Steko

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by Steko 11y ago
I'll bite, why do we need to know Apple's trade secrets when we can arrive at grandparent's conclusion by glancing at GPU benchmarks? http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9820/79253.png http:&#x
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by Steko 11y ago
Thanks!
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by Steko 11y ago
I'm not contesting that SC makes millions every day from in-app purchases, just pointing out that the money is presumably split with Apple and Google not Facebook. Although you can login to Clash of Clans with your Facebook account, it
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by Steko 11y ago
How does SuperCell earn money on FB's platform? Afaik all of their games are iOS and Android only and I've never seen a display ad of any kind in Boom Beach (the only SC game I've played) although admittedly I don't sign
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by Steko 11y ago
The idea that Sweden flipped some magic growth switch with their early 90's reforms is frankly rubbish: http://norden.statbank.dk/statbank5a/temp/gr28012016_1_dscha...
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by Steko 11y ago
Oops most of the contracts for components are apparently enumerated in dollars.
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by Steko 11y ago
Weakness of the Yuan affects the revenue number by the size of the China market but shouldn't by itself impact the raw number of phones sold (Apple pays for the phones parts and labor mostly with Yuan).
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by Steko 11y ago
It's hard to draw strong conclusions here because China's launch was bumped up 2 weeks from 2014 which put them into the September quarter (+22% growth). Granted that's only a week of prior quarter but they sold 13 million ph
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by Steko 11y ago
Big news is Apple finally feeling effects of weakness in China and the collapse of demand in oil dependent places like Canada.
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by Steko 11y ago
Just as relevant is the vesting clause that begins Article II: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America This executive power is the vehicle by which various acts of legislation which "provide
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by Steko 11y ago
> What I could gather from that was there were far more castles in Europe than China. Also Europe has too little plains to be able to support a mongol army very long. They each had something like 5 horses. There isn't enough grass
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by Steko 11y ago
According to ars technica he's a 30 year vet of the sheriff's department. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/yet-another-bill-...
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by Steko 11y ago
Assemblyman Jim Cooper represents Elk Grove a city of ~160K just South of Sacramento. Apple is the second largest employer in Elk Grove [1] and currently expanding their footprint there by several thousand jobs [2]. Hopefully there's a
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by Steko 11y ago
They came from the south. They moved north because it got crowded and no one was living there so game was relatively abundant.
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by Steko 11y ago
I'm waiting for the headline: Amnesty International uses Machines Made with Cobalt Mined by Children
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by Steko 11y ago
Thanks for the reply and very informative link, I hadn't considered that the Edwin corporation marketing department might just be full of crap!
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by Steko 11y ago
I found this narrative about how pivotal this one moment in the 60's and the centrality of preppy fashion to be more than a little forced. And some parts bordered on misleading like: > The Japanese helped fetishize vintage Levi’s i
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by Steko 11y ago
Likely works for hire so I guess that's 95 years. I assume for a lot of companies they go thru some liquidation and hopefully aren't just wasted.
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by Steko 11y ago
I've always wondered what happens to all the art assets; you'd think there would be just tons of 3d models from defunct games that could all go to some open repository.
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Raymond Chandler Invented Google(chrisroutledge.co.uk)
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by Steko 11y ago
3 comments at the moment all questioning the need for this but the article makes a fairly convincing case that existing less than lethal tech has enormous gaps. This doesn't seem like the holy grail that will make US police stop relyin
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by Steko 11y ago
> universal for all people I don't think this definition fits extended family cultures like you'd see in other parts of the world very well.
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by Steko 11y ago
I don't know if this problem still exists but at some point in the not too distant past not every title available on desktop was available if you signed up on say Apple TV. If anyone has the numbers I'd be curious how much of the
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by Steko 11y ago
Or because (1) the mechanisms for enforcement are weak at the state level, (2) because you're not controlling for other factors that increase crime and (3) the fact that massive gun violence has a direct causal link to more gun laws, y
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by Steko 11y ago
> the Japan fetish in this article is way too strong Seems like a common thread from the author, see yesterday's submission re: Ikiru . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839344 But his pseudo-nihonjinron* is n
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by Steko 11y ago
> known for it's xenophobia Broad brushes like these are usually dangerous to paint with. Japan has it's xenophobic streaks but is also one of the most cosmopolitan cultures around. For similar reasons, lines like the following
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by Steko 11y ago
Talk about crazy coincidences the expert was killed when a truck pulled in front of his motorcycle. http://www.trailofheroes.com/map/weinberg/
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by Steko 11y ago
I think you've misidentified the accents. In the real video the lawyer (whose firm is from Kansas fwiw) definitely has a weaker accent than the expert (who works in Missouri apparently fwiw). In all likelihood they tried to cast people
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by Steko 11y ago
You are correct and thanks for the correction, wow do I feel dumb for missing that. Maybe I can save a small scrap of face in that at least occasionally this problem contains no such clause, e.g. the xkcd version although I should read that
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by Steko 11y ago
Maybe iPhone growth stalls this year sure but I wouldn't bet a single dollar based just on "supply chain reports" which have turned out to be nothingburgers as often as not. My own prediction for Apple in 2016 is that the iPa

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