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by hsitz 6y ago
I don't really follow the idea that "midi is lossy" in the sense described. Because it uses note-on/note-off pairs? I don't see the problem there. Certainly the idea that a score somehow has more information in it
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by hsitz 6y ago
Where does the issue of higher drug prices in U.S. vs. lower prices outside of U.S. issue fit into this? Any links to info on that?
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by hsitz 6y ago
>The “Medicare is more efficient” argument is essentially predicated on the idea that physicians would be forced to accept the lower fee schedules for everyone, which essentially amounts to “price controls”. If doctors/hospitals wer
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by hsitz 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Regarding the Medicare Part D provisions, which you call "price controls" . . . to many that term may imply that pharmaceutical companies have had to lower their prices for Medicare. My understandin
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by hsitz 6y ago
I believe there are studies of the U.S. Medicare program that show it to be more efficient than private insurers. (Maybe someone knows a weblink to info on that issue offhand . . . ). Moroever, my understanding is that Medicare could be e
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by hsitz 6y ago
The Z80 was the chip in the original Radio Shack TRS-80 computers. I got one back in 1979, when I was 15 years old. I had a book on the Z80, the text in this article brings back memories, and figured out how to do some simple machine lang
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by hsitz 6y ago
Org-mode is another package that is due to "non-professional" developers. Carsten Dominik, the original creator of org-mode, is a professor of astronomy. [1] A lot of people who've contributed to org-mode are academics in f
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by hsitz 6y ago
> The claim that "whites" are going to become a minority soon is arrived at by redefining "white" to exclude white-identified Hispanic people. You can look at the numbers in your chart and see that basically all of th
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by hsitz 6y ago
True generally regarding tenant responsibility if new tenant can't be found, but good luck recovering anything at all from a tenant who was evicted because they couldn't pay rent. It seems to me that any landlord who understood th
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by hsitz 6y ago
That's an interesting thought that I don't think I've encountered before; I'll think about that.
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by hsitz 6y ago
Python4Delphi project has been around for around twenty years now, allows using Python from within a Delphi/Lazarus GUI framework: https://github.com/pyscripter/python4delphi
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by hsitz 6y ago
A lot of the points in the article coincide with ideas from the blogger Mr. Money Mustache, who frequently reminds that overcoming hardships is a primary source of satisfaction in life. One example is his piece on the desire for luxury as
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by hsitz 6y ago
Relevant Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_literature
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by hsitz 6y ago
It doesn't sound like this is for you. If "wife test" means the wife using and it and liking it, pretty sure it would fail. It's not what this is marketed for. An Amazon Kindle tablet would be more what you're lo
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by hsitz 6y ago
Yes, so easy it doesn't really combine them. Compatibilism gives an explanation that essentially redefines what is meant by "free will". Compatibilism makes compatible a concept of determinism and a specific concept of &quot
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by hsitz 6y ago
Maybe you're familiar with Yuval Noah Harari's position in the free will vs. determinism debate. He argues that, not only is the idea of free will a myth, it's harmful to society: https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by hsitz 6y ago
First, if you're talking about swabbing, then I think you're talking about the test to see whether a person is currently infected with the virus. That's what the article you linked was regarding. The antibody tests are a diff
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by hsitz 6y ago
You seem to live in a different world than mine. In mine, social media would be much less of a problem if people tended to shy away from online confrontation. The online/social media problem is in large part one of people defending t
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by hsitz 6y ago
Just curious, what "history" are you talking about? Do you have some reference links?
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by hsitz 6y ago
The chromeos boot actually isn't quite instant, even if they call it that. But it is not at all suspend to ram; it's a full boot in the space of a few seconds. Of course, most of the time I just do a suspend, like an ordinary no
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by hsitz 6y ago
Well, I bought my first computer (TRS-80) in 1979, first laptop in 1990, and I've had lots of different computers. MS-DOS, nearly every version of Windows, Linux versions since 1995, never a Mac OS but I got an iPad last year. Right
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by hsitz 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Crouton is different from Crostini, and it's Crostini that is the default/built-in Linux container on Chromeos (on a Pixelbook). I've been using Crostini on Chromeos since N
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by hsitz 6y ago
Not to mention he considers sneezing/coughing/breathing but not intermediate actions like talking.
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by hsitz 6y ago
That was not at all a dishonest response. And, no, the exceptions don't diminish the gravity of the order. But the exceptions, which I believe every such order has had, do diminish the severity of the restriction. It is a huge stret
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by hsitz 6y ago
I'm curious, was the official word always that even N95 masks didn't protect the wearer? Or just that "masks" in general (i.e., lesser masks) would not protect wearers?
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by hsitz 6y ago
Sweden is a country of only 10 million people, relatively homogeneous, and not a society where people have a distrust of experts and/or science. They are voluntarily limiting social interaction because they understand how important it
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by hsitz 6y ago
In addition, there's little doubt that the infection has spread far more widely in NYC area than elsewhere. The covid-19 death rate per capita in NYC is 3 to 20 times higher other areas of the U.S. So even if NYC area had 20% who had
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by hsitz 6y ago
Yes, NYC had factors that made it particularly susceptible in a global pandemic of Covid-19: (1) high density (as you say), (2) lots of international travel to and from NYC, (3) heavily used public transit (covid virus lifespan on metal su
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by hsitz 6y ago
Yeah, but the truth is in what you don't say. The top 8 density areas were all NYC metro area, all of them small small population cities (<70k) except for NYC at #6 with over 8,000,000 population!
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by hsitz 6y ago
It is C that is pretty close to true. Laws don't give states their powers. It is in fact the states that make their own laws, subject to some restrictions from the U.S. Constitution.

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