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The iPhone 6s costs here in the EU 739€ in its smallest config, the 6s Plus 849€. (and many will opt for the 64GB option as 16GB isn't sufficient for most)

I don't know of any other Android phone that costs that much and has somewhat comparable sales figures. The Samsung S6 Edge and Edge+ are the only ones close, but how many do they actually sell of these?

Android flagship is mostly in the 500 to 650€ range, iOS is in the 750 to 1000€ range.

> Even thought they are barely really worth it

I did not make any statement about the cost/value relation of iPhones. But apparently they are worth it for consumers.
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We get a very tiny percentage of people who initiate a refund.
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Yea! He may start droneing people in Pakistan..... that be horrible.. aa wait .. the US is already doing that.
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I hope you're not arguing against any refund window at all. One can legitimately debate whether an appropriate window is 15 minutes, 2 hours, or a day but you should absolutely be able to get a refund if the program is unsatisfactory. Personally, it seems as if I might want more than 15 minutes to play around with a complex app, maybe going through a tutorial, etc. before deciding it doesn't work for me. If a developer is dependent on users not having a real chance to try out their app before paying their money, they should probably try to either improve their designs or take up another line of work.
> with respect to Patreon

This is important. Typically one would have income from: youtube ads, twitch payout, sponsored content and patreon as a bare minimum. Usually you can add sponsored stuff on instagram/fb/wherever, possibly selling merch. Not to mention the stuff you get without being explicitly asked to endorse it.
> Karen Sandler is the former Gnome Foundation executive director who caused them to run out of money

For an in-depth argument from a Gnome board member on why this is a completely false accusation, see here: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/09/13/outrageous-outreach/
Why is this weird? It's logical the highest person has to be responsible? The CIA or MI6 would probably do the same for their spies.
I think it's better than the alternative of an unknown high person within the ranks to make this call..
Agreed, being able to levy fees on probably the largest bank accounts in the world, and not having to pay upkeep on a nuclear arsenal probably helps too.
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Putin is implicated in several murders. If he should be murdered himself, he will have died a natural death.
> If the development cost for both platforms are roughly equal, it might not make sense to develop an Android version in the future. Instead the money could be put to better use making a new iOS title.

Yup - this is our reasoning too.
I hope to read a feel-good story on your blog about this in a few years' time.
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I've heard that these produce a substantial amount of discharge which is intended to impress you with what they removed from your body, but if you cut them open you will see the "earwax" was pre-installed in the candle.
Swiss taxation is very similar to US (only country in Europe that has a Sales tax, private health care etc). The main difference is military budget.
>Frankly over the last few years he has made both Europe and America look like fools.

With what is happening to the Russian economy, it would seem he has also made himself and his citizens fools as well.
as opposed to the US which is a democracy?
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Russia had military bases there, did you expect him to just roll over and play nice when a regime hostile to Russia came to power (under questionable circumstances no less)?

The rest of it is a shit storm indeed, but i don't know how much control Putin has over that situation.
On the other hand we should expect nothing but good things from esteemed GPL violators such as Allwinner and WMWare, right? /s
EDIT: I guess I should qualify the statement wrt WMWare as "supposed violator", since the case isn't over and I haven't looked at the source code.
America has never been a nation in the first place. It's two continents, each with many countries.
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I don't really see why this would have implications for the relationship between UK and Russia. Isn't this part of the spy game? When one defects, one can expect to be killed. I don't believe the UK wouldn't do the same the other way around. Spying gets you killed, eventually, no matter who you work for.
You are telling me americans are more stinky because of genetics and not the bad food?
Or an encrypted messaging system that terrorists often use; like WhatsApp.
"Putin had a personal motive for wanting Litvinenko dead, and that the president would likely have had to approve a high-stakes operation to assassinate the former KGB operative on British soil."

In other words, there is no evidence, just "cui prodest".
Sorry, I didn't mean to attack other frameworks.

I was referencing stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNC0mRYGWgc&t=8m18s
Yeah, that's not happening with my Samsung Galaxy on 4.4.2. Plug-and-play.
Exactly, Russian secret service were either dumb to do it in such obvious way or just wanted to send a message to other spies. There are plenty of unexplained British and US spy deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
I believe GP meant: what will Putin do to his own population when the oil income dries up and Russia can't pay for pensions, police, firefighters, military etc. and people protest in result.

And it's not just Putin who has this problem: pretty much every country that is not Saudi Arabia and depends on oil prices > 40$ a barrel (Russia e.g. needs 100$ a barrel to maintain financial stability!) will have or already has problems.

The only upside of this situation is that the low oil prices are actively fucking up ISIS. No pay, no fighters.
A folder on your tablet which you open with the gallery app is more than enough to do this already.

and...
Why does this need to be an app?

I feel that many people are brainwashed by Apple dogma.
How's Crimea related?
Main use cases for a personal search. Why make your digital life searchable?
Russia had legal right to a certain number of troops in a specific part of Crimea (Sevastopol). Everything that happened surrounding the referundum and the mass deployment of Russian troops from there on was a total farce.
On a related note:

https://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the...

EDIT: There are other stories where Putin / evil Russia / the former Ukrainian government were accused of something horrible that now turn out to be quite different, such as this one.

Strangely, I never find these in the big newspapers.
I didn't mean to imply that. I think the US is a republic with some vestiges of democracy, but I feel that's corrupt as well at this point.
Comparing Switzerland to any other country is unfair. It is a tiny country that has done many, many things right in the past and it will hopefully continue to do so. For more information and if you are interested in moving / working here, google my blogpost: "reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT"
Insignificant compared to openly murdering heads of states of Iraq, Libya and causing deaths of hundreds and thousands of people across middle east.
Yikes! This is brilliant innovation, but it should come with a pretty serious warning somewhere about the potential dangers of medical ultrasound. While the jury is still out about a lot of things, there are major reasons why the NHS in Britain discourages expectant mothers from having private "4D" scans and additional procedures.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/02February/Pages/Warning-over-so...

Brilliant to see you doing it though, and I'd be fascinated to see it paired with AI to make swifter diagnoses in order to cut down the length of exposure required for various measurements.
Curious why this is getting downvotes....
Im a dual US and Swiss Citizen. My taxes are lower in Switzerland. Of course I still have to pay the difference back to the US, but that's not the point. Switzerland has such a great infrastructure because they have been making steady, incremental investments over a long time. They accept that a project can have a very long payback period. Also, they invest to keep their infrastructure very well maintained, which keeps utility high and makes major overhauls less frequent, thus extending the duration that they benefit from their original big investment.

So I think you don't need high taxes, but rather a long term outlook and the will to execute it, across multiple election cycles. Boston's Big Dig is the most recent example of such a project from the US that I can think of.
Sure, take an article that doesn't mention gender at all and make it all about gender and not GPL enforcement.
> I'm running USB 1.1 on the inner pairs and Ethernet on the USB 3 pairs for several projects

That sounds like a nice trick. Could you elaborate, or is there any public information you could link to?
In technical terms any computer can be a server. Just look at the BBSs that was run out of C64s and similar back in the day.

But a server that can't be reliably reached is a useless server.

And the BBSs worked back in the day because dialing the same number days, weeks, even months inbetween would lead you to the same BBS if the computer was still running.

A domestic internet connection is simply not reliable enough for that. Yes, if nothing happens electrically at either the customer or ISP end the IP will remain for some time. But have a power failure and it is likely that the IP will be reassigned. And that random aspect, that sometimes you can retain the address for months, and other times get it changed within hours, do not help.
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indeed MI6 and CIA go way beyond targeting isolated threats and are no better when using pre-emptive strikes in countries they have not declared war on.

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

US politics are a major annoyance with their blanket surveillance and pushing TTP and they affect me over here in Europe while I can't vote them out of power because I'm not a US citizen and also have no rights to complain ... so yes I don't care much what Putin is doing and I seriously don't mind as long as Russia provides a bit of a counter balance to the Bull in a China shop that is the US.
This is actually how it works (or did work, recalling the stories of gold manager at a bank) when central banks move gold deposited from one bank (usually other central banks, not necessarily) to another. The gold bar is moved from one pile or trolley to another. The clipboard list is updated, and the daily tally is done at the end of the day to make sure nothing's been done incorrectly.

Banks in stressed/developing countries may do cash transactions with each other where there are issues of trust.

And then to abstract it a bit, there's the cash van moving money deposited at larger, more trusted banks, to smaller commercial banks that have more business customers (again, a much bigger differentiation in banking business in developing/emerging countries), creating a long term net flow of cash (but, if the commercial banks hopefully don't go bankrupt) not of money as credits come electronically.
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Putin was reacting to the Maidan. The takeover of Crimea was no Iraq.
Hey Ben, glad to read from you! Let's not worry, this part is only the electronics heart of a probe.. and still, more part of a tech dev kit than of a medical device =)
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Because if he was poisoned with radioactive stuff, there is a possibility that some of the stuff got into sewage
A former spy switched sides and worked for the other side exposing agents and whatever else MI6 deemed worth paying for. What would be your (or anyones) decision as head of state? Of course if a country being attacked, a leader is disliked by a geopolitical foe, those are natural things.
Agreed, Linus is a man with great knowledge of kernel, but he may be wrong at times, just like RMS ( ;-) )

I can see why anti-corporate licenses are big win for users. PS4 and Macs use BSD kernel. The whole PS4 is locked up and it totally blocks users from doing anything else, though Sony built it from the components they took from community (BSD, LLVM etc.), they don't have to give it back.

On the other hand, I am still waiting for a distro based on Apple's OSS.

Linux, GCC, KDE, Qt, GNOME, Java are GPL (or at least LGPL) and there lies the innovation by masses, we see them running on so much variety of form factors. IMHO they need polish and marketing, but at the end of the day my work gets done and I am very much happy with it.

As a contributor I am sure if I work on OSS, no company should take it, make a product selling like hotcakes (PS4, Macs, iPhone) and then refuse to open it, lock down the devices and not even be obliged publish the modifications.

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Yep yep. Just sayin', that's what else they'd be. :)

That said, for 250km/h and up, electric is pretty much standard for rolling stock. It's a bit less common to have the freight going through the same infrastructure be all mandated to be electric too though.

(Also now that I look more into it, it's unclear that it's mandated that the trains that go through the tunnel be electric. In fact, Swiss Railways just bought some new rolling stock for maintenance that's hybrid electric/diesel (uses electric only when overhead power works, diesel otherwise) which makes sense for maintenance, but likely means the tunnel is perfectly equipped to deal with diesel emissions from trains. In addition, before they completed the overhead work, in 2014 they announced that diesel trains could transit the tunnel. Not open publicly, but that the capability existed. Anyway. Interesting question whether they actually require all rolling stock transiting the tunnel to be electric, and if so, why. I'm guessing it just currently happens that all the scheduled trains traversing the tunnel are electric, so the poster said "all electric".)
After 2002 Moscow theather terror attack some people (including Litvinienko) suggested FSB was behind the attack to justify harsher policy on Chechenia, and to increase popular support for Putin.

> An independent investigation of the event was undertaken by Russian politicians Sergei Yushenkov, Sergei Kovalev, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Hoover Institute scholar John B. Dunlop, and former FSB officers Aleksander Litvinenko and Mikhail Trepashkin. According to their version, FSB knew about the terrorist group's arrival in Moscow and directed them to the theater through their agent provocateur Khanpasha Terkibayev ("Abu Bakar"), whose name was in the list of hostage takers and who left the theater alive.[58][88][89][90] In April 2003 Litvinenko gave information about Terkibayev ("the Terkibayev file") to Sergei Yushenkov when he visited London. Yushenkov passed this file to Politkovskaya and she was able to interview Terkibayev in person.[91] A few days later, Yushenkov was assassinated by gunfire in Moscow. Terkibayev was later killed in an apparent car crash in Chechnya.

> In June 2003, Litvinenko stated in an interview with the Australian television programme Dateline, that two of the Chechen militants involved in the siege—whom he named "Abdul the Bloody" and "Abu Bakar"—were working for the FSB, and that the agency manipulated the terrorists into staging the attack.[92] Litvinenko said: "[w]hen they tried to find [Abdul the Bloody and Abu Bakar] among the rotting corpses of dead terrorists, they weren't there. The FSB got its agents out. So the FSB agents among Chechens organized the whole thing on FSB orders, and those agents were released"

Litvinienko was killed in London, obviously.

Politkovskaya was murdered in her home in Moscow in 7th October 2006. Ironicaly - 7th October is Putin's birthday.

If Litvinienko and Politkovskaya were right not only Putin has ordered assasinations of several former spies and journalists criticizing him, but he's also responsible for hundreds of victims of terrorism in Russia, mostly regular civilian Russians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis#...
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It might be worth exercising the precautionary principle in this case. If someone builds your electronics and decides that you didn't warn them before they used it, you could find yourself in a difficult position. A simple disclaimer somewhere visible would do the trick.
sadly so. what hurts double is that the US is kind f a role model (or has been fr us Europeans) because we kind of grow up with Hollywood and it's original values (freedom). Seeing this deteriorate feels like a betrayal when as a foreigner you have no way of shaping their policy (yet still be affected by it)
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The turning point is probably not that their behavior changed, but that it began to be exposed. First, when video cameras became easily attainable by regular people (Rodney King), then later, when almost everyone starting carrying a video camera (smart phones).
So we should not discuss about this murder since there are other more significant murders?
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Amongst others who had personal motives for wanting Litvinenko dead are the US president and UK prime minister, so that they could smear the incident all over Putin.

Recently, I found myself not believing anything coming out of the media (Western and rest of the world alike) if it at all supports the prior interests of the owners/regulators. For example, did North Korea really hack Sony, or were they just the most convenient actor to blame?
What he's doing in Ukraine is example of impulsive actions. Crimean scenario, I believe, was planned during the past decade or so.
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You're right. You wouldn't care about everything in npm. The point is this: When using Gulp/Grunt, we have to search for a plugin. This greatly limits our selection.
It's easy to forget that "execution" means "concept + code + culture + marketing + maybe some investment"

Of all of those, code is probably the least important.

Effective marketing - which at the level you're talking about is easy to do with boilerplate copywriting, monkey spamming, and some SEO - is far better at dollar-for-dollar ROI than most unicorn ideas that need investors.

There's an entire subculture of shitty people running these shitty scammy "businesses" and sometimes cross-promoting each other. Unfortunately they really can be an easy way to earn money - if you have the ethics of a lizard.

But it highlights the fact that unless you're marketing products for developers, most customers don't care about code, or even about features. The vast bulk of any market, especially in the US, is full of people who care about making money with the minimum of effort and being attractive to the opposite sex. Any product that promises either or both has an immediate head start.

>While the dev who builds decent products is spending his free time thinking of the amazing features he's going to build and how much his users will appreciate them

Which I guess describes most people here. I know my default tendency is always to think: "idea = code + cool features + website/app"

But it's a really bad idea to confuse this with running a profitable business. Luckily I can indulge myself, but it's still useful to remember that the view from Customer Land looks nothing like the view from inside a Git repo.
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The amount of whataboutism [1] in this whole thread is embarassing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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This murder has been discussed to death. It was plain enough from the beginning that Litvinenko was killed for defecting. I don't know why the story keeps resurfacing.
Every E.U. country has a sales tax. And way higher than the US one. It's called VAT...
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I'd like to have my business mail printed as a service in China and have it sent to the US, or Europe.
Feedback. The benefit of sharing your ideas is that other people get to spot holes in them before you find those holes the expensive way.

In your analogy: your faster algorithm is probably not optimal. Sharing it with some people who can give feedback will make it better. Those people are probably not your competition, and your competition can talk to those people even if you don't.
If the algorithm is going to make that much difference, then if your competition aren't working on it they're incompetent, and if they are working on it then who's to say they haven't got the better version already?

Your losses from sharing the algorithm are negligible (because the competition are either incompetent or working on it themselves) but your benefits from sharing and getting feedback are large.
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the murders were not carried out against civilians. an individual playing playing tinker, tailor, soldier can no longer be considered a "civilian" IMHO. Death however tragic is a soldiers death. So yes those innocent kids in Irak, Lybia, Syria, Afghanistan, (you know the ones often referred to as "fun sized terrorists" by cowardly US drone operators) do have a higher value than some soldier who knows what they got themselves into.
I have a child, that's beside the point. I also live in an Austin, TX suburb, so am pretty driving dependent. My comment is not naive due to inexperience with the occasional necessity of having to move multiple people around.

Objectively, the majority of driving is single passenger during commute time. I said multi-passenger trips are "relatively rare", that is, less common. I don't even see what could possibly be offending you in my comment. Yes, many people have children, and most of them drive mostly alone in one of their two cars 15 miles both ways to and from work. I don't see this as controversial. I'm not being remotely hyperbolic.
I think you kind of answered it yourself. Microchip probably offered a higher portion of the deal in cash and atmel shareholders find the cash to be worth more than dialog stock.