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by roc 13y ago
The claimed performance would provide a huge competitive advantage. If it worked as advertised and Apple had control over it, they'd integrate the software into their products and this box would never see the light of day as a third
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by roc 13y ago
Political journalism in the US has been meta for so long, I don't think they even know the difference anymore.
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by roc 13y ago
They don't need excuses anymore. That's the point. They can just do it, and when Netflix says "hey, we use that legitimately" the ISP can say "and if you pay us, we'll loosen the restriction, for you, for the t
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by roc 13y ago
> "This is where the beauty of popcorn time just shines because it's the same amount of data but it's coming from everywhere." The net neutrality decision not only opens the door to monopolists 'shaping' t
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by roc 13y ago
> "One of the classic signs of a conspiracy theory is that it is not falsifiable" The assertions raised absolutely are falsifiable. You just need to bring the proper data to do so. The original assertion is that Google&#x27
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by roc 13y ago
A shortage of qualified candidates is an indicator that your stated salary range doesn't line up with the market rate for your job description.
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by roc 13y ago
Contemporary TV show protagonists have had bluetooth earpieces for years now and (nearly) no-one wants to look like that either.
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by roc 13y ago
When someone has a 'session' with a wearable that involves anything more than the the most minimal of operations [1], I feel like that's the "stylus moment" [2]. Sure, there are narrow use cases when 'interacti
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by roc 13y ago
Armchair speculation is perhaps the most common, most universal game humans play. It really shouldn't be a surprise.
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by roc 13y ago
If you were a nation-state you could just create a start-up 'front' company, seeded with laundered money, and hire the best of those that apply. And if you didn't have the money to actually continue funding a start-up, you
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by roc 13y ago
I have no problem with States Rights. I have a problem with people trying to dress up naked self-interest and practical politics by saying "States Rights". Mostly, transparent attempts to restrict services and rights from subsets
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by roc 13y ago
The market's been sending that same message for years . Security is a cost center and potential source of user-friction. User Data Integrity is a "nice to have". Privacy is considered only from the angle of "what can
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by roc 13y ago
It's an evergreen attempt to cloak plain-ole self-interest-and-politics in more-noble-sounding attire. (Not unlike "States' Rights")
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by roc 13y ago
I don't even think a stronger safety net would have helped in this case. It sounds like she simply wasn't interested in changing anything and that just doesn't work when you have to move and have to change your lifestyl
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by roc 13y ago
For what it's worth, I've had horrible performance in the iTunes App Store since my first day with my first iPhone. And the switch to the new store 'style', heavy on pop-ups instead of directing to distinct pages, has b
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by roc 13y ago
I read it as: hold-to-Siri is just "the way" to use Siri now. If hold-to-Siri is optional for power-users, advertising it like that doesn't feel Apple-like. Having it seems fine; Apple does that plenty. But advertising a
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by roc 13y ago
iTunes Music has been horrible for this. I'll stream some music, then hit pause and walk away for a while. When I come back and hit play, most times it'll play out the buffer and then decide it has no internet connection, fixable
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by roc 13y ago
It sounds like they changed the UX entirely. Sure, that's not the same as solving the technical problem of "when to stop listening". But it's solving the user problem of "it doesn't know when to stop listening
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by roc 13y ago
This reads more like the recent Net Neutrality decision than anything else. It's less "Drones are free to operate commercially" and more "If the FAA wants to regulate (commercial) drones separately for any other model ai
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by roc 13y ago
To say nothing of how we're supposed to take his denial of being Satoshi, as evidence of his being Satoshi. That catch-22 (he either admits it or you take his denial as admission) would give you a false positive rate of damn near 100
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by roc 13y ago
Because the newspaper, landmark, and the photo itself would all leak information that very well might point to them. If you were the real Satoshi, and you took your anonymity seriously, why would you particularly care if the press had d
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by roc 13y ago
It's important to remember Icahn is advocating what is good for his shares , not even "shareholders" in general. What he pushes for can be objectively bad for other shareholders whose positions aren't sufficiently simil
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by roc 13y ago
Well, they would, if they weren't fiercely denying any fact that might undercut the pitch that got them on board: "fiat currency bad. mathematically-enforced deflation good!"
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by roc 13y ago
Again, how many joggers or cyclists are interested in spot-data during a run? EDIT: to clarify: it's not just "hands busy, can't type". It's "hands busy, can't type, but would benefit from concurrent comp
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by roc 13y ago
Earbuds, no. But wearing glass is much more visible -- more of an asserted statement. It's currently more like wearing over-ear headphones in public. Which is done by only a vanishing minority. As glass becomes smaller, I'd imag
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by roc 13y ago
Which is useful the first few times someone is in a new area. Which doesn't describe enough people often enough to normalize wearing a computer on your face. Particularly when we all have pocket computers which can do much the same t
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by roc 13y ago
> "how shall I maintain my faith that bitcoin has a value these others don't" If you believe currency value derives from scarcity, you should never have believed bitcoin had any particular value. If you believe value de
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by roc 13y ago
> "The way I would account for human behavior is to intelligently disable certain functionality as the car is moving. " This is about the only way to enable intelligent control over device functionality. Absent this additio
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by roc 13y ago
“The story itself is irrelevant, it’s simply how the story is presented—which is why any unbiased, objective and wholly factual news article on the event would be (and is) allowed in /r/news.” That's an awfully hazardous li
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by roc 13y ago
Not much different from other 'desirable' industries. e.g. entertainment

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