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As an app developer, I'm not a fan of apple taking a 30% or 15% cut. It's is possible to get around by offering the app for free and then using a third party payment processor to allow users to purchase or subscribe to a service your app provides. The way I see it, developers have that choice to charge the "expensive, easy way" using Apple's platform, or the "more profitable but harder way" using a third party.
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I was being sarcastic. Apologies that no one noticed.
Not just American and Soviet (or Russian now) - just 10 years ago a French and British nuclear submarine crashed in the middle of the Atlantic.

Both highly advanced, almost undetectable submarines, failed to detect each other. The odds of meeting like that in such a big ocean must be miniscule.
US Treasuries are considered the safest types of bonds (confining our discussion only to the US bond market). They are backed by the full taxation power of the US government and so are extraordinarily unlikely to default.

In that sense, they set the "risk-free rate of return" by which other investments are baselined. Not happy with the 2.5% (or whatever) on a Treasury? Well, you might want to invest in a state/municipal bond, or a company's bond offering, mortgage-backed-securities, or stocks. You would only invest in those riskier investments if they promised to pay you a rate higher than the "risk-free" rate of Treasuries.

In that regard, rising Treasury rates increase the market-clearing interest rates on any borrowing which is considered riskier than the US government's likelihood of non-payment, so in short, on all other sorts of borrowing. (On fringes, this may not be the case where statutory limits apply, such as on credit-card default rates. If the risk-free rate rises high enough though, such lending might be curtailed in favor of simply moving down the risk ladder if the returns become artificially compressed.)
Well they’re reusable, which is even better than recyclable. They also use less materials to make and are stronger for the same weight, so they also reduce, which is better still.

Just don’t throw them into the ocean. But that much should have been obvious.
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Yeah, as of early 2019[0]. I didn't even mean to imply that there was in-game gambling in Fortnite, but you noting it prompted me to look it up (I don't play/follow Fortnite at all, I dismissed the genre basically as a whole when I saw PUBG start to rise).

Gaming's funding model is SUPER broken. I don't know where or when it went so far off the rails, but at some point people shifted from making massive bets on passion projects to doing a little more marketing/advertising/manipulation to make projects more likely to succeed to full on profit-maximization with little regard for the effects. Ethics hasn't kept up, parenting handbooks haven't, and regulation never stood a chance of keeping up.

Whether it's some of us or all of us to blame, the problem is the same. I'm not hopeful enough to count on some sort of moralistic shift in how things are done across the whole human race or even at the country level but something should probably be done about this. For the same reason people generally agree we shouldn't allow children to do some things before a certain age (where they are likely to have developed enough both physically and mentally to process the ramifications and make a choice), we should probably be preventing manipulation of kids at this level. Look at how Juul swept through high schools (and their marketing campaigns, etc). Things are kind of fucked.

[0]: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/loot-unboxing
That hardly applies in this case. The much more relevant restriction is that the Bush-era US-UK extradition treaty doesn't allow for extradition for "political crimes", usually interpreted as espionage, treason, etc. This is in turn why he's being charged instead with conspiracy to hack a computer, which is likely not a political crime as the term of art is used in extradition cases.
...so is paper...?
Doubling productivity isn't a big deal when an industry is "eating the world".

But what if it's not ?
Ok, we just need a marketing campaign to reverse that. Same dress better than many since you are damaging the environment - shame on you! :)
That's the strangest take on this story I've read. Any pearls of wisdom for all those people who are now going to be made redundant?
Analysis has shown plastic bags are actually better for the environment than paper bags.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...
My understanding is that when compared to alternative, qualified, right-leaning candidates, he was the most moderate. This is just based on people I know who have worked with him and tried cases in front of him.
Notably Walmart has been examined for as a monopoly but because in every case that was examined they decreased prices to consumers, no action was taken.

I hate that they use federal money to subsidize their workforce' paychecks (non-living wages, supplemented by food stamps), but...they're great for the consumer.
To be more specific: where else is that money going to go? There's a number of small stable nations out there but none sell bonds in sufficient quantity to meet investor demand. The EU isn't a coherent enough financial sector to absorb that demand, nor stable enough. China isn't selling (and would be risky) - if you have large quantities of cash you need to park the US is still your best option unless you want to get into commodities and nothing is stable enough there.
I don't think Fielding meant to say that you cannot bookmark a URL, which is what your interpretation would imply. He was only commenting on how you find the URL in the first place to bookmark it.
Between A and B, I go with B+.

Every N years, a pro-forma bill is drafted, but a few legislators will take the opportunity to grandstand about the existing legislation that relates to the theme of their upcoming re-election campaign. This result in a few high-visibility but ultimately low-impact tweaks.

Two edge cases will also arise less frequently. First, the extra importance of the pro-forma bill means that fillibuster threats have extra leverage. This will play out similarly to the government shutdown. Second, in instances where one party controls both houses and the Presidency during re-up time, sweeping legislative reforms are more likely (e.g. repealing Obamacare would have been easier if repeal was the default).
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Could you briefly describe how someone who’s a Developer with a CS Bachelors Degree could transition into a Data Analyst role? Would this be a step down, with less room for growth?
@bazizi thanks! :-)

@burtonator do you build React Native on Windows? Are you constrained to do that?
The GPs mentioned in this thread are so incompetent that it makes me angry.
One of the ways that stimulants treat ADHD is by raising dopamine and norepinephrine levels. Also, one of the big problems with ADHD is time-blindness. Basically, to the ADHD person, there are only two times: Now and Not Now.

Video games are highly stimulating and full of immediate feedback when you do well or poorly. This gives you the dopamine hit that your brain is searching for. And the immediate feedback means that the results of your doing well or poorly are felt right away, instead of in a nebulous future.

So you can focus during the game because you're getting a constant stream of dopamine and you always know how well you're doing. Get to the blog post though and... where'd the dopamine go? If you don't write this blog post right now when will you feel the pain? If it's not for a while, then it's too far away for the ADHD brain to put it into perspective because of the time-blindness. It's one of the reasons ADHDers are famous for procrastinating til the last moment, then suddenly cranking out that paper the night before. Once you finally get that sense of urgency of the impending deadline, you can focus.
The observable goal of these policies is maximal license for women's sexuality and maximal suppression of men's sexuality. This isn't a normative statement, it's a descriptive one, so please don't take offense and if my description is incorrect then provide examples of, say, a woman being convicted of rape because she lied about being on birth control.
It's awesome that the boxing machine is not patented by Amazon but is owned by an independent (? for now?) company. It means that others can access this tech and that Amazon won't close it before competitors. If it works, I believe Amazon won't wait for long with the takeover though.

It's great because Google et al tend to keep a lot to themselves, not offering hardware on the market (for example full version of the TPU).
> I've noticed that they overdraw the lipstick to make the lips look fuller, so I also do that when I want a more polished look.

Does that not look obvious from close up?
> Smart dudes have wrestled over those problems for years. I think the strongest case for dropshipping would be new cars. The dealerships have presented a problem for people for years, but they are politically well connected.

I've been studying this lately, and it really seems to be more than that. Consumers love to compare goods based upon initial purchase price (or even loan payment price) with relatively little regard for the long-term cost of that good.

As evidence, take a look through AutoNation's annual report, in which they clearly make more gross profit on part sales & service, finance, and extended warranties than on actual car sales. It is to the point that it is questionable if the business would be viable only on the basis of new & used car sales alone.

A business that chooses to try to make profit without these addons will ultimately have to sell more expensive cars. Will consumers understand the difference?
You mentioned two processes that have been in place with Amazon Vendors/Manufacturers for many years.

1. Amazon Direct Fulfillment (dropship): Order is shipped directly from the manufacturer to the customer. Amazon pays for the shipping label and contractually "own" the item once it leaves the MFR doors. Amazon incentivizes Manufacturers by paying the freight and loosening shipment deadlines. [1]

2. Ships In Own Container (Amazon SIOC) certification puts the responsibility on the manufacturer to certify their products can be shipped without extra packaging. MFR pays for the testing/certification from a third-party. After July 3st 2019, Amazon will charge/fine manufacturers $2/unit received that are NOT SIOC certified and greater than a certain dimensional threshold. [2]

Its a tough economic balance for Amazon because they want to keep shipping stuff, but many MFRs will literally stop selling items to Amazon on July 31st because the costs of SIOC certification are greater than the estimated product profitability.

Source: I am a consultant for Manufacturers that sell to Amazon. [3]

1: https://www.andersonassociates.net/guides/amazon/what-is-dro...

2: https://www.andersonassociates.net/2018/frustration-free/

3: https://www.andersonassociates.net
- daily and monthly contracts of 1 bitcoin each

- daily contracts require full collateral (no margin)

- 100k position limit

- $35 million safe deposit in addition to fully collaterized positions of participants.

cme bitcoin futures trading volume currently 1% of gold futures, 3% of bitmex. Lets see if ICE btc futures can take the lead in the trading volume.
This is not a problem as long as the RoI on spending is possible, or as long as the dollar value of the economy is expected to grow, through population growth, productivity gains, or inflation.

A government budget is not a household budget, and the same rules don't apply to it.
We used a paper bag inside of a plastic bag. Won't rip (and you can't see the contents through the bag), and you get handles as a bonus.
in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing. Given enough time everything will be decomposed. On in the words of a great comedian: "the planet is fine, people are f'ed"

My worry is that we will transform Earth into a landfill and in desperation we will search (and find) another planet to trash. Humans are very very creative when it comes to survival. Only a fraction of people alive will make it to the new planet. Rinse and repeat.
That's oligopoly. True competition needs to have many different options e.g. food. I can go out to a restaurant, order something or opt-out from the market and buy in a shop and cook it myself. But straight from the farmer or I could even grow it myself.
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It's technically true because there is no real intermediary in apple's case (the "retailer" in your example). It's illusory.

(this is also what the court found)

Also keep in mind that various kinds of price fixing by manufacturers (IE forcing retailers to sell at a certain price) are also subject to antitrust arguments.
It's simply no longer "per-se" illegal.
For a long time, the precedent was that various forms of price fixing and price maintenance were illegal on their face.
YOu didn't have to prove it hurt anyone, only that it existed.

They are now subject to rule of reason analysis (basically, balancing of harms).

The reason such lawsuits are uncommon is not because the price fixing is okay, but because it is incredibly expensive and time consuming to litigate for a very uncertain outcome :)
> Am I wrong in thinking that this doesn't bode well for the value of the dollar over time, and will likely cause hyperinflation?

Yes.

The effect of federal debt on money supply is de minimis. Much more important are economic growth (i.e. money demand), lending (i.e. money supply) and rates (i.e. the "price" of money).
That seems fine?
Sorry, was not meant to be hostile.

I should say that I understand if a company cannot show me their codebase, it is just one thing to consider among many.
But this isnt as easy as Steam vs Epic, Apple is the only "department store" on their platform, it's like if McDonalds took over every restaurant in the country- you can order whatever you want from the menu, but you're in their power.
Obama did cut the deficit in half. More than half. At least over the course of his entire presidency, not sure about the first term.
You can see the bugs filed for past and upcoming studies at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=14712186&re...

When the study involves an addon, I think the bug will link to its code.

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
lilbobbytables was spot on, sorry for the ambiguity!
I mean... paper losses. It's going to take more than a few days of trading to figure out whether anyone lost money here.

I'm sure none of those institutional investors were looking at the IPO as their liquidity event.
it isn't, someone wrote about it on an irrelevant site, someone posted it here and it trends here

it just opens the discussion on this general topic, but nothing really about the specific thing being discussed
I was interested myself in buying a schiitstack but after seeing how messy the soldering is[1], their constant QC problems and the outrageous shipping costs to Europe I gave up and went with something else.

[1]https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/h...
Lke Thiel says, if you have a monopoly you define yourself as "part of the industry software" to dilute the actual monopolistic position
I just built a tiny application in Ruby for AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework. It's a fallback application that only needs to catch SMS messages from Twilio when our main application falls down. So a perfect fit for always available but seldom running and cold starts shouldn't matter. I implemented services such as a cron job and sending email (for a daily administrative report) in just a line of two of code. Compared to Rails, there's hardly any code. But compared to Rails, there's a lot of configuration of infrastructure (in one serverless.yml file) and it wasn't easy to find blog posts or examples. Implementing logging? Shouldn't be difficult but it was because of the AWS permissions structure. Ruby gems? Complicated especially for any that have native extensions. And yes, Amazon and Serverless have documentation but the wonderful Rails community has created much richer resources for solving every little problem.

I'm eager to try implementing our application in Jets to compare it to the Serverless Framework implementation. It'd be nice to stand up an application on AWS as easily as we build a Rails application and deploy to Heroku. That said, maybe after figuring out how to use the Serverless Framework, there's not much reason to use Jets. I'm curious.
It looks like there is a tremendous amount of downvoting of simple factual info in this thread, unfortunately (the subjective opinions, sure, whatever)
Oh please there have been a thousand games selling cosmetics before Fortnite. They just make a great scapegoat right now for being successful.
At least the consumers benefitted by having their rides subsidized.
> forever buried in the geologic record

That's somewhat of a contradiction in terms, depending on your timescale!
> In Nethack, I’ve polymorphed myself into a cockatrice, layed cockatrice eggs, polymorphed back, picked them up (with gloves on) and used them as hand grenades of petrification.

> And to complete the chain of "the dev team thinks of everything": There's a luck penalty for breaking eggs you laid.

> The number of ways you can solve any specific problem is just ridiculous. I also love that a lot of them are pun based. (i.e., to make a quick escape you could drink a cursed potion of gain level, which will cause you to float up through the ceiling to the previous dungeon level instead of increasing your experience level, or removing cursed levitation boots by floating over a sink - which causes you to sink to the ground).
Hmmmm, so what's Intel's play with this distro? The new RHEL replacement?

Otherwise, Forbes article for this kind of "opinion" makes me very conscious about if this was "prompted" or not. No harm intended just want to be conscious about the behind the scenes stuff.

Author is Jason Evangelho (https://twitter.com/killyourfm) who seems pretty neutral.
Can't edit anymore: found the whole talk in one video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo&app=desktop
If China stops buying then they'll lose their competitive advantage compared to regional neighbours with the US.
Not really, no. Apple has two customers in this respect - the developers it provides distribution services to and the consumers that buy the apps. The point in question is which of these two customers has standing to sue on the basis of the specific harm in question. Under US law the answer cannot be both.
The question is whether that's an achievable thing, or whether people will always complain that whatever Amazon does is a non-living wage and inhumane working conditions.
> I think about it this way - the planet will survive, humans will not.

Will plastic or CO2 kill us, or rather some mass hysteria or a war started by one?
So you're saying compulsory speech is something you want? Maybe you'd enjoy China
I have been wondering why WebGL isn't getting updated to ES 3.1 (and 3.2). Good to see at least 3.1 parity is coming:
https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/2.0-comp...

(I didn't know it was on the horizon until I saw your link). I wonder if getting to ES 3.2 is on the horizon as well? That would bring geometry and tessellation shader support.
You don't have to parse entity IDs our of URLs — the URL already is an entity ID, and from the client's perspecitive, it doesn't have any sub-parts that can be parsed out, except those defined in the URI spec (scheme, authority)
Actually there are a bunch of culprits and a bunch of solutions: drawdown.org
What is a reasonable time frame for an antitrust lawsuit to conclude in? Now that the consumers have the legal ability to sue, how long could this take, considering that it took 8 years to get to this point?
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> Kavanaugh was viewed as one of the best supreme court justice nominations for all sides

No he wasn’t. He was considered a partisan hack at best and was less popular than most previously confirmed justices.

He did get approval from the Amy Chuas and Neal Katyals and Akhil Amars but that says more about elite Ivy League in-groups than anything else.
The day JS stops making ’1’ + 2 a string and throw an error is the day I will stop pointing it out. Yes lots of experienced devs use JS. Some of them come from other languages with lots of experience. But at the same time, JS language feature development is slow and awkward. This article is a good example of that. I know of no other popular language where accessing the global object is such a mess. And we will wind up with globalThis as some built in language feature which makes no goddamn sense. Read that variable name out loud a few times. Even reading the article you start bumping into “this globalThis variable is this and that”. I swear keeping window would have been preferable. Or calling it global. But instead we have a language spec that allows this this to be different from that this and this global this is not the same as this globalThis and that globalThis.

I point this out because it is important to contextualize why JS is in the state it is in. The powers that be seem less interested in fixing the issues of the languages and more interested in plastering over them. A language with this many polyfills is broken. I use JS almost every day at work, same as Python. 100% prefer Python.
yeah I do not know why he got downvoted. it is not even his opinion, he just clarified what was said.
> IN THE LAST WEEK OF APRIL, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.ly came from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of external referral traffic...

Is this surprisingly low to anyone else?

Depending on how you parse it, only 10% or 20% of news sites traffic comes from Google.

When I worked in comparison shopping, 80-90% of our inbound traffic came from Google, as we failed and failed again to cultivate any loyal, direct users.
Sounds like buffalo wings, only subbing sugar for vinegar.
> in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing

In my experience, geologists tend towards this type of viewpoint!
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> And all those middle age workers will, what?

They will be fired, yes. This cruel world, where people should care about competitiveness of their skills. It starts right after the school.
Now I'm not in the apple ecosystem personally so I don't know, but are there other "store fronts" that serve the apple ecosystem, or is Apple store the only one?
The Electoral College is one of the most significant aspects of our electoral system and hopefully will never be supplanted by popular vote.
I'm going to miss those $10 off coupons.
> (5) This isn't "rape" by any standard definition.

The "Miss W" allegation in particular is rape by almost every country's legal definition.