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Yes, which is why I will happily consume LSD and MDMA ins pite of whatever the laws of my country may be.

You're suggesting however that the EU laws are unjust because Google and perhaps others opted to not follow them. Can't say I agree at all.

By that same logic the laws and regulations governing the financial services industry were unjust because banks the world over opted not to follow them, resulting in the financial crash of 2007/2008.

Even just laws aren't followed by individuals or organisations that realise they can make a lot money by not following it, so I'm not sure the point you are trying to make holds any weight.

Sometimes breaking a law and paying the pathetic fine afterwards is just the cost of doing business, which is why I usually argue for genuinely punitive damages and prison time (like in the case of the banks for example).
Drone racing is more like F1 where everything is stripped down for performance. Learning how to fly in non-stabilized mode is so freeing. Albeit with the stock Inductrix controller you are at a disadvantage. Check out the FrSky QX7 which is $100 and get some flying time in a simulator.
One fascinating question is which country should be responsible for nationalizing them. According to the Snowden leaks, the US government is already more than happy to cooperate with FB and Google and alike to spy on non-US citizens; handing the private data to the US government bureaucracy appears to be not much of an improvement from a point of view of an EU citizen

Maybe these megaliths should be split according to the national boundaries, not unlike how the AT&T / Bell System was structured as a combination regional telephone companies.
If they're holding you on trumped up allegations demanding a bribe to let you go, that falls under the FCPA's duress exception: http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/2012/11/14/doj-and-sec-release-...
If I absolutely had to pick, and the choice was between 1) get shot and maybe survive; or 2) 100% chance of getting blinded - I'd pick the first one.
What makes one HD more real than any other? Terry was fairly tech savvy. Would he not have kept backups?
It would produce superficially Pratchett-sounding prose with no coherent plot.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

A billion just a foot note?
I think a hybrid environment of the frugalness of community college coupled with an apprenticeship is the way to fix this. I agree with you that it's more of a social stigma that you didn't go to college nowadays.

And I also do not believe in 80% of cases that the success of a bachelor's degree justifies the cost.
> It's extremely frustrating to see individuals trying so hard to generalize from their own 1 sample of anecdata

You seem to be doing that yourself here. Your description of college does not correspond to my personal experience. If you had written "... one thing college teached me ..." it would have been less of an overgeneralization based on your 1 sample of anecdata.

I did not need college to learn that most people aren't like myself. Even in kindergarten, it was quite obvious that most kids weren't like myself. Later, I went to a high school for "mathematically gifted students", and they were quite similar to me in some ways, but different in others. When I went to college and met people who weren't like me (or, for that matter, like each other), it wasn't unexpected.

But that's just my 1 sample of anecdata. Maybe other people grow up in a world where most everyone is the same, and only when they attend college, they finally realize that this isn't true of all people. Then they will probably associate this major life lesson with college. But it doesn't mean that this will be true of all, or even most, college students.
I guess you have some links to pro-privatisation articles in the Graun then?
Try watching this video (hope I found the right one):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

I think you're right that recording equipment has a long way to go, though; regardless of format I think people can relatively easily distinguish real acoustical instruments from recordings.
Duplicacy + B2 works great, though.
> all you need to do is turn down the compressor ratio in the mix

The problem here is that the "you" in this sentence is not "me", or even an entity I can really influence, much less control.

It's not really even the audio engineer whose boss is telling him to turn up the volume so high that only the top few bits of the 16-bit recording are in use. The boss is saying this so that the song can be heard when the user turns the volume down because of the obnoxiously noisy commercials on the radio. Those commercials have found that they're more effective when they turn the volume way, way up. And they don't give a whit about the quality of their audio as long as they can sell more cars or tickets or whatever, much less the quality of the songs that play after them, much much less the quality of the songs that someone downloads to listen to offline in a nice listening environment without commercials.

The solution isn't just "turn down your compressor ratio", there's a big, hairy Nash equilibrium/politics problem that can be bypassed by offering 24/192 as a secondary product. If you want to remaster it to 16/48 after downloading, you're welcome to do so.
>digital, so there are gaps in the sound

What kind of gaps? There are no gaps. Sampled signals perfectly represent the original wave up to half the sampling frequency. Analog systems are inevitably limited in their frequency response as well, so, given the same bandwidth, there would be no difference at all.

In the real world, imperfect A/D and D/A conversions are typically still far less destructive than all the mechanical and electromagnetic sources of noise that affect analog systems. You can't consider one but not the other.
They are still predators, they just pivoted to a different diet.
Yes it's amazing. The great part is a league called MultiGP with chapters all over the world that are grassroots where locals come together for organized races and compete against each other. They even have a regional series that leads to a national championship where anyone has a chance to make it. I love that compared to most sports where there's a professional league and it's untouchable.
I definitely agree that college can be a boon for young-adult social development but I think that should be where the focus is and not the pseudo-benefits of an over-valued degree.
I can max out my 100 Mbps connection if I use use multiple parallel transfers for it. This is in East Europe.
I suggest you to go and tweet it to Nick Hewer from the UK Countdown show. You may get a deal.
That's a protection, not a reward. It has a cost, and is often abused.
In the US, much of it washes down into the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico, where it kills the gulf and feeds algae.
He did briefly touch on how Monsanto was using similar practices in the agriculture business. I think most readers can make the implied connection there.
I guess when you become so large you don't have any direct predator you have options. Monopolistic Whales.
They managed to get a BitLicense (one of very few orgs to do so) which at least somewhat lends to legitimacy. Also pretty easy to find the people involved, and a founding team of infosec people is a pretty decent means to start an exchange. https://bittrex.com/home/about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLicense
Not to mention, krill are animals. Only at the scale of a whale could filter feeding be considered gentle giant behaviour. At our scale it's probably more like genocidal giant if you consider the thousands of little animals which dissolve alive inside the whale.
I don't understand why you said I was wrong in the other comment, but you give here an appropriate analogy which makes the effect obvious.

Because we only have 8 bits per channel, we all can see banding in (dynamically) compressed images. That's what increasing the depth improves.
A rifle has a muzzle energy of a couple kilojoules. So you're looking at lasers in the kW power range. I doubt that you could do comparable damage even if you could deliver comparable energy. Flesh doesn't conduct heat terribly well and vaporizing a centimeter of skin is not very lethal.
That's an absolute fantastic way to look at it. This is what I want to believe how it went. :)
Its not just about the release of an unfinished novel with lots of rough edges, its our understanding of how the Diskworld evolved in Pterry's mind over the years. TCOM was a simple spoof of swords-and-sorcery epics, but by Going Postal it had become a complex world that fused magic with steampunk. The rough drafts, abandoned dead-ends and private notes that presumably inhabited those disk drives would have provided insights into how this happened.

Update: just read loopbit's response to the same post. Good point.
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GDPR means get out of Europe if you continue, so probably there's that.
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It happens in other disciplines all the time. E.g. architecture, automotive industry, ...

The problem is really: we're allowing the requirements to change just because it seems possible (in software). But it leads to crappy code. Managers should understand this.
> you'll likely watch the xiph video and think "Well that makes sense."

What video? This thread is about an article.

> The point of higher sample rates isn't to capture bat squeaks, but to relax the engineering constraints on pre-post filtering.

I just said that, I think.
Another social media platform, do we need it? (audio)
TripAdvisor used to show photos of the properties taken by what looked to be actual past visitors, in all the cases I was involved in those photos matched my ulterior experiences with said places. And, yeah, like almost all the reviews-based websites out-there you have to learn to filter through the fake reviews. I'm European and as such travel mostly to non-English speaking countries, and you can spot those fake-reviews pretty well if they come from the owner or his relatives/friends, as they tend to make the same grammatical mistakes. I admit, in North-America things might be different in this regard.
That's what a tinfoil hat is. Nobody wants to watch your particular webcam, just like the government does not want to influence your particular brain. But people put on the tinfoil hat anyway because it's cheap and it gives them piece of mind.

You could also just implement strong security guarantees according to best practice for your OS, but the piece of paper is definitely much cheaper and more effective for this one purpose.
> What? Do you honestly think that pinch-to-zoom is more world changing invention than solar panels?

Yes.

> I could totally live without pinch-to-zoom or even momentum scroll, but I doubt we, society as we know it, would survive very long without clean and renewable energy sources.

You can live without solar panels. You likely do.

Meanwhile, you became far more productive because of UX.
I'm not sure if this level is equivalent to "college" in the US, I assume so.

In a broad sense, yes. But, there's more to it.

In the US, there are several tiers of colleges...

- Community Colleges: offer 2-year (associates) degrees. Frequently serve as a launching point for entry into a 4-year program (if direct entry wasn't an option due to lackluster performance in high school). Also frequently offer vocational degrees (network and system admin, skilled trades, etc).

- College: Offer 4-year (Bachelors) degrees. Typically do NOT offer post-graduate degrees.

- University: Offer 4-year AND post-graduate (or professional) degrees.

It's not a hard and fast rule - The College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA) is one of the best universities in the nation and it's name is basically a historical anomaly.

The majority of colleges in the US are probably equivalent to the UK's polytechnics and other newer universities (vs the UK's ancient universities, which are closer to our Ivy League + a few other select research universities).

Edit - As it relates to this guy's blog, if he attended a top-tier university and found it was a waste of time, he was likely not mature enough to take advantage of its offerings.
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> Not entirely silly. Yes, the purported benefits of this high-fidelity audio are imaginary or even include undesirable traits. However, when most "remasters" of pop music today involve the dynamics being boosted to "loudness wars" standards for a target audience of people listening to the music through earbuds in the street, the 24/192 downloads or SACD releases are often the only way to hear the album with real dynamic range.

No. It's still entirely silly. The reason? The dynamics are unrecoverable once squashed by a limiter or compressor during the remastering process. The fidelity of the delivery medium is moot after that happens.
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This is precisely the path I took as well. When I went back to college I'd lost the hubris and was well aware of what I didn't know. It was a much better experience and I learned a lot.
What are algorithms?
I doubt any forcing is involved. These companies are willing participants in government surveillance.
Correct, 100% right. However, I like to think of it like a musician. If I don't like music, I make music I like. So if I wanted an awesome experience from a game, I could make the game and experience I want. Of course, all that is harder to do with programming (than music), but you get the drift.
The same reasons one might use an alternative file manager on any other OS: because their workflow suits it better.
Note that this works in the latest release only on Linux - Windows and OS X support is coming in the next release in a few weeks.
Emacs mostest problem : too many features unless you spend 5 years in it

I liked that roamer has a similar idea, the name/hash lines seems very straightforward. Also a bit of acme in it where text as a bit of meaning.

Maybe it will give wdired ideas too.
This morning appears to bring news that Alexa and Cortana will be able to call each other, bringing two entire sets of features and platforms together.

Where is Google? Working on raising those walls around its garden that much higher.

I think this difference continues to highlight how Google differs from other companies and warrants antitrust action.
If I were to guess, given the tolerances in timing for USB 2.0, one line was slightly longer than the other on the board. That'd mean that the transition on D- would happen at a different time than the one on D+ causing corrupted data.
"The integration of the ORM into the framework provides many conveniences, but this tends to involve a lack of awareness/control over exactly which queries get made."

I think that the lack of visibility is the problem, more than ORMs as such - one of the things that Rails got right is the logging.

In development, Rails will show you every SQL query as it happens, so you can see the blizzard of SQL queries that your request-response cycles are generating, and can spot crazy stuff once you have conditioned yourself to actually read the logs. Conversely, I've found that not being able to easily see what the ORM for your platform is doing can be really disempowering.

I suspect that nicer graphical tools would make this much more accessible: a lot of developers seem to either treat logs as noise, and I've seen some junior devs appear almost afraid of them.
Same goes double/triple/multiplier-of-your-choice in the UI layer. While back end code usually has process and rules behind it, so many things in the UI are:

- actually identical, but by coincidence

- perceptually identical, but not

- perceptually identical, but technically unrelated

- arbitrarily different in special cases
Indeed! We also tend to discount the unintended consequences. For instance, the printing press was probably a major catalyst in sparking witch hunts, which perhaps has some lessons for modern day social media:
https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept09/2009/10/31/unintended-con...
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Rich powerful people have more rights?

Or are you arguing these was more potential of some destruction of a legacy?
Pretty much everybody uses agile methodologies to handle evolving requirements. Without adapting to changes in requirements projects fail.
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> All that information on people all over the world is now in the hands of the US government. The very thought of this terrifies me.

I hate to tell you this, but that barn door was already left open a long time ago.
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Coinbase/Bittrex are licensed to sell/trade cryptocurrency in NY. If you want to put just a little bit of money in and trade on altcoins, have to buy BTC/LTC/ETH on coinbase and move it to bittrex. Minimum wire transfer to bittrex is 10k atm.

I'm not aware of any other exchanges that can trade in NY right now
Electric car emissions slash by two thirds as electricity generation goes green
I didn't need an ELI5. Your claims are basically a distortion of science which is meaningless.
Wrote an SPA recently with Polymer + Firebase. Besides the learning curve, it's actually kind of nice not to need a backend if you can get away with it.
I used to think CS was the exception to my college is worthless philosophy.

I think traditional CS is a good example of "college is worthless" if your goal in life is to become a 'normal' developer or developing 'normal' apps.

I think modern college is proving itself particularly ill suited for the modern job market.

In general or only for programmers? I generally find that the recently graduated civil engineers and architects I meet at work seem reasonably well educated to start working on real projects fairly quickly. Certainly much more so than any self educated engineer or architect might be.
DJI makes nice platforms for a wireless camera with auto-stability and auto-flight. A beginner can easily fly in high, gusty winds with minimal effort while taking smooth, high-resolution video. It's seriously impressive technology.

But it's like driving a tugboat instead of a jet ski. While it does have impressive speed and power, it's all expended in service of stability. If you want to do crazy stunts at speed, dancing nimbly around the sky, you want manual-control on a racing drone.
There's something satisfying about having really fat audio files on the hard drive.
When I was younger I worked in a supermarket warehouse and picked items into a pallet for shipping to a store with a system just like this. (Woolworths Supermarkets, Western Australia)

The voice had 4 speeds, and all the experienced pickers would have it turned up to the top speed.

Once you were experienced enough though, you would learn the confirm codes for the different bays, and speak though the pick to the voice system 5 steps ahead just so it didn't slow down your pick.

Workers that came from a paper sheet pick list in the previous factory prefered the paper as they could memorize the pick sheet with a single reading, and thus pick faster - and if they did want to double check at the end they had the sheet in front of them to do so.
Mastering for "high fidelity" 24-bit audio on iTunes is an oxymoron. The compression algorithms used for AAC and MP3 are going to the worsen the sound quality in a manner that renders the extended dynamic range of 24-bit audio is useless.
That platter was remarkably intact. You can send broken drives like this to a company. They can recover most of the data. NSA could do it too. If you don't overwrite several times with a random pattern it is recoverable.

Also that drive is old and I am suspicious that is the only copy, or that the novels we're there anyway. Seems likely Pratchett destroyed them already and this was symbolic.
It is both attractive to the wealthy and the poor. Waiters here make more after taxes than engineers in Germany.
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Though mathematics does not wait for justification, here's something to think about: infinite decimals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_2
Did you left the race sweaty ? I wonder how "physical" it can get.
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> If the author thinks that ethics review is "Blindly trusting authority to make our ethical decisions for us", then he clearly doesn't understand what ethics review is or how it works.

What is the basis for this statement? The author states that there is no oversight or governing body for the IRB. Is this incorrect (and if so, who is it)? If not, then the author's criticism seems apt.
>Booking.com is one of the most miserable user experiences on the internet and the UI

Their search by map or whatever is called it's actually pretty handy. It keeps the filters you have already selected on (which is a big thing in this day and age) and you can "travel" through the general area you're interested in staying, showing the prices on map-pin mouse-over, if I remember correctly. I tried doing this on GMaps directly and the experience was clearly inferior (no clear way to filter for price and rating, a lot less available properties), or maybe Google has another travel-like interface of which I don't know anything about.

I admit, there are tons of dark-patterns, some of which you mentioned, but I got used to them and learned to ignore them, the same as I do with online ads.
He could have been on an old computer - GRRM, for example, still writes on an MS-DOS machine
>Nowadays when most farms are 10,000+ acres in size and overseen by absentee landlords

I'd like to point out that this is not true. When I first moved from the rural Midwest to Silicon Valley, I quickly discovered this as a common misconception. The average farm is actually closer to 800 acres and still farmed by (in most cases) a single an owner/operator maybe with a brother or an uncle helping.

It is true that a lot of farmland is rented and nearly all of it is owned by someone like your grandpa that is a retired farmer now living off the rent of their land. I've found that this older generation is often the pickiest about how their land gets farmed and they often enforce practices that they prefer to keep their ground in good healthy condition.

About me: My family has been farming for 6 generations, my dad, uncle, and brother all actively farm and I am the founder of FarmLogs (YCW12).
> tailor-made medications

And at the same time we are moving towards a world of tailor-made anything. From cars and clothes to user interfaces and lifestyles. If we can handle the complexity of it all.
It's also good for the poor. Waiters in Switezrland make more after taxes than engineers in Germany.

That is one of the reaons I moved here. Here more about this: "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...
> So for a US company you would pay your employees by bank transfer in defined amount of USD, pay the transfer fee on top of that. And employees would get money in their local currency based on the exchange rate.

For most banks / situation you actually get USD - the banks aren's allowed just do conversion by themselves (at least here in EU).

So you get a separate USD account balance which you then need to manually request to exchange - which is good because you can decided when to exchange it :)
If you're striving for clarity in this comment, I suggest rewriting it from scratch :)
Any recommendations for a good beginner setup?
Why are you comparing a weapon that has to hit a whole person and misses to a weapon that has to hit a 5mm retina and somehow never misses?
You can get into some off-the-plan garbage in an extremely far away suburb on this sort of money, but right now I don't think it's the right time for me to get into property. So I rent about five minutes from Mount Lawley :)
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