Steko

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by Steko 9y ago
> register my body automatically Foreshadows the inevitable hacking and release of 50 million Wal-Mart customer bodyscans.
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by Steko 9y ago
Two corrections: (1) I think you meant trillion, (2) you don't get 4 holiday quarters.
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by Steko 9y ago
He's definitely a shit source that comes from "racial realist" fringe.
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by Steko 9y ago
Not saying anything about larger point but iOS in 2018 vs Android in 2010 seems like an Apples to Rutabegas comparison.
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by Steko 9y ago
Despite the "reduced economic activity", people seem fine with rules against lots of things -- e.g. spam and assassination markets. Besides, the money saved on web advertising doesn't get put under a mattress, the company can
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by Steko 9y ago
> Google has caught MMD (Microsoft Marketing Disease) In two years Google Pay and Samsung Pay will merge and the new service will be called Pays For Sure.
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by Steko 9y ago
They didn't change me to upgrade to Win 10 but they stripped out the ability to play movies on DVD and then tried to sell me a $15 app.
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by Steko 9y ago
Call the house? Call back the original report?
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by Steko 9y ago
Blog with some analysis and a lot of older info on Energous: https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/12/energous-and-f... Previously on HN: CES announcement (3 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com
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by Steko 9y ago
It seems like most articles about Apple are quickly flagged off the front page by a small cadre of haters.
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by Steko 9y ago
> If you can't get to the top of the ladder without spending money, it's p2w. False, I said that you can get to the top of the ladder without paying although most of the people with the skill are given max decks. If you have t
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by Steko 9y ago
I've played Clash Royale since global release, most of that time as f2p, and I'd argue it is not remotely p2w: (1) tournaments, challenges, friendly matches are all played at tournament card levels which are quite easy to reach as
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by Steko 9y ago
He’s not making a neutral value judgment, he’s commenting on a particular case where it’s clear that top management was on board for almost a decade.
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by Steko 9y ago
Except basically every Android phone is infected with malware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747519
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by Steko 9y ago
I think if you do 6 rolls and take the sum modulo 6 it works. edit: no, got confused with something else (game I used to play was subject to widespread paranoia about the dice including the RNG source and whether other players had hacks. Th
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by Steko 9y ago
Google is already one of the top spenders on lobbying, along with Comcast, Boeing and AT&T.
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by Steko 9y ago
Straight Dope forum [1] has a number of comments indicating it's not unusual given circumstances. [1] http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=840124&... Thread has many interesting insights and li
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by Steko 9y ago
The most plausible explanation I've seen is that this was a hoax/publicity stunt designed to drive a book/movie deal. Balloon boy is often brought up.
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by Steko 9y ago
> YouTube says it typically takes at least a few days for content to make its way from YouTube proper to YouTube Kids, and the hope is that within that window, users will flag anything potentially disturbing to children They’ll use the c
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by Steko 9y ago
Switching to a Surface because you want long term quality is kind of hilarious tbh. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-surface/microso...
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by Steko 9y ago
They don’t need to run it better than the DMV to beat Comcast.
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by Steko 9y ago
Flagged into oblivion by the self-appointed thread police.
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by Steko 9y ago
> As recently as Friday, the firm had a bare-bones Web site, with stock photos and generic text passages about asset management and an initiative called Women in Focus Too bad there’s no Oscar for Best Inadvertent Lampshading of a Covert
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by Steko 9y ago
> Apple phones get better battery life because of stricter app store inclusion rules and native binary builds for all targets instead of generic automated ports. Apple does just as well in comparisons that only measure the first party br
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by Steko 9y ago
Looks like yours shipped with an OS, congrats!
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by Steko 9y ago
Another interesting report about a drug that 'melts away fat in arteries': https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/11280/
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by Steko 9y ago
> I previously have assumed that it was universally accepted that this was not the case Since you're asking for citations yourself, which ones support that view?
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by Steko 9y ago
> make it more difficult to add initiatives to the state ballot ... It sucks Despite a noble history and many success stories, ballot initiatives seem just as corruptible as the parties and perhaps more dangerous with the amount of fake
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by Steko 9y ago
I think you are arguing past me on the first part. They are "payroll taxes", yes. And there is a "US federal income tax" of which they are not, yes. Technically they do also fit the definition of what an income tax is (w
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by Steko 9y ago
No, the truth is they aren't counted because correctly counting them would undermine the bullshit conclusion they're pushing.

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