Steko

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by Steko 9y ago
Aside from the fact that I didn't claim it was a universal rule, are we drawing big conclusions from sample size n=1? How about looking at the amount of money developers made from app store vs google play by year? http://bg
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by Steko 9y ago
> What's is their cost? Cost isn't relevant, the commission is because Apple brings X hundred million credit cards to your door and presumably increases sales by at least that much. > Most developers don't make a profit
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by Steko 9y ago
In hindsight it's nice to think this but Apple would have been raked over the coals by the HN Walled Garden Liberation Brigade if they did that.
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by Steko 10y ago
It's an admonition that slowing down is ok i.e. 'you're going even faster than the (very fast) Prussian rifles'.
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by Steko 10y ago
This guy seems to have been an all around meathead. He had been in the long-time habit of physically attacking those he perceived to be "non serious" runners competing in the race, whether officially entered or running the course
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by Steko 10y ago
While accurate is seems disingenuous to lump $35 devices in with $150-$200 devices and then pretend total units shipped is the only thing that matters (as if Mercedes was a failure for selling fewer cars than Yugo in 1987). Apple could eas
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by Steko 10y ago
They said the same thing about elevators.
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by Steko 10y ago
They did use some different words, "perhaps first made by accident."
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by Steko 10y ago
> People often want rather simple improvements like card readers more USB ports, easier change of batteries ... People want all sorts of conflicting things like a number of things on your list make the box bigger. Apple should absolutely
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by Steko 10y ago
These aren't just estimates, they are minimum bills that are purported to be based on "time and distance of the route"[1] and if they systematically and intentionally padding time and distance that sounds an awful lot like fr
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by Steko 10y ago
Except this isn't supposed to be investigating a leak, they're using a tool designed to ensure proper tax on imports.
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by Steko 10y ago
If they're using a fraudulent route as the basis for the price, that's like your contractor billing you for more manhours than it actually took.
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by Steko 10y ago
I'm merely pointing out that "just say no" isn't a real solution to the fact that a large swath of the population falls for propaganda cancer (which is hell of a lot bigger than which sites you go to on the internet).
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by Steko 10y ago
Just because you don't have cancer doesn't mean cancer isn't a problem.
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by Steko 10y ago
Beak and Brains: Genius Birds From Down Under on Netflix is a great feature on Keas if you haven't seen it.
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by Steko 10y ago
> Printing the paper saying we won't fill glasses used 48 times[1] more water than the water in the glass! One sheet of paper can be cut up and used for over a dozen small notes so maybe it cost them 4 glasses of water per table whi
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by Steko 10y ago
Molesting children is already illegal but it turns out not letting convicted child molesters run day care is also a good idea.
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by Steko 10y ago
How about a dystopian Law and Order where every week a new batch of innocent people are sent to prison based on dubious science and willful ignorance from police and prosecutors.
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by Steko 10y ago
If 47 states still wanted abortion to be illegal, they could certainly have made a constitutional amendment through their elected representatives in Congress and state legislatures. The fact is the restrictions were quickly eroding at the t
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by Steko 10y ago
No because I'm familiar with the definitions the BLS uses. There are plenty of technical definitions that contradict the laypersons gut understanding of something which is why they have published 6 (formerly 7) different measures of un
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by Steko 10y ago
> big deal is here One big deal is that google keeps this data and police/DAs have in the past used even flimsier evidence as part of cases that sent innocent people to prison. So another reason to use DDG.
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by Steko 10y ago
> we don't have a competitive market in smart phone software or hardware at all Wait what? The smartphone market has plenty of competition. If being user-repairable was an important feature to consumers there would be lots of phones
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by Steko 10y ago
> we should have the right to repair/hack our own devices No people should demand the devices they buy be repairable and if enough people care that's where the market would follow. When it comes to rights I think companies sho
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by Steko 10y ago
If only we could go back to the Eden of the past when every position was earned entirely on merit and no one ever benefited from social connections or say systematic discrimination against other groups.
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by Steko 10y ago
Russian forces have fired many guns in Ukraine, full stop. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a419b994ccf14a42977665a9af966...
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by Steko 10y ago
DDOS From IoT Cameras ... Hackernews is a very experienced IT professional and has predicted this. They hold up Google products as models to follow. It is not clear why. Hackernews believes Cloudflare will solve all their problems. Cloudf
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by Steko 10y ago
> Why would you write so many sentences to simply say that you couldn't finish a great novel? He used the sentences to explain why he found it not great. Not every great novel is great to all readers and I found his comments informa
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by Steko 10y ago
I'm not saying that's all they should do but, fundamentally, all the policies, training, press releases, investigations, CEO statements, etc. are secondary to the core test of whether bad behavior is encouraged, ignored, tolerated
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by Steko 10y ago
> What would an ideal way forward be for Uber? How about firing sexual harassers? And any HR staff that systematically lied to cover it up. And the people who gave them those orders. And not taking forever to do it.
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by Steko 10y ago
I'm talking about actual Japanese coverage[1] which includes stuff like "古代の日本が予想よりも国際色豊かだった可能性" ('It appears Ancient Japan was more international than expected') not strikingly that different from the Japan Times h

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