That "warmth" is the noise, in particular the noise envelope typical of record albums. Some people grew up with that, and to them that's what music should sound like.

Given that "what music should sound like" is pretty subjective (even saying "it should sound like the artist intended" is subjective), people who like vinyl are most welcome to it.

I don't think you really understand how DACs work. The output of almost every DAC is discrete steps based on the size of the LSB. Later filtering (either in the hardware, or in your ear) removes those steps, but they do exist at the actual DAC's output. Sometimes a DAC and a filter are bundled together and called a "DAC", so you never see the steps, but it's erroneous to claim that they "don't exist" or that they can convert into the "complete and smooth and "original" signal.

The parent talks about "no cameras" in a clause immediately following a comment about line of sight flying. I read his comment to thus mean that a commercial license would be required to pilot remotely via camera.

I totally agree with you that the presence of a camera recording locally for later viewing has no bearing on the license. If that was the parent's intent he's misguided .

In your gutter idea, accepting $10 to check a neighbor's roof does make the job commercial, the same way accepting $10 to mow a neighbor's yard does, or bring over your scissors and give them a haircut. The fact some people ignore regulations on commercial, personal services doesn't change the nature of those services. In the aerial case, let's suppose mr pilot forgets about the overhead power line on his neighbors property and crashes into it. Oops, he's not an amateur making a mistake, he's a paid operator who's not bonded or insured.

I see no need to make Sundays special, but I do think the government should mandate triple overtime for work done on the three major secular holidays - Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving. This would be for work performed from 2AM day of until 6 the next morning, so you can close the night before but then have a day with your family.

The public would happily pay for police, EMS, fire, and medical staffs, who would appreciate the extra pay. I suspect Walgreens and CVS would stay open with a few stores, as would some gas stations (obviously self employed are exempt and can work when they wish). The rest would get the government-endorsed time off they deserve or be compensated.

Works fine with printed; cursive not required.

Over 45 years? Especially if driven by two different family members on different shifts? 16 hours a day times 6 days a week times 52 weeks a year times 45 years is about 225,000 hours. I suspect taxis can make far more than $4 an hour, enough to cover gas, vehicle maintenance/repair/replacement, a financed medallion payment, and a meager living for the family.

This assumes it's a family medallion. The ones sold today for that much are rented to the drivers and operated 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

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It's no different than a college education. Yes, $800k is still insane, but if you're told you have to spend $X to enable your career, plenty of people choose to pay it. In that case $100k is pretty reasonable for most people these days. At least with the medallion you don't also have to spend four years; you can start your career right away.

Congressional Republicans do not believe that tax cuts need to be offset with tax increases, only that spending increases must be offset with spending cuts.

Because most people in this society have empathy, and this includes most doctors and most hospitals, and they choose to treat people with critical, immediate needs without charging them, even though these types of needs incur the largest costs. Those costs are then passed on to everyone else, including you, who uses the facilities in a normal fashion, whether you like it or not.

Unless you are a doctor yourself, or are willing to ignore your own medical needs and the needs of those for whom you are a caretaker, you have no choice but to shoulder some of the shared costs when you use the services.

Different people react to bullying in different ways. Do we blame the bullying, or blame the reaction? So far we seem to be doing neither; you're discounting the bullying right now, and the mental health system doesn't seem to care that some people need more support than others. Instead we pretend there was no way to stop it then demonize the shooters when it's over.

Most people the police interact with are never arrested. Victims, for example, would also be on the video, unless the video is reviewed and those people are obscured. The inside of private homes will also be filmed, including the locations of valuables.

Sort of how the 200 years or so of computer development up to the point of Singularity showed tremendous advances in computer science and engineering, and yet, once the machines are sentient, the wild diversity of the quintillions of robot that spread through the galaxy will represent the majority of the fossil record - especially after most of the old PCs of Earth have subducted.

Isn't that how con men marketed houses in The Jungle?

Well, clearly from TFA beaches are being used to the point of disappearing, and from the actions of humans, not just nature. That's how it's working. As can a mountain.