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> Restrictions on vertical integration, for example, would have precluded the most popular mobile phone product lines on the market (Samsung Galaxy and Apple iPhone).

It was my understanding that Apple had to fight against a different kind of vertical integration to get the iPhone off the ground. Before that came out, the carriers ruled your phone with an iron fist. They determined what apps could run and so on. (And the AT&T exclusive during the first years of iPhone show what they had to give up to get the device released)

This isn't disagreeing with the general point of your comment, mind you. The vertical just shifted from carrier control to device maker control.
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An empty seat costs the airline more than a paid ticket.

As stated, you seem to be implying that selling a ticket for 1 cent is better than flying an empty seat. But that's not guaranteed to be true. If they put someone in that seat at a ticket cost of 1 cent, does it cost more than 1 extra cent in fuel to move the now-increased weight of the aircraft? If there's a free soda or something offered, does the extra one they serve cost more than 1 cent? Does the extra time it takes to board that passenger cost more than 1 cent? Does the sum of all of those things cost more than 1 cent?

There absolutely are circumstances in which flying the empty seat is better than selling that seat at the price the market would have borne. And we know this, because we know that airlines routinely fly planes that aren't full, instead of going to extreme lengths to auction off ever-cheaper tickets in hopes of getting someone in every seat on every flight.

(and that's without getting into the fact that not all seats, tickets, aircraft and routes are equal in terms of what they cost to operate and how much money they can make, and all the other things that go into the arcane art of airline yield management)
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There's always the same things i find disturbing in every alan kay notes i've seen recently :
it's often a bunch of anecdotal (yet interesting) data put together that don't give the impression of making the talk move forward.
The general idea is often pretty vague. it doesn't go much beyond general.
There's always those tiny bits of self promotion (mentioning Xerox Parc inventing everything we have today), like someone that feels that his work has been underappreciated and lacks peer recognition.

It's like one of those general public TED inspirational talk except it tries to disguise itself as a scientific or philosophic one.

I always end up looking at the first 20 minutes because the anecdotes are entertaining in themselves, then i realize the talk doesn't go anywhere, and i go back to work.

(and then i go back to reading again the wikipedia page about alan kay to try to remember what made him so famous).

PS : as a comparison, i think Bret Victor talks are immensely more interesting. They also mention general use of computers today, make you think about it quite deeply, inspire you to try new things, and actually demonstrate something new every time. And you never hear him mention his work at Apple.
Congrats for actually creating an ecosystem worth using.
The law is the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/33/contents

The knife stuff starts here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/33/part/XI/crosshe...

That talks about the blade folding and being under 3 inches (you don't need a good reason to carry it in public), or the blade folding and being over 3 inches or not folding. It doesn't mention the mechanism of locking.

Knives that are illegal would be covered by section 141 - "offensive weapons".

The Knives Act 1997 covers marketing of knives: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/21/contents

The schedule to the Criminal Justice Act lists what weapons are currently illegal: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2019/schedule/parag...

You'll see item 1 is a knuckleduster. If you're a child and you 3d print a knuckle duster a police officer is likely to tell you to stop fucking about and they'll confiscate and destroy the item. If you're a drug dealer with a history of violent offences they're likely to prosecute. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45275791

This is a cultural difference in law enforcement, and it's something that derails conversations all the time on HN. Discretion in charging and prosecuting offences are seen as a good thing in the UK. But it's really important to remember this element of discretion when talking about how the written law is applied.
I readily use TLA+ or PlusCal whenever I am reasoning about a system which may (if buggy) experience deadlock, starvation, race conditions, etc. This includes most systems involving two or more communicating processes. (The exceptions are those systems, such as a simple pipeline, where communication is trivial and acyclic.)

It's perfectly suited to this domain of problems, which also happen to be those which are difficult for humans to reason about (owing to the sheer number of possible interleavings of execution between two or more processes).

And TLA+, an especially PlusCal, are simple enough that no system is really "too small" to be modeled. E.g. a PlusCal model of a simple pipelined server (say, reading stuff from the network and writing asynchronously to disk) is maybe ¼ to ½ the size of the actual implementation, with half as much again worth of invariants.
Thanks for replying, I'd definitely be interested in more architectural details.

3ms to complete codegen is orders of magnitude faster than I expected. Does that include everything necessary from making the change through actually synthesizing samples?
Also, I factor my phone purchases as a per year cost. Apple is still supporting the iPhone 5s. I only have to replace Apple devices every 5 years. At that rate it's about $250 per year, which is better than any high end Android phone. Privacy is the main reason I get iOS devices, but the price is not bad.
Gorgeous. Did you consider doing things in 3d with an isometric camera?
I'm sure they got acquired for cents on the dollar. Stupid, far-fetched idea. Asteroid mining will always be a pop-sci topic. Most asteroids appear to be composed of base metals which we have no trouble finding on Earth.
You mean “silicon”, not “silicone”. (Or maybe you do mean “silicone”?)
Carbon steel just looks beautiful and ages so naturally. It's really hard to find knives with blades not made of stainless steel - at least in reasonable price ranges.
At this point in time it's not really relevant to say cellphone vs no-cellphone. It's death by cellphone vs saved by cellphone ie, you need to compare how many people have been able to call for help in an emergency, get a taxi rather than drink driving etc because they had access to a phone in their pocket.

It's like comparing new drugs to the best off-patent generic, not a placebo sugar pill.
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> I can't begin to imagine the thinking of someone who keeps all their photos on a single vendor's system

Quite a few assumptions you are making here.

I have all my photos since 2003 backed up. But I didn't keep track of all the sets I shared with people over a decade (I'm wiser now), and selecting the photos to present to other people takes a long time for me.

>A 'devoted user' that doesn't pay for the service

By that logic, there are no devoted FOSS users, no devoted redditors, etc. And as SmugMug said: I was paying for the service with my data. Now they want me to pay with money, and I am OK with that too.

>doesn't read the emails they send

...they didn't even send any. I assumed the fault was on my part; it was not.

>and logs on at less than 3 month intervals?

My usage pattern is intermittent periods of heavy usage, and that has been consistent over the past 10+ years. That is why I call myself a devoted user; I've stayed with them through Yahoo! and SmugMug acquisitions, and haven't shared photos with anything other than Flickr in the past 5 years.

This is the point I am trying to communicate: devoted users aren't just the ones who use the service all the time.
What HN commenters have realised is there is an entire class of commenters who simply don't mind inventing figures or whatever it takes to create a straw man, even though they're not congruent with reality, it doesn't matter, and so the poster gets to declare victory.
It seems relevant to me.

When we look at topics like transport, education, and communications, we're in an era where those things are tilting private, often due to companies discussed here and that employ people who participate on HN.

As an example, the US Postal Service, which has a universal service obligation, has made a huge difference in how the country developed. Everybody was in an important sense equal. The Internet started out with that spirit, but its implementation on mostly for-profit infrastructure means that isn't guaranteed. With the loss of net neutrality, we've taken a further step away from fair infrastructure. Is that a good idea? This article is an example of why it might not be: because companies tend to optimize for short-term revenue gains and to wildly favor rich people.
Um, I did mention Bell Labs (transistors) and TI (microprocessors). PC is a good addition, though.
Apple's attitude towards, and stewardship of, my privacy is worth a very serious markup to me personally. Doesn't hurt that the products are so good too.
I avoid store programs, but for travel it’s a no brainer.

Ditto for credit cards. Given the model of credit cards, it doesn’t make sense to leave money on the table. If you shop at Amazon or Target, leaving 5% of you business on the table doesn’t make sense.
I agree the UK knife laws are restrictive. But parent poster said "these knives are illegal in UK" -- they're not.
Can you imagine having the Money Mines, just the forever drudgery of moving money from one place to another, day in, day out, it never ends.
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I'm glad to read that they ate the salmon.
I'm not sure if it's still in development. On sourceforge (!) it looks like there are no updates since 2014, and French wikipedia(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillix) says it's not been updated since 2012.
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People are also factoring in TCO with iOS/Android.

Apple supports their devices for 5 years. Android it's more like 2 or 3 and often much less. And with Apple's retail presence it's easy to get 1-1 support which is non-existent for anyone other than Samsung. And with the extraordinary performance of their A CPUs often their devices are holding up longer as well.
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I'm one of those people. I was getting iPhones every 2 years, but my phones were laying around wasted. I would rather "rent" my iphone and switch it out every year for essentially the same cost, and not have to deal with the phones laying around. Plus getting Apple Care every year makes sense now with the screens being so expensive to fix.
And here I was erring on the side of me being at fault. How do they assume people know about it?
I really appreciate your statement that even us crazies who want to privatize everything generally want to do it slowly, and don't think that just abolishing the government today would be beneficial at all from a humanitarian perspective.
...for some people, for some ends.
> Patent == monopoly

For a very specific definition of monopoly (in particular, monopoly over use of a specific resource, not monopoly in the market sense).

In that same sense of the word "monopoly", private property == monopoly.
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I guess even if the phone sales stay flat they can raise the price and get more revenue/profits. This would a great economic experiment. How inelastic are iphone sales.
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Business and pricing are not my areas of expertise, so feel free to ignore or improve on this idea. My suggestion is to use Flickr to upsell Portfolio and Pro SmugMug plans (maybe with a nominal discount of $1/mo for Portfolio and $2/mo for Pro). Flickr could be the place where photographers get feedback on their photos and improve their skills, and then SmugMug is where they build a more curated portfolio of photos to sell based on what resonates with people on Flickr. When a photographer has reached a tipping point of positive feedback on Flickr, they may feel ready to start selling their photos, and that's your opportunity to upsell an appropriate SmugMug plan.

Or if you're confident that you can identify photographers whose photos will sell based on engagement with their photos on Flickr, offer an introductory rate for the first year so they can test how well their photos sell. If they sell enough photos to cover the cost of an upgraded plan, paying for an ongoing plan is a no-brainer.

At least, that's my use case as a hobbyist. I currently pay for a basic SmugMug plan. I daydream of upgrading to a Portfolio plan to sell some photos (just for fun), but I don't know that I would manage to sell any. I'm now thinking Flickr might be a better place for me to start testing the water.

As an aside, thank you for removing the Yahoo login. That's been more of a barrier than you would expect for me every time I've wanted to use Flickr in the past. I don't use Yahoo for anything other than Flickr. I think I have more than one account, but I'm not sure, and I don't remember which account has my Flickr albums. It's just a mess. I'll definitely be giving Flickr another chance in January.
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I recently moved from a GS8 to an iPhone 8. Just yesterday I took delivery of an iPhone XR.

I used Android from its inception with the HTC Magic and Dream. Nexus One, Nexus 4, 5, 6p, GS2, GS3, GS8, Motorola Glide somewhere in there. Lots of devices, over every Android version. From a full financial cost perspective (e.g. lifetime cost and then value when retired if I were selling them) virtually all of them cost me more than the iPhone of the days.

It was never about cost. Various platform benefits drew me, from a development perspective it enticed me, and it seemed right for the industry. Almost morally right.

With recent iOS versions, however, Apple has stolen many of the best features of Android (the notification system, how multitasking operates, intents, etc), while at the same time improving on the benefits they already have (a higher quality platform, better security, a better app ecosystem).

As Google started moving to their Pixel platform, continued to abandon 2 year old devices with disregard (my devices are always new, but from a utility perspective I like being able to safely give older devices to my children), Android lost me. Not to mention that it became the Samsung platform with a fringe of Google devices. I also seriously question Google's motives in providing a quality API for developers for things like computer learning and computational photography.

So there's a counterpoint. These devices are so important for our lives now than $1000 a year seems entirely reasonable.
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Not necessarily - author X writes a forgery which, both to make it seem more authentic and to pad out the verbage, quotes extensively from authentic sources A, B and C.

Unrelated author Y does the same thing, but quoting B, C and X (why wouldn't he? He doesn't know it's fake).

Repeat repeatedly.
It gets worse..

> Ms Tursilawati was executed just a week after al-Jubeir, met his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi, and Mr Widodo in Jakarta to discuss migrant workers' rights.

> During the meeting, Mr Marsudi emphasised the importance of having a mandatory consular notification before carrying out death penalties.
Hopefully it was real cents on the dollar, rather than BazingaCoin(tm).
I agree, when I lived close to a grocer it was amazing and that is the absolute biggest thing I miss being a suburbanite. Beer runs were so much less complicated and my neighbors annoy me so I could avoid borrowing the proverbial cup of sugar.

I've thought I should open a suburban bodega right in the neighborhood. But with lot sizes being fairly large and households being fairly small, i doubt I would get enough traffic since I couldn't compete with discount grocers and Walmart.

C'est la vie, I bought a muscly convertible to enjoy these interstitial commutes.
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That story sounds odd to me, as I've never heard it. Looking for history I found https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/962/CS-TR-392... which describes the history of memory management as "unclear".

I would say it really took off with userland package management - Debian in 1993 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.os.linu... following SLS in 1992.

To me it feels that kernel debugging is the hard part; if you're lucky you get a nice clean panic with stacktrace, but if not the machine just locks up. Or overwrites critical parts of its filesystem. Or, in some extreme cases, is bricked and will never boot again.
If it requires Chrome, why not simply develop a Chrome app?

"A Google Chrome App is a web application that runs on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps can be obtained from the Chrome Web Store where apps, extensions, and themes can be installed or bought."
Isn't that increase primarily charging Google more for exclusive search access (e.g. "platform tax")?

http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...
Oh! Thanks for the info. I wish I knew this 3 days ago when I decided to install OpenIndiana in a VM to play with.