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by lunchables 7y ago
I always felt Apple was good at this, in the Steve Jobs era, anyway. Everyone said the iPhone would kill the iPod, but that didn't matter in reality because the iPhone opportunity was so much larger.
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by lunchables 7y ago
>What's worse, one of the biggest overarching rules is "it is better to preserve social harmony and/or not risk embarrassment than to engage in honest discussion". Which means compared to Westerners, Japanese people r
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by lunchables 7y ago
>US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths. No it's not. https://www.statista.com/statistics/233310/distribution-of-t... Only 215 black people were killed by police last year. > htt
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by lunchables 7y ago
I think you overestimate how engaged and educated the average american is on what facebook does, and I say this as an american. I don't think most people made a conscious evaluation of the pros and cons of Facebook and the trade off b
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by lunchables 7y ago
Nearly 50% of the country voted for Donald Trump, too. I don't know what you think that suggests.
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by lunchables 7y ago
There is FTTH in more places than you might realize: https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber I live in Nashville and we have FTTH from both AT&T and Google as well as gigabit service from Comcast. I think the problem is the US
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by lunchables 7y ago
I use my VPS for several other things and because it already runs ssh, this was easier for me, so I've never looked into openvpn. I keep telling myself once wireguard is merged into the kernel I will really invest some time into getti
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by lunchables 7y ago
Nope, it was just due to congestion. You have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get a certificate that allows you to buy a car in Singapore.
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by lunchables 7y ago
This is absolutely satire and the comments here and wonderful.
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by lunchables 7y ago
I don't know if this is helpful, but I'll mention it because it works well for me. I use a Digital Ocean droplet and local forwarding. $ ssh -q -D [port] [droplet-hostname] Then setup my browser to use a proxy at localhost on [por
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by lunchables 7y ago
If you are a procrastinator, I can't recommend The Now Habit enough. It's totally changed my life.
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by lunchables 7y ago
Sorry I thought it was obvious. I don't want to receive any more emails. I just want to go to a website to view information.
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by lunchables 7y ago
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/296307-epic-win-amds-6... >Intel can cut its prices, to be sure. Beyond that, it has limited maneuverability. Ice Lake servers will not arrive for another year. Pricing on these
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by lunchables 7y ago
You are certainly welcome to attack someone if you want, but that doesn't change the fact that your post doesn't speak to the argument at all. Thiel can both have an agenda AND be correct, they aren't mutually exclusive.
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by lunchables 7y ago
>and we send out curated trend reports via email. I'm out.
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by lunchables 7y ago
>but I wonder if someday we'll look back on the era where web content was paid for by the 90 percent of people who don't block ads so the 10 percent could block them effortlessly as a sort of golden age. Yes! I think what has
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by lunchables 7y ago
I think most people would agree he has an agenda, but your post is just an ad hominem attack against Thiel and doesn't address the original poster's question at all.
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by lunchables 7y ago
You said this: >AAPL seems to have hit its peak in the device market, and can only grow revenues at this point by effectively raising prices on existing customers (that’s what the services category amounts to). This strategy can only tak
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by lunchables 7y ago
The iPhone has been the most expensive, premium product since the day it was launched (see the incredulous Balmer video about the $599 subsidized price). It was also the primary engine that drove Apple to being one of the richest companies
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by lunchables 7y ago
Now look at the revenue per device that is generated for developers. https://themanifest.com/app-development/android-vs-ios-which... Not only is it easier to build and maintain apps for iOS, people spend a lot more mon
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by lunchables 7y ago
Apple has a recycling program you might want to consider: https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/
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by lunchables 7y ago
In the US you can request your credit score once per year from each credit rating angecy at no cost.
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by lunchables 7y ago
Airpods and Apple Watch are both relatively new products in Apple-terms and have many years of incremental improvements ahead of them. If you are looking for something as big as the iPhone, I think you might be disappointed. But, it is a p
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by lunchables 7y ago
I have an iPhone X and have no problem unlocking my phone when wearing sunglasses.
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by lunchables 7y ago
I really disagree. With TouchID my phone was unlocked before it even got to my face. With my iPhone X (which I've had since launch) I get lots of false positives. It also means I have to raise it, swipe as I raise it, phone gets in
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by lunchables 7y ago
Or continue to invent new products (iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Watch, Airpods ...) then iterate on those products over years and years. Also while simultaneously driving their services revenue, which continues to be a growth area for th
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by lunchables 7y ago
The best part is that it is more likely they just think they left change in the car but forgot they spent it.
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by lunchables 7y ago
Software engineers are constantly delivering products to customers. I assume the timeline for an electrical engineering project can be many months or even years, so this isn't very surprising. When you work in an environment using co
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by lunchables 7y ago
>GDP in the US is high and we have more suicides than ever. I think this is my favorite new "correlation does not equal causation" example.
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by lunchables 7y ago
Congratulations, that flashing title with UNREAD MESSAGE is new most annoying thing on the internet. You reinvented the blink tag I hope you're all proud.

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