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> app store revenue is a rounding error.

“Apple’s apps economy: Bigger than Hollywood”

https://fortune.com/2015/01/22/apples-apps-economy-bigger-th...
As a user of non-English languages, this is not really a problem in practice. We settled on UTF-8 years ago. My second language is pratically the worst case for bumping up against these limits and I never have an issue with them.
Was Edward Snowden wrong to expose pervasive spying from the government? That was, in fact, the government's argument regarding the leaks being damaging to national security.
> both of those things are general guidance and emphasis, but specifically not “go audit/prosecute this list of political enemies”, which is why I think any candidate that would have answered “I intend to uphold the rule of law and therefore the question is abhorrent” probably would’ve gotten my vote.

Sure. But that’s a political judgement, not a statement about the actual powers of the Executive, which is what you were talking about above.

It’s within the President’s power to instruct the AG to pursue a particular case, and if the AG refuses then the President may replace them. Whether or not that’s appropriate, politically tenable, or might expose a President to action by the Legislative Branch, is a totally different question.
When the dinosaurs died, lichens thrived
I actually mean the questions list (the pre-change view). As-is, the list of active questions is full of... well, junk. It'd be better to have the home page include some curated questions not luck-of-the draw stuff to show off the value of the site.
Touchscreens are ideal for consumer devices because it means not having to commit to a single UI design - you can move buttons around onscreen as needed, overhaul the software to put things in a new place as you like, and not having to worry that the dial the user turns is tied to a value box that is now on the opposite side of the screen. Not only is it cheaper from a component perspective, but it's cheaper from a design perspective - you don't have to finalise the design for the UI before it goes to manufacturing, just tell the factory to stick a large enough touchscreen in the centre and the UI can be added later, after the various teams have finished arguing.

What they are not, however, is intuitive, much as designers like to say they are - there is zero consistency in the UX between devices, buttons all look different, sometimes between updates, and half the time you open an app, it's a dice roll whether it's going to work the same it did last time. There is also no inherent tactile feedback - phones have haptic vibrators to simulate a button press, but there is no other feedback, and you can't feel the buttons with your fingertips before pushing them. You have to be looking directly at the screen to find the control you need - when the device is primarily designed to be in your hand, it's kind of acceptable, but when it's a control panel for something vital, this simply won't work; your eyes are supposed to be fixed on what the control panel is controlling. These reasons are why Mazda has backed out of using them for cars - your eyes need to be on the road. You can change fan and temperature settings by touch alone once you know where the controls are. In Apollo 13, if Jim Lovell had to keep looking at a touchscreen to make sure he was actually pushing the thrust control in the right direction while keeping his visual fix on the Moon, there's a great chance he'd have sent the stack spinning off into space.
Sounds a lot like TPS, I assume Toyota did a lot of the stuff before any books were written. Also, my personal experience, the more companies talk about Lean and Six Sigma the less they do it.
But why would you use the type "string" in the first place, instead of declaring a type "name"?
This isn't "just use rust". This is "just use something more mature". And there are plenty of more mature ecosystems developing Async capability or that have a good Threading story.
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I love the simplicity of IRC, I still use it to this day, but I have to say, I understand why IRC cannot be used for any serious team communication.

The two biggest pain point that I see is:
1. Because there is no real account management you don't have any proper authentication, which make administrating a channel real dodgy (even with network provided bots).

2. No offline history: You have to have a client/bouncer running 24/24 if you want history.

One thing though, because of how IRC work, you don't have the problem that other protocol like XMPP faced with multy-device sync (there is a extension for that in XMPP but, like almost every extension in XMPP, not many client support it).

Also, nowadays we should consider end-to-end encryption standard.

I feel like IRC is in the same space as email: It's a very good technology that just lack a few feature to be perfect but any project that try to replace them just end up over-bloated with features ...
You've just regurgitated Aaronson's statement on the topic. Aaronson never studied physics, and has probably never fiddled with an op-amp or tried to make entangled anything in the world of matter. There's zero evidence quantum error correction will work; it's just an idea with no basis in the world of matter. There's zero evidence you can meaningfully and usefully manipulate quantum coherent states, let alone manipulate an exponentially huge number of them with a polynomially large number of computational elements, which is the essential claim of quantum computing. They make great claims: great claims need evidence; not theoretical wankery. Building a couple of scalable error corrected qubits would be a great start; it might even cause me to shut up about it.

Never in the history of the human race has something as complex as a computer architecture existed in the theoretical world before it exists in some form in the physical world, let alone one for which we define complexity classes.

The entire field is intensely silly, and the last time I said so in a public place, the waiter turned out to be some dude who just got his Ph.D. in the subject. He didn't agree with me exactly, but the fact the dude had a job bringing people steaks for a living is a decent argument I'm right.
If Casey Winters did the "growth hacking" at Pinterest he is responsible for polluting search results with useless, paywalled Pinterest spam.

Pinterest is like ExpertSexChange dark pattern strategy taken to the max.
I had coworkers that where hostile to the very idea of equality. Get paid the same as them? They were worth twice as much. Take a pay cut in exchange for some other bonus? They deserved the bonus more than you and they would get it without the pay cut (they didn't, especially not after trying to add their own terms to it). There was nothing positive to informing them of the pay of anyone else.
Agreed, but by "executive compensation" I did not mean wages only. Not even employees, most of them have non-trivial amounts of stock.
There are apps that allow you to use iMessage on Android.
So we are just going to ignore the 20% sales tax that got slapped onto the 1.2bn worth of sales? cool
Learning Swift is something that I considered when the “TensorFlow in Swift” announcement was made. That project is still in the early days but if eventually the turtles all the way down Swift TensorFlow implementation is complete and mature, then it would be very compelling to have one good programming language for most work. Right now I jump around between using Haskell, Common Lisp, and Python. Perhaps in a year Swift might be a reasonable language for everything I work on - I will wait and see.
Your right itt would. I realised my phone was way more powerful when I bought my first Nexus. Besides they only used 2 decimal places to get to the moon.
I don't do anything illegal with Monero. So what?

I prefer cash for transaction privacy rather than credit cards. Doesn't mean I want to do illegal things.

(Bitcoin - essentially just as trackable as credit cards. Prepaid or ones tied to your identity.)

If I was a pregnant woman who didn't tell anyone, I don't want to start receiving pregnancy ads:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
She showed back up. I don't have a lot of details so we'll wait and see what shakes out. The important thing is the bill passed. There will be disciplinary hearings of some kind for the R who made the threats. Because of the walkout, everything got compressed into two final days, so I don't think they had time for that beforehand, which was unfortunate, as he certainly wasn't doing his constituents a favor with that kind of talk.

Anyway, it was pretty crazy and a real nail-biter.
The rain runoff can flow into the bioswales the city is already building all over; it won't just run into the city sewers.

As for needing to build wider driveways, and that making it boring, I realize there's a certain kind of subjectivity here but I don't think that what we're going to end up with is literally "duplexes with double-wide driveways replacing single-family dwellings on the same-sized lots."

The front-runner for the 2020 mayoral race has an architectural background and has been talking about ideas like introducing an LA-style design review board to Portland, to ensure that new development has to pass aesthetic review in addition to environmental review. I guarantee you that six months after something like that were enacted, every architect in the city would know exactly what they needed to do to keep the city interesting as well as weird.
Interesting that this was one of the most popular questions on Reddit's r/askscience subreddit two days ago; I wonder if PBS editors also trawl there for interesting topics.

https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/c6pjr3/why_do_p...
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Which is paid by Apple customers, not Apple.
I guess thus is the same kind of evilution that s lotnpf technology goes through as it is adopted. Eventually, standards evolve (lane sizes, driving sides, electrical voltages and current limits etc...) and because they are adopted so widely, any change becomes almost impossible. C and UNIX look like they are going to be that standard for the computing world for the next few centuries.
No need to explain anything. Where are the new C projects? :)

Some of the things I listed are C++, which is a different language, which kept evolving unlike C and also unlike C is in demand today for all sorts of hot domains. The two can't be mixed.
"Shortly after the news of tax payment decrease was announced, Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s British design chief, said he would leave after almost 30 years to start his own firm."

What kind of journalism is that ?? Unless the journalist has something on johny ive leaving because of apple shady tax schemes, what is the point of linking the two info ???
I'd personally blame the insane person.
What’s the best way to provide oversight for the IRS? There should be some openness just to verify that they are doing their job properly. I don’t deny the privacy issues but there is this intensely powerful federal agency that it’s nearly impossible to have real oversight for.

Most of your examples also seem to impact those that present differently than they really are, I’m not saying that that’s not a valuable ability but it’s interesting. I wonder how much of our current political situation is due to believing or rejecting how others present...
Determining worthiness of projects to fund is a really difficult battle. Do you go based on popularity? Importance? If something is worthy, how much is it funded? For how long? Who is paid to do the work?

Even other projects that tried to address this like the Core Infrastructure Initiative seem to have unintended consequences. For example OpenSSL got CII funding, then used some portion of that to relicense as Apache 2 which breaks compat with the more free LibreSSL fork, weakening the overall community.
I'm going to pile on this point.

Each state requires different health insurance plans, so the employer would need to supply 50 different health insurance plans.

It would roll back local minimum wage hikes.

Forming unions would require national coordination inside of local.

Many states have extra protections for the workers, like California protecting IP generated outside of office workers.

National politics are very unstable and the rules and regulations for everyone would be under threat of change after every election that changes the balance of the president, the house and the senate.
Hate to say it but i'm sure Apple are paying every penny they are legally obligated to as defined in law.

This is a global regulatory issue which no country or union is big enough to solve solo.
From the article:

"ICANN's decision foreshadows that the organization will agree to .com price increases. Eventually, caps on .com domains could disappear."

So make of that what you will.
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Parents who were tutoring get paid less, reducing other opportunities perhaps?
(Working hypothesis, almost no parents tutor or can do so above primary school level in many field...)
After remapping my caps key to be both control and escape I honestly don’t know how I used to work with the real escape key. If anything, Apple should build this mapping into macOS so I don’t have to use some third-party app to do it.
Aww, the article explains that it's just the CPU that is running cooler. I was hoping we'd found a quick fix for global warming. :-(
> And so how are you then "at risk" if you live modestly, since there is little to rob?

I know a guy - we'll call him Mr. Frugal - he's worth, I'd estimate, $5 to $10 million based on what I know about his income and assets over the last 30 years (I know a fair bit to make that estimation). An old family friend, he's in his 70s at this point. He built his wealth from nothing, very slowly, and is a notorious penny pincher (the most extreme version of it I've ever seen). He lives in the same house he has owned since the 1960s; it's worth $150k-$175k today.

This man would be a very ripe target for any number of schemes. Targeting his bank accounts / investment accounts / personal identity, credit, and so on. That's entirely ignoring any kidnapping or blackmail type risks. It doesn't take more than a few moments of consideration to understand how his finances being made so public would make him a target for all sorts of criminals. That despite the fact that he lives very modestly and there is nothing in his home to indicate such wealth. His wealth is held outside of his home, and that's where you would target him. Frankly, given this is HN, I think it's pretty silly obvious that the physical contents of a home often are not the best target for thieves / criminals today.
Written by a bot, proofread by a human who couldn't care less is my go to bet.
Apple isnt paying that though, the consumer is.
So the tiger hasn't changed its stripes after all? Color me surprised.
So they pay $0 in net taxes.

Is your company paying $0 in net taxes?
Not GP, but an advantage of a NixOS module is that it has a strongly-typed, explicit API for configuration options, whereas a Docker image would require documentation ala "set those 10 env vars" or "give a YAML config file that looks like this".
I’m with you. I’ve used Apple laptops for ages (and ThinkPads before that) and prefer the newest MBP keyboards, when they’re not repeating kkeys at least.
So by my calculations, this means Apple sold 1 iPhone X last year...
Tax breaks for corporations are a tool used by lawmakers for all sorts of things. If you don’t like them write your lawmakers and ask them to grow a spine. But as long as it’s legal corporate figure heads are likely to face jail time for being derelict in their fiduciary duties if they don’t maximize profits.
> “As the largest taxpayer in the world, we know the important role tax payments play in society. We pay all that we owe according to tax laws and local customs wherever we operate,” Apple said.

Translation:

"We pay all that we owe (but only after we pay tens of millions of dollars to a dozen of the best legal firms in the world to find us the most cutting edge accounting and legal loopholes so that we can avoid paying most of what we really owe)."

This is Apple Ethics™ for you.
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The article doesn't talk about the best feature of Slack: a consistent message history for all the users. In IRC messages can easily get lost due to network splits or client disappearing. Not having everyone with the same message timeline can make some conversations quite awkward.

This is really the only feature I miss in IRC.
Your edit applies to the US, as well. Probably the whole world.
instead of mandating that the financial details of individual people's lives be public, why not just require companies to publish a mean and stdev for each position's compensation? seems like that's all you really need to figure out if you're getting a fair deal.
> Hate to say it but i'm sure Apple are paying every penny they are legally obligated to as defined in law.

It is not always the case that law makers had the intention to create most loopholes (sometimes they do) which are being exploited. You are technically correct but it might still be morally wrong.
It’s fairly common and probably a good practice for distributed teams to get together F2F a couple of times a year. The broader team I’m on does this. We’re spread around NA and Europe mostly with a combination of WFH, offices, and hybrids.
Are you claiming that the byline for Sinead Donnelly is made up?
edit: misread the parent as saying the opposite of what it actually meant

> The Haskellite approach would also say that "what operations are available on that thing" is the wrong way round; you define your operation, and the type signature tells you what kind of things will work with it.

i'm not sure if i understand. using typeclasses i can define a Haskell function for summing collections:

sum :: (Foldable f, Monoid a) => f a -> a
sum x = foldr (<>) mempty x

and it'll work for any Foldable collection (supporting `reduce`) of Monoidal values (supporting "addition", or the `<>` operator) - lists of strings, trees of ints, etc. that sounds a lot like "define your operation, and the type signature tells you what kind of things will work with it"
The cost of living isn't that much lower, only housing costs are. There's more to cost-of-living than housing, and you aren't going to get food, cars, etc. significantly cheaper in low-cost areas, and in fact, many things can cost more because of the added transportation costs.

Finally, those smaller areas with very low CoL usually don't have many jobs or opportunities. There's a reason people are flocking to cities, and have been for well over a century.
You can lie with or without statistics, but sunlight is really the best disinfectant.

I frankly get scared when people think otherwise. Corrupt af.
The problem is that we use the tax code as a carrot/stick to cause people and companies to take actions that we want to see. Want a company to donate to charity, or use carbon-neutral energy, or invest in R&D, or take on debt with interest to grow? Tax rebate! But then they do those things and pay $0 in taxes.
Your friend might be forced to work for two companies by the tax office; in many EU countries freelancers have to show at least two sources of income or they are forced to become employees/register themselves as a full business with all the necessary bureaucracy.
The purpose of ordinary bicycle is both transportation and exercise. You can't just dismiss benefits of the other choice because your choice does not have them. We are comparing ordinary vs. electrical bike, with all benefits and drawbacks.

The analysis in the paper is flawed right from the start. For regular overweight people, which is the majority of people in U.S. and some other countries, unless getting to high speeds and high heart bpms, a little increase in energy expenditure in moving the bicycle does not increase food consumption in the linear way the paper assumes. The food is gonna be consumed anyway.

And even disregarding that, there are more important considerations here than alleged increase CO2 production, which is laughably negligible in comparison to car, plane and ship transportation. Ordinary bicycle has lower price, better health effects, lower environmental cost of manufacturing/disposing of batteries.
If corporations were actually people, they would almost all be psychopaths and most people here know that. In a lot of ways this situation has been developed and maintained by design.

Comparing them to individual behavior is simply not relevant at this stage of discourse. Holding companies to the same standards we hold human beings to might not be a bad idea in some hypothetical future society, but we are absolutely nowhere near there right now and there are a whole lot of more important battles to fight before we can even think about starting to have that conversation.
Nobody knows, but the current guess is that the interesting part is near the "Planck length" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

The problem is that

> The Planck length is about 10E−20 times the diameter of a proton.

so we need a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig particle accelerator or that someone think some smart trick to use some cosmic event to explore this.
>It amounts to people asking for a platform to demagogue from...

Well, that's true. If we could count on well reasoned analysis from all concerned, that might be one thing. But I think we all know that likely won't happen. It rarely does with anything actually. And policies based on sound bite scapegoating are rarely a good idea either. Witness, the drug war.

Probably best for congress to just do their jobs, look at every tax return in corporate America, and recommend and make regulatory changes where appropriate. No real need for grandstanding, it wouldn't be helpful. The grandstanding might actually hurt in this case?
Does it mean that renewal prices for currently owned .org domains will sky-rocket?
> unpredictable process termination

Settings - Battery - Battery Optimization (dropdown menu upper right, three dots)

Change it for the apps you don't want Android to terminate.
I like Amphetamine (as far as, it does what I want it to do silently and I never have to think about it) but it bugs me that it's updated seemingly every week. Which means I need to close it, update it from the app store, then re-open it quite often. I'm not sure what benefit I'm getting from these constant updates.
One thing we can do as users is champion the idea that open-source authors don't owe us anything. Having support or getting help with problems is great, but the author's already done us a huge favor by writing the software we needed in the first place, and they aren't required to go beyond that or do anything specifically for an individual.
If you know economics, you should know a tax on the final price of Apples goods will decrease demand; which means both Apple and it's consumers will pay that tax with a shared burden.
Handshake [1] does this exactly.

[1] https://www.handshake.org
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Technically they didn't which is why they're having to pay money back to Ireland, they did pay the money they were asked to pay though.

Agreed its a global regulatory issue though.
This is up to the individual company or shareholders, so there doesn't need to be justification.

In the free market, salary is worth whatever the buyer is willing to pay.
Eh. Even if the company is a single office, I’m pretty sure people need to travel and need to be able to get online and have meetings when they’re not in the office.