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by perennate 4mo ago
The end of Chapter 1 is a rape scene, I wouldn't call it "mild". I imagine it can be difficult to read for many people.
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OlmoEarth: A new Earth observation foundation model family(allenai.org)
2 points by perennate 11mo ago|0 comments
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by perennate 3y ago
> capital gains tax rate is 50% That makes it sound like you pay half of capital gains in taxes, but I think what you mean is that 50% of capital gains is taxable, and that this portion is taxed at the same rate as other personal income.
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VisProg: Visual Reasoning through High-Level Program Execution(prior.allenai.org)
2 points by perennate 3y ago|0 comments
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by perennate 5y ago
> I wouldn't trust a support page's definition of "opt-in" The support page doesn't have any definition of "opt-in". It simply says that users need to click under "Turn your PC's idle time to
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by perennate 5y ago
See also https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... seems clearly opt-in.
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by perennate 5y ago
> You can however "pause" the mining forever while keeping everything installed which is what support will suggest if you ask. Just to clarify because this sentence sounds a bit misleading -- according to https://sup
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by perennate 5y ago
It is installed but not activated without warning AFAIK. According to https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... the user must first agree to a Norton Crypto License and Se
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by perennate 5y ago
> oblivious customers Users must explicitly agree to a Norton Crypto License and Services Agreement and activate mining before the software starts mining Ethereum. It is unlikely there would be any oblivious customers. See https:/&
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by perennate 5y ago
> (1) does not inform the user or ask for consent > (2) seemingly does not offer an option to disable it Where do you see this? As far as I can tell, it is off by default, and the user must explicitly enable it (consent) to use the mi
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by perennate 5y ago
I agree that there needs to be a balance. I'd argue that US defamation law is close to the "right" balance, by making a stronger case needed to prosecute defamation against public figures (like public officials or celebrities
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by perennate 5y ago
> then the question is whether you actively participated in There is another important question: intention. In the US, "for a public official (or other legitimate public figure) to win a libel case in the United States, the statemen
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by perennate 5y ago
I agree that they might be missing the point, but I also feel that adding a one or two extra CSS lines is really needed to turn something that is very unpleasant to read (the biggest problem being the unlimited width) into something that is
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by perennate 6y ago
Unless you're using unsupervised learning or can find a good dataset, most of the cost will be in labeling the data. I'm not too familiar with background removal, there may be some self-supervised/contrastive learning approac
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by perennate 6y ago
In the FAQ it says: > Is my instance guaranteed? > Yes, unless you run out of credit. To prevent that from happening be sure to setup automatic top ups.
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by perennate 6y ago
I think Linode/Paperspace/AWS/GCP/etc. are closer to "direct competitors". I would be much more comfortable trusting a single entity that owns its servers than a GPU rental marketplace like vast.ai.
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by perennate 6y ago
The website design put me off but the FAQ makes it clear that it is quite professional. They have information about physical security, GDPR compliance, and VLAN. Wish there was some information about storage, e.g. if it's local disk or
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by perennate 6y ago
I mean, frivolous lawsuits are nothing new: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/most-ridiculous-lawsuits-of-al... They usually get tossed out pretty quickly. "In 2016, an Illinois man sued Starbucks for misrepresenting the a
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by perennate 6y ago
I would imagine he would appear under his real name. It would be weird to hear his username in Congress, especially when there are no longer concerns about anonymity now that his name is publicized.
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by perennate 6y ago
His comments about the company's value were about the fundamentals and, to a very limited extent, about a possible short squeeze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alntJzg0Um4 And at most it seems he was giving his opini
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by perennate 6y ago
I have mainly used Namecheap and NewEgg, not AT&T. Many of these companies may not process Bitcoin transactions themselves, but instead rely on a third party like Coinbase/Bitpay who handle the BTC-to-fiat conversion, so in that ca
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by perennate 6y ago
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/who-accepts/ Prices are pegged to fiat but the merchants accept BTC directly.
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by perennate 6y ago
That is not at all my understanding of what the draft rehabilitation plan says. There are fiat assets and fiat claims and other complicated factors. The payout would depend on the BTC/BCH-to-yen conversion rate at the time that the dis
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by perennate 6y ago
It is much more complicated than that because part of the BTC will be paid from yen fund and part from BTC fund. And there are both fiat claims and cryptocurrency claims. The draft document has been made available to creditors but it says n
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by perennate 6y ago
Of course everyone would want the greater of the two. But the claims need to be balanced because some users held cryptocurrency assets while others held dollar assets, and there aren't sufficient assets to return either one. The rehabi
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by perennate 6y ago
The absurd hypothetical that CoinLab could have been Coinbase in some strange parallel universe should not take priority in the bankruptcy/insolvency proceedings over the claims of Mt. Gox users who held actual dollar/cryptocurren
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by perennate 6y ago
CoinLab's lawsuit is a big part of the reason why creditors with actual legitimate claims still haven't received their share of the remaining assets. Somehow CoinLab thinks their claim, which hinges on vague and unrealistic what-i
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by perennate 6y ago
From the affidavit: https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2021/01/Gang-Chen-D... > In one communication, CHEN instructed the colleague to remove any information identifying him (CHEN) as a PRC Talent Pl
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by perennate 6y ago
From the affidavit: https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2021/01/Gang-Chen-D... > In one communication, CHEN instructed the colleague to remove any information identifying him (CHEN) as a PRC Talent Pl
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by perennate 6y ago
The translated tweet matches the impression I got from the article. The article didn't make me think that it is specifically a "listening service". > "People rent him for various reasons. At times he will participate

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