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I did read the article. In future, please refrain from insinuating someone has not read the article, it is against the guidelines for comments:

>Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

In particular, I was replying to Lanthanide’s comment on the system in Saudi Arabia.

I agree with IanCal, giving insulin to someone not already prescribed it is hard to justify. The risk of harm is much greater than the possible benefit, especially when they could just go see a doctor (routinely or as an emergency). I am from the UK so perhaps I live in what you would consider a nanny state, as guns are not freely available.
As a point of information, in the UK antidepressants are not controlled more than any other prescription drug, I don’t know how that differs in the USA
I don't want to sound like one of those anti-alcohol, pro-drug people, but to continue with the anecdotes: I've seen people get into far more dangerous situations and states from drinking than I have from use of any recreational drugs.

Anytime you hear about somebody being king hit in town, I can guarantee you the perpetrator has had a skin full of piss.
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They could but they'd lose access to the economy with the largest spending power per capita in the world. Inevitably another player would spring up to feed this void and could then use that as a platform to start eating their lunch elsewhere.
They have many employees and large revenues here. Its not as easy to say all revenue from now on goes to the US.
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That first claim is clearly wrong though.

Firstly, Android doesn't have a monopoly. Apple does fine in Europe and their devices can be bought everywhere.

Secondly, there are device makers that didn't cut a deal with Google, notably the Amazon phones and tablets. They weren't that popular with consumers but that's not Google's fault: it just means consumers highly value the additional services Google provides.
Facebook has users who don't know about anywhere else to go. Hence no need for fb to fix bugs and imo FB is ridden by bugs and poor UX that would have killed a startup.
> What's more, I have yet to meet a doctor that even cares about the supplements I take.

Reminds me, some time ago I researched a supplement extensively before taking it. Then when it turned out to be helping me, I asked my doc if it was safe to continue taking it. He just Googled it, clicked on the first search result, and determined it was safe.
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They don't exist. Continuing to repeat reefer madness propaganda does not make it any more true.

Show one scientific study that shows any long term effect from a single dose of any of your listed substances and I will be happy to take your comment seriously.
From Wikipedia:

In their Statement of Objections, the European Commission accused Google of the breach of EU antitrust rules in three ways:

- 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.
For open source projects, it is available under LGLP, which is less restrictive than PyQt's GPL.

It's also available under the commerical license, too, so customers don't have to purchase from the Qt Company AND PyQt.
When the fines are lower than the expected benefit from your "wrongdoing" then what's the incentive to stop?

As a person getting caught stealing/defrauding/etc. you would have to pay restitution and additional fines/time in prison. This is how it should work for businesses to. If the goal is to actually prevent future abuse.
I have plenty of experience with all kinds of psychedelics and don't think they should be available in your local corner store.

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.

Holland already did this experiment since you used to be able to buy mushrooms over the counter. Quite a few tourists lost their minds or worse.

Nobody should ever face legal consequences for personal use of any drug but they should remain hard to find.

Anyway everyone knows you don't find acid, acid finds you.
Who makes a 13" laptop with 32 GB RAM that is Thinkpad or the better models of Asus build quality? That much RAM in such a small form factor, regardless of thickness, also seems a hefty thermal challenge, but if someone out there is doing it, I'd like to take a look at them. I swung by the Lenovo and Dell sites, and only the Dell 14" will let you go up to 32 GB, but I've yet to see a 13" model.
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I agree that assumption is the wrong word. But do you have examples of monopolies that didn't take the profits and control the pricing of the markets they control?
I bought the MacBook Pro 2017 13" without touch bar with an i7. I pretty happy with it, but, the only thing that bothers me is it gets hot. Hot as hell. Skype sharing the screen and JetBrains CLion and you get a beautiful roaster.
Of course there is. Mobile OEMs are quite capable of making their own operating systems and not so many years ago they all did. Of course Apple does, and Samsung still does with Tizen, from what I know.

These alternatives mostly suck but "your competitors suck" is not grounds for an anti-trust violation. No phone vendor is forced to deal with Google, that's an absurd distortion of the facts. Even if they feel their own in-house engineering abilities are so weak they can't make a better platform than Android, they can still take the open source code and use it as a base, providing their own mapping and app store along the way ... just like Apple do.
I kind of felt the same about the Apple Tax / Irish Revenue Commissioners thing.

On looking into the judgement however it appeared as though both parties actively sought to subvert competition rules under a disingenuous "veil of ignorance". Warning shots had been fired earlier but the practices continued hence the fine.

I haven't read into the details of this judgement yet but you may well find similar reasoning therein.
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I think it is completely unreasonable to expect anyone to indur a long international flight. The fact that they expect him to fly with broken bones is inhumane.
The punishment is not for pursuing an open source distribution model, but by applying undue power in taking back control of the open distribution model.
Plenty of folks that have complex health needs are best served by single-payer systems. Especially if your complex health needs winds up getting you fired from that employer that pays for part of your premiums, works someplace with crappy health insurance, or pays too much out of pocket to afford proper care.

Besides, you can get those things with single-payer health care by purchasing private insurance on top of the single-payer plan or simply visiting private places instead of the state-funded ones. Here, the state still pays the private places their normal fees and the extra payment from the patient provides bells and whistles, generally including things like shorter wait times in some cases.

Just because you have a serious health issue doesn't mean you need a complex treatment option. A gall bladder can be a serious health issue. All interventions are customized to the patient based on medical standards lest you risk injuring the patient. You also aren't as likely to get the slew of run-arounds when changing health insurance or doctors (migraine sufferers often have to repeat treatments that didn't work or find their medication that works is no longer covered, even if their medical history reflects this). You aren't getting repeat tests because the others were out of a hospitals' network either (happened to my aunt).
I do struggle the reconcile this apparent lack of self awareness with the undeniable savvyness that he has shown in his life so far.

Is there a method to this madness? I'd like to believe that there is, and he hasn't just allowed fame and adulation to get to him.
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So I suppose my stance that the benefits of online voting for direct democracy largely outweight the complexity cost of a sufficiently secure solution are equivalent to the older type of objectivists who realize that free market isn't perfect but that it does lead to better outcomes in most cases.

That we can't produce secure voting software is just a testament to how much we suck at software engineering and making safe computers in general, because cryptographically this is a solved problem.

Hell I'd argue that modern implementations like Estonia's are pretty close to an acceptable standard of trustlessness. But that's thanks to open standards and public ledgers. The closed source voting machine was never a good idea, and never will be.

Given the ancap vibe of blockchain in general this is all a bit ironic isn't it?
Loud? it's the quietest machine I ever had. No problems so far (9370 model)
I was just trying to figure out why Qt might have chosen to actively support PySide rather than PyQt, I guess that licensing might be the answer. I wonder what implications this might have for PyQt?
Holland currently only has truffles OTC, afaik?
Mozilla wins too, simply by using a termite :D
> Is this the result of lobbying by competitors?

Probably in part yes, but the European Commission is also pretty proactive. E.g. if I remember correctly, they reached out to Mozilla to get their take on how MS was bundling IE with Windows, after Opera originally complained about it. This came out of it: https://www.google.com/search?q=browser+choice+screen&tbm=is...
How do they gather data? Officially reported by employers or self-reported? Both of them can have huge biases, from both intended and unintended reasons.

(Plus, in office job often there is no clear cut. People can be Facebooking (or HNing :)) in their working hours... or on top of 8h/day it may be quite a few hours of emails and stuff people are expected to do remotely.)

And what is the main impact on the total number of working hours? (Part-time jobs? Holidays? Parental leaves? Sick leaves?)
>It is, however, possible to repair Spectre
vulnerability without any performance overhead. In particular, oo7 quantifies the leakage (cf. Section 4.2.5) to investigate the range of memory touched by an attacker.

Maybe I missed it but how much padding is needed? Depending on how much, surely that isn't too bad of a compromise? Also wouldn't you have to randomise the amount of padding needed?

For the other methods the ~2% figure in performance loss also seems pretty decent.
> 'Legalizing hard drugs' is kind of a theoretical issue because I think it's hard for us to contemplate what actual widespread use would look like

You're conflating "this is now legal" with "lots of people will start using".

Aside from that point, I think we can make an educated guess about what will happen if you extrapolate even a little from countries where they are decriminalized. It obviously doesn't map one to one, but that's a far cry from it being so hard to imagine it's basically undoable.

Thirdly, you're talking about psychedelics and suddenly it's about all hard drugs. That's veering way off topic.
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I have been searching for ages, hunting for things in Internet. All I could see were static site generators, different types and apps in React JS.

Scenario: I have got a nice nifty app created with React JS with login and other functionality. Another team would like to check out the pure HTML & CSS version of it without React.

Question: Is this possible? Can I export the whole application to pure HTML, CSS, JavaScript and assets and zip it and send it to the other team?

If someone could help, it would be awesome.
That latter definition is in fact a reasonable counter-argument to Windows being a monopoly (people did buy Macs), and that's why Microsoft got in trouble for the deals they cut to try and crush Netscape, not for making a more popular OS than Apple did.

You can't define a monopoly as "your competitors aren't popular" because otherwise it'd be illegal to invent new product categories, as at the start you'd be the only player in the new space. You can't define it that way for another reason: it punishes success.
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> 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.

None of this is true.

People like you promoting psychedelics are responsible for much suffering (bad trips, drug induced trauma and PTSD, long term psychological problems).

AFAIK it is MUCH more likely to feel normal and healthy after intoxication by alcohol than after intoxication by psychedelics.

All drugs should be legalized. Criminalization must not create additional costs and problems. Legal must not mean harmless. Many legal things (e.g. drugs, too much sugar, animal products, fossil fuel, ...) are harmful.

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.ns...

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychedelics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/

https://www.livescience.com/16287-mushrooms-alter-personalit...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-ps...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychede...
The problem was more precisely that thermal variations combined with the way the heatsink was attached and pushing on the middle of the CPU repeatedly warped the board due to thermal expansion, causing the balls to unseat. Heating the thing would help reseat the BGA thanks to thermal expansion but would certainly not reflow soldering (not enough heat).

The proper fix was to try to reseat the BGA by whatever means and change the way the heatsink was attached so that pressure on the BGA/board was even. I did that on two units and they survived for years after their first RRoD, and on a third unit right from the get go, and that one never suffered of any issue.
So, you are fine covering people's stupidity when being active? Or you are only interested in not covering people you perceive as being a moral blight?
I have the new 2018 9570 with an i9, and throttling is very modest. My workloads tend to be bursty rather than sustained, so I probably wouldn't notice in normal use anyway. But running the Intel XTU stress test, I only get very short periods of throttling.

Perhaps the 9570 is improved, or as many suggest Dells QC is poor and I got lucky.
The problem is not that one given doctor can't fix an issue (which can happen). The problem is the monopoly they have on our health, preventing us to seek different solutions, get extensive tests done, etc. In the US it is easier to get liposuction than to get some basic testing done if your doc thinks it is unnecessary.

For example, depression is usually "solved" by prescribing SSRIs, but if you do some research, you find that there are perhaps hundreds of possible causes for it, none of which are usually tested for.
I think they are doing clever stuff to mimic real netflix traffic.

You can see various request to *.nflxvideo.net
Really? You don't see any difference between a banana and an anti-depressant for example?
I practice in the UK. The system is far from perfect, but does to a certain extent work in the idealistic system you propose. It is not true for all GPs, and some don’t practice holistic medicine, but the system is created to allow (and encourage) this method, and in my experience holistic medicine is practiced by GPs.
Perhaps things differ in the USA, but this system works well in the UK.
Could someone explain to me how this would work for a (bytecode) interpreter?

I'm thinking a few thoughts:

- Interpreted programs can carry out Spectre attacks
- Interpreted programs are un-analysable using a technique that does binary analysis
- This technique would insert fences "everywhere" in an interpreter, adding significant overhead

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I'm thinking it matters a lot whether the analysis is done at run-time or static. If the analysis is static, and it was done on the Python interpreter for instance, it would have to be very pessimistic. But if it's done at run-time, it might not need to insert as many "fences".
You don't really need lobbying in order to make Google conspicuous. In particular with their creative approaches to accounting.

> Is this the result of lobbying?

In all likelihood there was almost certainly an element of lobbying, in particular complaints about these business practices which eventually coalesced into some kind of more focused activities.

It seems a bit quixotic to blame "competitors". Which competitors exactly? That's the whole premise of abuse of dominant market position.
Not to delegitimise your experience, but every time there's a discussion on HN about recreational drugs, there's always someone who claims that MDMA/shrooms/LSD/ketamine/weed/etc cured their depression.

It's not just for mental health issues, but for any health issues, everyone on HN seems to have their pet cure. Just look at the 20 different (often contradictory) opinions that appear every time there's a discussion on diet or weight loss here.

I'm not saying that psychedelics (or other drugs) won't help with depression or other mental health issues, but from experience it's certainly not necessarily the cure-all like some people here like to make it out to be.

Different treatments work for different people in different situations. People should be wary of taking medical advice from Hacker News.
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The problem there is profit orientation and it's true for all insurances.

Even car insurances do this even if you think they don't. They'll look for a reason to not pay you a dime even if it's on legally uneven feet.

When an insurance is profit motivated, then maximizing profits is the first instincts. Maximizing profits happens by maximizing the deny:payout ratio. My car insurance did this by denying me reimbursement on a covered repair because I didn't go the the repair shop the insurance would have preferred (of which I was informed later and per law this doesn't matter anyway).

On the other hand, my statutory insurance has covered any of my eye-care costs with zero questions asked or simple policies usually simply copied from the relevant laws (1 free pair of glasses per calendar year, up to 200€ IIRC, 10€/day for hospital stay beyond medical emergency, etc).

The difference? Statutory insurance here is non-profit. Most insurances, even the private ones are non-profit. Very few insurances operate for profit at all.

Other than the management overhead, the fees collected go straight into covering medical costs or are invested into fonds as a reserve.
You could run an OSX VM in either Windows or Linux (I'm doing fullscreen Linux VM on Windows with a Thinkpad, and it's quite good/fast). Idk if there are issues with licensing, though.

Also, give Linux as a primary desktop a try! What do you believe that's lacking, from your perspective?

Granted, it's not great out of the box, and some software isn't available, but if you have a couple of weekends to spare/invest with tinkering, you can have a pretty and solid desktop workstation setup.
5b is about one of Google's quarterly earnings.
Well, with this punishment, there won't be any bathroom break left!
Yes, also Portugal.
Maybe the problem with the Google deal is that it's exclusive: if you want to make one device that's Google approved and contains the "highly valued" services, you are disallowed by the compliance contract to make other Android devices that are not Google-approved.
It's not making Android more open that leads to the punishment here. Google made Android more open when they open-sourced AOSP; they made it more closed when they prohibited manufacturers from actually forking Android in a way Google doesn't like. The behavior that is punished is the use of their market power to negate the open-sourcing, not the open-sourcing itself.
If so, this is a flaw. Not all businesses have the same margin.
> but the European Commission is also pretty proactive.

Isn't it a bit late though?
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This line in the article got to me, "The fine would top the EU’s €2.4 billion antitrust decision against Google just over a year ago."

It looks like the EU has created a piggy bank with these regulations on hostage tech corporations. I wonder how much of the large fines is attributed to prosecutors or politicians trying to make a name for themselves.

Anyone know how often these record fines hold up on appeal?

Edit:

Wow, lots of people triggered by this comment. Must be because it's between 4AM and 7AM in the US while being the afternoon in most of Europe.

I stand by everything I said. EU regulators shouldn't be able to entitle themsleves to around 40% of Google's yearly profits. If the laws in the EU intended for this then they are backwards and harmful to innovation. That 5 billion dollars could go into life sciences, self driving cars, and a bunch of other stuff that materially improves society. Instead it's going into EU coffers.

Google's services add massive value to the world while regulators have done nothing. Fines on Google by the EU total over 7 billion dollars over the last couple of years. Ridiculous, and I'm surprised y'all are trying to justify this cash grab.
Netflix uses fast.com and their speed index as a way to extort ISPs into giving them traffic for free. They refuse to pay any fees to connect directly to ISPs and then they use that website to imply they are being throttled when the meager free routes they use get saturated, which is their own fault.
Xtribe conviene più di Amazon
Fare acquisti online è l’evoluzione inevitabile dello shopping. I rivenditori sono impegnati a costruire nuove relazioni con i loro clienti sul web, ma affidarsi all’online è davvero un’opportunità per i commercianti? Solo in parte. La necessità di ampliare il proprio business, e di raggiungere target più giovani, ha fatto propendere molti retailers a puntare massicciamente sul commercio elettronico, dimenticando il ruolo fondamentale dei negozi fisici. Al momento, ci si divide ancora tra chi è disposto a spendere qualcosa in più per una piattaforma propria e chi si affida ad Amazon o Groupon. Ma quanto costa vendere su Amazon? Tanto. Infatti, la commissione media sul prezzo della transazione è del 15%, oltre al costo delle spedizioni, della pubblicità e dei resi.

Qui arriva Xtribe, il marketplace geolocalizzato ideato da Enrico Dal Monte, Marco Paolucci e Mattia Sistigu, che sta ridisegnando lo scenario del commercio online, attraverso l’integrazione tra online e offline. Una rivoluzione. Spiega Mattia Sistigu: «I nostri diretti competitors hanno un grosso problema con gli sconti che vengono imposti. Il margine del venditore è molto basso! Con Xtribe non hai nessun costo di commissione. Tutto quello che guadagni con le vendite è solo tuo, com’è giusto che sia».
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Google has to somehow recoup the high development costs of Android. Does the EU expect them to develop it as a charity?