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TL;DR - I stand by my comment, loud bikes helps people hear you but that doesn't mean you have to be EXTRA LOUD to be cool.

I understand the point you are trying to make, and perhaps I wasn't very clear in my off-hand comment. I agree that overly loud bikes are annoying, however, as I stated before, sound is a necessary evil[0].

Do I believe that motorcycles should use straight pipes and increase their sound output? NO, in fact its quite annoying. However, louder bikes will get your attention.

In fact, in reference to [0], there is a standard that some vehicles had to INCREASE their decibel output because of less risk to pedestrians. This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison as this study was mainly geared towards electric vehicles, but it did state that vehicles should have an output of ~ 55dB for pedestrian safety (page 102).

Secondly, I couldn't find good stats on motorcycle decibel output, but I did find a study of some motorcycles and their average output[1]. What I learned is that most bikes are fairly equal with regard to output and all are at, or above the, legal limit[2].

I took a single bike you pointed out `Honda CBR250R` and was curious how the noise output performed to a Harley:
`Honda CBR250R`: [3]
- With dB-Killer fitted: 86 dB @ 4,250 rpm
- Without dB-Killer fitted: 94 dB @ 4,250rpm

2006 Softail Standard 1,400 cc: [4]
- 97 decibels at idle
- 102 decibels at cruising speed
- 111 decibels revved

So what it appears to me is that most motorcycles are `roughly` the same decibel output and that having a vehicle that outputs sound to make yourself known to other riders is beneficial. Should you be increasing the sound trying to be cool? No, I don't think so. In fact its annoying when the 5 Harleys are sitting outside my window on Friday night revving their engines to be "cool".

[0] - http://www.motorcycledaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Qu...
[1] - http://audiologyworld.net/img/rnhposter.pdf
[2] - http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXI/266/266-59-a.ht...
[3] - http://www.autoevolution.com/news/honda-cbr250r-gets-street-...
[4] - http://lic.abateflorida.com/Library/Library/cycle_news__nois...
The piece you're not quite mentioning is that for a very long time now, mainstream pop culture has been mostly about getting adolescent kids to lust after the celebrities or musicians or whoever. That segment of the market sells (images of) people as sex objects, not any particular creative media on its own merit. It's a bit disturbing but there you go.
So what implies that Billy has any more stake in the company than Bobby if they each owned 0% of nothing at the start of the weekend?
There’s always the classic “Color space FAQ”:

http://www.poynton.com/ColorFAQ.html
This reminds me of the Flintstones :)
From “UNIX For Beginners” (2nd ed., 1979) written by him:

>The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

However the previous sentence is:

>The debugger adb is useful for digging through the dead bodies of C programs, but is rather hard to learn to use effectively.
So if the vacuum contains quantum fluctuations in which particles are being produced, I wonder what the mathematics looks like. How is the creation of a singular point-like element (or a pair of them) modeled mathematically? Roughly sketched of course :)
>how, are they getting the people that far that they part with their money to 'own' a copy of these, often dreadful (music wise), songs?

With a combination of marketing, and, how about it, people actually liking them.
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I agree that biological limitations could enforce very real limits on what we can come up with, I have real doubts that we could understand or formulate (working) physics that cover multiple dimensions for that same reason.

But we are looking, both dark matter and dark energy have multiple candidates.

Maybe Einstein was correct and we have a (small but positive) universal constant AKA space-time's property tax.
Other various proposed fields like the quintessence theory, and some various views on QFT could also be an answer to that.

So you have allot of different theories and proposal from small hacks like the universal constant to completely new theories but they pretty much are aimed and answering the same thing and are labeled under "dark energy".

Dark matter is the same thing, most candidates for dark matter are quite different and they all attempt to explain why we are all fatter than we think we are through different mechanisms.

We also have some other efforts to create completely different explanations for gravity like MOND that was mentioned.

So I don't really see that we are limiting ourselves, but as I said before you have to start searching for something at a known point or go completely out of left field, and so far usually you need a little (or well allot) of both because rarely (at least these days) were we can be off by so much that we need to rewrite the text books.
I do the same while reading other websites, but have always designed mine with the goal of never using advertising methods I would be annoyed of. No popovers, no video ads, no full screen takeovers. I also recently removed Google Adsense because the ads it showed were not relevant to my content even though they may have technically been relevant to my readers via retargeting.

Interestingly enough, at least in my field, using these practices have actually had the effect of increasing ad revenue since I am now directly selling ads and cutting out the middleman.
If he is an employee acting within the scope of his employment when he writes the code, the copyright belongs to the employer because it is a "work for hire". There is no need for a contract that states the employee surrenders his rights to the company because the employee doesn't have any rights to surrender--the employer is legally the author and it is in the employer that the initial copyright vests.
I agree with you, and I wasn't referring to ear piercing noise of modified bikes.

However, as I answered in a response to one of the other commenters, sound is an essential element in bringing awareness to yourself.

`All my bikes are quiet, even my Buell (relatively speaking)`
- From what I've found in my short research is that most bikes are in similar decibel level output (within similar engine capacity) and that they are all fairly loud. Clearly there's something to that.

But I degrees, I never meant to say that you have to be extra loud to be an ass, I was merely pointing out that sound is an element of awareness, like your horn or the headlight.
>Pop music has always been factory-produced.

Correction: pop music has always had factory-produced hits. It also had other hits.
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Amen. I'm originally from the west of Ireland and we used to sometimes get fresh wild salmon from a local river off a fisherman friend of the family. The taste difference was just amazing. The farmed stuff is liking eating plastic in comparison. The other thing that makes a huge difference in my experience is to have fish that's never been frozen (someone once told me the reason has to do with the crystallization process killing the taste, although I've no idea how that works).
How is this different from Beacon (which got the FTC involved)?

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/29/technology/facebook_settleme...
I'm not a songwriter, but I play a bit around with synths and stuff for fun a bit. What little I've learned implies crafting a good hook is definitely an equation (that I fail at), and some people in the music industry have figured out that equation better than most people, in a way that targets a large swath of people's brains really well. It goes beyond notes to timbres, themes, lyric content, etc.

It's definitely an art - and the writers of such things probably deserve a lot more money than the auto-tuned singers that get really rich from it do.

As people who write music/songs/etc refine their craft, they can choose to make something that sounds the best to them, or they can figure out the equations for other people, and sometimes that music that works for all those masses of people also works for them, and if so, that's still pretty darn authentic and just trying to be good.

Ergo, I don't think trying to make a song better is a loss in authenticity, but maybe intentionally going in and reusing the same formula, rather than experimenting, is a bit of the same thing we'd say about a band that always sounds the same.

If you just chase success, rather than soul or experimentation, you risk something - or at least you risk the opportunity for creating something new that could be even better.

Likely though, you're still making a lot of people happy.

I think all of these folks are still experimenting, trying to refine that equation, but it's just music that personally doesn't target me, and that's ok. For some reason it works for giant chunks of people, but music I like probably often doesn't work for them.
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I understand that concept that "Your pipes are pointing backwards so the isn't helping with making people aware of you in the front". From my research, it seems that most motorcycle accidents occur with a driver crossing, to the left, in front of the motorcycle and that the decibels, horn, and lights didn't help the driver (of the motorcycle).

I also agree that you don't have to make your bike EXTRA loud to be noticed but there is a perceived safety in sound. And if majority of the sound is exiting towards the back, there might a point to be made that the decibel level should increase to "hopefully" make the person in front of you aware.
surely "erosion of trust by shareholders" isn't an issue for a wholely owned private company.
God no! That would throw altruistic websites into the same bucket as clickbait.
The browser could do something with this, but I believe it doesn't. Instead the algorithm is just:

1) Load the resource specified in src (from network or cache)

2) If there's an integrity attribute, verify its hash
Here's the article that Cochrane is criticizing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html
It's not really particles.
http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-phy...
There are so many musicians out there that aren't quite good enough.

I disagree with you. There are more good enough artists than ever. Pop music orchestrates the transition from childhood to adulthood. It helps structure sexuality, make it more predictable. In order to fulfil this function, the musical quality is not too important, as long as a certain standard is met. And modern production technology can help just about everybody to achieve these minimal standards.
What is much more important is achieving a critical mass of fans, which is to a substantial degree a question of marketing, and hence access to capital. Even though modern production outfits like Max Martin's are highly skilled, most of their artists fail. But the 1 in 10 who make it big recoup the loss by the 9 others. The music industry's main business model is thus this: find 10 young (hence cheap) musicians, try to make all of them a star, live on 1 of 10 unicorns.

As you can see, that's the Y Combinator business model. The music industry got there first. I would not at all be surprised if Y Combinator were consciously following in the music industry's footsteps.
Could have done better using "feet" :P
Spyglass did not use any of the code from NCSA Mosaic¹.

① http://ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html
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Of course I did not run iOS on that Defy, why would I? Ad blocking was everywhere before apple finally decided to allow it on iOS. Inside those idevices are ARM-based CPUs, just like the ones in most other mobile hardware. What difference does it make whether the OS is based on Linux (Android), Mach/BSD (iOS) or even Windows (...Windows)? A regexp is a regexp after all...

The Defy does not crash rendering complex pages. It can get pretty slow though, reason for running extensions like NoScript for Android [1] (which runs just fine on the Fdroid.org Fennec build, ie. Firefox without the nasty bits) and uBlock origin.

[1] https://noscript.net/nsa/
I completely agree with you! I live in an area where on Friday and Saturday nights there are always groups of 5-6 bikers sitting outside and just revving their engines to "sound cool" and that's very annoying.

I didn't meant that you had to be extra loud or replicate the idiotic behavior of our neighborhood bikers. I was merely pointing out that loud sounders are safer. I had a more detailed reply above.

So right, too much noise = bad. Just enough sound = maybe good.
You're right but one can quickly lead to the other if the company is willing to dedicate even a small amount of resources to training.
First of all, yes memory corruption will still bring the whole thing down. Only pure micro-kernels can survive it.

What Windows does, is that there aren't any direct calls between modules, only kernel level RPC calls.

All parameters are packed into the RPC message, it is dispatched, unpacked, validated as much as possible on the receiving end, then processed.

Messages and its validation introduce an indirection layer that improves safety.

It is based on the original micro-kernel design Windows NT had, before they moved graphics back into the kernel.

So the micro-kernel message passing is still there, but simplified since now everything runs on the same space. But as of Windows Vista, UDF was introduced for user space drivers.

The "Inside Windows" book series go into great detail how everything works.
KEVIN HART TURNT UP AND DANCING MUST SEE LOL
If you “don’t like telling people what to do”, you must be licensing all your code as CC0 or public domain, right?
Search for creation and anihilation operators in second quantization. It's quite simple. I give you a field with some particles populating some modes, and applying the creation (annihilation) operator gives you a field with one more (less) particle in a mode. That's how the game starts. If you're a particle physicist you typically develop this further into a system in terms of an action so you can use a path integral formulation, and then the action is written in terms of a Lagrangian Density, where you write the fields and their couplings. You typically then talk in the language of propagators (look for electron and photon propagators) and Feynman diagrams (which may be obtained from the Hamiltonian or Lagrangian)

Condensed matter people and quantum opticians typically stick with the Hamiltonian (creation/annihilation) picture. Theories like superconductivity (BCS theory) are phrased like this. The standard model though is typically written in terms of the Lagrangian, though.
E-Readers is wrong. The study used as a "light-emitting" book an iPad (p. 1235). So it is tablets and smartphones.
It is not even clear to me if a Kindle Paperwhite would fall into the category.
My experience regarding your second question:

When doing calculations the electric charge of a thingy is usually placed into some varible and when using electron charge versions of constants you can usually cancel them out. So less writing, typing and calculating; scientists are lazy.
> I don't think this is a great way to frame the debate - we've been a consumerist society full of billboards and sales people for 100s of years before the internet was even invented. There has been relatively little pushback (perhaps mild annoyance) outside advertising on websites.

There's been plenty of push-back against sales people: Do not call lists, blacklists on phones of late, swearing at the people down the telephone, 'no callers' signs and rather unpleasant greetings, 'No thank you' yelled at the people trying to accost you in the streets, the inability to get to a decision maker without an inside line in b2b sales.

And billboards? Well, they're more an American thing than something I see much of, there are three I can think of in a few miles of where I live, all fairly well hidden and definitely not things that you'd spend time looking at unless you were trying to.

Adverts on TV? Let's not pretend they weren't annoying, or that we didn't skip over them in recordings whenever we could. They were just an unfortunate cost of doing business that there wasn't a way around bar sighing and leaving the room to do something else for a few minutes. At least for myself, they were one of the big things that finally decreased the quality of programming to a point where it wasn't worth the bother of owning a TV. 15-20 minutes between 5 minute adverts? I think I'll just buy the DVD....

Web advertising is more like the salesmen than the other things, mind. Things that attempt to force your attention to them and try to interact with your computer in various undesirable ways.... If it was just a .JPEG at the top of every page I doubt anyone would give them five minutes thought one way or the other.
Shame, because it would be actually needed. Cannot rely in .onion crypto vs MITM.
Why not just represent different currencies as different "types" and a quantity of their basic unit (cents for $, pennies for £, tambala for Kwacha) and have standard conversions between them:

kwacha_t my_kwacha = 100000; // 1000 Kwacha
euro_t my_euro = EU_from_kwacha(my_kwacha);
printf("My Kwacha in Euros: %d", my_euro / 100);

Most of the problems discussed seem to resolve around trying to have some universal monetary unit, which isn't possible in practice anyway. Just settle on a universal currency for international trade (as the $ effectively is) and convert from/to as necessary for local representation.

Of course you're going to have to select an appropriate "minimum value" of your selected currency to suit your expected conversions but how is that different from selecting an appropriate epsilon?
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My reply comment wasn't very detailed and gained some criticism that I understand.

You make a valid point "... implying that drivers have less need to perceive small bikes...or other cars, apparently."

As I stated above, but will re-iterate because its a valid reply here, there seems to be a necessary of roughly 55db produced by a vehicle to ensure safety for pedestrians and other vehicles. [0]

My initial comment was incomplete: it's not okay to have an extra loud bike to be "cool", however, it is important to have a high enough decibel output that other people can hear you. Most bikes produce similar dB off the manufacturing plant for a reason and electronic vehicles are required to output more sound to be safe.

So no, i'm not implying that drivers have less need to perceive small bikes or other cards. I'm implying that all vehicles should produce the necessary decibel output to bring attention to themselves.

[0] - http://www.motorcycledaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Qu...
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Under EU freedom of movement rules, if you find a job in an EU country (that is not your own country of citizenship, because then your home country rules apply), he can usually get a residence permit as your spouse. He would not need to find a job first.
Screw the sushi. Kimbab is the new hot thing.
Yandex for custom domains allows you to create about 1000 addresses on custom domain for free. The drawback is their mail administrator panel is in turkish but if you have patience to set it up on google translate, it works like a charm.
It's those from outside the EU/EEA who have to do that. For those within, it's much the same, but also with e-Passport gates (that take a photo, compare with passport, etc.).
Can't believe anyone would download FREE software from any other than the original author. This screams for that kind of attack!
I wonder if we can make that distinction either.

It would be solution aversion if you denied that the rate of suicides has been growing because you perceive that the main use of citing an increasing suicide rate is to push homeopathic education.

If your aversion to certain proponents relates back to what it is they are proposing, it is not really an aversion to those proponents but to their proposals.

Maybe proponent aversion would be if you denied that the rate of suicides has been growing because Obama (or black people, "liberals" etc.) had made that claim, independent of the qualities of proposed solutions.

If someone's statements can't be trusted to be true, that doesn't rationally mean their statements are evidence of their contradictions.
Even if you don't trust anything Obama says, that shouldn't normally mean that "Obama says that P" is evidence of not-P.
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> [...] matching 5 dimensions of physical reality (space, time, mass, also charge and temperature).

I'm not quite sure I understand that, but I'll try to answer your questions anyway:

Yes, Boltzmann's constant is more or less just a conversion factor between temperature and energy. If we measured temperature in joules, we wouldn't need Boltzmann's constant. But then the same is true for c; we could measure time in meters or distance in seconds.

If you have defined the basic units of mechanics (time, distance, and mass), the value of G is fixed. But not the value (and even the dimension!) of Coulomb's constant and of electric charges. You can use a system of units where Coulomb's constant is 1 and electric charge then has dimension mass^(1/2)length^(3/2)time^(-1), while in SI units it has dimension current*time. Basically, you can make Coulomb's constant have any value and any dimension you want. Using just Coulomb's constant or just an electric charge in such a formula wouldn't make much sense. On the other hand, something like the fine structure constant (which is practically the square of the elementary charge measured in natural units) is a quantity that makes sense inpendently of your system of units.

I guess the reason for that is that mass has meaning outside of gravity (in Newton's second law), but electric charge is confined to electromagnetism. There's also the thing with electric charge being quantized to integer multiples of the elementary charge e (apart from quarks for which it is an integer multiple of e/3, but they usually don't appear isolated), but mass not being quantized.

I think the similarities between electromagnetism and gravity are at least partly superficial. Coulomb's law looks a lot like Newton's law, but that's because both the electrostatic and the classical gravitational potential obey a poisson equation (in the statical limit and to the lowest order). And that's about the simplest equation such a potential can obey. I don't think there's much more to it than that (perhaps apart from both being long-ranged because their symmetries are not broken).
Are there any examples of democratic communism?
One of the saddest things about modern college/university philosophy courses, I think, is how few people will ever end up reading any of the great philosopher's works in the original (nevermind even in the original language!). It's almost always condensed versions by another author of the "main ideas".

I had this experience when I picked up a copy of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and read the thing in the original. I was completely shaken by the beauty of it.

It saddens me because 90% of the beauty is lost in favor of "just getting to the main idea". You lose so, so much. It would be like reciting Homer without an understanding of meter. All beauty would be lost.
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