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by Steko 10y ago
> are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality ... magnetic ... sphere-shaped camera add-on that shoots high resolution 360 degree photographs Mildly
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by Steko 10y ago
> He is an inspirational leader and talented people want to work with him. This is a convenient narrative when Tesla makes a high profile hire but they've also lost a lot of talented engineers and I don't remember the conventio
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by Steko 10y ago
My first month with the 4S was painful due to the sharp edges digging into my palm (insert relevant Tufte quote). I dislike the machined holes on the bottom of my 6 for similar reasons, good riddance headphone jack.
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by Steko 10y ago
> given how a large segment of consumers (although clearly not all) are interested in piece-meal upgrades to everything else in their lives - computers, stereos, cars, Two things: first I'd question how popular modularity really is
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by Steko 10y ago
Because the space needed for modularity forces a compromise in either battery life, bulk/weight and/or performance which are all more important to the average consumer. edit: also reliability
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by Steko 10y ago
> do his skills translate to the visionary tasks expected of the CEO So this is a real question, why does the CEO have to be the visionary? Why can't the product visionary role be supplied by Ive? According to Jobs himself, he &#x2
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by Steko 10y ago
Relevant Ask Historians books sidebar here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/europe#wik...
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by Steko 10y ago
> I just can't fathom an angle where this works out to their advantage Trump appoints Travis Kalanick Grand Moff of Western US Kidding! It will be Peter Thiel of course. Also always amusing when I see articles like this artificial
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by Steko 10y ago
> By the time they realized they'd either have to change or go out of business Sugar production in Hawaii peaked 40 years ago but even then had already been in decline for decades, there were no surprises for any of these companies
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by Steko 10y ago
I don't doubt the study that much but I think the point everyone misses in their contrarian zeal to say 'Strads are nothing special' is that there has been enormous progress in instrument construction in the last 30 years and
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by Steko 10y ago
It's not all that misleading when they actually take the time to make the same point and the article does this in at least three places.
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by Steko 10y ago
The idea is that they were "settled" in a sense, they just didn't have agriculture (maybe). Improving technology (e.g. archery, fishing) could have (albeit temporarily) given hunter-gatherers an overabundance of food which cr
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by Steko 10y ago
People don't favor gun control because they're eternal optimists about the government's benevolence, that is a ridiculous straw man. Generally people favor gun control because -- to use the same language -- they are not eter
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by Steko 10y ago
I don't think that example counts against anyone. My reading is that only KY -> MA -> NY counts against MA instead of KY. "People who grew up in one state, went to college in another and then moved somewhere else are count
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by Steko 10y ago
> it would be very unlikely for let's say a student who grew up in Georgia and studied at University of Michigan to stay in Michigan after graduation. I would say it's not all that unlikely. There's professional and person
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by Steko 10y ago
Yes, you have to draw on some common knowledge outside information to know that the size of the effect is not large. Footnotes aren't there to handhold us all the way from set theory axioms to sociological conclusions. There are a host
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by Steko 10y ago
Not sure why you would expect it to. The footnote clarifies how they classified people in one case that could have been counted in different ways.
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by Steko 10y ago
> The methodology makes the whole study suspect. No it doesn't, it's a footnote that affects a few states significantly but has little impact on the bigger conclusion about inland states losing out to coastal areas.
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by Steko 10y ago
> First, there can be a commercial consumer group that finds error, the buys nearly wothless claims from lots of consumers and goes after the seller with those. This will pretty quickly have the effect that the seller has much more insen
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by Steko 10y ago
> Time Capsule is now $399 Yeah maybe add $x00 to my examples above. > "Apple began shutting down the wireless router team over the past year, dispersing engineers to other product development groups" It specifically says th
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by Steko 10y ago
For all we know Apple is just canning Airport and launching a new product that replaces it and does other things. It seems kind of silly for Apple to sell a handful of separate products --each replaceable by outside companies' offering
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by Steko 10y ago
Some products are limited in when they can successfully be launched by the technology available. Google Glass launched in 2013 and was crippled by, among other things, horrid battery life. It ran a full phone/tablet SOC on a 45 nm proc
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by Steko 10y ago
> they're trying to make it _easier_ Not everywhere.
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by Steko 10y ago
I think the idea is to indicate these numbers have error bands: The estimates below include an estimate of uncertainty. We expect the uncertainty around these estimates to narrow, especially after races are called. I don't see any re
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by Steko 10y ago
What % of laptops in Japan do you think developers buy?
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by Steko 10y ago
> without ever touching the arbitration issue It's a strange world where Air B&B can use arbitration to shield themselves and then when this tactic is pointed out people say "no you can't talk about that, it muddies th
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by Steko 10y ago
Play the HN Steve Jobs drinking game: Take a drink if comment claims Tim Cook is no Jobs/visionary. Take a drink if comment mentions going nuclear on Google. Take a drink if comment mentions his cancer would have been fine if he didn&#
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by Steko 10y ago
> they should release a cheap phone that could be easily bought worldwide That's just a war in the mobile device space. If they really wanted a "holy war" they'd have started a Search Engine and massively discount the
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by Steko 10y ago
The designers didn't design one set of headphones and say "we're done, sell it Phil". They designed a bunch of models and then they iterated on the best received of those until they had something better than the competit
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by Steko 10y ago
I'm not saying you can't do fantastic things with a mediocre processor. I'm saying there are fantastic things you can't do with a mediocre processor and people appreciate those whether they connect the experiences to the

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