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by gaur 11y ago
"Audio sideband" is a common term for AM or FM sidebands from dc to a few tens of kilohertz or a few hundred kilohertz. Not exactly the same as calling a 10-km wavelength EM wave an audio wave, though.
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by gaur 11y ago
> I immediately delete anything that gets one down vote. That's a problem that's on you to solve, not the HN community. You should stand by your comments instead of just deleting them, and you shouldn't take downvotes as a
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by gaur 11y ago
What on earth possesses people to insert extra spaces between all the operators? It's so ugly and unnecessary.
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by gaur 11y ago
When I said "hard to see how that would be legal", I meant it with regard to modern legal systems, not semi-fictional bronze age legal systems where people can be stoned to death for innocuous things.
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by gaur 11y ago
Then I don't know why the author didn't just say "his family will have to continue paying out of his estate". I suspect that kind of obligation is very legal and common in most of Europe and North America (and probably e
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by gaur 11y ago
> Although the amount Mr. Raffray already paid is more than twice the apartment's current market value, his widow is obligated to keep sending that monthly check. If Mrs. Calment outlives her, too, then the Raffray children and gran
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by gaur 11y ago
> thinks it's a good idea to permanently sentence a person The courts have not been involved, so there is no sentencing going on. > This is the height of intolerance I have ever seen. Then you haven't really seen much. See,
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by gaur 11y ago
Was anyone in this LambdaConf "debacle" killed, jailed or beaten? Did they have their civil rights violated? No? Then the description of what happened as "an utterly terrifying mob mentality that has unchecked capability to d
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by gaur 11y ago
There are plenty of pro-police-state judges who would trip over themselves to issue AI-generated warrants. It will not get resolved through the courts.
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by gaur 11y ago
The article is satire, but I have no doubt that there are interviewers who intentionally use some of these techniques.
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by gaur 11y ago
> there are only pictographic characters. Only a small percentage of Chinese characters are pictographs. Over 95% are compounds, with the first part suggesting the broad category of meaning and the second part suggesting the pronunciatio
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by gaur 11y ago
I am suspicious of work/life advice from people whose ultimate life goals involve tropical vacations and alcohol.
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by gaur 11y ago
Logic and common sense will never override the primal urge that humans have to punish each other over actions that don't matter.
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by gaur 11y ago
Mostly went over my head, but an interesting read nonetheless.
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by gaur 11y ago
Agreed. I was expecting something meatier than "Welp, I guess the judge is going to take another look at the All Writs Act".
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by gaur 11y ago
The bandwidth of POTS is limited to about one decade, from 300 Hz to 3.3 kHz. Often you don't notice the poor quality while using POTS. But if you ever listen to an NPR show where a journalist is calling into the studio over POTS, it&#
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by gaur 11y ago
Concise version, presented chronologically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Stradivarius
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by gaur 11y ago
> fewer shitty jobs building stuff I agree that jobs involving manual labor and assembly have a higher risk of physical injury than desk jobs. But I don't agree that "building stuff" is categorically more shitty than, say,
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by gaur 11y ago
> because things were seriously getting out of hand. Whatever that means.
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by gaur 11y ago
Non-metric units... sigh...
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by gaur 11y ago
> You know with current technology we can't have completely driver-less cars. Why not? Doesn't the Google car have a near-spotless record with minimal human intervention?
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by gaur 11y ago
> contact your representatives and let them know you care. Unless you have a lot of money, your representatives don't care. It seems like the only way to make progress is to support stronger encryption, with less of a possibility of
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by gaur 11y ago
> this becomes a gigantic public debate where we scramble to enact legislation that removes this power from the government. No such thing will happen. The public will forget this ever happened, and politicians will do nothing to prevent
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by gaur 11y ago
Regardless of the veracity, it reads like a revenge fantasy written by a high-school student. The dialog is cartoonish: > Amazingly, he thought that would make me want to back down. > "OK. Do it." > The three of them were
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by gaur 11y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number > Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. In certain jurisdictions, there are images that are illegal to po
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by gaur 11y ago
I think the problem is that many people who don't use LaTeX (and some who do) are so inept at typography that it actually impedes the reader's ability to use the document. One LaTeX-agnostic example is when people abuse hyphens-li
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by gaur 11y ago
> to give biologists more assistance in producing professionally typeset documents So why does it seem like Greider's paper received none of that assistance? It's typeset in double-spaced Arial. Both double-spacing and Arial ar
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by gaur 11y ago
> Scholars actually pay journals to publish their papers. Depends on the journal and the field, really.
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by gaur 11y ago
I really don't understand what people think they're gaining with a permanent DST offset. It's not going to increase the amount of sunlight in each day. If you don't like the timing of your job (e.g., you feel like you do
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by gaur 11y ago
> the offset from UTC is arbitrary anyways. It manifestly is not. Noon on the west coast of the continental US happens about 8 hours after noon in the UK. That's why it's nominally UTC-8, not UTC-5 or UTC+12. And regardless of

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