Agreed, reminds me of the "soap opera effect", where soap operas used to use higher FPS video (I forget the exact amount) which led people to viewing a smoother video experience as "low quality", because that's the type of shows that used to use it. Don't know the technical specifications on it, just that even I had to adjust what I viewed as "high quality" when more studios started doing the same.

I'd imagine the more steps in between "generate graphics" and "display" add a considerable amount of latency. From my understanding we're already at the point where having the CPU physically close to related chips (memory's one, IIRC) makes a difference. Could be wrong, but from my understanding the last thing you want to do is throw a bunch of intermediate hardware/steps in the process if you can avoid it.

Nope. Agriculture and other physical labor/trade jobs are inherently more risky/dangerous. You really think a cop is at more danger than someone who works around moving heavy machinery all day? Or someone who climbs/cuts trees for a living? You can check the actual statistics year to year, FBI publishes reports on police injuries. More than half are just traffic incidents when they're not in pursuit or actively "working" on something specific. Hell, delivery/truck drivers are at a higher risk than cops.

>The danger of being a cop is actively antagonistic people who are out to hurt you. And traffic.

You can check the statistics via FBI publications on injuries for police every year. IIRC, more than half the injuries were from non-pursuit traffic incidents. Actual injuries from interacting with criminals/aggravated people were extremely low in comparison. Seeing how some police drive around here, doesn't surprise me.

Agriculture's a killer as well. Know too many people injured while I worked in that industry. With the bonus of exempt status, so agriculture businesses don't need to pay minimum wage, overtime, provide benefits for full time and a ton of other allowances.

Why would you consider this roughly an entire year late? Sure, when NFT's were new and you could still trick a decent chunk of people into buying them, but now? Not to mention why would someone who uses spotify for music care about NFT's being mixed in?

There are, but someone with enough skill can hide from agencies like that. The ones getting caught usually have made mistakes leaving/using information that ties to them. If you route your work through a country that won't cooperate with the US/home country, there's not much agencies can do but ask nicely.

> but if it sold more products for a specific niche they'd probably think about it

*If it sold more products and provided more profit.

Doesn't matter if I sell 3 batteries for a total of 300$ when I can just force you to purchase an entire new device for 1,500$ in total every two years, along with additional services, contracts and stuff.

When was the last time you used your actual voice to verify something? I don't know a single institution (bank, government, etc) that would even notice or say anything if I "changed" my voice.

Yeah, it's been swinging between ~40'F and ~80'F. What's crazy to me is we'll probably look back on this fondly at some point, as more extreme weather fluctuations take hold (as I understand it).

Hasn't left. I know a place that rented to at least one of their employees (multiple over a period of time). From what I understand they like the dude, so it works out alright. Personally, I just know how nasty people can get with money, so I wouldn't be mixing work and home like that.

It's how you "make" ice cream at home. You use salt + ice to drop the temperature really cold, really fast.

Honestly, I'd rather they respect the artists wishes if they never intended to release it. If it was the case of just not having the chance but intended to, go for it. I get fans and people wanting to hear everything that person produced, but I also think a major part of an artists image and art itself is what you choose to share/publish. Not an artist, but knowing some people who enjoy it, they take sharing more personal pieces very seriously and I know they wouldn't be very happy if it were "leaked" or shared publicly.

That being said, 50GB is a LOT of music, assuming the media takes up similar space to high quality audio tracks. Especially when you consider how much content/music we already have from MJ.

Honestly I'm starting to wonder if that's the whole idea. Spam every thread with false claims about it being "suppressed" until people just don't care/want to hear about it anymore. I can see companies being dumb/crazy enough to try something like that, especially with how cheap and prevelent astroturfing/botting on places like reddit is now. Crazy, but unless this is a dumb meme, I see no other reason why people think "nobody is reporting".

I will say, this is the first time in awhile there's been a major, active war going on and not a lot of people are old enough to remember how news shifted the last time that happened. A lot of people aren't used to how much the news will focus on a war, even if other interesting things are going on.

Depends. They rely heavily on imports. If other countries cut them off, they'd literally starve. Not to mention how much they depend on other countries for specialized markets like chip production and manufacturing.

If it were to happen, China would need a rapid and decisive victory, something we're learning is extremely difficult, and will probably be re-learned in the future multiple times.

I think that applies in some very specific situations. Generally the more knowledge/skills/abilities someone has, the more adaptable they are. Could be wrong, but ability to adapt generally helps out with survival from what I understand.

There's tons of reports out there. Are you having trouble finding them or something? Just google "Ohio Disaster", you can easily get 10+ articles. There's one on the front page right now. Is this some poorly crafted joke, where people pretend they can't see all the posts and articles?

> The Architect of the Capitol (federal agency) has an appointee (10-year term) also, confusingly, called the Architect of the Capitol.

I expect absolutely nothing less in the form of confusing bullshit from our government.

>The Philippines on Monday accused a Chinese coast guard ship of hitting a Philippine coast guard vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the disputed South China Sea, calling it a "blatant" violation of Manila's sovereign rights.

For whatever reason I was more expecting it to be a dispute between two commercial vessels, not military. It's looking more and more like they're losing their grip. With everything that's happened in the past year or so, they've just absolutely ruined their international image.

I do wonder how they're going to be handling the next 10 or so years with their economical issues and population dilemma. I figured with those coming up they'd be much more serious about diplomacy, image and all that, just seems like something you don't want to let slip as you're vulnerable.

Usually the case unfortunately with scenarios like this. Those that can, usually leave, while the ones actually affected are generally the more vulnerable.

I mean, I think the issue is most people just don't care, at least not enough to fight for it. Same with most medical issues. Look at what happens when people really care, like a tragedy or something. Generally there's no stops, money comes flowing in, things get approved rapidly, etc.

Personally I think if we genuinely were passionate about fixing something, we do a pretty good job at doing so. Unfortunately, I just don't think enough people care as well as have the resources to address issues like the poor state of healthcare.

Because they give you the same thing as normal videos, but with even less options. They do nothing better, and offer less in total.

>If they don't understand why it happened why would they leave.

If you're confused when a military aircraft buzzes you in a restricted area, you shouldn't be driving. The reality is the military doesn't care if you understand or not, that's not important. Their job is to keep random people off restricted areas, if you can't tell someone wants your attention when you're repeatedly buzzed by aircraft, that's on you. This is commonplace in secure areas. Just look up what happened at the NSA entrance on the east coast when two dealers took the wrong turn. Same would happen at any other restricted area.

They have a lot more to lose by not keeping the place secure.

Pretty much anything that involves approaching a military facility you shouldn't, especially if they have active training at that time. That's better than how some places handle it. You get one warning to turn around, if you keep approaching they open fire until you're neutralized. IIRC, it happened at the NSA entrance years ago, two dealers didn't read the signs towards the entrance (it's very clear it's a restricted area) and panicked.

Usually I just take the seat with me when I leave.