wklauss

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by wklauss 9y ago
This is a good example of the dynamics of harassment. What was perceived as a one incident a day ago is now a much more widespread issue. When talking about harassment keep in mind that for every voice that rises chances are many more have
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by wklauss 9y ago
But the rate they can charge to each other is capped, I think. I should have not said "no extra revenue" in any case, that is true. My mistake.
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by wklauss 9y ago
For some telcos this is a very tough deal. Countries with a lot of foreign visitors, like Spain or Italy, will have to improve network capacity to sustain the added data volume, and with no increase in revenue. A lot of carriers still opera
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by wklauss 9y ago
> Six years later, the technology giant is struggling to find its voice in AI. I know that this is the most common approach to the situation but the article -as many other articles that have argued this before- provides no proof other th
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by wklauss 9y ago
> Smartphones are not replacing computers in terms of a device to get work done, other than email and phone calls. That is A LOT of work (real work) being replaced right there. We also need to stop thinking people bought personal comp
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by wklauss 9y ago
> From the manufacturers point of view phones not being future proof is a feature, not a bug, that way you'll upgrade to that new shiny item which will keep the profits rolling in. I don't think a better AI chip will be a convi
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by wklauss 9y ago
> just put in contract childcare ends same time as contract, simple as that, it's just bullshit excuse not provide option hiding it behind caring about well-being of employee Not an excuse. Just one of the many logistics problems in
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by wklauss 9y ago
Could be a fun SpaceX or Tesla HQ.
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by wklauss 9y ago
It's much harder to estimate the demand of a child care center than that of a gym or a cafeteria. Not every employee will become a parent and those who do so will only have one or two children in the lifetime. On top of that, some woul
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by wklauss 9y ago
I'll be moving from NYC to Atlanta soon and the quality of pizza has been one of my worries (stupid, I know, but it's the little things). Super happy to find out good NYC-style pizza can be produced there. I always assumed the hig
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by wklauss 9y ago
The technology, here, is the algorithm and hardware related to self driving. Not the car itself. Yes, we will use self- navigating software and LIDARS for a lot of things (car, buses, trucks, planes, boats, shipping containers...). And we w
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by wklauss 9y ago
Real estate prices are one reason. The other is that your waiting time for a shared self-driving car will be almost nothing (around 5 min?), specially in suburban areas. Keep in mind that is very likely that your kids will go to school on a
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by wklauss 9y ago
Because once self-driving cars are cheap enough -and they will be-, this model won't make sense. There would to many cars competing for the few clients that need rides at any given time. The money you'll make will probably amount
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by wklauss 9y ago
It's glued so no, not possible to replace.
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by wklauss 9y ago
They don't have to be constantly sweaty. repeated friction and skin oil from palm of hands is enough to discolor palm rests in normal laptops. This is an even easier surface to discolor / stain. It will depend on how much you type
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by wklauss 9y ago
And, more important, how much they type. I'd say that for a machine aimed at teenagers this might not be a good idea. Time will tell.
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by wklauss 9y ago
Not the only downside. Machine looks great but that fabric material in the keyboard looks like it will be easily stained with sweat (a common problem with surface pro keyboards). No USB-C seems like a big missed opportunity as well.
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by wklauss 9y ago
Apps that use in-app purchases are not free apps, they are priced apps that defer payment. There are millions of real free apps in the AppStore.
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by wklauss 9y ago
I know math. But my point is that no solution will ever be satisfactory. Is 9% too high? 6%? 3%? Also, think on the reverse situation. Apple currently makes 0$ on the sale of free apps but obviously these apps have a cost in storage and dis
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by wklauss 9y ago
> The volume needed for that to be any sort of business model seems extraordinarily high. If it can be easily automated that is not a big deal.
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by wklauss 9y ago
> AKA Highway robbery and Google doesn't do any better. It should be in the single digits. Why single digits?
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by wklauss 9y ago
>For my apps, I used the affiliate program to get back some of the Apple tax. >So from my perspective, this is just the latest in a long line of developer hostile developments from Apple. I know this is a common practice but it's
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by wklauss 9y ago
"Feel" seems like the key word here. Unsure how much of this is the placebo effect at work or just simple recursive autosuggestion (you expect to be more sharp and so you are constantly checking for that sharpness and therefore fi
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by wklauss 10y ago
They do. iPhones have used them since iPhone 6 and I think its common among other manufacturers as well in the high-end range of smartphones. But number of AF points it's still small and there are limitations due to the sizes of the se
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by wklauss 10y ago
Also more complex and with more things that can go wrong due to mechanical failure
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by wklauss 10y ago
Unless you, personally, account for the other 99% of the photography market I wouldn't hand wave this camera that fast. It's a very specialized piece of equipment for a very specific user, sure, but Sony has other bodies suited fo
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by wklauss 10y ago
OTOH, being a mirrorless system you can use an adapter for pretty much any lens ever made, not only Canon but any possible glass that has been used in the modern history of photography. And some times without any significant loss of functio
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by wklauss 10y ago
Maybe, but the first one I got was 5 or 6 years ago and was already an electronic voucher redeemable in the website.
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by wklauss 10y ago
Always an electronic voucher with the full amount offered. My last one was a 600$ voucher and I paid a full round trip to Europe with it.
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by wklauss 10y ago
You can use United vouchers online. I have volunteered a couple of times in the past and used them without any problem on United's website. You can also use them for multiple trips if the amount on the voucher is not exhausted. They do

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