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I saw some links in this thread, but they look like marketing materials to me. Aliasing is more or less solved problem, and the claim that running a DAC at 24 MHz makes it “better” in any measurable way seems ridiculous at face value. I don’t know what is actually going on, but as far as I know they’re just taking a delta-sigma DAC and talking big talk about the oversampling. In truth, oversampling here is usually just a boring engineering choice where you trade off bandwidth and SNR.

If the Novation Peak is running an 8-bit DAC at 24 MHz, they might be making it perform equivalently to a 16-bit DAC at 48 kHz—note the ratios. This is not anything new, it’s just something old that happens to have big numbers in it.
The point of mueller was to determine if Trump worked with Russia to steal a us presidential election. I may just not know the evidence so I'm asking in total honesty - what indictments demonstrate that happened?
We have been living out of Airbnbs for about 4 years now, and personally, I am usually fine if it's not totally above board for the most part. As you said "Some buildings were worse than others", and I haven't experienced a situation where we were being stalked/questioned to an uncomfortable level. I understand that would depend on the person, however.

I certainly wouldn't be one to report a host, but that's just me. We live mostly in Asia anyways where regulations aren't so strict and people care a lot less.

I used to live in SF and was being subleased to which was not allowed, but never ran into issues or cared.
that's a very American stance to take. I don't mean that as an insult; I mean that Americans value individual liberty above all else.

It's a modern American stance that dates back to the 1969 case of Brandenburg v. Ohio. The reason that this particular standard for free speech, formulated by the US Supreme Court has permeated segments of the English-speaking world is an example of the cultural dominance of the United States, and internet culture.

Besides bin Laden, another even more striking case is the cleric, a US citizen, who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen because of his advocacy of violence. And no sane person who values their freedom, in the English-speaking west, would dare advocate on behalf of ISIS today.

No society in human history has permitted absolute free speech, and the United States doesn't either.
The key difference is that Amazon is selling its infinitely deep platform to third parties. It is those third parties that bear all the risk of developing and marketing a product. Costco and Wal-Mart buyers and merchandisers still need to take the risk of choosing what limited inventory to stock on the shelf and commit resources to making it happen. Amazon also invites all competitors in a product segment to compete with each other. Using the information gathered from the sales, reviews, page views, demographics, and who knows what else, they can create the perfect Amazon basics version of that product pretty much on the fly with pretty low commitment.
> One would think that a sexual organism never having heterosexual sex would be a huge evolutionary fitness disadvantage

Genes do not "care" for individual organisms. If they did we would be immortal. Jared Diamond argued that the presence of homosexual uncles/aunts is the same kind of an advantage as the presence of no-longer-breeding grandparents.

> such a trait would be extremely uncommon.

Homosexuality is pretty rare, isn't it?
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I think it is because even if legally ok, this company only exists due to massive support from US citizens. Therefore, I think the natural expectation is that this company needs to allow for some flexibility due to this not being an exclusively Chinese venture.

Additionally, learning a language isn't just memorizing phrases but also understanding the culture and values behind it. If you don't at the very least understand the US/UK perspective on tyranny, it will be nearly impossible to comprehend a lot of 20th century English literature. "Big brother" is a relatively common phrase that I don't think is possible to explain in an entirely Chinese government sanctioned way.

I'm not sure how relevant going over these issues specifically is for teaching English, but in my experience Chinese culture is extremely different from English culture and there are almost inevitably going to many conflicts.
Perhaps I can interest you in this live performance of Command & Conquer songs by the original composer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJClbTrY0VE
Orange safety classes (mine are called "computer glasses" but I suspect they are basically the same--they filter out blue light) can also help to prevent eye strain from extended computer screen time, and in my case at least, ocular migrations.
When I look at Airbnbs in SF, NY etc they are regularly more expensive than hotels with none of the benefits of a hotel.

Why should a city prioritize the needs of landlords and visitors over most of their constituents? Would love to see the number of mayors who love Airbnb. I can’t imagine there are many, if any.
Some of the other 101 crossings in the Bay Area (3rd Ave/101 in San Mateo, Hillsdale Blvd/101 in San Mateo at least) are lightless and are really dangerous for both cyclists and pedestrians.
No?

AirBnB should put the onus on hosts to make sure the activity is welcome. If the site becomes a buyer-beware trap, where if I want to eg book a condo in Austin I better go figure out what Austin and the condo building feel about AirBnB, it does not bode well for their future...
People are generally more forgiving when you perceive your employees' disability in a positive light instead of viewing their disabilities as something to exploit.

It's a subtle difference, but the first one encourages/enables the employee to function in spite of their disability or perhaps one day overcome the shortcomings, or simply work in a way / environment where it becomes irrelevant. (Software development already gets us 90% of the way there)

The other, well, that one doesn't really give a shit as long as you're productive, i.e. it will probably still exclude a large portion of autists and never really help anything. Hell it probably expects to never give them upward mobility with that last remark either.
Personally I think hate speech is a term which cold use more precision - I personally term it the rather uncatchy '<ethnic> intimidation' with ethnic substitute for the appropriate other term as it encompasses the parts of it that cause harm.

To use an example of an obscure half-joking religion just say calling Pastafarians a bunch of stupid useless colander-heads is hateful speech but not hate speech. Saying that we should all go out tomorrow and lynch Pastafarians would be religious intimidation and captures where the wrong is - not the speech but the actual 'verbal assault'.
Easy fix if ads do come along: cancel your subscription.

I pay to watch what I want, not what other people would like me to see. If I’m paying to see what people would like me to see, then I will stop paying. It really is that simple.
Washington also has no income tax, high sales tax, but lots property tax. How does that fit your argument?
How could anyone stand to work for someone who so swiftly limits the breadth and depth of a person via their mannerisms such as this? it's dehumanizing, full stop.
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His daughter disowned him.
This ban while strict is actually more than the cosmetic 'assault rifle ban' given the strict magazine size limits for all but essentially 'varmint gun' calibers. One can debate the effectiveness of it but the features of some actual substance in this case.
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What's interesting is that it really hasn't lent any power or mysticism to either the words, actions, or being of the perpetrator. Nobody's talking about them, their ideals, their actions. All focus is on the victims.

It's been far more effective, and without any apparent downsides, than I expected.
To pile on:
LA Noire,
Deus Ex (whole series),
Red Strings Club,
Minecraft's full release album by C148,
Myst/Obduction (thanks Robyn Miller), pre-emptively Star Citizen (what has been released already is excellent)

But also, so many indie games. We are in a golden age for game soundtracks.
I've used AirBnB to stay in, what was essentially, a motel, and also a room in someone's home.

Both felt above-board, even if they were illegal in the area - which I don't think they were (Because I wasn't taking a full-fledged apartment off the rental market.)
It's not weird. Pilots get used to a particular 2D pattern of repeatedly and sequentially scanning the instruments in front of them. When flying a particular model of aircraft, safety requires those instruments to be in the same place without the pilot having to waste even a second looking for them.
This white supremacist, terrorist massacre in NZ was livestreamed, I'm not aware of that ever happening before. What to do with this footage is in some sense uncharted territory.

The video is a graphic video of a massacre and simultaneously propaganda produced by the perpetrator of that massacre. It is a peculiar idea that we as a society cannot legitimately decide that this footage is objectionable in the same way child porn is objectionable, and make it illegal to share it. It is not simply a deeply disturbing act being shown, it also shares with child pornography the property that the footage that could not have been produced without devastating harm to the people involved.

The manifesto I feel less strongly about; I read it myself but would never watch the video.
I think blocking 4chan and 8chan means their users will resent the establishment even more. Considering this is the demographic whose resentment was influential enough to play a role in the election of Trump in the US, I think society needs to think twice before stamping the boot into their face.

I know some people who will feel that blocking these sites was an affront to their identity. And like it or not, the number of people who feel this way is not small, and their influence even less small. You can't just stamp them out, and you're radicalising them further.
There are (were?) many lux condo buildings in Bangkok, at least a few years ago, that had plenty of open inventory so they were putting the units online themselves. The condo lobby would take care of your check-in process.
Rent control is incredibly dumb. It requires the landlord to set the initial rent at a level that accounts for the fact that it can't be adjusted while the tenant is in the apartment, when tenants in rent controlled apartments will stay for decades. So you're still paying the same total amount, but now you're paying more of it up front. And really you're paying more than that, because the landlord is taking a risk in not being able to adjust the rent -- what if taxes go up or some other cost, or the tenant stays longer than estimated? So now you're not just paying the same amount, you're paying it plus a risk premium for the landlord.

Then, once you've been there long enough for your rent to be lower than the market rate (which itself is more expensive due to rent control), the landlord loses any incentive to maintain your apartment. Certainly you can expect to never see any improvements, and you'll be lucky if they even do what they're required by law rather than hoping that the insufferable conditions will cause you to move out.

Then you can never leave. Apartment is now too small? Too big? Too far from your new job? Bad luck, you're stuck.

So you get widows and widowers living in three bedroom apartments they don't need because it's cheaper to stay there than move to a one bedroom down the street (which could otherwise have actually saved them money), meanwhile a family of five is living in the one bedroom because the upgrade to three bedrooms is a rent increase of 700% rather than 70%. And better hope you don't get a new obnoxious neighbor, because you'll be together forever since neither of you can leave.

Rent control isn't great for anyone. If you want to hedge against rents increasing by paying a bunch of money up front, maybe invest in a local REIT.
Not the globally interconnected world we had hoped for music.
He wanted a the political left and right to fight over gun control. He didn't get that, at least not in NZ.
And the Greatwinter Trilogy by Sean Mcmullen. How can you go wrong with librarians, cetaceans, and massively parallel organic computing.
Yep. So a kludgy fix wasn't necessary on the A320 like it was on the 737.
Well I heard that theory but seems there are no homosexual aunts and uncles in any species except the two mentioned.

The theories about alpha and beta wolves turned out to be wrong btw. The wolves that were observed in captivity were simply closely related families.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/no-such-thing-alpha-male-201...
The founding fathers of the USA had a reason for the 1st amendment.

The US Supreme Court only set the modern boundaries for freedom of speech in Brandenburg v Ohio in 1969.
All of the firearms he used were banned.
Aren't means recursive? It's just sum/count. So you just split the list into arbitrary sublists, such that the sum of each sublist is well under the infinity cutoff. Calculate the mean of each sublist, and then the mean of those means.

And you could add the split logic to calculating the mean of the means. Just as insurance.

So would that work?
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Hardly anyone believes that for children.
Looking at the Novation Peak that’s just a bunch of marketing materials, from an engineering standpoint it’s utter garbage unless they know something everyone doesn’t.

Oversampling is a standard technique for modeling analogue synthesizers, but you don’t need to go crazy with it, you don’t need to run your DACs at 24 MHz to see the benefit (you can run them at 48 kHz just fine, Novation’s marketing materials mentioning that DACs “often” have alisaing issues is just weaseling—aliasing issues not hard to solve), and nothing about the specs tells me that they would be pushing the performance of existing DSPs.

So no, FPGA is absolutely not necessary. Audio, even high-end virtual analogue synthesizers, don’t require a lot of computational power. It doesn’t matter whether you have an oversampled DAC at 24 MHz or a regular old 48 kHz DAC, if you send them the same signals you won’t be able to tell them apart.

Keep in mind you can oversample in the digital domain.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

This is something that most people who in the "only luxury housing will be built" camp miss.

If the newly rich (either acquired wealth or moving in) can't buy luxury housing because none is being built, they will just do create their own luxury housing. That's one less housing unit for normal folks.

Exhibit A:
https://sf.curbed.com/2015/10/8/9913302/victorian-disembowel...
We have abundant evidence that not censoring bad views also leads to radicalisation. So your argument is weak.
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Recently I rented an Airbnb that turned out to be nothing like the pictures. The building that the apartment was in was falling apart, stank of cigarettes and was on a sharp slant to the point where my suitcase would roll if I left it standing in the apartment.

I left immediately, booked a hotel and messaged the host for a refund - they said no. I had to get Airbnb involved and they asked if I would accept a partial refund. I said no.

The Host asked me to cancel my trip, but I refused because I would have to agree to not accept a refund of more than $30.

At the end of my stay I was asked to leave a review and I left an honest, critical review of the apartment. Airbnb immediately messaged me asking if I'd accept a full refund to take down my review.

This is the kind of sketchy activity that will keep me booking hotels instead. I now have no faith in a place with all good reviews, as guests who leave critical reviews probably removed them for refunds similar to me.
Building up is the only sustainable way to house us all. Yeah the character and fabric of the city will change but I have a hard time believing the people in Hong Kong long for a time of 3 story houses but I suppose I could be mistaken.
I don't use AirBnB for staying in SF or NYC (although I highly doubt that's the case for SF - a hotel runs you $200+/night here, but you can get quite decent AirBnBs for $70-80/night).

I've used them for staying in Kirkland, WA; Amherst, MA; Santa Cruz, CA; Redding, CA; Gualala, CA; Carmel, CA; Morro Bay, CA; Kihei, Hawaii; Croatia; Sarajevo; and several other places. They're an absolute lifesaver there: in some of those locations, there are literally 1-2 hotels in the whole town, they are frequently fully booked, and they cost 2-3x an AirBnB.

And I'd also doubt very many mayors like AirBnB all that much. My point is that interests diverge - there are some people who derive a lot of benefit from AirBnB, and there are other people who have good reason to hate it.
>> My bet is that it’s only a matter of time till “personilized ads” are forced upon you.

Unlike cable TV in the US currently, which is either a monopoly or duopoly, there is a decent bit of competition on streaming. Currently, there is Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, YouTube, among others. Yes, the content is often only partially overlapping, but the point is -- there is competition. This is much more promising for customers than the current situation -- where you often have one and only once choice and they can do whatever they want.

Overall, I'd say advertisements are the least of worries for me. The greater worry is you sign up for a $90/mo plan and the bill magically becomes $120/mo. You are forced to watch TV on their schedule. You sign up for a 12 or 24mo plan which you cannot cancel, even if you lose crucial channels (e.g., Disney) And the thing is near-impossible to cancel without spending hours in call-wait hell.
Remember when Tokyo was expensive?

https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...
Speed and data caps. 100GB doesn’t last long when you’re streaming Netflix and YouTube all day.
No, they have banned a bunch of random sites, while the main distributor of the video (Facebook) remans unblocked.
Anyone else use a paper notebook and writing long form? I somehow feel that it helps with recall/refresh better than a lot of the wikis Ive tried out? A lot of the times, one look at the page brings backs a photographic memory of the context under which those notes were made. Type/electronic note taking doesn't seem to cut it for me.
This is just propaganda that aims to fuel muslim's hatred towards the Chinese government. A lot of those mosques didn't have the required permits to begin with.

It's as if Americans want China to become the cesspool that they have created in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Just like the CIA financed Islamic Extremism to fight the Soviets during Afghanistan's occupation the same tactics are being recycled through social media to antagonize the Chinese.

What's next? Internment camps for people of Chinese origin in the United States?

If the US truly wants to compete with China, come up with a plan to DEVELOP the world, not DESTROY it through the promotion of hatred,disinformation, wars and regime changes that only benefit corporate America The rest of the world is fed up with American bullshit and actively supports China because of the hatred and destruction that America promotes

Do you want to know more?

America’s Devil’s Game with Extremist Islam
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/01/americas-devils...

Operation Cyclone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. helped midwife a terrorist
https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/osama-bin-laden-h...

We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the '80s
https://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/we_created_islamic_extremis...
It's past time for Western populations to start lighting a fire under their own governments about Xinjiang. I certainly don't know what kind of difference it might end up making, but we can't have it be said that we didn't try.
Okay, putting asbestos underwear on:

In most modern societies, we agree that children have limitations on the "people should be free to live their lives as they want" mindset. Otherwise, we'd be letting four year olds subsist solely on candy, hot dogs, and twenty hours a day of the Best of Elsagate.

We've traditionally trusted the compromise for that to parents. But parenting is hard. We're running on a mix of science and lore for a lot of it. Even beyond that, a lot of parents may not follow best practices, despite the best of intentions. Then add the too busy/doesn't care/actually incompetent parents.

The state has an enormous vested interest in the next generation coming out well-skilled and socially balanced. But they can't put a child development expert into every house in the country 24/7. They've had to trust parents who are spotty at best at their job, because there were limits on how they could intervene.

For the first time, we have wildly popular entertainment products that phone home and do remote work as part of normal operation. This makes a technical intervention possible in a way they couldn't do with prior moral panics (TV, comic books, bawdy novels).

In some ways, this is actually a tame and tolerant way to deal with the fear of gaming abuse. They're not saying adults can't have games, or even that kids can't-- just restricting usage when you reach a level that implies they're sacrificing something else (school, sleep, or family life) to make the hours. I wonder if a future evolution of this would integrate into directly the schools and the social credit concept-- if you can play Fortnite II: Electric Boogaloo 14 hours a day and somehow maintain straight As, it will let you, but bludgeon your character when your grades slip.
I thought Airbnb was supposed to cover the cost of your alternative accommodation in this scenario as well?

If airbnb isn't giving you a full refund without removing a negative review just issue a charge back.

No way they will fight it with that behavior on record.
To be frank 'collective' cultures seems to be a cop-out trope to excuse authoritarianism as 'just part of their culture' mixed with exoticism. It would be like excusing warlords as 'just a part of the culture' when everyone who isn't a part of his army wants him dead but is too afraid to take action and is essentially complicity in manufactured consent.

A true collective culture would have no need for laws as cudgels for such matters because doing something 'selfish' would already make them an outcast surely as becoming an outspoken NAMBLA supporter.
Only 12-bit is fine, it’s 1 MSPS. DACs you can trade sample rate for precision.
If there is no interest anyway, why make such a show out of hiding it?
They didn't offer even though I told them we went to a hotel and I've never heard of this before, so I didn't ask. But given how hard it was to get a refund, I wouldn't imagine they would have offered anything more.

Thanks for sharing, good to know for future reference.
Are you sure? I thought the ban only applied to semi-automatic guns, not pump or lever action.