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by objclxt 6y ago
> If it is shipping with Android 8 - an old version of Android Blame Qualcomm. If you’re a OEM with comparatively low volumes there is very little leverage you have to get your SOC vendor to give you the latest updates. When I worked on
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by objclxt 6y ago
Those self-reporting spreadsheets aren't worth the paper they're not printed on. FAANG companies are not hiring H1-B's because it's cheaper. I have been a hiring manager at a couple of FAANG companies, and I can tell you
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by objclxt 6y ago
Unlikely - being able to have full control of your roadmap is a huge strategic advantage. Profits and revenue are nice, but if Apple was interested in that they could dual source x86 from AMD and drive cost down. You don’t think companies l
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by objclxt 6y ago
> but clearly as was shown with Microsoft in the 90s, they could be forced to allow competition on their devices But as the parent comment you're replying to said, the situations aren't comparable. Microsoft had over 90% of the
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by objclxt 6y ago
> I have trouble to see the risk with processing payments for online porn. Huge number of chargebacks. A previous employer of mine had a subsidiary that handled premium rate SMS and phone call billing, a lot of which was adult services
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Since startups aren't publicly traded, I don't think insider trading laws apply to trading their securities. FAANG is legally allowed to use their access to information to make better investing decisions than other companies
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by objclxt 6y ago
I used to work at Facebook, and it was always interesting to me to see just how many engineers were actively against - aghast, even - at the idea of unions. Whenever it would come up on the internal boards the arguments were usually along t
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Facebook advertised to Walmart with union busting capabilities. Walmart has a union busting history going back 50 years minimum. I am pretty certain this particular feature went the other way around: Facebook has to work very hard to r
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by objclxt 6y ago
Any time a company asks you to forgo cash compensation for stock you should start preparing an exit strategy: this is doubly true if the stock isn't liquid. I once worked at a unicorn that a week before bonuses were due to be paid chan
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Electric cars are considerably more expensive to make and manufacturers are making big losses on the sale of each car. This is rather disingenuous. The Model 3 was one of the most popular new cars sold in the UK last year, Tesla isn’t
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by objclxt 6y ago
The IRA and its various splinter groups wanted a united Ireland. I’m not sure you can really say they got entirely what they demanded.
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Does anyone realize just how hard it is to get even $20k in funding for a hard working honest founder who is not a psychopathic manipulator It isn't that hard to get $20k in funding if your idea is halfway decent - that's not
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Democrat-associated civil rights organisations such as the ACLU There is an overlap in membership, but that doesn't always extend to policy: the ACLU sued the Obama administration over immigration, and they have backed up Rush Lim
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by objclxt 6y ago
Advertised prices in the US do not include any taxes, whereas in Europe they have to account for VAT. The average rate of VAT in Europe is around 21% - it represents the bulk of the difference in price. The rest you can put down to currency
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by objclxt 6y ago
> There's a funny name for them that I can't quite remember. It’s lenticular printing - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Where does such unpredictability come from? How can Siri transcribe the words correctly but fail to deliver the right answer? Voice assistants generally use both the text transcription and a bunch of contextual metadata as input. That
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by objclxt 6y ago
This is relatively common for big box stores, not just Walmart. Manufacturers might produce retailer specific SKUs to sell at different price points, cutting features or perhaps using lower quality parts. For example, you might get a TV tha
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by objclxt 6y ago
> I still wonder why the bowl of petunias thought that It’s covered in the third book! (Life, the Universe, and Everything)
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by objclxt 6y ago
400M/yr was just Snap’s Google Cloud spend, they also signed a 1B deal with AWS for redundancy.
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Also. There is nothing stopping someone for using this technique to publish an app in the AppStore officially. That's not accurate, the entitlements parsing logic on the App Store submission system has always caught this, it'
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by objclxt 6y ago
The rack mounted Mac Pro isn’t targeted at the server market, it’s targeted at creative industries (i.e, film/tv production, audio recording, etc) where you’d have it rackmounted into a flight case as part of a mobile post-production u
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by objclxt 6y ago
> why don't you go into govt jobs making these apps/policies and do what you believe is correct/perfect. Because that's not how bureaucracies work. > but 'lets not do it because it has potential for abuse&#x27
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by objclxt 6y ago
> Do you not think touting the horn of privacy in this crisis where everybody is unprepared is doing us any good? That's a false equivalence, there are much more private contact tracing approaches that exist today, backed by device
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by objclxt 7y ago
Photoshop and Lightroom are bundled together for $10 a month.
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by objclxt 7y ago
Yes, but it has forked so much that it bears very little resemblance to the public OSS version.
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by objclxt 7y ago
They'd be impacted if their visa is due for renewal.
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by objclxt 7y ago
> UVC kills cancer cells as well as COVID-19 It kills any cell, it's not discriminatory. Oh, and UV-C is carcinogenic. Once you understand that you might appreciate why we don't just shove a UV light up a colon.
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by objclxt 7y ago
> Facebook made $70B in 2019. This fine amounts to about 7 weeks of their time. You're talking about revenue, not income. Facebook's income in 2019 was $18.5 billion. It would be a substantial hit.
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by objclxt 7y ago
> I’m not aware VP is a mid level management job A lot of companies ( especially finance) suffer from title inflation, and also flip Director and VP (i.e, Director is a higher rank than VP). For example, at Goldman Sachs 30% of all emp
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by objclxt 7y ago
Depends what you mean by "similar issues" If you mean "a bunch of relatively new Android phones not getting security updates because their manufacturer doesn't support them", then yes. Apple is actively providing no

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