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Indeed 44.1 kHz mathematically and perfectly represents sound waves within the human hearing range (by Shannon’s sampling theorem), so you’re limited by the recording and playback …

It’s well known that some OPEC members cheat nonetheless.

Agreed. It’s a classic fallacy to compare rent vs mortgage on a numbers to numbers basis. It’s classic example of not accounting for the total cost of ownership.

Agreed. Asking the AI to do a calculation isn’t the same as asking it to “prove” a mathematical statement in the usual meaning.

To clarify, it's not "Africa and Asia". Only India, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are still using DDT actively.

> CapEx break even is estimated 7-10 years I don’t think this is unique to wind farms.

State control over production means instead of letting the free market decide what’s worth producing, the central planners believe they know better than the market (and the 2nd, 3r…

Agreed. You haven’t really won until it stops becoming noteworthy and “oh look X is using Blender!!” Nobody talks about how Linux dominates the server space anymore. Nobody talks a…

Exactly my thoughts. A free market tends towards specialization which makes the market more efficient and therefore more competitive. As specialization increases it becomes more cr…

Same here. I’ve recently switched back to Fedora after a long time on Windows. There are so much less distractions on Fedora and I really hope that it stays this way forever.

When did Apple “sue and jail ppl” for “try to look at things properly”? I’m pretty sure Apple isn’t legally allowed to jail people.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt the same. There are so many edge cases to the incredibly broad and outdated classification of the world in terms of “north” (rich) and “south…

Why do you think you’re able to time the market? What if it keeps going up? Even if you’re right that the market eventually drops, you’ll still need to be right in timing your re-e…

How do you know that?

When 996 makes being able to afford a house easier, many people will be compelled to do it.

It doesn’t matter. From the general population point of view, whoever writes the article is the “reporter”, and “they” don’t provide the links. You can argue otherwise and it won’t…

The horrible life in Soviet Union was due to horrible governmental policies, which are not unique to authoritarian governments. Liberal governments have their fair share of bad pol…

It’s not about cynical: it’s a purely risk/reward calculation. If you talk to the police and nothing happened, you don’t gain anything. If you’re found guilty though, it turns into…

It might be one motivation, doesn’t mean it’s a good one as per the original comment if consumers don’t care.

Still, most consumers don’t care or notice it (we are not most consumers), so this doesn’t refute the original argument.

Manufacture domestically will result in price increases, which again hits the bottom harder than some of us here. Is this what we want?

Some might object to this analogy, but I view life like investing in an index fund. It’s a diversified bet across many aspects of life and many projects (akin to how an index fund …

Here’s one example, although I don’t know if this is a North Korean. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7292604...