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by eon1 10y ago
> We already have our phones in our hands. Huh? Phone in hand while scanning stuff at the self-serve checkout? The only time I can think of myself using the phone while buying something is maybe at a convenience store while I'm on
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by eon1 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious; what is The Apple Pay Experience? What sucks so bad about our current setup? What is so hugely different about tapping your phone instead of a card that it could possibly convince me to go through 3-4 extra steps
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by eon1 10y ago
Why do you think people would use their iPhones over the cards they already use, though? That's going backwards in terms of efficiency for the user, and it's not like the majority of people care about security.
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by eon1 10y ago
Really? I had a discussion with an American about this a while ago and they seemed stunned at how easy and efficient tap'n'go sounded compared to what they had available. I mean, we're fairly behind in most things here, but i
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by eon1 10y ago
That sounds like an interesting challenge, actually..
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by eon1 10y ago
Yep, there were experiments using them to transmit sounds directly into people's heads - successfully, I might add. There's a whole crowd of tinfoily types convinced they're victims of govt harassment via these technologies,
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by eon1 10y ago
Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if this is fairly common, especially when you consider what happens when a lipo battery has a 'problem'. I'd want whatever's charging that up to be as exacting as possible.
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by eon1 10y ago
I'm not really sure what to make of this analogy. Are you suggesting that the mechanic maintaining a 747 is on the same level as the design and fabrication team who built it?
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by eon1 10y ago
..because the engineers have created things that the company can continue to profit off. They're not factory workers, they don't need to be there on the day-to-day to add that value, so it's a little disingenuous to suggest t
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by eon1 10y ago
More mods doesn't necessarily mean more moderation, or the ability to moderate more content. From what I've seen it just means the moderation happens quicker and the mods pay less attention because "someone else will pick it
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by eon1 10y ago
Fair point, and in the context of Uber, this is particularly true
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by eon1 10y ago
Yep. It's politics, too. I recently got asked to stay longer at my job - not to do more work or be more productive, but because the apparent flexibility with which I approached my schedule was causing consternation among some nearby de
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by eon1 10y ago
It would be around/above 20KHz, not below; our hearing is theoretically ~20Hz-20KHz (though almost noone starts out actually able to hear that high and the high frequencies decrease with age). AD/DA converters will also apply a lo
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by eon1 10y ago
Sort of. Facebook also pours money into making its platform family-friendly through moderation teams, auto-detection of obscene/inappropriate content, etc. Not to mention all the analytics and targeting capabilities of their advertisin
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by eon1 10y ago
In practice it'd just be the standard of the signal that's being recorded (PAL/NTSC/SECAM). Wouldn't surprise me if the actual tape is capable of handling more..
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by eon1 10y ago
Wouldn't that be closer to the reel-to-reel of analog video recording? (..which is also making a somewhat more understated comeback)
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by eon1 10y ago
Not to mention vinyl has to be specially mastered for, so the content isn't even 1:1.
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by eon1 10y ago
Technically better doesn't inherently mean more enjoyable, though. I would say the success of "VHS Camera" apps and the like (and mostly with people scarcely old enough to remember what a VHS looked like) suggests there'
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by eon1 10y ago
Yes, they did. An inherent tradeoff between mids and bass has to be made to prevent the needle skipping, too. A great example is if you go listen to roots or dub reggae, like Barrington Levy - mids are sucked in to accommodate the huge bass
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by eon1 10y ago
Sounds a bit similar to the fractal compression experiments[0][1] that were eventually repurposed in stuff like Perfect Resize. IIRC, it worked a bit like RLE, but by generating an IFS on the fly that could be used to recreate the image, in
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by eon1 10y ago
How on earth did a 7MB raw blow out to a 20MB TIFF? Isn't that going from uncompressed RGBG to losslessly compressed RGB?
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by eon1 10y ago
Lots of genres involve math compositionally, and some for performance - mathrock, jazz, some classical compositions, even pop music, it's definitely necessary to properly comprehend a piece. Let alone if you're going to try anythi