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by sfifs 5y ago
Presumably the person and more importantly the lawyer who have decided that it is worth suing Apple over just 25k worth of damages have the wherewithal to take this all the way to the supreme court. Incentives in class action suits work wei
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by sfifs 5y ago
Tabla - the Indian percussion instrument (the one usually played by the dominant/right hand) is definitely tuned and often fine-tuned between songs. Professional players often carry a few differently tuned ones to concerts and switches
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by sfifs 5y ago
You're over thinking it. Stock in the these banks are majority held by the Governments and the rest largely by individuals/mutual funds/pension funds. So when these loans become "non-performing", the people left hol
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by sfifs 5y ago
I wonder how nations will react to such abuse going forward now that UK is no longer in EU. It should be pretty straightforward now for countries to outright ban any investment or cash flow from UK based entities. Nobody's now going to
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by sfifs 5y ago
It isn't. The only major countries in the world iPhone approaches 50% are US, UK, JP and the Gulf oil states.
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by sfifs 5y ago
> Actually doing it is important. “I can go to the moon anytime I want” stops being true after a solid generation of not doing it. There is institutional knowledge in doing something in the present world. Further, specs and documents are
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by sfifs 6y ago
Not expanding iMessage and Facetime to other OSes when they had the chance was the single most foolish strategic decision Apple ever took. It's what allowed Whatsapp and WeChat and Line and Snapchat and Slack and Teams and Zoom even In
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by sfifs 6y ago
One of the things that has never failed to amaze me is why are police and fire departments locally run in the US vs. run by the state with federal checks and balances. It's almost a given that smaller places either cannot afford the r
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by sfifs 6y ago
There's a long way to go and it's not very clear who will prevail. In general in US jurisprudence, "consumer welfare" is the key consideration in antitrust over the last few decades and monopolization and vertical integr
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by sfifs 6y ago
Years of Google engineers squeezing performance for JavaScript heavy web pages maybe?
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by sfifs 6y ago
It's difficult to argue with ideology amd frankly the shenanigans of the less ethical parts of the digital ads industry haven't helped, but if you get the chance or inclination to research advertising from the early days of invent
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by sfifs 6y ago
Compared to the best mids of previous generations making things that would blast civilization back to stone age in matter of minutes, I'd say this is progress :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
It turns out people don't really search for most of the things that are out there to sell - cola, soap, milk, chocolate, candy, fuel. Yes some people do search and research these things but compared to the number of people who buy thes
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by sfifs 6y ago
I'm getting Hitchhiker's Guide vibes from this (Great Ventilation and Telephone Riots of SrDt 3454). I had no idea the book was this close to reality :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
> There just isn't enough money for the same number of fabs at the bleeding edge. There definitely is but it will come at the cost of share buy backs and keeping share price up which affects compensation of management. Failure to ke
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by sfifs 6y ago
Also note that as far as hardware production is concerned, Tesla is the only company on that list that actually manufacturers anything at scale in the US anymore.
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by sfifs 6y ago
Here's the paper http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/2021/vohra_2021_ff... This has models layered on models layered on meta-analyses of transfer functions and there appears to be no validation at all.
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by sfifs 6y ago
Well empirically, most restaurants (at least where i live) did not deliver at all or beyond the immediate vicinity or required an insane minimum order size to deliver before these apps came. Now i can get what i want affordably from the pla
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by sfifs 6y ago
Nope. WhatsApp can only potentially read your group messages since 1:1 messages are end to end encrypted. You shouldn't spread FUD
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by sfifs 6y ago
> But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech It turns out that people who are highly fluent in a language with a compact alphabet like English prefer sending text ch
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by sfifs 6y ago
> I would add however, that you can reach out and touch an atom with a certain definition of touch (as touch is mostly a macroscopic concept). Don't be so sure... atoms and even relatively large molecules definitely experimentally e
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by sfifs 6y ago
> It should hit them early before they are metastasized. They might try stealthy expansion, gradual probing first strategy, or modify their behavior in order to survive This essentially is the Dark Forest hypothesis explanation for the
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by sfifs 6y ago
In all energy storage tech, you're trading off energy density (eg. energy per kilogram) against power rating (energy per second that you can transfer). Then you have trade-off considerations like safety, emissions (which have a value -
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by sfifs 6y ago
If you liked this article, the author is writing a series of articles and here's the series landing page https://arstechnica.com/series/exploring-the-quantum-world/
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Exploring the Quantum World (Ars Series)(arstechnica.com)
1 points by sfifs 6y ago|0 comments
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A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot(arstechnica.com)
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Very unlikely. All oil companies see the writing on the wall for gasoline powered daily consumer vehicles especially in urbanized areas and that electric vehicles sometime over next 5 to 10 years will tip over as significantly more economic
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by sfifs 6y ago
> The permissiveness of open source was one thought to be "we can all succeed together" and what people get upset about is the fact that this obviously violates that spirit. I don't actually agree AWS violates the spirit o
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Anthony Levandowski received a full pardon from Trump(bbc.com)
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A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 2: The particle melting pot(arstechnica.com)
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