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by gareim 10y ago
We're talking about a ~10x difference right now. Do your factors sizeably reduce that gap? By how much do you estimate?
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by gareim 10y ago
HMD is made of ex-Nokia employees. If it's all the good ones, then there's a chance, however slim, that maybe the new phones will be good.
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by gareim 10y ago
Disagree. It's likely that Nokia, like many manufacturers, used the minimum specs possible to get a certain experience level. It could be that WP7 required lower specs to get the same smoothness that Android could achieve. That wouldn&
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by gareim 10y ago
I thought we had this already; website vs webapp
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by gareim 10y ago
Right, it's very similar to most plans where you break even around ~2 screen replacements. Like you said, if you have to utilize the insurance for things aside from the 2 screen replacements, then you come out even further ahead. But t
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by gareim 10y ago
In this case, if we're comparing to cracked screens, Apple charges $129/$149 on their iPhones.
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by gareim 10y ago
Read the article. He's not saying he wants accident coverage, he's saying he should be able to pay a fee and get it fixed like all other manufacturers allow. >I can’t send my $800 phone to the manufacturer and pay some extra mo
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by gareim 10y ago
>This is big news only because most people think Spotify will kill their SSD like by Christmas or earlier. When in fact it probably doesn't matter at all, because most computers get replaced due to natural causes in less than 8 year
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by gareim 10y ago
Security updates, I assume, since the last major official OS version was 5.1. Hm, does it even still get updates? The last official image posted by Google is from end of 2015. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus
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by gareim 10y ago
Sure, reduce history to a single liner that doesn't truly represent the patent and apply it in a sweeping manner. http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/09/claim-check-if-apple-pate...
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by gareim 10y ago
Source on that speed claim, please.
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by gareim 10y ago
>It's absurdly backwards because it's asking you to create debt which normally is the opposite of showing you are good with money and I would question the validity of seeing people paying back limited debt to be indicative of e
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by gareim 10y ago
And my $800 phone has a 1 year warranty. What's your point? That warranties should equal how long a device actually lasts on average?
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by gareim 10y ago
While I agree that I would rather my browser use more RAM than constantly suspend pages, I disagree with your notion that >A lot of the improvement in the reliability of consumer grade SSDs is due to OS improvements in how they manage th
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by gareim 10y ago
I've never understood these posts. They're not funny and they take forever to get a point across.
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by gareim 10y ago
>and will buy old machines rather than deal with problems in that area Assuming that you don't find another alternative, then I assume buying old Macs would then be okay? I'm not sure what the rationale is for not buying one ye
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by gareim 10y ago
Sorry, can you elaborate on why you can't justify buying Macs anymore? It sounds like you're interested in local storage and you're okay with buying old machines if it means you don't deal with cloud, so how come Macs do
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by gareim 10y ago
In terms of market share, Microsoft beats Google handily. In terms of year-over-year revenue growth, Microsoft is also beating Google, although Google's growth is better than I had expected. http://www.datamation.com/cl
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by gareim 10y ago
I have no opinion on whether GS and MS are overvalued, but here's a fun quote from Keynes. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
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by gareim 11y ago
Which data in the article did it contradict?
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by gareim 11y ago
It's not illegal. You reserve rights that are not explicitly taken away.
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by gareim 11y ago
According to Laszlo Bock, Google checks GPA and transcripts for people a few years out of school.
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by gareim 11y ago
It's not his specs. Sublime is just that much faster. It also doesn't slowly creep up in RAM usage unlike Atom.
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by gareim 11y ago
I think I read roughly half the emails. Some of them contain news that I wouldn't otherwise know to look for because the mainstream media don't (or are late to) cover it.
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by gareim 11y ago
I read the same thing a year ago and I came away actually upset at the tweaktown article. Off the top of my head, I remember some of the complaints being that the drives were subject to abnormal amounts of heat and that the drives were cons
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by gareim 11y ago
You're absolutely right. I will edit my comment. Thanks edit: It appears I've waited too long. If you have the power to edit the profanity out, I wouldn't mind.
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by gareim 11y ago
The day I notice them doing this is the day I sell any shares I own in Apple. Maybe it works in the short term, but going into "100s of products" dilutes not just the brand, but the attention to detail as well. When I walk into an
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by gareim 11y ago
And if you read further down, another reddit comment claims that it's for making sure hospitals have the resources to test everyone that most likely has the problem. There's also more information that Brazil is simply adopting WHO
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by gareim 11y ago
>which should still help increase diversity I think quotas by income would be a much more interesting experience for college students than quotas by race.
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by gareim 11y ago
I think this might be relevant. Especially the last paragraph. http://www.blog.twosense-labs.com/whatsapp-renegs-on-their-p...

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