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by janekm 9y ago
Fantasy indeed... most consumers will prefer the offering of 40% off for the first year instead. Which can even be rational since there will frequently be another company offering a similar discount for switching to them the next year (ign
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That’s not entirely correct. The CE Mark is a representation by the manufacturer / authorised representative that the device conforms to all relevant European directives, including the electrical safety ones (which typically require ad
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by janekm 9y ago
When you're buying the very first version of a new consumer electronics category (first iPhone, first Apple Watch, first Android phone), you can expect it to become fully outdated in 2-3 years, given current rates of hardware developme
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by janekm 9y ago
How amateur-hour. Now the pros are in the white-house, you'd better pony up a cool few hundred million in "loans" for a meeting with Jared ;)
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Even better would have been paying one of the popular unboxing channels to make that video (well... not too popular or it would be crazy expensive!).
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Well but that’s 8 euros for chair rental and 1 Euro for the coffee (probably what you’d pay for an espresso to go at the bar)
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by janekm 9y ago
There are countries with lower taxes and fewer government services than the US (Somalia, say?). Even taxpayer funded healthcare places the US in the top 10 on a per-capita level. Trying to defend the US healthcare system on the basis of “y
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by janekm 9y ago
You need a bank account to use Wechat payments, it’s just much more convenient (and small shops don’t typically accept bank card payments). Credit cards are not very popular yet due to cultural norms around spending on credit, though heavil
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by janekm 9y ago
If journals/conferences were to refuse un-replicable results, companies that wish to offer this perk would have to make a sufficient part of their dataset public in order to offer this perk to their employees. This would be a good thin
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by janekm 9y ago
Walking down stairs while looking at phone screens has overtaken walking down stairs reading broadsheets (I only partially jest, stairs do feature very highly in actuary tables: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health&#x
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by janekm 9y ago
This is still an option, and last time I was passing through the HK airport I noticed that a shop next to immigration was selling very reasonably priced data bundles with that kind of dual-network SIM. Highly recommended for those who only
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Ulysses was never really considered “easy reading”, though ;)
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A propeller propels air behind it. The traction is a side effect by Newton’s third law.
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And teeth.
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When I'm using the app-based version of this kind of system, I find myself much more likely to put an item back on the shelf when I see the price come up in the app (or when I notice how high my total bill is getting). Being surprised
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by janekm 9y ago
That’s true, though one advantage for the consumer is that at least you get a chance to confirm that you really did want to take that $40 lobster ;) For the store an advantage is saving space, the Chinese ones are in really expensive prime
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There is a company opening similar types of supermarkets and corner stores in China. But they have taken it a step further, there aren’t even any gates. The experience feels really surreal... you just pick something off the shelf, scan it
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Temperature differential of day/night cycles there would be a bit of a nightmare though.
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You underestimate the value of an “overseas” degree in “developing” countries like China. A student who comes back to China with a US/UK degree will get preferential access to first-tier city resident permits, direct financial “housing
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by janekm 9y ago
They claim higher performance for nnn than mc. Not sure it’s really needed in most cases though... but nnn could come in handy in edge cases of really large directories, say. BTW their docs say that they avoid div instructions in favour of
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by janekm 9y ago
I would say, show it and be prepared to talk in the interview about what you have learned and would do differently the next time 'round. Any sensible employer wants employees who will learn from experience... Another recommendation I h
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Only if you count the marketing budget. Samsung is highly vertically integrated, even more so than Apple. Paradoxically, the reason why flagship Android devices are as expensive as they are is to give the appearance that they are the same c
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A kiwi is nsfw?
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They have undergone testing by a third-party test house for their CE certification. While you're right that in many cases CE can be self-certified, this is not (really) the case for mains equipment, the testing required by the European
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From looking over their schematics and layout, they are fairly well designed, and they have gone through CE certification so fine for European consumers. No UL certification could be an issue for US consumers though.
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The "POW" device is one example of a device which has GND at live potential, so should not be connected to anything else while plugged into the mains. Not that I would recommend plugging any of them into the mains with the case re
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I had the same gut reaction, but fortunately it turns out the article is not about a language intended for humans: “Our backend produces custom kernels for each specific operation on each GPU. It does this through an intermediate language c
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Sounds like that must have been the inspiration for Swift Playground for iPad, which is also a great teaching resource though aimed at kids. It uses the very same turnRight example.
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While you're right that if they had built something with "high utility value", they could have succeeded despite these points, for a pure gimmick that anyone would have only bought ought of curiosity, they failed to capitalis
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The Touch ID sensor value in the second hand market is not reflective of the cost to Apple... it’s expensive because there are no third party replacements, so the supply is restricted to parts taken from broken phones.

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