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And there is an amazing piano transcription from w3sp, here: http://www.gamemusicthemes.com/sheetmusic/personalcomputer/t...

(check out his performance on youtube - not only the intro, but also the complete Woodtick theme, Jojo from MI2, etc.)
Do you really believe what you have written here? People who chose not to take a jab are zombies to you?
Blizzard doesn't have much of an e-sports scene. The leagues are largely independent at this point for most of the games.
I hope the person you know was OK. That transfer is actually not surprising. Emergency/intensive care is almost always NHS here.

Private options tend to be better in situations like having multiple treatments available where one is significantly more effective or more reliable but also costs a lot more. Sometimes the NHS will only offer a cheaper but inferior alternative, which sounds horrible until you think that there is a huge but ultimately pooled budget and any time policy allows more spending on one treatment there is always someone losing out somewhere else.
Why do you want a replacement? You can still easily buy chewing gum. Just because it’s “not cool anymore” doesn’t mean it’s now useless.
I’ve found DuckDuckGo can be better at some searches, and at others far worse. I was recently trying to search up how to do something in Excel and every result from DDG was some “excel-help” website that was actually just parroting common search terms as the headers on non-articles full of ads. The entire search space has apparently been hijacked by what is essentially a fake help site. I see results like that on google too sometimes but not across a whole results page.

These sites seem to have emerged in earnest over the last 5 years or so, designed to present the appearance of relevant content to the search engine but existing only to serve ads.
It's amazing how the PC speaker version has a Melody, but also chords and accompaniment, even though only one frequency can be played at a time. There's so much going on it sounds impossible.

I really wanna know how this was done, presumably by offsetting all the various sounds. Maybe very short notes jumping around, perhaps the raggae style off-beats help.

There's a big documentary on Monkey island on YouTube, unfortunately it doesn't go much into the music.
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I'm oddly optimistic about it as well - I think we get bombarded with bad news regarding renewables so often that it can be easy to forget that there's plenty of good news too.
I don't know. I'd be pretty upset if I spent many years in a place, learned the language and culture, and indoctrinated myself in the rules and beliefs all to get outvoted (and potentially cast out) by people who did none of those things. It would leave me pretty jaded with representative democracy.
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> On the private system, I can see a consultant in one month instead of six, or get a surgery in three months instead of three years. This is all for non-emergency care of course.

Have you considered that you are essentially jumping in line just because you have a larger wallet than other people?
> This reasoning works only if you believe the society isn’t supposed to help the vulnerable.

This reasoning is used to justify horrific acts. Is there no limit? Obviously your line in the sand is beyond compelled experimental vaccinations... what about throwing virgins into volcanos? That might actually be more productive, as it could be no less effective in combatting the virus - and it might actually sate the power mad doom cult and show the elderly how devoted young people are to them.
It is already pretty useless, because militia is not going to have tanks, bombers, fighter jets and nukes anyway.

It was an alright idea when it was introduced, but is mostly obsolete today.
Could have made the olympic surfing competitions interesting (which they moved sooner because of the storm that passed by)
>> that a fair chunk of their troops will mutiny if told to destroy their home country

I'd be careful about this. There is a general principle in military communities that troops are not to obey "illegal orders" but time and time again throughout history we have seen that backstop fail. At a base level we all do what we think is best for ourselves. Troops will shoot prisoners. Troops will shoot protestors. They will nuke their own hometowns if they believe that is either necessary or if failure to do so will result in their own demise. And many troops, people, will do what they are told out of pure loyalty to a charismatic leader. The only real safeguard is layer upon layer of checks to ensure no one leader can ever exercise independent control.
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I've been learning Russian for a year (currently at around B1-B2). None of these new age language learning apps are actually useful, even to get your feet wet. The old is still gold when it comes to language learning. You think you're learning with these apps, but in my experience you're not. They just don't seem to put anything in long term memory well. There is spaced repetition in some of them, but not enough repetition.

Good old audio course Pimsleur is better than all of them combined. Cortina Method is best resource to learn grammar and the book is so old it looks like a smudged typewriter print. All old methods are based on learning and repeating sentences after sentences rather than learning individual words. You really end up learning like a child. Pattern recognition is where it's at.

I can't recall anything I studied on Duolingo for Russian. I can't forget anything I learned on Pimsleur. And I finished the last module in January.
Sous vide is relatively inexpensive. You just need a container big enough (plenty of people use plastic or styrofoam coolers) and entry level Sous vide machine are a little over $100 last I checked. All the device does is recirculate water and it heat up to a certain temp for a few hours. Not much to them.
Nothing is free. Even if no money exchanged hands, someone put in some time and effort, which has a cost, even if it was just going and picking an apple for themselves to eat, from their own tree.

Pointing that out isn't helpful; it's not relevant to the point at hand, and everyone knows there is still a cost.
Since the Estonian ID-card infrastructure has been around almost 20 years (didn't even realize it's been this long already), it's used literally everywhere. Every time you interact with the government or a bank, utilities or even loyalty programs at stores, you'll use your digital ID.

These days, you also have the option of signing with Mobile-ID (using a secure SIM application provided by your phone carrier) or SmartID (a regular Android/iPhone app) are probably more convenient since you don't need the smart card reader.

I can't remember the last time I had to physically sign something in Estonia, only when dealing with foreign companies, where you need to pretend to print, sign & scan the document. They don't seem to mind copy-pasted PDF signatures though...
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For non-Americans reading this: $300/month is not a health insurance cost for a family anywhere in the United States. Either a) the employer is eating most of the cost or b) this is not what you have in mind when you think "health insurance".

A typical health insurance plan for a family of 4 costs closer to $1,500-$2,500 per month in the US if you are looking for something close(r) to the level of coverage available in socialized medicine countries (or in the parts of the US medical system that are socialized). That cost is on top of the automatic taxes we pay to cover Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA medical system (these 3 together account for a majority of US healthcare spending).
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My memory of US law is fading. Do any labor lawyers happen to recall that 1920's federal law that was passed because factory workers were passing notes to each other, companies cracked down on it, then a law was passed blocking companies from blocking employee to employee speech? I was going to look it up to see if it pertains to this situation, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of that law.
Thanks, can you please suggest improvement points?
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In Romania there is a price list on display at my public insurance general practitioner which applies if you're uninsured but private practices also have pricelists on display.

In Austria I've also never seen a pricelist in the public system as the system assumes everyone must be insured if they live here but you do get a bill at the end of a hospital stay to pay for food and such things. Ironically, many private practices here also have a scummy system where they don't share their pricelist publicly neither online, neither by phone, you only know the prices after a "talk with the doctor" (that you also pay for), presumably to keep their competitors and their customers, sorry, I meant patients, in the dark about the market prices.
We're going to end up going back to community sites. Reddit is obviously the good example here, but you can guarantee if you find a 'racing bike' forum (or whatever), take the time to join up, search, ask - someone with a passion for it will give you a great, well researched list because they love it and take pride from knowing.

Exactly the same as when I ask my friend who's passionate about wine for his recommendation for a £15 bottle of red, and he'll happily waste 20 minutes of his day writing a list and sending me links. I know the pleasure he gets when I message and go "thank you! This is amazing!"

Also just to add - this is exactly why those "get paid to recommend things to your friends" startups never work. Because the minute we know that the 'friend' on Facebook who's shouting about the great bottle of wine is getting paid £1 per sale we deliberately don't buy it. (As opposed to the "next time you're in Tesco, pick up a bottle of XYZ, it's great" message - when we probably do.)
This might sound pedantic, but as an economist, I feel duty bound to point out that "charge", "cost", "value", and "price" are different things.

In this case, the amount being charged is the provider's starting position in the negotiation process. It is not relevant to how much it actually cost to provide the service.

We are stuck with this system as a consequence of another attempt by government to try to control prices. Because companies were prohibited by government from paying workers above certain amounts, they tried to compete on other dimensions which were not covered by the wage controls. Then, the malady remained endemic long after the wage controls were lifted.

There are no rational prices in the U.S. healthcare system. The largest component of the system is Medicare, and it reimburses doctors using RVUs[1] which, if you squint enough, are based on labor theory of value[2] (the "value" of something is determined by how much work went into it rather than how useful it is to the recipient).

[1]: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen...

[2]: https://labor.alaska.gov/wc/med-serv-comm/CMS_RVU_Calculatio...
There'll always be multiple ways to skin the proverbial cat.

Shameless plug but I'd written my own $SHELL callewd `murex` as I kept running into pain points with Bash as a DevOps engineer. The shell doesn't have `tree` inbuilt but it does have FZF-like navigation built in.

https://github.com/lmorg/murex

I've been using it as my primary shell for a few years now and I'm not going to pretend that it isn't BETA it does work. However it's not POSIX and some of the design decisions might rub people the wrong way (given how opinionated peoples work-flows are). But if you're curious then check it out.
Can you expand on this, or provide a link? Sounds interesting. I've obviously heard The Iliad and The Odyssey taken together, but not lumped in with Inferno.

I guess anyone who took Classics is writhing in frustration now. Help a friend out ? :)
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Just because Doge is being pumped doesn't mean it's not better than BTC.
It is also probably not really a healthy habitat for humans either.
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That’s a really solid rule for productive discussions. The great difficulty would lie in actually enforcing it on HN.

Maybe some sort of cool-down timer for posters, who are otherwise polite, getting too agitated? Some kind of rate limiting for new comments on a controversial submission?
Twitter closes San Francisco, New York offices as Covid cases surge
Quite interesting - the details get ever more complex as you dig deeper. So the incoming photons interact with the oscillations of the free electrons (i.e. "plasmons"), causing new EM waves to be emitted. I take it that this interaction between photons and plasmons is equivalent to the changing of energy states of electrons and the release of photons as electrons fall to lower states.

So in non-metals, does the band gap between the valence and conduction bands get crossed by electrons excited by incoming photons? You said a black cloth is able to absorb and emit virtually all visible light, but as infrared, but how do band gaps work there?

I guess this is too advanced for a casual conversation with a layman like me, so thanks for the explanations. In the end, maybe it just boils down to "free electrons reflect light because that is what they do".
I think the speaker is too big and / or the circuit doesn't have an amplifier, so that would be an improvement; the USB power supply should have enough juice left over to crank up the volume.
the problem isn't that it's hard to do. the problem is that their business model relies on their app not achieving it's portrayed purpose - learning. success means losing your customers. that's why I don't use it anymore and I'm baffled by how good they are at being bad. or rather - staying on the exact thin border between "not good enough" and "not bad enough".
Most of DuckDuckGo's "10-pack" of traditional search results come from Bing: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1#:~:text...
> Do you plan to retire? What will happen then?

When people retire, they are automatically covered by the socialized Medicare insurance program. Medicare is extremely popular among its recipients, many of whom nonetheless oppose socialized medicine for the general populace.
We already have systems like that, whereby the accountability is intentionally so diffuse that no one can realistically be held accountable. Was it the programmers? The people who provided the programmers the specs? The military who set the kill parameters?
No, it is a mistaken assumption on the part of remote partisans that humanity carries over through the internet. It doesn’t.
Yes, sorry I meant it would have made things much easier.

My heart goes out to all the families with babies in the NICU. It is beyond stressful and obviously the financial side is nothing compared to the wellbeing of your baby, but then it hits you a few months later.
I think this is result of tribalism. People chose to divide into two groups on important matter, you can chose to belong to the group by sharing their belief system or not.

Why belief system? We read leaflets listing what are painkillers made from and what side effects might come out from taking them and yet we don't read leaflets when we take vaccinations. I personally don't know a single person who would read the documentation before taking vaccination. Acting like this is basically committing statement of faith.
That isn't how windows apps work. Even if you believe its better, even if you are correct working different than other apps on the same platform is confusing.
My daughter recently had a telemedicine office visit with a specialist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. For 41 minutes of telemedicine we were billed $1011.00.
Have it like income taxes... Ie., it's per citizen and companies can't be the inventor (or if they do, they have to pay the higher rate).
If you have any questions regarding the product I'll gladly answer them for you.
Not sure what you mean here. Yes, these are great public health role models: the establishment of this indemnity was a brilliant public health move.
The grinding collecting "rpg" elements are 100% Activision influence as these are great entries to monetization. Blizzard barely had monetization on wow outside of the subscription until the merger. Every game since has been littered with some amount of monetization.
It’s rather sad that this was the music in these otherwise excellent 80s PC games when earlier machines such as the Commodore 64 or even 8 bit contemporaries like the NES and Sega Master System had far superior audio capabilities. PC games for the most part skipped a lovely era of synthesized music.
If there are multiple ways to say something, I only need to know one of them to speak clearly. For listening I need to be ready for anything.
Yes, we are paying for it, but given that governments negotiate prices for 100% of the population you get much better deals. Also, looking at taxation rates in the USA [1] vs. Europe [2] I don't see a difference big enough to justify the need for privatizing healthcare.

Furthermore, considering the Europeans also get basically free higher education (I payed around 20USD every 3 months to get my CS degree) I believe people living in the US got a far worse deal.

Finally, I don't blame US citizens as I have many colleagues and friends from across the pond, but I don't understand how you guys can tolerate the practice of "lobbying", which is what created your healthcare system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe#/media/Fil...
The UK isn't technically in Europe any more (except geographically), but there are no city or state (county) level photo IDs here. Everything is national and managed by the central government.
The "rotational" logic version was suggested to me as a way to implement a computer by a mechanical engineer in ~2004. He claimed that such a "boolean calculator" had been initially designed as an alternative to the first electromechanical computers during WW2 — trading off speed for reliability. The design he suggested used spur-gear differentials for all parts of the computer, including the one-way gear (using a free-spinning axle and a pall). Using a single "element" (analogous to the transistor) simplifies design & implementation. (The one-way gear shown in the video has failure modes that the one-way spur-gear mitigates to a great extent.)

I've always wanted to build one out of wood and brass.

A rotational mechanical computer will work in a way that a "push-pull" mechanical computer will never do, at scale. The main take-away is to understand that — like a transistor — the rotation is "saturating": you keep turning, but the state doesn't change after a given "settle" time. For "push-pull" the mechanical computer will never truly saturate (friction; compression; ...), and the larger scale components will fail to propagate their "signal".

Once you've got that you need "saturation", then you'll find that there's "saturating" mechanisms all around you! Consider a cup with a hole in its bottom: if the incoming water is less than the outflow, the cup will drain. But, let's say you have two incoming streams such that their sum fills the cup faster than it drains: now the cup will fill up. If the cup is a counter-weight to a funnel, you've got an implementation of an nand-gate: the cup controls whether or not a continuously fed stream of water goes to the next cup, but the water going into the cup only controls its saturating behavior. I've always imagined a Japanese-style bamboo garden very slowly performing calculations [1].

[1] http://cdn.home-designing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jap...
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Bismarck mainly introduced some rudimentary social security to decrease worker support for socialist parties, so it was a reaction to socialism (albeit not directly the USSR) from the start. However before WW2 it was very limited in all countries (and much smaller scale than for example what's currently available in the US) before the 40's and 50's.
Size matters and prior to the Cold War, social security nets were smallish, not least because the willingness to pay enough in taxes for their upkeep just wasn't there.

A difference between balloons and 747s.
If no one ever pays those bills why bother making these numbers up? Why not charge $5B? Or even $3T for that matter. Wouldn't it save everyone time and money to give the right price first? What is the purpose of this game?
It's a much harder weapon to control via regulation and treaties than nuclear weapons: there is no nuclear material required to hook guns up to computers en masse in factories, let alone improvisationally. Once this cat is really out of the bag, everyone who wants it will have it.
Isn't that effectively what this outcome does? The AI is listed as the creator, but the patent is held by the person that crated the AI. IANAL, but doesn't that mean the Dr Thaler has the legal rights to the patent?

South Africa has become the first country to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence as its inventor and the AI’s owner as the patent's owner.

Edit - I not claiming this is the correct result. Just looking for clarification on what this means, legally speaking.
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They used to have google.com/ncr

'ncr' stands for no-country-recognition and it did what it said on the tin.

Of course like all useful power-user features it got deprecated for the natural language query non-sense we have today.
> In this line of thought your thoughts about banning thinking should be banned.

No, because acknowledging the existence of such a thought does not imply thinking it.

The flaw with your claims is the underlying belief that human thought tends -- if left untouched by others -- tends towards freedom.

There is little reason to believe this. Throughout history, many civilizations have independently arisen that have fully embraced the thought that stops all other thought. You see this is in various cultural degradations, human atrocities, etc that have occurred over and over again.

In reality, human thought is not totally 'free'. There are some thoughts that you can think that make you less free, and should be discouraged.

Here's a more poignant example, would you allow adults to drive a metal spike into their brain to allow 'freedom'? Why or why not? If you do allow them, how can you possibly claim to desire 'freedom' for others, since -- by definition -- doing such a thing to your body is going to put you at the mercy of others for many years to come (and if they can't help you, then to the mercy of nature). If you don't allow them, why? If encouraging every liberty is not the goal of this exercise of freedom, then exactly what are you arguing about?
I want you to be right but the GME and AMC nonsense doesn’t instill a lot of confidence that Reddit isn’t being gamed already by automated accounts. I’ve had my own comment altered a little and regurgitated by a bot before, which was extremely creepy.

But you are right that the signal to noise is at least better on Reddit.