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> So now by having a blog, I’m under the jurisdiction of 200 countries and countless other small jurisdictions?

Guess what? You already are. For example, if you insult the Thai king on your blog and you visit Thailand you can be prosecuted. This has happened.

Of course, you can't be extradited for this. But if you are a notorious online controversialist you should be careful where you travel.
That depends on the type of exercise you're doing.
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> Given that iPhones account for just 35% of US mobile phones [1] and only around 15% of phone shipments worldwide [2], this is in no way monopolistic.

What is monopolistic to you? Does it need to be over 50%? I don't think economists define it that way, they only argue that one company has excessive influence in a market, which means more power than the other companies in that market. That does seem to be true of Apple in the mobile app market.

Your statement reminds me of a reporter who said that Walmart can't possibly be a monopoly because it's revenues are "only" 5% of US consumer spending. It's scares me to death that a single company takes that much of the total, and it's silly to suggest that the largest company in the world by revenue can't possibly be a monopoly.

FWIW, the distribution of phones isn't the same as the distribution of revenue from apps. Apple brings in more app revenue than Google, even though more phones sold run Android.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/259510/revenue-distribut...
And awesome Krill-Oil, too. ;)

Also provided a DNA health check if you want to link your 23andMe account.
Because eventually perigee coincides with summer or winter in either the Northern or Southern hemisphere (and then the apogee will coincide with the other hemisphere's opposite season, naturally), so one of them will get more sunlight (heat). BUT! The Northern hemisphere has much more landmass than the Southern one, which accentuates the differences between seasons because land heats up faster in the summer and cools down faster than the oceans in the winter, and also land provides a platform for ice accumulation. This is the reason that glacial periods involve much more ice in the Northern hemisphere than in the Southern hemisphere.

It is generally believed that glacial periods set in when the Northern summer coincides with the furthest point from the Sun on Earth's orbit, while interglacials set in when the Northern summer coincides with the point of closest approach to the Sun. Summer is the key because once ice lasts past the summer then summer cannot heat up the Northern hemisphere as much as usual: ice reflects a lot of the Sun's energy. Conversely, if the summer is warm enough to melt more snow and ice than was accumulated during winter, then you can't have a glacial period.

It is important to note that there are other orbital cycles that matter here, especially the precession of the equinoxes, which is the cycle that relates which hemisphere gets its summer closest to the Sun. Earth's axis of rotation itself rotates, very very slowly. The precession of the equinoxes is a 25ky cycle.

Another cycle is the angle of the Earth's axis of rotation to the ecliptic. This varies a fair bit over the years, and this one is (IIRC) the most chaotic of the orbital cycles.

All of these cycles, known as the Mylankovitch cycles[0], have winter/summer difference accentuation/attenuation effects. The Mylankovitch cycle theory is that when these coincide in certain ways you get glacial or interglacial periods.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
I wonder if any studies have looked at if Muslims who participate in Ramadan receive any measurable health benefits.

Even if Ramadan is only one month of the year, that could still potentially show some benefits if there are any over a whole life time.
Apparently you need to appoint a Data Protection Officier and you cannot just be e.g. CEO, developer and DPO at the same time.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

> Basically this means the DPO cannot hold a position within your organisation that leads him or her to determine the purposes and the means of the processing of personal data

Are there exemptions for very small companies?

If you can prove you don't process any user data, at all, does this exempt you from having to appoint a DPO?
> Do you really think that's acceptable?

For the most part, yes, I do. Most of it is not in any way anything that can be legally protected. Some of it may be, but suggesting that all of that 132 page document is somehow an indictment of Samsung is misleading. They may have stepped over the line, but analysing how to adopt the best part of what a competitor does is part and parcel of competition.

But to your main question: In addition to the design: Brand, integration with the rest of the Apple ecosystem, investment in apps.

To put it another way: If it was only design, you can buy <$100 Android phones from China that are skinned to look at act like iOS, in shells that look like iPhones, at least you could the last time I checked (cheapest I've seen at AliExpress was $15). If it was only design there'd be far more than them, and they'd actually sell at decent volumes. But they don't, because they don't give people the other things they want.

> As for logistics and manufacturing integration, Apple don't even make their own phones.

I don't know what you think that suggests, but what it actually means is that Apple as part of their effort of streamlining their supply chain has largely outsourced the risks on the manufacturing side while they still place a massive amount of demands on their manufacturers that they're able to thanks to their volume.

Tim Cook's rise in Apple was largely down to closing down internal manufacturing and instead dictating terms to contract manufacturers that virtually removed Apple's inventory, and doing things that other people thought were crazy, like starting to ship electronics by air, betting it'd pay for itself by letting them not have e.g. weeks worth of inventory on ships and being able to respond to demand changes much faster (and hence needing to place orders much later). Apple's shift to using contract manufacturing was part and parcel of the company more tightly integrating their entire supply chain and shortening it drastically, by entering long term contracts with companies close to e.g. their component sources.

> How incompetent do they have to be for Apple to have that as a primary advantage for decades?

Not at all. They had $50bn worth of operating income in 2017 from Samsung Electronics compared to $61bn for Apple. Their Android business is low margin because it is extremely competitive. Their contract manufacturing and other product lines are generally much more profitable.
I'm not sure what the word 'research' means. Can you look it up for me? I have better things to do.
Build it part time, if it grows then you can leave. Most people that leave without a plan exhaust their savings and end up in a worst position.
I am less free if I can not cross a border. That part is simple.

Now, should we have borders? Borders can be justified on utilitarian grounds because they allow a state to impose laws, provide safety, and control a market. But borders split people and therefore create a relationship between them. And that relationship can have moral and historical dimensions. For example, if a country has caused harm to another in the past, there would be a moral responsibility to rectify that wrong. The argument that the West should let in refugees is predicated on the West's history of colonialism and military adventures in the third world. Note that this moral-historical point of view is in opposition with the utilitarian case for borders. And this is where the author of the article and you disagree, and the point at which the battle for refugees is being fought.
> archeologists were warned about death and curses and such and still went into Tutanchamun's tomb. IIRC some died from a mold spore active in there

Correct. I saw a documentary last week about a 3000-year-old grave in Syria where they pumped in fresh air for a week or so before going in to get rid of the fungal spores in the air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs
the argument that applications using standard files must be update to another api is BS.

the kernel should just map the faster api on those standard file descriptions instead... but then, the "old" files were not part of a standard to begin with... but then again, the standard, whatever it is, was never designed but agreed upon after being in use by enough people.

I have no idea what to make of this. I guess I am just happy that people are moving things forward, whatever the direction.
I happened to have a chat with someone who knows what happened first hand - between YouTube and the record labels oligopoly, they could hardly develop as a company and not a mediator, sandwiched between giants on both content production and content distribution.
How could I forget? I spent days trying to get it to work and never got it to work right.
You're right that people don't read publications because of the layout, it's all about the content.

Still it's hard to deny that the (presumably temporary) EU site is a much nicer experience. It's certainly faster.

They have plenty of metrics on the ads still, just not on the users. It's not going to be an issue to see how often an ad is shown, they just don't know if it's relevant to the reader. The good thing is that no they have a way of measuring the effectiveness of targetted ads, because the entire EU is available as a control group.

For a newspaper, like USA Today, I honestly doubt that targetted ads convert much better than random ones. EDIT: Random or based on the content of the article.
Many, many, many countries have far stricter controls on either weapons or ammunition, and those countries aren't filled with roving armed gangs attacking 90-year-old women and single mothers.

This is fear-mongering, based on wildly unrealistic assertions about the world.
I don't quite understand what you're saying here.
It's not necessarily that American companies are having trouble complying. Some of them like the ones the article is about just have little incentive to do so. If I'm in essence doing no business in Europe it's more efficient to just block European visitors.

Having grown up in Europe I'm much more sensitive to privacy concerns than most Americans, but it's not proper to assume that anyone who just blocks European visitors is up to something nefarious. It just doesn't make business sense for everyone to comply.
> This is like saying BMW, Toyota and the like have a monopoly because you can’t use your own infotainment software.

Maybe if BMW or Toyota were the market leaders in infotainment hardware
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We put so much focus on individual achievement. In the long run, it's collective achievement that matters.

Why shouldn't we be content being a small cog in a much larger machine?
Our household is prepared for natural disasters with stores of food, water, first aid, and emergency shelter. It benefits the whole community when people are prepared: they're less likely to be a drain on resources that other people need, and are more likely to be able to help others and rebuild.

I haven't met a prepper who wants other people not to be prepared. Whom are you thinking of?
All that Vevo ever was for me was a quality seal that guarantees that the video from an artist is official, when searching for a song on YouTube - i.e. it had good image and sound quality and it was indeed a video clip, not just an upload of the song with the album cover or crappy collage as image.

Never thought about it as a company with ambitions to challenge YouTube.
Lol. For years I talk about fasting here on HN and get downvoted to oblivion. Intermittent fasting is what they now say is healthy because it means you're still consuming food so they still make money. A far better alternative and a cure to many many "diseases" (yes, cure, I said it) is a prolonged water fast (10 to 40 days), and/or a dry fast (no food no water) for 2 to 10 days.
There's no scenario where the 'open' Internet doesn't rip apart.

Globally there will be dozens of GDPR type regulations, and that's just covering privacy. There will be a lot more for economic rules, cultural rules (eg governing speech), etc.

Want to operate a service in 100+ countries? You'll have to comply with thousands of rules. Only giant companies will be able to do it. It's already extremely difficult to do. In the physical goods world, generally only very large companies can operate in 100+ countries; that's exactly how it will be for Internet companies in the near future.

In the case of the US, there will be an immense advantage for tech services & sites. I can make a lot of money on ads just in the single large US market, far more than necessary to support a global operation. I can then project out into the rest of the world, without concern for complying with everyone's individual rules (unless it makes economic sense). For those localities to stop me, they all have to implement draconian Chinese-style repression of their people and what they can see online (which most will not do).
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Well, perhaps it's good for the metabolism of my muslim colleague, but right now his productivity is way down. Also I don't the ramandan fasting is particularly good since muslims usually eat a lot during the night to compensate.
"The German obsession with privacy has a LOT to do with making life difficult for tech companies"

Some people actually care about their information and who has it more than convenience. Maybe they don't trust corporations and assume their interests don't align. It wouldn't be bad assumption at this point. It's pretty obvious most tech companies value profit over anything else.
I'm sure you mean well, but this comment epitomizes the problem. Formerly, Unix was fairly modular, open to comprehension, and had excellent documentation guiding the user. Now, everyone who isn't a paying Red Hat support customer is not just on their own but thrown to the wolves.
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>They'd have to completely rethink almost everything to do with work, welfare and housing.

Here's my cynical take on what would happen: the well-to-do would benefit massively as the poor moved in to reduce unskilled and low-skill labor prices. Welfare would be stopped because society wouldn't be able to afford it. Housing would be worked out automatically by the free market, except in SF and other legally restricted jurisdictions. In the end, national inequality would rise to match global inequality, because all that's happening is that individuals are moving.

Ironically, the old Republican conservatopia vision of society (no welfare, free market, not too much emphasis on the interests of the poor) would be able to handle mass migration better than almost any other that the west has considered. If there's no social safety net at all, there's almost no cost to having somebody new move in. (Police, sure, but you can tax the work of the new people.)
Surely you want hunger hitting when you approach sleep, so you maximise the time you're not conscious of the hunger (because you're asleep)?
I dislike blog post 'responses', because it's the equivalent of two people shouting past each other.

As the author of this blog post notes, there are good responses in the /r/programming comments[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8lmnl2/from_ja...
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I've had serious weight issues for my whole life, primarily due to my love of chocolate. As I approached 400 pounds, I took a hard look at myself and decided to make a change. For the past month (29 days now) I've been doing alternate-day fasting* where I eat about 2000-2500kcal on eat days and cap myself at about 100kcal of half-and-half with coffee on fast days (gotta get that joe).

While a lot of it is no doubt non-lipid mass (glycogen and such), I just passed 30 pounds of mass lost yesterday. After the initial drop from glycogen loss, I've been averaging 0.4-ish pounds a day of mass loss.

A few things I've noticed: What I eat doesn't really affect long-term weight loss. Carbs will cause my weight to rise, but it's definitely just due to the storage and retention of glycogen and water, as I get right back on track with my projections 2-3 days later. However, if I eat carbs and fast the next day, I will get serious hunger pangs. If I eat a mostly keto diet, then I can pass between eat days and fast days with no trouble at all.

My biggest take-away though is that fasting has helped me practice self-denial to the point where I can handle my sweet tooth very easily now. The difference in apparent willpower is so immense that I can hardly believe it myself. I definitely suggest that anyone who has self-control issues with regards to food go on a week of alternate day fasting. Additionally, a fast day is a great way to counter out a day of eating to excess. When I lose my weight, I'll still keep fasting as an option, because it's a remarkably powerful tool.

* It's actually 3 days of fasting, 4 days of eating a week. I do social eating on Fridays and Sundays, so I keep those as fixed eat days, so I just fast on Sat/Mon/Wed, eat on Fri/Sun/Tue/Thu.
> Why is it overreach?

Because the EU is targeting companies beyond it's own borders, including companies that have no representation in the EU. Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. have the means to affect policy worldwide, making them international. Smaller companies do not.

Ma and Pa's Midwest Quilting Shop is really going to hate it, when they eventually get around to disovering they've got a problem. It sucks for a lot of people who depend on advertising, but imagine how bad it's going to be for niche sellers (quilting supplies, Americana dealers, woodworking tool sellers, etc.) It's an opportunity for someone over here to make a pile of cash, but there's no way it's not going to suck for the little guys.

Nine times out of ten it probably doesn't matter. What happens in France happens in France and that's not really our problem to worry about. This is that tenth time.

I suspect there's more than a few Europeans having a big, fat cup of haterade-flavored schadenfreude with their afternoon tea who wanted exactly this to happen.
Get back to growth hacking, you dumb cunt.
i.e "It's easier for car manufacturers to build cars if your remove regulations on safety or pollution"

i.e "It's easier for employers to produce cheaper products by exploiting their employees if your protection of labour is on the level it was 1850"
I'm not referencing MITM attacks...

You can visit sites that aren't blacklisted on the company's network which makes it easier to social engineer you. You have less control over what stupid things your employees can do.

You're right, this wouldn't be any more dangerous than being on a coffee shop's wifi but you already don't care about network security if that's how you're working.
> You assume that just because someone doesn’t want to got through all the hassle of being GDPR compliant that the website is somehow bad?

If they are not collecting any personal data, there is no hassle.
Do you think it's somehow bad for a car manufacturer to not want to go through the hassle of making their cars conform to the safety standards?

> Among other things this includes setting up an EU represeneitive

Citation needed.

> a high bar for a free product

The product is not really free because users pay for it with their data, which was unclear before.

> Obviously you haven’t had to deal with GDPR compliance.

Obviously from what? Are you a GDPR compliance expert?
Well I imagine what OP meant was that the testing phase in this "science" is not verifiable/repeatable/etc. Perception is an awful way to perform tests, and is very frequently wrong.
Portugal is the lowest on the list. In my experience, it's also heavily biased towards cash, at least compared to the US. Perhaps the "value in Euros" is skewed because it's cheaper in Portugal than Germany?
The same arguments were made back during the Microsoft anti-trust era.

The fact is once a company reaches a certain size different rules do apply.
Here Apple is definitely abusing their control over the ecosystem to lock out a competitor. The question is is this control great enough to prevent anyone from truly competing with Apple, which is what anti-trust law is designed to protect against.
It's very good.

Some of the links appear broken. For example, all the "More" links here haven't been hyperlinked: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/25/rac...
Yes. Just increase the number of calories you consume during the feeding window.
What alternative measures would you propose for tracking volumes and trips?
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> So the brain is happily deriving energy from ketones – sure, but why would this be protective against such a variety of brain diseases?

> One answer may be energy. Despite their superficial differences, many neurological diseases share one major problem – deficient energy production. During metabolic stress, ketones serve as an alternative energy source to maintain normal brain cell metabolism. In fact, BHB (a major ketone) may be an even more efficient fuel than glucose, providing more energy per unit oxygen used. A ketogenic diet also increases the number of mitochondria, so called “energy factories” in brain cells. A recent study found enhanced expression of genes encoding for mitochondrial enzymes and energy metabolism in the hippocampus, a part of the brain important for learning and memory. Hippocampal cells often degenerate in age-related brain diseases, leading to cognitive dysfunction and memory loss. With increased energy reserve, neurons may be able to ward off disease stressors that would usually exhaust and kill the cell.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-fat...
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False equivalency.
I agree that it’s an over-opinionated definition. I wouldn’t go so far as calling it doublespeak, but it’s like 1.5x speak.
Fyi, I've heard health professionals, like Rhonda Patrick mentioned here, say that coffee and tea will still cause your digestive system to secrete enzymes that can undo IF effects, that you should only drink water during the no-eat window. I've given up my morning caffeine to do it.
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I have embraced systemctl, and it's intuitive to me, but I feel the way you do about journalctl.

If I want to tail the log of a service, though, there's a mnemonic for that: 'journalctl -fu httpd' - that one sure is easy to remember!
It sounds pretty tedious to sift through 300+ emails to find everyone you want to keep using your data and go through whatever process they have for replying.
When is comes to technology, the music publishing industry is like the airline business. It is more intent on protecting its current business model than innovating for the future. All it is really capable of doing is copying competitors and throwing its legal weight around a bit. Therefore it does not attract future minded people. I am not surprised that Google was able to manipulate them so well.
Every single one of the hardcore gamers that I know is dismissive of mobile games, at best.
Multiple IP addresses on an interface have been a thing since long before systemd existed.

I remember using iproute2 to add multiple IP addresses to devices at my very first job in 2007. systemd didn't even come out until 2010.