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That's not a fine against Apple, it's a demand that Ireland corrects past behaviour that has been deemed state aid.

While it's certainly Apple's prerogative to play EU states off against each other to get the best deal, it should have been blindingly obvious that what it was getting from Ireland would be, and should be reversed.
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For people interested in an example of a Qt app, check out (my) cross-platform file manager https://fman.io. It currently uses PyQt. I hope Qt for Python will become stable enough so I can make the switch.

Developing cross-platform desktop apps is hard. To help with this, I open sourced my build system [1]. It lets you release (Py)Qt apps in minutes instead of months. It aims to make (Py)Qt a more viable alternative to Electron. It already has preliminary support for Qt for Python, and I want to expand it in the future.

[1]: https://build-system.fman.io
> That first claim is clearly wrong though.

No it isn't. But your attempt at refutation is.

> Android doesn't have a monopoly. Apple does fine in Europe

Apple has its segment. Android is pretty much everything else. It is "dominant" in the market.

> Secondly, there are device makers that didn't cut a deal with Google

The complaint relates specifically to access to google play services.
> Anyway everyone knows you don't find acid, acid finds you.

What does that mean?
404 for the links:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180707134410/http://europa.eu/...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180717113254/http://europa.eu/...
But Apple hasn't been fined in the same way. So apparently if Google had kept Android proprietary, and made their own hardware, they'd be totally OK, even though there'd only be two phone makers left in the world instead of dozens like there is now?

I'm sorry but this move is garbage. I am British and I'm so glad the UK is leaving this horrible, success hating farce of a union. Google paid billions to develop Android and then gave it away for free under the Apache license specifically to encourage competition and diversity in the smartphone market. They then added a carrot of some apps and the app store if OEMs agreed not to introduce backwards incompatibilities, to avoid the J2ME problem of a hopelessly forked and buggy platform.

If they hadn't done these things, very likely Apple would have wiped out every competitor in existence.

The EU is sending a powerful message with this move: keep everything proprietary, pick a high enough price point to price out most poor European countries, and you'll be fine. Build an open ecosystem where competitors target every price point and you'll suddenly find yourself being an involuntary contributing member to the EU's budget. What a great disincentive to build products for the Spanish or German markets.
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You can see the original fact sheet of the investigation here (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4782_en.htm). The reasoning for the investigation is at the bottom. There were two complaints and an independent investigation by the committee.

The fines "reflect the gravity and duration of the infringement. They are calculated under the framework of a set of Guidelines last revised in 2006." (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/procedures_101_en....). There's a link to the guidelines on the page.

I also had a look at how to file an anti-trust complaint but to be honest, most info was over my head and more appropriate for a lawyer - this seems to be a good start: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/contacts/electronic_document...
I have met a lot of people who have experience psychedelics, and I know people who avoid them after a negative experience (much the same way people avoid tequila after one particular night), but I'm yet to meet anybody, or hear of anybody, who has had long term negative effects from psychedelics that requires medication.

I'm sure that maybe they do exist, but it's an exceedingly small percentage of people who try them. People are also allergic to peanuts, yet we don't ban peanuts for the few that will die if they come into contact with them.
A couple of weeks into f/t use, mine (XPS 15" 9570, i9, 32GB RAM) doesn't get hot at all (fairly typical dev stuff - Docker, VMs, browsers, IntelliJ). It throttles intermittently, for short periods (perhaps 5% of the time) under a stress test.
"Piggy bank", there is a full process duo law involved. It's not like people come up with "hey we need money, let's fine google".

Why would you claim something like that without providing any evidence that this is actually the case?
You are talking like waiting for months is the norm. That’s not the norm. That’s just what our shitty Canadian health care makes ya think.
Painting public walls is OK as long as it's loaded with leftist propaganda
Other commentators are saying the fine is between 1/3 to a half of google’s profits. I sincerely doubt the EU represents more than that share of google’s revenues. But of course I doubt they would pull out as this is a one time thing.
Like the f*cking rail service in France, where they've been striking 2 days every three day, to protect outdated privileges and political relevance.
Better late than never, I guess?

The question I meant to answer wasn't about timing but about whether the fine is a result of lobbying.
This is talking about from the perspective of phone manufacturer. As a phone manufacturer you can't license iOS so that's out. You can really only license Android and if you do you have to also install Google Apps, Chrome, and make Google the default search engine on your phone.
Well if there was one group I would expect to complain about anti-competitive behaviour, that would probably be competitors.
A monopoly is exactly that. Mono means one. Thats the root of the word. What you are describing is a dominant position, which is completely different since its a relative definition.
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Marijuana is trivial to grow at home, yet it's still illegal in most of the world.
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But Android isn't a phone maker. It's a component that is usually customised.

Now go look at who are making phones on this base: Samsung is the most popular but it doesn't have a monopoly.

Is the EU going to fine ARM next for having a monopoly on mobile CPUs?
In most (all?) other fields of law you are expected to abide by the rules as they are stated, or risk being punished by the legislative powers. That's not a vendetta, that's law as it is most commonly practiced.

I don't see why EU should "work with google" to make them follow regulations (EDIT: beyond the threat of punishment).
Saying this as a software engineer that has been on movie sets - you have no idea how disorganised, chaotic, and wasteful they can be, and how long hanging is the low hanging fruit in terms of making processes more efficient.
Nicholas II, his German-born wife and their five children were shot by Bolsheviks as a consequence of the October Revolution

They were not "shot as a consequence of". They were deliberately murdered under direct orders from Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, et al.

They were all brought together in a room and were shot and stabbed in a process that took about 20 minutes. Their bodies were then desecrated and disposed of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_famil...
> since modern thermal pastes are non-conductive, there is no real downside to an enthusiastic application of paste except for making a mess, so you want to default to putting too much on rather than having some dumb intern kill a PC with an insufficient application. There is virtually no effect on thermals.

The effect on thermals are absolutely not insignificant. Thermal pastes are actually extremely bad at transferring heat and too much of it really has negative effects.

Yes, it is safer to put too much than too little. Using too much the worst case is just that the CPU throttles and performance is sluggish and that rarely leads to an RMA.

From https://www.ekwb.com/blog/thermal-compound-guide/

For example, the thermal conductivity of a high-grade thermal paste is 8.5 W/mK, and the heat conductivity of copper is 385 W/mK, or for aluminum 205 W/mK. You can see that the thermal compound is actually a poor heat conductor and that is exactly the reason why you only need a very thin layer of paste to fill the micro imperfections between the IHS and heatsink.
Sure. Developments in self driving and electric vehicles, ride hailing and general automation make PRT a much more convincing proposal today and a genuine public transport alternative to the personal car, which collective vehicles
with rigid routes will never be.

All while avoiding the seemingly insurmountable difficulties of fully autonomous driving on congested and chaotic city roads.
More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17554902 , which is a later post, but the same topic.
I wanted to try making a browser extension and it seemed weird to me that there didn't seem to exist any means of linking to specific elements on a web page if they hadn't been given IDs to make a fragment identifier out of, so I made this.

You select a page element and generate a link, which you can then share. For someone without the extension, the link will work as normal and just take them to the page, but someone with the extension will have the selected element focused on and highlighted for them.

There's also a repo on GitHub (for now)[1] and I wrote about how I made it[2]. My next priorities are to make it not look like ass and to shorten the links somehow. Let me know what you think.

[1] https://github.com/Rumperuu/Pinpointer

[2] https://bengoldsworthy.net/2018/04/developing-pinpointer/
History is repeating itself. Only difference is that Google search and Chrome browser is not as bad as MSN and IE in former times. Why Google did not looked on how MS handled that issue when you become the market leader?
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It's possible to build a macOS app that manages an IKEv2 connection using the public NEVPNManager, NEVPNProtocolIKEv2 and related APIs. This also gives you full control over DH group, algorithms, dead peer detection etc.
The demand was that Apple pay €13B in back taxes.

> it should have been blindingly obvious

and yet, it took a deep-dive investigation by the commission with a team of specialists to untangle it.
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You're talking as if these are baseless claims.

The EU has laws. Some of these are different to those in the US, not just in wording, but in aim. There's definitely a much stronger drive to protect consumers from companies exploiting them through data and market abuse, wherever those companies are.
"Perceptual disturbances may last for 5 years or more and represent a real psychosocial distress. We reported here a case of a 18-year-old young man presenting HPPD after a mixed intoxication with psylocibin and cannabis. This report shows symptomatic recurrences persisting more than 8 months."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15963699

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-trip-that-doesnt-e...

"Evidence supports the association of LSD use with panic reactions, prolonged schizoaffective psychoses and post-hallucinogen perceptual disorder, the latter being present continually for as long as 5 years."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8251869

"Hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder (HPPD) is a syndrome characterized by prolonged or reoccurring perceptual symptoms, reminiscent of acute hallucinogen effects. HPPD was associated with a broader range of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)-like substances, cannabis, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), psilocybin, mescaline, and psychostimulants."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29209235

"The Association of Salvia divinorum and Psychotic Disorders: A Review of the Literature and Case Series"

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/02791072.2015.1073815
> It looks like the EU has created a piggy bank with these regulations on hostage tech corporation

Or is it the tech corporations holding consumers hostage, and are regulators trying to fight that.
> You have to disable all VMware services or PUBG will kick you randomly for using "unauthorized applications."

If any game dis this to me, I would be having a refund, through credit-card charge-back if necessary.

Unless of course it is made obvious up-front that the game will not work with certain common legitimate software, in which case I'd have not paid for it in the first place and would play something else instead.

> which uses BattlEye. It actually injects a kernel mode driver

Sounds like something I need to avoid. A game is a user-land program and has no business touching kernel-space (with the possible exception of direct communication with the graphics hardware for performance reasons, but in this decade that to me would be a huge code smell...)

Having said that: I've not bought much by way of games aside from a few small ones in Steam of HumbleBundle sales, other parts of life are just too busy for me to have the time ATM, and I've never really bothered with PvP/online gaming (when I play games I do so to escape the unwashed masses, not invite them into my living room!), so I might be so far from the target audience that my thoughts on the subject count for nothing.
You can hide profit on the paper, by investing it. So it is impossible to fine under consideration of profits.

The only way to do is to use revenue, but judges should still consider the business profit margin.
But it prevents clever accounting. In high tax countries, Google has no profit at all.
Which insurance company was that?
> Is the EU going to fine ARM next

Maybe? Is there something about their business practices that shapes the market to their benefit? If so, and there are enough complaints then maybe not "next" but yeah.
> 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.

You get more bang for your bucks this way, too. Desktop hardware costs a fraction of a comparable laptop.
My wording was indeed inappropriate (I'm not a native speaker), "dark patterns" are subjective but I'd say:

- the less privacy-friendly option is a big shiny button, while privacy controls are behind a small greyed link
- hiding the privacy options behind many interactions, basically making it as frustrating as possible to find the opt-out, I always find that amusing to read "We value your privacy" while I spend so much time looking for actual control over my privacy
- all of the "partners" checked by default (non GDPR compliant), with no easy way to deselect all ("select all" is, however, usually an option)
- bait and switch: when you go to partners' settings, checking the checkbox is actually requesting to opt-out, but to know that you need to read a long, grey paragraph with a small font size at the very end of the list
- punishing the user by making it unnecessarily slow to opt-out, most of them are legitimate from my finding, but I've noticed a few fake loadings (zero requests in the network tab), it may simply be due to poor engineering though (Hanlon's razor)
- redirecting the user from the original content after he opted-out, also feels like an intended punishment to me (but same as before: can be explained by poor engineering)

The list is non-exhaustive, but I wish I had better writing abilities to share my observations in a Medium article or something like that.
Very slightly off topic but I actually think how Android handles default apps is the best of both worlds. It comes with very very good default Google Apps that work well together but it is very easy to switch out whatever you want for an alternative. How iOS handles it is the opposite. For their default apps they either straight out not allow competitors, severely limit what their competitors or (if I remember correctly) they even removed apps when a newer iOS added Apple's own version so they were now "competing".

I know that anti-trust laws are probably not applicable as Apple does have a dominant position based on total market share, but to me this practice seems far more anti-competitive. Banning competitors seems worse than fully allowing competitors but providing your own as default that can easily be changed.
Yup, I didn't account for fuel weight going down overtime, in part because I forgot and in part because it complicates the equations.

Even not accounting for that, the fuel tank wins over batteries, which would be like stapling a third engine on the aircraft that doesn't work, yet wanting the same distance and speed performance from the aircraft.

I also tried to figure out how much energy you could pull from solar panels to cover energy usage and reduce the battery use but A) doesn't work for overnight flights and B) the energy output is abysmal for various and dozens of reasons even if you magically doubled the surface area that the sunlight reaches. By over-the-fist estimations, the weight you save on the battery would be lost on the solar panels.
Worth pointing out in the design of the AK47 that it was based on the earlier work of Hugo Schmeisser.

Not just that Mikhail Kalashnikov took inspiration from Schmisser but that he also had Schmisser working on the project as a prisoner of war. [0]

That doesn't mute any of the design discussions that were taken but it's worth remembering where the design came from.

[0] https://wehrmachthistory.com/heer/the-lies-about-ak-47-were-...
Correct. Source: I'm Dutch. Related article: https://www.rnw.org/archive/amsterdam-tourists-mad-about-tru...
There is a consistent theme of American companies breaking European law and getting fined for it going back decades. The EU has a different legal system and you don't just get fined it happens after a long process of attempting to correct behaviour and legal proceedings.

The arrogance of Americans to believe their legal system applies everywhere and that any attempts to apply a different one constitutes an attempt to raid the piggy bank is kind of amazing. I wish it wasn't such a prevalent view but you see comments like the one you responded to every single time a fine is levied.
> Is the EU going to fine ARM next for having a monopoly on mobile CPUs?

Have ARM used their dominant position in one market to reduce competition in a different market?
Cost of business is high in eu for us companies. Google should xharge for android in eu to recup this back.
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With WebAssembly and other recent developments, I think that the opposite is going to happen in the future. We are (hopefully) going to have native (online) apps.
The EU's demand was that Ireland collect that tax from Apple.

And blindingly obvious to Apple, the benefactor.

When somebody says, "Hey come and do your stuff here, we'll only charge you 0.005% corp tax!" you should expect that their wider financial governing body (who is losing out severely because of a deal like that) might have something to say about it.
Well, I guess it wouldn't, because you're right, the fences would be "everywhere"; if one of the fences ends up in a hot path or inner loop, there goes your performance.

I don't know how oo7 works (I have admittedly gone straight to the comments on this one ;) ) but I do suspect it would be quite the ask (read: NP-hard) to expect it to identify interpreter{s, hot paths}.

However, if it's a JITing interpreter, that's technically compilation, and now the question is, how long does oo7 take to do its thing, and can it fit within JIT passes?

(NB. For clarity, choice of interpreter code architecture (bytecode vs anything else) is not especially orthogonal here, but the meaning is no less clear.)
> Is the EU going to fine ARM next for having a monopoly on mobile CPUs?

Having a monopoly or being in a dominant position is not the problem. If ARM starts a pizza business and requires everyone who wants to buy mobile CPUs to also order pizzas exclusively from them, then this would be an equally-fineable abuse of a dominant market position and the EU would almost certainly step in.

As it stands, ARM doesn’t force others to buy pizzas exclusively from ARM PIZZA PLACE and hence doesn’t abuse its dominant market position in one market (mobile CPUs) to support its position in another market (pizzas).

Google, on the other hand, uses its dominant position in the "licensable mobile operating systems" market to support its position in the "internet search" and "browsers" market together with anticompetitive behaviour forcing its licensees to exclusively use the Google-approved version of Android.
I've been doing hours-long CPU+GPU intensive tasks (compiling ghc, number crunching, playing games like Bioshock Infinite and StarCraft II on a HD4000) on a bunch of pre-retina MBP and rMBP 13" and they never throttled. Thermal design and management is spot on, fans stay silent most of the time and kick in only when load requires it.

Beware of anecdata. Given the stories I hear I would squarely put the various issues in the realm of thermal paste gone bad, busted fans, or clogged airducts, and certainly not on intrinsic bad design because I have personal counterexamples of dozens of various Apple laptops from 2008 to 2016 being perfectly fine out of the box.

Obviously though, a desktop will beat a laptop's thermal performance any day but I think this is missing the point.
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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.
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If a company simply ignores fines, the regulators will assume that they didn't choose high enough fines, since it did not hurt the company enough. They'll schedule another meeting, check whether the company still breaks the rules in the same way and if so impose fines which are a lot more painful.
You can expect that to happen way faster and with way less bureaucracy then the initial fine.
Please add a project description on your PyPI entry :)

https://pypi.org/project/PySide2/#description (currently empty)
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Thanks for the correction, I shouldn't have made such a sweeping statement.

However I think my point still stands. The regulation of newer drugs seems to be dictated by ideology more than anything else. In many ways we've gone backwards.

I'm reminded of David Nutt, who was sacked from his job as UK Chief Drug Advisor, simply because the evidence he quoted disagreed with the government's rhetoric.
some of it in Apple's case can be ascribed to their quest for reducing the thickness of the laptops to the point we lost not only ports it may be affecting their ability to adequately cool them
We are market leaders in developing mobility solutions for all sized business
> I'm not about to use Lynx for the bulk of my web browsing.

Lynx isn't a CLI program. Curl is a CLI program. I agree that it's preferable to use Firefox over Lynx, but all of that works fine on X11. The point of Windows is it does everything using graphical interfaces.
MacBook Air is not comparable to an XPS...
> EU Commission as judge, jury and executioner

The executive fines someone (like you are fined for violating parking regulations), then you can appeal that fine in court, in this case most likely the ECJ.

Would you argue that it's wrong to address a coporation's wrongdoings? EU companies are fined regularly as well, might not create such an upheaval in the US media, though.