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by smackfu 11y ago
For instance, none of the third-party Twitter apps show ads. And that's exactly the part of the app that would have a lot of A/B testing and new features.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yes, a current AT&T phone bill for a 64GB iPhone line looks like this: Mobile Share Value iPhone: $40 Discount for Mobile Share Value Savings: $-25 Equipment Charge ($749 financed over 24 months): $31.21 If you were on contract, the sec
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. First, Apple includes AppleCare+. Valuing that is a bit difficult, since it is normally $100 but that gives you two years of benefits (including a warranty for year two), and for Apple's pla
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by smackfu 11y ago
They actually did something similar to that a couple of years ago. If you switched your family plan to Mobile Share from a contract, they gave you the off-contract $25 discount per phone immediately instead of when the contract expired. Y
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by smackfu 11y ago
IIRC, because last time they tried using SHA-2, it broke a lot of OS X apps that were using an embedded older version of OpenSSL that didn't support it.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Assume that to use a patent you pay a licensing fee. Assume that the licensing fee is a percentage of the selling price for the product (because only a fool is paid a percentage of profit.) Assume that someone does not license your patent
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by smackfu 11y ago
So it turns out that guy messed up the SpaceX plot (the distance downrange was doubled), and posted a corrected one to reddit: http://i.imgur.com/Z81NgAk.png
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by smackfu 11y ago
Of course startups are a special case, since they often do not last long enough to require a laptop refresh policy at all.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Someone tried, it didn't go so well: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/san-franciscos-luxur...
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by smackfu 11y ago
I wonder if the increased length and cost has made it increasingly irrelevant. It's $175 to get a copy now.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The trick is to convince other people to let you manage their money. If you have a good track record, and attract people with a lot of money to invest, you start making a lot of money off the management fees. Half a percent adds up when i
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by smackfu 11y ago
If you double-tap on a fixed-width viewport page in iOS Safari today, it scrolls the page so the content you tapped is centered. The blog post doesn't mention this, but obviously they need to remove that behavior if they are no long d
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by smackfu 11y ago
If you look at the PDF, there is a surprising amount of calculations on how dangerous a 250 g drone could be.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Heh, they actually do that calculation in the task force report, from the max allowed height.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Here's what the industry task force that came up with the suggested registration requirements said in their report: The Task Force spent considerable time discussing and deliberating about what the appropriate weight threshold should
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by smackfu 11y ago
The readers I've seen in the US are a bit slow. And sometimes you run into ones where you insert your card and then the clerk says "that's not turned on yet", but that will shake itself out. Haven't seen any issue
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by smackfu 11y ago
Video title: "Fusion reactor designed in hell makes its debut"
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yes but they aren't hiring.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The obvious question is, if it is so clever, why is it plan B?
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by smackfu 11y ago
If your spouse wasn't on Facebook, would she not hear about the bad news, or would she hear about it from friends & family via phone calls and in person instead? Facebook might be more efficient, but people did communicate before
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by smackfu 11y ago
Companies make as much money as they can.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yes, first came "inbox zero" as a concept (2006) then came Mailbox (Jan 2013) then came Google Inbox (Oct 2014).
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yeah, The Box is a good read. A few years old now.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Isn't landline better quality than cell?
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's related to a productivity strategy called "inbox zero" where you immediately deal with every email in your inbox when you check your mail. "Deal with" might be to delete it if it's junk, respond immediate
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by smackfu 11y ago
It seems like if you are calling another network, your network should be able to terminate your HD voice call at the edge, and you would still get at least wired telephone quality.
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by smackfu 11y ago
We have AT&T HD Voice here, it's very impressive if you manage to have two people on new iPhones (6 or better).
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by smackfu 11y ago
What do you mean by political offices? In most of the country, those are not elected positions.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's a new redesign: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9398895/facebook-notes-red...
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by smackfu 11y ago
OTOH, I feel like if people today proposed that trucks leave unattended packages outside people's door, it would be dismissed as unworkable. But it happens constantly with minimal problems. There aren't as many bad people in the

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