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by danso 4y ago
The original Quest was released May 2019, and the Quest 2 was released Oct. 2020. Maybe a lot of the early adopters felt burned, but the Quest1's short life obviously didn't put much of a damper in the Quest 2's sales.
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by danso 4y ago
I don’t really know if the specs are good for bang for your buck. All I know is that the Quest 2 specs run the existing library pretty well. Paying 5x the price, I would expect a jump from WiiU to PS5, but is there any software that comes c
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by danso 4y ago
$1,500 for this: > Meta Quest Pro comes with all the goods and then some so you can start working, creating and collaborating — Meta Quest Touch Pro Controllers, charging dock with rapid USB-C power adapter, 10 advanced VR/MR senso
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by danso 4y ago
But many people consider LBJ to have been an empathetic president? I don't see how it's supposed to be self-evident that, because Johnson liked bragging about his johnson, that his focus on the Great Society must have been driven
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by danso 4y ago
Biden showed sympathy toward "Defund/Abolish" protesters, but never endorsed their movements. And by virtually every metric, he's increased federal dollars for local police: Fact check: Political ad saying Biden wants to
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by danso 4y ago
But a poorly executed mass pardon can harm Biden's presidential popularity, which is highly correlated to getting laws passed by Congress. Skimming the contents of this academic book [0], it doesn't look like there has been a majo
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by danso 4y ago
Just because a pardon can technically be signed quickly and unilaterally doesn't mean that it's pragmatic or wise to do so. As people have pointed out, there's nuances and technicalities, e.g. not applying to undocumented imm
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by danso 4y ago
> If it were a sincere and principled choice It's literally a choice for Biden to make this an issue and successfully execute on it. But I don't know how it could be "principled" by your standards. For most of his c
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by danso 4y ago
His tweets 2019 and 2020 are indeed "loaded with promises and plans", but that's because he was literally not president at that time. Now that he is president, tweets from @POTUS are intended and expected official statements.
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by danso 4y ago
> he's had an abusively and militantly anti-drug pol his entire career Ok sure, not only that, but he is the president who has the least number of spare brain cells to devote to an issue that he opposes on principle. And yet of al
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by danso 4y ago
Here's an ancient example from 2013: https://www.denverpost.com/2013/08/29/federal-government-won... > Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole wrote in a memo sent Thursday to federal prosecutors tha
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by danso 4y ago
Taking you at your word, I assume you have some examples in mind of when the U.S. government making actual tangible progress was standard operating procedure?
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by danso 4y ago
Yeah, but hopefully the symbolic value adds to the momentum for actual decriminalization, sooner or later. One of the early mini-scandals of the Biden White House was how "dozens of young White House staffers" were in trouble beca
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by danso 4y ago
Yep! And IIRC, states that have fully legalized marijuana still have has big headaches dealing with the fact that it's outlawed by the feds.
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by danso 4y ago
> Twitter really has one rule for some individuals and another rule for many. There is no justification for any of this from the big tech appeasers. Huh? Twitter has explicitly justified differential treatment for different kinds of us
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by danso 4y ago
as I mentioned in another reply, this album has been completely debunked -- it's not "fake fake". But it's just not at all a collection of actual WW2 Nanjing photos, and it's still not clear to me why the TikToker a
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by danso 4y ago
OK I "vouched" for this submission because I was in the middle of typing a long comment, and then it got flag-killed. Now that comments are reopened, here's the evidence I wanted to attach: The claims of Pawn Man's Tikto
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by danso 4y ago
Forcing out a long-time (non-tenured) professor seems a bit extreme, but there are a lot of extreme circumstances: - Professor Jones is 84 years old (according to his Wikipedia [0]) - Students are recovering from an unprecedented break&#x2F
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A stranger dug up a copy of a terrible game I made when I was 12(twitter.com)
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by danso 4y ago
I think social gaming can have a lot of personal value (especially with the last 3 years being pandemic years). But RDO arguably is showing signs of a sunsetting service, so maybe it's best that this painful loss happen sooner than a f
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by danso 4y ago
I'm assuming this guy's hours were mostly on Red Dead Online. I know that RDO doesn't have crossplay between PC and consoles. But did RDO also not have crossplay between PC (Steam, Epic, R*) and Stadia? Stadia players were on
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by danso 4y ago
Based on past posts about what happened after getting front-paged on HN, I don't think it's necessarily the case that the surge of interest will pay off 4 months of development work: https://nicklafferty.com/blog&#
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by danso 4y ago
How much of Stadia tech/innovations will we see in ongoing/future Google products? There was a lot of hype about how Stadia's (potential) input-lag-reduction tech, but how successful did that end up being?
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by danso 4y ago
Well, those comments were responding to a July 2022 article stating: "Google Stadia denies the recent claims online that it would be shutting down its services by the end of the summer, promising more games to come." So technicall
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by danso 4y ago
It's funny that in terms of popular culture, we've all but accepted that Star Trek's Holodeck-type fantasy creation is something that will/should exist in a "proper" future. Yet all the intermediary technology
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by danso 4y ago
Seems reductionist to think that Kurt Vonnegut was writing only/mostly from emotion, and that he didn't intend for it be political commentary/satire.
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SEC Charges Oracle a Second Time for Violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act(sec.gov)
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I think you’re missing a critical comma? ”No, exif data…”
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Someone exploited American Airlines’ in-flight PA to broadcast their own voice(twitter.com)
2 points by danso 4y ago|0 comments
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by danso 4y ago
This is an astonishing package. Every AI voice-to-text model I've tried on "The Wire's" famous "fuck" scene [0] usually fails, because the youtube clip's audio quality is bad and it's a scene with vir

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