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by motbob 7y ago
This summary only talks about the effects of dairy, rather than whole-fat dairy specifically. Does the article say more?
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by motbob 7y ago
Universal Paperclips is a game where you play as an AI and, among other things, attempt to win over the trust of humanity so that you can eventually take over the planet. Curing cancer gives you +10 trust; curing male pattern baldness gives
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by motbob 7y ago
I think it used to be that Google encoded every video in H.264, but also encoded some videos in VP9: the popular ones. That made a lot of sense--no need to dedicate a lot of encoding power for every video when quick-and-dirty x264 will ge
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by motbob 7y ago
>I'll also point out that the reported MOS scores have several oddities, like an 8mbps av1 stream being rates lower than it's own 6mbps stream. That reminds me of the old, hilariously broken ffmpeg AAC encoder where increasing
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by motbob 7y ago
Netflix encodes and serves a lot of video. So obviously both encode time and low filesizes are important to them. That doesn't change my point that their priorities may be skewed towards lowering filesize moreso than other entities,
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by motbob 7y ago
1) Good post, but there is no "inequity" in GOP length, is there? The paper says " for all encoding technologies , each sequence was split into chunks of one Intra period." 2) I also don't really see why this would
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by motbob 7y ago
I would be careful about rooting for a codec that has strengths/weaknesses that are suspiciously tailored to extremely large media-serving companies. By which I mean, Netflix/Google don't care so much about encode time since
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by motbob 7y ago
>Company, which has every reason to exaggerate, claims it can improve encoding speed by 32.2% against x265 veryslow "It’ll be interesting to see if we find out more info and are able to test this encoder in the coming months."
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by motbob 9y ago
That quote is slightly misstated. It makes it sound like gold bars would be securities (since any profit from reselling gold would be "largely or wholly outside of the investor's control" since the market for gold is so large
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by motbob 11y ago
This article says: 90% of Google's ad revenue comes from ads, and that's a serious problem. Another serious problem is that Google is trying hard to diversify.
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by motbob 11y ago
The article uses numbers pretty dishonestly. "[T]the health costs of EDCs to Europe are between £113 billion and £195 billion (between €160 and €277 billion) every year." There is no mention that pesticides/herbicides are a v
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by motbob 11y ago
What demographic are you expecting to draw from reddit?
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by motbob 11y ago
The point it makes adds to the story, but I think it's an awkward passage and I understand why it was cut.
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by motbob 12y ago
It is a matter of filesize. Testing revealed that using 10-bit allowed for a better picture at similar target bitrates. For an explanation of why this is so, see http://x264.nl/x264/10bit_02-ateme-why_does_10bit_save_ba
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by motbob 12y ago
Anime groups are playing with it. Anime fansub groups, in general, are hungry for the absolute best in codec technology. Hardware and media player compatibility be damned. An example: their use of 10-bit color. There are some groups in the
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by motbob 12y ago
Yeah. In general, this is a big problem, not only for VP8/9, but also for h265 (also known as HVEC). My computer struggles to render 1080p HVEC video lag-free. Early adopters should recognize that there are advantages to using h264 tha
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by motbob 12y ago
I am not sure that the "morality" argument re: adblock has anything to do with the "ad industry and its supporters." Rather, people generally speak in terms of the needs of websites who host ads and the harm done to them
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by motbob 12y ago
Nothing can override a constitutional right to due process. That's what it means for the Constitution to be the "supreme law of the land."
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by motbob 12y ago
We are still far away from this short story reflecting reality. Do you have a better example?
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by motbob 12y ago
I see. I thought it might be impossible for any U.S. entity to ever get standing in a lawsuit against the NSA, but this theory might have a fair shot.
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by motbob 12y ago
Despite what they say in the article, I really don't think they have standing. But I would love to hear why they do from someone familiar with the legal argument.
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by motbob 12y ago
What makes complexity "false"? Is it "complexity I don't find interesting"?
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by motbob 12y ago
When one views reddit moderation decisions through an anti-corporate/governmental lens, circumstantial evidence of mods being paid off seems to be everywhere. But there is not a single piece of direct evidence to suggest that mods are
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by motbob 12y ago
Would collaboration be hurt by spreading things out?
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by motbob 12y ago
The decision is limited to the question of whether Aereo violated the networks' "exclusive right" to "perform" their programs "publicly." The dissent (Scalia, Alido, and Thomas) believe that Aereo did not
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by motbob 12y ago
The ruling only applies to U.S. citizens. As mentioned in the article, the vast majority of people on the list are non-citizens. EDIT: Or perhaps it does apply to non-citizens when they are on U.S. soil. I'm not sure.
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by motbob 13y ago
The article does a bad job of explaining what the Cochrane report finds to be flawed about the clinical trials.
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by motbob 13y ago
When a community is involved, it's not that simple. A slightly better Hacker News, released tomorrow, would not succeed. People wouldn't migrate. Seems to me that unless some catastrophe befalls HN, such as blatant mod abuse or ch
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by motbob 13y ago
A quote from an industry analyst in the article: "No car company can live off 20,000 to 30,000 sales a year and be profitable in the long term." Is this true?
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by motbob 13y ago
EFF's title conjures up images of sites like CNN and Reuters being blocked. A better title might be "Russia Blocks Access to Major Opposition News Sites."

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