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by voldacar 6y ago
Could you be more specific about your experience with Ivermectin? Its side-effects can be pretty serious, right?
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by voldacar 6y ago
Like I said, I literally heard it. The guy cleaned the record just before playing it and it sounded amazing. Doing that each time would be a huge hassle so I'm not sure if I would ever want to own one. But I did hear it, and it did wor
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by voldacar 6y ago
There's no AD step in the ELP. it's an analog system from the laser to the line out. So there's no way to do multiple passes while listening to the record, though you can adjust the depth in the groove that the laser scans.
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by voldacar 6y ago
Yes that's also very important - the inverted EQ applied by the phono preamp pushes the noise floor way down in the treble, while raising it in the bass. In my opinion, this is probably why vinyl can never compete with digital when it
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by voldacar 6y ago
not cheap, but yeah it works great. https://www.elpj.com/ I actually got to hear one once. Extremely neutral and high-res, but the record has to be super clean because with the laser, you will hear every little speck of d
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by voldacar 6y ago
Question for people knowledgable about Ramsey theory - with current computing tech, will we ever be able to find the exact value of R(5,5) within our lifetimes? I've read the famous Erdos quote about R(5,5) vs R(6,6) and he seemed to t
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by voldacar 6y ago
Huge "I'm sorry I got caught" vibe. And it still refers to this malicious annoying behavior as "work" or "research", lmao
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by voldacar 6y ago
My honest opinion from studying math for a while as a non-mathematician: getting to an advanced level in combinatorics and algorithms is simply way less difficult than getting to an advanced level in say, analytic number theory. Get some co
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by voldacar 6y ago
I'm very curious about this since I do not speak Russian, yet I have read many Russian authors in translation and generally think highly of their literary culture. Are names like Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov considered overrated in Russia
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by voldacar 6y ago
If I am going to be ruled by someone (this appears to be the case, at least for the forseeable future), I would rather it be someone like Alexander than someone like Brezhnev >I'm not sure if this is better. Spend a little time seri
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by voldacar 6y ago
Imagine if international disputes were settled by one-on-one combat between world leaders. Our ruling class of flabby fiftysomething bureaucrats would disappear fast
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by voldacar 6y ago
Or they could just you know, increase the price until quantity demanded = quantity supplied
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by voldacar 6y ago
> I used to use the principles of kelly betting back when I designed systematic HFT strategies. possibly a dumb question, but how did this work exactly? the kelly criterion assumes you know the amount by which the coin is weighted, how
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by voldacar 6y ago
It's cool to see that work has continued on this. I saw it posted a couple years ago and it seemed like just another shitcoin
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by voldacar 6y ago
> A significant percentage of random average people have no practical understanding of economics, and no ability to think of consequences to policy. unfortunately, this is also true of our elected officials
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by voldacar 6y ago
I'm a bit confused - how do you do pointer arithmetic if the cpu encrypts pointers for your automatically and doesn't let you know the actual address in memory that they point to?
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by voldacar 6y ago
Noted, thanks! Is there any relevant difference between N100 and P100? I think my local hardware store has P100 filters in stock
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by voldacar 6y ago
> I can just get girls out of their shoes, it’s a thing I can do. absolutely incredible line
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by voldacar 6y ago
Such breadth, you could dedicate a lifetime to learning only one of those topics!
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by voldacar 6y ago
I'm curious since you call it the most western of the eastern countries - about what percentage of the population speaks at least some English? How hard would it be to just show up as a foreigner with no knowledge of the language and d
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by voldacar 6y ago
Its thermal insulation/fireproofing properties are incredible, it's basically a material out of science fiction. A few years ago I acquired a pair of asbestos gloves at a flea market. They are absolutely mind blowing. I have held
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by voldacar 6y ago
Agreed. Asbestos is a wonder material that the world is unironically worse-off without. To be fair, putting it in brake pads which get worn down into dust probably wasn't a great idea...
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by voldacar 6y ago
I don't think I will, actually. Assuming you aren't being disingenuous, by "hypermoralization" I was referring less to this specific action by Twitch and more to a general cultural phenomenon, developed over the past dec
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by voldacar 6y ago
The infantile hyper-moralization of online discourse, on social media but also elsewhere, is starting to get really, really tiring. Is there any solution other than total anonymity, keeping one's online and IRL personae hermetically se
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by voldacar 6y ago
My latin teacher used both wheelock and lingua latina. They complement each other really well.
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by voldacar 6y ago
> With continental philosophy, most of the value is in how it makes you, the reader, feel, and not in the ideas that it expresses. Look, I tend to think a lot of analytic philosophy is cringe, but this is basically the definition of soph
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by voldacar 6y ago
almost certainly not. that book would be like bug repellent but for bureaucrats and central planners
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by voldacar 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W17opJa9KGY might have been this one? or perhaps the following old demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdK3PXKvYgs
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by voldacar 6y ago
Tor is not an end-all solution. Hidden services can be trivially unmasked (for an actor like the CIA/NSA) with traffic correlation attacks
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by voldacar 6y ago
Debris would deorbit rapidly, starlink satellites are relatively low-altitude.

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