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>The 3.5mm jack outputs the regular audio data. You could just make it output encrypted data, but that is the same as removing it, all the headphones won't work. The 3.5mm jack outputs an analog signal. It's already been conver
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You're right; I was thinking the same after I posted. There certainly is a parallel. I suppose I've never given thought to whichever edition of a book I've read.
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Sometimes records aren't as fungible as books, i.e., a particular record is going to have a certain rarity, condition, and (obviously) location, whereas a book is a book and it doesn't really matter which specific copy of that boo
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>do you rip your vinyl to digital format? No, I haven't yet. I do have a good phono preamp with a digital output for digitizing records that I got as an open-box deal. I have one album that doesn't exist online anywhere so I&#x
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>Additionally - curation. I do to specialty shops because I want to have a conversation with a knowledgable salesperson This is why I'm happy to pay a premium at my local record shop. I love talking with the owner and he's alwa
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> so, the brick and mortar electronic equipment store adds what value? I got my last turntable from a brick-and-mortar after doing plenty of research online. I took some records with me and could listen to them through a couple different
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Why I love my local record shops: * chatting with the owner who is supremely knowledgeable about the kinds of music I like, and buying records based on his advice * looking for something similar to music I've found online, perhaps by t
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Here's a nice article: http://www.soundandvision.com/content/vinyl-obsession-revill...
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Record stores are doing great where I live in the Netherlands, and I couldn't disagree more that it's not fun to browse a music store. I love spending an afternoon flipping through records; fortunately there are 8-9 of them whose
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>* If you stop a song and come back in a few minutes, it has forgotten and goes back to the start of the song. If you leave it for a few hours, it just restarts the app and goes to the homepage, and you have no way of figuring out what y
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10y ago
Is this standard iPhone thief operating procedure?
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I don't see umbrellas on bikes too much in the Netherlands, but when I do they're often this type of aerodynamic shaped umbrella: http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/dossiers/archive/senz-umbre...
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>I've not been to Kazakhstan but traveled Africa and South America extensively. I don't follow why the steppes of Central Asia should be culturally similar to Africa and South America (each massively diverse in their own right)
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>Don't downvote, it's true. Animals can read your thoughts. The mechanism seems to be that they can see your visualizations: I can call my sister's cat in from outside "telepathically" by clearly "seeing&quo
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Well, ideally "leave no trace" and "don't mess with wildlife" are adhered to when in nature edit: it's also illegal in national parks, carrying up to a $5000 fine and six months in jail
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Look at the rows
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I'd offer that "good musical taste" is one that is at least somewhat conciously expanded or music is proactively consumed. Someone who "likes just whatever is popular on the radio" has poor musical taste, whereas so
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It's a bad title that isn't reflected in the article. FTA: "'Our results show that there is a profound cultural difference' in the way people respond to consonant and dissonant sounds, says Josh McDermott, a cogniti
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_Weather_Radio I remember one of my parents' old cars (mid-90s) having a WX channel on the radio. More recently i've only ever seen it available over VHF radio while boating.
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>The submitter is posting spam to HN. Except in the case where it is the submitter's own paywalled content, how is that spam? The submitter isn't benefitting from the paywall.
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You're still served ads with a paid NYT subscription? edit: well, I had been thinking about a subscription. I suppose not anymore.
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Oops! I subconciously read all of the above as "wind farms."
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>however they could be moved out of the way of the hurricane and moved back afterwards. This is fairly impractical. It is one thing for an individual moored structure to be moved from the path of a hurricane (e.g. a moored semisubmersibl
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Can you expand why the countries of the EU are so fundamentally incompatible that their breakup is inevitable (and, as you claim from the start)?
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Are you suggesting that a small village's worth of British troops in Germany is what placates Europe? I'm not really sure what you mean, or what you think will be so fascinating should they leave Germany.
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10y ago
You make cold brew coffee without any heat at all by immersing grounds in water for a long time. There are different methods that produce either concentrate or ready-to-drink, and some chill in the fridge during the brew process and some le
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You tried to compare the US to Europe impying that US states are functionally equivalent to countries of Europe, sharing only currency but differing in laws and society (and, weird example you gave, the people they hate). Cultural differenc
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>Let's hope NL will manage to avoid that. Recent polls suggest that the NL will not leave. I certainly hope not, and as a foreigner living, working, and paying taxes in the NL I'm really upset that I'd not be able to vote
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>they only use the same money, and it's still splitted in "nation" then it's the same, different rules, different culture Have you ever actually been to the US?
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10y ago
Has anyone listened (well, ideally only briefly) to Max Richter's eight hour Sleep composition? http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4795267
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