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> This is monopoly bundling by definition.

We've been having this debate for the better part of the last decade because whether this constitutes a monopoly really isn't clear as either side insists that it is. There's not much precedent for this specific kind of maybe-monopoly out there, and it's unclear to me whether the semi-precedents I can think of really support the notion that the App Store is a monopoly.

Also, as people have pointed out elsewhere, a monopoly is not in and of itself illegal. European antitrust law focuses on anti-competitive behavior, but American antitrust law focuses on perceived consumer harm. Look at antitrust suits against Apple's iBooks from years ago -- Apple's collusion with publishers was to break Amazon's de facto monopoly on ebooks. Giving pricing control back to publishers would have increased competition, but it would have raised prices for consumers, and that was what the courts cared about.

And this is actually a big thorn in the side of American antitrust action against Apple's app store. We can shout "walled garden" all we want (although I am getting super tired of that phrase, so let's not), but you need to find cases where this harmed consumers, not developers. Developers can line up around the block saying that Apple's policies are destroying their business, but unless America changes our standard of antitrust to be more like Europe's, that simply doesn't matter. Those cases are arguably out there -- I keep coming back to Apple's store policies that force Amazon to release a Kindle app that not only won't let you purchase books but can't even tell you a URL to go to -- but on the whole, this is a relatively high bar.
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> I have to say, I love the style of these graphics. Minimalism I guess?

I'd say if you practice Minimalism, then also make sure it applies to the total amount of space you're using for it ;)
Private entities will just have terms of service which say they're entitled to open and inspect your mail for any reason they see fit. mindslight's comment above does a good job of touching on some other ways it will enable more surveillance.

But yes, the postal service has already been turned to this purpose in many ways and the days of "gentlemen don't read each other's mail" are largely over.
Or the thread is doing the work directly?
Almost. Non government entities don't offer the kind of unaffordable benefits such as defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare anyway as they became more and more unaffordable.

The whole deferred compensation scheme known as defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare morphed into a way for politicians to push payroll expenses into the future so that they could get elected on "low tax" platforms. They can get away with this because the laws requiring saving for deferred compensation don't apply to government entities.
We have the technology to not build that lever into the logistics design of UBI
So the takeaway is that the poster has to be a renowed (within this thread) expert or what, the ostensible point is lost? The derail (whataboutism) is not constructive. The Palestinian/Israeli dispute/occupation is not in the same realm as Chinas historic actions.
The Crew Dragon Capsule is not expected to be involved in any mars trips. They will use the very large Starship vehicle to travel to and from Mars and it will land with rockets.

However I’m not sure what you mean by inefficient here. Parachutes work great on Earth for vehicles of a certain size.
It's not so much that the high performance radios are proprietary as it is that building one of these systems is expensive and requires lots of domain specific knowledge. You could somewhat easily build one of these systems for ~$250k using CoT's hardware, in fact Lund University did a few years ago for some of their MASSIVE MIMO research.

If you don't want to use CoT's hardware for some reason then you can roll your own transceivers. You have a choice of Analog Devices chips or Lime Microsystems. Xilinx has a new platform that would also work but it hasn't been widely released yet. Lime's chip is cheap but it's performance is crap and its drivers are even worse. ADI's chips are easy to use and have fantastic performance but you pay for it. You also need to shell out for the massive FPGA's to handle 64*6.4GB/s of streaming data and then you need a system capable of processing it which will still probably be an FPGA or a DSP.
No, Starship is designed to return to land using rockets.
I'm not sure that real numbers are uncountable in constructive mathematics as they are not computable.
But it’s not poison it’s a virus. You’re less likely to catch it but if you catch it you get a complete dose.
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It’s much better from desktop view, I found.
Yes, they're exiting now.

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290016670287765505

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290017288729407488
i hope you left before the 2nd week!
What's next after learning to code? Learn marketing. Be social. Don't not be social. Build social capital. Blog. Network. Always sell yourself. Market your brand or your code might as well not exist.
Depends on what do you expect as an outcome of the study.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...
Yeah I’m probably using the entirely wrong term.

Whatever you call this style.
Like Trump?
See Andrej Bauer's proof that they are indeed uncountable: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/30643/are-real-numbers-co...
The page is really bad. I am working in telecommunications and needed some time to find what it exactly is...
Carl Bergstrom is one of my favorite Twitter follows, especially on topics that are pushed by seemingly legit sources (including peer-reviewed publications) but contain serious flaws in reasoning. The course sounds amazing, and I'm sure the book is good as well.
"The sin that Nikon committed is that the composition of their batch of creative influencers does not reflect the general composition of South African society."

Conservatives often assert that Critical/Woke theory and practice is in essence a religion -- one from which no one is permitted to opt out -- but it is nonetheless rare to see them actually wield the word "sin".
It's a double prong attack on the USPS via saying they can't handle mail, let alone all the mail in ballots as well as an attempt to bankrupt them before the election to keep it in court for a while as well as give the Trump base an out and say "I told ya so"
I'm not cruising for irony here, but trying to use this site is a huge pain.
Time for a Star Wars supercut with The Jedi Theme and Imperial March flipped to the other sides.
Elon was only worth ~150 million dollars when he started SpaceX. Obviously he should have stepped aside and waited for Bezos to do it.
Americans have been destabilizing foreign countries almost continuously since the end of WW2, it’s the baseline state and hasn’t changed significantly under the current administration.

If Trump actually delivered and extricated the US from the Middle East you might have a point, but he hasn’t. At best he’s ceded control of important areas to anti democratic regimes (Russia, Turkey) while abandoning US allies: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-tu...

edit: If you care about civilian deaths, you might be particularly interested in recent policy changes made by the Trump administration: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-06/trump-can...

Another article describes the state of US murder of civilians in the Middle East: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civili... - I totally forgot that Trump had promised to murder the families of suspected terrorists; perhaps is delivering on that.

(meta: parent comment is _exactly_ the type of bad faith, 'both sides' argument that I was referring to above; such arguments don't hold up under inspection or review of facts, but sadly people don't always take the time to point that out)
There is a internal regiment that postulates the court investigates crimes within the court. Justices then, by their own, and extrapolating interpretation of the law, came out that the Supreme Court abroads national territory, thus any act against it is considered "within". Does it seem fair to you?

Also, can you enlist a single of said crimes against the court?
What I noticed is that it's actually much harder to use Godot than expected. Yes it does significantly reduce the amount of code you have to write for your game but it opens up questions of how to structure your project because the scene editor doesn't actually match how I would make my own games if all I had was SDL2. For example if you just straight up write code to add nodes to the scene graph it will create a disconnect between what is displayed in the editor and the actual game. Figuring out how to keep the editor and code in sync is a problem unique to Godot and this is very disconnected from general software development.
Why bother with a helicopter? How far is the recovery boat from Pensacola?
Proud to have played a part in advancing access to space.

You don’t quite get the historical significance of what you are working on until you get to see it in context.

I’ll always look back at my work at SpaceX as one of the highlights of my journey through engineering. Among other things, it is because of this that we are now working on a project for NASA’s Artemis mission and will likely deliver hardware to the moon starting next year and possibly every year until 2026 or thereabouts.
Sorry I didn't come out and say they were dumbasses, but I assumed that applied by referring to Florida Man it was inferred. Read in between the lines a little better.
There are general chat rooms where you can promote chat to a question, I think HiNative is more of a Q&A site (but not sure). These questions are not necessarily "how do you say ___ in Japanese" although they can be, but more along the lines of any relevant questions for studying Japanese. It also serves as a place for community. It's probably similar in terms of market served but this is a very minimal application designed to be fast and real-time and useful for looking up info via search when there is more usership. As far as I know, there are no platforms out there that use chatrooms as a fundamental component first, and then later differentiate to Q&A.
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You've just got to love the tone of these articles: the future of work is here. You don't have any control over it, you don't have any say over it. If it's cheaper for us to make you work in your bedroom for the rest of your life, then that's just how it's going to work. This decision has already been made for you.

> Set clear guidelines for what should be communicated where (meetings vs. e-mail vs. Asana vs. Slack vs. text message, vs. phone calls) and what are expected response times on each medium. Hold everyone at every level accountable for abiding by these guidelines...

John, I noticed that your response time to Slack messages has fallen behind your email response rate and your Asana turnaround time. Is there something you're not enjoying about your new freedom?
It's an interesting question. If you're a sales guy, traveling is part of your job and the company pays for it. Anyone who is required to be in the office is assumed to be "commuting" and that is often not compensated (but sometimes is if you use public transit etc). So maybe the fuzzy line is personal travel to work isn't compensated but travel away from work/home for the purposes of work is.

I'm not sure there is any rock solid logic behind any of this though.
The SR-71 used triethylborane to light its engines, which is also used by SpaceX to light the main engines (in combination with triethylaluminum); these are also toxic chemicals, but different from the hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide used onboard the Dragon.
These are not platform providers Apple and Android are.

I would argue that digital app stores should be treated as important and critical infrastructure.
There should be a way for you to install (based on a contract) whatever you want from whoever you want.

I am all for capitalism but this is a monopolized area and deserves to be regulated.
It's suspected that the entire stereotype of "lazy and stupid southerners" (in the US) was actually hookworm infections. This one not necessarily behavior altering, but just drastic malnutrition that eventually also affected brain function.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...
There is a reason everyone uses Ettus Radios (USRP). You will quickly pay back the extra cost though saved engineering time over by not buying cheap hobbyist hardware.
Pretty impressive. And by that I mean boring return to earth, which is impressive in that it is made to seem so "easy."

On the plus side, my friend from Lockheed-Martin who bet me dinner at one's favorite restaurant that Boeing would be the first when the contract was announced, now owes me dinner, so there's that.

I had hoped see Starship hop 150m today[1] however that seems to have been scrubbed.

There is a really good lesson here for folks which is ignore the people saying you won't be able to do something and just execute. They can't argue with results.

EDIT: updated the link to point to the live camera pointed at the Starship SN5. Not sure what happened there.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg
How does the user switch from using database in the cloud to using one on their desktop?
Anything more than 12 miles out is "international waters", but there's a 200 mile "exclusive economic zone". Mexico and Cuba have theirs; between the three nearly all the Gulf is covered.

That said, international waters isn't actually a lawless zone. These boats are undoubtedly registered in the US, and thus subject to US law.
Phew - glad to see them come out safely!
> The second wave of COVID-19 infections has dashed all illusions of going back to the way things before

I didn't read this much further, honestly. It's exhausting to keep reading authors who don't really invest time in understanding the dynamics of what's going on.

For those who want to dive in to this particular leaf: https://theconversation.com/the-us-isnt-in-a-second-wave-of-...

It really is useful to try and understand these things so you don't go around making muddied predictions.

(Also I should note that I disagree with some things in that linked article, in case anyone is feeling like attacking other points that it makes)
‘Drawn-on-skin’ electronics could provide better data for personalized care
SVG icon sets as React components
I'm still unconvinced.
If we're living in a computer simulation then what are the cheat codes for infinite bread and fish?
ctrl-F "NSA" no matches. They're really trying to pretend the Bush and Obama years didn't happen huh?
It does not demonstrate that, no. Complex numbers are no more "real" than real numbers are. They are uncountable, as another commenter said. In general they share many properties with real numbers because the sets C and R^2 are isomorphic and isometric with respect to each other.
1) People don't like to be excluded.

2) Bragging rights.
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The only site my tech-challenged dad can kind-of use well is Craigslist. Plain text, accessible, good hierarchies, nothing buried or nested, fast, and, crucially, everything is in the same place every time he visits. Some of the best UX on the Web.
Forget about app stores. You probably can't get your branded products into Trader Joe's, but nobody's calling them a monopoly.
I think that there are four groups who will really embrace going back to the office, and I think it will gradually change the underlying narrative about what it means for someone to prefer to be in the office:

1. People who are fantastic team players in an organization that does a good job of facilitating group work. I hate the term “team player”, and I think most teams are a farce, but watching an effective team work is like magic to me. This is the best outcome, imho, but I think that this will be a tiny percentage of the folks who embrace going back in (mainly due to workplace structure and incentives, but that’s a slightly different issue).

2. Extroverts. These folks just need to be around other people if you want them to be productive. This group is a push — neither good nor bad imho.

3. The office politicians. My guess is that this will be the vast majority of people who rush back to work. They look busy, but they don’t do very much, yet they know how to work the system. These folks are a tax on mid- and large-sized companies, and I think that folks who prefer being in the office will be perceived as being this type of person, rightly or wrongly.

4. Folks who have tight living quarters or some sort of taxing home restraints. This could be a small living space that is common in a large city, a family who is not particularly accommodating (e.g., kids or a demanding spouse), etc. I have a friend for whom going to the office and working feels like a break for him and his wife due to having three young kids at home — I totally understand.

Part of the potential stigmatization of being a politico who goes in all the time or someone who prefers WFH can be mitigated by having office time be limited to one or two days a week. This puts everyone on equal footing, while reducing a lot of the burden of working in an office. One issue with this is that it still means that people need to live somewhat in the same area as their workplace, but I think that this type of arrangement increases the radius of reasonable living places as related to distance from workplace by quite a bit.

Note that I am shooting from the hip here. I personally think that a large percentage of the innovative and disruptive companies moving forward will be some form of remote-first work. I think this mainly due to the incredible flexibility in hiring that remote-first provides. That said, it will only happen with folks who are comfortable with the format, and I think that is mostly (although definitely not exclusively) people who are (spitballing here) in their 20s or younger.
It's another good idea in theory, but the implementation is being controlled and kneecapped by a party/administration that wants it dead, while throwing up their hands and saying "not our faults". A good idea with a bad implementation is in the end just another bad implementation, forget every word before "bad". Good intentions were claimed but they have no basis in fact. The GOP as a whole is corrupt to its core.
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Is there a specific issue you have with this proof? With respect, I think you may be conflating a constructive proof of the uncountability of the reals with a proof that the set of all computable reals is countable. These are two different claims.

A statement about the reals which is provable under constructive mathematics does not reduce to a statement about the computable reals and vice versa. A set can be constructively definable without all of its elements being constructively enumerable.
They're making an HBO show for it too by the creator of Chernobyl. It's a fantastic story and I'm glad more people will experience it.

The sequel just came out as well. Without saying too much, it was "controversial" to a lot of people seemingly aligned with bigotry but I thought it was amazing.

To others:
If this were reddit, the mere mention of the game would spark outrage. I'm not sure if that will happen here but I see an alarming amount of hate speech here these days so I'll just say - I'm not accusing literally everyone who hated the game of being a bigot, but there sure were a lot of them.
That petition never made any sense anyway. It's basically saying "Make sure no minorities are ever on product labels. Only white males."
You can read more about the project here https://towardsdatascience.com/grpc-for-production-go-2f62f3...
The idea that we are living in a simulation hosted by our human descendants strikes me as satanic.

On the other hand, are we in a "simulation" carried out in the mind of God? If we were, would it be a distinction without a meaningful difference?
Correlation doesn't prove causation though.

From the article linked:

> Alternate explanations for the effects of T. gondii on humans cannot be ruled out. It is possible, eg, that individuals with certain personality characteristics behave in a manner that makes it more likely that they will become infected.
If voting is effectively curtailed, everything else is moot. This election is a referendum on (American) democracy.
Holy cow. This feels so surreal. I don't think things will stop feeling this way, and I don't really want them too.

I still can't believe the moon landing was only fifty years ago.
I’ve been very impressed with the engineering accomplishments of his companies, and it seems he has been involved in some of that work.

I was very disappointed however to hear that he openly supports the military coup in Bolivia against the democratically elected leader Evo Morales. The right wing Christian government that replaced him gave immunity to the military who then killed protesters in the wake of the illegal government takeover.

And Musk tweeted “we will coup whoever we want” when asked directly about this. Pretty disgusting that he would have such a disregard for the democratic wills of the people of a sovereign nation.

My father was an electrical engineer at Lockheed Martin who worked on rocket guidance systems out of college at Vandenburg Air Force Base. I grew up with a great love for rockets and space exploration. I really appreciate what SpaceX has done. But I am extremely disappointed that Elon is promoting the violent takeover of a democratic country.

https://www.laprogressive.com/overthrow-of-democracy-in-boli...
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And this is indeed the optimal form of listing these "laws". Because that's what that site really is. A list of 20 sentences.
Hats off to you for putting in work at SpaceX and NASA to advance humanity. The work you do is more valuable then any of us can begin to comprehend until we're much older, wiser, and a multi-planetary species.
What’s honestly wrong with that? If I owned a boat in the area, I would have though to cruise out take a look. What exactly would be the problem?
Your definition is completely arbitrary.

So if Sony approves a non-gaming app suddenly their entire platform switches to critical infrastructure and must be opened up ?

And companies like Shopify run digital app stores. By what definition is their platform important and critical infrastructure ?
This is not exactly correct.

A single virus probably can cause infection, but it appears not to be anywhere near a linear correlation between dose and risk. And severity can be tied to initial dose, too.

This is one interesting thing about masks: they may do more to improve prognosis than reduce infection.

Further, when we're talking about ... e.g virus on cardboard... the way you do the test is after the droplet on the cardboard has dried, you use a buffer to dissolve the virus back out of the cardboard and see if you can grow it in culture. This may recover virus in cases where there's absolutely no chance for casual contact to get it out.
Is there a good reason to learn ReasonML instead of OCaml these days, or should I just learn OCaml + js_of_ocaml?

I'm interested in building web apps, web servers, and simple WebSocket servers. OCaml appeals to me because it has more escape hatches than Haskell and is higher level than Rust, but I've always found the ReasonML vs OCaml story confusing.
I bought a DX. It's still a wonderful machine. I worry when the battery fails and it'll be gone for good.
I'm not arguing legality.

I'm saying this sounds like folly.
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Toxoplasmosis is a chronic infection that is never fully cleared from the body. There is some evidence that the length of the infection correlates with strength of symptoms.