Veratyr

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by Veratyr 9y ago
The situation you describe is a little different because people aren't locked in to a supermarket. If you don't want to pay the premium, you can go to a deli, another supermarket or have it delivered by Amazon. If you don't w
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> If that's the case, it doesn't seem anticompetitive, since everyone is charged the same fees no matter what. Google and Amazon just don't want to pay it. Apple doesn't pay them. Anyone who wants to sell media on iOS
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> That being said, I'm sure if the average users CPU was substantially beefier developers would take advantage of it I don't think so. We've had multi-core CPUs for many years and developers haven't been taking advant
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by Veratyr 9y ago
There aren't going to be significant gains if the CPU wasn't the bottleneck in the first place.
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> I don't believe that is inherently true about wireless headphones. I believe it is. Wireless headphones are subject to interference while wired ones are not. Physical connections are much less likely to fail. Wired headphones also
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> From what I've heard the ear pods are very reliable to pair and have good audio quality. I think the comparison to removal of floppy drives fails here because neither is clearly superior to the other. Wired headphones are inconven
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by Veratyr 9y ago
This reminds me of the time I watched the video about Uber's new logo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1-im6i8uk Seriously, who comes up with this stuff? It feels like a bad joke.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Yes, at the time they were relatively powerful, however they were still weak in an absolute sense. One person misusing a musket could not have slaughtered a small town's worth of people. The right to bear a weapon that can't do a
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by Veratyr 9y ago
If you want performance, Sony's Xperia XZ1 Compact is a 4.7" phone with flagship specs. They're about the only ones who make high spec reasonable size phones these days.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> And also at least a basic understanding of how IP is managed in chip industry - like "IP core" is a term that I frequently hear but due to the myriad interpretations available online, I don't really understand what an &q
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> The problem is that you can't look up those stats. They don't exist. Yes you can. You can obtain just about every budget online, whether it be state, federal or local. The person you're replying to showed you the federal
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Sure but you wouldn't pay a chainsaw sculptor to cut down a tree, you'd pay a lumberjack. You can already go to a hackerspace and pay a guy a couple hundred bucks to build you something basic so long as it's mildly ineresting
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by Veratyr 9y ago
There are methods of transportation other than cars and feet. Google has buses for example.
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State or city? Could the city let them?
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by Veratyr 9y ago
How about they build their office space on their existing land? Looking at Google HQ on Google Maps satellite view, it looks like their land is 30-50% parking, i.e. waste.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Prism is an American thing, not Chinese. Not really relevant here. Also: > http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/21/nsa-leaker-edward-... "Later leaks revealed that the NSA had created spyware t
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by Veratyr 9y ago
iMessage?
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Are you ever going to be competitive with transit? I can buy gigabit from a number of providers for $400/month, which saturated the entire time is 330TB or $0.0013/GB. I can also see 10Gbps for $999, which is $0.00030/GB. The
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by Veratyr 9y ago
The point here isn't that the targets of identity theft don't suffer, the point is that the institutions facilitating the fraud are the true perpetrators of the damage and that calling it "identity theft" makes it sound
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by Veratyr 9y ago
I don't really have a problem with it. So long as they're on topic and relevant (i.e. not trying to sell GSuite in an AWS thread), it's fine. Certainly better than not hearing from them at all.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
He only said the article was blogspam, not the website. An otherwise reputable website can still have blogspam articles.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
I haven't worked with it so I honestly can't say.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
It's nice hardware but as someone who moved to it from RTL dongles, there are a few problems: - It's super complicated. There are an incredible number of configuration options and I don't know what most of them do. Documentat
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by Veratyr 9y ago
There's a big difference between a standard produced by industry (like HEVC) and an industry standard (like ProRes). HEVC is the former but it is not yet the latter. You can't call a standard nobody uses an "industry standard
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Really? Which industries? Who, other than Apple, uses HEVC? HEVC is a standard produced by industry, sure but it's not an industry standard as no industry that I'm aware of actually uses it. You can't put it on a Blu-Ray, you
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Can we agree that taking photographs of people without their consent is nothing more than extremely creepy? In public? I'd replace "nothing more than" with "at worst". These, for example, I don't think mos
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Does this apply to anything other than PHP? Not saying it's not significant, just curious. Does mod_wsgi outperform uwsgi with uwsgi_pass for example?
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> The question is: OK, you account for risk, now what? You can manage risk by tempering an all-stock portfolio with bonds, lowering volatility. Why pick high-cost hedge funds over that option? I think his point is that hedge funds may ha
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by Veratyr 9y ago
The Toshiba X300 series is pretty loud but dense and cheap.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> If it takes me 40+ minutes longer to ride a subway than drive in (currently true) then it's both me and my employer's interest to reduce cost barriers and pay for the downtown parking. Or it's in both your interests to d

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