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Comment Re:Mythbusters (Score 1) 74

It's more nuanced than that. There may be some particular characteristic of infrasound that cause the issue.You would need to look at the infrasound in places that have reports of the phenomenon and try to replicate that first, then try to find commonalities in the sound characteristics and come up with a wholly artificial sound that replicates the phenomenon.

The Mythbusters showed that whatever particular Infrasound they used in the test did nothing statistically significant is their small sample.

Consider, I propose that sound can make people afraid. So I get a group of 10 people and one at a time I put them in a room for 5 minutes. 2.5 minutes in, I play the sound of a kitten mewing at normal volume. Nobody shows signs of fear or panic. Myth busted? Might the results have been different with a bicycle horn? Bear growling? Gunshot?

Comment Re:Sort of (Score 1) 26

The crazy thing about that exemption is that critical infrastructure has the highest need to be independantly repairable. You need it back up and running yesterday, there's no time to play salesman games where they try to get you to buy a forklift upgrade instead of repair.

The lobbying is IBM and Cisco declaring openly that they intend to profit from holding critical infrastructure hostage.

Comment Re:Kills start ups and adds to waste (Score 1) 26

Only badly written right to repair. A good right to repair law should block you from contracting a special variant only sold to you, or require you to stockpile spares, but shouldn't require you to stockpile a commodity part. Of course, small businesses are unlikely to be ordering custom chips with pins swapped around compared to the commodity part like Apple does. More likely a small business' design will not feature anything not available from DigiKey or Mouser.

If you decide you no longer wish to support a device at all, publish schematics, gerbers, and CAD and you've discharged your obligation.

Comment Re:E-Commerce or Brick and Mortar stores? (Score 1) 57

The article seems to read that more independent shops are selling online. You only need an inventory and a couple of people (or robots) to fill e-commerce orders.

True, but can an online only store survive? I know several local specialty crafts ( needlepoint) stores that sell online but that alone would not enough to cover inventory and other costs. A lot of sales occur in store, and that helps turnover as well as sell threads with a canvas. Turns for online only would be a lot slower. Granted, it’s different than books but I suspect the economics are similar.

I'd rather see it be a 70% increase in real brick and mortar stores with corresponding staff. I miss the days of Borders Bookstores and the local bookstore like we had in my old hometown. Barnes and Noble doesn't even come close to Borders back in the day.

I agree. Part of the value is wandering the stacks and seeing books you might like but never heard of, and independent shops’ staff recommendations.

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