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by mdasen 5y ago
> someone decided to change something and deprecate the older stuff I definitely understand the pain. In some cases, it's stupid moves. In other cases, it's about reclaiming the resources for something better. With wireless, sh
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We've seen articles about Qualcomm and AMD shifting to Samsung and away from TSMC. Some of Qualcomm's new processors are already moved over to Samsung. The 780G and 888 are already on Samsung's 5nm process. I don't think
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by mdasen 5y ago
There's THE TRUTH and the truth ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6tmYYhOUU if you haven't seen that Simpsons episode). Let's say that I do an hour-long infomercial on a product and I try and make the info
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> The complaint goes beyond existing FTC guidelines, accusing the company of engaging in “lazy loading.” The “sponsored” label lagged in loading against top banner ads, sometimes by up to three seconds on average Internet speeds, accordi
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I think one of the big things hidden in here is that auto makers are allowed to and incentivized to optimize for the safety of the passengers inside the vehicle and not pedestrians outside the vehicle. Modern cars have a huge lack of visibi
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One thing I'd note is that a lot of these companies made the decision years ago. MySQL's replication story has been good for a lot longer. It wasn't until September 2010 when PostgreSQL landed replication (and you probably di
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I'm guessing it's a combination of bias, realism, and a change in how things come to market. On Realism. Looking back on my thinking about "breakthroughs", a lot of the things that were presented with a lot of hype turne
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I think AWS knows that the best it can do is offer so much combined value that people don't want to leave the ecosystem. It's the same play that Amazon has used for Prime. If Prime were just shopping, people could leave Prime for
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It's been a hard habit for me to break, but when you know that you could do something and theoretically do it better, it can bias you against paying for something. None of that is meant to sound arrogant - every company could do a be
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It still removes Giphy as a "competitor". Let's say that Facebook bought all competing messenger programs, but then disabled them in the UK because it was anti-competitive. Well, then the only option left is to use Facebook M
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The thing I never really understand about scalping is why the original retailer/supplier wouldn't simply raise their prices. If graphics cards are consistently out of stock, why not simply raise prices? We're seeing that with
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I think Athena has a lot of value (especially given its pricing), but you're not wrong that it has limitations. Getting data into Athena isn't something that is just done for you. Athena just takes what you've put on S3 and q
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This is one of those "but actually" things that always happens (and why I can't give a straight answer and why I should have hedged that statement as well). The question was about the US and Apple and I responded about the US
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In general, no they aren't required. However, if we're talking 5% of your customer base, you might not want to lose them. In Boost's case, they might legally have to. Dish bought Boost as part of T-Mobile's deal to buy S
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This doesn't really go into how it's legal, but the situation around VoLTE has been difficult. It hasn't just been every phone working perfectly. Beyond that, it's possible to buy a phone that sort-of works. For example,
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by mdasen 5y ago
This is mostly about drama around Boost Mobile. T-Mobile wanted to shut down their CDMA network on January 1, 2022. Boost (now owned by Dish) doesn't want to upgrade users that have handsets that don't work with VoLTE. Upgrading u
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by mdasen 5y ago
That's a hard question to give a definitive answer to. In many ways, the answer is "no". However, as with most things in tech, there are always edge cases. Sprint's network (which T-Mobile bought and is integrating into
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by mdasen 5y ago
What will happen to the funds contributed to ConstitutionDAO that owners don't feel is worth paying the "gas" fees to get the refund on? > the group said it had 17,437 donors with a median donation of $206.26... One user o
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> they simply have to pay (slightly) more than other TSMC customers I'd argue that they need to pay significantly more than other customer in order to get such preferential treatment. In a short-sighted view of things, you only ne
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I'm excited to see the Zenfone 8's smaller footprint, but it's still 90cc compared to an iPhone mini's 65cc (38% larger). It's 13% taller and 7% wider. The Galaxy S 21 is actually smaller by volume at 85cc. The Zenf
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> there is clearly demand for smaller phones, shown by the iPhone mini The iPhone mini might be a counter-example. The iPhone mini has sold poorly and it seems like Apple is unlikely to continue it when they redesign the form factor. The
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I think expecting Netflix to stick around at $10/mo with such a library of content was unrealistic. Sometimes there are odd fluctuations in markets. For example, the current used car market has insane values with used vehicles costing
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I don't think you should be downvoted for this, but I do think there are some reasonable responses to it. First, supporting desktop/mobile software can be hard. Customers have all sorts of weird things on their machines. iOS cuts
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If they’re creating a PIN in the app, the developer could just store that in plain text more easily than trying to derive it from the accelerometer. I think you’re right that most people probably use the same PIN for their phone and apps, b
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I think that logically, it doesn't make sense for Maine to change its laws to allow this to move forward. It's worth $1.5B and there are about 1.5M people in Maine. That's $1,000 per resident. Given that there are costs to ex
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I think some of the value of Cockroach Serverless may depend on what the RUs (request units) map to. Looking at some competitors... Google says that Cloud Spanner should get you around 7,000 read queries per second and 1,800 write queries p
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The issue is that companies like Roku are increasingly making their money by having companies like YouTube TV pay them to carry their apps. Likewise, there are lots of things about these systems that can fall under negotiations. For example
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If Roku stopped Roku customers from using YouTube TV, it would force a lot of YouTube TV customers to either a) buy non-Roku devices; b) move to a different service like Hulu with Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling, FuboTV, etc. If Roku removed
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by mdasen 5y ago
Is this a good move for Microsoft? It feels like what IBM tried with OS/2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Windows_3.x_compatibility IBM created a Windows compatibility layer. However, that meant that deve
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I think that for the first time, Apple has a real performance differentiator in its laptops. They want to highlight that. If Apple is buying Intel CPUs, there's no reason making direct performance comparisons to competitors. They'

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