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by hn_check 6y ago
StatCounter measures web usage, not market share. iOS users tend to jump into Safari and browse the web from their devices more than peer devices, quite contrary to the conspiratorial noise often spread on here. By actual sales of devices
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by hn_check 6y ago
The bit soliciting people to link to the site is not only desperate SEO -- the author claims they're moving away from relying upon Google, when actually they're trying to double down, seriously asking for "high-quality, earne
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by hn_check 6y ago
Nah, I was actively soliciting people to follow it, doubly so given that it is an internal HN link and not an abstract article. It was just a subtle little chuckle of a post.
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by hn_check 6y ago
"I strongly doubt anyone will ever catch up with TSMC or Samsung at this point." What timeline are we talking about here? 1 year? 5 years? Forever? Yes, of course people will "Catch up" to Samsung and TSMC, both of which
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by hn_check 6y ago
These "fire the bad customers" blog entries regurgitate on here with regularity, and it reads like a fan fiction more than an actual description of events. Further some of the examples are terrible. If, for instance, you've m
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by hn_check 6y ago
The most recent, randomized studies of the NYC metro area finds SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in about 14% of participants when they randomly solicit people directly. Prior studies put out ads looking for participants, naturally drawing in people w
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by hn_check 6y ago
a) The context is specifically in relation to communicability b) Further, it was about New York City! Extremely few sports are taking place in NYC, and even if we discount that, from the overarching context those sports having a tiny, tin
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by hn_check 6y ago
"NHL playoffs are incredible right now" No fans. Playing in two bubble cities in Canada. "NBA is just getting started" No fans. Playing in one bubble city. And I was talking about NYC. Zero NBA or NHL games are taking pl
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by hn_check 6y ago
The snark is adorable and comically out of place. Swedish schools closed for the summer break just as COVID was peaking. They return in just over a week. Businesses are sparse because few people are shopping. Restaurants and bars were close
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by hn_check 6y ago
Sweden has adopted virtually every recommendations without it being mandated . This is an enormous difference from some Florida Man arguing why lockdowns are unnecessary. As much as people focus on face masks, in Sweden the sparsity of peo
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by hn_check 6y ago
I think we really are losing sight of the before versus now comparison. NYC is an absolutely ghost town compared to how it was. Everyone stays remarkably limited in their social contact. Professional sports are a ghost of what they were, ru
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by hn_check 6y ago
This doctor[1] is basically claiming that all of Sweden, or the vast bulk, have had SARS-CoV-2 and are now immune. This goes completely contrary to every medical authority, and is the sort of claim that generally gets something removed as d
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by hn_check 6y ago
The only "defense" I saw were against people who were grossly misrepresenting what Damore had said. If you contrive a fiction to push your narrative, expect pushback. As to what shows Damore appeared on, note that this was after
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by hn_check 6y ago
This "we'll be like the worst examples in the rest of the world" is not a winning strategy. It is simply remarkable that anyone in the US, much less anyone learned, could cheer this nonsense on. Further Trump didn't just
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by hn_check 6y ago
"Blame Qualcomm" This seems incredibly dubious as an excuse (for a variety of technical and business reasons), but has been the Google get out of jail card for a decade+ now. More likely Google loses interest, the devices no longe
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by hn_check 6y ago
I was specifically responding to the Wikipedia extract. The citation for the statement "Firefly populations are declining worldwide, for a variety of reasons" is a link to firefly.org. That is a small, Texas group that appreciates
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by hn_check 6y ago
I assume fireflies are declining from the loss of habitat, along with so many other insect species. The speculation about light being a cause seems logical, but is unproven. Indeed, even the population variations of fireflies is unproven --
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by hn_check 6y ago
Fireflies certainly are in decline in urban areas, and from that in a holistic population sense. The amount of natural areas continues to decline worldwide leading to reduced habitat for a lot of insects and animals. However I was replying
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by hn_check 6y ago
Plenty of fireflies in my yard. As prevalent as ever [1]. This is just an anecdote, but I give that anecdote as another person who lives in a somewhat rural location. Speaking of the lady bug explosion, this year they are incredibly rare [2
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by hn_check 6y ago
"Everyone calls me stupid every time I bring up the fact that Twitter had a better TikTok before TikTok in Vine" The view that "Vine was tiktok before tiktok" is extremely common. Vine was very popular, was a trend beach
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by hn_check 6y ago
Not entirely sure if you intended to reply to my comment, however just to clarify I'm saying that this particular machine isn't for developers or hackers. Apple has different machines for different markets. Developers buy MBPs. In
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by hn_check 6y ago
HN clearly isn't the target market. When HN frets about how it isn't suitable for them, it's just a lot of meaningless bluster and noise. Though let's be real here. I have a 2018 MBP with 256GB of storage. I have XCode,
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by hn_check 6y ago
LOL, it has since been retracted the author admitted it was their own misunderstanding. Here the post still sits on the front page. Don't ever change your adorable ignorance, HN. It's such a laugh. And this will be auto-dead. I wa
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by hn_check 6y ago
EDIT: LOL the guy retracted it and noted that he was mistaken. Every clown who repeated this and argued the unfairness of it, like rattray here -- delete your accounts. >If you charge $10, you get paid $7, and if the customer refunds, Ap
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by hn_check 6y ago
Which sources would those be? Someone linking to preliminary text of Apple's refund policy when they were forming the app store in 2009? Because that is meaningless. Apple takes back exactly what they gave the developer. There are zer
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by hn_check 6y ago
"which I think adds weight to the argument that is unfair behaviour by Apple" Apple takes back from the developer exactly what they gave the developer. This has been verified by a number of people, and this submission is just farc
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by hn_check 6y ago
This isn't correct at all. This is a serious misunderstanding by someone in a pretty incredible way. Literally a single person claiming this and _multiple_ people refuting it from their own experience. Yet it's top of HN. Amazing.
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by hn_check 6y ago
And the price for what he did would have been extreme. Serving a 14GB is something like $1.19 USD on CloudFront. It sounds like he was operating in tiny land and expected bills to be commensurate, so it just seems irrational to expect a low
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by hn_check 6y ago
Not only are they not hidden, they should really be common sense. That he seems surprised that Cloudflare doesn't cache 14GB files is surprising. There is some common belief that every service has infinite capacity in every dimension.
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by hn_check 6y ago
In this case it is retailers secretly rating customers, and sharing those ratings between each other. Retailers can and purportedly do use this to determine how to interact with you, how forgiving to be, etc. My only real concern with it is

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