tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@mrundkvist
Almost entirely unrelated, a friend once saw an advertisement for a rental apartment in Germany that stated that the _floor_ was not included!
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Disney recreated Peter Cushing’s face in “Rogue One,” but is now facing a lawsuit that claims it didn’t have the proper permission.
Kevin Francis says Cushing signed a contract with him and his production company to protect his likeness after his death.
https://kotaku.com/star-wars-rogue-one-peter-cushing-disney-sued-1851645468
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I grew up a few km away from the border to France. My classroom was 100 meters away from the Rhine. I was in 9th grade when they opened the borders. I was in 12th grade when they introduced the Euro. Visiting other countries in the EU suddenly felt truly magical. "Fuck you" to all politicians in this country who are currently destroying this magical idea for pure populism, to appease some fascists. It's all about staying in power - as if that helped - and I couldn't despise them more for it.
@franco_vazza
But you nevertheless appreciate the luck, eh? ;)
More seriously, the day we can fairly and accurately rank all science proposals will come some time after society has developed to the point that all Italians agree on which is the single best pasta dish :p
@avehtari
did you mean to write k > S in toot #4?
@tslumley @peter_ellis @rstub
@grimalkina
Have you seen the video lectures? They are amazing!
@franco_vazza
Oh, and good luck with the dice!
@franco_vazza
Making some fraction of the money be awarded by lottery might be a pure upgrade of the system... just keep some quality gates. Probably also some limit on how many proposals you can submit, but the exact rules could be tricky if you want to balance out the chances of groups that are already rich.
@nf3xn
Since the rebate is part of Russian law, presumably the state pays some accountant to estimate the value and then halves that.
How good that initial estimated valuation is, is anyone's guess: valuation is always just black magic, see banks estimating it made sense backing the Twitter buyout.
@EugeneMcParland
@EugeneMcParland
I never understood why Ukraine saw it as better when western companies transferred wealth to Russia in the big lump sums provided by these very rebated sales, instead of following the previous strategy of trying to extract profits while minimising taxes paid.
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I handed in my older brother's handwritten GCSE coursework for Geography, pretending it was my own, despite him having the same teacher as me only 2 years before. I got a B and he got a C.
@philipncohen
Well, I understand the source of my confusion. But, alas!
Such enlightenment does not make me understand your intended meaning
Alla avgår i Ukraina
Makten i Ukraina är koncentrerad i presidentadministrationen. Zelenskyj vill se till att det förblir så.
@philipncohen
I am not sure I understand, the toot reads like you saying Vance is literally promoting your book, but then you reference a speech from 2021?
Now, I don't think you have been advertising a book coming out in 2025 four years in advance, so I must have misunderstood something...
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The DOJ will recommend remedies for addressing Google’s monopoly dominance of search in December.
Options vary from banning Google from paying Apple, Mozilla and others for search defaults to forcing the company to sell the Android operating system.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-search-monopoly-case-remedies-come-by-december-2024-09-06/
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Macron et Marine Le Pen auraient passé un accord secret pour la nomination de Barnier à Matignon, selon le JDD, évoquant plusieurs sources en Macronie et au RN. Ce deal aurait été mené par Thierry Solère, conseiller officieux du président et politicien le plus mis en examen en France à ce jour. Je mets un gros conditionnel sur ces informations car le journal de Bolloré a déjà propagé plusieurs fake news par le passé.
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Barnier donne sa première interview exclusive à la presse au JDD, devenu un journal d'extrême-droite depuis son rachat par Bolloré. https://www.lejdd.fr/politique/exclusif-les-premieres-confidences-de-michel-barnier-au-jdd-149225
#Politique #Barnier #Medias #Presse #ExtremeDroite #Bollore #Interview
@Denvitadrogen
Fy fan villa hemskheter människor kan skapa.
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Your Honor, the Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with
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@hellpie It’s more an issue of engineering teams being both conservative & dedicated, I suspect.
There are many ways a space mission can fail (& many have), so every piece of the team holds margins on their components, & the project manager holds additional mission-level margins.
But because they all want to do the best possible job & not be the cause of failure, they often all come in well inside those margins, making the mission far more performant than the conservative estimate.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
