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Starting their own label is biting the hand that feeds them, though. They need the libraries that the major labels have in order to stay in business. Perhaps when they're not competing as heavily with Apple and to a lesser extent Googl
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The fact that Apple hasn't released an IDE for iOS that can develop iOS apps is a pretty clear indicator that the iPad is not meant for professional software development, even if some people (myself included) try it anyways just to see
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You might be interested in looking at Bitwig Studio for audio production. I've heard it's similar conceptually to Ableton Live and it runs natively on Linux. https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html I agree that a
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Better yet they can probably afford to just buy AMD.
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As others have said, over the ear wear helps a lot. Using a shirt clip to attach them to your shirt also helps. My etymotic IEMs came with such a clip. Using both of those techniques makes the microphonics go from intolerable to barely noti
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"The consistency of results from session to session showed that soloists could definitely distinguish one violin from another. However, the soloists seemed to prefer the new violins, the researchers report online today in the Proceedin
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The only evidence I see of Microsoft trying to make PC gaming more like console gaming is them selling games through the Microsoft Store (I think that's what it's called now) and including the Game Mode stuff in Windows 10. The va
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Why do you think the future of PC gaming is Linux gaming?
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It's not always about the manufacturing. Sometimes it's about the materials used. Brazilian rosewood is supposedly the best tonewood for the sides and backs of acoustic guitars but because the tree's are endangered you pretty
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I'd like to see those studies, if you have links to them. I've never heard of a study confirming any noticeable difference between Stradivarius violins and modern ones of the same quality.
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I don't think it's accurate to call the modern violins they used "manufactured". I'm 99% sure all of the modern violins they used are handmade in a way that's not too different from the way violins were made by
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Worshiping money is more a symptom of materialism than anything else. That's why people go into debt to buy things they don't need instead of saving their money. I also believe it's the cause of worshiping the uber-rich and g
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Lots of people still use IBM's high level assembler for mainframe programming, unfortunately in my opinion.
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Most young people aren't saving very much for retirement regardless of where they work. You are in a very small minority if you saved up that much in your first two years out of college.
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It really is almost no one. 57% of Americans with less than $1000 dollars in their savings account. Only 25% with more than $10,000. What fraction of those with more than $10,000 do you think have enough to live for two years on it? https:
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According to this source, only 25% of people have greater than $10,000 in a savings account. Most people are going to need much more than $10,000 to live for two years so I think it's pretty safe to say that almost no one has enough sa
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I don't think I can imagine a situation where exposing yourself in public merits 7 months in jail and permanently making it almost impossible to find employment.
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You're correct, IBM is more of a monopoly in the mainframe market now than ever before. As far as I know, no one else makes mainframe hardware anymore aside from storage racks you can use with an IBM mainframe.
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That's an extremely uncharitable reading of this article - he says nothing that suggests he wants everyone to publicly post their email logins and passwords. This kind of hyperbole is not conducive to productive conversation about Face
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I'm giving it a listen now. I'm only 10 minutes or so into it, but this is a quote (not exact, but close enough) from Jordan Peterson: "(music and cathedrals) are ways of trying to symbolically represent how things could be i
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>It is not that it cannot be translated into knowledge by professionals, it's that they'll never be able to comprehend what exactly is going on unless they've also suffered from mental illness. This sentence reads to me li
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I've listened to a few of his lectures and read a few articles about him and I don't see a difference between what he says and what every other self-help author who wants to sell millions of books is saying. It's mostly vague
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As one of the people who you probably think doesn't understand the sense of community that a church can provide, I am curious if you think church can provide a sense of community that can't be provided by a bowling league, book cl
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Neither. Most of these are baseless critiques, in my opinion. The Economist has a section at the beginning of each issue that gives you a one paragraph or less overview of important events that happened that week. Many people also only read
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I don't think that would be a very convincing argument. At best, he would know strategies that helped him personally. A mental health professional would know strategies that help many people cope and have some idea of how to match diff
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How would that be a lesson to society about entrusting personal data to corporations?
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On what legal basis would you recommend breaking them up?
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What services require Facebook for authentication? The only one I can think of is Tinder (not sure if that's actually the case, I've never used it) but I don't think a few non-essential services requiring a Facebook account m
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I agree that models based on personal experiences can be helpful. The first five circuits in the eight-circuit model seem to be pretty standard psychological/philosophical thought to me, although I am not really trained in either of th
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The Wikipedia page for the eight-circuit model of consciousness explained what it was pretty well but presented no evidence or arguments in favor of it. Do you know of any sources that that give such arguments? I am also curious as to how s

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