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by Steko 10y ago
Appears to have started with 21 videos and then YT reexamined them and cleared 6 and kept 15 restricted so maybe more than just the algorithm.
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by Steko 10y ago
> - Bezel size > - Weight > - Thickness > - Fastest possible processor I'm calling shenanigans on these. Lots of people talk about not caring about these things but in my experience absolutely everyone appreciates larger sc
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by Steko 10y ago
> Because Hitler was a successful, ambitious and quite influential politician who fought against the hardships in his life. Sorry that's not a 'first order approximation of similarity to Hitler' any more than 'adult m
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by Steko 10y ago
Got a mysterious call saying an agent (presumably he knew it was an FBI agent) would be coming to deliver a letter. Agent arrived handed him the letter. He read it asked if he couldn't even talk about it with his business associates an
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by Steko 10y ago
Nicholas Merrill describes how his NSL arrived here around 1:20 in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU2wAu4qE60
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by Steko 10y ago
Can't recommend this enough, it's probably my favorite single piece of fiction.
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by Steko 10y ago
> Loiter" implies the loiterer is violating some rights the accuser imagines himself to have That's not what my dictionary says. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around. Used
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by Steko 10y ago
This photo from Bloomberg photographer David Paul Morris has been used in several dozen stories about Theranos over the last 11 plus months. Sometimes HN tries to be too clever and I don't mean to direct that at you but basically every
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by Steko 10y ago
What I've done: 3-4 years ago I helped a relative get started by paying for her Apple's Developer Program Membership using my credit card. I also handded her test hardware that I no longer needed. From then on those accounts were
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by Steko 10y ago
I seem to remember him slamming Apple Music for weeks on end. Is that how paid shills behave nowadays?
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by Steko 10y ago
I've always wondered what it is that Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug (also formerly Anandtech) and (now) Chris Ziegler (formerly The Verge) do at Apple (or did if they've moved on). At first I thought they might be involved in PR a
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by Steko 10y ago
> GN 7 battery also looks smaller than the iPhone 7 Plus battery Could be, it definitely looks smaller in two dimensions. But it also looks thicker -- the i7 teardown doesn't show the thickness as clearly but it doesn't appear
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by Steko 10y ago
> I don't see why this particular iteration should all the sudden have problems with that. Well there's larger and there's a lot larger. This particular iteration increased the gap substantially. 3500 mAh (GN7) >> 3
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by Steko 10y ago
This is the best writeup I've seen of how this happened: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-18/samsung-c... tldr plus my speculation: * Leaked iPhone 7 specs made Samsung shoot for the moon
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by Steko 10y ago
So carry an empty bottle/tumbler/thermos and fill it up at the water fountain?
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by Steko 10y ago
> Just now got this. I can try and slow him down if we think it will matter, or we just let him do what he keeps threatening to do and see if he does it That guy just made $10 million on that text. /r/Android also shows another
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by Steko 10y ago
People work and go into business and otherwise partner with people who can capriciously screw them over all the time, that's how businesses work. You can put a certain amount of things in contracts and internal procedures but ultim
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by Steko 10y ago
> Just look at Google maps. Thousand times better than the default Apple maps No it isn't, they are basically the same for 90% of users.
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by Steko 10y ago
The commercial writes itself. Apple should be in negotiations with the guy already.
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by Steko 10y ago
If it's industry standard response then it's a valid argument against the claim that this particular company's policy is somehow out of line with normal practices.
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by Steko 10y ago
Exercise left to readers making good faith arguments.
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by Steko 10y ago
Gross's fund at PIMCO had terrible years in 2011 and 2013 and his new fund at Janus is underperforming the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, so he needs both a scapegoat and a class of marks who will still buy in despite the performance.
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by Steko 10y ago
> WebOS was far ahead of its time I see this any time WebOS is mentioned but this makes WebOS sound a lot more innovative than it was. WebOS is widely lauded for two things: (1) the card application interface and (2) the accompanying phy
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by Steko 10y ago
As someone who hasn't been to New York in decades my main interaction with Penn Station has been the regular appearance of Amtrak's Kafkaesque Large Station Boarding Procedures as a whipping horse in Matt Yglesias blog posts [1, f
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by Steko 10y ago
> The Clovis, who are the early ancestors of today's Native Americans, Emphasis added. One badly chosen word in an otherwise decent article. What we know of pre-Clovis people clearly supports the idea of them also being 'earl
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by Steko 10y ago
I keep Gmail and a couple other permanent logins open in Chrome and do 99% of my other browsing in Firefox.
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by Steko 10y ago
The UK wasn't the greatest example either given the not so distant history of Northern Ireland.
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by Steko 10y ago
My comment acknowledged that other dual core chips exist, the question is whether phones used them. None are listed.
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by Steko 10y ago
Technically the Android phones using Big.Little are (correct me if I'm wrong) all octacore which is somewhat different than his claim (dual two core design; although there are/have been other chips with this).
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by Steko 10y ago
This is marked as a dupe but is clearly not. Of course flag abuse is nothing new on HN for Apple articles.

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