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> It occurred to me that as a result of this case Apple might change their pricing structure to align with the pricing strategy stock exchanges typically use. That is, a nominal transaction fee that covers only the cost of the transaction but then charges the companies an annual "listing fee."

FWIW, Apple already charges an annual fee of $99 to enroll in their Developer Program, which is required to list apps on the App Store: https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/
Wow, I was pretty certain I never read the three investigators but I am must be wrong and mixing up different series! Getting old!
I was pretty sure the Hardy Boys had a base like that too. And a friend called Chuck or something. They had some kind of a lever thing to raise some of the junk that concealed the entrance to the base.
I was searching for a reference and found this 8 year old guardian article that mentions both series and the junkyard base.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/sep/23/thre...
Not to spoil the ending for you but...

...if we continue to sabotage earth's ecosystem, we will be the ones dying.
This is the sort of dismissive commentary that people say to feel better about things. They might even vote for Trump to further cement the notion that they can will it into not being true.

Yet the ice caps are disappearing. The Earth is warming. Extraordinary and troubling changes to the Earth are underway.
Even CapitalOne bank has their own font: http://mtaylordesign.com/optimist/
I’m curious why Ubuntu as a font was included on this list. While it technically is a font, it’s a font shipped with an OS. There is no mention in the article about problems with default fonts shipped with windows or macOS.
While not required in a legal sense they certainly might do so anyway. Ukraine is as entitled to it's sovereignty as any other nation. Just letting the Russians steamroll Ukraine is equally irresponsible. Germany, France, etc are going to (rightfully) have a very, very hard time tolerating (i.e. not coming to the aid of Ukraine) that kind of belligerent behavior in Europe.
> I also wouldn't expect it to yield what truly matters.

To you. Others may have different perspectives on that.
Well, EU ruled citizens can not be forced to give up their privacy to use a product/service. Google, msft, apple etc can play by the rules (which Google clearly does not according to this research) or accept the consequences.
"Most of humanity" live in apartments? Wat?
Noticed fewer spiders in my house this year. Last year I couldn’t go a day without a couple on the walls. Other bug populations seem higher though here in the PNW. Been finding a lot of little beetles? On my walls, plenty of ants and flys.
I know you're just kidding, but to the OP, this is from the magazine section. I haven't read the article yet, but sometimes at least, enjoy the occasional story in my news.
On the phone app, the description is dynamically loaded below the comments. I'm sure there's a less discoverable location, but I'd be hard pressed to identify it.
If the site owner is actually a Russian living in Russia - - law enforcement and courts of democratic countries cannot get access to him, Russia does not extradite it's citizens, only Google has the power to stop this (but they obviously have a conflict of interest because like credit card co's and real estate agents and so many others they only make $$$ if the deal goes through).
> Nobody actually paid for WhatsApp. At least, nobody I know off.

People did pay. Its just that the charging was somewhat selective. Obviously you and your friends weren't in the group that was selected.

Originally, it was a paid app ($1) on the iPhone. Eventually, that was dropped in favor of using in-app billing to actually charge the $1/year on Android... but this was only enforced in a few selected countries at first. Once the Facebook acquisition happened, this effort was dropped. If it hadn't happened, then charging users would have expanded gradually over time.
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I'd rather call it 'reporting the facts as they are' than 'gloom and doom'.

Did you notice that we -- humanity -- are rushing full steam ahead into a global ecosystem collapse?
I've written tens of thousands of lines of both and find Terraform requires me to write many, many less lines of code because I don't need to break out Lambda functions nor deploy a random web service to serve as a Custom Resource. I don't need to write code to search for AMIs in Terraform, I have a data provider for those kinds of things. CloudFormation is sometimes substantially behind Terraform in support for certain flags. And lastly, Terraform supports a lot more different services than just a single cloud provider - it truly is an infrastructure description language in comparison to the much more tightly constrained CloudFormation. However, CF is my go-to when we're talking about application deployments based upon instances over Terraform - that's when Terraform starts falling apart and requiring tons of code over CF. In fact, I think the Terragrunt author solved his app deployment problem in Terraform by generating CloudFormation stacks from his Terraform - good luck doing the reverse from CloudFormation!

Furthermore, transitioning from Cloudformation to Terraform is much, much easier than the reverse - you can't import existing resources into CloudFormation management, period (you can't even write the aws-prefixed tags to try to confuse it unless you're an AWS employee or something).

Nothing wrong with starting with CloudFormation or any other provider-native deployment description language if you're 100% in AWS and will stay that way. For the rest of us, Terraform is basically the only choice that can work besides paying for eye-watering expensive boutique tools that were developed a decade ago and have more limitations than Terraform.
Probably true on small enough scales, but this seems to be a much more large scale phenomenon (based on the article it's international & multi-decade)
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I was thinking of chuck but you're right it was chet!
I think the biggest thing is more cultural than related to any specific argument -- it's America's strong cultural bent against busy-bodies.

Whether political activists, art critics, family members, next-door neighbors, school boards, building code inspectors, whatever it is. It's our core prejudice. The French are racist, the English classist, Americans hate busy-bodies.

It is core to Americans that people should think and act locally, as a rule. Basically -- mind your own business.

Applied to GDPR, this philosophy goes;
"Unless you or someone you know has been concretely hurt by these businesses tracking them, why are you trying to make a law about it?"

To an American, when we hear someone trying to fix something that they have not themselves been a victim of, it sets off our busy-body radar, and we prepare to defend ourselves.
After Amazon released its implementation the whole eco system profits, as it creates diversity and buzz around that topic. I think it's great to have (open source) alternatives, especially with the marketing weight of amazons solution entering "playing field". Also: is it clear that kata was first? Three years doesn't sound like they've been miles ahead.

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Thanks for the numbers. I hadn't realized Acela was so highly utilized in the DC-NYC route.
Not everyone “needs” any apps on their phone though. A mobile phone is necessary because we need to make calls, send texts, and receive voicemail. We don’t really need much beyond that. You could make the case for email being a need on the phone, but you don’t need a Facebook app, or Shazaam, or Angry Birds.
lol, the guy never suffer from war and say I've survived 10 apocalypse it's too much millenial dramatic
We have very thorough food traceability laws in the EU (I develop software in this area). No blockchain required.
100% agree. Relatedly, too, if they're so cheap... include one with the phone.

But yeah, we used to have the convenience of both (bluetooth and wired), now we pay more $ for less functionality and increased inconvenience. Holding on to my SE for the foreseeable.
No, he's saying a person who is thinking about results for the Clojure community wouldn't take things that way. Not everyone wishes to fork the community. Politicians step down from issues just because the timing is wrong and would be factious, not because the issue is wrong.

Also the person in question is also a well-received volunteer, which is why this is getting traction to begin with, which is why Rich Hickey would even take the time to tell someone that they aren't worth the time of the very response they're reading.
THIS. I gound out the hard way. Im back on linode.

You realize now the power of branding, cult personality, marketing, get foreign cops to beat foreign workers at warehouse....sure is hel--i shit you not my book atrived from Amazon.ca
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> This point in particular comes up a lot , but there is scant actual evidence for it.

There is scant evidence for this (honest question)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall#Operation_K...

> Contemporary US military estimates of a ground invasion get nowhere near those casualty numbers

That's pretty irrelevant, because hindsight is 20/20. Given the conduct of Japanese in the war, it wouldn't have seemed implausible at the time. The soviets sacrificed millions of their people to repel the Nazis.
Is it possible for a normal person to order one of these? I can't seem to find a source.
It's the old joke... don't think anyone cares about you? Try missing a couple of payments...
I go to a university that uses office 365 for email/document sharing etc. I have friends who go to universities that use the equivalent Google products. I went to a high school that used Google classroom for a variety of assignments.
I guess it's easier to just shut ones eyes, put ones fingers into ones ears and sing 'La lala la lalala' very loudly than to actually question the viability of ones own consumption and its impact on the environment.

I guess...
All content on the YouTube content library has already been fingerprinted.
Keeping it small is okay too
A functional anti-trust would have blasted Apple a long time ago for banning competing browsers on iOS. And I mean really competing ones, that aren't using Apple's browser engine.
I will agree that there are less women in software, but there are so many STEM programs/funds out there that are specifically targeting women. There are more women doctors then men doctors, are there initiatives in place to promote more men in medicine?
Not statins?
This is a problem likely caused by humans trying to manage too much in nature. Does it really sound reasonable to respond by taking over the working of even larger chunk of nature?

I think a much more reasonable approach would be to scale down pesticide use, scale down our overall biomass footprint by reducing meat consumption and scale down anything that involves cutting down "wild" trees or "re-purposing" forest landmass.
I would say that clickbait is where the headline is designed to draw people in without giving them information. A well written headline gives you the most important part of the story. A clickbait headline deliberately avoids it. Consider the stereotypical “one weird trick!” clickbait. It avoids telling you what it is, so you have to click to find out.

This headline gives you the most pertinent fact up front. You can skip the story and still have some knowledge of what’s being discussed. It’s the opposite of clickbait.
Did you read the article? It doesn't support anyones political agenda.
> I hope can provide a jumping off point for alternate ways to think about style, and why I think y'all are asking the wrong questions.

Except that quote has nothing to do with business decision making around aesthetics. It's about arts & entertainment and an existential pondering about human thirst for creativity. For profit software (which is the topic we're talking about here) is about providing a solution to a real world problem.

That being said there is some research around aesthetics from a usability perspective: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/

Summary: Users are more tolerant of minor usability issues when they find an interface visually appealing. This aesthetic-usability effect can mask UI problems and can prevent issue discovery during usability testing. Identify instances of the aesthetic-usability effect in your user research by watching what your users do, as well as listening to what they say.
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I remember being a kid in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. Whenever we went to a pond or lake in the woods, there would be little frogs and salamanders everywhere in the water. Now there aren't and I find this mass extinction right before my eyes really, really disturbing. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/am...
Young women are crowdfunding Kyrgyzstan's first satellite – Quartz
Is it clickbait if it's true and relevant?
Even coal power plants cost several billion. I don't think an order of magnitude reduction in cost is foolish to count on.

The issue is the design of extremely specialized components, not necessarily the raw materials (except when they're novel superconducting magnets designed for that purpose).

I think schedule delays are what is making ITER so expensive.
You can't sideload an app on an iOS device, you can't run unsigned apps, and there is no version of iOS you can run without the App Store. Unless you jailbreak.

You can still run Android without Google Play Services, even though it's not a great experience.

Granted, there are tradeoffs. iOS is more secure in this space than Android, but Android is far more open on what you can do.

For example, Amazon created an app called Amazon Underground that would let you purchase and sideload apps onto your Android device from Amazon. Some of these apps didn't exist in the Play Store, so you had a viable option to buy exclusive titles from someone else.

On iOS, there is zero opportunity for a situation like this to occur. Everything must go through the App Store, and that's why I view it as a monopoly.
Assad is genuinely using chemical weapons against a civilian population so I don't think this makes the point you're trying to make.
"on virtually all of the key dimensions of human material well-being—poverty, literacy, health, freedom, and education—the world is an extraordinarily better place than it was just a couple of centuries ago."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/11/30/why-the...

Lots more examples.

But if you primarily get your impression of the "state of the world" from news sources, you get exactly the opposite impression. "If it bleeds, it leads"

Or from the Forbes article, "The media does not tell us how the world is changing, it tells us where the world is going wrong. It tends to focus on single events particularly single events that have gone bad. By contrast, positive developments happen slowly with no particular event to promote in a headline. “More people are healthy today than yesterday,” just doesn’t cut it."
Amplify might be the word you're looking for!
Not so fast there, you need the associate certification. If younforget to bring your id and basically flush a cool few hundred american
I've eaten bean sprouts cooked on the street in dubious conditions in various Asian countries and never contracted anything as a result. The risk to health must be vanishingly small.
> Not for a while, I think. We only had two bombs at the time. IIRC it would have taken months (weeks?) to build another.

It wasn't that far off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
left-pad was a very different situation. The maintainer unpublished the module from npm. I forget the reason, but I want to say it was some sort of rage quit.
The bleed shouldn't actually surprise anyone who knows how the acquisition actually happened. It only surprises tech reporters who are universally oblivious to this part.

If someone said: "We're buying the company you work for, and you're going to get $$$$$ out of the deal. You get some of it up-front, and the rest dolled out over the next four years."
Well, now the four years are up. Do you stay and continue to simply work for $, or do you take a break and find something new to do with your life?
Per Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e) of the Code of Federal Regulations, typefaces cannot be copyrighted in the United States:

https://www.bitlaw.com/source/37cfr/202_1.html

Note that although the design of the typeface is not copyrightable, the computer programs which generate typefaces (‘fonts’) contain elements which are:

https://www.copyright.gov/history/mls/ML-443.pdf
I can't help but think that there's some competitors' money behind these attacks on Google... They provide location services which you can turn off or delete yourself, which is anonymous to anyone else, and there's no evidence they sell your data (they just anonymously connect you to businesses you search for). Versus carriers which track you without an option to opt-in or out and actually do sell your data to 3rd parties.
Because when you invite me to your house, I do not gain the right to demand you rearrange the furniture. You built that, you put things in their place. If I want something for it I can only make a case for it, and that case hinges on convincing you.
What a shame having more than one link is impossible. /snark
I think the American suburban yard may be equally responsible with agriculture for a lot of this in the US. The use of herbicides and pesticides is completely unregulated. Additionally lawns are an unnecessary waste of time for most people and have a large carbon footprint. I had a small native plant yard that attracted hundreds of pollinators and arachnids. I was treated like and criminal forced to cut most of it down. I still get a fair amount of terrestrial arthropods but not as much.

It sickens me when I see workers with those sprayer packs or trucks that look like small chemical plants.

Before I decided to comment I submitted my write up, if you are interested you can read that you can read here:

http://www.elegantcoding.com/2018/03/reimagining-suburban-ya...

Edit: I did want to mention that I definitely seen a massive decline in butterflies and moths over the last 15 years.

Update: I quoted 40 million acres below, which is for turf grass which probably includes athletic fields. I am not against everyone having a lawn or athletic fields. I do think people should be able to cultivate their native environment on their suburban property and this should be encouraged and even incentivized. My neighbor’s kids play in their backyard, so they have a need for it. Of course a non herbicide non monoculture lawn should work ok too. That’s what I grew up with.

Also I think that gas powered devices need to be replaced with electric devices. I think something like 17 million gallons of fuel are spilled alone in relation to lawn maintenance.

The thing that scares me is the normality of spraying for mosquitoes. In my area it’s the invasive Aedes mosquito species, the native species are a lot less aggressive. Also with some of these other very scary invasive species like the marmorated stink bug, ash borer, lantern fly, that new Asian tick, etc. Are we going to end up using more and more insecticides and subsequently kill more and more of our native fauna?
Neither. I am not in software.
EULA's are worthles pieces of digital paper in any EU court.
I currently have a Motorola Z2 Play, and before that had a iPhone 6. Even using a pair of Apple's earpods I can tell the difference.

Will take a look at the AKG 550s, thanks for the recommendation.
I find that extremely hard to believe. If you invent a novel type of bicycle gear mechanism, German patent law requires you to write a tutorial on the most cost effective way you found to machine each part, the particular grade of steel you found to be the best trade-off between price and performance to maximize profit, and your process for assembling it in the factory broken down into the step performed at each worker's station? Do they make you submit your CNC programs directly to the patent office for publication? This is all potentially extremely valuable IP that's not going to be found in the patent filings.
What is the step forward?
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Be careful. Many of them don't actually work with the latest iOS for one reason or another. I just ran into this issue myself after grabbing some cheap dongles off of Amazon, and I got an error stating that the "device is not supported."
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Following the same logic killing someone would also be legal as long as "nobody complains".
While a war might not be triggered in a WW1-esque "if X then Y" sense it may very well happen anyway. Ukraine is as entitled to it's sovereignty as any other nation. Just letting the Russians steamroll Ukraine is not exactly a good solution either. Germany, France, England, etc. are going to (rightfully) have a very, very hard time tolerating (i.e. not coming to the aid of Ukraine) that kind of belligerent behavior in Europe. If there were Russian tanks in Kiev the NATO states east of Germany would all but demand a military reaction because of the dangerous to them precedent that allowing an invasion (even if the invaded nation is not a NATO member) to go unopposed would set.
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People are much better off. The world (the natural environment) is not. And the effects of its destruction haven't started affecting people too much yet but it will.
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We'll just have to agree to disagree, then, because I find that there are zero advantages to Bluetooth in this case. I mean, wireless would be nice in an ideal world where there are no disadvantages, but for me, they are so hefty that it's never worth it.
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It’s getting too much...this whole ideology will self implode.
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>If we are to judge those people, it must be on their own terms. And on their own terms, human sacrifice and cannibalism was what their faith (and therefore, their morality) required of them.

So, you're ok with the Spanish wiping them out? According to the mores of the time, Spain's actions were perfectly acceptable.
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Natural selection will do that far more efficiently than we ever could artificially. Insects have a rapid reproductive cycle, and create huge numbers of spawn each cycle.
When will this madness end? There will always be people offended by something. I'm pretty sure there are individuals claiming that NOT suggesting their pronoun deprives them of their identity, dignity or whatever.

This is getting ridiculous.
Oh yes, I love these. There are also the 'we just build our own closed ecosystem' types. Hilarious.
Well, I grew up in northern Ontario and we were talking about it at my family reunion and EVERYBODY remarked how few bugs there were these days compared to when we were kids. June Bugs, moths, grasshoppers ... every species has been hit. And this is all across Ontario; Kenora to Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie to Ottawa.
> Samsung (rumored to drop them next year)

Again? Samsung "dropped" the headphone jack once already and then decided to reintroduce it in their current line of phones. At least that is my understanding of their products with the S7/S8 having removed the headphone jack and the S9 once again featuring a headphone jack.
And considering what we have seen in the last fourty years of the PC industry, it’s better to err on the side of security than openness for most consumers. The relatively few who care about openness are free to get an Android phone.