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by objclxt 2y ago
> Some people prefer to handle their devices with care and expect to get longevity in return I guarantee you however carefully you are handling your device it is a world apart from a datacenter.
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by objclxt 2y ago
> It does seem to very much just be at the consumer level. We've still got servers chugging away in datacenters that are pushing 15 years old and still have several years of life left in them. The datacenter is temperature controlle
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by objclxt 2y ago
The entry-level 2014 Mac Mini had a launch price of 499 EUR, I'm not sure it was ever that cheap new. If anything the price has deflated.
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by objclxt 2y ago
> question: isn't arm somewhat apple? Not for decades. Apple sold its stake in ARM when Steve Jobs came back, they needed the money to keep the company going.
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by objclxt 2y ago
> Can you explain your thinking as to how and why it might work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution ...has a good summary of how it works in a number of countries.
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by objclxt 2y ago
> It looks like Visa debit fees are about $0.21 + 0.05%. Compare that to cash handling... Debit fees are that low because of the Durbin Amendment, which legislated caps on debit card fees (amongst other things). Credit card fees are wher
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by objclxt 2y ago
> when they do go into the office, they’re just having Zoom calls in the office instead. That’s what Amazon is trying to fix here. Not really. At a company the size of Amazon teams are often in other buildings, if not other cities or cou
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by objclxt 2y ago
> Is "musicians who don't even know the genre they'll use professionally yet" a valid market in the first place? That's not really Teenage Engineering's primary market, in the same way Rolex's primary m
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by objclxt 2y ago
> I don’t know if this is standard for software This is pretty standard. There is almost identical language in the Windows and macOS EULAs, for example.
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by objclxt 2y ago
> I was really hoping Portal was going to catch on, I really liked it and found it to be a great home VC platform. I worked on Portal and it came down to: 1. Cambridge Analytica. It is difficult to persuade people - and the media - you c
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by objclxt 2y ago
> They do this on earth every time they fuel the rocket. I understand it will be more difficult in space, but I don’t see why specifically this problem is the real engineering target over say, reuse. The article goes into this in some de
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by objclxt 2y ago
> this is why crypto never took off as a replacement for credit cards If this were true you would expect crypto to have taken off in countries with low interchange rates. Europe, for example, has far less of a rewards and points culture
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by objclxt 2y ago
> a lot of transaction data is already leaked to wallet providers (Google, Apple, Samsung) […] Note that these wallets get access to ALL card transactions, including physical card swipes, and not just those conducted via their platform.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> I wonder what would happen if the US gave these assurances then broke them ? The English courts are permitted to take into account whether assurances for previous extraditions have been complied with: > When considering the adequacy
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by objclxt 3y ago
> I'd go further, we've turned a celebration of ignorance around cybersecurity and dismissive attitudes into virtuous slogans. > "Don't make me think" - Krug That quote has nothing to do with cybersecurity, it
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by objclxt 3y ago
> I can accept that... if it's said how exactly. You are assuming that Spotify is just the consumer facing app, but it's not. It's far more. You've got all the bits of Spotify you don't see. Like: * Apps and in
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by objclxt 3y ago
> When I was junior I used to buy this explanation, but 9,000 developers is probably more then are actually working on huge projects like Linux They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 employees.
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by objclxt 3y ago
You realize the patent you’re referring to was a design patent, not a utility patent? They are very different, the former only covers look and feel, not method.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> While they sit there holding my passport hostage, scrolling through who knows what data Legally it's their passport, not yours. A passport is the property of the US government at all times.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> Maybe every response can be reviewed by a much simpler and specialised baby-sitter LLM? This doesn't really work in practice because you can just craft a prompt that fools both.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> Did you miss what the article says? Yes, I read it, including the bit that said the Irish government told Apple their tax affairs were legal. Apple paid taxes according to the laws that Ireland had at the time. The issue is not that Ap
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by objclxt 3y ago
> It's pretty unlikely this film will make $30 million It would easily have made $30 million worldwide. Almost certainly domestic. You could question whether it would have made its budget back (70 million) on domestic, but for a fam
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by objclxt 3y ago
> Like bombing every location someone transmits from? This is a Medium Wave service, it doesn’t work that way. The signals are reflected by the ionosphere, you can broadcast from thousands of miles away. Nobody is going to be bombing Cyp
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by objclxt 3y ago
It’s a bargain compared to their Series C valuation in 2021 of $1.5 billion.
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by objclxt 3y ago
Yes, that's why I said "part owned". 40% of Epic is owned by Tencent.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> the fact that they are trying to break the Gplay/Apply monopoly shows that the Epic games leadership are not corporate piranhas like Unity's. Epic is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it be
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by objclxt 3y ago
> Take the record player. It looks cool. It's not even their product, it's just a white labelled version of an existing Japanese toy! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234642185324
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by objclxt 3y ago
> Would be nice if Apple Pay allowed non-visa/mc payments too. It does, a number of domestic NFC payment schemes like EFTPOS (in Canada) or Interac (in Australia) are supported. Or eMoney cards in Japan like Nanoco or Waon. It'
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by objclxt 3y ago
> Meta doesn’t even manufacture a phone Quest runs off Qualcomm chipsets, although in terms of actual units shipped Quest is a rounding error for QC.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> I have just seen that she has passed away last year at 35 years old from cancer. You’ve misread the article, she was diagnosed with cancer on 2003 aged 35, and died this year aged 55.

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