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if everyone's salary is raised by $600 what do you think happens?

I'll tell you, $600 is the new zero that gets you nothing.
It appears that they removed it in 3.7:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/475935/did-they-just-remove-...
Quoting from the article,
"Apple attempts to justify these fees by arguing that the App Store is no different from a mall, where companies seeking to offer their products must pay rent to the owner of the mall (in this case, Apple). This argument conveniently ignores the fact that there is just a single mall when it comes to iOS and no possibility of a competing mall to rent space from. It is not illegal for Apple to own a mall and rent space, nor is it illegal for Apple to own the only mall. What is illegal, is exploiting the fact that it owns the only mall to charge excessively high pricing which harms competitors."

This is a recurring theme here on HN. The fundamental dilemma is whether or not it is a monopoly. The article is arguing that it is.
This might sound stupid but I have ONLY ever known OOP in the Ruby / C++ / Java sense before but this idea blew my mind as such an interesting and different way of thinking about it and I can't tell if it is just my own bias but my initial thought is that it seems like such an additional level of mental overhead that you would always have to carry around on top of everything else you already have to think about. I assume that becomes easy with time?
Lets do the math.

We are talking about (at most - including other future companies) roughly 50,000 satellites in LEO, each about the size of a car, and they burn up in the atmosphere in a few years.

Given LEO is at a higher altitude, the "surface area" at that orbit is larger, but lets pretend its only 510 million km^2 (i.e. Earth's surface area).

If I evenly distributed 50,000 cars across 510 million km^2, you would need to search 10,200 km^2 to find 1 car.

Even 1 satellite per 1 km^2 in LEO would not impede astronomy, and that future requires 500+ million such satellites.

Amazon and SpaceX operating roughly 0.01 million satellites each is inconsequential.
Just because EU workers make half as much as Americans doesn't make them cheaper. They get paid less (in part) because they work a lot less. Shorter hours, a lot more days off longer lunch breaks. On a per-hour basis your US-EU differential is dramatically lower.
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I guess this is one of those cases where the question sounded better in your head :-) You will probably go "duh!" after you read my answer.

First of all, I don't listen to albums, I listen to songs.

Secondly, greatness is hard to achieve and even harder to maintain. Listening just to songs as part of great albums composed of only great songs would mean that I would not listen to a lot of great songs, because in many cases some of the other songs on an album are bad. I would also probably listen to a lot fewer artists I like, for the same reason.

Thirdly, sometimes it's not even about great or not. In many cases my opinion of what constitutes a great song disagrees with what the artist considers a great song. So I might not personally like a song on an album. For example, I hate long guitar solos, I consider them a form of musical bravado which I do not like. Obviously guitarists would disagree with me :-)

And lastly, you committed a fallacy, it's called appeal to incredulity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity ("someone must be listening to music <<the wrong way>>, their music must be horrible"). I'm free to listen to whatever I want and there are many ways to happiness. You can't objectively prove that someone's path to happiness is wrong as long as they don't harm someone else.

To quote someone I know: "Everybody thinks that all their friends are nice, all the music they listen to is good and all the code they write is good" :-)
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> Wayland happened mainly because they could get to 90% of Xorg functionality easily

We're at 12 years of Wayland and counting and the thing still isn't really usable outside a very narrow use-case. I still run X11 myself and will for a long time. As far as I'm concerned, Wayland has set free software windowing back by a decade. After all this time, Wayland still isn't at parity with X11 even for use cases that Wayland intends to support --- and some things that X11 can do are non-goals for Wayland and will never be supported. What exactly is so compelling in Wayland that it was worth putting progress on hold since 2008?

Yeah, yeah, I get that Wayland has a nice buffer-based composition system. So what? Whatever Wayland does, it could have done over an X11 extension.
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America isn't strictly, for all time, and to the absolute exclusion of all other systems, capitalistic. No society is, for any system.
It's also one of the most toxic and unhealthy for the industry. As you pointed out, they are proponents of extreme lock-in and anti-competitive behavior. And it's not good when such toxic company also has such pools of money. They can do too much damage.
Eh I bet there will be. Every Gnome/GTK version until 3.22 had the same version number and were released at the same time. The only reason that stopped is because GTK 3.22 was supposed to be "stable" and "the last GTK 3" version while Gnome still wanted to do updates.
The same could be said the other way around. Why force a private company to open its system? Apple built the entire ecosystem and you want to force them to open it up to your desire. Why is that ok?
Users accept the app store EULA, which serves as a contract, and in which Apple states it can shut down content according to any standards they desire. That means users are fine with Apple removing podcast apps that talk about whatever Apple doesn't like. If you believe otherwise, you believe that users don't understand the nature of contracts and can't decide on what's better for themselves.

On the other hand, are you saying that because of your ideas on how the world should run that contract is invalid and that Apple should be forced to change it retroactively, despite the fact they are not causing harm to anyone?

China invading Hong Kong is an aggression, for sure, but so is the EU interference in the free market and private contracts under whatever justification.
This has been known for so long that the “Mozart effect” is routinely used as an example of bad science in undergrad psychological research methods courses.
Which is a primary reason for the push against capitalism
Like.. Tesla?
How much is a journalism award worth?

Actual question. Two or three years ago your comment verbatim would've been heavily upvoted here. I've seen it posted countless times. Nowadays it's grey. How times change.
So like the 74 year old overweight President of the United States?
None of the above require software to be as slow as it often is.

Windows being able to run Win32 applications isn't what makes Windows Calc slow nor is anything else you mentioned - you do not need a supercomputer to download currency conversion rates (which, btw, is bloat by itself and could be handled by a dedicated program instead of being shoved into calc) and even the ability to download a CSV or whatever from a remote server via HTTPS (all you'd really need to make such an update) is something the OS can provide to every application and keep secure for everyone (and you know what, this sort of functionality was something Windows provided ever since Win98, but how many people use it vs bundling their own?).
I'd be curious to see the data behind these claims. There has to be artists that are successful from timeless music/instant classics.
It's not death, it's evolution. Few things stay exactly the same over long periods of time.
So now are you suggesting that the government force Apple to release XCode for Windows? Linux?
I feel like it would have been relatively trivial to make decent 7-9 figures depending on your initial leverage just by manipulating some key accounts.
Ie: short Tesla, musks account says solar roof delays, firmware error has started bricking cars, self driving is 10 years away, delivery numbers going to fall well short

Trump (surprised they didn’t hit that) - no new stimulus for unemployed, CORPORATE WELFARE MUST STOP, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MASSIVE DEFICITS, then pick a couple small cap companies that are going to receive massive boosts like the Kodak thing.

Tim Cook: Apple sales flagging, iPhone production issues due to supply chain issues

Take a bit of timing to get it right and be able to walk away from the markets relatively untraced (market trade interrogation is a useful way to trace inside information so hard to do in a way that leaves no trace but if you know you can perform your hack at leisure you can set up the initial trades well forward, wait for the market and some other external condition to walk into your ambush and then pounce
Malmab personnel interviewed at the end of the article:

> But isn’t concealing documents based on footnotes in books an attempt to lock the barn door after the horses have bolted?

> “I gave you an example that this needn’t be the case. If someone writes that the horse is black, if the horse isn’t outside the barn, you can’t prove that it’s really black.”

For additional context, this is with regards to the scholarship of Benny Morris[0]. Plenty of liberal democracies use and abuse the concept of state secrets, but to abuse it in such a petty and transparent way feels...counterproductive?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris
If they knew up front they would be doing this, they could’ve shorted Tesla in smaller positions, over multiple accounts. There’s tons of people shorting Tesla, would it really be traceable to any of those?
I put this gif into a floating window, with a chrome extension using the Picture-in-Picture API:
https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/picture-in-picture/

Chrome extension:
https://github.com/b3ting/breathe
Well, as I've replied to 2 similar comments, people are different. That doesn't mean that they're wrong or right, they're just different.
The Dactyl is a beautiful piece of design and engineering, I've been thinking about getting one. What variation of Dactyl Manuform are you using, i.e. 4x6, 5x6?
I have done this for a long time and am just waking up out of it. It is sad to have spent so much time lost... (when I embarrassingly thought I was found). Trying to find the right pathway for myself now.
think about what you are saying

artificially raising salaries in an imploding economy with high unemployment is beneficial

uh, no, it is a recipe for economic disaster.
Bullseye! That's perfect. I should've spent more time playing around with the preferences. After browsing around a bit, the only page I notice a lag on is google search results, it freezes for ~300 ms after load. I'll keep messing around to see if I can eliminate that. Now just have to write a little bash script that sits in the background and moves the pages out of my download folder. (edit 5 seconds later): never mind, you can change the filename to put them in a subfolder. Thanks for your extension!
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In my experience, most empirical majors beat you over the head with the chanting of "correlation does not imply causation" pretty much every term. It's too bad that it's one of those things that's not naturally intuitive to people.
Can you name one category of app that Apple sells where there aren’t competitors on the App Store?
Good news for him, then! Starting Monday he doesn't have to. Give it a couple of months and he can probably hire at $2 an hour, or maybe just room and board. There's a whole lot of people about to get evicted, after all. He might have a bit of a hard time getting customers, what with everyone being either broke or terrified into hoarding whatever they've got or both, but what the hell, right? They say a rising tide lifts all boats. What do you think happens when the tide goes out and stays out?

If you're not scared shitless, I have to assume you cannot possibly be paying attention.
Anecdotally, no.

My sister was able to re-open and she had the hardest time convincing her workers to return simply because of this fact.

Some never returned. Why would they?

Has nothing to do with safety or trying to keep people at home.
Have you read the paper? They adjust for damn near everything including reverse causation.
What confounders do you believe the UK biobank data can't account for?
This so much. Absorption rate could vary quite a bit and it’s nearly impossible to research and find a good source these days due to insane number of supplement manufacturers in the market (I partly blame Amazon for this).
The massively high unemployment payment is a large part of why we saw a 33% drop in GDP last quarter. You can argue whether it was good or bad that we [over-]paid people not to work, but the obvious effect is that GDP cratered because working would make most people lose money.
> Why are you sure it is a nation. NATO is by no means an uncontroversial entity. Millions of peace activists—including my self—would love to see it abolished.

I wonder how so-called "peace activists" look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine and still don't quite grasp the importance of NATO.
This is true because a large portion of working people live in poverty in the U.S. This reflects poorly on our human-jackal employers that extract wealth from the labor of the poor (Walmart, Amazon... restaurant chains, etc.).
Apple sells an experience, it's hard to find a common ground to those single store monopoly issues without compromising this experience and tarnishing Apple's precious image.

Suppose Apple standardizes jailbreaking: say they allow you to turn on a switch that creates a sandbox on your device for you to do whatever you want. Your device would then be running freestyle without warranty, fair enough for me as a first mockup. What's going to happen next is a handful of illiterate or unaccountable users will deface Apple's reputation by bombarding news sites with their misfortune. Apple would be cancelled overnight. I'm barely exaggerating.

Now I guess some EU negotiations could help to have some in-app purchases without fees (like buying a book in the Kindle app), avoid getting their app rejected for a shady reason (because rules can be changed whenever Apple sees fit) and, above all, allow me to set my morning alarm to some radio app (this one is ridiculous). The tragedy is that no "developers union" could ever succeed at this.

The last issue, about supporting authoritarian regimes, is probably the most difficult to solve. This is politics, there are no companies or governments that can have it all every time. China is a huge market: you cannot hope staying in business if you try to impose all your rules everywhere. That's the exact same idea behind having the EU make a stand on the single store issues. Also, the most intolerant wins [1].

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I proposed guild discrimination laws similar to employment discrimination laws, making it illegal for guilds to exclude on the basis of protected categories.
That would be an issue with the GNOME DE, not the GTK toolkit.
Pfft... The versioning scheme is the least of GTKs problems.
Another poster already mentioned that legal definition varies. And not only that. It's not that it's "wrong" or illegal to be a monopoly. It's what you do with those powers.

Natural (and legal) monopolies exist and are regulated so that there's a perceived net benefit to society for having them. The EU will investigate is (to Europeans) Apple's monopoly is net beneficial to them.

And I imply to agree with labeling Apple a monopoly precisely because, unlike the gas station on your example, a iPhone user cannot drive 3 miles to buy Spotify without having to pay Apple's 30% fee.

Is Apple obliged to make their phones available to other app stores? No. But not doing so AND profiting from 30% AND having a large marketshare is precisely why the EU is investigating them for abusive monopolistic behaviour.
> I don't see how having IDEs implemented in browsers has anything to do with security, the speed of light or compatibility. It's just the lack of constraints allowed by advances in computer hardware.

This isn't a compatibility issue? We've seen about 8-16 branches of the write-once, run-everywhere tree over the past 25 years, I'm not sure how that isn't seen as a constraint on programmers. JWT, Swing, Web, Cordova, QT, React/<web front-end> Native, Xamarin, Electron, Flutter and even quirky ones like Toga have all attempted to solve this problem. The only unifying thread has been that managers follow greedy algorithms and choose the lowest common denominator platforms as possible. QT, the Java tools and Xamarin at least can't be lumped into the inefficient language bucket, though the UX is just awful. Other than hardware drivers, it's hard to think of a clearer example of compatibility constraints.
Wealthier parents will buy homes there and donate/invest in local schools, which will afford a better education to their kids that, along with better networking, will increase the chances of being financially successful of their kids.
nice post. another alternative I would add to roam is https://dendron.so - its a local-first roam like open source markdown note taking app built on top of vscode (disclaimer: i'm the author)
> It sounds like one did what you wanted, and one didn't

Two products is not a huge number. It seems likely that neither product was exactly what they want, and this is just a particular thing they don't like about iPhones.
Artistic endeavors always take me a long time, but then I read about people like Kanye who puts down a hit track in 20 minutes (he’s apparently known for working this way). You may not line rap or him, but he has a knack for hit beats.

https://www.okayplayer.com/news/heres-the-story-behind-kanye...
You know what the “mono” in “monopoly” means right?
The $600 UI benefits were mostly done as a means of practicality, because our unemployment systems were so out of date to efficiently calculate someone's actual wage. It's sorta a general broad stroke implimentation that figured that sure, some people may be "overpaid" compared to their regular wage, but the political necessity of passing it ASAP was so great that any delay would be immensely costly.
Creating a "hit" in the software space would be more of an apples to apples comparison.

Both music and software are crafts that take years to perfect. But adoption by an audience is never guaranteed.
I'm not sure what the laws are in Europe, but in the US, there's nothing inherently illegal about being a monopoly. The illegality begins when one tries using the monopoly to gain an edge in other markets. Arguably, Apple has monopoly power in the market they built so nothing wrong there.

If you're trying to make the argument that maybe we should change the laws to make monopolies illegal, it would be easier to discuss if you define what the guiding principle is. Are you saying companies shouldn't own more than X% of a market? Companies should comply with a set of practices? etc

Here's why it's difficult when you just use anecdotes. Consider your example, restaurants. Restaurants are a local industry with lower barriers to entry so naturally you have thousands to choose from. Online marketplaces tend to be global marketplaces with very high barriers to entry. So comparing restaurants to the App Store is a stretch at best.

A better example might be a national every day low price store like Walmart. So let's try your examples with them.

Imagine if you had to pay Walmart to open your own store INSIDE Walmart ... sounds reasonable.

Imagine if every store that wanted to open a store in Walmart had to do so ... again, reasonable. Starbucks pays to be inside target, Wells Fargo inside Safeway, etc.

Imagine if Walmart gathered data about your customers. They do, and again reasonable.

Imagine if Walmart saw what worked at your store and copied it and hid yours from your consumers. This happens as well. Consider Equate, Walmart's private brand. Or Safeway select. Basically the same thing.
I was completely aware of the software limitations of my iPhone before I bought it yet I did. What you want already exists and it's called Android.
An album is a playlist of songs selected by the musician. They can be consumed as a playlist, or individually.

A frame of a movie won’t make sense without the whole movie.
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> What has he, or have you, to back that assumption up

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but Naval does talk about his very modest upbringing, basically coming from nothing. His single mom, being a minority in a tough neighborhood in New York. However, his thirst for knowledge, status, and hard work has built a great amount of peer respect, economic output, and success.
On Mac OS, you can ask the WM to store the geometry for you and recreate it. It's exposed to devs via the NSApplicationWindow (or something) API and then backed by a protocol between the app and the windowing server, leaving the latter in ultimate control.

Wayland doesn't have an equivalent protocol yet, but this is also how it would be idiomatically done there.
$600 / week is $15 / hour. I'm not sure why you are saying that's a high paying job when it's a long overdue proposal for a minimum wage.
Rest assured that despite the somehow surprisingly recent blind support for Apple here, there are people too that want to own our devices.

I can just hope that the EU is successful in stopping all of Apple's trickeries ranging from 2.5mm headset jacks, ports, OS slow downs, mysterious battery underperformance, app store, the list just goes on.
> When is your best guess about when the vaccine will be available to us?

>Probably by the end of this year, the beginning of 2021.

This is a lie. The question is why is he lying?

I understand he will lie about political things.

But this is science. I think he actually believes it. Analysis of all sources shows its not possible.

I think it's easier for him to just follow this narrative, just like he did with masks.

If it's part of being a career politician then it's back to age, I want to listen to middle aged scientists not corrupted by politics.
So your point is most cookie cutter rap is good writing?

If engagement is the new measure of good writing, then we are lost. Click bait is engagement. Tabloid material is engagement. Fox vs CNN and political trigger pieces are all engagement. None of it should be considered good writing.
> it’s important for musicians to be able to make a decent living at their work

I think this depends on a great many factors. Do you mean possible for some musicians, everyone who wants to do music in some capacity, or somewhere in between? How do you define a decent living?

I'm reminded of the "No farms, no food" bumper-stickers I would sometimes see. While obviously true as written, it's subtlety different in practice and politics. Food comes from farms. Farms are needed. Yet this may not the same as all farms being needed, important, or significant to keep functioning. The person with that bumper sticker may not agree with the distinction I've drawn.

Music is absolutely critical to our ongoing cultural life. No musicians, no music. Yet... to what extent should a society with limited resources devote them to the promotion and enablement of musicians, bearing in mind that there are other uses for those resources? Even with an abundance mindset and in today's world of plenty, this key question does not go away.
All kinds of things could be wrong with this AppStore business, but antitrust law / monopoly violation isn’t one of them.
> for most unemployed Americans, wrong.

It's 100% wrong as of today (the article is from May), as the $600 supplement has expired and won't be renewed. In fact I'm not sure why HN is discussing an expired, won't-be-renewed program as if it is current.