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by Steko 11y ago
This is a laughable takeaway. These white rural voters haven't voted themselves any government benefits, they've voted to dismantle the welfare state, destroy collective bargaining, increase the middle class tax burden, drasticall
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by Steko 11y ago
Turns out that voting against your own economic interests for a few decades has consequences.
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by Steko 11y ago
Oh it is, but they sold half the company for $1.5 billion in 2013. Seems like a steal today, the other big mobile studios must be chomping at the bit seeing King go for $6 billion and knowing they are all that's left.
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by Steko 11y ago
I think revenue is up right alongside user friendliness. Exploitative f2p games fall by the wayside and the most successful formula seems to be: (1) make a game that's great even for people who spend nothing, (2) take advantage of netw
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by Steko 11y ago
> exact same as Zynga buying OMGPOP I realize analogies aren't meant to be perfect but when you stress the 'exact same'-ness I'll confess I find Activision is nothing like Zynga here. Zynga was already focused on soci
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by Steko 11y ago
Shame he didn't move a little faster, he could have had Supercell for half what he ended up paying for King.
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by Steko 11y ago
Central banking is the solution economies have come up with to the problem of the market shitting the bed every decade. It's outcompeted the alternatives basically everywhere and for good reason.
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by Steko 11y ago
So what's the main benefit of a live system like this? Wirelessly signal players to rebound or not? I guess we don't have to worry about that, it's not like one of the owners is developing this. > There are three names on
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by Steko 11y ago
Was half-expecting the story to say that the NSA just went to their tape database and re-listened to all phone calls made between Sanborn (sculptor) and Scheidt (CIA crypto resource).
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by Steko 11y ago
AFAIK AT&T always lets you buy International plan add ons back to beginning of the current bill cycle. Still a rip. T-Mobile has 'free international data' but it's 2G speeds (capped at 128 kbps) and the upsell is a rip,
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by Steko 11y ago
Situation Number Five - Love's Obstacles Subplot (f) - a union of lovers prevented by a lack of congeniality between them
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by Steko 11y ago
Not reflected in the graphic: French supply was heavily compromised due to the Peninsular War.
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by Steko 11y ago
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/fact-or-fear-conservative-attack...
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by Steko 11y ago
Nice try San Marino stealth marketing council.
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by Steko 11y ago
That's an incoherent argument when Air B&B has other ads touting their support of other government services. Splitting them up with arbitrary large amounts makes their contribution to the tax coffers seem larger than it is. If they
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by Steko 11y ago
Noticed while using Fandango's app that the user scores are basically worthless shill scores often around 1.5 stars higher than they should be. They do give the metacritic rating if you click through or for coming soon though.
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by Steko 11y ago
> it's trusting those who've proven themselves trustworthy. Tesla has a long history of exaggeration and broken promises and describing them as having a 'perfect record of being honest-to-God' borders on the farcial.
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by Steko 11y ago
> I guess I trust Tesla on this one so far - Tesla is a party to the incident and has a reason to spin it as far in their favor as possible. Their account also completely omits any mention of the window of the jeep being broken with a ro
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by Steko 11y ago
I think Tesla's entire account sounded like the truth washed with as much bias and bullshit as their legal department could get away with. I'm not trying to excuse the actions of the RGJ employees here, they should be prosecuted a
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by Steko 11y ago
Uber pretty clearly has two main innovations: (1) the efficiency of the app/gps combo vs traditional cab dispatch. This seems fairly easy to copy by incumbents and new entrants and in fact being a private company operating your own net
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by Steko 11y ago
> they got lots of these things wrong > 1. It was filed in 1996, not 1998. Ok they used 'filed' when they should have used 'issued' or 'granted'. That's technically incorrect although unlikely to ma
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by Steko 11y ago
> Can someone explain to me why anyone parks even a single penny with this firm ? It was spelled out clearly in the article. More generally, not everyone suffers from GDS.
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by Steko 11y ago
Important to remember both that the same word can mean different things in a language and that multiple words can mean the same thing. What a baby tends to call his mother in a language might not be the stock dictionary translation. In Kor
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by Steko 11y ago
It really depends what you mean by 'traditionally'. My reading of [1] is that the 'ka' reading is one of many although it's become more prevelant in modern usage. [2] says that 'papa' was most common in Ol
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by Steko 11y ago
Japan is a linguistic minefield and defies generalization. In Ainu 'nanna' is mother and in Okinawan it's 'anma'. In Old Japanese there's 'haha' (and variants - 'papa' appears to have been p
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by Steko 11y ago
> And this desire won't go away. I don't think that's clear at all. I think the widespread view that society is going to keep looking more or less like the present but with self driving cars is complete folly. Technology i
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by Steko 11y ago
The Democrats have many people under 60, they just aren't running because of the perceived Clinton juggernaut.
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by Steko 11y ago
I think the whole colonization angle is widely overblown and it's become embedded in our views about space by a century of genre fiction most of which couldn't break out of the colonial mindset. Technology is going to destroy birt
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by Steko 11y ago
If so presumably the cable companies also know the networks are scared of seeing how many people flip channels during commercials and so they would package the data into larger chunks to hide this.
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by Steko 11y ago
I didn't mean to suggest Chinese people can't do engineering or research, and in fact 'the west' here is a shorthand for 'traditional IP ecosystem' that properly includes Taiwan/Korea/Japan. What I me

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