmarks of a true Ponzi scheme.
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by bigtones 6y ago
A young woman was caught on film vaping - it is inconclusive to me it was THAT young woman.
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by bigtones 6y ago
Not quite perfect. Page links to "Don't be dumb with typography" which talks about using smart quotes instead of dumb quotes - then in the quote block further down the page uses dumb quotes :-(
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by bigtones 6y ago
The National Labor Relations Board has no teeth at all. The NLRB does not have the authority to impose any penalties or punitive damages on the employer, Amazon, but it can order Amazon to cease and desist from the unfair labor practices an
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by bigtones 6y ago
I wonder what web tool they use to make them ?
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by bigtones 6y ago
I agree with this. Humans have a tough time driving in the snow for quite a few reasons, but the ability of our eyes (which are fantastic technology) to differentiate objects covered in white snow is a big part of it, so camera's and C
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by bigtones 6y ago
And the Jira team
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by bigtones 6y ago
Selam Jie Gano, a female at MIT when he worked there wrote: “There is no single person that is so deserving of praise their comments deprecating others should be allowed to slide. Particularly when those comments are excuses about rape, ass
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by bigtones 6y ago
Are they.... here is a direct quote from him on a pro-pedophilia political party in 2006 that many that people took offence with: “I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm see
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by bigtones 6y ago
Same in New Zealand - super gross.
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by bigtones 6y ago
Google already have their own knowledge graph that is much bigger than the Wikipedia graph, and they already scrape every Wikipedia page daily so they don't need a Wikipedia API.
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by bigtones 6y ago
I wonder if it is better to stay with the plane crash rather than to leave it, like the article mentions ? Maybe if the crash is in a jungle like the last survivor, it is better to leave your landing crater and find help.
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by bigtones 6y ago
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch (the Queen) - not the Government.
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by bigtones 6y ago
Tell that to Restoration Hardware (RH).
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by bigtones 6y ago
Its also prime for fraud and pork barreling without accountability. The press plays an important role in democratic accountability and without FOI they are unable to do that.
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by bigtones 6y ago
The Queen of England is also the head of the Australian Government, and has the power to fire the Prime Minister of Australia. She actually did so in 1975.
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by bigtones 6y ago
This is true, and so do a lot of high end headphones that are not studio monitors. Pretty much any of them over $300 have a DSP in them configured to a curve.

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