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by Steko 7y ago
This is the annual benchmarking adjustment not the monthly revisions.
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by Steko 7y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190815/18023542791/lates... What O’Keefe’s video leaves out, though, is that his much-hyped insider is not as credible as he claims. On social media, Vorhies is an avid pr
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by Steko 7y ago
> 3x is a little hard, and I cant explain to friends why is Apple so expensive either. How do you explain to them that Huawei's own P30 Pro sells for several times what their Honor 9x sells for? Does Huawei need to explain that to t
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by Steko 7y ago
He's not criticizing 'the institutions' so much as their ideas and modernism itself which, funny enough, is one of the 14 handy 'heuristics' for identifing nascent facism that Eco listed in 1995 [1]. It's a goo
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by Steko 7y ago
Or you could just look for the anti-intellectual movements seeking to marginalize academia in general, which your comment itself appears to stem from.
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by Steko 7y ago
2021: NBA shuts down fake game betting after being taken to the cleaners by algorithms.
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by Steko 7y ago
> In the case How is the Macbook different to iPad Pro with Keyboard? Why is this a problem? Maybe they phase one of them out when they make the change? Or maybe leave them as slightly differentiated products like the jumble of different
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by Steko 7y ago
> I would like to know more about the simulation's provenance ... I also wonder if there is any evidence of other simulations of flights that end up in the open ocean. I'll second this. What little info we have seen can sound
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by Steko 7y ago
> the only plausible explanation I personally don't find it that plausible. Is it the least implausible explanation? Maybe. > If it had been an accident, it would make a lot more sense to have crashed much sooner or otherwise ha
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by Steko 7y ago
> The rebuttal piece mostly just flames Langewiesche I would say it raises serious questions about the accuracy of the simulator Langewiesche relies on and his complete omission of the fact that the Malaysian government absolutely wanted
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by Steko 7y ago
If those are the worst drones flying around, that may be the brightest timeline.
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by Steko 7y ago
> like all the other critiques of GGS I have seen If you've already familiar with a lot of Diamond critiques but have decided he's right all along then why say "Could you list a few books and main criticisms?". You c
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by Steko 7y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jared+diamond+site%3Areddit.com%2F... for example: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8nr7xd/thoug... https://old.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by Steko 7y ago
Watch, Airpods, Homepod, Pencil, credit card next month, many services including Apple Pay.
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by Steko 7y ago
> I don't quite understand the bad press ... first generation ... Beta testers ... issues. There's levels to issues. The iPhone 4 had issues but was still a blockbuster hit and the #1 phone in the world for several years. The
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by Steko 7y ago
This is an oversimplification, most Americans will also be quick to categorize darker skinned Southeast Asians as Asian. Historically most Asians in the US were from East Asia and later SEA so the label tends to evoke those groups. Lacking
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by Steko 7y ago
The Hawaii stores were taken over from Daiei (Japanese supermarket chain) and I don't think they've changed that much, still a different animal from the Japanese Donki stores I've been to. In comparison they've opened a
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by Steko 7y ago
This comment reads like an application for a Samsung PR position. The review period has lasted nearly four days and despite the boldness in design and ambition, the folding phone situation has developed not necessarily to Samsung's ad
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by Steko 7y ago
> After [Munchausen] he was sort of written off ... including the critics who know to pay the piper Do the facts even support this? The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys followed Munchausen and were well reviewed critically. Instead of inventi
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by Steko 8y ago
> it's about time that most of those 3 month trials expire. I imagine the number will drop substantially after. Apple's been heavily pushing the service with the same 3 month trial for several years and has seen huge growth ove
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by Steko 8y ago
Wait what are you talking about, 'legacies and children of donors'? I've been watching Fox News faithfully for decades and they've assured me it was only the handful of black and hispanic students who didn't "d
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by Steko 8y ago
It's hardly infinitesmal, that's my point. With an average of 175 737's operating since launch, 4K total widebody commercial aircraft and over a dozen widebody crashes in that period, you get over 10%. Some estimates there bu
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by Steko 8y ago
> The probability that two crashes are both 737 Max is 0.00875 * 0.00875 = 0.0000766 You need to multiply this by every combination of two crashes in the observed time period with starting and endpoints not cherry picked to include 737 m
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by Steko 8y ago
The problem is everything about it is user hostile and all the settings are opaque. Updates went from a snooze button you could put off indefinitely for 15 min or 4 hours at a time (windows 7) to a one time 15 minute delay after which your
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Samsung Galaxy S10+ Camera Review (109)(dxomark.com)
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by Steko 8y ago
> What did they innovate recently? The notch? Air pods? These aren't exactly world changing. Air Pods are one of the best innovations in mobile in the past 5 years. Apple's mobile and watch chips are best in class. Apple Pay se
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by Steko 8y ago
I love that the saved game immediately brought up Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH and DENNIS
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by Steko 8y ago
I think you've mistaken Snopes, a fact checker, for a news website although they have a small section for news. The reason they don't have a fact check entry on this item might just be because liberals aren't widely spinning
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by Steko 8y ago
> partisan extremists presenting biased information as neutral and factual. Snopes is no exception. Please cite some of these "partisan extremist" examples from Snopes.
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by Steko 8y ago
The goalposts are moving. Yes to "worth considering" but that's not what I was responding to above ("is likely an alien device" ... "certainly seems to make that claim").

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