wklauss

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by wklauss 2y ago
> Apple's all products can easily be replaced. Interesting. I perceive it exactly the opposite way. Apple products are hard to replace due to ecosystem advantage while everybody (Apple included!) is already working on building hardw
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by wklauss 3y ago
How? The board won't remove Elon. Tanking the stock price won't hurt him much (but it will hurt shareholders)
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by wklauss 3y ago
Better integration? nicer or more powerful device? som exclusive apps or servcies? Same as today... Android phones do most of the same things an iPhone does but people who choose iPhone have their reasons to do so.
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by wklauss 3y ago
Apple is doing it, but doubt they'll use something in-house that's still very much a work in progress when they can actually get paid by Google to use Gemini this year.
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by wklauss 4y ago
The novel 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson, explores this idea and has a fun chapter describing the process of hollowing out and terraforming an asteroid, using the ejecta to give it artificial gravity and a stable orbit in the solar system. H
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by wklauss 4y ago
All of these things you mention are real trends, but they are not tied to eSIM. 1. eSIM standard supports transferring of eSIM profile from one phone to another. physical SIMs can be tied to specific IMEIs (and it use to be VERY common) 2.
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by wklauss 4y ago
> Yes, let's blame the consumer. Yes, let's. I don't think an argument can be held against this. As a meat eater, I understand I'm the driving force of this issue. It's an inconvenient truth, but it is the truth
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by wklauss 4y ago
> Obviously this would have an impact on the ecosystem Anticipating the impact is probably a fool's errand, since climate is extremely complex and changes on one part of the world affect others. It's not just about displacing p
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by wklauss 5y ago
How do you explain Putin's speech at the beginning of the conflict, claiming a return to previous imperial Russia borders? Or the fact that a quick celebratory article explaining Russians, Belarusians and Ukranians where united again w
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by wklauss 5y ago
Russian TV channels have not been banned. Two propaganda channels have. Might look like semantics, but it's not. The fact that Russia 1 or NTV have not been banned is important. In Germany they have very strict laws against the use of
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by wklauss 5y ago
> Sony paid 20x less for Bungie. What they lack in variety of products, they make up for in, in my view, Potential. Not really. Destiny has a smaller audience than CoD, and Activision Blizzard is a huge purchase with lots a of valuable I
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by wklauss 5y ago
Yes, and to think otherwise is extremely naive. I see this as another manifestation of the paradox of tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance That doesn't mean that companies should be free f
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by wklauss 5y ago
I got caught by surprise trying to play Ori on Xbox Cloud after having no problem at all with Cyberpunk on Stadia.
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by wklauss 5y ago
Xbox Cloud Gaming, unfortunately, it's far from ideal. For several games, lag kills the experience. And I'm not talking fast paced FPS. Even platformers can feel weird or unplayable when you add latency.
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WhatsApp breaks App Store guidelines by limiting functionality(applescoop.org)
3 points by wklauss 5y ago|1 comments
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by wklauss 5y ago
yes but if you just want to find where someone leves or goes, you don't need a device following them for a year. Ar day or two is enough, and GPS trackers give you that and a much greater accuracy.
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by wklauss 5y ago
Well, the problem here is that there's no easy way to prevent false positives otherwise. Imagine if you leave your phone at home but take your keys with an AirTag to go shopping using public transportation. Everyone on the bus or the t
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by wklauss 5y ago
Most tech reviewers publish the reviews right after the Apple embargo ends or just a couple of days after getting the product. For something like AirTags, where you want to try more complex usage scenarios, this is not optimal. Keep in mind
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by wklauss 7y ago
That 2%-5% is based on the current detected cases and deaths attributed to the virus. You can sense where the problem is. Much like the flu, most of the deaths are older people with weak inmune systems that go haywire. Right now, out of an
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by wklauss 7y ago
> the economic consequences will be disastrous. I seriously doubt it will. Once the panic subdues, things will go back to pretty much normal. Flu kills a lot of people every year without serious effects on the worldwide economy. You&#x27
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by wklauss 7y ago
The fact that we are discussing a published article seems to suggest somebody wants to talk about it. Also, non renewable sources of energy produce a ton of waste as well! Petroleum refining, for example, is notoriously wasteful. More info:
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by wklauss 7y ago
> Project Fi isn't supposed to work with Apple phones. Turns out that it does work, somewhat. I hear there's limitations (it only uses the T-Mobile network, none of the international data works) I have been using Google Fi on i
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by wklauss 7y ago
They are, even at a more local level. New York City, for example, has a free pre-k (4yo) program. But in order to be effective, some of these policies need to be applied nationwide. In other cases, state budgets are simply too constrained f
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by wklauss 7y ago
>"Altogether, parties supporting Catalan independence received 48 percent of the vote." > 48>40 Support for independence and voting share of parties supporting Catalan independence are two different things. Heavily correl
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by wklauss 7y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/10/1... The last wave from the Centre d'Studis d'Opinió from the Generalitat (Local Government), measures support for independence a
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by wklauss 7y ago
It is extremely misleading. Support for secession in Catalonia hovers around 40%.
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by wklauss 7y ago
> Image search has been crippled with removal of the size options One quick tip: you can still access the old image size options on the Advanced Search
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by wklauss 7y ago
> how many randomly selected people would you need to produce a score aver 200 on an IQ test, produce a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem or build something like the SpaceX Falcon. It's been proven time and again that IQ numbers are mo
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by wklauss 7y ago
When something goes against scientific stablished consensus, onus of the proof falls into the party that argues against it, not the one that states what is currently well known and accepted.
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by wklauss 7y ago
> if there's a real security risk There is, but it's not that great. You need physical access to the device and it won't be persistent (a reboot will clean it).

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