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by Steko 9y ago
> cubes have 8 corners, but I am having trouble visualizing them coming out of the six faces like your describing Yeah that was some bad extrapolating. Uncle Google gave me a helpful picture [1] but I'll try and work through the mat
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by Steko 9y ago
Prohibition isn't perfect but it certainly can work and one glance at drug use rates in Sweden and Singapore will tell you that.
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by Steko 9y ago
> 2 cubes you can hit 8 by having the inter cube rotated so it's producing an edge from each of the 6 faces each just C2, then 2 volumes one from C1 and 1 from C1 & C2. Seems like you should be able to get at least 11 with 2 cub
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by Steko 9y ago
> What makes that a problem is prohibition. No what makes it a problem is the debilitating addiction. It doesn't matter if you buy heroin from a dealer or from Walgreens, it's probably going to ruin your life.
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by Steko 9y ago
Nope, tech columnists pre-Mossberg were largely targeted at enthusiasts, he basically invented the everyman tech columnist gig. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/12/mossberg-cjr
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by Steko 9y ago
> No one cares about CPU performance. Huh, everyone cares how fast they browse the web. 835 trounces the 625 in JS/web benchmarks by a factor of 2-3 or more: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph11201/S
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by Steko 9y ago
Perhaps, maybe his tune changes according to which side is paying him. Most of the quotes above are not reliant on his analysis though and the relevance of today's decision to Qualcomm's practices seems pretty clear.
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by Steko 9y ago
Florian Mueller (yes, [1]) says this is very bad news for Qualcomm. He quotes Roberts' decision: "The problem with the Federal Circuit's logic is that the exhaustion doctrine is not a presumption about the authority that com
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by Steko 9y ago
No Qualcomm's licenses are with Foxconn et al. Apple has been negotiating for a direct license but they haven't reached any agreement: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-lawsuit-qualcomm-idU... Qualcomm
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by Steko 9y ago
I wonder if this will affect the various Qualcomm suits. Qualcomm tries to collect patent royalties from (say) Foxconn based on the sale price between (say) Apple and the carrier/consumer. Edit: moved long commentary from FOSS blog to
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by Steko 9y ago
The At a Distance blog has extensively covered Apple Maps' deficiencies (and progress) in Japan where Yahoo maps is the best option. https://atadistance.net
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by Steko 9y ago
Walmart and Amazon make lots of money too, let's make it so they can't mark stuff up more than 1-3%.
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by Steko 9y ago
> why wouldn't Levandowski now walk into the justice department Has Trump not gotten around to firing the US attorneys who were investigating his boy Travis?
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by Steko 9y ago
Swap bishop and knight starting is a common displacement chess variant.
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by Steko 9y ago
I think the minutiae of which apple cultivars we should buy is a not so delicious red herring from a more important truth: the worst Asian pear I've ever had is far and away better than the best apple I've ever had. My wife swears
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by Steko 9y ago
The Atlantic is a 160 year old magazine that leans a lot more to the center than to the left.
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by Steko 9y ago
> It seems far simpler an explanation that the dinosaur was buried by a massive flood When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like it was caused by a giant flood.
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by Steko 9y ago
The Comey announcement was certainly one of the decisive factors in the election but it's generally seen as ineptness rather than an attempt to swing the election to Trump.
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by Steko 9y ago
Oblique Kushner reference?
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by Steko 9y ago
> So far, past votes, the results are no. Technically the 2012 vote was 'yes' but all of the votes so far have been framed poorly. And that includes the upcoming one, which is likely going to make it a waste of time; Puerto Ric
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by Steko 9y ago
Context is important because the number of true facts we can spout about the economy of Kansas is legion and its highly likely a propaganda shop has cherry picked the ones they deliver. Sadly, OPs linked claims don't tell us anything a
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by Steko 9y ago
I see more watches but still question whether it's 'really caught on'. I don't have a fashion objection but for me the basic functionality of waiting for the face to light up is close to a dealbreaker and the convenienc
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by Steko 9y ago
AAPL just fell to where it was early yesterday. People bought it hoping for blowout numbers and stock going crazy and then sell off when it doesn't happen.
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by Steko 9y ago
> Windows and Mac computers will never be that easy to setup, use or maintain. While half true, I think Microsoft could ship that if they wanted to. Moreover, only listing the things Chromebooks are great at is also missing the point: t
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by Steko 9y ago
Overpaying for content is such a huge part of the problem and I'm surprised there are so few comments here that even mention it. This 2 year old graphic[1] from the last set of layoffs is telling: http://static4.businessinsi
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by Steko 9y ago
> I liken the use of chilli in cuisine to gratuitous violence in movies : a lazy fix for bland meals that otherwise wouldn't stand on their own feet. A smokescreen of burnt tastebuds to hide behind. A pain that I'm aware (but c
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by Steko 9y ago
Competency isn't just aptitude though, today's programmers have massive training advantages. I mean you could make the same argument about (say) football players but NFL champions from the 20's would struggle to keep up with
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by Steko 9y ago
If you're going to object to their science, let's hear the actual objections and not just handwavey notions that somehow the science is bad because you don't favor the conclusions.
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by Steko 9y ago
> why can't China and the US join forces and militarily overrun DPRK? All sibling comments talking about things like buffer states are missing the forest for the trees. You don't invade North Korea mostly because they have nucl
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by Steko 9y ago
> to accomplish a task People are outraged because it doesn't actually accomplish any task. A number of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ comments seem to miss that this doesn't actually make juice. You're paying for them to hide 8 oz of ju

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