Why the fuck do we have to give out our personal information to any of these big companies if I can't trust that it will ever be safe-guarded? This is just so fucking insane to me to think these companies are just so big that they don't even give a fuck anymore. $16M is equivalent to $1.00 to them.
Our personal information/data should be given HIPAA-level protection enforced by the government. We as consumers should not have to deal with companies who do not compete on securing their customer's data. They should lose a "data protection" license when mishandling it, like a bar losing its liquor license.
That just blew me away! I didn't think I was going to hear anything, but yeah, immediately it gave an almost pulse-width modulated high pitch tone. I'm not surprised, but it is also awesome. I'm so many years old yet I can still hear the hum from CRT's, but I'd say that tone is much higher frequency.
I loved this book and have read it a few times now. I was probably 13 too! The movie was okay. It just left a lot of important scenes out. (Like all book->movie things)
This SNES video analysis one is incredible. I've always had all of this stuff running around in my head for how to explain how weirdly cool video generation for NTSC is, and you have done an incredible job finding a way to do so.
There is yet another reason for the weird frame and horizontal scan rate. When NTSC was originally introduced as a broadcast standard over a single RF modulated signal, the sound carrier and signals were also embedded in the signal as well. [1] Actually, I just found that Wikipedia does a good job of describing this on the NTSC page [2]:
When a transmitter broadcasts an NTSC signal, it amplitude-modulates a radio-frequency carrier with the NTSC signal just described, while it frequency-modulates a carrier 4.5 MHz higher with the audio signal. If non-linear distortion happens to the broadcast signal, the 3.579545 MHz color carrier may beat with the sound carrier to produce a dot pattern on the screen. To make the resulting pattern less noticeable, designers adjusted the original 15,750 Hz scanline rate down by a factor of 1.001 (0.1%) to match the audio carrier frequency divided by the factor 286, resulting in a field rate of approximately 59.94 Hz.
So yes, yet another difficulty with NTSC -- sound actually splattered visual noise on the screen as well!
I guess considering their group is called the Physics-based Simulation Group [1], I'm thinking maybe that's just the terminology they've always used? Or maybe it's a German->English translation thing?
> There’s virtually nothing that unites Federalist Society members (many of whom are Biden voters) apart from an engineers’ commitment to technical accuracy over practical effects.
In what fantasy universe do Federalist Society members vote for Biden? They have been backing conservative and libertarians for generations. Their members are part of the Supreme Court and clearly do not want a democracy anymore. They are the antithesis of liberal political positions. I call utter bullshit.
How do their views even remotely line up with Biden voters?
There’s tons of Biden voters in federalist society because it’s not like Trump is much of a rule follower. And Biden himself for most of his career was a conservative Democrat.
But I’m flummoxed by something. What does “democracy” mean to liberals? You’re the ones who want courts to decide issues that most other advanced democracies leave to voters, right? You believe in unelected bureaucrats and experts governing the country instead of elected officials. You seem to be using “democracy” in a very odd way to refer to rule by educated elites.
The Senate allocates equal representation per state regardless of population size. Our elections actually just vote electors who then vote in an electoral college to vote the Executive.
The US system isn't a pure democracy, it's never been. Given that, it's a largely political matter which institutions you feel should be more democratic than others. Article III comes after Articles I and II and many believe this is the order of importance that branches are given in government. Really where we differ is our politics, this is not a debate on obvious constitutional interpretation.
And of course a Congress bought and paid for by lobbyists will actually represent voters, right? The US is a broken country in decline and actively working towards its own destruction
> There’s tons of Biden voters in federalist society because it’s not like Trump is much of a rule follower.
This assumes that the Federalist Society cares about rule followers. It is after all the folks that gave Trump the short list of names with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, after McConnell refused to give Garland even a hearing.
What was the position of the Federalist Society on Garland's situation? Especially since Barrett was appointed just before an election.
What is your position as to why Garland was not even given the time of day but Barrett was?
Hey, that's okay! At least our taxes pay money towards investigating and building these toothless fines! I don't have a problem with the taxes, just that it doesn't do anything.
Sort of off topic, but I got stung by the "AKSHUALLY" bug. I just wanted to say that the term, "fanatic skepticism", isn't a possible outcome. Definitionally, skepticism clearly means you wouldn't be fanatic of anything. In reality this is cognitive dissonance, not skepticism.
Anyway, personally, I think this is a topic that needs serious skeptical focus. I don't just want immediate knee-jerk reactionary opinions on what people saw -- I want honesty as new information is gained. New thoughts on what you saw? Give those updates.
I hope that we're not alone in the universe and, honestly, I think it would probably impact me more if we were alone in such a vast *thing*.
Yes, cognitive dissonance might be the correct description of this, thanks! still, the definition of it holds for this case.
I also don't want to rely on speculation / jumping to conclusions, but just the same, don't want it entirely dismissed as some outrageous "cannot happen" thing. Serious research needs to be done.
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