dimnsionofsound

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by dimnsionofsound 5y ago
So that your escape money doesn’t get eaten away by inflation. You could put it in a low-ish risk portfolio composed of some bonds, indexes, etc so that it continues to make some amount of money.
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by dimnsionofsound 5y ago
Outcompete in what sense? Certainly more working can lead to more of something, but I’m not sure we all agree on what that something is, and whether or not all of it is valuable (or even whether a significant amount is something to avoid).
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
I did biphasic sleep in high school (1.5h nap at 16:30, 4.5h sleep at 2:00) for my junior and part of senior year, and it was incredible. It allowed me to do nearly all of my homework right when it was assigned while also having time for my
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
I was thinking it’d be something more like this: http://www.windytan.com/2015/10/pea-whistle-steganography.ht...
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
I have often wondered what the best way to communicate things like that is, because of this exact problem. It seems like you really can’t win, if you’re the one doing the messaging, trading results now against trust later.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
The implicit threat of loss of funding and/or access is often enough to sway editorial decisions in a way that could appear like direct control.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
This sounds like a healthy perspective and I appreciate you acknowledging that having kids might not be for everyone, as someone who is leaning that way myself. Thank you.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Found the video where he says this: https://youtu.be/PRQVzPEyldc
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Linus Sebastian from Linus Media Group has said somewhere that a YouTube premium viewer is worth several times as much as an ad-supported viewer apparently. Apologies for no citation on this.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Link seems to be broken ?
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
I understand you don’t agree with the cheaper cars argument, and I don’t either. To the people that would seriously make this argument though, I ask them this: If the location or other telemetry data is so valuable that the manufacturer sel
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
It seems like consequences are the only language that bad actors understand, unfortunately.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
You’d be surprised what modern neodymium drivers in a well designed enclosure can accomplish bass-wise. Though you are right in that the laws of physics have not changed, and something has to give, usually what has “given” is the increase i
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
I’m not sure this idea is all that they’re marketing it as. Here’s a video discussing the drawbacks [0], the guy doing the video can be kind of abrasive at times but worth watching/skimming as a counterpoint. [0]: https://yo
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Another great reason I want to continue working remote: Why would I want to leak any information in my body language to coworkers or management? I have no idea what they are going to do with said information, and the fact that I'm not
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Agreed. I'm not having kids and trying not to get too down on the daily about the future of our species. Based on what I know about human nature I see almost no realistic way out of this without some sort of technological deus-ex-machi
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Before I turned that on, watching BBC documentaries in 25 FPS the judder was very noticeable on panning shots. Definitely worth enabling if your device supports it.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Your tax dollars as a wealthy individual also pay for the police forces to keep the less wealthy people from coming and just taking your property, as they might in a state with zero taxes and thus zero public services, without you spending
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
I saw an insurance company claiming that it uses satellite imagery (among other things) to “provide cheaper insurance” to homeowners. Not sure if what they really mean is that they are trying to more accurately price it; who knows what unkn
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
The market is also distorted by us humans' inelastic demand for food and housing, which means sometimes sellers can charge higher prices for things such as these that people cannot go without if they don't like the price. I'm
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
Though transformers only work with AC.
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by dimnsionofsound 6y ago
This is called Ripple Control, for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_management#Ripple_control
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by dimnsionofsound 7y ago
Mildly related, here’s another instance of harmful things you can buy on Amazon: “negative ion” trinkets that are actually radioactive [1]. [1]: https://youtu.be/C7TwBUxxIC0
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by dimnsionofsound 7y ago
Sounds about right to me. The book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris discusses this phenomenon r.e. people need to feel the best at something so they pick ever smaller niches or hobbies where they can finally compete at a level where they hav
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by dimnsionofsound 7y ago
I appreciated your original comment for the reasons you listed in this one. +1
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by dimnsionofsound 7y ago
Is a phone number really required to sign up?
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by dimnsionofsound 8y ago
The abstract on this [1] makes me think something similar could be happening here: low attenuation implies the resonance would take quite a number of cycles to die out like the one discussed in the article. Here’s another abstract [2] descr
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by dimnsionofsound 8y ago
The author of redux-form created another library, final-form, that doesn’t need redux or react and has most of the features of redux form and has built in lessons he learned from writing redux-form. There’s a separate React-final-form packa
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by dimnsionofsound 8y ago
If anyone wants to try a demonstration of sonar on their own laptop and learn how it works along the way by coding part of it, one of the classes I took and later graded labs for has a Jupyter notebook you can download for Lab 1: Laptop Son