Steko

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by Steko 11y ago
So top 7 =/= leading edge?
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by Steko 11y ago
Lebron also broke onto the scene as a 16 year old -- high school all american as a sophomore, lots of other media attention and coverage (edit: SI cover was a couple months after 17th birthday apparently).
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by Steko 11y ago
The obsession with Japanese uniqueness (biological, cultural, linguistic, geographic, sociological, psychological, etc.) became quite a cottage industry in postwar Japan and is collectively referred to as nihonjinron [1]. [1] https:&#x2F
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by Steko 11y ago
There's an implied choice just by bringing up the subject of proportionality. As for stats we can attack a legion of asterisks to them but that misses the point: there are rich countries that are not unequal. Proportionality is not re
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by Steko 11y ago
I think you've mistaken two desireable dimensions as a choice. A country like Norway beats the U.S. in both GDP per capita (PPP and nominal) and in all measures of inequality.
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by Steko 11y ago
Diablo 3 was one of the most successful game launches ever and well reviewed across the board. The RMAH was a fixable issue, Diablo 3's primary problem -- which is something every Diablo clone has also had to deal with -- is that the
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by Steko 11y ago
Diablo 3 was mediocre because the entire genre has been trumped by MMOs. Diablo, x-craft, WoW and HS were all landmarks in their time and good examples of what grandparent is talking about. HotS was beaten to the punch by LOL and Overwatch
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by Steko 11y ago
Just to correct a couple things the brackish/treated water Cambria plant, which cost $9 million not $3 million, was approved and completed in 'record time' (quote below). The picture of intractable government being painted in
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by Steko 11y ago
This seems excessively nit picky. Is the 'heat treatment' technically part of the forging? Technically no but for the layman's idea of forging it probably is ok to say yes. Did that one line in the article perpetuate the tro
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by Steko 11y ago
What were you doing Tex? I was selling airplanes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE Here's Boeing, doing a 'near vertical' takeoff in the Dreamliner (spoilers: not really but still impressive), al
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by Steko 11y ago
So I downvoted the comment mostly because it was dismissive of the entire article seemingly for the terrible crime of ... not going out of it's way to mythbust the 'Katanas Are Just Better' trope? I think the article as a who
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by Steko 11y ago
I haven't made either argument. I'm just pointing out there were a very limited number of endgames not a dozen ways it could play out.
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by Steko 11y ago
>There were many ways the allies could have ended World War II in the Pacific theater. There weren't really all that many ways it would end given that the Soviet Union operated independently and was in a position to invade much earl
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by Steko 11y ago
> Makes what harder to justify? The widespread loss of civilian life.
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by Steko 11y ago
There was an interesting Ask Historians thread about Nagasaki recently and the jist of it was that the decision to drop the second bomb wasn't made at the highest levels, or rather that it was hazily delegated much earlier and the call
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by Steko 11y ago
This article pairs nicely with How I Gave Up Alternating Current from a few days ago. The only place left to go in the bachelor lifehacking one upsmanship game is to stop changing clothes and showering altogether, live under a bridge, telec
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by Steko 11y ago
Turning around is a common procedure under mechanical events and mechanical explanations for what happened to MH370 are still one of the leading 2 theories.
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by Steko 11y ago
Yep, for some reason my wife's emails to her sister[1] always bounce unless she uses the desktop, it's madness. [1] docomo customer with two dots in email
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by Steko 11y ago
Tax increase requires supermajority in CA.
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by Steko 11y ago
That's my favorite for sure, Wild Sheep Chase and short stories would be my next reccomendation.
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by Steko 11y ago
This is baloney, Apple has consistently delivered great battery life on laptops, phones, tablets and beats the Note 4 in several categories: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8613/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4...
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by Steko 11y ago
Would be interesting to see the YT tests redone with add ons that force h264 for Firefox and Chrome.
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by Steko 11y ago
Except your facts are incomplete[1] and you've mixed them in with straw men.[2] [1] Your original claim ("as soon as Apple realized how much money could be generated by adding DRM") that Apple is the one that wanted DRM on mu
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by Steko 11y ago
I'm not sure what you think this timeline says but it absolutely doesn't say that doing away with DRM on ITMS was something Apple resisted.
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by Steko 11y ago
Optional, download-it-yourself ad blockers aren't likely to move the needle on iAd growth. This is the problem with many of the comments here. 90% of iOS users won't use it.
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by Steko 11y ago
Come on, Apple didn't want DRM, labels insisted on it. https://web.archive.org/web/20080107121341/http://www.apple....
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by Steko 11y ago
> The reason Apple does this is to push content creators away from the Web and into native apps. This is baloney, Apple hosts free apps at a loss. The idea that Apple wants you to have an app for every website is absolutely ridiculous.
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by Steko 11y ago
Here's a full essay from Moorcock of the Tolkien critique: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/u... While there is an argument for the reactionary nature of the books, they a
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by Steko 11y ago
It really doesn't matter if they believe it. It will be convincing enough that the rest of the world no longer needs to pay them any heed.
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by Steko 11y ago
I think this is just BS rationalizing by talking heads because evil suicide muslim pilot makes for good tv ratings. The path the plane took is known because of tracking systems it was supposedly avoiding. It flew right over one of the large

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