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No, the point was that if you don't want to choose between 100000 androids you buy the Galaxy which is the iPhone equivalent.
But in their free time the android people building the tech stacks will be watching the iPhone influencers.
What 100000 choices?

There are basically 6 Android phones. Of which only one matters - the Samsung Galaxy in it's 2 biggest sizes.

So basically you need to pick between 2 Samsung phones, the major difference being size.

On instagram is even higher. 99% of influencers have iPhones.

Showing an Android is basically declaring you are some sort of a monster.

Re:HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:11AM (#33092671)
For preventing the radioactive fallout from touching you and remaining there any level is appropriate since the fallout is in the form of dust or rain which can't pass through these suits.

Obviously radiation will pass through it, for protection against that you need lead based suits.

Re:The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:18PM (#33089792)
Because of the public uproar?

Happens all the time in all kinds of fields.

Re:HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:53PM (#33089512)
He has a bunch of kids. Reports suggests he cares at least a bit about them.

The people around him might care too. It's not like in old Egypt where the servants were burried with the pharaon.

Re:HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:48PM (#33089470)
You can pack it quite small if you never tried, in the size of an average book, maybe less if you vacuum pack it.
Re:HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:43PM (#33089416)
He also rotted Russia from the inside, putting only incompetent but loyal acolytes everywhere.

He was afraid of the Army, which is why it always treated it like shit, except for vanity projects.

Which is why they have hypersonic missiles and nuclear powered torpedoes, but no socks, uniforms and guns for recruits.

Re:HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:39PM (#33089387)
Do you also carry an N95? A Tyvek suit would also help.
Ceramic knifes are much better at cutting soft stuff than metal knifes.

So why are there no ceramic blade razors?

Re:USB kills off SuperSpeed branding on Saturday October 01, 2022 @09:27PM (#33051845)
Why do they have to put that TM on the logo, but Apple for example doesn't?
Re:Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis on Saturday October 01, 2022 @09:20PM (#33051800)
But that would only make sense if the bacteria were stacked on top of each other.

Otherwise there is plenty of space under the sun, even in water.

Re:Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis on Saturday October 01, 2022 @09:14PM (#33051768)
The color of noon sun light on earth is literally the definition of white balance (6500K). So it doesn't appear yellow, unless you talk about sunset.
Re:Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis on Saturday October 01, 2022 @09:04PM (#33051713)
Eneregy is conserved. If it "misses" the reaction center, it will hit something else like a stray bullet.

> Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) is a mechanism employed by plants and algae to protect themselves from the adverse effects of high light intensity. It involves the quenching of singlet excited state chlorophylls (Chl) via enhanced internal conversion to the ground state (non-radiative decay), thus harmlessly dissipating excess excitation energy as heat through molecular vibrations. NPQ occurs in almost all photosynthetic eukaryotes (algae and plants), and helps to regulate and protect photosynthesis in environments where light energy absorption exceeds the capacity for light utilization in photosynthesis.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photochemical_quenching

Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:10AM (#33033401)
You mean like Google which invested billions in Plus?
Re:Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:07AM (#33033386)
You are both right and wrong.

Bloomberg IS a tech company. But the journalists obviously don't mingle with that part.

Re:Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:36PM (#33002543)
What are you talking about?

I'm running Windows 10 on a 2009 computer - one which was low-mid end back then. Only upgrade is an SSD.

I should have been more specific, the 4 and 5 values are dynamic runtime values, not constants known ahead of time.
Something related.

In classical computers you can do:

  X = 4
  X = 5
In quantum computers this sequence of operations is impossible, because the program needs to respect unitarity and need to be able to be undone/run backwards.

But you can't run this program backwards because the second operation (=5) completely erases the information from the first step (=4)

Surely the physicists are aware of such a trivial fact.

So the photon example is probably a simplification of the real example which does sort of work.

Re:British pound hits record low against the dollar on Monday September 26, 2022 @10:35AM (#32983652)
Read again carefully what you quoted. It exactly supports my claim.

> Export dependent nations may actively encourage a weak currency in order to boost their exports.

> A weak currency may help a country's exports gain market share when its goods are less expensive compared to goods priced in stronger currencies. The increase in sales may boost economic growth and jobs while increasing profits for companies conducting business in foreign markets

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/weak-currency.asp

Re:British pound hits record low against the dollar on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:59AM (#32981539)
You don't sell for less, since you sell in foreign currency. So you get the same amount of foreign currency (price in USD remains the same), but you need less converted to your internal currency to pay your labor.

But then you can invest that extra profit in decreasing your foreign currency price, thus becoming more competitive.

You can google for longer explanations of why a weak currency is excellent for exporters, this is well established.

Re:British pound hits record low against the dollar on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:36AM (#32981080)
It also means you're paying your labor cheap. That makes you more competitive.
Re:British pound hits record low against the dollar on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:48AM (#32979830)
They are all wrong. You just never heard of them.

Taleb loves making fun of economists. One of his jokes:

Trader comes to manager and told him he lost 10 mil because he bought treasuries since the bank economist said they would go up. Manager fires him. Trader asks why, is he required to always win? Manager says no, I didn't fire you because you lost money, I fired you because you listened to the bank economist.

Re:British pound hits record low against the dollar on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:41AM (#32979793)
It's not that simple. Germany wanted a country like Italy in the Euro so it would pull the currency down and not allow it to appreciate too much (like the Deutsche Mark did). That would would be very bad for German exports.