Steko

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by Steko 8y ago
That's not a general conclusion he's pushing, it's what he thinks would be a likely conclusion if two other hypotheticals are met: "if it is indeed less than a millimetre thick, if it is pushed by the sunlight, then it i
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by Steko 8y ago
This issue is compounded by the fact that you need a search engine to find old reddit posts and AMP-free DDG doesn’t have the last year and custom date filters Google does.
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by Steko 8y ago
> a center-left commentator Baloney. He's claims to not be alt right despite having identical views on most topics. It's about as convincing as when the KKK says they aren't racist, they just love white people.
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by Steko 8y ago
As an example if it recorded audio (I'd guess not) then recording a private conversation between two mechanics would presumably fail the one party consent standard in Canada. I'm not sure if video only has the same standard but i
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by Steko 8y ago
We'll train the falcons to drop Faraday nets on them.
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by Steko 8y ago
Airpods were arguably the best mobile innovation in the last few years but the tech media and commentariat were too busy griping about the headphone jack to really notice. So the spread has been steady instead of like the iPad where everyon
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by Steko 8y ago
Apple's next move is to have a credible replacement for when Netflix tries to move existing customers, the same as they have for Spotify. Or perhaps they are just waiting for the media companies to be more vulnerable to their lowball o
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by Steko 8y ago
It's not the distribution so much as the hundreds of millions of paying customers.
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by Steko 8y ago
Whoever wrote their rulebook used Apple's emoji instead of Facebook's own.
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by Steko 8y ago
Your link is provider admin costs. IIRC insurer admin costs are 3% for UK and 5% for Canada.
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by Steko 8y ago
It's always good news for Bitcoin!
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by Steko 8y ago
On the other hand my Amazon Video app (Roku in my tv) is slow as hell and I'm lucky if it doesn't crash (1) on launch, (2) between the homescreen and the video I selected, (3) between the episode selection and the video actually p
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by Steko 8y ago
That’s if you want an injunction though which is a stronger remedy. They could just collect afterwards like most patent suit awards.
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by Steko 8y ago
A telling contrast with the Mark Rober video and comments. Citizen has video evidence of package being stolen ? Or in the case of the comments GPS of offenders? Police dont give a fuck. Trillion dolllar company? Yes sir Mr Bezos, and we’ll
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What happens when you double blind astronomers?(motherjones.com)
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by Steko 8y ago
> a macro downturn > segment of crypto holders > spirals of selling Time of transition The more timid element Will run for cover
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by Steko 8y ago
Show me a phone with much better silicon for much cheaper. I'll wait.
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by Steko 8y ago
Perhaps they felt threatened and have a primitive belief that allows them to kill people whenever this happens. Like in Florida.
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by Steko 8y ago
You could also make the counter argument: that it's more dangerous to 'blindly' ignore the huge disparity in nut allergy rates.
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by Steko 8y ago
Works in Israel, kids start eating light peanut snacks at 3 months and nut allergies are much rarer.
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by Steko 8y ago
The original announcement thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7073373 2016 update on Googlebet/Verily vaporware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845804
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by Steko 8y ago
> The article is likely referring to the estimated dry prominence of Mauna Kea. It's talking around a mountain's "surrounding base" which is a related concept but doesn't take you in the absurd direction of &#x27
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by Steko 8y ago
> why George Soros and not other liberal jewish billionaire Haha, the Rothchild family would like a word about 'not being targeted'. The term "international bankers" is of course, famously, anti-semitic loon code for
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by Steko 8y ago
Those places will be well explored by robots by the time we get around to sending people (assuming we ever do which I have my doubts of).
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by Steko 8y ago
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1238091 hi, in firefox 63 the autoplay preferences are reorganised in preparation for this feature shipping out of the box in one of the upcoming versions. in about:con
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by Steko 8y ago
Apple Music has gotta be a big chunk of the increase. It was at 17 million subscribers in Sep-17 and was at 50 million in May-18 so that's +$1B a quarter right there.
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by Steko 8y ago
> not competitive in price Yeah those rubes paying Apple's $793 ASP could gotten a Galaxy S9+ for only $840. Or a Pixel 3 starting at $799,a Pixel 3XL for $899, a Note 9 starting at $1000 or a Huawei P20 Pro for €899 instead.
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by Steko 8y ago
> The patent system needs to be changed in some way It needs a lot of changes. One simple but important fix would be to revert the 1991 budget change that made the USPTO run on fees instead of taxpayer funds. This dramatically increase
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by Steko 8y ago
The “SuperFerry” was a huge boondoggle that tried to endrun around the EIS process which dozens of other ferrys around the country seemed to have no trouble complying with. The economics never supported a passenger ferry and the whole thing
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by Steko 8y ago
Our language doesn't work without context.

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