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Next to not really providing anything revolutionarily new the last few years, I think their biggest problem is the $1k premium price tag, which not nearly as many are willing to pay. The product simply isn't worth the price tag for what it actually does compared to a model a few years older. People just aren't willing to fork over a few hundred extra bucks above and beyond to have the Apple brand when it's really just a status symbol, that is losing its status, and there are many various competitors that do more than great job (in some cases, arguably better). The price going from 3 figures to 4 figures, for a freaking phone, is a large mental/psychological barrier to a lot of people. A phone is not worth one thousand dollars to most people. Prices have literally doubled since the first iPhone ($499).

That's also the number one thing I hear people say when they say they won't upgrade to a new iPhone - they are getting too expensive and their current phone does more than enough. Upgrade so you can make animated poop emojis? C'mon. No thanks, I'll just pay $50 and get a new battery for my old phone and go another couple of years. At the bottom of the article, there is a link to another article, "China turns sour for Apple, leaving Asian suppliers exposed" [1]. I don't think the attitude in the following quote is unique to the Chinese consumers.

> Apple, with its high-priced lineup, probably suffered more than most from the slowing economy. The iPhone XR variant with 128 gigabytes of storage retails for 6,999 yuan ($1,018), while the latest devices from domestic competitors like Huawei Technologies can be had for around 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan. [1]

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/China-turns-sour-...
It's all biometric facial recognition and comes with the same problems. Quite frankly the face unlock on the Surface makes more sense than on a phone due to nature of the device. It's larger, more likely to be used at a desk while sitting that type of thing.

With my phone I want to unlock it without taking my eyes off the road so I can use voice recognition to map my destination or make a voice call. The absolute last thing I want to screw around with while driving is looking at my phone.
Amazon worth more than Sears? Can you imagine?
as the years go by, one accumulates baggage. if one has lived a life that is. in the form of debt obligations, family obligations, healthcare costs if unlucky, risk aversion and so on.

my own example, i have literally zero free time to pursue any opportunities at all, whatsoever. i work, i come home and take care of family, i sleep for a precious few hours, repeat.

dedication ain’t the issue.

and i’m a highly paid worker. the people that live 2 hours away, the g bus drivers and so on, they do not have opportunities that can be addressed merely be dedication.
Apple products are about 20% more expensive here in Mexico.
Similar coverage (the original one may be behind a paywall): https://www.wired.com/2009/10/plant-siblings/
Unless the end goal is to become irreplaceable (TBTF) and therefore insulated from political pressure.

You can see they knew this by the lobbying effort that Uber did to even get where they did so they could ignore laws without immediate consequence.
Another question - do you benefit more from social ties formed while drinking or preservation of memory and early mornings?
You can’t proclaim it a right decision or wrong decision without comparing exits as well. It’s the delta that’s meaningful, not the value at that single point in time.
Long and interesting read, still working through it. He has numerous logical errors and he fails at refuting any of Mises’ arguments so far in my reading. Perhaps Mises and his followers have not been able to construct as elaborate machinery as the neoclassicalists, perhaps it is not possible. Either way it doesn’t matter, policy and action should and do follow moral (or immoral) principles. Modern economic theory is just the theology justifying it.
> You seem to have an issue with reading comprehension

I don't want to have to link to the site guidelines, since I'm sure you're aware that this isn't a particularly nice thing to say :/

> What does globalization have to do with chopping lettuce on an industrial scale that disperses pathogens across massive batches?

Chopping the lettuce had nothing to do with E. Coli getting in it; the problem was that the lettuce came into contact with it after being picked. The reason why it ended up getting to a lot of people was because of improvements in transportation and preservation allowing it to be distributed further, not because it was processed.
The two terms reflect different segments of the market though. You'd be hard pressed to find a freelance Management Consultant willing to self-identity as a gig economy worker.
They already killed one person. How many before execs at Uber are held accountable for all their crimes?
The more common a disability becomes, the less of a disadvantage it becomes - with some lag, of course - the world does tend accommodate for the (visible) average.
Microsoft, Kroger team up to fight Amazon with high-tech grocery stores
I just upgraded from a 6s last week to an Xs. I mostly did it for the camera to take family pictures. Otherwise, it still worked pretty well.

The battery is lasts significantly longer. I kept and eye on my old phone and it was still at 90% capacity. With the 6s, I'd /usually/ make it through the day, but doing anything hefty and I might not. I purposefully stopped charging the Xs during the day today because I was curious and my phone is slightly under 50% charged in the late evening.

I bought a few wireless chargers my wife never used so I tried those. I really like it, especially at night. I think I was using an underpowered power adapter, which is why my wife had problems and gave up on it. My 6s would get pocket lint stuck in the lightning port and a few times a year I'd have to dig it out with something. I think recently the port itself on the 6s was probably getting worn out because more and more of my chargers were finicky.

I really like face id. I liked touch id, but often my hands would be wet or I'd be wearing a glove. It would be kind of annoying to move your thumb over to open your password manager or bank app. Face id is noticeably more convenient even after a day or two.

The camera is great, the speaker is noticeably louder, it's nice to get the shortcut for the flashlight on the lock screen.

I'm still getting used to the OS changes on the new phone. I had to look up how to power it off. Using swipe for Home and the other gestures were pretty easy to get used to. I'm not a fan of using the top-right for control center because I can't use one hand for it anymore. It feels slightly bigger and heavier than the 6s, but I miss having something the size of the 5. I also think it's silly that it comes with a 5w charger.
AirPods?
Face ID?
He does. In a technical way and re to what he is doing with a computer. He uses emails to delegate and thus does more but this is not what this discussion is about.
Good job, warmongers. You've convinced me to buy Huawei. Maybe I can't do anything to encourage our politicians and media to seek peace and prosperity rather than war and kickbacks from armaments lobbyists. However, I can spend $229 on a mobile phone that definitely doesn't have an FBI backdoor installed at the factory. Maybe that's enough for now?
This is awesome. It seems like any API is really just abstracting the database (or other data store) behind it. But, if only we could just expose the db directly and let users write their own queries to get exactly what they want. That way they could select exactly the fields they want like with Graphql, and write joins to simplify multiple requests into one. I wonder what is still preventing this from being reality? Not enough permission support on the db, or fears of performance issues from badly written user queries?
The entire model is labor arbitrage, with any employer obligation/cost removed.

When nonprofits pop up to help gig workers determine if they are actually making any income, the business plans seems pretty obvious.
Android loses when it comes to not having enough clout to enforce a standard on the manufacture and carriers.

My last attempt at an android was a Samsung Note3 on Verizon.

Pretty much every app had 3 versions
- google/android version
- samsung version
- verizon version

Locked bootloader so couldnt' really remove the duplicates.

Critical Security update released by a google? Well first has to be approved by Samsung ... that takes a month at least , then approved by Verizon.

Realistically if you saw the security update w/in 3 months that was pretty fast.

So a zero day exploit ... 3 months waiting for patch.

Android really won.
Considering `globals` and `locals` exist I would be very surprised if any name got lost. Python is so dynamic you can actually mutate the bytecode of a function at runtime[0] (LISP esque), so the compiler can't actually make any assumptions and optimizations based on your source code.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/byteplay/
> You should do it in modular architecture: if first one will not take off you will have ready to use components for the next one.

This is actually really great advice! I sold my previous side project and still had lots of reusable code to use for https://tinytracker.co
> Yes... haven't you ever eaten food and liked/disliked the texture/taste based on what you expected?

Yes, but that doesn't "trick" me into changing the nutritional value of the food.
looks like that's a "fuck you"
>If I could go back in time I would gladly borrow an extra $20k to go to a university from the beginning. Over the time scale of a lifetime, or even just a decade, that's not a lot of money.

The problem for me is that (like many people who didn't go to college the first time around) I didn't do particularly well in high school. And from what I've seen, the schools that won't hold my grades from 20 years ago against me are not better than the aforementioned community colleges.

Right now I'm doing a self-paced online thing... it's not better than a community college, but we will see how it turns out.
It is hilarious to me that people here still try to justify Apple's miscalculated pricing strategy.

To much of the world outside of US, iPhone no longer offers the comparable value that lives up to its price tag. Not even being a status symbol could save it.

Time to wake up. Slashing the price with more competitive medium tier devices, or being phased out, pick one.
Not exactly true. The YT claim system is optional. Either party can bypass it and force it through the DMCA/other legal process if they want (the claimee can do this by filing a dispute+appeal). Of course doing this opens the claimee to potentially far more dire consequences if the claimant chooses to for example file a lawsuit against the claimee, which is why disputing+appealing can be dangerous and most creators aren't willing to do it (or they might just dispute but choose not to follow a rejected dispute with an appeal).

The benefit of the YT claim system is that 1) it usually gives a good enough remedy to copyright holders such that they won't feel the need to file DMCA takedowns or lawsuits against creators 2) it isn't subject to the DMCA's repeat infringement requirement (which manifests itself on YT and most other platforms as a 3-strikes-your-out policy) 3) it offers far more granular remedies (a claim won't always result in the video being taken down for instance) and 4) it's optional! If a claimee is willing to defend their content against a DMCA takedown or in court if need be, then they can always dispute+appeal

On the other hand, one of the big disadvantages of the claim system is that it makes navigating YT copyright confusing as hell to those unfamiliar with it. The misinformation that's so prevalent on the claim system just makes everything so much worse. Not entirely sure how YT could improve that TBH.
Would somebody be able to manually copyright claim videos produced by Lion's Gate?
By the way, this is happening with BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) claiming videos in which there's no music at all.
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Mozilla needs to focus on their main product. I finally "upgraded" Firefox on an old 4 GB Windows 7 machine. It's bigger, slower, and crashes every time it exits.
Wouldn't help that a large part of the "educated" population seems to be under the impression that genetics is some kind of spook.
The difference being that you step out of university with an internationally recognized and respected accredited diploma that will qualify you for other employment down the line. These programs are scams.
I don’t get the nostalgia for this business. It’s just another middleman for stuff made in China. Liquidate it and stop with the stories about this guy’s hedge fund.
But if it's such a small deal, why remove it?
Jobs was able to lift one or two products per cycle to greatness. Without him it’s a deluge of mediocrity.
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It's jarring as an English speaker to see this North American usage of the word "tuition", as a fee rather than a service. It took a couple of seconds to parse the title.
Just to hit on your last point (that result oriented loans could kill "unprofitable" university programs) I'd add that universities existed for centuries when, relative to the entire population, practically nobody attended them.

This "businessification" of university education is an extremely new thing. I know you didn't intend it this way but that comment in a way hits me like when the music industry was trying to claim that piracy would kill music. We could pass a law that any and all music could be copied indefinitely and for free which would indeed kill the music as a mass industry, but music would undoubtedly continue to thrive. We just wouldn't have so many Justin Biebers or Britney Spears. Darn.

And so too for education. Get rid of systems which motivate profit driven education (which is no longer an issue just at universities which are overtly for profit), and you don't destroy education - you destroy the artificial facade masquerading as education.
Understood, but if Apple knew their guidance was going down substantially for Q4, obviously they would lower their inventory for the next quarter. No one thinks the Chinese economy is magically going to rebound in the next 90 days.
> It's all biometric facial recognition and comes with the same problems.

This isn't remotely close to being true. Face ID and Window Hello (I think that's what it's called?) are quite different, technically.

> Quite frankly the face unlock on the Surface makes more sense than on a phone due to nature of the device. It's larger, more likely to be used at a desk while sitting that type of thing.

Again, I urge you to actually use the thing rather than trying to come up with a mental model of why it's horrible because of your experience with the Surface.

> With my phone I want to unlock it without taking my eyes off the road so I can use voice recognition to map my destination or make a voice call.

1. You don't need to unlock your phone to do this.

2. You can disable the setting to require looking at your phone to unlock it.
Referring to the Pro iPads of course, the consumer (6th generation?) ones are reasonably priced. You get basically an iPhone 7 processor inside with a decent screen and tablet form factor.
I'm afraid the analogy to prohibition doesn't work.

Following the end of prohibition, beer truck drivers became beer truck drivers, bartenders became bartenders, but the violent criminals moved into other rackets: drugs, prostitution, gambling, extortion, and the big one corruption. What are the violent element and the large number of financially distressed workers in the rural pot industry going to do?

Once you create a criminal class, it does not go away. Only the Chinese, the Filipino, and the Argentine governments have found the means to eliminate these classes. Their means are far too brutal to mention here. I would never advocate them. We are mostly helpless.

I live in Mexico half the year. Once pot is legalized on a widespread basis, these *s will show up at my door demanding $100 a month or else.

Don't get me wrong as I believe there is nothing we can do. Perhaps improving the situation with vigorous law enforcement would keep the problem under control.
Well, most of the Dot Com bubble companies had literally no revenue. So I think we might see a scale down in these type of valuation, but in terms of revenue generation and Technology penetration we are no where near the absurd Dot Com bubble era.
Kestrels also call a lot. We have a kestrel family on a tall chimney nearby.
> Who decided that we all want to carry around mini-tablets now?

The market. Small phones don't sell well unless they're at a significant discount. Or else Sony would have owned the Android market with their Xperia Compact series.

For a majority of users, their phones are their #1 computing platform. For many, it's also their ONLY computing platform. They need all the screen real-estate they can get.
Second Life has browsers in-world, and they're Chrome subprocesses. These allow you to put any web page on a surface in the 3D world.

Doing a "VR metaverse" is a big job. There are about a half dozen of them now, and they all have tiny user counts.
To some extent Android has won on mobile the same way Windows won on the desktop.

It's true but kind of irrelevant because this is not what Apple was ever after (otherwise they would have pursued a very different strategy, with 3rd party licensing, etc.).

Does it really matter if Apple's market share is declining as long as they keep capturing >80% of all profits from said market?

As long as they keep their target demography on board (both on the consumer and developper side) they'll do just fine.
Wouldn't a constructivist require an explicit bijection between R and aleph_1 before accepting CH?
Well having those grad students as your TAs could be worth something.
Perhaps other legal systems exist around the world which have been able to deal with this over the course of history?
> Interesting that even youtubers with millions of subscribers still have to deal with this stuff.

Even more interesting is the seemingly little interest in defending against it by uploading to other sites or running there own. Their entire income/career/company has googles algorithmic gun to their head at all times and they won't hedge their bets. The only ones that have moved on seem to be the one's who've had their content category outright banned.
Another Hotel Lobby Rails Against OYO, Threatens Boycott
You know, it's funny, there's a lot of comments saying something along the lines of "college isn't just to get a job".

Which is really funny, since that's absolutely the primary reason why college educations are pushed. E.g. "if you don't go to college you'll end up working at McDonald's"

Plus, I have yet to see the evidence that colleges provide this virtuous yet intangible quality of non-economically beneficial "wholesome" education.
How would they measure from simulations, if he can't have the exact set of same people on different situations and your results might vary?

Social science isn't "experimentable" as biology or physics... And if you try hard to force it you will end up with what's called social engineering instead...
Uhm, his video contained the trailer in whole.
At least in military conflict, there is some lip-service paid to avoiding civilian casualties (Geneva Convention, etc.). But sanctions are not allowed even this little fig leaf.
> Fully fleshed and well-justified ideas worth hell of a lot.

"Fully fleshed and well-justified ideas" are worth 100% of $0.

Execution is everything. How you implement and execute the idea is what sets you apart.
Because you are disadvantaging people for a behaviour they might never exhibit. There is a reason we do not punish people for crimes they have not yet committed. You should judge people on their actual actions and not on your prediction of their actions.
How much do AWS engineers earn?
Engineers who work on AWS, not engineers who work for AWS.

Some claim that AWS certified engineers earn 110k-140k. Is that accurate?

What does the average AWS contractor earn hourly?

Salary negotiations coming up. Thank you in advance.
Alcohol is well established to have a sedative and depressant effect in addition to its stimulant effect - see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21560041

People commonly experience that effect as relaxation.
DSGVO concerns 'directly' identifying information (Name, SSN...)

aswell as 'indirectly' identifying information like IP adresses where the technical possibilities exist to link them back to the person.

EVEN if you do not actively link them to the person DSGVO treats them the same way as the directly identifying information
shitty headphones that are "truly" wireless don't mean a thing to me. have you heard the bass on those things? awful. i'm a basshead, we exist. apple wants us to buy something else. siri is crap and doesn't recognize my accent so fuck everything about even trying to use siri through the airpods to control my device. meanwhile my rha ma 750 connects just fine to assistant on my pixel

Face ID? i like the idea of my hands controlling something. Face ID with Touch ID should have been a no brainer. different usecases! Face ID doesn't work when the phone is on my desk and i just want to quickly fire off an action like changing music- i HAVE to show the phone my face - which quickly changes the dynamics of how i feel about my device(goes from boss-employee to the other way around)

sorry but i guess i'm in the small percentage of people that apple designers just flat out ignore coz they can
My grandmother received an invite.

We are a seattle-native family. Through people we knew at the time, they asked her to invest in their company and she could have 10% of the company if she gave them money.

She discussed it with my grandfather and they both agreed: "Nobody is going to drink that much coffee." and rejected Starbuck's offer.
It's not entirely true tho.

I graduated and i write lambda function for AWS.

I never learned anything else.

Other than writing simple Lambda function often copied code from Stackoverflow or github.

Never learned OOP or functional programming.

It's not that hard!