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There’s a difference between sequencing the genome of DNA, which the article talks about, and retrieving DNA strands intact. The latter is akin to getting the book, the former is akin to reading it. This is likely to account for the discrepancy.


The comment you're replying to makes the point that if you already had a charger, you could use the old charger and the old cable. There is no requirement to use the new cable that it came with. If you agree that people probably already had one from a few years ago, then they already had everything they needed to charge the phone. The 'new cable' did not stop anything from working that previously worked.


That is where point #3 comes in, being that Iphones are/where not very popular in Brazil (due to being prohibitively expensive), it is safe to assume that a significant number of sales are going to be first time Iphone buyers, who don't have a previous lightning cable.

It all comes down to: is the average buyer be reasonable expected to already have that fundamental piece at home? And in Brazilian market the answer to that is a clear no.


For those who are intellectually curious, this site has two recordings of how to say it: https://forvo.com/word/mszczonów/


Odd, I don't speak Polish, but my mom and grandparents did. Even that small exposure was enough for me to get that pronunciation 100% correct. I wonder what the minimum exposure to any given language is to allow someone to correctly guess pronunciation. I speak a little German and French but regularly get the pronunciation incorrect, but I didn’t grow up around native German and French speakers.


Polish pronunciation is actually incredibly easy, there's a direct mapping (a mathematical function) from a simple partition of letters to phonems. Unlike in English, where we have weirdnesses like "vehicle" or "colonel". There's a price to pay for quick and massive import of words, lack of centralized language development coordination body and conquering the global stage of accents, I reckon.

Example for the town: Mszczonów -> Mshchonooff (Americanized).


It’s not easy, it’s very very hard, even for other slavs, but it’s very predictable based on spelling.


I blame the Poles for the muteness of their non-slav neighbors.


Ah now I finally got it! Nemtsy, makes sense.


I bet you six meters of kiełbasa that you did not get that pronunciation 100% correct.


I didn't think I would, but I did!


It helps a lot to have been exposed to it around 6-12 months. That's apparently when pronunciation subtlety is learnt.


Makes sense. My grandmother would sing polish nursery rhymes to me at that age.


Sounds like Mush-tah-nov to me.


I use 'Kill Sticky' to get around these popovers. Usually it works. Sometimes scrolling is broken. But it's usually better than clicking 'ok'. https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/


This is to stop your HTTP referrer leaking your search terms: "DuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by default. Instead, when you click on a link on our site, we route (redirect) that request in such a way so that it does not send your search terms to other sites. The other sites will still know that you visited them, but they will not know what search you entered beforehand." https://duckduckgo.com/privacy


This article is based on the Ericsson Mobility Report. The report discusses smartphone subscriptions, not users, reaching 6.1B.

An interesting statistic from the report is that 90% of the world's population over the age of 6 will own mobile phone (note, not smartphone) by 2020.


I agree this is a great cause, but did I miss why there is only 1 day to go until a goal is reached? They don't explain the consequences of only getting USD1.48 million instead of 1.5.

There is someone who said (I'm sorry I can't find the quote) that they don't donate to charities who don't specify an aim for a campaign or how they will know if they've succeeded. I like the spirit of this and feel that more information is better than just "Come on, guys, we need 1.5mil before 12am!".


While both the BBC and Channel Four are public broadcasters with a public service remit, Channel Four receives no money from the licence fee and is solely dependent on advertising and similar income.[1]

It's better to say not that failure is an option, but rather than making a season of programmes as they are being produced and axing the show if it is failing, the UK system allows shows to be produced well ahead of transmission but in small chunks so that if it does do badly it doesn't need to be recomissioned.

[1] http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/does-channel-4-get...


It is publicly owned though.


Given a retina display aims to copy the sharpness we see in our every day lives from real objects, I would suggest it doesn't intrinsically carry a risk of tiring your eyes, in the same way as we don't get tired seeing all day long even though the edges of everything we look at are generally sharp. Rather in the sense of drawing on a drawing board, or reading books, ones eyes do get tired. Given that OSes are in their infancy when it comes to giving us the tools to properly manage size and resolution, it could be that some tasks are more tiring than they used to be.


This podcast is a great repository of video game tracks. Though finished now, I enjoyed listening to the interviews and the fact that the episodes have a theme helps them be educational (well, interpreting at the very least). https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/legacy-music-hour-video-...

Originally from this website but I can't find a link (at least on the mobile site) http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/the-legacy-music-hour...


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