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by ssalazar 7y ago
The yuan-usd exchange rate has floated around 6:1 until recently, with yuan denominated down to 0.01. So possibly that.
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by ssalazar 7y ago
> Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN's favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia. Indeed, I will happily fan-boy for the New Yorker here, they usually succeed in capturing t
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Sustainable business models? Popping the VC bubble that insists these companies employ parasitic business practices to prop up their massive valuations?
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AI flags anything that could be suspicious, human moderator reviews the exact circumstances of anything flagged. Google is one of the largest tech companies on the planet, if anyone can solve "impossible" problems its them. But
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True, for many uses it would be cleaner to write application data to the bundle, even though this isn't commonly writeable. As someone who develops professional apps for Mac, I can thin of a few circumstances where this definitely won
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by ssalazar 7y ago
> It's a step in the direction to fascism, that doesn't mean it is fascist. Insisting a private business promote any and all content from anyone whatsoever, no matter how abhorrent or anti-social, in a specific way, seems like
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by ssalazar 7y ago
> Companies are not free to choose with whom they do business. For the most part, yes they are. For instance, every online business has a Terms of Service detailing many situations in which they will or will not do business with you. R
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> We're not talking about people's houses. I'm talking about private property and the right to do with it as one pleases so long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others. When a group of people create a busines
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by ssalazar 7y ago
The same reason if I go to a stranger's house and start debating with them about my own political opinions they are free to kick me out. Free enterprise and private property are generally considered fundaments of modern civil society.
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by ssalazar 7y ago
How is a business censoring their own networks related to fascism? Is the downvote button fascist? This is the classic "paradox of tolerance."
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by ssalazar 7y ago
"Thats just the way it is" is not a counter-argument. Electoral college votes are not weighted by population, 20% of the votes are divided evenly between states and the remainder is weighted by population. There is nothing intri
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by ssalazar 7y ago
> For reference [0] I think you're going to have a bad time Youre going to have to be more specific. > if you tell the people outside of NYC and LA that their voice, concerns, representation is totally irrelevant. Nobody is sayin
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by ssalazar 7y ago
Check out Geoshred[1], developed as a collaboration between Jordan Rudess and researchers at Stanford University. Its using a physical model for the guitar as well as audio FX (which tend to be easier to get good sounding than acoustic ins
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by ssalazar 7y ago
I had assumed “the cloud” comes from the visual shorthand of representing “arbitrary network resources somewhere” as an actual cloud in diagrams of networking systems. I recall this from early 2000s CS curriculum, predating it’s prevalence
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by ssalazar 7y ago
OSC is awesome but it never caught on with the mainstream because nobody standardized common music production events like noteOn/noteOff or control change. Furthermore, the original developers never attempted to build any industry con
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by ssalazar 7y ago
This is concerning a velocity control signal, not a stream of audio samples. This control signal would be mapped the internal processing of a synthesis or sampling engine, resulting in an audio signal whose data format (analog or 16/2
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by ssalazar 8y ago
> Invalid reasons for working at a startup: > - Making a lot of money in salary. Once a startup raises a series A is there actually any reason to pay below-market? Fresh out of college I was employee #1 at a startup that had funding,
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by ssalazar 8y ago
You walk away different from great art whether its film, television, books, music, painting/plastic arts, etc. Box office pablum like the latest superhero movie is largely forgettable, but great culture will give you new perspectives
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by ssalazar 8y ago
Maybe for some, but French press != espresso drinks; a really well-made cappuccino or latte is something that requires equipment and attention to detail that isn't practical for small office use.
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by ssalazar 8y ago
Hm, it works well for this particular song/the genre of generative music but it easily hits limits with many other types of music people might want to work with. More advanced ML/AI techniques are needed to reason about sound in
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by ssalazar 8y ago
> some people here also make money doing shady or even downright illegal things. No thanks.
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Aka "you're using it wrong."
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- Work on, or help out with, a research project of a professor/established researcher in your field of interest. - Related, getting authorship (first or otherwise) for an academic publication as an undergraduate is a promising signal o
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Earnings is far from a linear function of viewer count.
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Output | Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE Audio Software Architect Output, a Los Angeles-based company developing innovative software that inspires the world’s greatest creators, is seeking an Audio Software Architect. The Audio Software Ar
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by ssalazar 8y ago
Do you have any specific examples of this? It doesn’t seem super common that a paper that would be significant enough to make it through peer review would also appeal to the wider/beginner-to-intermediate-level audience of a textbook.
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by ssalazar 8y ago
> we should remember a better world, one in which it was not customary to treat life as a zero-sum game, did exist, not so long ago. Social problems only become unsolvable if everyone forgets they were once solved. You’ll have to be more
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by ssalazar 8y ago
> At its heart though, IBM is just another company trying to do things to make the world a better place When has this ever been the prerogative of a multinational for-profit corporation?
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> Copying a 24-character string into a 25-byte zero-terminated buffer takes constant time Thats not constant time, thats linear/O(N) time.
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> If you have enough money, no matter how you actually live your life and what you do, you can just pay the right people or institutions, and you will be forever remembered as a good person. Yep. The Nobel prize was created quite explici

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