Steko

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by Steko 5y ago
How exactly did they screw him? Yang was always a longshot in a super-crowded field. And 2020 wasn't the greatest cycle to swoop in as an outsider/business person with no political experience.
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by Steko 5y ago
I’m aware of that and don’t see how it changes what I wrote at all.
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by Steko 5y ago
It’s pretty easy to verify that apple paid the credit card feeds from their cut, brief googling reveals many articles like this one: https://nypost.com/2004/05/07/apple-tunes-up-price-of-hits-m...
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by Steko 5y ago
The next step is Apple completely disabling IAP in Korea with a message that pops up telling the user which law is responsible.
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by Steko 5y ago
Iirc Apple ate the credit card fees on their cut which meant they earned a few pennies if you only bought one somg at a time.
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by Steko 5y ago
> If a person decides to give up control of their device to another person or organization (like the device manufacturer Exactly but what you’re missing is that with iOS this decision is made when you buy the phone.
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by Steko 5y ago
Maybe go with mu instead.
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by Steko 5y ago
Hard to sympathize with that troll when he is doing the same thing repeatedly: https://itsstillonlythursday.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/scr... https://itsstillonlythursday.files.wordpress.com/2021&
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by Steko 5y ago
So the guy who had six figures lying around to pay off a twitter lawsuit doesn't have money?
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by Steko 5y ago
> but I assume it's nothing over-the-top or they would have brought it to light to support their case Or maybe they assume that repeating the "false and defamatory allegations" wouldn't be a good idea?
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by Steko 5y ago
Apple should make a (non-glasses at first) body cam wearable that is used for life streaming and personal security.
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by Steko 5y ago
Then it gets taken over by spammers.
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by Steko 5y ago
> where all speech except that which is literally illegal is allowed... No ads .. allowed. Another free speech utopia imploded within two sentences.
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by Steko 5y ago
This news isn’t even based on the census. CA grew from 2010-2020 under the census. This number is from the CA dept of finance and is for just 2020.
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by Steko 5y ago
Because it's not really the same path.
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by Steko 5y ago
"In fact, the FBI said it found nothing incriminating in the computer simulations, and certainly nothing that came close to the erratic course that the flight first followed." That seems pretty persuasive. The Atlantic article gue
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by Steko 5y ago
I didn't find it compelling at all. It mostly just makes a lot of assumptions and piles them all onto a suicide pilot theory that can be used to explain any action needed and has become unfalsifiable without recovering the wreckage. He
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by Steko 6y ago
So where’s the outrage? Did people believe her? It doesn’t seem like it. Is this new? Didn’t OJ get off partly by painting the police as racist (accurately or not)? But still didn’t work with the public that believes he’s guilty? Isn’t ther
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by Steko 6y ago
The least bad system is far more transparent.
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by Steko 6y ago
Optimal boarding in 2020's seems like you use an app and based on a party's seating location, need for overhead bin, presence at the gate/readiness to board the AI buzzes certain groups into a higher priority lane.
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by Steko 6y ago
Standing up for a bit before an hour or 10 in a cramped airline seat isn't so bad imho.
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by Steko 6y ago
No doubt these administrators put very low value on pure math but they also know the uproar might/will reduce some of the budget cuts they're dealing with.
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by Steko 6y ago
> his sentence is under seal, as are the offences under which he is convicted.
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by Steko 6y ago
Apple probably audits their suppliers and contractors better than almost all of their peers but they are also culpable here for creating the ingredients for workers to be treated like shit by their pseudo-contractors. This isn't some w
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by Steko 6y ago
Obviously they don't have the volume but their average quality is probably as good as any streaming service. Over 16 non-film/doc/kids series the mean tomatometer/metascores is a pretty solid 74/64 and there's
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by Steko 6y ago
You can avoid 99% of cheaters by not logging in on lichess but you're at the mercy of much less appropriate matchmaking. You can also play at faster or less unusual time controls.
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by Steko 6y ago
The Mac Mini supports two monitors one 6K and one 4K. https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/
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by Steko 6y ago
Flag abuse and the lack of transparency about it by moderators is one of the worst features of HN.
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by Steko 6y ago
Apple has notably compromised with Netflix and a few others. Epic may well have expected to lose, but they may well have thought that (1) they were big enough - search suggests Fortnite iOS revenue was slightly bigger than Netflix — and, (2
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by Steko 6y ago
There is something mesmerizing about an evil genius at the height of their craft, and Eric Lander is an evil genius at the height of his craft. Lander’s recent essay in Cell entitled “The Heroes of CRISPR” is his masterwork, at once so e

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