skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a pharmacist, and I completely agree with your assessment. People are waaaaay over-estimating their abilities here.

I think there's a bit of Dunning-Kruger at play here. People think they can make their own judgements based on the drug monograph and simply checklist over the contraindications/interactions and call it a day. And there are others who share their pills with relatives/family members because "its worked for me before". There's another special group of people who think that piecing together a pharmacological narrative will bring about a clinically meaningful result (it works in theory, so it must work in practice!). Others think statistical significance == clinical significance.

The typical community pharmacist is absolutely not equipped with the tools, incentives, and workplace conditions to assume the role of a GP. We are trained in evidence-based drug therapy management, not diagnosis. I'm also deeply concerned about how retail pharmacy corporations will adapt to this. I imagine that there will be a new metric: prescriptions sold/visit that regional directors will be optimizing for. If not a prescription, then you need to sell an OTC product.

A lot of people think they can DIY medicine. It will be a disaster. I've worked in a very high-income area with a very professional clientele (business owners, health care workers, lawyers, finance), and many are completely swayed by false information or "studies" they read online (because they are intelligent professionals, after all).

We need better access to high-quality healthcare, but not through DIY medicine. This proposal is the result of people running out of ideas and giving up.
There used to be a plethora of mobile platforms:

* Symbian
* Palm webOS
* Mozilla (I think that was also called WebOS?)
* Jola
* Some blackberry thing based on QNX that "supported" Android apps
* Tizan
* Windows Phone
* Ubuntu Phone

Plus a bunch of independent / hobby(?) ones that never really took off, eg the Inferno port

These days it feels like most people have given up trying to compete against Apple and Google.
Definitely. You could spend twice the amount India does on military, and they have an army of 1.4 million
Seems like it's hard to cool GPUs in desktops too if you're Apple

>their maximum FP32 compute performance is 11 TFLOPS (which points to around 1340 MHz clock-rate for the Vega 64) and their peak memory bandwidth is 400 GB/s (indicating about 1600 MT/s memory speed), which is slower when compared to the Radeon RX Vega cards for desktops. The main reasons why Apple downlocks its GPUs are of course power consumption and heat dissipation
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12152/apple-starts-imac-pro-s...

Sad to see that this is becoming a recurring theme from Apple's pro line.
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Regarding "personal branding": most people in the EU doesn't even know the name of the 1-3 top ranking officials in the EU. So while there might be all kinds of personal reasons for this (I can't possibly rule that out), public appeal as I perceive it from the USA it not a factor AT ALL.

Most members in the EU also completely lacks the "personal branding" of judges, they usually aren't elected and politics and law intertwine less so in EU than in USA (again, as I understand USA).
> Think about the prevalence of depression versus incidence of suicide as an example.

The article actually talks about depression. How many suicides are or can be averted with psychedelics? You can’t judge things like that in a vacuum.
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I am not claiming that the law was unjustly carried out. Google must have had the chance to plead their case.

The question is rather, "Should this law exist?" The answer is no. A law which allows this magnitude of a fine for the behavior described is ridiculous.

These are not laws sent down by god. Some elected or not elected officials sat down and decided on some stuff - and they can make mistakes. Have you seen the US congress questioning Zuckerberg and the elementary level of the questions asked? These are the EU analogs, making laws (probably not as incompetent though).
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In his apology, Musk links to a "well-written" (but basically unsourced) Quora answer [0] that contains among other things, a "(very) limited defense" of why Musk's "pedophile accusation wasn’t quite random." Musk's first tweet also asserts that "Unsworth said several untruths" as context for why Musk got angry.

I'm not Unsworth so I don't know how that apology should be taken by him personally. But if Unsworth does try to sue for defamation, Musk's tweet didn't seem to be helpful legally. It was nearly 3 days before he made the apology (it took 2 days from the first to the last boy to be rescued). He basically calls Unsworth a liar. And he leaves room for people to wonder that Unsworth still might be a pedophile, because hey, according to the Quora article Musk endorses, "Thailand has a reputation for sex tourism in general".

A better apology would have been to not delegate his explanation to someone's Quora essay. People should only care about what Musk himself uses as justification.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-full-story-behind-Elon-Musks...
> The worst bit was, it didn't actually stop cheaters.

These things usually don't, unfortunately, at least not for any considerable length of time.

It is the age-old arms race scenario. There are small number of developers and an army of potential cheaters. The developers have to get it right 100% and the cheaters only have to get their part right once: once a viable method is found it can be reused by themselves or sold, or passed on gratis.

And cheaters can be very determined, either because success in the game world by any means gives them some real form of affirmation or in the case of "professionals" some form of profit.

Heck, for some working out how to cheat the system is the game!
It's impossible he had a faulty model?
If they abuse their position e.g. by forcing device makers to sign contracts preventing them from using RISC-V etc., then yes, EU might get interested in that, too.
Why selectively? It's basically the same principle as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission

Who else do you think they should pursue instead?
130$ per liter, that must be the price in the US. Because in Morocco it's around 20$ (which is still considered expensive bu local standards).
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You can use Android and make a phone that searches Bing and uses your own app store. Look at how Amazon did it.

Most phone makers don't because customers prefer the Google services, but that's not Google's fault. They have provided OEMs with options - options they didn't need to give anyone, apparently, given that non-licensable operating systems like iOS aren't being whacked the same way.

The most Google can do is give away their OS as open source and let people do what they want with it. If they then sell a bundle of extra proprietary stuff on top, stuff that customers want, that can't possibly be more problematic than making everything proprietary.

After all, Apple doesn't even let third party devs from the app store take over the default mapping app: map links always open in Apple Maps regardless of user preference. For the longest time they wouldn't even let apps that competed with their own be developed at all. On Android you can replace the dialer and even the home screen.

I do understand why people are defending the EU here: they like its ideology and vision of the future. But trying to claim Android is some sort of market abuse when Apple's own approach apparently isn't just defies basic logic.
> I wish those emojis carried a very small caption.

If you're using Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/emoji-to-engl...
Yep, that is a big problem. If company A has launched an official Android device, and company B goes to A and asks them to build a totally unrelated Android-based (but not Android proper) device for them, A is not allowed to do that by Google.
I can't find any mention of commercial license pricing anywhere, can anyone enlighten me?

Because python links dynamically, I believe it's possible to use python Qt bindings commercially without a commercial Qt license. Does pyside2 support this?
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> For open source projects, it is available under LGLP

And how does this make the slightest difference for open source projects?
Isn't it great that you're heading for a hard brexit, then? If the competition is no level-playing field anymore, how should a local company be successful?

Your points have been addressed above already, if Apple had a dominant market position, the EU would have handled things differently. And Apple has been fined by the EU before as well.
How is Google holding consumers hostage and not Apple?

Honestly, for the value that Android gives phone manufacturers I am surprised that Google's requirements were so low. Android gave the phone manufacturers a platform and asked for little in return.
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No, a monopoly is controlling a market to the point where competition is restricted via controlling supply or other means. A company can have 100% market share and not be a monopoly (which is always what happens when a new market emerges).
Richer countries naturally have more iOS devices because those are more expensive. With Android, you pay with your privacy. Unless you opt out of GMS, but that's an all of nothing deal.
Google faces record multibillion fine from EU over Android
Raising unemployment, one robot at a time.

"There will not be enough humans to make the deliveries. We need more and more robots to fill this gap in manpower. And to reduce costs" = "We need more and more robots (...) to reduce costs"
Could you please tell me how I can uninstall the default apps, or at least keep them from constantly updating themselves? That half a gig of unwanted apps that just keeps growing itself is pretty annoying.
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It's still immensely hypocritical to claim that these drugs cause harm and death while giving a pass - and sometimes subsidies and tax breaks - to the commercial alcohol and tobacco dealers.

There is literally no argument that can be made about the dangers of psychedelics that can't be applied to alcohol addiction. Put crudely, alcohol really fucks people up.

Conversely the reality is that many supposedly respectable people are high on coke and other drugs. Mandatory drug testing for politicians and CEOs would reveal all kinds of interesting recreational habits.

A cynic might wonder if the use of these drugs is actually a status symbol, and if legalisation would remove some of the thrill of being able to use illegal drugs with impunity.
As a mechanical engineer, no. It’s basic heat transfer physics. You can’t throw money at the laws of thermodynamics and expect a physics bending solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

Going back as far as we can the life expectancy in the Paleolithic era if you made it to 15 was 54 years. Not far off from today's standard.
Why your brain never runs out of problems to find?
I think they mean microdosing[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_microdosing
Here's the public apology. Good on him.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019472152796381185

Nonetheless, his actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent as leader. The fault is mine and mine alone.

And then he goes on to launch a special event where he gives away ETH and BTC. So I guess that's kinda of nearly almost giving money to a kids charity? It's something at least.
If the government believes people have broken the law, in a democracy that means civil servants have to launch a criminal case and win a prosecution.

The EU is not structured like that, and thus doesn't have to win any prosecution. Margrethe Vestager just issue a proclamation with a number she and the Commission picked out of the air, and the deed is done.
Losing out on a market place with 22% of the world GDP and ceding it to Amazon, Apple and Microsoft would probably invite at least a little bit of shareholder challenge.
You can get certain psychedelics right now with absolutely no regulation, even children can do it:

Walmart sells packets of ~60 morning glory seeds, it only takes a few hundred to have a pretty good high with visuals and everything. (use a coffee grinder because they’re hard enough to break your teeth and unlike LSD they will make you very nauseous) No one will stop you from buying these. Also, Mushrooms grow in the wild and it’s not super hard to find growing kits, although I’ve never tried that.

What makes LSD nice is that it’s safer than these and has fewer side affects. So this isn’t about giving everyone access to psychedelic drugs because they already have that, it’s really about helping them stay safe.
That only means that Google did (or should have done) a risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis on getting fined by the EU on this topic.
But the ultrasound isn't damaging it. It's just causing interference. That's like saying my radio is damaged when it gets interference from my mobile.

It's not actually damaged, it could be damaged from the fall but you didn't create gravity.
Cool. So fast.com can't have traffic prioritised to it's domain? Shouldn't it better be fast.netflix.com or something?
This is not, in fact, true.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/law-licence-free-softwares.html
> if the thermal sensors are covered and cannot detect this

Modern chips seem to have sensors specifically detecting hotspots. E.g. with an AMD Polaris GPU, you can see "Hotspot Temperature" in HWiNFO.
If I see an emoji I don't understand/recognize I copy it and paste it into Google.
I know net neutrality is no longer law, but I think if you interviewed a thousand people on this site, you might be the only one miffed that Netflix isn't paying ISPs for faster routes.

Put another way, it is my impression that consumers are already paying for bandwith. Getting Netflix to pay for faster routes would mean ISPs are double-dipping.
You would have to record every single conversation to pin intent on specific individuals. This is one big advantage of being concentrated in cities, you can meet face to face with people and discuss things without fear of legal repercussions.
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> Hard to explain why. I like to think I have a higher than average understanding about them and they've still dragged me through hell on one or two occasions.

That's the thing, you just like to think that. Yet, you offer no evidence to back your claim, or your expertise in the matter. At best, your evidence is anecdotal (so far) and cannot be used in a more general discussion about psychedelics.
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As Apple fans always rush to point out, Apple owns most of the really profitable users, so if I'm developing a new app or website I have to play by their rules and can only rely on technologies and protocols Apple supports.

Raw numbers don't tell the whole story here.
It is not meaningless. If the insurance policy is 1000 pages of legalese it’s a dark pattern designed to dissuade you from reading it. Ultimately, the accepted to denied ratio is the measure to watch for as a consumer.
Apple can't make good keyboards anymore, are they even failing with their thermal paste now?

I really don't feel these machines are professional level.
You think it was blindingly obvious to Apple that they would have had to pay this tax eventually? Seems to me and everyone else it was an attempt at a stroke. You're alleging that Apple were a passive actor.

You saw that thing in the ICIJ Jersey papers leak where Apple went round the world actively seeking jurisdictions that would twist their tax rules to suit them?

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/apple-s-cash-mountain-ho...
Fast.com doesn't measure the speed to stuff behind fast.com, it measures the speed to Netflix CDN nodes.
I just started developing a Python app with a GUI and the faff around getting in running on other developer machines was crazy!

"Install PyQT and QT Framework, no not that version, no not that one? Your on Fedora? Oh okay, add this rpm repo, no the developer version"

The ability to install it through Pipenv should make this easier, right?
That is a fair point, but isn't it built into this particular field?

We can prosecute equally for jaywalking, but anti-competitive behavior gets worse the bigger the offender is and/or the worse offense they commit. So in that way it makes sense to prosecute "top-down", that is go after the biggest ones first.

That's at least what I prefer as an EU member state citizen and consumer.
Microsoft never had a monopoly in operating systems ever in it's history either. You could install CP/M on IBM XTs and you could run OS/2 or Linux or a plethora of other UNIXes on later IBMs and clones instead of Windows.
Doesn't mean they hadn't had market control due to it's market share.
You are comparing a proportion of one year of Google's profit and all EU revenue for all time.
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Obviously, the EU deciding to terminate all cooperation with the UK because of an ideological "all or nothing" approach is a tyrannical and cult-like way to run international relations.

However if the alternative is having to deal with the EU Commission then yep, I guess hard brexit is the next best alternative.

The reason the EU doesn't have any local mobile companies isn't do to with Android or Google's licensing terms. The EU had a very successful mobile firm and it shot itself in the foot over and over so badly it disappeared, because its own competitor(s) to Android just weren't good enough. Nokia was hopelessly out-engineered by Silicon Valley and in hindsight it would have done better to admit that, and become an Android OEM itself. It wouldn't have had to cut any deal with Google. It already had Ovi Maps and its own app store infrastructure. It could have done an Amazon and adopted Android without any strings attached.
Show me the evidence that Google was warned about this practice and refused to stop for a long time. I have a really hard time believing that they wouldn't take action in response to warnings if they knew that 40% of yearly profit was at stake.

How the hell can the EU entitle itself to 40% of the profit of a company that provides a massive value add to the world? Email, search, maps, video, cloud, office apps and so much more.

I don't think Americans are the arrogant ones here, with the EU levying multi-billion dollar fines on a yearly basis.
Street art reflects the zeitgeist, whatever end of the political spectrum that may be at the time.
True, that bit is a bit annoying, but again, not being able to switch out or uninstall default apps is much worse than just not being able to uninstall default apps.
Do you have a source for this? I can’t remember Apple disallowing an app because Apple itself provides a similar app. I checked the default apps quickly on my phone, and can find several competitors for all of them. If you are talking about the "apps" Messages.app or Phone.app then I guess you might be right if we define "not providing a public API" the same as "disallowing on the App Store".
>i think they should have gotten involved sooner and worked with google

What makes you think that they didn't? Have you even read the WSJ article? It says:

"Google, which can appeal any decision, has rejected the EU’s case since the bloc issued formal charges over two years ago."
ISPs are neutral here, the problem is, once again, that Netflix uses a HUGE amount of traffic, and the normal routes (the ones everybody gets) get saturated.

If they want "premium" routes for their MASSIVE traffic, they will have to pay to the ISPs. I think that's reasonable. Giving them premium routes for free would not be neutral, would it? ;)
> The problem is that antitrust laws like these are very selectively enforced. Selection and prosecution of these cases is hence inherently political as these are non-standardized arguments or verdicts.

Following that logic, the same applies to law in general. Should we therefore abolish law?
- by requiring mobile manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and Google Chrome browser and requiring them to set Google Search as default search service on their devices, as a condition to license certain Google proprietary apps;

- by preventing manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices running on competing operating systems based on the Android open source code;

- by giving financial incentives to manufacturers and mobile network operators on condition that they exclusively pre-install Google Search on their devices.
And that's why the PRC (= Mainland) is trying everything it can to take over Taiwan, and subvert / destroy this democracy. After all the
Chinese Communist Party's convenient narrative that justifies it's 'eternal' rule is just this, that the Chinese people neither want, nor need multi-party democracy.

(See also: Iran vs Saudi-Arabia. The former -- despite all the imperfections of its current mode of government -- is a living proof that Muslims don't need the iron fist of a hereditory ruling family.)
> You won't find any companies with competitive online games that turn a blind eye to cheating.

My experience is a little different: if I buy enough in game shizzle (be it free to play or games like WoW with a buildin store), I get away with murder.

> For a rough example of how the math works[...]

IMHO You are right about the math, but use the wrong parameters. Many game companies that accept additional currency actually allow their moneymakers to "bend the rules". No hard data, just my individual observations while using "tools" in different settings.
It's not that at all. It's abuse of dominance, not the dominance itself that's the problem.

They're using a dominant position in one market to push services in an unrelated market. That's anti-trust 101. And they punish suppliers who don't tow the line.

This is exactly the same as the MS anti-trust case. Swap IE for Google Web Services (Search/Maps/Chrome) and swap Android for Windows.

If ARM started forcing phone companies using their CPUs to only sell to AT&T, that's your analogy. As it is, because ARM don't force unrelated services or products on their customers, it's not analogous.
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Great to see this: the USA has been treating the EU very unfairly regarding services.
The fact that Android was open source was a huge factor in increasing adoption and obliterating the other competition (like Symbian, Windows, etc). It's a competitive advantage, not a kind hearted choice.

When Android was launched is was just another unknown piece of software, poor performance, lack of features, etc.

They can't both reap the profits of open source and then reject any disadvantages (such as with their anti-fragmentation clause).

They have the option at any point to go closed source and face the huge shitstorm that will follow.
Eh, that reminded me of the paper chimneys some people advocated for better air flow on the original Mac or MacPlus.

(e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+chimney , namely https://www.flickr.com/photos/idontlikewords/275104234 - some case aesthetics ;-)
>if Google had kept Android proprietary, and made their own hardware, they'd be totally OK

Yes, why is that surprising ? They would also not get the benefit of OEMs shipping their bundle of services across the globe.

>gave it away for free under the Apache license specifically to encourage competition

It has nothing to do with increasing competition. It's anything but. That's one of the reasons for the fine. The non compete clause prevents OEMs from creating forks of Android.
YES! Feed them to our children in healthy school lunches! Pour these into our water supply! Seed the clouds and let pyschedelics pour forth from the heavens!...