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by stirlo 8y ago
“Apple iOS bundles a spyware system module on the other hand (for China only).“ You can’t just state this as fact without any sourcing. While they may be forced to do so in the future do you have proof this is happening now?
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by stirlo 8y ago
So an iPhone SE? Or an Apple Watch with Cellular? There’s an impossible trade off between being “small” as in credit card sized and having a usable browser.
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by stirlo 8y ago
I was like WTF at this and had to google it. From Wikipedia... "Academic staff: 2,219 Administrative staff: 12,508 excluding SHC Students: 16,430" Oh how far western civilisation as fallen to end up with the statistics above. htt
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by stirlo 8y ago
It's definitely a fringe thing. "Left grassroots" is fringe already.
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by stirlo 8y ago
These scooters are around $400, unless you're using them for a commute its quite a few rides to recoup the purchase cost. Then there's the ability to ride it one way and just leave it without worrying about having it stolen or dam
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by stirlo 8y ago
The issue isn't what google allows/prohibits, its that any new autonomous vehicle company could quickly amass a similar data set to street view and nullify googles 10 plus year investment driving non autonomous cars around to capt
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by stirlo 8y ago
I feel the kind of consumers able to afford space tourist flights would also do extensive research before putting down their money. Forming a perception based on some amusing YouTube videos should surely be discounted by a myriad of other f
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by stirlo 8y ago
Bezos’s “play money” is a far larger pile than SpaceX will accumulate from operations. Hopefully both can succeed.
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by stirlo 8y ago
Good to see improvements in the keyboard, surprising they didn’t just go back to the pre 2015 version which has no issues at all though
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by stirlo 8y ago
There’s a screenshot showing bikes selling for $199 RMB ($30USD) in China. With a $49SGD ($36USD) deposit they could afford to buy one for every user and still have cash left over.
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by stirlo 8y ago
I'm sure Apple does too, the only difference is they test internally and squash them before the public knows about them rather than letting them fail in the marketplace.
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by stirlo 8y ago
You've just been lucky so far. All those photos, serial numbers and the likes will mean almost zero to ebay if a buyer ever raises a dispute.
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by stirlo 8y ago
Of course, the Nexus 4 cost $299 on launch
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by stirlo 8y ago
“Even the most technically illiterate users recognize that stock Android (whether they know what that means) is vastly superior to the Samsung Galaxy Whatever they just traded in.” Not even close to reality. Tech savvy users recognise stock
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by stirlo 8y ago
Having ridden on the Changsha Maglev I wouldn't suggest its a very well refined design. Lots of shuddering and certainly didn't seem designed for anything much more than commuter speed.
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by stirlo 8y ago
There's 75 on that chart out the "600 currently popular phones" A bunch of them are obsolete windows phones and variants of low end ones. Under 5% by sales seems reasonable to me.
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by stirlo 8y ago
What percentage of phones are sold with removable batteries these days? <5% would be my guess. Kind of irrelevant information really. Just stick to "Buy an external USB battery pack for $20 and remember to bring your charging cable
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by stirlo 8y ago
It was leaked to the New York Times (sanctioned leak?) that it was a collaboration of USA and Israel. Not sure where France comes into it...
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by stirlo 8y ago
I'm very sure I could find all of these on eBay with minimal effort. eBays experience maybe slightly worse than Amazon but I'm not paying $120 a year for it...
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by stirlo 8y ago
Most prime subscribers would have these subscriptions as well as Prime so it's not really a saving, just some bonus content.
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by stirlo 8y ago
I wouldn't consider Netflix and Amazon Prime Video comparable. Netflix has around 10x the content whenever I look whereas amazon has The Grand Tour, The Man in the High Castle and not much else. I can't see many people having Pri
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by stirlo 8y ago
At what point will customers start to say “maybe paying for shipping/driving to the store” isn’t that bad? This is a 50% increase in price since Prime got started and if you’re not getting something delivered every fortnight probably c
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by stirlo 9y ago
While for absolute privacy this makes sense, from a lazy ISP dev perspective, why log packets/IPs if you can get marketing data straight from your DNS servers? Surely ISPs have taken this easy approach while encryption has been only f
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by stirlo 9y ago
The value of the 100+ they have already purchased will drop at least 20% if Airbus were to cease production. Hence this move to prop up their value
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by stirlo 9y ago
Seems like the bare minimum face saving order they could make. Still wouldn’t consider this anything but a token gesture to try to hold up the value of their existing purchase. A380 is headed to the graveyard soon rather than later
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by stirlo 9y ago
An accidental launch from Russia/China/India/Packistan is more likely than North Korea waking up one day with a death wish IMO
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by stirlo 9y ago
If this is true the caller has to be tried for murder
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by stirlo 9y ago
Yeah I was surprised, Only 1.5K cheaper when the iHac is missing ECC, Xeon, 5K and Thunderbolt 3. Considering Apple likes to make 30-40% margins the Mac Pro seems not unreasonably priced at all
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by stirlo 9y ago
The issue is it's extremely easy to hide foreign ownership through trusts, companies and relatives who are Australian residents. Anyone with a the means to pay top dollar for an investment property can easily afford hiring the right pe
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by stirlo 9y ago
The opinions of 1 powerless individual in a liberal democracy cannot be equated to the systematic oppression by the government and majority of the population in countries such as SA. Comments like yours seek to further a false equivalence.

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