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by lz400 9y ago
If you have the patience, sure. In my desktop I keep everything on the big file source and listen to it that way. I also have dedicated DACs/AMPs that can decode all the way up to DSD. I know it probably doesn't make a difference
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by lz400 9y ago
There's a very straightforward practical reason why you might want to keep downloading 24/192. The people who put those together are on average "audiophile" snobs so the rips tend to be perfect, often from high quality s
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by lz400 9y ago
What do we mean with "odds so firmly stacked in their favor" here? You seem to imply spreads so large they eat all the volatility? Is that all?
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by lz400 9y ago
For anyone reading this, don't take this comment as gospel, or the comments disagreeing. There are 2 factions, they both generally hate each other and there's an incredible amount of shilling, astroturfing, etc. From both sides. T
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by lz400 9y ago
Occurrences of people getting hacked to the tune of 6 figures are common in bitcoin forums and subreddits. I think by now so many hackers must be rich out of this.
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by lz400 9y ago
Agreed. Still, I expected he doesn't really need a job and if he takes one is to advance his futurist agenda, not to do gmail features. Maybe he can't do the work himself but what I expected to hear is he is a leader or at least a
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't know he's credited with inventing the flatbed scanner and also what were probably the best music synthesizers of his time (which are still called Kurzweil!). That seems pretty impressive. But this was all a long time ago,
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by lz400 9y ago
This... looks surprisingly unambitious for somebody like Kurzweil, who thinks a computer will pass the Turing test in 12 years and we'll all be immortal gods in 30. I'd have expected he'd be doing "moonshot" stuff.
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by lz400 9y ago
Ok you are right, now that I read what I wrote it could be interpreted that way and it wasn't my intention at all. I know Haskell can be used for real world programming because I own a book called "real world haskell" :) I wa
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by lz400 9y ago
I do. I'm not saying it's not possible to reach that state. Just that there are many things I tend to find easier to think about in mutable terms. And when trying to implement immutable equivalents there are also trade offs. I don
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't think he's a "hater" but he's not a reporter his style is opinionated and he tends to swear if that's what you're talking about. You might have read some opinion he had you disagreed with and are l
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by lz400 9y ago
Maybe it helps if I explain better. I find it difficult to use immutable structures if I want certain performance characteristics. It's possible I need more training in certain techniques, but I think that's why I find it difficul
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by lz400 9y ago
He was one of the first big acts, along with Radiohead, experimenting with free downloads (Ghosts I-IV), streaming live performances and rethinking the whole label/album format. He's definitely put a lot of thought (and money) int
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by lz400 9y ago
Sure, agreed, but even if you use more sophisticated immutable structures you either accept the performance/memory trade offs or you have to fall back on mutable structures.
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by lz400 9y ago
I've done a bit of functional programming too and don't get me wrong, I love the FP cultural victory of Java/C# etc. getting immensely useful functions like map, reduce, filter, lambdas and higher order functions. But if you
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by lz400 9y ago
For me one of the biggest hurdles is using immutable data structures all the time. In the real world you want to add to a list or change a map's value. Typically functional programming languages use linked lists to make h::t efficient
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by lz400 9y ago
That's a cool interview. Reznor has always been ahead of the pack in trying to understand the changing of the music business and trying out stuff. He has a lot of insight on that as well as the creative process. Not to mention he'
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by lz400 9y ago
bubbleception
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by lz400 9y ago
To a certain extent, yes. But they have plenty of articles where they argue that governments need to step in and regulate this and that. It's markedly different from true libertarian sources like the Mises institute, etc.
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by lz400 9y ago
Yeah, statist carries the same kind of close minded biased teenage baggage as "cuck", at least to me.
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't know about others but to me anyone that uses a term like "statist", "cuck", "libtard" and stuff like that automatically makes me disconnect.
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by lz400 9y ago
So ABC is like a threat of forking if 2x doesn't happen 3 months later? Is that 2x increase enough to appease the big blockers? As in, does it settle the discussion or this will happen again in 12 months?
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by lz400 9y ago
So to super-simplify it. Who wins with this assumed scenario, the scale on chain/big blockers or the off chain/blockstream faction?
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by lz400 9y ago
The articles mention many options and reasons why the base load problem is vastly overblown. Batteries will probably help in households. The combination of all these methods is what you have to look at. And these technologies are still rapi
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by lz400 9y ago
I disagree. I don't even think nuclear waste is that big of a problem. I think at this point is a efficiency and engineering issue. From 2010 to 2017 the $/Mhw projections in Solar have gone down by 81% while in Nuclear it was onl
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by lz400 9y ago
Some studies beg to differ. Also improvements in batteries will make this problem much less important. And even then, they don't have to cover 100% of the energy generation, if they cover a significant % with the rest provided by more
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by lz400 9y ago
Environmental impact of PV is negligible compared with the alternatives, especially fossil fuels.
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by lz400 9y ago
PV are pretty much competitive now without subsidies in current studies and getting better all the time. The "renewables are not competitive" is a thing of the past.
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by lz400 9y ago
Very cheap oil is very recent and it's an artificial situation created by pumping by OPEC countries. Fracking was only worth it because of how expensive oil was before, now it's not worth it anymore while oil stays this cheap. I t
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't think so. Fission is being killed by its lack of competitiveness and how long reactors take to build in a world where renewables are getting better so quickly people think twice about locking themselves up in a multi billion nu

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