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by ralfd 6y ago
For fines to the treasury before they are paid: yes. After they are paid only after an act of congress (so never). For third parties I found: > Whenever it issues, a pardon will not interfere with any rights a third party has to recover
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by ralfd 6y ago
(Former) Attorney General Barr talked Trump out of it: https://apnews.com/article/49fce0a36f134da56786608aa5dfa4bc
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by ralfd 6y ago
Top answer at the time was right: > "There is motion blur on the traffic cone suggesting that camera was moving right and slightly down. There is no blur on the plane itself since the camera was locked to the plane's motion. So
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by ralfd 6y ago
Yes, and the ultimate technosolution by the west is a vaccine.
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by ralfd 6y ago
> recent photosynthesis AFAIK our oxygen was not made recently. It accumulated over billions of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event This here tries to project oxygen levels: > It is found t
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by ralfd 6y ago
To save people the click and search: Someone from Google who works on compiling Linux.
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by ralfd 6y ago
https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot They promise "repeatable autonomous missions to gather consistent data", so my guess is programming a route and mapping terrain is reasonably easy. There is also remote control
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by ralfd 6y ago
They are more scary the same way a tiger is more scary than a cat even though both are Felidae.
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by ralfd 6y ago
I guess both presenters are trans? Interesting how many notable trans* programmers/engineers the field attracts.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Apple has at most 10% of the computer market and is just one player among many. I am skeptical Microsoft with their 90% dominance would or should be allowed this much power over the industry.
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by ralfd 6y ago
"pikachu in a xxx staring at its reflection in a mirror" is interesting. Both hilariously bad and impressive if the helmet is mirrored.
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by ralfd 6y ago
> I hope that the model is not doing advanced patchwork/stitching of training images It would still be impressive that it knows were to include hands, christmas sweater or a unicycle.
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by ralfd 6y ago
> I would be slightly more impressed about the language model if it had a working prompt like: "A teapot that does not look like the image prompt." Slightly? Jesus, you guys are hard to please.
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by ralfd 6y ago
As a non-native speaker the whole article confused me. In Germany 'gyros' has a 'g' as in 'going'. How do the greek say it?
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by ralfd 6y ago
Dollar of course. No one cares about Bitcoin or Ether or Ripple or Litecoins or Kittycoins or ... aside from their value in $$$. They are not currencies, they are speculation objects.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Not many links are working now. Also so much poker and online casino ads! I was almost disappointed that there wasn't porn.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Thanks. I did see the other links you posted, but it is hard to wrap my head around how one influences the other.
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by ralfd 6y ago
There are option positions with _unlimited_ downside: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/050115/what-types-o...
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by ralfd 6y ago
I am out of the loop. What is Tether?
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by ralfd 6y ago
The Hacker News Paul Graham?
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by ralfd 6y ago
I bet that he really meant "This story really exemplifies an aspect of my job I hate" and won't miss at a future next job. The positive spin was only there because it got on the company blog.
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by ralfd 6y ago
1. The customer can choose sign in with Apple or not. There is no choice with a mandatory FB login. 2. Customers prefer sign in with Apple. If you go on the Oculus subreddit you find nothing other than complains about the Facebook login.
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by ralfd 6y ago
AirPod Pros are my first Bluetooth headphones which just work and I love the transparency mode. They may not be for you, but they are not a rip off.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Note that Fallout:NV is running via CrossOver, a (commercial) Wine version. This means it runs Intel-Windows binaries via Rosetta on the Mac.
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by ralfd 6y ago
You miss that most games are listed as running under Rosetta 2, not natively. This is very impressive and you now can play games you couldn't before on the Air or mini! Yes: The M1 is not beating a dedicated GPU, but it does beat other
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by ralfd 6y ago
Sometimes Gruber calls people out for their bad commentary and it comes across as being superior. This time, though, this article was very much needed. Moorhead’s article got a lot of traction, and ‘felt’ serious enough that a lot of folks
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by ralfd 6y ago
Surely this theoretical risk of that is dwarved by the concrete risk of climate change.
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by ralfd 6y ago
> Roblox also takes a cut of 24.5%, compared to an App store portion of 25% I find the graphic even misleading. Roblox takes double that: 50,5%. If you calculate a share out for hosting and user acquisition you also have to do that for t
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by ralfd 6y ago
You also have malware on PC. I don’t have to worry that my parents install a key logger on their iPad.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Apple/Google are providing the whole operating system and API development and in Googles case access to billions of devices and in Apples case 250 MB cloud storage per app user for developers (up to 1 Petabyte) and piracy protection.

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