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Comment Re:Another Example of a Negative Headline (Score 1) 89

Sadly, that is no longer true. Vinyl releases aren't premium - they're for the people who buy a Crosley Cruiser (you know, those suitcase players). So the vinyl master is often the same as the CD master with all the loss of dynamic range.

In the 90s this would be true, but the retro revival of vinyl means people are buying because it's trendy, not because it sounds better.

This is not always the case; there are some albums (albeit they are the exception, not the rule) where a modern day 'reissue' played side-by-side against an earlier release does in fact sound better.
As well, there are a number of companies out there re-mastering from original recordings (where available) specifically for vinyl.
Sites like Discogs have a large database of the quality of individual releases, and if you're looking for good quality sound, always check your issue against them before you buy.

Case in point, a few years ago I saw both an original pressing and a modern reissue (not re-mastered) of Red Hot Chili Pepper's 'Blood Sugar Sex Magick' in a record-store chain; the price difference was negligible, and both aligned fairly well to the 'market' value.
While in that situation I'd normally pick up the original pressing, in this case Discogs said the reissue was a better/cleaner sound, so I bought that one instead, and was not disappointed.

Your assertion is correct for most modern issuances, though, as unfortunate as that is.

Comment Re:Crypto will die, and it'll be murder (Score 1) 214

No, the amusing thing is that the power plant would still be producing most of its power since it was in place before crypto

TFA states that Atlas Holdings bought the plant and converted it from coal to natural-gas to sell power back to a stressed grid at times of heavy load.

With renewable energy and batteries being cheaper now (and more cost-effective than natural-gas fired power plants), the plant was down to operating no more than 6h/day.

Now it's running 24h/day to mine BTC.

So no, it wasn't "still producing most of it's power", it was producing less than 25% of it's power, and shut down when the grid didn't need power.

Comment Re:Canada vs. Texas (Score 2, Informative) 275

Sincere question: why would the Texan authorities get skewered over their situation when a country that gets ice/wind/snow/awfulweather all the time suffer from the same situation?

Because people who get something "all the time" are used to it.
Buildings are designed for the types of weather to be expected throughout their lifetime (with some variances built in for extremes); so too with utilities and infrastructure.

Buildings and infrastructure in California have a lot stricter codes as related to earthquakes than inland states or provinces. Buildings and infrastructure in Canada have to be rated to withstand -40C (even though most parts of Canada don't get that very often, if at all)
Even 30 years ago, Toronto Ontario did not have snow-removal as part of their normal budget, which caused the army to have to be brought in after what they considered a huge snowstorm (about 1-2 ft of snow), because there were not enough plows hired to move it, and nowhere to put it.
Policies have since changed, but that was a reaction after-the-fact.

Texas's climate isn't one where ice/snow/subzero temperatures are the rule; they're the exception (and a pretty big one at that, at least until recently)
Couple that with an old less-fault-tolerant grid (they didn't upgrade like the majority of the northeast coast of North America was forced to a decade ago) and a series of other issues, and they all compound into a state of emergency due to environmental factors they did not foresee ever having to deal with.

Comment Re:Steam (Score 2, Insightful) 132

And what tax is that? You mean the same one that Steam has? By your own argument: "You are free to offer your game on iOS or not. Inside or outside of iOS"

Except you are not free to offer your game or application (or store) to any iOS user except by the grace of Apple.
Epic is proposing that Apple has an unlawful monopoly in that they won't let Epic on the their platform (any off-the-shelf iOS device) without giving Apple a cut of their revenues.
This is not the case on a PC or Android phone;
The manufacturers (Dell, Samsung, etc) are not trying to stop users from installing EGS (or Steam, or GOG) on the PCs or phones they sell, or force EGS to give them a cut of the profits
The OS distributor (Google, Microsoft, etc) are not trying to stop users from installing EGS (or Steam, or GOG) on the PCs or phones they sell, or force EGS to give them a cut of the profits
Alternative app-stores providers (Microsoft, Steam, GOG) are not trying to stop users from installing EGS, or force EGS to give them a cut of the profits.

Not-so with Apple.
Neither the manufacturer (Apple), the OS distributor (Apple) nor the app-store provider (Apple) will allow a user to install EGS without EGS giving Apple 30% of each sale in perpetuity

Comment Re:My personal belief, if you care -- (Score 1) 95

then it's turtles all the way down.

There is no down in space.

Sure there is; it's simply the direction toward (against?) the sum of the acceleration forces affecting the mass in question

If under acceleration in a spaceship, it will be the same direction that the engines are creating thrust;
If not under acceleration in a spaceship:
- Near to a planetary body, 'down' is most likely to be that planet/moon
- In interplanetary space, or near two or more planetary bodies at a lagrange point, it's likely to be the center of the system (usually a star, but sometimes a black hole)
- In interstellar space, it's likely to be the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy
- In intergalactic space, it's likely to be whatever is at the center of our universe (i.e. the point at which the big-bang originated)

Just because you can't feel the effect of the force(s) doesn't mean it's/they're not there

See? Lots and lots of turtles

Comment Re:Things you could do versus thing you did (Score 1) 117

There's experimental clinics that give out heroin. From what I understand it is quite successful at turning homeless thieving junkies into productive members of society who have a drug problem that isn't caffeine or alcohol or other socially acceptable drugs that are generally more harmful.

There are also some similar clinics that do the same with alcohol; go in at specified times and get a glass of wine.
It's not in any way good wine, but to someone that addicted who can't function at all when in withdrawl, it's enough to take the edge off.

Comment Re:Nice to have I guess; but why? (Score 1) 38

Where's the situation where it isn't preferable to just walk over to the couch and use the TV and controller?

When one of your spawn is crying that they can't play [whatever PS4 game] because the slightly-smaller-spawn is watching [some inane childrens video on Netflix] on the one TV that the PS4 is hooked up to

Now the kid can just take the tablet to its room and play on a smaller screen

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