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MrBuddyCasino
10,162karma·4,201submissions·November 20, 2011
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Honestly, the "HF physics is black magic" trope has made me numb to the phantastical contraptions. I appreciate when they look cool, like esoteric orgon wave radiators.
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Fascinating. I suppose they can be smaller than quartz crystals?
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What do you feel is the best model for interface design right now?
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These kinds of forums are some of the best parts of the internet. Many still exist, but they're slowly shrinking unfortunately.
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In audio, this is usually the case. Musepack was niche-popular for some time as a simple, but very well tuned codec. Its the same with speakers and headphones. People think its the component quality, …
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Interesting. Somehow I never see people referencing them in this spirit, but that may be more on those people than on the price itself, perhaps.
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Does the ignoble exist for anything else besides making fun of easy targets, like a bunch of sniveling teenagers?
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Man, the chutzpah. okovooo - "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877277 …
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I just use Steam Streaming. If that doesn't work because they fucked it up again, Parsec. MBP as a terminal, smol ITX T1 running Windows as host.
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There is a long list of grievances I have regarding the (mis-) use of taxpayer money, and funding the hard sciences is way, way down. I can’t even see it from where I stand.
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Yes there is no substitute for academia. Monopolist's research labs get close (Bell Labs etc), but they tend to be more "applied".
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This is a straw-man if I ever saw one. Practically no one is against hard science research, properly conducted. The issues are rampant fraud / p-hacking / unreproducible garbage mixed with a…
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> Strengthening democracy Ah yes, there it is. We‘ve learned how to translate this in our heads.
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Are you under the impression that dentists are under competitive pressure? The labour supply is artificially limited, similar to other doctor specialisations.