Steko

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by Steko 11y ago
Hawaiians are some of the least racist and xenophobic people in the US, your bile says a lot more about you than it does about them.
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by Steko 11y ago
What can Apple do different than big incumbents? How about all the stuff HN goes gaga over when Tesla does it? I think you're selling design as a difference short, for Apple design is holistic and affects the entire product experience
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by Steko 11y ago
My favorite Bill Murray story is the time he was filming something and some fans asked for an autograph and instead Bill filmed a Wes Anderson style slo-mo walk with them. http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2012/05/25&#x2
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by Steko 11y ago
it would have ended 2 months ago.
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by Steko 11y ago
Used to love yelp but not letting me use the site on mobile browser is an absolute deal-killer. Apple should disapprove any app where the websites functionality is intentionally broken on iOS in order to force users into the app.
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by Steko 11y ago
The rise of ISIS is pretty simple, the power vacuum created by the destruction of the Ba'athist Iraqi state and the subsequent withdrawal of US troops was filled in Shi'a areas by Shiite militias and (largely Shiite) Iraqi governm
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by Steko 11y ago
For the current NFL promotion they have game pieces on the medium drink, large fries and big mac (and some other sandwiches/main items but not all of them). So if you order the big mac meal with an upgraded fries but regular drink you
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by Steko 11y ago
Can't seem to find a photo of one, too bad.
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by Steko 11y ago
Two bridges and as pedestrian bridges go, I wouldn't describe that design as small.
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by Steko 11y ago
This whole tangent is because 'comically bald faced lie' is a comically bald faced worse way of describing the situation with words than how the article itself described it -- 'entirely false' -- despite Adam comment&#x2
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by Steko 11y ago
Don't miss status report on 22 May 1992.
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by Steko 11y ago
See also news this morning that y-mail is blocking users who are running ad-blockers; I'd bet their confidentiality terms are headed for a revision too as the user info fire sale gets underway.
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by Steko 11y ago
Context: cluster of suicides in Palo Alto schools Recent article in the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sili... An article from Vice in September: http://www.
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by Steko 11y ago
Sounded like all of your friends didn't get it and I don't get it either, enlighten me!
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by Steko 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9263107
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by Steko 11y ago
> This doesn't seem to be a winning strategy with Apple I'll go one further, it ( being polite as possible ) is not even what happened. They weren't polite at all, they took a dump in the pool: also because we were asking
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by Steko 11y ago
> I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome I think Apple offers a deal that has it's good and bad points and you are free to buy from many competitors. And yet, dozens of times per yea
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by Steko 11y ago
No, you misremembered it. Apple set up a meeting with Panic (makers of Audion) but they had to cancel because they were trying to get bought out by Aol. Apple ended up buying competitor SoundJam to use as the basis of iTunes and then still
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by Steko 11y ago
Oh thanks for the info, I had no idea. Too absorbed in the Hearthstone coverage I guess.
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by Steko 11y ago
My main point here was the tone of Friesendorf's article and his ridiculous glorifying of Erika Christakis' email which starts off 'I don't wish to trivialize' and then proceeeds to (foreshadowing) actually triviali
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by Steko 11y ago
No surprise that literally the worst article on the Yale race issue would be the one that shoots up HN. > Erika Christakis' ... message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement. That is a parody of bullshit. She refers
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by Steko 11y ago
SC2 needs a game mode where one player is run by 2 casuals.
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by Steko 11y ago
To take your example one step further, the redhead performance would be held up under pg's rubric as evidence that non-redheads are biased against and so redheads may fall into a vicious circle of deepening discrimination.
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by Steko 11y ago
> The idea is generally correct - bias in a decision process will be visible in post-decision distributions I find what's wrong with the idea more fundamental, that it talks only about the 'selection process' but in fact b
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by Steko 11y ago
A very interesting article along the same lines: http://thislandpress.com/2014/08/26/among-the-tribe-of-the-w...
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by Steko 11y ago
I'd be happy if I could shut off the reminder to upgrade Sync that pops up every day.
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by Steko 11y ago
Apparently it's 'money flooding out of country x' week at Bloomberg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498040
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by Steko 11y ago
Turns out sometimes equivalence is false.
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by Steko 11y ago
> Can't understand how they can get away with it. The fact that you call the OMGPOP game 'Tetris' explains how they got away with it I think =)
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by Steko 11y ago
> I'm not sure this same group (which certainly includes my parents) will ever be cognizant of that irony. Sadly you may be right, Exhibit A being the reelection of Sam Brownback, destroyer of worlds. The plutocrats behind the GOP c

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