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by riprowan 10y ago
> Unless they are being payed by the government, they are obviously creating value for someone (their customers). This is only true provided that a free and fair market exists. Large corporations are often able to exact monopoly rents th
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by riprowan 10y ago
History shows that you can screw the rich. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Hinricht...
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by riprowan 10y ago
If your Bitcoin are not stored in a wallet whose keys you exclusively control, then you do not possess Bitcoin, you possess an IOU for Bitcoin.
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by riprowan 10y ago
... and since the premise of Bitcoin was to free users from precisely these third-parties, it seems that Bitcoin is a bad use-case for these people.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Also obvious is that this will pretty much never happen on any large scale Not obvious to me, if the timescale is expanded sufficiently.
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by riprowan 10y ago
What notebook computer is as durable and has as good a keyboard / touchpad / display? The keyboard and touchpad in particular is why I can't leave. It's ergonomic.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Agreed. I think it's entirely possible that they cannot easily find the skill set they need at 200000€/yr and it's simply that the tech writer did a poor job of communicating the job requirements.
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by riprowan 10y ago
But aren't most job requirements in our field typically written like that? For example I remember receiving calls from recruiters looking for devs with 5+ years of .NET experience when .NET was less than 5 months old.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Income inequality in the Revolutionary era was the lowest ever[1]. > [1] If you don't count the Native Americans who were persecuted and slaughtered for their land. Also [2] if you don't count the imported slaves who contr
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by riprowan 10y ago
> something a lot of newbie/hopeful audio engineers obsess about is "mic bleed", where the mic for one instrument picks up sounds from another. I mostly ignore this. A better approach to "removing" bleed is inste
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by riprowan 10y ago
I think it's important to note that it's unclear that Bitcoin Core will ever allow for a block size increase to occur: several influential Core developers have publicly stated that that are still very much opposed to any increase
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by riprowan 10y ago
> a conservative approach is reasonable Many people argue that Bitcoin was designed with headroom in mind, and pays out handsome block rewards in exchange for subsidized bandwidth, so the "conservative approach" would not be to
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by riprowan 10y ago
I think the point is that fullnodes / holders would raise their own hashpower and mine the spinoff coin themselves.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Mics (and to a lesser degree high-end preamps) are not so easily replicated as digital gear. If you want the sound of a Neumann U87, or U47, or Shure SM7, or 57, then nothing - nothing - is going to scratch that itch like the right mic for
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by riprowan 10y ago
The camera on the bot should switch to wide-angle / fisheye view when it moves, then switch to a regular lens for faces when it's still / just rotating in position. The wide angle / fisheye view would provide a more typi
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by riprowan 10y ago
Most cities succeed or fail based on their governance. Great ideas are awesome - I love them - but governance is where the rubber meets the road. Solve governance, solve everything.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> You'll be asked a few routine questions about where you visited, the purpose of your travel, etc. The agents are usually polite and friendly. But they aren't always, and that can be intimidating and infuriating if you'r
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by riprowan 10y ago
It's true that you can "mix for the listening format." This is just my personal experience and opinion (and that of pretty much every audio engineer I've worked with): headphones lie. Ears are designed to perceive sound
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by riprowan 10y ago
Fair enough.
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by riprowan 10y ago
So yes, you are conflating these things.
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by riprowan 10y ago
You're probably confusing audio compression with data compression. These days every note of music you listen to on every modern album has a compressor in it somewhere, even if you don't think you can hear it, it's there.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> most music is done on something like $100 MDR-7506 Musicians wear headphones in studios when recording, but audio engineers pretty much never use headphones for mixing except as microscopes to listen in terrific detail for something in
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by riprowan 10y ago
When you're buying U87s by the dozen, mid-range MI gear won't cut it.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Is this not a blatant layer violation? No, you want to apply cuts as early as possible in the signal chain if you're trying to prevent overloads later in the chain. The "EQs" that you see on mics are almost always bass
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by riprowan 10y ago
People use SM7s and RE20s as kick drum mics all the time, they're really, really durable compared to a U87.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Shotgun mics have a pinched sound quality - the whole point of using U87s is the way they sound. They can switch to SM7s or RE20s and achieve much better S/N with respect to air handling systems, but they want the "U87 sound"
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by riprowan 10y ago
All true. However FM radio always has white noise, so adding a little bit to it is probably better than adding any correlated noise from signal processing. FFT noise reduction definitely has its place and I do use it from time to time. I
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Your body language and voice levels can help reveal some truth or at least the fact that you're uncomfortable answering the question. Maybe I'm actually just uncomfortable being grilled by my own paranoid countrymen without
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by riprowan 10y ago
> which is odd, because she was alive for the years when certain governments were identifying their homosexual and ethnic citizens and sending them off to gas chambers and/or internment camps excess trust in authority figures also r
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by riprowan 10y ago
Point being the NSA is collecting a lot of noise.

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