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by rplst8 11y ago
Before the HANS device was used in NASCAR, I witnessed some serious wrecks during auto-racing that drivers got out of the car under their own power and were fine. I wonder if the percentage of fatalities from wrecks in auto racing is better
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by rplst8 11y ago
I'd say there are some successful efforts to regulate software in safety critical areas. The FAA comes to mind. I worked in the avionics industry for a while, and there are strict standards to which flight management and avionics dis
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by rplst8 11y ago
Their customer support is top notch too. I had noticed a video quality issue after the All-Star break and at first, figured it was just some crappy old standard definition cameras at one of the baseball parks. When it continued to the nex
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by rplst8 11y ago
Nothing about our existence is amazing and miraculous if the popular multiverse theories are correct. In that case, we're just in one of a trillion-trillion to infinite copies of this universe that happens to look this way.
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by rplst8 11y ago
The 18th was not on The Bill of Rights, and by the way, the 21st repealed it.
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by rplst8 11y ago
To add to this - IMO, The Bill of Rights is a list of "inalienable" rights. While I suppose The Constitution could be eventually amended to remove a right - it would not be the correct thing. That is to say - it should be impossi
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by rplst8 11y ago
In the US you have Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Pennsylvania Railroad to thank for the modern time zone system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time#North_America
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by rplst8 11y ago
A neat bit of code? Yes. Startling? No. There's no telling how long most of these victims would have lived. Once suicide is factored out (which it looks to be in this graphic because total gun deaths in the US is closer to somethi
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by rplst8 11y ago
I think for many people renting is the only sane choice with the volatility of the job market. You can't be tied to a house that is any significant portion of your income once finding work forces you to move. The sad part is that toda
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by rplst8 11y ago
I once had a college professor say something like, "Don't criticize a language for what it can't do, rather look at what it does well." He explained this by saying that most languages were designed for a specific purpose
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by rplst8 11y ago
Not sure why I got down voted on this. Without the government subsidies, the market for current gen PVs and batteries would be infinitesimally small. Wouldn't it be better to spend those subsidies on research for better PVs and batteri
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by rplst8 11y ago
I'd argue that making solar and storage cheaper is not engineering. Currently, their efficiency and capacity do not warrant widespread use. More research should be done before money is wasted deploying half-baked technology. You can
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by rplst8 11y ago
Rare earth mineral mining also gets that subsidy as does the manufacture of PV panels.
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by rplst8 11y ago
I think that some connection was implied. Why else mention it?
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by rplst8 11y ago
Arcnet was cool because it could be run long distances. Up to a mile IIRC.
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by rplst8 11y ago
> Fast forward to 2012, and 10BASE5 is now truly a vintage technology. Anyone studying a computer science degree will at some point have been told about this stuff, because it’s very important in the history of computing. 10BASE5 is not
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by rplst8 11y ago
This just continues to prove that copyright law in the US is tailored to serve one group of people - those who already have a stake in the game.
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by rplst8 11y ago
CS programs at American universities run the gamut. A well balanced CS program will teach fundamentals/theory and also application of that knowledge. Perhaps Temple's CS program is heavy on the theory in the early years (or even
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by rplst8 11y ago
Your point is valid. However, saying "LOL 3 months salary" would be a foolish answer in an interview even if you did take the buyout. Leaving a company over differences in philosophy (management, engineering, or ethical) are all
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by rplst8 11y ago
Amazon has not only used technology as their differentiator/equalizer, they've also innovated in other areas of technology and now resell that to others. Amazon is definitely a tech company on that measure. Zappos - they sell sh
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by rplst8 12y ago
The whole stream (all channels combined) is only 1.5Mbps? Yikes. I knew it was bad - but not that bad. I reluctantly pay for XM. I enjoy some of the talk radio stations, but the music quality is sub-par. That said, if I had a $1 for eve
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by rplst8 12y ago
I also think the 300 kbps rate is limited if they continue to broadcast the analog signal as well.
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by rplst8 12y ago
Getting rid of these older analog radio technologies is short-sighted unless there is a real compelling and complete replacement already cheap and widely available. FM (and AM) radio are great technologies. Just because they are "old&
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by rplst8 12y ago
Maybe, maybe not. But I saw an awesome video from Standford on Youtube about a process to scrub C02 out of power plants and turn it into carbonate based sand, aggregate, and cement. This could offset our C02 production while providing mor
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by rplst8 12y ago
This is slightly off topic but it reminds me of a question I've pondered for years. Does every person see red as the same color in their mind? Obviously it applies to all colors. Furthermore - do I see color as the same "concep
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by rplst8 12y ago
The comparisons I've seen are usually on a person-mile basis. Commercial aviation can move more people a further distance with fewer fatalities.
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by rplst8 12y ago
He's right. Driving a car is something like 1000 times riskier than commercial aviation. We still have about 30,000 vehicle fatalities per year.
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by rplst8 12y ago
> This hyperbole serves no one. Modern limiters are tremendously transparent, and only people who are listening for it will notice the increase in compression. Agree. Though, I'd add a qualifier - "...are tremendously transpar
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by rplst8 12y ago
The examples you've cited look to be mastered (or at least sourced) differently. True loudness normalization should not affect the short term dynamic range of the material. It simply looks at the average level and lowers or raises it
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by rplst8 12y ago
Indeed. Perceived loudness is a complex mix of signal level, dynamic range, and frequency content. Perfectly undoing what was done in the mastering studio is not only difficult but maybe impossible.

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