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It is for having a dominant market position in mobile phones (90% global market share) and abusing the market position in mobile phone operating systems to favor their other products.

Apple does not have a dominant market position and does not give away iOS for free.

Making Android free is an anti-competitive practice because it inhibits the formation of a competitive market for mobile phone operating systems. Because Google's practice of making Android free inhibits competition they are not allowed to exploit the lack of competition for profit.
Yes ! Super good work, long awaited !

In these times of web stuff, it's really nice to work with a framework that is absolutely stable. (well, except Qt5 is quite a change :-))
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>You can in fact get loop unrolling with just standard functions in Spiral.

We can do this too actually - and spirals approach sounds very similar to what you'd do in julia :)

https://gist.github.com/SimonDanisch/812e01d7183681ed414932c...

As a matter of fact, it's what the compiler devs keep recomending. As a developper I must say, that it's pretty relaxing to take a meta programming shortcut from time to time ;)
In general, we plan to offer a tool box that employs these kind of patterns for loop unrolling, tiling etc, to make it easier to write GPU code without meta programming and perform certain optimizations/scheduling patterns based on a more trait like system.

> Also reflection should be done using pattern matching

I feel like what Julia does is just more low level right now - And you get pretty far with just multiple dispatch! If we needed more than that, we could put the effort into extending the language into that direction. But I think your use cases must get be pretty advanced untill you need something more complex. Can you recommend a nice article that shows off beautiful pattern matching for reflection? I see how it sounds nice, but I can't really imagine right now how it would improve my life.

Concerning inlining, I do think we actually force codegen to always inline when compiling for the GPU. I don't remember a 100% anymore, but there might have been some problems with that. But it's definitely the goal, to have a flexible compiler that you can fine tune to specific domains like GPU programming. And if we don't get it as part of the compiler, we can definitely do things like that with https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl/

Appart from that, I'm pretty happy that our GPU compilation infrastructure isn't making Julia less useful as a general purpose language ;)

>Is it fully integrated or is it a wrapper style memory management?

It's wrapper style. We're playing around with different kind of hacks to make it less worse, but those are hacks you could do in any GC language. The good news is, that the Julia compiler devs take GPU computing seriously and promised to work on a full integration that is aware of the GPU hardware.
This is more about google forcing OEMs to bundle a ton of google apps and making them default in order to get google play services. If you are an OEM, you have to accept the all or nothing proposition if you want google play. And all OEMs want google play. The android as you know is AOSP + google play services blobs. Nobody sells pure AOSP phones (not counting some small niche players).
And I've seen the same in the USA, and other places.

It's a big city versus small town thing. In the remote wilderness everyone helps each other. In the city it's assumed you are gong to get help from someone else.
>Maybe we might want to do an experiment in a city somewhere to see

We did: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/741...
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I was not belittling the pharmacist’s qualification, they often helped advise me and fit a specific role in the health care system.
They are however trained for a different role (at least in the uk where I am based). General practioners are trained to deal with long term conditions. These conditions often require patients to be managed over a long period of time, and seem several times, hopefully by the same clinician. They also see them for the majority of their other illnesses. General practitioners allow a patient to develop a long term relationship with a doctor, and allow the doctor to become an expert in the patient.

I agree with you that a pharmacist is capable of dealing with many of these issues, but (at least in the uk) they are not primarily set up to deal with long term health conditions, and don’t develop that expertise in a single patient. If they become like GPs (which they feasibly could), it would work. But why do that when there is already a doctor who specialises in that? Maybe my arguments work less well in America, but my knowledge of that healthcare system is limited.

Ultimately though it seems we agree medications need some form of specialist oversight, rather than being freely available.
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This is great, but I do wonder if the lifespan of Qt and other frontend frameworks is somewhat limited. UI development seems to be converging more and more on the web stack (HTML/CSS/Javascript)
The practical suggestions at the end of the article looks good and shows that the author is trying to help the situation, but I find the rest of the article to miss the point and instead makes fun of a demographic where the highest cause of death is from suicide. The problem is not about a lack of pleasure. Loneliness, small or no social networks, and depressions are at an all time high and society has done little to actually address those issue for the demographic who currently suffer most from it.

Sex Redistribution is silly not just because it would be forced prostitution, but also since it doesn't address the core issue for that demographic. Loneliness is a difficult problem and groups like incel are a symptom. Reduce loneliness overall in society and groups like incel would stop to exist.
Recently there's a push to eliminate jQuery usage from our codebase, and it's highlighting just how much React doesn't do for you. jQuery, for all it's faults, has been maturing for 10 years or so. It makes a pretty good footgun, but it's not like I've never seen anyone shoot themselves in the foot with React either.
They haven't made a lot of public gains yet but the project has only recently raised enough money to grow beyond a few developers.
That chain you're outlining is part of the problem with health care in the US.

It's not just pharmacists or PAs, it's psychologists, optometrists, dentists... The problem is we have this over regulated system that doesn't recognize the actual capabilities of many in the system that could be doing a lot more than they are, we're it not for professional lobbying around turf.

There are huge unrecognized bottlenecks to care that have everything to do with inaccurate regulatory assumptions about who can do what, starting with the consumer themselves.

I get a little upset about the idea of triaging down a chain, because the triage chain itself is a flawed idea. I dream of a much more competitive system where people get drug advice from professionals based on those professionals' training and expertise, regardless of specific training pathway or background.
Can Google just close shop in the EU and ignore the fine?

Nothing they provide really mandates they have a physical presence.
This is great!

Fast.com has been my go-to site for speed-tests and sometimes for even rudimentary connectivity check. It dethroned speedtest.net as my primary speed-test service for two reasons:

1) I find typing 'fast.com' much easier and hassle-free than typing speedtest.net (aside from the fact that quick '.com' insertion through CTRL+Enter shortcut in Firefox makes it even snappier).

2) Netflix's wide self-run server network gives more uniform results, especially when testing from different continents, because 3rd party server providers -- in the case of Speedtest.net -- have sub-par performance, imo.

This feature is a welcome addition.
>>> qubits are highly unstable

newbie question : are they naturally instable (so we won't fix that) or is it just because we don't master them well enough right now (and we'll fix them "soon") ?
Well, that's why they don't want to limit Android's market share, instead they want to open up Android licensing restrictions.

In particular, the EU alleges that if you want to install Google Play on your phones, you need to sign a license agreement which also forces you to:
a) install Google Chrome;
b) make Google Search the default search engine; and
c) not sell phones with Android forks at the same time ("Anti-Fragmentation Agreement").

They want to force Google to allow manufacturers to more freely chose which apps to pre-install and also to be able to offer Android forks in parallel to "Google-finish" Android.

I'm not sure if this will really be good for consumers... I would argue that most smartphones have too much crapware on them, not too little. On the other hand, the Microsoft Internet Explorer unbundling case arguably helped fuel the success of Firefox in breaking the IE dominance, which I would argue was good for consumers.
The problem with this definition is that it also assumes that if you have 75%+ market share you're likely having a similar share of the profits which is not the case here. If you take profit into account it's really at best a 50-50 market for Google.
> Do these really do anything a sufficiently equipped laptop from anyone else can't?

Yes, mac touchpads are light years ahead of non mac touchpads.
What about the people being prescribed benzos, SSRIs, etc. for life to cope with the issues brought on by a single does of psilocybin/LSD/salvia/DMT/etc?
Thanks. Looks like they are getting used to paying fines as a regular part of their business.

Maybe in future earning reports we will see statements like "Legal fines went up 80% YOY from $7B to $12B and we are planning to continue our aggressive spendings in this area to expand our market dominance".
Of ritual settings, some are allowed already. Perhaps also should be allowed in a medical and research setting which would mean schedule 2 or 3.

However, abuse potential or evidence of harm should be first demonstrated before scheduling a substance this high.
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Absolutely - once it is out of warranty and starting to lose performance I'm happy to mess around. But less so just a few months after I've bought it!
> More to the point: the regulations are not for you, they're for the 33%-ish of folks who have all sorts of problems.

What do you mean with "all sorts of problems"? Most people with "mental" problems do alcohol which is a really bad hard drugs. But if you mean with problems: treating depressions, treating all kinds of headaches, palliative treatment, not knowing what to do with your life, etc.. then what would you want to regulate for this group?

Psychedelics are a very harmless drugs; not addictive, there is no poisoning(like with alcohol), when the effect is gone you feel totally normal and healthy. The only thing you need to be careful with if you really want the best result from it is the dosage, never too much like with many other things in life.

Prohibition of psychedelics only causes criminality and harm, it doesn't solve a problem at all. It is an illusion to think that your children are not able to get their hands on it when it is prohibited. The truth is they'll get questionable quality LSD in the criminal circuit, or they'll pick magic mushrooms theirselves which can be quite tricky!
And fire all Google employees in Europe?
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Also you can be running your own skins gambling site on the side, promote it using your channel, and not disclose anything.

But who would ever do such a nefarious things /sarcasm
In the majority of cases, online interaction checkers might be OK. But please be aware that there's more to drug interactions than using online checkers.

You can have a drug interaction that is red-flagged but can be deemed harmless depending the patient's medical background (QT prolongation). In other cases the interaction can be undocumented, and relies on the instinct and knowledge of the medical professional to piece together the pharmacology and make a judgement of the risk to the patient (co-sedating drugs, drugs that are processed by CYP2C19 vs CYP3A4 enzymes -- there's a big difference).

Also need to take into consideration the timeline of administration. Some drugs clear very slowly from the body, and simply taking one drug after the other is discontinued can be a dangerous assumption to make (antipsychotics).

There are a lot of other interactions that are flagged, but after careful appraisal of the evidence, they're not that much of a concern to the patient.

Also consider route of administration. Does taking a transdermal patch interact with an oral medication? What about eyedrops and inhalers? What are the absorption/distribution/metabolic/excretion characteristics of the drug? Peak drug concentration levels?

Some of these details are picked up online. But you need to be aware of fundamental gaps in your understanding of medicine. It's like being a self-taught developer. Sure you can learn enough on your own to be useful, but without the years of theory and fundamentals, you will hit a roadblock which can be costly.
Seems kinda perverse. After all, you can't fork Windows, macOS, or iOS at all. Why should making Android more open than the competition lead to worse punishment?
> The people on HN and their social circles are waaay on the high end of conscientiousness

You overestimate some of us. I'd say that I'm in that third of the population that's susceptible to my vices. It's just that I can afford less harmful drugs and I call myself a hedonist to legitimise my proclivities with a philosophy.

These communities that are ravaged by crack and alcohol (a legal drug) would continue to be ravaged by crack and alcohol, even if LSD was made legal. It's just not that kind of drug. If anything, it might benefit the community because they might gain some introspection. These communities already have access to these drugs anyway; drugs are everywhere, they just choose heroin and crack over MDMA and LSD, for whatever reason.

Despite the best efforts of the War on Drugs, they are easier to find now than ever before, in many places people can get cocaine delivered faster than pizza [1]. Anybody that wants to do drugs is doing them. There aren't many people who avoid drugs purely because they are illegal, especially in at-risk communities.

I live in a 'vulnerable' neighbourhood, ridden with heroin addiction; so much so that there's a safe injection centre for heroin and methamphetamine around the corner from me. Nobody here is missing out on heroin because it's illegal. All the addicts can have as much heroin as they can afford here, it's so easy to find. If I walk to the shops in the afternoon, I can usually eyeball at least 2 or 3 dealers, without even trying.

Legalising drugs won't have effects that are anywhere near as severe as you might think.

[1] https://www.globaldrugsurvey.com/gds-2018/cokeinoes-cocaine-...
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Do you plan to offer an API or a app which show venues where food poisoning was detected?
As far as I understand, the FSF's stance has always been that copyright law does not cover use of a piece of software you have in your possession, and they have done a lot of thinking on the subject. You can use the copy you downloaded, no license needed.

Modification, distribution, making it part of another larger work -- you need a license for those.
There's no implied assumption about profits.
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It could be locality specific - which cafe was it?
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You guys are in 100% agreement. Parent is pointing out the difference between regulation and law and is just fine with regulated legality.
"The little blue ones and the big yellow ones."
Monopolies are not based on the profit but market share. Yes Apple has a very profitable niche but that does not mean Android does not have a near-monopoly on smartphones.
Just curious how this is different from PyQt.

Used to use PyQt on a bunch of projects. It was a fairly decent framework. Not bad for native-looking UIs.
This isn't a revenue generating scheme. This is a fine for bad business practices.

This might shock you, but not every country in the world believes companies should have free reign to do whatever the fuck they like. It's not like deregulation is a requirement for capitalism.

The real problem here is the minority of Americans who live with their heads firmly up their own arses and don't have any concept of the wider world - of which America is literally only one entity amongst a great many of others. You assume that everyone is envious (which, by the way, is the correct term. "Jealousy" - as you described it in one of your other comments - doesn't refer to possessions) of America when in actual fact we just want American businesses to play by the same rules as European businesses do when those companies do business in Europe. You're not being singled out because we have the same expectation for companies of all nationalities; regardless of the continent they reside. It just so happens that American businesses are some of the worst offenders (possibly due to your culture of anything goes in business?). However as you have also pointed out, European companies do also get penalised when they break the rules too. So you aren't a special case.

But honestly, given the stunts Boeing pulls, your various business lobby groups that affect overseas legislation (eg the breast milk vs formula was), the recent changes to trade relations Trump has made, and all the other numerous indiscretions America make to put their own industries first; you are hardly in the position to take the moral high ground when it comes to international business relations.
The antiharassment section could prohibit fraternization. It's pretty vague and points the reader to a separate Q&A document, which I suppose provides more detail on what constitutes harassment.
It's cutting your nose to spite your face. This isn't how business is done. So they would give up tens of billions in revenue per year for a one time comparatively low fine.

If Google packs its bags they'll be the ones feeling most of the pain. And such a drastic move would have consequences on any business Alphabet tries to do in the EU over the next decades.
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I'm wondering how such a fine actually comes into existence. How does some EU committee get the idea that Google is anti-competitive here? Is this the result of lobbying by competitors? Can we somehow post the EU about instances where companies are being anti-competitive, and get them to take action somehow?

Given the enormous amount of anti-competitive behavior we see every day in the news, I can't help but feel this fine seems a bit arbitrary.
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> Can Google just close shop in the EU and ignore the fine?

Sure, if they don't want to get any revenue from the whole European Union anymore. Fortunately the EU is a big enough market so that Google doesn't have any leverage here.
I think this is a mistake and essentially punishing Google for pursuing an open distribution model for Android, without which I doubt it would have emerged as a serious competitor to iOS.

We're all a lot better off, even people that use iOS, because there has been real competition in mobile. This is essentially choosing which business models the EU thinks should win.
Then maybe Firefox is relying on a built-in font as noted by another user, while the right system fonts are missing.
you didn't catch the part where he mentions antibiotics are still for prescription and went on a tirade about overuse of antibiotics (which is a topic on its own but unrelated to parent)
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Sure, but Google will even with the fine have made a significant profit in the EU.

Google leaving the EU would be, for the company, like Google leaving the US – firing half their staff, losing half their revenue and profits, etc. Absolutely not worth it.
The EU could just seize their assets - like the money paid by EU companies advertising on Google's properties.
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To put it in a slightly different context, this is more money than the annual contributions of quite a few EU member states. Google is now a bigger contributor to the EU budget than Belgium, the Netherlands or Ireland.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/external/html/budgetataglance/...

Fines paid to the EU go straight into its own general budget. Combined with the nature of the EU Commission as judge, jury and executioner in cases like this, it is a severe conflict of interest. Member state are refusing to pay more into the budget and the UK is leaving, which will create a massive budget hole. The EU is strongly incentivised to levy fines for vaguely defined, highly debatable "crimes" on US tech firms in order to avoid their own internal political disputes over funding.
Same here. 2014 maxed out, doesn't do well in the spanish summer. External screen mostly stays disconnected, otherwise it throttles down after 30 mins..
Are there not some kind of cooling pads to help with this shit?
This one frustrated me to read, i think they should have gotten involved sooner and worked with google. Instead they slap a crazy high fee for something that is vague in violation. It does feel a bit like a vendetta here by the EU.
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Well written, but there are other significant risks like losing access credentials (e.g. a password stored only on one device that is destroyed in the same accident in which its only user, who remembered the password by heart, dies) or being hacked by someone who gains access to cloud storage and intentionally erases or corrupts data.

Specialization is good, but if Backblaze is strictly in the business of storing data on hard disks, who's going to help with designing and maintaining the reliable complete system on top of their service that users actually need?
Well no, they need the EU to evade taxes in their home country.
Nice way to pay for things, fining the crap out of foreign companies.
Is this a thing?

I know a guy who seriously overdosed on LSD and had to spend a weekend in a hospital. Other than a severe aversion to psychedelics he wasn't seriously harmed, at least not to the point where he needs daily medication to deal. He has the worst Adderall tolerance his docs have ever seen but that's unrelated. I suppose I could ask him whether his OD made his ADD worse.

For sure chronic abuse of psychedelics will cause permanent effects but I'm not aware that anything other than a life-threatening overdose of psychedelics will cause someone to need lifelong medication to manage the consequences.
I have had thermal issues both in my old Lenovo T61P and a more recent Macbook Pro 15, both with dedicated graphic cards.

No replacing of soldering paste on my part was ever able to improve the situation, with the result of having powerful machines only on paper, that were brought to their knees even by light workloads.

My Mac becomes impossibly hot and slows down playing games like Hearthstone and Civ5, FFS.

I have long decided that my next laptop (regardless of the brand) will have integrated graphics and a medium TDP CPU, and I will just limit heavy workloads and gaming to my desktop.