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Apple BT supports up to 8Mbit/s, far above 1.5Mbit/s needed for CD transparent transfer with no data compression.
Same goes for staking in ETH2 as you don't need 32 ETH. You can join a stake pool.
Audiophiles generally don't use Bluetooth, it's balanced cables all the way.
I have mixed feelings about this one because rightsholders essentially have a monopoly on their content. 5+ video streaming platforms is bad for consumers, and this exists because rightsholders are allowed to control their content. It doesn't happen in the music space because Spotify was there first, had everything, record labels had a stake, and record labels were desperate post-Napster, so the Warner Music App would be a joke. Hulu was the industry's chance to get it right and have a viable Netflix competitor, but content owners weren't desperate enough, so the landscape became balkanized.

On the other hand, it is their content.
Malware bots on the Internet don't care how old you are. If the kids are on there (all of their friends already play Roblox and talk about it incessantly) then they need to have the same level of password security and care with personal data than an adult does.

The last thing a 6 year old needs is some asshole opening a dozen credit cards in their name and maxing them out on cash advances to buy Bitcoin.
My point was just that when you essentially extort desperate people, those people may do desperate things. You don't see this same type of desperation in tech or other things. For example, it's more believable that a parent of a child that needs one of these therapies may steal it, or even kill the executive that makes those sort of statements than someone not having the latest iPhone (although that occurs too).

"how you avoid destroying the incentives for doing the (very, very costly) research and clinical trials to create these drugs in the first place."

This just isn't true, and is built on typical industry lies. You have many people who would work on this type of societal improvement products for a well paid but not excessively lavish lifestyle. Look at people like Salk.

Pharma executives are some of the highest paid. Much of the research is government funded. The companies spend more on lobbying and advertising than they do for R&D.

Personally, I'm fine with the pace of progress slowing if it means we aren't allowing companies to manipulate the public and hold people's health hostage for obscene salaries and bonuses. There's too many people on the planet anyways.
would be funny to look at the internet for a few days though
It's not necessarily just that we can't hear above 20khz - recording above 44.1khz has its merits. For example, if you want to apply digital distortion or do amplitude modulation then up-sampling or having a high SR stops wrap around in the spectrum and getting all those nasty artefacts. The end user should never need to worry about this and it should be downsampled at the master.
> now its trendy for some reason

Culture follows power. Once a bunch of tech nerds became billionaires in the 1990s, every aspect of that subculture gained prestige.
Infact create your own planet with its own climate if you think it's so importsnt
But... no one is talking about spatial audio. This entire thread is about lossless quality. Your comment doesn't even make sense out of context, the AirPods Pro and Max already support spatial audio.
Yes. And British Airways is renowned for fractally bad IT.

e.g.

outage, 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/31/ba-it-shutd...

https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/it-infrastructure/7800/british-ai...

outage, 2019

https://www.itpro.co.uk/disaster-recovery-dr/34162/british-a...

Supply chain hack, 2018:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45446529
The real reason is twofold, first and more importantly, because you don't know the unintended consequences of proposing something like that. Who knows what else would get caught between the regulatory framework needed to prevent someone from doing math, because let's face it, that is impossible so unintended consequences will be the only consequences.

And secondly and most importantly, the government should not decide what products are allowed to be traded: Governments should lift all bans on products currently banned, all drugs, all books, all music, all banned clothing, etc.
> proof-of-work simply just isn't necessary to have cryptocurrency.

It seems kind of necessary to achieve wide distribution and avoid wealth concentration.
> Perhaps it's not idle pedantry to observe that many of those who are angry about crypto energy usage couldn't care less about the energy wasted and pollution generated by other endeavors.

Have you observed this, or are you simply speculating?
Don't you need to buy a cable/dongle to get an iPhone and Macbook connected?

They've made a billion dollar market for dongles, imo unnecessarily.
Absolutely. I was a well paid manager in a travel company. Then Covid hit... In hindsight I am glad I got the chance to become an entrepreneur. I am not sure if I would have had the guts to make the jump without the f:ing pandemic.
Serious question: You only have 2 ears so theoretically headphones should be able to produce the same experience as 7 speakers in a room. I imagine that is a hard problem, but is my understanding correct? Anyone know how hard this is?
I'm gonna bet OP would be happy to ban hammer the hell out of the companies who's entire business model is giving their customers cancer and preying on addicts too
It costs CO2 to manufacture and transport that plastic. Did you not pay attention to the numbers I quoted for why this isn't a "solution?"
As someone new to climbing I find regular chalk disgusting. I HATE the feel of it under my nails. An alternative is welcome.
By banning them, don't you increase their value by creating scarcity?
I think I'm missing something on this question:

> Answer very, very carefully. Do you agree to the terms & conditions?

I think you want to click "No", but it's telling me that the correct answer is to click "Yes".
I think the point is even a laptop from 2011 is acceptable for development. I wouldn't mind the power draw since its plugged in, the compile time either, cold compile 20s-2min is much the same for me, recompile where it counts is much faster
I think the real question is why AirPods Max have received tons of praise for their unmatched audio quality when they were released, and now suddenly are talked down to second tier because they don’t support lossless?

I mean, surely all those audiophile testers were aware that they are listening to compressed music? Or is this a recent realisation?
Given the slow uptake on WebGL and the hit-and-miss on browser hardware support, I fear it will take several years for WebGPU to be an usable target beyond learning purposes.
People are really complex systems, they don’t just have one emotion, even at one time. I know several people who seem to swing between overconfidence and self doubt, sometimes very suddenly. Maybe some will eventually settle in the middle. But if someone has something in their psyche that just keeps pushing them back into an overconfident mindset, then it’s hard to see how they wouldn’t also experience regular injections of humiliation leading to growing self doubts over time.
By redefining anyone who has worked very hard and enjoyed success as a 'fierce nerd', you make the term meaningless, and the supposed payoff from being one into a tautology.
> Nobody messes with them.

Well, some environmental activists try by turning off oil valves[0], just like environmental activists are upset with Bitcoin.

> You have big entrenched organizations such as the oil industry doing far more damage.

People who criticize Bitcoin for its environmental impact don't give a pass to oil companies. The issues overlap, like in Texas where they plug Bitcoin mining rigs straight into the oil well[1].

But I hear you. All big entrenched organizations must be held accountable. Of course.

[0]: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/companies-dec...

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/bitcoin-mi...
MGM controls a massive library of shows and movies. Many are or have been on Amazon videos competitors. These will, likely, all disappear from competitors in the same way Disney is rounding their carriages.

The root of the problem is that all of these platforms users are harmed by the siloed nature of the industry, in more or less the same ways. A better solution for the customer would be something akin to the way licensing works in the music industry. Let everyone host everything, charge what they will, and pay fixed royalties out of their income.

I'm not an economist, lawyer, musician or whatever. I'm just a very disgruntled consumer that's seen the potential of the streaming industry get destroyed by greed and overpaid lawyers. There are many shows and movies that are, for no good reasons, only available on aftermarket listings for old vhs, and sometimes dvd. Finding these alternatively is even difficult.

Companies could be working on UX, social functions, or recommendation algorithms but instead they're lighting money on fire to license a revolving pile of meh that'll juice their subscribers enough to hit their quarterly metrics. I'm entirely disinterested in googling where to stream every show and movie and pay between mandatory ads, and North of $5/episode to watch a show on whichever provider has the rights to stream it. It's such a poor experience that I've returned to a personal media library and have opted out of the streaming industry entirely.
Is it? Over time human energy creation and consumption has grown exponentially with technological innovation. Fire to cook meat, a wagon attached to an ox, combustion engines, air conditioning, wireless networks, data centers, etc.

Today you probably consume more energy in a few days than your ancestors whole lives.

Now, we've created distributed, immutable property, something that has never existed before. It turns electricity into value storage. What is the "correct" amount of energy for humans to spend on such a thing?
I don’t think your speakers are going to respond to 192 kHZ. Even if you could get the data to the speakers at that rate they aren’t designed for it.
Don't forget health insurance and errors & omissions insurance.

Finding clients takes about the same effort as preparing for job interviews except you have to constantly be looking for clients.

It's not easy finding and managing multiple long term clients, and even then you need about 3 or 4 to ensure one doesn't hold too much leverage over you.

In the end, it's a wash, if starting a company was two or three times better than a salaried job it might be worth it, but as it stands it's barely 1.2x better than a salaried job.

If you want more money it's best to just do a salaried full time job and then do some work occasionally on the side or develop other passive income streams.
I'm impressed you can wear earbuds all day. I can't even wear headphones all day, let alone earbuds. Earbuds for me max out at about one hour at a time before they get too uncomfortable.
I'm not sure how "wait a few minutes to hear the song you just hit play on" could possibly translate to "great UX"
I'd love to see a reboot - in fact, I think it'd be the best way to repurpose & extend the premise & lore & themes.

The setup for SG1 was pure scifi gold, delivering all the frills fans could want:

• 'relatable 20thC/21stC person' space adventures-in-wonderland

• planets-of-the-week plus long arcs of discovery & tech-advancement

• galactic space opera & epic space wars that only sometimes risk Earth itself

• worldly intrigue referencing current politics/culture: evil Senators! human & alien conspiracies! Wormhole X-Treme!

But, eventually accumulated 'canon debt' & the frift of decades of real history makes new consistent stories that are equally relatable to the 2020s nearly impossible. Our heroes got pretty overpowered at times late in SG1 and SGA.

So, clean reboot! It worked great for BSG. Treat the whole past as a mythology to mine & remix, with winking fanservice rather than strained consistency & retcons. Give us some more Aschen & Tollan, Hebridans & Serrakin. Put some more vaguely-interesting unfolding pseudoscience behind the magic woo that dominated later storylines. Add some new mysteries to the gates, the gate network, & the gate-builders.

What's now possible with streaming prestige-series money, improved digital effects, & a smart full-universe paced master plan could be incredible.
I've got the QC35ii as well and absolutely love them. Best comfort and ANC.

But I'm specifically looking for earbuds with good ANC.

I've got puffy hair and when I take the QC35s off my flattened valley hairdo looks absolutely ridiculous :-)

AirPods pro have good ANC - almost as good as QC35 - but their battery life is too short.

And it's just for desk use; so I don't mind if they're wired.

Hope that helps explain my context! I sound like an absolute fusspot.
This depends on the definition of fair, which depends on the intended purpose of the taxes in question.

There seem to be 3 general categories of taxes:

1. Incentives
2. Dis-incentives
3. Money to pay for services

Each needs to be examined for potentially unfair rules.
Unlike drugs which have limited substitutes (alcohol and caffeine I guess), PoW currencies would have several functionally equivalent replacements. I doubt we'd end up ravaging underprivileged communities as they turned to black market Bitcoin.
The Monopoly grows...
> Even using something like Qt, writing a C++ GUI app for the 3 major platforms (macOS, Windows and Linux) is about 10x more work than getting something like Electron working and distributed.

In my case, I did most of my development for an embedded target, which meant my org shipped the entire OS and therefore we only had to worry about the packages we were shipping. Packaging wasn't much of a problem in that context, but it was still many times more effort than an Electron app--my issues tended to be related to tooling and language.
Your logic here isn’t sound. “Why not 5 years ago?” - the mechanism here is that each year there is a low but non-zero probability of a virus jumping to humans.

That is why you have infrequent intermittent epidemics like Spanish Flu, or more recently SARS, and not constant evolution of new crossover viruses.

It seems that crossovers happen more on the timescale of decades than mere years. (Though I’m excluding crossovers of unviable infections that don’t go anywhere, of course).

None of the above argues against the lab escape theory. As the OP details it’s possible. Just your specific line of reasoning here oversimplifies, hence the downvotes.
Awww did someone get their feelings hurt?

The more this Paul Graham person writes the more I realize they are just another regular person.
So instead of dolvibg the hard problem well focus on something easy and useless. SV moto in a nutshell
I wouldn't have high hopes though. Getting ANC to work in consumer earbuds(not earphones) is a tough nut to crack. Even the big players like Huawei, Sennheiser and Samsung struggle with it. They seem to only work in a narrow set of cases like being next to an AC unit or a food blender but get stuck at day to day sounds like cars, trains, crowds of people talking, dishes and cutlery clinking, doors slamming, etc. Sometimes I feel like they even amplify these sounds instead.
Unlikely. They need the port for more than just the charging. Ever had a botched iOS update? You need that port to reset the iPhone
Think about it from the other side.

How about continuing research and development of solutions providing cheaper, greener energy instead of sparking righteous war against something that consumes energy based on incompetent social media fart?

The loudest voices against something are typically hypocrites that happily fly on their gas guzzling private jets bitching about people driving their oh so inefficient cars to work.
Sigh. I bet if I sat next to SW at a cigar shop, he'd never shut up.
whatever happened to the efficient market?

i find views that want to ban anything for energy consumption ridiculous. also what the people advocating for this kind of thing are missing is that it’s all fun and games until something you rely gets banned because of reasons.

here are my proposals:

the entire banking system is obviously using a lot of power. how about we ban banks and go back to using paper money. that’s def more environmental friendly. /s

electric cars run on energy that’s generated with coal. that’s not cool. let’s ban electric cars and keep driving gas cars. they have been around for a long time and the technology is so good that we actually pollute less with a gas car /s

the internet in general and datacenters in particular are using a lot of power. let’s ban datacenters. guaranteed between environment afterwards /s
> I think TeeSpring has the right idea - they're checking that GA is loaded, if it is, then do stuff with it, if it's not, then don't.

I think they could go one step further and may be try...catch (sandbox) all access to third-party services that aren't critical.

User-agents, which browsers are, expectedly do put a lot of control in the hands of the end-users. Such breakages should be factored in and worked around (provided there are enough engineering resources to throw at the problem, of course).
Well, no, that's still wrong. The >100% efficiency comes from using two slights of hand:

1. Counting only the electrical energy input. But you also need to supply heat at the same time. That's the whole point of this product--use heat ~~instead of~~ (edit: in addition to) electricity to split water.

Critically, they are assuming you get "free" (as in beer) waste heat at 800C... which is fairly silly. 800C heat is high-grade energy, not waste heat. Exhaust gas from a combined-cycle NG power plant, for example, is more like 250-300C. Thermal steam plants operate with a Th of ~550C (so the waste heat is much, much cooler).

2. Ignoring the fact that you need to heat the reactant (water) to 800C before you can have the discussion in #1. Now, the problem is that the heat capacity of water is much higher than an equal mass of H2 and O2. So, you can't even use the hot as-produced gas to heat the incoming water to anywhere near the operating temperature of the electrolyzer.

The efficiency in a practical application is probably half to two-thirds of what they are claiming.
I have no clue about batteries or hydrogen tanks.

But I'm always amused to think that posters on HN give more credence to their back-of-the-napkin calculations over opinions of, say, folks at Toshiba, Volvo or Daimler.
Feels like the infrastructure and on car issues are going to be similar to CNG, but worse. Need new fuel stations, high pressure storage, no existing delivery network (worse than CNG; although CNG pipelines are much lower pressure than vehicles need, so you needed a compressor at the fueling point); and the killer --- the vehicle tanks expire and replacement may not be economically feasible, in which case your car's value evaporates when the tank expires (generally 15 years after tank manufacture); this is what happened to most CNG cars.
Here is a crazy conspiracy theory: maybe they are both legit and MS used shady-looking e-mail addresses on purpose. Security-minded people will look at them and call them out, thus bringing to light how shitty the Chrome Extension store vetting process is, undermining Google Chrome's credibility in the process, so that users stay on MS Edge.
People really out here acting like all of Russia is on the sanction list.

Its like the head of Sbersbank and a few companies and a few individuals, and that's it.

There is practically no way for this to be a real rebuttal or conversation. Companies can pay ransoms, intermediaries can pay ransoms. There is no legal quagmire.

Why would you accept a pseudonymous cryptocurrency in a country you can't even get financial records from the fiat offramps, and use a pseudonym that matched your actual name on the OFAC list? Let alone just not being a person that is on the OFAC list. This is so improbable, the US Treasury can pound sand.
To extend to your comment, lightly examining a number of shells could also serve a few additional pedagogical functions:
* Showing students that there are many shells that they could encounter.
* Highlighting the differences.
* Showing that there is a long history.
* Showing that the history is still alive.
* Showing that there is no one right way.
> I'm about to give you money. That's the only 'analytic' you should care about

Yeah, but who are you? Are you an impulse buyer? Returning? Did you spend an hour on the product page? Did you jump between 20 different product pages?

You can't deny that this kind of analytics can be very useful for user conversion and website design. And the site in question tries to do the proper thing, checking if GA works before trying to do stuff with it, so it wouldn't just fail if GA was blocked by the user.
> Still, I've been to that party that end with one room full of "Amazons", one room full of "Neflixers" and those left over wondering what they all talk about.

I really like what you said here. A familiar analogy that I like to use is cable TV: Netflix and Amazon are just "channels", each with different shows. When one half of the room is full of "Amazons", that's just the half of the room that's interested in some subset of shows not too dissimilar from what it might have been like to be a regular viewer of a serial television series in the days of yore.

However, whereas before, you had to subscribe to all of the channels in bulk. Today, you have the option to pick and choose the "channels" you want to pay for on any given month given the TV shows you care about. I think we agree that the experience to do this can be improved, but I think we also agree that it will inevitably happen one day.
It definitely is. Either that, or it's incredibly short-sighted.

That comparison ignores the actual value add of Facebook and the fact that people are using it. Most BTC trades happen off blockchain and are powered by the servers of the market places and nobody really knows how much energy they use.
ah insurance fraud.
eBay Closes Its Adult Only Section and Stops Selling Anything Sexual
Does this have anything to do with the thread or the OP? I can’t see how.
Teslas run on coal power if you’re charging from your outlet
yes. also let’s start capping the amount of oxygen people are allowed to breathe. I mean, without oxygen you cannot produce co2, amiright? /s
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I think he mitigates that by NOT talking about his product. Just because he has a product doesn't mean he's a marketing dweeb. He probably made such a product as a climber scratching his own itch. If he isn't a climber he shouldn't do this as his posts won't add quality to the groups he joins and people won't pay attention to posters of low-quality advice so it won't work for him anyways.
The other 20-40% come from plastic bottles and other plastic trash which gets broken down into smaller and smaller pieces. Whale consumes plastic bottle... eventually that bottle is no longer a bottle anymore...
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This depends on the species that you are trying to culture. Some plants are avid eaters, other not so much. Orchards solve it using the concept of crop rotation