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UK’s battle with Apple over EU citizens app
1 points by tolien 8y ago|0 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
Intel and AMD have sold hardware as lower SKUs than binned in order to meet demand too. Intel’s also sold upgrades [1] that unlocked features that were already in the CPU. I guess the closer analogy to CPU binning would be if they found a
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Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues(macrumors.com)
1 points by tolien 8y ago|0 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
The argument I think you’re alluding to is that rather than employees petitioning Amazon not to sell the government facial recognition technology, they should petition for Amazon (among others) to lobby government to restrict its use (data
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Scottish Power shifts to 100% wind generation after £700m Drax sale(theguardian.com)
2 points by tolien 8y ago|0 comments
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“I leave the car at home”: how free buses are revolutionising one French city(theguardian.com)
20 points by tolien 8y ago|2 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
Agreed - my point has a lot of hand waving, and have a +1 for it staying civil too :) I would probably argue that integrating more (oxymoronically) “smart” stuff into TVs might have made them less efficient too but it probably helped becaus
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by tolien 8y ago
> You don't know much corporate environment, at least you give off such an impression. Based on one post, where I point out TCO is not significantly driven by hardware purchase price? Ok then. Anyway, the argument of lower TCO cited
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by tolien 8y ago
The original point was the Jevin paradox, which says that increased efficiency leads to more efficient consumption. We’re now going round in circles about the causes of the decline of CRTs relative to flat panels, which is definitely a dive
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by tolien 8y ago
> I don't agree that energy efficiencies is what have lead to larger displays That wasn’t my point, and was why I originally said that you and Sharlin seemed to be talking past each other. LCDs took off because of their physical adv
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by tolien 8y ago
If the machine is more expensive to buy but significantly less expensive to manage (if, say, OS updates don’t delete all your data necessitating hours of recovery), the total cost goes down. The initial purchase price of a machine is near-i
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by tolien 8y ago
And therefore more people have >=1 of the LCD, which is exactly the point… Likewise, people used to have one TV. Now, a significant majority have multiple. Not because they’re more energy efficient but the effect is the same.
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by tolien 8y ago
You’re still missing the point, which was that new technologies enable new uses that consume the energy efficiency gains made over their predecessors. TFTs, being thinner/cooler/more efficient than CRTs, allow bigger and more comm
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by tolien 8y ago
On the bigger TVs point, you’re sort of talking past each other. Noone* is buying a bigger TV because it suddenly fits within some power budget but nobody* would have bought a 60” CRT that heated the room like an oven. Nowadays, you’ll stru
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Extreme heat of Vesuvius eruption vaporized body fluids, exploded skulls(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tolien 8y ago|0 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
The missing part of your analogy is that in a safety-critical scenario like that, there's no way that the update to the car would be delivered alongside a change to make the UI go dark at night or a completely-rewritten version of the
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Tonight a Virgin Atlantic 747 will fly on fuel made from industrial waste gas(arstechnica.com)
4 points by tolien 8y ago|0 comments
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Trump admin claims Calif. net neutrality law causes “irreparable harm” to US(arstechnica.com)
5 points by tolien 8y ago|1 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
If the mandate (whether by regulatory or insurer/market force - we’ve established that the providers don’t want any kind of standardisation or data transfer, the hypothetical I’m proposing is that they’re dragged into doing it) is th
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by tolien 8y ago
I suppose the obvious answer is to require them to pay — as you say, it becomes a political problem for politicians to write law mandating it and the providers to lobby for it not to be forced. The closest analogy I can think of is the Data
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by tolien 8y ago
There’s a risk that your money isn’t covered by the deposit protection schemes of either country, so if the bank goes bust you lose the lot. Even if you are covered, the amount you get back could be limited. With that factor built in 6-9% d
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Crowdfunding raises millions for quack cancer remedies, like coffee enemas(arstechnica.com)
10 points by tolien 8y ago|1 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
> Note-taking should be a simple matter And yet EN on a number of occasions had (probably still has) sync bugs that lost either parts of notes or entire notes.
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British cave diver sues Elon Musk for defamation over “pedo guy” tweets(arstechnica.com)
8 points by tolien 8y ago|3 comments
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by tolien 8y ago
> BSkyB is a fixed line broadband provider, but in the UK it's usual for the ISP to supply the router Yeah, this is where the “IPv6 is different^Wcomplicated to set up” argument falls flat for me. For most (consumer) users (at least
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by tolien 8y ago
I doubt core engineers were working on Skitch either (for one, it was an acquisition), but GGP still points out that Evernote lacked (still lacks?) focus. Selling branded stuff (they also did business card holders and bags) is another piece
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by tolien 8y ago
> a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps Never mind random apps, what about socks ? [1] 1: https://mashable.com/2013/09/26/evernote-market/
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by tolien 8y ago
He might not have the skills to be a manager, but I’d like to think after the time he’s been there he could be doing a role that better uses his experience in exchange for more money/benefits than someone who started today. Hell, maybe
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by tolien 8y ago
Thanks, and agreed. It was my first Ubnt gear, and I suspect it will be my last. It was so much cheaper than some of the alternatives though (that should probably have been a red flag…) but firmware that’s at best in continuous beta reall
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by tolien 8y ago
Open to the idea I’ve got a different issue, but I’m still seeing an issue with 1.10.5.

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