Steko

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by Steko 9y ago
Zoe Quinn's recent book also had a similar (and predictable) skew between verified purchasers and non-verified. There's probably an amusing 'ethics in Amazon reviewing' joke to be made there but I'll quit halfway.
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by Steko 9y ago
Most people work at companies with 401K plans and HR goes over the nuts and bolts of the plan early on when you first can enroll and they ask questions of their coworkers who have the same program.
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by Steko 9y ago
Should be done locally anyway, assistant should have some functionality (alarm, timer, calendar, etc.) when you're completely offline. Other comments indicate the assistant names are hard coded in ASICs but they certainly don't ha
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by Steko 9y ago
The underlying problem is not being able to rename assistants.
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by Steko 9y ago
> In an open letter expected to be published this afternoon, the groups describe the new standards as “opaque and arbitrary,” Funny, "opaque and arbitrary" is exactly how I'd describe the web of 3rd party tracking of consu
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by Steko 9y ago
Trying to shift the blame for disagreement to the people who are on the right side of the facts is mistaken. People are deluded on the facts because of a massive decades long propaganda effort. The left moving to the center hasn't brou
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by Steko 9y ago
> where is its Tesla or Pfizer or Intel or Fujitsu or This is the same argument people made about Japanese companies 40 years ago and then Korean companies 20 years ago. For the record: http://www.indexmundi.com/facts&#x
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by Steko 9y ago
> The fact that it's a juicer The biggest problem is Juicero isn't a juicer . Juicero's market was limited because the average customer doesn't want to pay a premium for juice press theater. Shoving juice into packs
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by Steko 9y ago
> It is a shame that Juicero could not develop a product That's where the period goes.
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I stand half corrected, they did encourage publishing along with DoJ and it was the papers which ultimately made the call.
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by Steko 9y ago
The profiling is interesting but in this case, the FBI was irrelevant to 'solving the case', Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law saw the manifesto in the NYT and turned him in.
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by Steko 9y ago
> Nobody is giving anyone money, Sure. > it's not a horrible deal. Less sure on this, I can see the argument that the sheer scale of the Foxconn credits could allow an end run around the normal plant operations and give them comp
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by Steko 9y ago
> Citation needed. Probably traces back to this which is just hospital costs but I think maybe even worse for smaller practices: A 1999 report found that after exclusions, administration accounted for 31.0% of healthcare expenditures in
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by Steko 9y ago
> pull it from future laptops. I expect the opposite. They will continue to iterate and fix the issues with the touchbar which many users already like and appreciate. The obvious change to make is the addition of haptic feedback.
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by Steko 9y ago
> a study published in Nature last year To be clear this refers to the fusion of the Laurentide (Canadian) and Cordilleran (Pacific NW) ice sheets but the caveats are this doesn't preclude travel into parts of Alaska and it's a
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by Steko 9y ago
Adaptation isn't a great issue imho, the main issue is whether the 20th century sci-fi trope of colonizing space is a good idea in the first place and I'm pretty skeptical it is. These threads always strike me as incredibly naive
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by Steko 9y ago
Fox News, Russia Today, et al also feature no small amount of real news that provides a strong foundation to build their whole propaganda operation on. The SEP/WSWS are frequently described as a cult-like organization within the left,
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by Steko 9y ago
One option for streaming services with thinner content libraries is just to subscribe for a month or two every so often and binge watch their limited good content. The first month is usually free. > do people really think "I'd
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by Steko 9y ago
Apologies, I didn't mean a headset with a screen, should have been clearer. I just meant you can get notifications thru the headphones.
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by Steko 9y ago
I'm not disputing the idea that Tim Cook has taken stances on certain issues including human rights. I'm disputing the idea that by complying with a Chinese law means he's "doing almost the same thing as what he's
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by Steko 9y ago
Apple's been 'aiding Chinese censorship' in hundreds of ways to the tune of billions of dollars for well over a decade and you were ok with it all until they took VPN's off the app store? Lol.
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by Steko 9y ago
> he does almost the same thing as what he is fighting against in US That's baloney, they are not remotely the same thing.
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by Steko 9y ago
May have done a poor job of communicating it above but I do think the watch is swell and useful and I'm big on wearables. But I also don't have a watch for reasons above and long term I'm even more skeptical of the form facto
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by Steko 9y ago
Wasn't one of the problems at Uber that HR was complicit in the toxic culture and would falsely (and I can only presume illegally) tell victims that it was the first complaint against someone they knew to be a repeat/serial harras
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by Steko 9y ago
I agree with all points except when you assume 'wearables' implies 'watches'. Similarly to payments, the health benefits can be delivered with a much smaller device. If health is the main benefit than that big gorgeous
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by Steko 9y ago
Mostly agree but I think smart ring + headset + big phone/small tablet is a better setup.
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The jobs the watch will do aren't as clear cut as it was for the iPod. The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more
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by Steko 9y ago
Luckily for Theranos there is already an decent sized market for pseudo-medicine based around samples so tiny they couldn't possibly work -- homeopathy.
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This is the point John Gruber made: To me, the more interesting question isn’t whether Apple should be selling its products in China, but rather whether Apple should continue to make the App Store the only way to install apps on iOS device
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> this guy's failure to deliver the Essential Phone in time Hasn't been a good month for Essential. The phone he promised in June didn't ship in July, lost VP's of marketing and communication and today Google hired aw

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