Steko

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by Steko 10y ago
The HN retitling of articles is really starting to jump the shark.
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by Steko 10y ago
He's specifically talking about pundit hot takes though. Would you take that bet?
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by Steko 10y ago
The thin phone with special finish that "needs" a case is still thinner than thicker phone with finish that needs case just as much (or little) . Thickness is a red herring here.
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by Steko 10y ago
I think it's a bit of magical thinking to assume there's some other possible world where good causes don't also have bad actors and people overreaching. It's universal.
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by Steko 10y ago
Another possible corollary: any page 1 article with a question in the title will have a comment referencing Betteridge's law. This comment will either be the second most upvoted or the most downvoted comment.
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by Steko 10y ago
That nutjob has been trying to peddle his Nanking Massacre denial bullshit on Wikipedia for years.
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by Steko 10y ago
My company did the same thing recently, the general consensus seems to be that it was entirely security driven. Old internet is locked down to a bunch of whitelisted sites (before this it used a blacklisted gaming/nsfw sites) and they
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by Steko 10y ago
> I just don't see how an operation like Oscar fits into the US healthcare landscape. > There's no way out of this problem except The fact that operations like Oscar currently don't fit well is not very high on the list
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by Steko 10y ago
Again it's not a very useful to compare a (not purely athletic) competition in it's infancy a century ago with a sprint which people have been doing for thousands of years. And again the analogy is poor because modern bodybuilders
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by Steko 10y ago
> see what bodybuilders look like today That's quite a bit more than training, nutrition and knowledge of physiology. > Those guys from the beginning of the century look like (or even worse than) your dedicated amateur gym goer t
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by Steko 10y ago
Profits is the money left over after expenses. This is not what salary represents to the average worker. Edit: not a 3 year number
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by Steko 10y ago
Salary is analogous to revenue not profits.
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by Steko 10y ago
> Please don't reference Mother Jones. It's incredibly biased. What specifically do you disagree with in the linked timeline? > mental health, is complicated and there isn't one reason or person for the way things are..
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by Steko 10y ago
I read the order before I made my comment, thanks. The order makes clear note of why these mentions were prejudicial in this case. > Apple consented to the consolidation IANAL but seems like you don't understand the difference betw
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by Steko 10y ago
Executions also have symbolic value and all sorts of people have been buried with metal who were not human sacrifices. > Prisoners are just worthless people that you want to get rid of. That's not always true. Sometimes prisoners ar
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by Steko 10y ago
> capricious... I don't see any justification for this. > The judge presided over a trial during which a previous trial (that was OK to mention) was mentioned too many times? Maybe he should have just stopped that while he was pr
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by Steko 10y ago
> "Other Bets" includes Nest, Google Fiber, Google Ventures, and Verily among others(2) The fact that most of those things aren't huge money losers undercuts your argument though. Nest is making money. Google Ventures is
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by Steko 10y ago
> Samsung Edge by itself is out selling Applier iphone ... does better than Apple Cmon, that's highly misleading when one model is six months older than the other. Samsung flagships are blown out of the water in any sort of 12 month
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by Steko 10y ago
> Honestly, if you handle your own financing so that doesn't get mixed into the deal, have a hard and fast value in mind for a potential trade-in, and go to a no-haggle dealer, You just described less than 1% of car transactions.
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by Steko 10y ago
Apple could sell a lot simply by offering a superior car buying experience. While others have tried/done this, the median car buying experience is still as garbage as it's ever been.
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by Steko 10y ago
Not the first Angry Birds, that was a snowball hit not a first week blowout. Minecraft is paid. I would guess FB Messenger or maybe Google Maps. Or something from China, seems like when QQ releases a core app there's millions who just
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by Steko 10y ago
I use DDG as my default at home, Google at work and Bing on my phone. My main complaint is the inability to restrict searches by date from their mobile version. As others mention the name is just godawful. Chanandlerbong.com would be an imp
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by Steko 10y ago
Curiously the description of the West cheering on the non-democratic results reminded me of Shah-era Iran, that turned out swimmingly.
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by Steko 10y ago
> Royce was juiced to the gills Haha. I'm not sure when Royce started using and he may have been on it from the start but 'juiced to the gills' is a joke of a description when he was regularly facing much larger opponents.
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by Steko 10y ago
Those poor Caucasian engineers, when will they ever break free from the chains of their imaginary PC shackles?
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by Steko 10y ago
> So the reality is that even if you're a semi-famous developer who has a practically guaranteed revenue and media coverage from your fans, it still isn't enough. You need to make a game that competes on quality Yes > with t
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by Steko 10y ago
Sort of. I wouldn't say the quality went down so much as what would was a great game in 1983 turned out to be meh in 2013. Also the level of polish in Txk (the "1000 x revenue" PS Vita game) vs any of the iOS releases is pret
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by Steko 10y ago
> If Jeff Minter can't make the App Store work then no-one can. As a counterpoint I grew up on no small amount of Jeff Minter games, lost more hours to Tempest 2000 on the godawful Jaguar than one should admit to in polite company,
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by Steko 10y ago
China has different IP regimes at the city level. Haha. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/china-has-whol... Yet another cell phone patent dispute. Except for one thing: "Beijing" is no
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by Steko 10y ago
Space Data's invention looks more novel to me from what was done with balloons in the 50's than Edison's light bulb from Swan's and others, YMMV.

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