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In the United States, you can sue John Doe (the anonymous party who created the listing) for identity fraud and trademark abuse, and then file a discovery motion compelling Google to divulge their identity so that they can be identified and prosecuted by the court, with your lawyer optionally noting to the court that Google removing the domain from the other entity as you originally requested (and paying your court costs and lawyer fees as damages, as they were notified of the fraud and refused to act) would be an acceptable settlement.

In the United Kingdom, you can sue Google for libel, as their misrepresentation of someone else as you harms you, and if you prove malice ('reckless disregard for the truth', which Google is clearly demonstrating) you can not only compel Google to remove the libelous material but also win damages from Google for their flagrant disregard for the truth.

What jurisdiction are you in?
Tell me how Google has made back the $1B it spent on buying Youtube.

Subtract Youtube Ad revenue.

Now tell me how much Google makes off of Youtube.
> Isn't this extremely obvious?

Yes and no.

The obvious answer is to make your own device with your own OS and make it better than iOS or android. That used to be difficult, but the quality of iOS and android has been declining for a long time. We're at the point where an alternative could be viable for somebody with deep enough pockets and the know-how.

The not-so obvious answer is we have lots of evidence over the years of the tech sector engaging in anticompetitive and illegal actions with very little consequence. Apple, Google and Facebook colluding not to poach each other's employees. Intel threatening to cut off relations with any computer manufacturer that deals with AMD.

It's very likely that Google and Apple would use their influence and power to kill any viable competitor. So, how do you deal with that?
Also - that's not the reason. The reason is because Android is open source and Google allows sideloading.

I don't think Google allows Amazon to distribute their app store through the Play Store, so you have to sideload it.

Doesn't solve the distribution problem anyway – the app stores are the shelf
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So the attacker is using “open-source code exploits” followed by phishing. To what effect? DoS of govt services? Ransoms? Something more ambitious?
I already know that shrinking a package is a common tactic, but I also know it goes in cycles. For instance, long ago, spaghetti used to come in 1 lb boxes. Then I started seeing reduced size packages. Now it seems mostly back to 1 lb.

My reaction to the headline is that the article is probably dumb and I don't want to read it, because the implication is that there is a new trend which will go on indefinitely until every food product is like a teaspoon.

If the article was like, here's an interesting way in which economics and psychology interact to produce a discontinuous behavior in the marketplace, I'd be more positive.

In other words, I have the same sour reaction as to most stuff these days - I hate journalism, clickbait, and ad-tech.
(I should know better than to post ambiguous one-liners late at night.)

It's certainly not an uncommon preference, but it's an unfashionable statement, at least among the intellectual circles that programming language designers with PhDs (or almost-PhDs!) tend to belong to. That's why I was interested to read it there. I've long had a joke, when asked if I prefer FP or OO, to say "I prefer imperative programming". It's funny because of that fashion. What I was wondering was whether said fashion was in place by the late 90s when dmr apparently wrote this, in which case maybe there was a trace of a joke there as well.

Edit: having read more of the OP, it seems to me deliciously apropos that his dissertation involved replacing recursive logic with loops.
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Brain Rules For Baby is very good. It was recommended here a while ago. Wish I'd read it before having children.

https://amzn.eu/6oAgLWv
Yeah- part of the reason is that a browser is an extremely expensive piece of machinery to host from a hardware utilization perspective. The horsepower required on the device is extremely high.

eInk displays are incredibly limited- low refresh rates, low density, limited/no color, limited/no touch etc.

It just doesn't make sense to build a product with that combination- high end under the hood, low end IO to the user.
Absolutely there are cultural issues at play, not just the 7/11 overlords trying to make us sick. Certainly snapping my fingers and forcing US convenience stores to sell cucumbers would just drive stores out of business.

To me it's more a point about what could be possible once we wake up from our great nap. That we aren't damned to donuts in our convenience stores at the species level, just a cultural one, thus it can change for the better (hard to image it getting worse).
Thanks to what’s become known as the Bork doctrine, they matter a lot less than they used to. Since at least the 1980s, regulators and courts have favored a very narrow idea of what counts as abuse of monopoly power, centered on consumer pricing issues. More general problems of market efficiency, preventing competition, monopsony, etc., have fallen by the wayside.
"he shows that assessing loop programs by their depth of loops is exactly equivalent to Grzegorczyk’s hierarchy. The rate of growth of primitive recursive functions is indeed related to their computational complexity, in fact, they are identical."

"I would have loved to collaborate with him, because he seemed like a smart, nice guy who’d be fun to work with, but yeah, you know, he was already doing other things. He was staying up all night playing Spacewar!”
> So Relax.

Why say that? The OP is absolutely right about this issue. The fact that you get more local post COVID-19 is just temporary, they’ll go back to the way it used to be before and that is very questionable
Sure. That will simply have no effect on their power and might justify a war on Taiwan.
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Noticed toady, you cant even download firefox on android without a app store.
It's very political. The fact that wearing a mask is political says it all.
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There isn’t a kickstarter but he does have a Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/joeycastillo
Not useless at all. Still given off label under the supervision of a doctor. Still studies going on. The big 'study' was retracted. Could still be part of several treatment plans.
came to the thread to encourage everyone to experience them this way. it's so immersive and really makes you feel like you've time machine-d into dialup era (or older!)
Scott doesn't program things. There's a guy he knows who set it up, so it depends on his schedule I guess.
And instead our commander in chief prefers to insult allies old and new on Twitter
Excellent effort.

I wonder whether there will compositor support this driver, to take advantage in the desktop environment. I had made several attempts to get a smoother desktop experience[1] on RPi 3 -

•LXDE + Openbox on Raspbian + X server

•Xfce4 + VC4 + X server + Arch Linux ARM + USB SSD

•Enlightenment + Wayland + Arch Linux ARM + USB SSD

Although Elightenment on Wayland with OpenGL was the smoothest of them all, it's not usable(frequent crashes with RPi) and since the frame buffer was limited to 2048x2048 none of them supported my 2560x1080 monitor.

Xfce4 + VC4 on Arch Linux is more usable, but is still not as stable as default Raspbian. I didn't see any productivity merits in continuing this adventure and decided to reclaim the memory from GPU to revert into headless[Arch+SSD] for a motion eye setup processing 3 720p camera streams simultaneously with average of ~ 50% CPU on all 4 cores when not watching the feed live(but motion active).

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien...
The App-Store was a huge improvement over existing distribution at the time.

30% wasn't super generous but it was much better than anything else, and Apple was a kind of underdog in the mobile market, at first.

Today, things are different, we have a duopoly, in practice that's the same as a litteral monopoly.

Antitrust laws should apply, but it will take time, a lot of time, big corporations have huge lobbying power.
China is going rogue again. Cyberattacks against Australia, bullying in South China Sea, border fights against India and so on.

We need a unified world approach.
> E.g., we would have needed a tax id in every EU state we are selling to

You could have registered to "VAT Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS)" in one member state: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/i...
I certainly agree with the sentiment this article advocates. It feels hard for any reasonable person to think otherwise.

What I haven't found a discussion on is the alternatives? Given that App Store will probably be the only place to sell apps within the _Apple ecosystem_ (at least medium term?), the only way is for Apple to rethink its how it monetizes App Store. What am I missing? Are there alternative models that that people know of which would align with the "dream"?
Hoping for good things for this product but will put in an plug for the Remarkable- open source software, well designed and capable hardware, solid product vision.
It's funny you say that, because I'm a security engineer and I talked to loads of other security engineers who didn't question it. People at the top of the field. It looked bogus as hell at the time, but you couldn't easily say so.

Hackers are as susceptible to partisan politics as anyone else. At least we now have the benefit of the CrowdStrike President's declassified testimony.
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Wow, thanks for the detailed feedback - will go through it all properly as soon as I get the chance
I am pretty sure that nations with the resources are pretty much doing some stealth cyber attack to nations they consider a threat - whether by economic or defence policies.

Likely the scale of the attack happening is something that may have surprised the victim nation that they are calling out the attacks in the hope that it would at least calm down the intruder or even have the government intervene.

On a side note, reading the article in a mobile device was a big PITA. Lots of ads and unnecessary information included. And they had the temerity to tell me that I am using n/3 free articles. I think I would pass from subscribing if on the limited free version and the reading experience was just worst.
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FYI, your account seems to have triggered the system that hellbans new accounts. I vouched for your comment (which revived it), and I sent a message to hn@yc to point out that it looks like there was a false-positive. Your last few comments haven't been visible without showdead set or been able to be interacted with by anyone.
Is it worth it now for your use-case? Maybe not. Is it useful for others? Probably. I’m also curious that Google chose to deliver QUIC for everything when they can including YouTube. I guess the cost tolerance for them is there because they believe they improve the experience enough that it’s a net revenue generator.
Figma can be shared with a link and has no version control. Multiple designers can work in the canvass without having to worry if everyone is working form the same version. To me, these were the advantages that got us to switch from Sketch to Figma.
That's not a monopoly nor is that how monopolies work. iPhone is their device and creation, they can lock it down as much as they choose. They could only allow apps they develop if they wanted.
Surely there are overland connections out of China?
I'm all for it, but it's beyond unlikely.

Even a large number of people in Taiwan today do not want to be associated with the RoC. There is a growing sentiment to express a distinctly Taiwanese identity.
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That worker would rather have Tesla pay for him indefinitely while he doesn’t come to work.
The app stores work incredibly well for the overwhelming majority of users.
RSS is dead quit resurrecting it.
Google services are a huge drain on the battery. Have ou ever tried to degoogle your phone? Such an amazing increase in battery life [1].

My stock android (samsung) was like having a parasite running on your hardware that eats your battery and maybe also tracks what you're doing all the time.

I wish there was another OS like what Linux is to Windows and Apple that had atleast the few basic apps like Uber, Youtube, etc. It is really the need of the hour

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-m30s/how-to/guide-de...
> On a similar note : Why is it so hard to license music for small use, especially if you are willing to pay for small audiences use / non-commercial use?

The music industry has shown exactly how unwilling they are to change with the times. I know of no examples of where any of their decisions have shown forward thinking.
RSS is dead because of hacker news
I use the Dyson on my Mac’s exhaust every so often for the same reason, it’s satisfying to see the amount of crud that comes out of it.
We need to build our own phones, and run whatever OS we want on them. Why isn't it easier to build your own smartphone?
Because Australians have been led to believe that the US and Australia are allies, resulting in Australia punching way above its weight in giving the USA cover whenever it went abroad, for instance in Iraq, Afghanistan and so on.

The usual understanding is that such loyalty is a two-way street. Not that the current US government cares about such pesky details but that's where it stands.
There's an open source service that does something similar, does anyone remember its name?

edit: Both rssbox in the OP, and RSS-bridge[1] are open source. I was thinking of the latter. There's also RSSHub[2].

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub
It actually was the fault of everyone who implemented the chips, IIRC Nvidia didn't mandate the crap solder that was the problem.
Free Pascal version 3.2.0 has been released
The biggest advantage of RISC derived designs is easy to parse instructions. The problem with X64 is not the number of instructions, as they can be thought of as macros anyway, but all the different instruction lengths and encodings. This makes decoding into a bottleneck and a source of overhead that ARM and other newer designs do not have.
I think Apple can cultivate a group of users who value ARM from their positive mobile experiences.
Sure, but with longer routes and severely reduced bandwidth to reduce the intensity of attacks.
A political answer would be for governments to take action.

Since the Euro zone is lucky enough not to have an app store in it, they might be able to force Apple to open up the app store, maybe even publish the information and tools to develop iOS software without a Mac.

Another answer is to develop web applications instead of apps. Almost always we get pestered to first use the app, second use the mobile web site, third use the desktop web site, but usually the quality of the user experience is the other way around.
I didn't know that, I always got told it depends on the first letter (and it didn't make sense for me for some words).. (Obviously not a native speaker)
Why not keep IAP as an option vs credit cards? Let apps offer a credit card discounts. If it provides additional benefits to you: it sounds like you're willing to pay a ~30% more.

Apple is passing credit cards cost on to app store vendors consumers for an additional upcharge. How much is it?

Comparing the percentage cut on a credit card: If I can earn 5% (3% on food and gas?), I'd assume the store is pricing some of that cost into it's products.

Apple's model of easy cancel, harder to steal should be something other companies could MITM. Paypal, Amazon, square, and Google offer similar payment schemes. (Venmo to my knowledge can't be used to pay businesses).

I get the feeling Apple is expanding into this area with their own credit card.

If the choice is a 30% fee or free and no credit card option, this feels like an abuse of power.
No need to cut any cables, just some routing table updates would suffice. I'm pretty sure an internet blockade these days is more effective than a sea blockade, and cutting cables is a lot harder than blackholing.
Increased encirclement & isolation (economic & political persona non grata) by a large group of the liberal affluent nations is the only approach that will work to curtail military attacks like this one. The CPC ego is extraordinarily fragile, the party's self-esteem gets injured very easily, and that should be taken advantage of. Essentially all the highest GDP per capita nations are liberal allies, they should band together and begin excluding China in unison if these military attacks continue.

It's the sort of organizing the US used to be good at, and is presently failing at miserably (for obvious reasons). Germany, France and Britain are also falling down on the job as well (because they're economically scared), so there's plenty of blame to go around.
This isn't really equivalent to a kindle though. The fonts are basic, there's no enclosure. Fonts are a huge thing for eReaders and Amazon has spent a lot of time perfecting them.

It's also important to remember that it's perfectly possible to use the Kindle without DRM. You can just put your own books on it with a cable, though you'll have to convert them to MOBI as it doesn't do ePub. The same can be done with other brands like Kobo, which can take raw ePub. Also, the Kobo's can be pretty easily modified as they just run plain Linux, I'm running PyGame on an older one. The entire OS was simply on an internal SD card so really easily modified (though not sure if the new ones can be modified too).

I think the problem with DRM and ebooks is not the readers. It's the availability of books without DRM... Basically the "GOG" of eBook stores. Even if you have an open eBook reader, where are you going to get the books from?

I think for the reader, I would prefer to buy commercial hardware as look and feel is an important thing for a device you will interact with a lot. Similar to the way us Open Source aficionados don't build our own laptops, but do use free software :)
Figma can be shared with a link and has no version control.

This is great for quick, informal design work, like prototyping with participants who aren't specialists.

It's a double-edged sword, though. There are good reasons that professional creative workflows often include revision control and sign-off processes attached to distributing specific revisions outside of the internal team.
Maybe I misunderstood, but if you're suggesting the generator function open/close the resource, then I disagree. The caller has the responsibility of safely opening and closing. The generator function should not care what type of iterable it receives
People are buying the new products, and that will increase the market for them, which means that the situation cannot just return to before.

If you're so pessimistic, well, why do you think anyone cares about exhortations to buy local? Something will prevent them from doing so.

Also, it's kind of odd if pessimism makes you think the effects of COVID will vanish promptly. People normally adapt to recent events by assuming the possibility of a recurrence exists.
> Why is it the US' problem?

The US and Australia are allied. They're in Five Eyes together, for example.
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I see that as a story about how subjective comparisons are non-transitive, i.e. x > y > z > x.
This is me today. I'm typing this on an 8 year old macbook pro. First gen retina. 4-cores and 16GB of ram. I want to upgrade, I really really do. I have a 16" with 8-cores and 64GB of ram at work, but I can't bring myself to purchase one for myself since I've been telling myself I would wait for 10nm.

The first 14nm processors started shipping in the 15" in 2015 - 5 years ago.

My current 8 year old macbook has a 22nm processor. I would never have thought 8 years ago that Intel would only have managed a single node shrink since then.
What's a good alternative to bread that is NOT oatmeal.
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I was able to find an apk in 5 minutes by googling "Firefox apk download" and it installed just fine
Another problem with the YT system (EUCD17) is that it is not a legal system. At least under DCMA (which Content ID pre-empts), you could seek legal damages for false claims.

If Google wants to continue with Content ID, the fix is easy: hold ad money in escrow until their entire dispute process is complete (from the initial flag). This will prevent the ad money piracy that is so rampant on the platform right now.
No, schools are not parents. Acting in loco parentis means acting in the place of the parent while they aren’t there, not becoming the parent. It places a duty of care to safeguard the child and act in its best interests. It does not mean raising the child. It is the misguided attitude of some parents that somehow the school is responsible for parenting children that is probably half the problem.

And yes, parents should have support. This used to come from much stronger, multigenerational family units. Where that isn’t the case, few would consider attending parenting classes even if they were available. But don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s necessarily just about that, as I said originally, I think adult mental wellbeing is a bigger problem than is generally recognised. Anxiety, aggression, apathy, these transfer from the parent to the child.
Is the Oasis performance that different than the Paperwhite?

I personally am less concerned with closed-platform reader technology, and more concerned with closed-platform content. If a reader will let me sideload my open content, I'm reasonably okay with it. (Yes, I acknowledge supporting such an ecosystem is contributing to the overall problem.)
Oh look it's even worse: only about 10% of intake energy is fixated (plant matter -> meat) in the next trophic level.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency

Wikipedia says ATP generation alone loses 60% of energy regardless if ecto- or endothermal organism. ATP is the energy curency of life. So 60% of energy lost, before any synthesis, signaling, membrane transport, ... even happened.
I do NOT want to go back to the chaos of pre-App Store world where you had to visit NN different websites to get your software, multiplied for every machine, then revisiting them regularly for updates or putting up with noise from N different update mechanisms.
You could check out Jean Piaget. Wikipedia article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget

He is a big name in Psychology circles on the cognitive development of the child. From the Wikipedia article: "Piaget was second only to B. F. Skinner as the most cited psychologist of that era."
The jars the wizard has at hand, and the scroll (“shell script”) are familiar looking things like “null”, “tar”, “uucp”, “diff”, “awk”, “C”,... but “oregano”? Is that a joke or a codename or some deprecated tool?
Yea.... no thanks.

Australia is a liberal democracy, and turning away from that to the arms of communist, authoritarian China is simply a non-starter. Like America, Australia will be multi-ethnic, but it’s still a liberal democracy. America is a multi-ethnic liberal democracy too, and supports Australia against Chinese communism. The fact that the US will be less white in the future has no bearing on anything here. Do you think it’s only whites people in America who want to stand up against China? If it is, what does that say about the future of the world if nobody but white people care about liberal values? You’re kind of confirming the fears of white supremacists here.