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>You also seem like someone who is for some reason predisposed to be an apologist for Apple's monopolistic business practices. You certainly don't represent what would likely be the average/majority sentiment of Apple's customers, were they sufficiently informed.

I'm willing to defend Apple because I'm tired of disingenuous arguments from either parties with self-interest or FOSS advocates who have some ideological opposition to Apple's closed nature (and have since the beginning of the App Store and decades before that with Macs).

Apple's customers don't care about the margin structure or costs of app developers. The App Store has massively increased both the supply and demand for apps, and it has actually led to a decline in prices for software. Everyone knows this because they've been complaining about how they can't charge as much for apps as they did in the packaged software days.
The simple fact is that Apple is injecting itself as an intermediary in the payment process and extracting a preposterously oversized commission for no meaningful added value.

You mean like every retail store - digital and physical?
The mockingbirds[0] are starting to show up in numbers. Quite the repertoire...

[0]https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Mockingbird/ove...
The problem with any such system is there is money from capturing eyeballs, so once any system gets popular a lot of people will dedicate time to spamming it. I don't know how avoid that.
Bay Area food automation goes from niche to necessity during pandemic
Isn't it crazy this is what it all boils down to...looking over our 30 some odd years grinding away and we are looking to stay safe.

You can live your dream or help someone else build theirs.
Here's a summary of the video, posted as one of the top comments on YT: https://sundaynewsletter.com/february-video-summaries/vaclav...
Best way to understand volts vs amps is a gravity analogy. Pulling electrons away from protons takes energy, and stores it, the same way that taking basketballs to the top of a cliff does. The voltage is the height of the cliff. The amps is how many basketballs per second you're dropping.
I agree that things have gotten better over time, but how can you be so smug about it?

The amount of hoarding, infighting, and extortion has been disgusting. We're advancing as slow as species seemingly could short of completely falling apart and destroying their Earth, and even that's in question right now.

If we did things the way I'm speaking of, I guarantee you we'd have all of these things and more. Going slow and doing things right is worth it. Having value for creativity, community and labor is worth it. Not justifying oppressive decisions we couldn't have changed on the basis that we got some cheap consumer crap from it... it's worth it to me at least.

This line of thought is unpopular now, but if history is any indicator, the sentience of the future will look back on these logs and question how the fuck you could read these words and not fucking get it. We would be more advanced if we didn't do these things. Not the other way around.
What’s the typical markup between wholesale and retail? How much does every single digital store charge - including the console makers?
Standard isn't a linter either. My question was why they're using the Standard style, rather than the Prettier style, both of which can be validated with eslint.
In the U.S.

E.U. does not require a dominant market share to fine companies for monopolistic behavior.
Even out east, we are seeing rural areas depopulate and nearby metros absorbing that local population. For instance, Columbus is often cited as a fast growing city. However, almost all of that growth is from people already living elsewhere in Ohio and moving into the city for greater economic opportunities. As a net it looks like there isn't growth or even decline, as the population of Ohio has been relatively stagnant since 1960, but it's a shift of where the population is located that is also playing out everywhere. Part of it is also due to a lower need for labor in rural areas as farming and manufacturing become more automated, and cities are increasingly centers of knowledge workers and research, rather than industrial centers.

In the context of climate change, it is also better to favor investment in cities which are already well scarred by human activity, and have a lot of infrastructure and capital already in place, than to expand into or increase the existing environmental impacts on our natural and rural areas. In California, we've built to the edge of what is sensible given the fringes of civilization perennially burn to the ground.
You can't even make an account for Netflix inside the application.
What is wrong in what I have said?
Yes - I really like his writing pre-Ulysses. I have tried to read that book for years. There are parts of it I enjoyed, it was just too much effort for the reward to tackle the whole thing.
How often are you calling support? The only time I've needed them was when I was locked out of the admin account, and there was no way to reach a human.
> if one private issuer's money gets debased, but there are multiple different private issuers, such as banks, people can simply stop using the money from the bank that debases it.

The problem is, a big part of the value in the economy never gets to be an explicitly "issued" money, and that was so even many centuries ago. So your belief in the magic of the "hard" issued money appears to me to be just a wishful thinking, even without the historical support since the earliest times. Different forms of debts are older than any precisely defined issued money, and all the forms of debts are what actually drove the economies.

Most famously, the period of democracy in Athens started only after Solon abolished the accumulated debts, which speaks a lot about the dynamic of their economy during all the times before that point was reached.

It appears to me that sooner or later the current world will have to accept that we need a Solon-like act to end the period we're in.
As someone on H-1B this is doubly hard. I left every single time, without even asking.
Well, the problem is that, China has likely invested and spent, hundreds of billions of dollars, and millions of man years, on American technology products.

They have built their own applications and business processes, on top of American technology systems.

American companies have benefited handsomely from this engagement with China. Their stock prices reflect that, in how much they earned from China, and how much future potential they will earn from China.

What the USA government is doing here, is saying that America is no longer reliable. Essentially, that they can take away their products on a whim.

This puts the onus of the risk on China. Why should they continue to spend and invest in American technology, when it can all be taken away, and their applications on top of it will be useless.

Imagine if a Chinese company spent 5 years, and millions of dollars, to build an application on top of the Microsoft Windows framework. Then one day, the American government says: Hey, we will no longer allow you to use Windows.

Now, your expensive program, is wasted, and is now worth less than a paperweight. Even a paperweight is more useful than your program.

Will this happen? Who knows. But it is clearly a risk. And it must be a violation of some WTO trading rules somewhere. Because something like this, is clearly a monopolistic and predatory action, akin to an all-out economic war, designed to force the Chinese to their knees, and which would force the Chinese side to counter-react to.
> Apple typically gets 30% of in-app subscriptions for the first year and 15% of renewals.

I think that 30% then 15% commission are both way too high. Apple should be able to charge a modest commission fee to be on their App Store but that price is way too high. Maybe 5% then 3% would be more reasonable.

But the worst part about this is that Apple is so inconsistent with its enforcement. There is an anti-competitive element to Apple’s enforcement behavior that is very concerning. I’m surprised that Tim Cook has allowed this behavior. Long term this will hurt app developers and Tim should understand that.
From the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes#Enco...

"Sousa Mendes was listed in the Portuguese Consular and Diplomatic Yearbook until 1954.[107][108] After the one year punishment with half-pay, he received a monthly payment of 1,593 Portuguese escudos per month.[109][110][111] According to Rui Afonso, "although it was not a salary of a prince, one should not forget that at that time, in Portugal, the monthly salary of a school teacher was only 500 Escudos".[109] When he died, in 1954 he was receiving a monthly salary of 2,300 escudos."
Before we call Dave_TRS a slumlord, consider another perspective: The renter needs a home but can't afford the $30K to buy a house. $800 would be a basement apartment where I live, and about half the cost of what I hear studio apartments are going for in the nearest major city to my location. Dave_TRS is providing a service to the market at a price that isn't exploitative and the renter has a roof over the heads and everybody wins.
Would they also be unhappy if they knew the markup for every store? The markup for soda and drinks in a restaurant? Is there anyone who doesn’t know that retailers markup goods?
Germany passes law punishing online threats, insults with potential jail time
It’s just as private as Gmail, which is the comparison in question.

If you want secure, you wouldn’t be using email in the first place.
Anyone have a link to the court docket?

edit: looks like https://dockets.justia.com/docket/arizona/azdce/2:2020cv0047... but I don't have a PACER account.
Eh we enforce GPG signing of all commits at my shop and I use the gpg/SSH key magic so end up leaning over to touch my yubikey a lot! Large rebases are particularly gun, lots of touching there.
How to find accommodation
Coworking and PropTech in the post-Covid world
And the console makers? Google Play? The movie theaters? Amazon? Spotify?
Hack Password of Fb
Pls,
I need someone explain to me how i can hack password of facebook?

anybody teach me how to apply it..!
Do you understand the words you're using?
Anyone know what console makers charge developers these days? My experience is from several decades ago, and is comparable to what Apple charges in its store.
Germany jumped the gun. They started investing heavily in renewables when they were still very costly and storage technologies weren’t practical. Things have changed a lot in the last 30 years.
Because my government passed a legislation that forces all ISPs to collect all metadata and to store them and this information is accessible to be searched by multitude of government departments without a warrant.

I am, in principle against this policy. When it was proposed, I tried activism and letter writing and meeting with Senate staffers to try and fight it. I lost, it became law with bipartisan support from both major parties here. So now I use a VPN.

You find my usecase baffling?
> I commented 36 minutes ago and the video is 52 minutes long, which makes me suspect that you didn't watch it.

Youtube video playback speed is configurable.
That’s outside my expertise, but there’s a few good replies to your question already. My understanding is that while the eruption occurred in Iceland, the effects of it were overwhelmingly felt further south and southeast in Europe, although I’m sure there were flight delays in Iceland as a result. I’m sorry to say most of my remembrance of this event was through a few bloggers I was following at the time who were personally affected.
12 Years since, and I still don’t understand why the UK went after Iceland for reparations. Landsbanki was a private bank operating in the UK, and one of the owners Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson is still doing business in the UK, and is now among the top 100 billionaires in the UK (even though he caused a 6 billion euro damage that the UK taxpayers paid).
Are people actually asking Apple to get in the ad business? It’s already a step too far that they sell ads on the App Store.
... Which is a great reason to believe that China will in fact never do a full-scale invasion of Taiwan, despite all the political posturing.
If a large percent of the money just goes to the few owners of the construction company and not to an army of workers, then it was all for naught, so that has to be factored in too.
I'd imagine that if init tried to use the network before the kernel's networking was initialized, you could deadlock though that'd be considered a bug in the init dependencies. The hard part is even visualizing the dependencies with init is tricky. I don't know if that's something systemd explicitly solves, but I try to stay out of userspace (unless the compiler is borked; narrator: it is)
If he got a loan, it wouldn't be 0% down because it would be on investment terms not residential terms. Chances are a $30K house needed improvement before it could be rented, and rentals are seldom free to run either -- there's ongoing maintenance, there's the carrying costs between tenants, etc. Calling the parent poster a slumlord without facts when your account is just a few hours old is pretty lame.
New York’s City Council Passes the Post Act
We no longer have anything for the desktop as easy to use as VB6 (nor for mobile).
mix format for Elixir

rubyfmt for Ruby
Ask HN: Any web directory left to submit an educational website?
A few year ago, web directories were everywhere. They had lots of categories. Now I cannot find anymore a decent web directory to submit by educational coding website: codeguppy.com

Any suggestion?
I tried apexsql and redgate and didn't like them. I do like the built in one for datagrip, it still isn't perfect but is acceptable for me. Apexsql has a cli too I believe
No it doesn't. The fed is the only source of dollars in existence, and it only ever loans out dollars. Therefore, if every dollar were to be paid back, how many dollars exist ?

Zero.

Since that is clearly not what people want, you're right about it never happening.

In a modern fiat money system paying back central bank loans changes the money supply. You might be confused because the US did at one point pay back all the government debt (which isn't the Fed's money, that's a separate thing), however looking a bit more closely you might notice that that did not take place in a fiat money system, but in the gold standard (for one thing the Fed didn't even exist when that happened).

Analysing yet a bit further you will quickly find out that, if you had the choice, you want to live during a time where the government debt increases, and the number economists vehemently deny is a wild guess on page 5 of every economy book out there (but really, it is a wild guess), is 2% per year, or at this point 330 billion per year.

The real US number is about 3.8% per year, and calculating it for many years might make you notice that it seems to follow big mac inflation. That's not a coincidence.
Sharing an IP address with a load of other people makes one more anonymous. I know there are lots of different ways of identifying someone online but it is a start. My ISP is also behind a CGNAT so I am also sharing that IP with loads of other people and also most ISPs don’t provide static IP addresses so you can’t rely on an that either but I guess I also trust my VPN provider to handle identifying data more than my ISP as I haven’t even given them my name (Mullvad)
> The other icons used in the campaign are very generic.

Like that time he had an image of Hillary Clinton, on a background of money, with a "most corrupt ever" caption written in the middle of a star of David. It's intentional.
Honeywell claims to have world’s highest performing quantum computer
I know Google cloud VM's are using kexec for faster launches; cause we had some awful toolchain related bugs to fix there. Debugging wasn't very fun, at least on x86 this part of the kernel is called "purgatory" cause there is literally no runtime (not even the kernel's "runtime" is available, mid-kexec).
You should send that question to hn@ycombinator.com
Currency in colour: a visual guide to 157 banknotes around the world
Impeach Gavin Newsom!
Not a crypto expert either, but from what I've gleaned listening to e.g. Peter Guttman describe evaluating new crypto mechanisms, you'll see that:

1. Actual cryptographers usually design with a set of constraints that make their crypto work: those might be about compute power, or memory bandwidth, or what have you, that make an algorithm difficult to brute force.

2. The algorithm will typically be peer-reviewed to try to weed out mistakes, either fundamental mathematical ones, or in the assumptions.

3. The implementation then needs to be high quality.

There are certainly no shortage of examples where systems which pass 1 & 2 are undermined by failures in 3. All algorithms are susceptible to the context around 1 changing (changes in compute power or whatever).

When you go it alone, you're assuming that you won't make any mistakes any of these. That seems a pretty tall order.
You're making an invalid argument there. The current generation mix in France and Germany reflects decisions made up to decades in the past, when relative prices were very different from what they are now. Back in the 20th century when France was building reactors, renewables were much more expensive. What was the low cost option then is not what it is now.

Going forward, even France is having a very hard time building reactors, and is finding renewables are cheaper. This is one reason why France's nuclear industry is in such trouble.

Germany deliberately pushed renewables in order to send them down their experience curves. This was spectacularly successful, but it has come at a high price to their consumers, who are still paying that down. The rest of us have reaped the benefit of far lower renewable costs.
You're describing stores that exist in a competitive ecosystem with price variation. The analogy breaks down because "buyers of products" doesn't map one-to-one with "owners of iPhones" and because distribution of physical goods actually has significant costs.

Assuming you are in fact in the tech industry, you should know that near-zero marginal distribution cost is one of the core principles underpinning software economics.

I'm also not arguing that Apple shouldn't pass some of the costs it incurs to provide apps (e.g. APN, engineering costs, etc) on to developers and by extension on to consumers. But it should be priced fairly and transparently.

A flat 30% fee without the ability to itemize that for customers or signal the existence of alternative payment methods is just wanton, nefarious extortion.

The 'right' solution would be to charge a specific, itemized "Apple device usage fee" that's separate from and in addition to the primary fee for a service itself. Apple deserves to take a portion of revenue specific to the provision of a service to its users. I can't see an argument where it deserves to take a portion of all revenue developers receive.

But Apple is not permitting this because it would pull back the curtain on their rapacious practices and their customers, having already paid a significant amount of money for their devices, would almost certainly be quite angry about it.

Spotify is a good example of the distortion occurring because of this misguided system. They're charging customers $12.99 if they subscribe through the App Store instead of the $9.99 they would pay outside of it for exactly the same service. So, right now, some Spotify customers are being needlessly pillaged by Apple when, unbeknownst to them, they could get the same exact service at less cost. Spotify apparently had plans to email affected subscribers to alert them about this nonsense situation, but I don't know what became of that.
Law enforcement will do a lot of good if the author isn’t in the US....
Is there a way to specify when running mkinitramfs whether kernel modules are stored there or not?
Have you considered something like Ghost? ghost.org
Probably because Medallion is capped out at 10bn and Simons need some other place to put his money.
Technically true.

> “Application” means one or more software programs (including extensions, media, and Libraries that are enclosed in a single software bundle) developed by You in compliance with the Documentation and the Program Requirements, for distribution under Your own trademark or brand, and for specific use with an Apple-branded product running iOS, watchOS, tvOS, or macOS, as applicable, including bug fixes, updates, upgrades, modifications, enhancements, supplements to, revisions, new releases and new versions of such software programs.

> “Provisioning Profiles” means the files (including applicable entitlements or other identifiers) that are provided by Apple for use by You in connection with Your Application development and testing, and limited distribution of Your Applications for use on Registered Devices and/or on Authorized Test Units.

However in practice, for example, I use the Apple Developer Program with Cydia Impactor to build and install apps like Spike and xDrip on my kids iPhones (they are both T1D). It's basically point and click. [1]

[1] - https://spike-app.com/install-spike-using-cydia-impactor/
A startup I worked at for a short while was run by a guy who wouldn't stop trying to convince me he was the real Satoshi. Also he was in several different wars, and was shot through the chest back-to-front with a scud missile. Oh, and his girlfriend was part djinn (a real-world genie!). He was fighting with the military because they apparently lost all record of him having ever even served as Special Ops. Amazing. He was, by far, the scrawniest "ex-military" guy I've ever met.

I quit, still unable to tell if he actually had a product, or if he was stringing on his investors. What I did find was a whole lot of plagiarism in what looked to be the code for his product. Take the code from a book on Proto Lisp programming and sprinkle in a bit of Rigetti's work liberally, and voila, originality! I'm betting the money guys aren't going to be happy with him for long, if they are still funding him. He just frustrated me so much I gave up on a whole lot of money just to avoid having to listen to his nonsense anymore. It was frankly quite embarrassing having to pretend I was interested in his stories, considering how fictional and bizarre everything he had to say was.

Apparently months after I left, he was ejected by police from his office space. I never heard what actually caused it, but police aren't usually involved in landlord/tenant issues, and he definitely had enough money for the rent anyway.

I don't know how people like these manage to get funded in the first place. But now he's still pretending to be an expert in quantum mechanics from his kitchen table. I feel sorry for anyone that gets sucked into his "startup."
Your comment is pure genius
I didn't realize that epic came back.

I also understand why Google is doing this. (1) the obvious money making reasons and (2) legitimate security concerns. Remember the days of accidentally undertaking a zillion browser tool bars? I feel like making it painful to install from 3rd parties help combat that.

I do think there can be a better solution though. Like some sort of signing process by Google to make you a trusted app that can be revoked in the future if they find you to be malware or whatever. This is kind of sounding like an app store though :)
Many ISPs in the US perform DPI, sell anonymized data to marketing companies, slowdown YouTube/Netflix when the backend pipes are congested, etc. If you want your ISP to provide you with a dumb pipe and not interfere with your traffic, a VPN is an easy solution.