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by war1025 6y ago
That technology is using good headphones to simulate the acoustic properties of large speakers. For a more obviously untenable example: Imagine using an old VR headset to test out newer, more capable VR headsets.
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> Between loans and grants Just because you can get a loan to cover the cost doesn't mean it's affordable. I've noticed a definite difference between lower and middle income people in this regard. People without much incom
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> That's a future VR feature. I doubt comparing the sound quality of multiple pairs of headphones is going to be something VR can simulate.
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> It is my impression that straight up net metering is very rare. Perhaps how it's done around here is different, but for instance this [1] caused a bit of an uproar among people we know with solar panels a few years ago. I believe
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by war1025 6y ago
A "Debian Iceweasel" style rebranding seems like the easier option.
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by war1025 6y ago
I believe road wear is calculated as the 4th power of axle weight. Trucks have many axles to distribute the load, and are forced to stop at weigh stations to verify that they are within weight requirements. As far as road tax, the current s
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by war1025 6y ago
This is super helpful. Thanks! How often do you leave it running? Is it a continuous thing or just periodically?
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by war1025 6y ago
You misread my comment, which fair enough the wording wasn't great. What I actually said is "anyone who can get away with it" And obviously they would be doing it for partisan reasons.
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I mean the exterior walls of our house were completely uninsulated in the subfloor area. You're correct that it doesn't make sense to insulate between floors, but you do need to insulate the entire exterior wall area, which includ
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by war1025 6y ago
The biggest issue in my house ended up being that the builders didn't bother to insulate or air-seal the subfloor areas (the space between the floor of one level and the ceiling of the level below). Found that out the hard way when thr
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Facebook is taking a much more hands-off approach than Twitter.
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Since my experience is the complete political reverse of what you describe (liberals getting away with things that conservatives assume they never could), I think the real answer is that probably there is less censorship in general than peo
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by war1025 6y ago
I admit I didn't read the article before commenting. Really just seems like anyone that can get away with it is censoring people with differing opinions. Seems like something that will surely end well /s
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The interesting thing about this is that nationalism is in general associated with right-leaning politics, and the censorship is far and away being applied more aggressively to those very same right-leaning nationalist groups. You would be
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by war1025 6y ago
Over the past few years I've been working on improving the thermal efficiency of our house, which has mainly been strategic air sealing / adding insulation. One thing I've definitely noticed is that as I improve the insulatio
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by war1025 6y ago
I have been very tempted to buy a whole house fan for a couple years now. My compromise has been to put a box fan in our attic access and leave that running, which does more than nothing, but I have to imagine a proper house fan would be mu
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by war1025 6y ago
> While you're at it, make sure the fan is not venting into your attic space Why wouldn't you vent to the attic? Attics are basically "hat that sits on top of your house" They are purposefully drafty areas whose main
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by war1025 6y ago
You are putting words in my mouth. I was responding to an accusation that we didn't act strictly enough back in March. I agree we know much more about the virus now and should be tailoring our mitigation efforts accordingly. I would sa
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> Why can you accept people dying, but not accept the economy not doing well? In the grand scheme of "the economy", my portfolio is up something like 8% for the year last time I checked. My job is stable. In the locality of &qu
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> What lead to this recent spike, in your opinion? The virus is seasonal just like the flu would be my guess.
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> What we need is to survive to have peaches and cream another day, Great news! As a collective we will survive this just fine no matter what happens. Individually some people won't be so lucky. Coronavirus is a tragedy, but it is f
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by war1025 6y ago
> Why are you conflating "aggressively addressed this problem" with a strict lockdown? The hypothetical was "Imagine if we had addressed the problem in March?" We did in fact lock the country down for several months.
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> Imagine if we'd aggressively addressed this problem back in March, Europe had about the strictest lockdown you can imagine and their economy isn't exactly peaches and cream right now. And they have spiking case counts just li
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by war1025 6y ago
People die. I'm becoming more and more callus about the whole thing and beginning to think we just need to adjust our expectations and accept that people die . I was told recently that my town is in terrible shape and the hospitals ar
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> The whole world shut down White collar work shut down. All the people that actually make the supply chain function got labeled "essential" and got to go to work anyway.
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One of my pet theories is that Neanderthals were the "Nephilim" [1] referred to in Genesis. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim
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> As the right bails on twitter For what it's worth, I've stopped commenting on HackerNews because any even moderately pro-Trump opinion is met by the downvote brigade. In my opinion, interacting with strangers online is just a
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I would flip it the other way and say he predicted the mainstream media's need to discredit his use of social media since social media is threatening their position as the dominate communication channel with the masses. Trump lies, but
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Even more so then. "We" don't control anything any more than anyone else.
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by war1025 6y ago
To quote a recent Tyler Childers song[1], by "tucking our tails as we try to abide" Stability isn't about dominance, stability is about being uninteresting enough not to get your teeth kicked in. [1] https://genius

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