kpxxx3's comments

Lol. They didn’t get away with anything. Unless you were sold as a slave you negotiated some terms mutually. Why the fuck would any party in a business transaction voluntarily pay more if they have no reason to believe that is necessary. Do you tell amazon that Walmart is selling the same item for $10 more so they can raise their price so you don’t “get away” paying a lower price than most likely what some people are paying?

There’s no bluff being called. This is simply the normal way for transaction participants to act rationally and in their best interests.

> If you give notice, you're saying "I'm at the end of my rope, I'm leaving".

No not usually. I don’t get why a group (techies) that fancies themselves so rational can’t understand simple economics. Giving notice means I have leverage with a better offer no more less. The reason for that may be hard for the current employer to fix or not. Often it is not hard for them to fix, especially in larger organizations. And often coming with a better offer in hand is the only way to signal that. We can wank about ideal managers and all that but that is not how the world works.

> The audio quality drop is noticeable to me.

I'm not going to get into an audiophile/golden ear flamewar, but I am always skeptical of this claim. Yes, SBC is not the world's best, but it supports bitrates upto 500 kbit/s. I'm not going to claim it is completely transparent, but 9 times out of 10 it is being used with shitty bluetooth headphones (where the alternative is shitty wired headphones)... at that point the quality of the headphones (wired or not) has far more to do with the audio quality than anything.

And yes, I doubt most people will notice an audio quality drop in a pair of high quality Sennheisers going from wired to SBC (there isn't convincing evidence that aptX is much better than SBC). I wouldn't be too surprised about a conflicting experimental result, but skeptical for now. Anyway, most people are not hooking up high quality headphones to their phone, or they are purposefully using phones tuned for a particular lo-fi response (Beats)... who cares about whatever SBC does at 350 kbit/s at that point.

Edit: And walking down the street is hardly a hi-fi listening environment.

Or maybe because this just is actual propaganda. No where here is anyone saying the Western world did not produce propaganda. That's a straw man all in your puny brain.

Item name was never suitable as a key... It's not stable. There are natural keys, they are just very rare. And the thing is even when you think you've got one it is often better to err conservatively. A good anti-example is SSN, often used in text books. They do change. Other than DNA sequences I can't think of a good person key. Just use an internal surrogate and be done with it.