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by jonknee 9y ago
That's like if Takata claimed it wasn't a production issue in Takata airbags, it was an issue that affected any airbag that was designed like Takata airbags. It's a bunch of bullshit trying to dance around the fact that Intel
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by jonknee 9y ago
What is your plan to access storage if your phone's motherboard gets fried?
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by jonknee 9y ago
But you still have to get your code onto the device...
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by jonknee 9y ago
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052451
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by jonknee 9y ago
That's not how it works with public companies. Management can refuse an offer, but the shareholders are the ones who really get to decide and Costco is majority owned by institutional investors. If the numbers look good there is nothin
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by jonknee 9y ago
Different Otto, this one was a $700 home door lock.
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by jonknee 9y ago
If Amazon is going to make a high dollar retail acquisition, I think Costco makes a lot more sense than Target. True warehouse stores that could be used for distribution, high income customers who don't mind paying a subscription fee a
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by jonknee 9y ago
There are peak baggers from all over the world, it's not an American phenomenon. I got a nice tip the last time I was hiking in Colorado: ignore the 14ers and go for the just unders. 13,950 feet has the same views and sense of accompli
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by jonknee 9y ago
It's not like you leave the store balancing everything in your hands... Scan, put in whatever bag you brought and then go.
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by jonknee 9y ago
On the other hand, it's just a piece of plastic machined in an automated process. Exactly the type of thing that has become nearly free in the modern age.
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by jonknee 9y ago
You haven't noticed that people you see regularly don't all have a uniform?
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by jonknee 9y ago
It's ~100 lamps for entropy that covers ~10% of the internet, energy consumption is a ridiculous complaint.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Still a heck of a return for early investors: > Seed investors in Uber who sell to SoftBank will make a ~3600x return. $1.6 million round in 2010 would now be worth $5.7 billion at offer price. https://twitter.com/alfredj
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by jonknee 9y ago
Cities have the advantage of building the roads and being able to lay whatever they’d like under them.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Free speech has no requirement that privately owned companies must promote your speech to a mass audience.
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by jonknee 9y ago
I agree Control Center would be a good place to put it, but how often do you turn off your phone?
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by jonknee 9y ago
What does that have to do with liking the product? If an Android phone ships with a FaceID like feature, it's OK to just like it and not be sad that it wasn't the first phone with it.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Inflation depreciates the value of your liquidity, which is why every major company (except apple, it seems) dumps as much currency as possible into appreciable and tax deductible assets. When you read stories that Apple (or whoever) h
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by jonknee 9y ago
And it's 625 to 133 deliveries...
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by jonknee 9y ago
There's nothing stopping a company from distributing non-DRM files with an easy to use interface and fast download speeds...
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by jonknee 9y ago
> There is malware lingering at each page. The movies are typically in english. Torrents may be very slow at certain times. Subtitles needs to be searched, generally separately, and generally, are available only in english. Subtitles may
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by jonknee 9y ago
There’s no way to tell the entire holdings of Satoshi though so it’s quite possible she/he had other wallets and has made bank. Mining was easy for quite some time and once people were selling lots of coins it’s possible Satoshi was a
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by jonknee 9y ago
In the context provided it sounds like the client meant his son would be taking over as the steward of investvesting his money and was going to put it into BTC. This is not illegal in any way. It’s not any different than having an investmen
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by jonknee 9y ago
Why would they? That's the freedom of an unregulated industry, you are free to be robbed.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Knowing that you're looking at a mountain range isn't clutter! Nor is a different map layer for topographic contour lines.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Yep, though I use All Trails when actually on the trail, it's fantastic. I just appreciate seeing trails (and trailheads as POIs) when using Google Maps for drives.
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by jonknee 9y ago
I don't doubt they're working on it, I bet it's just a buggy disappointing pile.
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by jonknee 9y ago
To showcase it they'd need actual working hardware instead of 3D renders...
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by jonknee 9y ago
Google also has a giant lead in trails / feature names. I hike a ton and Google has been adding trails at a brisk pace. I just checked the Snoqualmie Pass area about an hour outside of Seattle and Apple Maps has almost no trails, named
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by jonknee 9y ago
The store shutdown date is more than 2 years away and devices that use it are all more than 2 years old right now, no one is getting a refund.

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