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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
The article mentions the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment once around the middle, that's the main reason. The wikipedia article is short and covers it well enough, but in short: > The Kyl–Bingaman Amendment (KBA) prohibits US authorities from
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
Not really related to the article at hand, but I've been on a bit of a Google Maps binge the past couple weeks. I learned a few interesting facts, blurry Israel being one of them. Another strange thing I found that might not be super w
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
In theory they could apply the gyroscope based movement to Dolby Atmos based music as well. But who wants to turn 90 degrees left and have the songs soundstage not also shift with them?
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
Binaural audio recordings are usually made with a Binaural microphone that records sound in a similar configuration to how human ears work. Or they're just synthesized directly as a stereo signal (that's usually how those "bi
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
These sorts of tests are BS in my opinion. How often are you listening to the same track 3 times across different quality settings in the same listening session? The only "real" test for these sorts of things is > You've g
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
They may have just intended to get money, but they definitely spread terror. I had to have like an hour long phone call with my mother on Monday explaining why she had to go to 4 gas stations before she could get any gas, and that no the pi
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
I used to live across the street from a Food Bazaar. Moved last year to a different area in Brooklyn and now there's no Food Bazaar or H Mart within a reasonable distance of me. CTown just doesn't compare.
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
A 2021 Civic actually will brake by itself in certain circumstances. And I'm pretty sure no Civic can drive itself. From https://owners.honda.com/vehicles/information/2021/Civic-Sed... The system starts
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
I think you two are disagreeing on what "the desirable thing" means. You're saying it's creating the bitcoin/blockchain which is the desirable result. But they're saying that "desirable result" here i
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
Bezos has actually been preaching the same stuff about space as Musk since high school. Needing to get humanity off of earth and wanting to be the one to do it, etc etc. I only know this because he graduated from the same high school as me
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by squeaky-clean 5y ago
If you're trying to imply counterfeiting doesn't actually affect gameplay, counterfeit cards are not tournament legal. If you paid $100 to purchase a playset of 4 cards and you show up to a tournament and get declined entry, you&#
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
> two pieces of fish, one big onion, an egg, baked beans and a few biscuits at the end. For lunch I have a pear, an orange and four sandwiches with paste. But I allow myself a bit more variety; I’ll sometimes have soup if it’s cold. This
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
That's exactly the scary thing about war though. You can grow up, go to school, make friends, fall in love, fall out of love, graduate, move, make new friends, learn to cook, fall back in love, buy a home, get a job, get a new job, lea
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
I wonder if the other time wasting sites get a noticeable uptick in traffic when one has an outage.
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
They're doing a similar thing with the gmail app, at least on iOS. Practically everything now opens within gmail instead of the actual app. Google Meet links now open in gmail instead of Google Meet. I know they're both owned by t
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
It can be used via the web, but it hides those features from you. If you're on a system where the desktop app cannot be installed, it reveals those features again. It's not that the features don't exist at all in the web vers
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
A lot of flight prices are calculated upon a search query and only guaranteed for that query (and for a set number of minutes). There generally isn't just some sort of table you can look into and get prices unfortunately. The company I
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
It's only hard to get because IATA doesn't easily provide it. IATA isn't "a" provider of the data, they are the data. It would be like if you had to purchase a list of the bus stops and schedule in your city from yo
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
I've done something similar for my current job. I've used all these same data sources, even got access to the IATA stuff eventually. I also used GeoNames a lot, it's not specific to airports but it has decent airport data and
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
gitlab.com/ redirects to about.gitlab.com/ Seems like blacklight strips any url paths if you were trying to check your own repo url
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
My Ableton starter template project takes about 22GB of RAM to open. Music production is a pretty common use case that can be very heavy on RAM.
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
Mass market isn't buying individual PC parts and assembling the PC, they're buying prebuilts or using whatever their office mass-purchased. Go on dell.com right now and you can order a PC with a 5950x and RTX 3080. Good luck buyin
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
I wonder if there would be a business case for a non-subscription paid dating service. A one time payment on sign up for a lifetime membership, or something. The idea being that the service has made its money from you already, and now the g
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
Totally, and even on a good website, the real best answer isn't always obvious. I feel like on 30% of answers on StackOverflow the highlighted answer is either flat-out incorrect or out of date by 10 years and one of the answers furthe
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
> Honestly, what's so technical about adding [...] to your ~/.bashrc ? Oh boy, you don't tutor many beginners in programming do you?
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
But you can make this work if you also just store the number of samples per bucket, right? > (255ms + 59ms) / 2 = 157ms But > ((10 * 255ms) + (1000 * 59ms)) / 1010 = 60.94ms Which is the same answer I get as averaging all th
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
Across all of their active subscribers, the average is 21 workouts per month [0]. So that user is technically above-average, but I'm curious what the actual distribution looks like, if it's like a bell curve or more "camel sh
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
Working in coal mines, and working to support coal mines, aren't entirely the same thing. (More than) Half the country is against government provided healthcare, but that doesn't mean half the country works in private medicine or
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
I really doubt there are more individual investors in the stock market than there are individuals buying webcams and microphones, but even assuming this is true > which sometimes drops 30% or more, costing hundreds of thousands of dollar
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by squeaky-clean 6y ago
> Is there an expectation that by buying Bitcoins, you are funding the growth of a business which creates profits by using your investment, and those profits are where your investment return is coming from? If you think this isn't a

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