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by sjy 7y ago
FLAC is an archival format. It's valuable because you can use whatever codec you like to stream the audio or store it on a device with limited space, including future codecs that haven't been developed yet. Lossy-to-lossy encoding
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by sjy 7y ago
If you're an experienced command line user, this is a great reminder of how far you've come, and check list to figure out where your weak spots lie. I wonder how long these skills will remain useful; skeptics often seem to (wrongl
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by sjy 7y ago
This is like saying "if the universe began with the Big Bang, then what came before it?" – it's not buck-passing if you define 'simulation' in a falsifiable way.
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by sjy 7y ago
It's also notable that those countries don't have noticeably worse standards of living than countries with a state religion or less religious freedom, and Europe attracts many migrants from such countries.
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by sjy 7y ago
Why can't selflessness, altruism and honesty prevail under the influence of secular government? I'm not saying our current governments have achieved this, but we also see a great deal of selfishness and dishonesty in religious gro
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by sjy 7y ago
Cohen pleaded guilty to several charges [1], including some that alleged that he lied in a written statement sent to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on 28 A
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by sjy 7y ago
Does it? One conviction in 30 years is also consistent with the conclusion that not that many people get invited to give evidence to Congress, and the people that do tell the truth (or at least don't tell provable lies).
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by sjy 7y ago
I think it is important that the anticompetitive effects of Apple's control of the iOS app store be examined by US antitrust courts. Regulators and app store developers had not taken action at the time this lawsuit was filed, and I thi
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by sjy 7y ago
So in other words, voters continually vote against their own long-term interests? I don't see how this is going to be solved by getting the democratically-elected state legislature to pass laws restricting the cities' taxing power
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by sjy 7y ago
It's not hard to "figure something else out"; this problem became a political issue in Australia in the 1980s and was finally solved with a federal goods and services tax in 2000, the proceeds of which are distributed back to
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by sjy 7y ago
Choosing to get a fake divorce so that you can game the system as much as possible isn't punishment; it's probably fraud. You could also choose to relax and let your children enjoy all the other benefits of a great upbringing, and
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by sjy 7y ago
Although the US antitrust laws do use the language of monopoly, they are broadly drafted and have been subject to a lot of judicial interpretation. Rather than monopoly, when considering antitrust questions it is sometimes better to think a
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by sjy 7y ago
Would it be a bad thing for society if the antitrust laws were interpreted in this way? Why should these hardware vendors be allowed to exercise control over the software their customers run? Personally I think that open platforms are socia
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by sjy 7y ago
Whether it's an antitrust suit depends on whether the plaintiff is suing under the antitrust laws, not whether the plaintiff is the government. "Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything for
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by sjy 7y ago
It's not an easy question, which is why the Supreme Court wasn't asked to decide it in this case. The answer depends on the past 100 years of previous cases interpreting US antitrust law. Those interpretations have been influenced
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by sjy 7y ago
Your lawyer should advise you of all of those arguments but that doesn't mean you have to instruct the lawyer to make them. Litigants who make legally tenable but unethical arguments can still be criticised on ethical grounds. Apple co
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by sjy 7y ago
Sure there is. Section 2 of the Sherman Act makes it illegal to "monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, o
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by sjy 7y ago
The authors of the study under discussion explicitly claim (in the abstract even) that "the results support the existence of a sharply-defined critical period for language acquisition." You should address that argument (or cite th
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by sjy 7y ago
According to the abstract of the paper [1] summarised in the linked article, "Children learn language more easily than adults, though when and why this ability declines have been obscure ... [the evidence supports] the existence of a s
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by sjy 7y ago
Your suspicion is essentially that the critical period hypothesis is false. Linguists have been examining this confounding hypothesis for decades. As usual, most of the research is paywalled, but here's [1] a decent summary of some of
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by sjy 7y ago
You are describing different vowels and not tones. Different vowels are pronounced by changing the shape of the mouth; tones are produced by the laryngeal muscles, like when you hum a tune.
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by sjy 8y ago
> the last thing I'd want is for the police to say that they can't continue to work on my case unless I grant them access to my device(s) ... If anything this should be part of a policy in which victims elect to volunteer infor
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by sjy 8y ago
The point of a trial is to allow an independent tribunal of fact to make difficult factual decisions, like whether to believe a complainant’s oral testimony. In one of the cases cited in support of this change in practice [1] the police had
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by sjy 8y ago
The Secret Barrister’s tweets don’t contradict the comment you replied to. Defence lawyers can subpoena relevant material, such as communications with the accused person, from prosecution witnesses. That material will not necessarily be adm
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by sjy 8y ago
It is not a fallacy to consider sunk costs when they can help you estimate the marginal return on a new investment. This is likely when you are investing in something which is hard to value, with diminishing returns, like growth marketing.
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by sjy 8y ago
As the owner of several Apple devices with 30-pin connectors, which I replaced with devices with Lightning connectors, which it seems I will have to replace with devices with USB-C connectors in a few years, I would have been happier if App
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by sjy 8y ago
I have a few reusable, resealable glass coffee cups, and I don’t know that I got 70 uses out of them before I dropped one as I was washing it and it shattered. I’ll be buying plastic reusable cups next time, even though they’re not as nice
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by sjy 8y ago
I suggest looking into WireGuard [1]. I found it easier to use than OpenVPN, and I think it will displace it as the de facto standard when it eventually gets merged into the Linux kernel. You'll have to use lower-level configuration to
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by sjy 8y ago
Do all your contacts work in the tech industry? I'm wondering if we're really backwards here in Australia, or if I've just had bad experiences. Slack-style messaging seems really uncommon outside tech, even though traditional
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by sjy 8y ago
I'm guessing this is just an attempt to make the social media blocks more effective. And I suppose the purpose of blocking social media is to suppress public discussion and criticism, which is intended to prevent social unrest like pro

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