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Ok, it's hard to tell because both sides are over-extending and exaggerating the issues.

Asking Apple to change the 30% fee to 0, or some other arbitrary number is untenable.

Blocking Apps from advertising that you can subscribe on their website outside of the Apple platform is weakly tenable. I can see the argument and reasoning that Apps should pay for "advertising" for the service through the Apple platform, but in reality "discovery" through the Apple platform is limited and in Spotify's case most people probably do not discover it through the platform. That being said, I can see the argument that

1) If Spotify users discover them through the App store, they would not know about subscribing directly through Spotify for a lower rate. Therefore Spotify should pay the 30% as user acquisition cost.

2) If Spotify users come to the App store from Spotify, they should already have signed up outside or know about the lower rate outside of the Apple platform.

It seems to me the main reason why Spotify is against the 30% tax (aside from generally wanting to not pay), is that

1) Spotify wants to be able to upgrade free users to paid users in-app with the least amount of friction. They can do this by email, or through the App, but obviously it's much easier to do so through an in-app popup. I've had countless friends that have accidentally subscribed to in-app subscriptions so I know how easy it is to subscribe.

2) Spotify does not want to pay the lifetime 30%/15% tax on customers acquired through the App store.
Because apple needs wechat and not the other way around. WeChat being an essential feature for any Chinese customer.
You need headlights, room for the front motor, suspension, turn signals, federally mandated bumpers, ultra sonic sensors, radar, fog lights, etc. Sure there's a small frunk storage area, and the frunk seems pretty popular among owners.

Additionally you need a crush zone to make the far safe. The model 3/y are known as a "cab forward" design that has pretty much minimizes the front area as much as possible.

Which I find more amusing is the electric cars with a large grill... despite not needing a large radiator.
This was my impression as well when I tried Rust - always fighting the compiler. None of this happens with D. You just code away and keep being productive without the annoyances of C++. In fact C++11 and 17 are less and less annoying.
Rust is still completely unusable as you can't use dynamic linking as there's no stable ABI.
Even if some Intuits do opposite of what the article says, how does that refute what article is trying to convey - good parenting, controlling anger, and importance of story telling? I think you are focusing on "Inuit" part of story while the article is focusing on "parenting".
The trouble with nuclear in regions where water can be scarce is that you can't cool your plant sufficiently and have to turn it off. You can take only a small fraction of a river's flow for cooling without kill all fish in the river. If the river is low on water, your plant can't be cooled.
How did you get a remote job at Netflix? Were you hired as remote or did you get an offer and then negotiate remote? I will eventually need to move away from the Bay Area to take care of family but the company I work for (FB) has almost no remote options and no offices near my family.
Interpretive Dance! We interpret the constitution as not applying!
Not an actual problem the company has, but a pared down version of a problem the company had.
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You’re forgetting about the need for a crumble zone in the event of an accident
If VW offers a wide range of EVs at reasonable prices the argument that we need extensions and exceptions will be hard to make. VWs move creates a regulatory environment beneficial to VWs move.

TCO of EVs is about the same now and will be considerably better than ICE in the next years.

How many consumers will be willing to pay a premium for outdated technology? This could switch quickly with electric energy and power grids being the bigger bottlenecks.

At least Grid operators are deeply worried about the upcoming transition.
Apple does not have a monopoly on Smart Phones or App Stores. They're able to as much as anyone to control how their platform is used - there's no law against maintaining a closed and curated platform and your product or platform is not considered a Market in by itself.

There's also no law against having a monopoly, only for abusing your monopoly in one market to gain an unfair advantage in a different one.
Before I read the article, I thought this was a trite comment, but instead it's an apt analogy. It really is a distributed system of components whose byproducts can propagate between/through cell firewall.
Just like other online book shops don't sell their books on the Kindle device store app.
Apple has created a massive platform with a large number of users over the last years. This has cost them a substantial amount of money and hard work. Why is not ok to monetize this Why is it ok to collect so many users on a platform that you end up as "unicorn" like Spotify without paying money for this acquisition channel? I don't get why Apple is viewed here as the "bad boy". You could argue the same with Google. Why do they take money for ads? Because they have the users. Same with the app store. Nobody forced Spotify to create an Apple app. It was THEIR strategy to grow on the Apple store.
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Why would the costs be lower? Honest question.

On an ICE vehicle the only difference between rear and all wheel drive is a differential and a drive shaft. Maybe I don’t know enough about electric vehicles, but “dual motor” sounds a lot more expensive.
Same goes for the UK if you're not in London.

I'm not in London. :/
What you are missing is that Apple is selling their own music streaming subscription for 30% less while making it impossible for Spotify to advertise their subscription in the app.
1. The standard for pilots and their training worldwide is very high and the safety records of the Lion Air crew and the Ethiopian crew reflects this. Training and metrics for pilots is similar around the globe, airline companies are worldwide and pilots often work overseas. We absolutely should not think of pilots and their training standards as being associated with nationality or location because that doesn't reflect reality.

2. The sentiment that some pilots can figure it out and others can't so we need better screening/training to deal with faulty equipment is wrong-headed. Pilots shouldn't have to waste any of their attention during flight dealing with engineering failures. Furthermore they should be informed of any changes that are made to their equipment, which it seems Boeing didn't do when they updated the pitch override software.
Corporations bickering out loud in public like neighbours. Quite a spectacle.

Having read both Spotify's and Apple's claims, I am confused. Both seem legit.
You could perhaps start by adding type annotation. They are not perfect, but they help.
Several places online claim it never operated as a M:TG exchange, that was just a plan that never was executed. All the archive.org snapshots seem to show a non-functional site.

https://www.wired.com/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bzysz/til_mtgox_w...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20070501000000*/http://mtgox.com
Spotify is essentially a middleman. Apple is much more, they’re building the entire platform.
> It's surprising to me that this is being portrayed as some kind of discovery/revelation.

The way I read it, discovery is not "behavior is reflection of environment" but how to create a good environment.
At these levels it's all variable since practically all compensation is in stock. If you're not good enough to be given stock, you'll likely get fired. Everyone's base at Amazon is capped at $160K, including the CEO and the execs making $20M/year. When the stock dipped from $400 to $290 in 2014, Amazon topped us up mid-year to make up for the shortfall. Otherwise people would have left. Obviously if another bubble/recession like 2001 or 2008 happened again, the whole market would likely shrink and people would get less RSUs and they would be worth less. But they'd have to settle for that since the opportunities elsewhere would also presumably go away.
Basically you have some kind of hierarchy of crates according to the abstraction level, and those crates are owned by some loose organisation.

The trick is that the those crates are new and there is only very few MCU features exposed in them (and modern MCUs are so "big" that there is no real hope to get out of the situation quickly), so when you're doing a project, you either have to send a PR upstream and have it die there immediately or argue for days before it dies, or you have to fork the crate yourself. I couldn't find a way to add code in the namespace of a crate without actually re-compiling it.

It was extremely naive to split the crates horizontally and have only a limited group of people able to access the register they want to use, and not expose some kind of extension mechanism.

some examples: STM32F103 doesn't expose DMA, there is no provision for async SPI, no provision for changing the speed of any communication device (nor any bus for that matter). Which we could attribute to the thing being new, but drivers are already being written in such a way that thing are getting calcified like that, and the task of exposing all the functions of the MCU in rust is infinite, it has to be open to outsiders and that involve having a different slicing of API, and always making sure that from any configuration we can call release().
The irony is that he tries to scale creativity and geniuses
That’s why anyone should be permitted to watch the process from start to finish. Heck, videotape the collection box from the moment it is shown to be empty and sealed till the ballots are retrieve. Videotape the counting process. Do all this in the public square, televised and streamed.
>I think it's a large scale astroturfing effort by the nuclear industry

Either you don’t know what astroturfing means or you believe in a conspiracy there is no evidence of (nuclear companies faking HN commenter support for nuclear). Either way, this adds nothing to a conversation because it gives reasons for people on any side of the argument to just ignore any material facts or logic.

Rather than assuming that everyone who supports nuclear is a fake account or a shill, perhaps you should try to address arguments directly?

>This has nothing to do with fearmongering or some sort of ignorant public

That’s incorrect. Yucca Mountain is an example. The reactions to Fukushima on the news were another. The Diablo plant that was closed early has been consistently plagued by protests based on irrational fears.

You seem to think that a majority of people supporting nuclear is relevant. It’s not considering the tiny percentage of people required to throw up NIMBY roadblocks at all levels of government.

Example: Despite their tiny population, anti vaxxers are a major problem.
lol... me too, but just because I visited their office in San Diego a couple of years ago for a meetup.
I can also see the argument that for users that discover an app through the App store, they must pay the platform/acquisition costs. But I agree a lifetime 15% is unfair.

Best case scenario is

1) Apple switches their platform monetization to a more direct model where you pay to advertise your app in the App store. This will get tricky because their "Top apps" list still serve as advertising but you can't just remove an app from there because it refuses to pay.

2) Apple removes the restrictions against advertising alternative payment/subscription methods
aka Tesla short seller posts a tweet that makes the 3 and Y and look the same size, that is now being retweeted by tons of people spreading misinformation.

https://twitter.com/NumbersNerd2/status/1106422454434582529
Doing nothing doesn't seem right, but it may
very well be the best choice from an ethical
perspective

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see a good argument for holding your tongue. If your competitor is illegally taking credit for someone else's work, that's their own fault. I would at least notify the original authors.
You can use dynamic linking but you have to recompile.
There are lots of issues with using Rust for embedded development, most of them long standing, which are often felt to be neglected, and some suspicion that progress is slow because it is not the highest priority for decision-making people. https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/64 details some of these technical issues. Personally issues with Cargo are the most pressing, and math/compiler_builtins is very annoying.
If the ability to learn completely arbitrary things is what they want to test, why not have them write an essay on the spot in Sanskrit?
New Zealand mosque shooter livestreamed killings on Facebook
Easier said than done. You probably end up with something that's essentially a toy problem anyway.
Well, those ads were honestly better. They were localized both in their scope and what they claimed to do. Nowadays, every tech company is changing the world, and there is much hullabaloo over everything under the sun when it's just shitty software at the end of the day. Take the opening sentence: "We believe that technology achieves its true potential when we infuse it with human creativity and ingenuity". Who gets paid to write this drivel ?
Deep knowledge of how services like those offered by AWS, Azure, and Google are built, operated, and designed to scale.
I believe you’ve not been on the receiving end of a 17 page compiler error while trying to compile a template heavy app, because you forgot to put an &.

The important part is to realize _why_ you’re fighting the compiler as it’s trying to make _you_ write better code and improve.

If you find non issues being reported by the compiler please report it and make it better for all of us too!
Yes, definitely Kenya is where M-pesa started but if you look at recent GSMA reports, over $300B was transacted in Mobile Money within Sub Saharan Africa just last year.

Kenya is definitely the country where mobile money is used the most, but we are seeing other countries catching-up quickly. There are two fantastic studies that we’ve been using quite a bit:

1) The World Bank Findex study has 2014 and 2017 stats on the percentage of the population that has executed a mobile money transaction. You’ll see that 7 countries have a ~40% or greater value (Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Namibia, Ghana, and Tanzania) and that adoption has increased quite a bit between 2014 and 2017. https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/global-financial-i...

2) GSMA has really great intelligence as well. Check-out the dataset on the site: https://www.gsma.com/mobilemoneymetrics/#global?y=2018?v=ove...
Congress would feel pressured to do what their constituents want. If we imagine Lessig winning, so clearly focused on a single issue, we also must imagine an awful lot of voters clearly willing to vote based on that issue. Desire to claim those votes rather than driving then to their opponents would be the pressure in question. There's still no guarantee, to be sure, but it's clearly more likely post-Lessig-win than on the face of it.
Spotify build distribution, recommendation infrastructure,and more. They are far more than a warehouse middleman which adds no additional value beyond providing a retail outlet.
> Well, as I far as I can tell, a significant portion of negative qualities attributed to Facebook also can be, have been, attributed to email.

I disagree, for me this isn't about being addictive. Email doesn't quietly let websites I visit add themselves to my apps list and periodically reset/redefine my permissions so everyone can see my (and my friend's/family's) personal information.

If Facebook was just addictive I would still use it (I ditched it over 10 years ago).
What an immature letter, did not really expect a response like that.

It also fails to address the most important points from Spotify, which I thought were: you have no choice but to use the apple store, and promoting your own payment is not allowed. Fix one of those and most people would be happy.
Here in Vienna there are three companies competing, with Bird having significantly reduced their radius of operation, it is practically unusable now. We have a few "startup-hubs" here and I don't think you can reach a single one by Bird, which seems like a bad strategy.
> The larger tech companies in Melbourne and Sydney are giving $120k+ AUD total comp to grads.

That's some nonsense. Could you drop some names for 'Graduate X' which has that kind of pay scale?

With that being said, it's quite possible to earn 150k+ within 4-5 years in Melbourne. Just be smart about it, listen out for what technologies are trending because inevitably they will be the most numerous and with the highest chance to score a well paying role -- especially if you have your ahead of the influx of developers in X language.

By all accounts I'm not especially talented and I have done so.

PS. If you want $$ learn Salesforce, the money which comes along with knowing that system is freakin craziness.
Are you open to sharing which companies? I've looked extensively in Atlanta and haven't found anything near SV comp. Square was the highest that I found.
Being able to use more D would be nice! But the binding issues remain the same there. There recently was talk about having the D compiler emit C++ headers for exports from D modules automatically. This would be an instant killer feature for me.
Static checking burdens the developer with thinking more, etc. -- for sure.

The cost is requiring a developer with stronger cognitive abstracting skills. Those people tend to be academics (its almost a definition of a good academic) and also, perhaps, less pragmatic.

The ease of programming is not merely a matter of knowledge or experience, base cognitive skills play a very significant part which are largely an at-birth and developmental factor (cf. The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)).

Probably languages requiring a proficiency at dealing with highly abstract relationships as part of the activity of programming are never going to be mainstream. Most people find that too difficult to do easily, and so too tasking to program.

That isn't the general case however. Some people find it easy enough, and so do not see this tradeoff. For these people, the clear benefits in creating a statically "correct" program outweigh the minor difficulty in creating it.

For the able, this "difficulty" is perceived as fun, and as frustrating by those who aren't. When something is beyond our basic capacity we tend to see it as "needlessly difficult" and not worthy of our time/attention (and of course, for us, it is).

In otherwords: the unable are often snobs.

eg. "Acting is stupid", "Rust is crap", "Painting is pointless" etc. -- all amount to, "i struggle to do that".
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so the AppStore policy is selective?
Lynn Conway on the VLSI Archive (2009)
I feel the opposite. Strong compile-time checks make it easier to modify a system, and especially make it easier for people unfamiliar with a codebase to contribute. Being explicit what the static properties of a system are makes them easier, not harder, to modify.

Types serve as explicit documentation for facts about the system that would otherwise have to be reconstructed by every reader. Type checking ensures that any change to one part of a system still interfaces consistently with all the other parts.

Writing in a dynamic language can be faster, since you can skip writing down information that you would have to be explicit about in a static language, but once that information has been purged from your mental cache, IMO that's when the system acquires the immutability of marble.

(The other nice thing about dynamic languages is certain patterns are often syntactically much cleaner.)
I think part of it was that Apple was taking 30% from donations, tips, and e-cash gifts that wechat itself wasn't profiting off of, and I don't think those were even powered by in-app purchases.

Also, Apple itself accepts wechat as a payments method, so it's a payment processor.
I pay for Spotify due to their app.

It runs on all the platforms I want it to run, including on Linux or on my Playstation, you can easily switch devices, picking up where you left off, you can remotely control devices, etc. The suggestions engine isn't spectacular, but works. I also like to see what my friends listen to. They also have the best integrations with other apps.

The music selection could use some improvement but it's much better than Apple's Music and getting better every month.

In other words your claim is very disingenuous.
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So they won't even address the elephant in the room, the fact that their own service has preferential treatment?
Really?, they still have about .5 Bitcoin of mine
I can imagine a few editors biting their nails right about now, wanting to go "balls deep" in smearing PewDiePie all over this incident.

I've seen it take off on Twitter already, and it's a damn shame we live in a time where things can get twisted and turned in a repulsive story for the sake of dollar bills.

Absolutely zero respect or common decency towards other human beings.
Literally, even walls can break the 5G connection. Hope you don't live in a home that has any of those.
> You could argue the same with Google. Why do they take money for ads? Because they have the users.

That's a bizarre analogy. The analogy would be that Google not only takes money from PnG for showing you an ad for Head and Shoulders, but then charges forces PnG to sell you the shampoo through Google AND takes a 30% cut on the revenue.
I worked with the fiber team and I have to say this assessment is super accurate. We fought for every fucking mile, but Google is soft. It just doesn't have the pain tolerance for this fight.
Additionally, there is a long period of time when the kid has suicidal tendencies and doesn't comprehend any language, and telling stories won't do anything to save his life.

Fear, induced by having made that mistake and paying the price, or induced by elevating your voice, does seem to work, albeit imperfectly.
I wonder how much the success of a parenting style has to do with the genetic predisposition within the children to receive the intended messages. What works for one culture that may be more genetically isolated seems potentially unpredictable when introduced into a group of differing genetic heritage.
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Most of those langauges don’t have the perf of rust or cpp.
So you believe that a purchasing decision that someone made a decade ago should haunt them forever. Nice!
This kind of article is inspiring, but also makes me depressed at what a shit parent I must be and all the various ways I'm screwing up with my kids head, despite trying my best, out of my own imperfections and ignorance.

Scary.
I live in a small village in Hungary. I have fiber because of a Eastern-European provider called Digi. They are cheap and reliable. But I don't really thing well have 5G here in short time. I suppose huge cities will be covered first and based on the tech requirements and number of base stations it will take years. In the meantime I can have 1Gb speed which is more than enough for me for everything.
I agree. GC is a life saver, and I think if something can be written with GC, it should be.
Apple popularized trusted computing. And yes, it's as bad as we feared it would be back in the '90s.