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by pja 6y ago
It's not the stockholders fault that all these clearing intermediaries use shitty fragile risk models that haven't accounted for rare events and instead of facing the music they've artificially turned the marketplace for the
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by pja 6y ago
That figure doesn’t pass the smell test. I think you’re confusing the cost of a phase III trial with the total end-to-end cost of developing new drugs. Injecting 30,000 people twice with a vaccine & tracking their post injection experie
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by pja 6y ago
> but if you're compiling on your laptop all day I'd expect much worse battery life than Apple's M1 laptops. On the flip side, you get 8 full fat cores instead of 4 fast & 4 not so fast, so your compile jobs might go a
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by pja 6y ago
One would hope that a CPU from 2020 would be faster than one shipped in 2015! As I said, the M1 is a /great/ CPU. But the numbers are marketing numbers & should be treated as such. The same goes for the CPU in your XPS. It was
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by pja 6y ago
The M1 peaks at about 27W at max compute load. Apple TDPs are like Intel TDPs - they’re a benchmarking number pulled out of the air for marketing reasons that have at best a tenuous relationship with reality. (This is not to undermine the f
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by pja 6y ago
On my Android phone if you open the camera App there's a Google Lens icon at top left next to the menu hamburger icon.
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by pja 6y ago
As a specific example, Disney released the data for rendering a single shot from Moana a couple of years ago. You can download it here: https://www.disneyanimation.com/data-sets/?drawer=/resources... Uncompressed,
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by pja 6y ago
They were all retired IIRC & they waited until the statute of limitations for those crimes had passed before revealing themselves. So it would have been difficult for the government to meaningfully retaliate without making significant c
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by pja 6y ago
This article leads to an obvious question: does Eroom’s Law apply as much to the sciences as a whole as it does to pharmaceutical drug discovery? Are we seeing the same dynamics play out in both cases?
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by pja 6y ago
I think your numbers are off by about a factor of 3-5 or so.
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by pja 6y ago
Search works for me but it thinks I’m logged out - it just prompted me with the 'please agree to our T+Cs' dialog.
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by pja 6y ago
It’s a clean slate API by the same industry group that’s lower level than OpenGL.
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by pja 6y ago
Yes, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is much cheaper: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/astra-oxf...
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by pja 6y ago
They also tried 2 different dose regimens, one of which had 90% efficacy. The 70% figure is the weighted mean of the two I think.
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by pja 6y ago
This site is doing nothing but embedding the original Tweet: https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr/status/1330202709203578882
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by pja 6y ago
Fair. I think you’re expected to float the selection into a new layer and then move the layer, but this is such a common operation for people to want that it ought to be directly available from the Move tool.
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by pja 6y ago
Can they though? I'll admit it's a long time since I've sat in front of a Photoshop window, but I remember it being just as complex to use. Is this just partially a "what you're used to is easy & anything differ
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by pja 6y ago
But Appoogle together clearly form a duopoly that does have monopoly power over the market. And they both charge 30% to App devs for the privilege of selling Apps on their respective platforms: coincidence or price collusion? Well it certai
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by pja 6y ago
My personal comparison is between the HumbleBundle store and the HumbleBundle payments widget. The rake on the former, where HumbleBundle brings the customer? 25% The rake on the latter, where the game dev embeds the widget on their own web
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by pja 6y ago
Apple has bought off small App vendors in order to protect the 30% rake they take from the big sellers: That you’re happy with the change is not exactly surprising is it? Who wouldn’t be happy being told they’re getting a 21% revenue increa
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by pja 6y ago
I came up with it on the fly, but it was inspired by FAANG & similar terms. Surprised it’s that unique tbh!
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by pja 6y ago
I tried both ways, but decided that one didn’t quite trip off the tongue as well :)
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by pja 6y ago
It’s a mix of things I believe. Apple insists on owning the entire customer relationship, preventing an App owner from directly communicating with their users. From Apple’s point of view, this was probably a deliberate business decision: be
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by pja 6y ago
That would actually be a substantive change that would genuinely change the App market dynamics. This ... is not that.
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by pja 6y ago
And how many of those are installed on the average US Android phone exactly? What happens to a phone manufacturer who ships a phone with an alternate App store?
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by pja 6y ago
Sure, I refer you to a comment I made in a previous thread about mobile payment revenue shares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23583011 As a point of reference, HumbleBundle charges 5% for the Humble payment widget. T
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by pja 6y ago
Appoogle are a duopoly. You can’t get significant sales on mobile phones without going through their respective App Stores, which both charge 30%. What a coincidence! Your comparisons with book publishers are specious: if I write a book tod
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by pja 6y ago
I’m seeing a lot of positive comments on HN about this: to me it seems to be purely a cynical piece of PR on Apple’s part. They hope to significantly reduce the pressure on politicians to take a close look at their App store practices by si
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by pja 6y ago
The Ryzen 9 is a 16 (32 hyperthreads) core CPU, the A14 is a 2 big / 4 little core CPU. Power draw on an integer workload per thread seems roughly equivalent.
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by pja 6y ago
True! I was (inappropriately) thinking of SS as a combination of both.

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