This matter could be transported from A to B.
And at the destination, this matter could be converted back into resources.
Mine uranium and/or copper and turn them into generic matter? Sure, why not.
Turn that matter into iron somewhere else? Of course!
And since matter could be transported in pipelines, it was just one tube for ~everything at that point. Some processes put matter into the tube, and some other processes took matter out of that same tube.
(It was very energy-intensive to make these conversions, but an intense amount of electrical power was also a solved problem by that point in the game.)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ssl-3","story_49972607"],"author":"ssl-3","comment_text":"In the the Space Exploration overhaul mod I once played for Factorio, at one stage the game progressed to the point that many/most resources could be converted into matter.
This matter could be transported from A to B.
And at the destination, this matter could be converted back into resources.
Mine uranium and/or copper and turn them into generic matter? Sure, why not.
Turn that matter into iron somewhere else? Of course!
And since matter could be transported in pipelines, it was just one tube for ~everything at that point. Some processes put matter into the tube, and some other processes took matter out of that same tube.
(It was very energy-intensive to make these conversions, but an intense amount of electrical power was also a solved problem by that point in the game.)","created_at":"2026-10-06T05:43:30Z","created_at_i":1791265410,"objectID":"49974657","parent_id":49973608,"story_id":49972607,"story_title":"High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days","story_url":"https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days","updated_at":"2026-10-06T21:40:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pietz"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"I don't have a great solution here. I rebuilt our PPT master fully in HTML and I'm using a modified version of Google's DESIGN.md to store the references."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pietz","story_48807225"],"author":"pietz","comment_text":"I don't have a great solution here. I rebuilt our PPT master fully in HTML and I'm using a modified version of Google's DESIGN.md to store the references.","created_at":"2026-07-07T07:47:34Z","created_at_i":1783410454,"objectID":"48814815","parent_id":48809226,"story_id":48807225,"story_title":"OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files","story_url":"https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI","updated_at":"2026-07-07T07:48:21Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"allemagne"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"So then the only theoretical limit on black hole mass would just be how fast you can put matter in black holes and/or merge existing black holes versus how fast the universe expands?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/2853/8213862?login=false"}},"_tags":["comment","author_allemagne","story_44864680"],"author":"allemagne","children":[44867096],"comment_text":"So then the only theoretical limit on black hole mass would just be how fast you can put matter in black holes and/or merge existing black holes versus how fast the universe expands?","created_at":"2025-08-11T16:34:25Z","created_at_i":1754930065,"objectID":"44866223","parent_id":44865197,"story_id":44864680,"story_title":"36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens","story_url":"https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/2853/8213862?login=false","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:33:16Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"msgodel"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"Usually I put master disconnect switches on my robots just to make working on them safe. I use cheap toggle switches though I'm too cheap for the big red spiny ones."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_msgodel","story_44366409"],"author":"msgodel","children":[44367620],"comment_text":"Usually I put master disconnect switches on my robots just to make working on them safe. I use cheap toggle switches though I'm too cheap for the big red spiny ones.","created_at":"2025-06-24T15:37:08Z","created_at_i":1750779428,"objectID":"44367368","parent_id":44367251,"story_id":44366409,"story_title":"Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices","story_url":"https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/","updated_at":"2025-06-24T18:28:21Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"hilbert42"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"The big take from philosophy is that irrespective of just about any subject if we're to move forward then it's of paramount importance that proper debate takes place and that each protagonist's arguments and supporting propositions are properly understood.
I use those terms in the philosophical sense as distinct from the nonsensical shouting that we witness all too often on Social Media and elsewhere on the Web. That we often do not listen carefully and take time to analyze what others are saying is the cause of much of the world's ills.
I've always prized debates as I've learned so much from having taken part in them. And It's a great shame that these days formal debating seems to have gone out of fashion.
If one cannot explain or logically support one's propositions during a debate (or when trying to teach a subject) then one doesn't fully understand the matter at hand. What's also important to recognize is that there are times during a debate when a protagonist first becomes aware of fallacies and weaknesses in his/her own case and that realization can occur without his/her opponent being aware of the fact.
It's an interesting phenomenon which I've experienced albeit not for quite some while. Moreover, when I've become aware that I've been wrong under such circumstances then learning turned out to be a sharper and more positive experience than other forms of learning (trouble is that these days there's little opportunity to partake in such debates as few are prepared spend the time to take them seriously).
The reason I mention that scenario here is to show that as I'm a bit of a veteran of such discussions and that I'm used to opponents 'clobbering' me during disagreements. If I were to be offended by such criticisms in philosophical debates then I'd have quit long ago.
However, what I do find disconcerting is when I've not chosen my words carefully enough for whatever reason (usually brevity) and what comes out ends up either sounding wrong or that I'm misinterpreted. My earlier comment would likely fall into that class.
I try to avoid misunderstandings by being prolix, that is I'll restate a point using different phraseology but at times even that doesn't work. I'm often surprised how some readers even misinterpret the most straightforward of statements. [Note: I'm not referring to you in the following.] And that just happened yesterday with another of my comments when someone deliberately misquoted what I said. Clearly hide has no bounds when one's actual words are deliberately misquoted just below what one has actually written. I'm curious about the logic that underpins such strange thinking.
(I suppose one shouldn't be a bit surprised these days when the leader of the free world sets quintessential examples for all to follow. By uttering blatant and outrageous lies with a deadpan expression that'd put masters of the art like Buster Keaton to shame then it's little wonder that many are bound to emulate his practice.)
I'm unaware of any correlation between the large decline in the study of liberal arts subjects in recent decades and many of the antics we're witness in politics these days but I'd not be surprised by one iota if something of note were to be found.
Philosophy often comes under that wing which implies that fewer people are studying the subject (well, at lest so on a per capita basis), and I'd posit that's not an ideal situation by any stretch. I'd suggest that skills that philosophy teaches such as the ability to help people think logically and to examine issues from multiple perspectives and to do so from factual evidence are in very short supply at a time when the world desperately needs them.
We need aeridite people who can speak with authority on important world affairs such as Russell and the remarkable historian A.J.P. Taylor used to do, they had the ability to mesmerize just about anyone who'd listen to them. Even those who'd disagreed with their arguments and or worldviews couldn't counterattack with simplistic counterarguments without looking ill-equipped and or not in command of the facts.
It's here philosophy comes to the fore in that it educates from multiple perspectives, whether it's teaching argument (such as Socrates' wonderful demolition of Thrasymachus' stance on justice) or teaching works of great thinkers whose views on matters differ wildly from one another actually forces one to consider philosophical notions from different viewpoints. Hobbes' worldview differs widely from say Locke's, Berkeley's immaterialism is a forerunner to later works on perception, and so on.
The matter of mysticism, esoteric number theory and such, to my mind comes under metaphysics\u2014whose definition I well remember as 'above and beyond physics', which is about as short and as apt as any definition gets. You're right, my mind endeavors to make sense of the world from an analytical perspective, like Descartes's cogito, ergo sum I have to begin my worldview somewhere and it more or less ends with my 'sense data' (like Russell banging his hand on his table to 'prove' it was there). Unlike Descartes, I don't move up the thought chain and attempt to prove God exists\u2014after all, philosophy once taught me where Descartes's logic fell apart.
That said, I remain agnostic about most metaphysical matters but in no way do I criticize others who hold stronger views\u2014whether they come under the purview of traditional religions or say esoteric number theory. Frankly, I don't know enough about them (except, perhaps some religious training I learned as a child). If pushed however, I reckon I'd likely agree with the saying:
"That there are more things in heaven and on earth than man will ever dream of."
OK, let me roll the metaphysical ball a little further. You correctly took my handle as a reference to that Hilbert although it's a pretty common name. Why is that relevant here? If your knowledge extends as far as mathematical Hilbert spaces and QM then you'd know that much of our knowledge (and perception) of the actual QM world only exists through mathematical analogy. Whilst, we've managed some truly remarkable feats with QM such as being able to measure alpha, the fine structure constant, to an accuracy of about 10 decimal places and use such figures to produce some remarkable engineering, we've only gotten there by cleaver trickery. Our mathematics is not up to the job, we're constantly dodging infinities in QFT and so on. Simply, what actually happens and goes on down there in the quantum realm is anyone's guess. For all intents and purposes the real quantum world may as well be metaphysical.
BTW, Being and Nothingness and \nNo Exit (Huis clos) and related material were on the syllabus, so one had to wade through the Book. That's now quite some time ago but I don't recall it being anything other than tedious (perhaps, that was down to the translation).
Given the outrageous political behavior we're witnessing in the world today I reckon No Exit paints a remarkably apt metaphor."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/22/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners"}},"_tags":["comment","author_hilbert42","story_43137488"],"author":"hilbert42","children":[43177476],"comment_text":"The big take from philosophy is that irrespective of just about any subject if we're to move forward then it's of paramount importance that proper debate takes place and that each protagonist's arguments and supporting propositions are properly understood.
I use those terms in the philosophical sense as distinct from the nonsensical shouting that we witness all too often on Social Media and elsewhere on the Web. That we often do not listen carefully and take time to analyze what others are saying is the cause of much of the world's ills.
I've always prized debates as I've learned so much from having taken part in them. And It's a great shame that these days formal debating seems to have gone out of fashion.
If one cannot explain or logically support one's propositions during a debate (or when trying to teach a subject) then one doesn't fully understand the matter at hand. What's also important to recognize is that there are times during a debate when a protagonist first becomes aware of fallacies and weaknesses in his/her own case and that realization can occur without his/her opponent being aware of the fact.
It's an interesting phenomenon which I've experienced albeit not for quite some while. Moreover, when I've become aware that I've been wrong under such circumstances then learning turned out to be a sharper and more positive experience than other forms of learning (trouble is that these days there's little opportunity to partake in such debates as few are prepared spend the time to take them seriously).
The reason I mention that scenario here is to show that as I'm a bit of a veteran of such discussions and that I'm used to opponents 'clobbering' me during disagreements. If I were to be offended by such criticisms in philosophical debates then I'd have quit long ago.
However, what I do find disconcerting is when I've not chosen my words carefully enough for whatever reason (usually brevity) and what comes out ends up either sounding wrong or that I'm misinterpreted. My earlier comment would likely fall into that class.
I try to avoid misunderstandings by being prolix, that is I'll restate a point using different phraseology but at times even that doesn't work. I'm often surprised how some readers even misinterpret the most straightforward of statements. [Note: I'm not referring to you in the following.] And that just happened yesterday with another of my comments when someone deliberately misquoted what I said. Clearly hide has no bounds when one's actual words are deliberately misquoted just below what one has actually written. I'm curious about the logic that underpins such strange thinking.
(I suppose one shouldn't be a bit surprised these days when the leader of the free world sets quintessential examples for all to follow. By uttering blatant and outrageous lies with a deadpan expression that'd put masters of the art like Buster Keaton to shame then it's little wonder that many are bound to emulate his practice.)
I'm unaware of any correlation between the large decline in the study of liberal arts subjects in recent decades and many of the antics we're witness in politics these days but I'd not be surprised by one iota if something of note were to be found.
Philosophy often comes under that wing which implies that fewer people are studying the subject (well, at lest so on a per capita basis), and I'd posit that's not an ideal situation by any stretch. I'd suggest that skills that philosophy teaches such as the ability to help people think logically and to examine issues from multiple perspectives and to do so from factual evidence are in very short supply at a time when the world desperately needs them.
We need aeridite people who can speak with authority on important world affairs such as Russell and the remarkable historian A.J.P. Taylor used to do, they had the ability to mesmerize just about anyone who'd listen to them. Even those who'd disagreed with their arguments and or worldviews couldn't counterattack with simplistic counterarguments without looking ill-equipped and or not in command of the facts.
It's here philosophy comes to the fore in that it educates from multiple perspectives, whether it's teaching argument (such as Socrates' wonderful demolition of Thrasymachus' stance on justice) or teaching works of great thinkers whose views on matters differ wildly from one another actually forces one to consider philosophical notions from different viewpoints. Hobbes' worldview differs widely from say Locke's, Berkeley's immaterialism is a forerunner to later works on perception, and so on.
The matter of mysticism, esoteric number theory and such, to my mind comes under metaphysics\u2014whose definition I well remember as 'above and beyond physics', which is about as short and as apt as any definition gets. You're right, my mind endeavors to make sense of the world from an analytical perspective, like Descartes's cogito, ergo sum I have to begin my worldview somewhere and it more or less ends with my 'sense data' (like Russell banging his hand on his table to 'prove' it was there). Unlike Descartes, I don't move up the thought chain and attempt to prove God exists\u2014after all, philosophy once taught me where Descartes's logic fell apart.
That said, I remain agnostic about most metaphysical matters but in no way do I criticize others who hold stronger views\u2014whether they come under the purview of traditional religions or say esoteric number theory. Frankly, I don't know enough about them (except, perhaps some religious training I learned as a child). If pushed however, I reckon I'd likely agree with the saying:
"That there are more things in heaven and on earth than man will ever dream of."
OK, let me roll the metaphysical ball a little further. You correctly took my handle as a reference to that Hilbert although it's a pretty common name. Why is that relevant here? If your knowledge extends as far as mathematical Hilbert spaces and QM then you'd know that much of our knowledge (and perception) of the actual QM world only exists through mathematical analogy. Whilst, we've managed some truly remarkable feats with QM such as being able to measure alpha, the fine structure constant, to an accuracy of about 10 decimal places and use such figures to produce some remarkable engineering, we've only gotten there by cleaver trickery. Our mathematics is not up to the job, we're constantly dodging infinities in QFT and so on. Simply, what actually happens and goes on down there in the quantum realm is anyone's guess. For all intents and purposes the real quantum world may as well be metaphysical.
BTW, Being and Nothingness and \nNo Exit (Huis clos) and related material were on the syllabus, so one had to wade through the Book. That's now quite some time ago but I don't recall it being anything other than tedious (perhaps, that was down to the translation).
Given the outrageous political behavior we're witnessing in the world today I reckon No Exit paints a remarkably apt metaphor.","created_at":"2025-02-25T18:45:49Z","created_at_i":1740509149,"objectID":"43175696","parent_id":43150760,"story_id":43137488,"story_title":"'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised","story_url":"https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/22/the-tyranny-of-apps-those-without-smartphones-are-unfairly-penalised-say-campaigners","updated_at":"2025-10-06T20:24:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"antognini"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"> where we would put matter if we could to make our theory of gravity make sense
Dark matter behaves in a fundamentally different way from baryonic matter. We can constrain the total amount of matter in the universe (both dark and baryonic) from the observed abundances of baryogenesis. But dark matter has a different effect on the relative amplitudes of peaks in the CMB.
As far as I can tell, MOND has never really had any success outside of modeling galaxy rotation curves.
The skepticism I've seen towards dark matter vs. MOND has always been strange to me. Dark matter doesn't really require much in the way of new physics --- there's just a new particle to add to the standard model. But most MOND theories violate Lorentz invariance which is a vastly more radical departure from standard physics. (And in my mind, the more sophisticated MOND theories that maintain Lorentz invariance like TeVeS are really a theory of dark matter dressed up in the language of MOND.)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://thedebrief.org/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-stunning-evidence-for-alternate-theory-of-gravity/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_antognini","story_42158130"],"author":"antognini","children":[42159086,42159745],"comment_text":"> where we would put matter if we could to make our theory of gravity make sense
Dark matter behaves in a fundamentally different way from baryonic matter. We can constrain the total amount of matter in the universe (both dark and baryonic) from the observed abundances of baryogenesis. But dark matter has a different effect on the relative amplitudes of peaks in the CMB.
As far as I can tell, MOND has never really had any success outside of modeling galaxy rotation curves.
The skepticism I've seen towards dark matter vs. MOND has always been strange to me. Dark matter doesn't really require much in the way of new physics --- there's just a new particle to add to the standard model. But most MOND theories violate Lorentz invariance which is a vastly more radical departure from standard physics. (And in my mind, the more sophisticated MOND theories that maintain Lorentz invariance like TeVeS are really a theory of dark matter dressed up in the language of MOND.)","created_at":"2024-11-16T20:28:20Z","created_at_i":1731788900,"objectID":"42159032","parent_id":42158729,"story_id":42158130,"story_title":"James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity","story_url":"https://thedebrief.org/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-stunning-evidence-for-alternate-theory-of-gravity/","updated_at":"2025-05-22T21:18:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"uoaei"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"I follow the lead author, Stacy McGaugh, via his blog where he posts discussions and musings about the latest research into the dark matter vs MOND debate: https://tritonstation.com/new-blog-page/
His arguments are very convincing and relatively clear. I am not an astrophysicist but I have two degrees in physics and have always found the dark matter theory to be lacking -- in absence of any evidence of causation whatsoever, dark matter can only be described trivially as "where we would put matter if we could to make our theory of gravity make sense," which is totally backwards from a basic scientific perspective.
Predictions based on modern MOND postulates are shown to be more and more accurate as our observational instruments continue to improve in sensitivity."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://thedebrief.org/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-stunning-evidence-for-alternate-theory-of-gravity/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_uoaei","story_42158130"],"author":"uoaei","children":[42158981,42159032,42158855,42159078],"comment_text":"I follow the lead author, Stacy McGaugh, via his blog where he posts discussions and musings about the latest research into the dark matter vs MOND debate: https://tritonstation.com/new-blog-page/
His arguments are very convincing and relatively clear. I am not an astrophysicist but I have two degrees in physics and have always found the dark matter theory to be lacking -- in absence of any evidence of causation whatsoever, dark matter can only be described trivially as "where we would put matter if we could to make our theory of gravity make sense," which is totally backwards from a basic scientific perspective.
Predictions based on modern MOND postulates are shown to be more and more accurate as our observational instruments continue to improve in sensitivity.","created_at":"2024-11-16T19:50:09Z","created_at_i":1731786609,"objectID":"42158729","parent_id":42158130,"story_id":42158130,"story_title":"James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity","story_url":"https://thedebrief.org/james-webb-space-telescope-finds-stunning-evidence-for-alternate-theory-of-gravity/","updated_at":"2024-11-29T19:22:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jacquesm"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"> Which is irrelevant. In a world where the CD didn't exist, someone would have built a phonograph with Line-Out, which later would have been connected to the Line-In of a PC.
The quality of which would have been lower than that of a CD. Incidentally: many phonograph/amplifier combinations had the option (or even a built in) cassette recorder so that part was readily available from the 70's onward.
> Assuming that MP3 wouldn't have disrupted the music industry if they'd have sticked to Vinyl and Cassette is ridiculous.
You're welcome to your opinions as well.
> Even today, Vinyl rips of music exists.
Yes, they do. But they're not close to the quality that you get when you use FLAC on a CD image, or a high quality MP3 encoding (lossy, but not quite that lossy).
In order to rip vinyl you will have to do your own A->D, you've already gone through a whole pile of analogue stuff, you will have picked up some hum, lost some high and lost a lot of low. CD audio put master tape quality in the hands of millions and then when MP3 happened suddenly all of that was instantly available. If the required steps had been reliant on someone doing all of that work it would have been a lot less quick in terms of adoption. Building the hardware to do this properly so that you'd get something equivalent to a HiFi set on subsequent output isn't all that easy, especially not if you care about modulation depth.
> The core of this disruption was not in the process of creating the MP3, it was the ease of music distribution without any involvement of a music label.
That was another required step, but the widespread availability of master tape grade digital content was an enabler as well and I really don't see why you would deny that.
FWIW I'm the guy that encoded the dutch broadcast archive for TROS so that they could easily call up tracks without running to the physical archive. Trucks with CDs would arrive and harddrives would go the other way. We did many thousands of them. Without the CDs ripping at 40 speed or so that would have absolutely never happened. Ripping a vinyl record at any level of quality will take you more than an hour, there are all kinds of environmental factors, you'll wear out needles like there is no tomorrow and you're going to be busy fiddling with tone arm pressure and all kinds of finicky bits if you want to get even close to something that's good enough for broadcasters."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/picking-the-widevine-locks"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jacquesm","story_38923033"],"author":"jacquesm","children":[38929923,38934202],"comment_text":"> Which is irrelevant. In a world where the CD didn't exist, someone would have built a phonograph with Line-Out, which later would have been connected to the Line-In of a PC.
The quality of which would have been lower than that of a CD. Incidentally: many phonograph/amplifier combinations had the option (or even a built in) cassette recorder so that part was readily available from the 70's onward.
> Assuming that MP3 wouldn't have disrupted the music industry if they'd have sticked to Vinyl and Cassette is ridiculous.
You're welcome to your opinions as well.
> Even today, Vinyl rips of music exists.
Yes, they do. But they're not close to the quality that you get when you use FLAC on a CD image, or a high quality MP3 encoding (lossy, but not quite that lossy).
In order to rip vinyl you will have to do your own A->D, you've already gone through a whole pile of analogue stuff, you will have picked up some hum, lost some high and lost a lot of low. CD audio put master tape quality in the hands of millions and then when MP3 happened suddenly all of that was instantly available. If the required steps had been reliant on someone doing all of that work it would have been a lot less quick in terms of adoption. Building the hardware to do this properly so that you'd get something equivalent to a HiFi set on subsequent output isn't all that easy, especially not if you care about modulation depth.
> The core of this disruption was not in the process of creating the MP3, it was the ease of music distribution without any involvement of a music label.
That was another required step, but the widespread availability of master tape grade digital content was an enabler as well and I really don't see why you would deny that.
FWIW I'm the guy that encoded the dutch broadcast archive for TROS so that they could easily call up tracks without running to the physical archive. Trucks with CDs would arrive and harddrives would go the other way. We did many thousands of them. Without the CDs ripping at 40 speed or so that would have absolutely never happened. Ripping a vinyl record at any level of quality will take you more than an hour, there are all kinds of environmental factors, you'll wear out needles like there is no tomorrow and you're going to be busy fiddling with tone arm pressure and all kinds of finicky bits if you want to get even close to something that's good enough for broadcasters.","created_at":"2024-01-09T17:50:03Z","created_at_i":1704822603,"objectID":"38929266","parent_id":38928592,"story_id":38923033,"story_title":"Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM","story_url":"https://www.ismailzai.com/blog/picking-the-widevine-locks","updated_at":"2024-09-20T16:02:50Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"crossroadsguy"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"I always wondered how the hell jury system works and how the hell they can put matters like this, or any matter for that matter, in the hands of a jury? Jury system seems so arbitrary to me. There is no explanation - no basis - just \u201cwe felt like this\u201d, or rather \u201cwhatever, we want to do just do this\u201d."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Epic vs. Google: Google Loses"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.theverge.com/23945184/epic-v-google-fortnite-play-store-antitrust-trial-updates#stream-entry-65d34a06-1fa5-4eab-abf6-ce450441b543"}},"_tags":["comment","author_crossroadsguy","story_38607424"],"author":"crossroadsguy","children":[38628917],"comment_text":"I always wondered how the hell jury system works and how the hell they can put matters like this, or any matter for that matter, in the hands of a jury? Jury system seems so arbitrary to me. There is no explanation - no basis - just \u201cwe felt like this\u201d, or rather \u201cwhatever, we want to do just do this\u201d.","created_at":"2023-12-13T01:49:53Z","created_at_i":1702432193,"objectID":"38621649","parent_id":38610970,"story_id":38607424,"story_title":"Epic vs. Google: Google Loses","story_url":"https://www.theverge.com/23945184/epic-v-google-fortnite-play-store-antitrust-trial-updates#stream-entry-65d34a06-1fa5-4eab-abf6-ce450441b543","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:49:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pjmlp"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"To put matters into perspective, Rust reference implementations depend on C++ toolchains.
Same applies to all major Ada, Java, .NET, Swift, Ocaml and Haskell implementations. And any GPGPU toolchain.
Which kind of shows it isn't going anywhere and those planes have to be improved no matter what."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://verdagon.dev/blog/vale-memory-safe-cpp"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pjmlp","story_36448759"],"author":"pjmlp","children":[36453040,36450263,36450009],"comment_text":"To put matters into perspective, Rust reference implementations depend on C++ toolchains.
Same applies to all major Ada, Java, .NET, Swift, Ocaml and Haskell implementations. And any GPGPU toolchain.
Which kind of shows it isn't going anywhere and those planes have to be improved no matter what.","created_at":"2023-06-23T17:37:44Z","created_at_i":1687541864,"objectID":"36449945","parent_id":36449842,"story_id":36448759,"story_title":"Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC","story_url":"https://verdagon.dev/blog/vale-memory-safe-cpp","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:26:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Null-Set"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"You can put matter on grid powered trains instead of battery powered self propelled vehicles."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"460-foot \u201cbattery tanker\u201d set to ship electrons by 2026"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://newatlas.com/energy/powerx-battery-tanker/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Null-Set","story_36149404"],"author":"Null-Set","comment_text":"You can put matter on grid powered trains instead of battery powered self propelled vehicles.","created_at":"2023-06-03T22:13:50Z","created_at_i":1685830430,"objectID":"36181033","parent_id":36180987,"story_id":36149404,"story_title":"460-foot \u201cbattery tanker\u201d set to ship electrons by 2026","story_url":"https://newatlas.com/energy/powerx-battery-tanker/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T14:18:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"magicalhippo"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Or get a masters degree in cosmology so you can put "Master of the Universe" on your CV."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_magicalhippo","story_31874802"],"author":"magicalhippo","children":[31876517,31879127],"comment_text":"Or get a masters degree in cosmology so you can put "Master of the Universe" on your CV.","created_at":"2022-06-25T15:17:41Z","created_at_i":1656170261,"objectID":"31875940","parent_id":31875115,"story_id":31874802,"story_title":"Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:28:56Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"solar-ice"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"Then you also need to build and distribute Android and iOS apps for your employees. Congrats, you now have a significantly larger project than "put Mattermost on a server and update it occasionally"."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Mattermost \u2013 open-source platform for secure collaboration"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server"}},"_tags":["comment","author_solar-ice","story_31858829"],"author":"solar-ice","children":[31860711,31862319],"comment_text":"Then you also need to build and distribute Android and iOS apps for your employees. Congrats, you now have a significantly larger project than "put Mattermost on a server and update it occasionally".","created_at":"2022-06-24T11:30:23Z","created_at_i":1656070223,"objectID":"31860231","parent_id":31860194,"story_id":31858829,"story_title":"Mattermost \u2013 open-source platform for secure collaboration","story_url":"https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:27:26Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mekster"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"What good XMPP clients that non techs feel comfortable with?
I'd just put Mattermost and be done with chat problems."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ergo \u2013 modern IRC server written in Go"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/ergochat/ergo"}},"_tags":["comment","author_mekster","story_31832115"],"author":"mekster","comment_text":"What good XMPP clients that non techs feel comfortable with?
I'd just put Mattermost and be done with chat problems.","created_at":"2022-06-23T02:04:32Z","created_at_i":1655949872,"objectID":"31844359","parent_id":31833799,"story_id":31832115,"story_title":"Ergo \u2013 modern IRC server written in Go","story_url":"https://github.com/ergochat/ergo","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:25:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Certhas"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"That's not the problem we face though.
Consider the following:
For all terrestrial phenomena that we have observe so far we have a theory of everything.
In order to put matter into a state where it behaves in such a way that you can tell the difference between two competing theories that describe the world, you have to build the LHC. Anything less than that and the theories all are perfectly good at describing what we see.
I think there is a tendency to misunderstand LHC and it's high energies as somehow being "brute force". High energy really just means small structures. It's better to think of it as the worlds best microscope. LIGO is the worlds best ruler. So we're measuring the world and it's matter to an unfathomable precision and we do not see meaningful divergence between theory and experiment.
We know there is more out there, but it's not stuff we can study on earth. That's the single biggest problem."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.science.org/content/article/ten-years-after-higgs-physicists-face-nightmare-finding-nothing-else"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Certhas","story_31751242"],"author":"Certhas","children":[31756130,31752234],"comment_text":"That's not the problem we face though.
Consider the following:
For all terrestrial phenomena that we have observe so far we have a theory of everything.
In order to put matter into a state where it behaves in such a way that you can tell the difference between two competing theories that describe the world, you have to build the LHC. Anything less than that and the theories all are perfectly good at describing what we see.
I think there is a tendency to misunderstand LHC and it's high energies as somehow being "brute force". High energy really just means small structures. It's better to think of it as the worlds best microscope. LIGO is the worlds best ruler. So we're measuring the world and it's matter to an unfathomable precision and we do not see meaningful divergence between theory and experiment.
We know there is more out there, but it's not stuff we can study on earth. That's the single biggest problem.","created_at":"2022-06-15T12:44:46Z","created_at_i":1655297086,"objectID":"31752154","parent_id":31751653,"story_id":31751242,"story_title":"Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else","story_url":"https://www.science.org/content/article/ten-years-after-higgs-physicists-face-nightmare-finding-nothing-else","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:21:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"drakonka"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Just trial and error mostly, and digging through example code. And learning to google. I always thought everyone just knew how to look for solutions to their problems online, but when observing others learning to code I realized this is not the case. It takes practice to know how to word what you're searching for.
But to go on a bit of a tangential rant about doing it "on our own":
I don't think many people do it on their own _really_. Most people eventually get to a point where their code is out in the world for feedback. Whether it is something they're getting reviews on at their job, or a personal GitHub account, or their blog.
I learned enough to hack stuff together through trial and error in a little bubble to start with, but then I started blogging and getting involved in the community of a framework I'd been using. I would post questions and try to contribute answers, and all of that expanded my knowledge (even answering a question usually involves learning).
Later, as a junior programmer, I was on a team that had a _very picky_ teammate. He'd point out every nitpick he could in code reviews. Things that might not necessarily "matter" in practice in _that_ particular scenario, but that were just not as efficient or well implemented as they could be. I put "matter" in quotes because my mindset is now: of course it matters. Knowing what tradeoffs I'm making and not getting complacent with quality always matters, as I learned from these reviews.
And when reviewing my code he always asked "Why" questions. Why did I chose to use this data type vs that one? Would a hashset be better here? Why did I go with a LINQ method? What iterations are involved in this, and why do we need it? Why is there a null check here, why would this ever be null (a harder question than one might think considering we were working in a huge, old, proprietary codebase)?
Every code review was a bunch of questions and improvements, and it was extremely useful. I learned to predict the kinds of questions he'd ask me and look for answers in advance, often finding better approaches in the process. And when he asked "Why" in the next review, I'd get to explain exactly why, and how other options were subpar in this case.
I'd credit him with a very big chunk of my development as a programmer: mostly learning about the importance of why I'm doing something this way vs another way, digging into internals, deciding if the performance tradeoffs of my approach are worth it (and _knowing_ the performance tradeoffs), and paying attention to details.
I'm technically what people refer to as "self taught", but I definitely didn't do it on my own."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"How do people learn how to do anything related to coding on their own"}},"_tags":["comment","author_drakonka","story_29949542"],"author":"drakonka","comment_text":"Just trial and error mostly, and digging through example code. And learning to google. I always thought everyone just knew how to look for solutions to their problems online, but when observing others learning to code I realized this is not the case. It takes practice to know how to word what you're searching for.
But to go on a bit of a tangential rant about doing it "on our own":
I don't think many people do it on their own _really_. Most people eventually get to a point where their code is out in the world for feedback. Whether it is something they're getting reviews on at their job, or a personal GitHub account, or their blog.
I learned enough to hack stuff together through trial and error in a little bubble to start with, but then I started blogging and getting involved in the community of a framework I'd been using. I would post questions and try to contribute answers, and all of that expanded my knowledge (even answering a question usually involves learning).
Later, as a junior programmer, I was on a team that had a _very picky_ teammate. He'd point out every nitpick he could in code reviews. Things that might not necessarily "matter" in practice in _that_ particular scenario, but that were just not as efficient or well implemented as they could be. I put "matter" in quotes because my mindset is now: of course it matters. Knowing what tradeoffs I'm making and not getting complacent with quality always matters, as I learned from these reviews.
And when reviewing my code he always asked "Why" questions. Why did I chose to use this data type vs that one? Would a hashset be better here? Why did I go with a LINQ method? What iterations are involved in this, and why do we need it? Why is there a null check here, why would this ever be null (a harder question than one might think considering we were working in a huge, old, proprietary codebase)?
Every code review was a bunch of questions and improvements, and it was extremely useful. I learned to predict the kinds of questions he'd ask me and look for answers in advance, often finding better approaches in the process. And when he asked "Why" in the next review, I'd get to explain exactly why, and how other options were subpar in this case.
I'd credit him with a very big chunk of my development as a programmer: mostly learning about the importance of why I'm doing something this way vs another way, digging into internals, deciding if the performance tradeoffs of my approach are worth it (and _knowing_ the performance tradeoffs), and paying attention to details.
I'm technically what people refer to as "self taught", but I definitely didn't do it on my own.","created_at":"2022-01-15T21:00:52Z","created_at_i":1642280452,"objectID":"29950210","parent_id":29949542,"story_id":29949542,"story_title":"How do people learn how to do anything related to coding on their own","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:15:49Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dogma1138"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"Onlyfans is quite likely fueled by impulse buys if it takes more than 10 seconds to pay many people would reconsider. If it takes a trip to some shady convenient store at 2am to put your debit card into some shady looking ATM and then transfer it into a wallet manually no one is going to do that.
Onlyfans is really not a private cryptos anything. It\u2019s $6b per year, the yearly purchase rate of Mastercards network is about $1.5 trillion.
It is not going put MasterCard out of business just like PornHub didn\u2019t."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"OnlyFans banning sexually explicit content b/C of MasterCard rules starting Oct"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://twitter.com/PostCultRev/status/1428584133555482630"}},"_tags":["comment","author_dogma1138","story_28264468"],"author":"dogma1138","comment_text":"Onlyfans is quite likely fueled by impulse buys if it takes more than 10 seconds to pay many people would reconsider. If it takes a trip to some shady convenient store at 2am to put your debit card into some shady looking ATM and then transfer it into a wallet manually no one is going to do that.
Onlyfans is really not a private cryptos anything. It\u2019s $6b per year, the yearly purchase rate of Mastercards network is about $1.5 trillion.
It is not going put MasterCard out of business just like PornHub didn\u2019t.","created_at":"2021-08-22T13:30:08Z","created_at_i":1629639008,"objectID":"28265301","parent_id":28265225,"story_id":28264468,"story_title":"OnlyFans banning sexually explicit content b/C of MasterCard rules starting Oct","story_url":"https://twitter.com/PostCultRev/status/1428584133555482630","updated_at":"2024-09-20T09:17:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pron"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"> Could you articulate or point me to some of the arguments or thoughts that lead to the conclusion here?
I gave a talk about exactly that recently at Code Mesh. I expect them to post the video soon. https://codesync.global/speaker/ron-pressler/#745why-user-mo...
> Also, this statement makes you sound like Goliath.
Maybe, but it's not just a matter of size but also trajectory. And, as you say, our competition is mostly off the Java platform. My point wasn't to brag, but to put matters in perspective. There are dozens of nascent languages, the vast majority of which will never make it to the top ten, let alone the top five. And while a few of them will, no doubt, one day unseat the incumbents, we obviously don't think of all of them as "threats."
> what are those languages?
The obvious ones. It's not that we don't know that some smaller languages will one day become big, some will even surprise us all, but extrapolating early growth to long-term success is certainly not a good model.
> Like, what are the odds that it took until 201x for you (all) to decide to copy records from ML? You certainly didn't do it before Kotlin for some reason.
As I wrote in another comment, Kotlin's arrival and Java's "boost" are both a response to the same event: Java's decline in Sun's dying days. Once Oracle increased investment, it was mostly a matter of prioritising which features to do first. Records were seen as less urgent as lambdas, so they came later."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Project Loom and Structured Concurrency"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.javaadvent.com/2020/12/project-loom-and-structured-concurrency.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pron","story_25300233"],"author":"pron","children":[25303818],"comment_text":"> Could you articulate or point me to some of the arguments or thoughts that lead to the conclusion here?
I gave a talk about exactly that recently at Code Mesh. I expect them to post the video soon. https://codesync.global/speaker/ron-pressler/#745why-user-mo...
> Also, this statement makes you sound like Goliath.
Maybe, but it's not just a matter of size but also trajectory. And, as you say, our competition is mostly off the Java platform. My point wasn't to brag, but to put matters in perspective. There are dozens of nascent languages, the vast majority of which will never make it to the top ten, let alone the top five. And while a few of them will, no doubt, one day unseat the incumbents, we obviously don't think of all of them as "threats."
> what are those languages?
The obvious ones. It's not that we don't know that some smaller languages will one day become big, some will even surprise us all, but extrapolating early growth to long-term success is certainly not a good model.
> Like, what are the odds that it took until 201x for you (all) to decide to copy records from ML? You certainly didn't do it before Kotlin for some reason.
As I wrote in another comment, Kotlin's arrival and Java's "boost" are both a response to the same event: Java's decline in Sun's dying days. Once Oracle increased investment, it was mostly a matter of prioritising which features to do first. Records were seen as less urgent as lambdas, so they came later.","created_at":"2020-12-04T15:41:52Z","created_at_i":1607096512,"objectID":"25303496","parent_id":25303147,"story_id":25300233,"story_title":"Project Loom and Structured Concurrency","story_url":"https://www.javaadvent.com/2020/12/project-loom-and-structured-concurrency.html","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:23:53Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"RealityVoid"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"We know how to shield from radiation, there is no mystery there, just put matter in btween the source and the passengers. It's not easy, but the physics are well understood.
Besides, how do the astronauts on the ISS deal with radiation? Is the ISS somehow better protected near earth than in deep space?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/267100986/british-engineers-develop-process-to-turn-moon-dust-into-oxygen"}},"_tags":["comment","author_RealityVoid","story_25232968"],"author":"RealityVoid","children":[25237137,25237071],"comment_text":"We know how to shield from radiation, there is no mystery there, just put matter in btween the source and the passengers. It's not easy, but the physics are well understood.
Besides, how do the astronauts on the ISS deal with radiation? Is the ISS somehow better protected near earth than in deep space?","created_at":"2020-11-28T11:45:37Z","created_at_i":1606563937,"objectID":"25237018","parent_id":25236728,"story_id":25232968,"story_title":"British engineers develop process to turn moon dust into oxygen","story_url":"https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/267100986/british-engineers-develop-process-to-turn-moon-dust-into-oxygen","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:26:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sukilot"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ppt","master"],"value":"If the Democrats don't hold the moral high ground, why is McConnell lying about his rationale? He didn't say "The majority can do what ever it wants, and that's moral", he made up rationales that change to as the facts do.
The idea that a Supreme Court opening should never be filled when the President and Senate are opposing parties is utterly absurd.
It's true that the Constitution wasn't written like Ethereum to preclude all attempts to undermine it with bullshittery like refusing to even put matters up to a vote. That doesn't mean it's at all moral to ignore it.
Also, was "Packing the Senate" a typo? FDR threatened but did not pack the Court.\n"Packing the Senate" is a Republican tradition (not that the parties mean much consistently, going back centuries), which even a blatant partisan couldn't avoid admitting:
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/democracy-republic...
And slaveholders (the spiritual inspiration of modern Republicans) had manipulated the Court to themselves since the beginning:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Circuits_Act"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sukilot","story_24522908"],"author":"sukilot","children":[24524772],"comment_text":"If the Democrats don't hold the moral high ground, why is McConnell lying about his rationale? He didn't say "The majority can do what ever it wants, and that's moral", he made up rationales that change to as the facts do.
The idea that a Supreme Court opening should never be filled when the President and Senate are opposing parties is utterly absurd.
It's true that the Constitution wasn't written like Ethereum to preclude all attempts to undermine it with bullshittery like refusing to even put matters up to a vote. That doesn't mean it's at all moral to ignore it.
Also, was "Packing the Senate" a typo? FDR threatened but did not pack the Court.\n"Packing the Senate" is a Republican tradition (not that the parties mean much consistently, going back centuries), which even a blatant partisan couldn't avoid admitting:
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/democracy-republic...
And slaveholders (the spiritual inspiration of modern Republicans) had manipulated the Court to themselves since the beginning:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Circuits_Act","created_at":"2020-09-19T02:38:36Z","created_at_i":1600483116,"objectID":"24524424","parent_id":24523903,"story_id":24522908,"story_title":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died","story_url":"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:55:51Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":38,"nbPages":2,"page":0,"params":"query=ppt-master&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":37,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":19,"roundTrip":21},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":2,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":6,"total":6},"total":7},"total":7},"fetch":{"query":3,"scanning":25,"total":29},"total":37},"query":"ppt-master","serverTimeMS":58}