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To be fair, they disabled the Steam store page when the game moved to closed Beta because they are porting it.

http://lodgame.com/news/16-04-29-01/

http://lodgame.com/16-11-01-state-of-play/

The Steam page is still over here.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/266620/allnews/

You may not like him or his games, but at least he's still making games and he has people buying them. So I don't quite know why you have a problem with that when he has made so many games for a very long time now.

As to Star Citizen, well he has been right so far hasn't he? Didn't he say five years ago in July 2015 (I don't have the blog link, but go to his website at www.dereksmart.com) said the game could never be made? At the time they had raised about $85 million. It's not over $300 million and there is still no game. Even with almost $100m in additional investor money.
I think Apple will be fine if it's forced to allow non-app store payments, Google seems to be doing fine
I don't like that the handing of COVID has turned into a partisan issue. Putting emphasis on death risks has become an equivalent of Democrat virtue signalling, while focusing on the economic factors is almost solely viewed as support for Republicans.

Wake up, people, that's not how you solve problems. What we need is a good, high-quality debate, and a way to quantify and compare costs and benefits from both sides. We need mortality numbers for different age groups from different independent sources. We need research on mental health effects of lockdown and pulling kids away from school. Anecdotally, I have a 6-year-old son, who got noticeably distressed after the school went online-only during his Kindergarten. I am not worried about his academic success (he's doing Grade 2 workbooks at home), but the lack of social interaction is certainly freaking him out. Except, I don't know the real numbers. In fact, nobody does, because there is too so much focus on political stand-offs instead. It's hurting both sides, really.

It's like with Hydroxychloroquine. Ever since Trump endorsed it, the republican media is proclaiming it to be The Cure (with people literally considering it for prophylactic (sic!)), while the democrat sources are censoring videos and avoiding the topic, because the paper stating its benefits used weak methodology. And again, your stance on HCQ is used as a proxy for your political orientation, rather than an honest professional opinion. All that instead instead of an actual unbiased research aimed at discovering cases and circumstances where it could work. And a proper debate between medical professionals on risks and possible advantages.
Exactly we want them to have more money. That is the reason. We just love fortnight so much that epic receiving more money is our greatest dream.
What you said makes no sense whatsoever.

A platform that filters will remove things, unless your speaking from the pulpit of “the algorithm”.
I agree that you gain a lot from having Apple involved in quality control, but I am not sure I agree that 30% of all in app transactions is fair. Especially when they've already started playing fast and loose with Amazon Prime Video.
It could’ve been easily also pre-rendered not that it would take too long to render this but since they knew when they’ll pull this stunt and they knew that Apple would kick them off the store the same day or the next they could’ve had a few pre-rendered versions with the possible dates ready for upload.
It could, but we have a lot of data on those diseases and typically a weakened or reduced dose live virus shot has a known outcome with some outliers where the shot leads to the disease or something worse in the relatively short term.

For COVID-19 we are still guessing at most of this, hopefully the long term effects are not too bad and those effects of contracting the disease will get reduced over time.

But I would definitely not rule out some shocker long term effect at this stage that we are unaware of, especially not when taking into account developing organisms such as children, where effects can stay hidden for a long time.
Developing a trust accounting application for law firms in Drogon. It's an excellent framework written in Modern C++. Very easy to work with. Check out the Source code on git, it is beautifully written. If you are proficient in Modern C++, then this is the framework to use for speedy development. Just as an aside, I migrated the project from Go to C++.
Leaded petrol was a major concern in such directives. Roadside ag along major highways was restricted as a consequence.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...
> How can you like him?

Consider that all major US media outlets are driven by ad-spend, which is in term driven by views. Views are driven by outrage. Trump is a great target for outrage. The media love to hate him. He loves to let them hate him.

If you turn off the news, the country is in general humming along just fine. Stock market is doing great. No new wars. Finally doing something to address major trade imbalances with China.

If you listen to the news, everyone and their mother is dying in the streets of coronavirus. In reality, roughly 1-3% of the population has even caught the virus. Deaths are way down from March/April.

For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great.
I wonder if this is a right analogy. Imagine two cars one going fast, one slow. If driver of the fast car steps on the break harder than the driver of the slow car, he will stop faster. The temperature difference is similar to how fast you step on the break.
Well the unfair part is what is being discussed. So ignoring that would be ignoring the whole point of this.
IIRC the idea behind BN reactors is that single such reactor would "burn" waste from 2-3 VVER reactors and recycled by BN fuel would be loaded back to them.

So you would install a number of BNs in Russia and supply recycled fuel back to exported reactors. Not only you will save money on fuel (well, assuming nuclear fuel will cost more than it does today), but also will reduce amount of nuclear waste for long-term storage (today most of waste from exported reactors has to come back to Russia).
Sony abuses customers directly. No multiplayer without buying some dopey service, weird cross platform restrictions, etc.

Apple wields it’s power indirectly, leading to the AppCasino and lousy UX.

Google pulls you in and monetizes you.

All of these companies do similar things in different ways.
Not only that, they have the majority of app store purchases.

And there is also the fact that the government doesn't classify a trust[1] by the dictionary definition of monopoly:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
I'll add in https://choosealicense.com/appendix/ as a place where it would be nice for Parity License to be documented for comparison reasons.
I feel like making Apple devices and Apple's store seem like two separate things doesn't really make sense. The whole entire phone top to bottom is Apple's store. The "App Store" is just a pretty downloader.
Great. Get an Android then.
Anecdotal and it sounds more like they have tiny heart syndrome flaring up. Part B, again, it's sexy to "Oh my goodness, my life is so difficult now since I survived covid. Look at me, I'm a covid survivor, my life is so altered." It's all cherry picked cases that the media are throwing out there. Cherry picked anecdotes, something in any other HN topic would get you lambasted.
Rust has barely more of a runtime than C. And if you're not using the standard library, it has the same amount.

Someone was working on a 68k port. I am not sure what its status is today.

PIC24 should be totally possible; we have AVR support in nightly now, which is also a 16 bit platform.
Any proper form of crowd funding Mozilla would be a nice thing to do, since they are doing a lot of work for our common good.
I'm sorry but this is just poorly informed. The US is projected to be either near the top, or at the very worst right in the middle, of projections for GDP growth to finish out 2020.

There is a sliding scale here, of course. If we locked everybody in their houses, we could get the covid numbers to 0, but it would also completely destroy our economy, and obviously would result in substantial loss of life due to the effects of poverty. What the US has done instead is to take a hit on covid in service of economics. So far it seems to be working (with regards to GDP, I mean.)
People were pretty worried about this, but so far there isn't any evidence that protests caused spikes in case numbers. Obviously there's a lot about the virus we don't know or can't fully explain, but the prevailing explanation is that the combination of widespread mask usage by protesters, quarantining by would-be protesters who know they've been exposed, and being primarily outdoors prevented transmission.
It's likely that the investors in each company are mostly the same institutions, namely index funds and ETFs issuers. When you have investors that own everything, they don't want the companies to compete.
Wow looks like they came prepared.
Which, to me, is hilarious. How dare they undercut a de-factor monopoly with lower fees for game publishers?!
Is clicking allow when it asks to access your documents folder that crazy? Is that really a hoop not worth jumping through? Those prompts show up after a clean install and on occasion when you install a new app. Those same prompts prevent you from giving ransomware access to your whole FS.
And now they've taken that one step further and insist that if you accept payment anywhere outside of iOS, you are forced to accept payment on device as well, in order for Apple to get access to your market.

For things like games where you're buying "5 more rings" or a "hat for your virtual pet" ok fine -- but for something where you're offering a subscription service to physical therapists where their subscription buys them things in the real world, this is completely unreasonable.

We were forced to "include" this functionality in the app or Apple threatened to remove it, so we did and just made it impossible to find.
The way the gamer community vilified Epic regarding the Epic Game Store when it was only doing what Steam and existing publishers (re: exclusives) were already doing blew my mind.

It was and is really quite silly.
How is that? Everyone who isn't invested in the project is calling it a scam. Heck, even Forbes had a lengthy article about that a few months ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-...

So you're saying because it's still in dev and still raising money, so it's not a scam?
Biden and Harris have done more for mass incarceration than anyone else. Which makes their selection by the Democrat party in today's "defund the police" narrative the funniest thing to happen in politics since Howard Dean's scream.
The "incredible" part is the access to Apple customer base.
I don't think that's true. Almost no one is complaining about Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo's "monopolies" on what software runs on their video game consoles.

The big differentiator is that phones have become the most frequently used personal computing device for many people, and we expect the freedom to use it how we want.
yes faster. but not earlier.
"Thermal inertia" is more formally known as specific heat capacity or volumetric heat capacity, which is a substance's resistance to change in temperature.

It's similar to (but different from) mechanical inertia, which is an object's resistance to change in velocity.

The latter includes the concept of momentum, that an object with nonzero velocity resists changing it's velocity. There is no such thing as thermal momentum, remove the temperature differential and a thermally uniform substance that's changing temperature at 10 degrees per second will stop getting colder instantly. For related reasons, there's no overshoot when you reach equilibrium, either.
>assure you the rest of the world is getting tired as well. But at the end of the day, this isn't my problem to solve. It's Israel's. Eventually, the world will get tired enough to act. It has in the past.

It is literally the least important it's ever been in terms of the world's priority. What other people do you suggest will act? This deal is about Israel normalizing relations with one of the countries that has pushed and paid for the conflict for some time. This sounds like tough talk divorced from reality.

>The reason it isn't a crisis for the rest of the world

Is because it's a low intensity conflict that is expensive to deal with and nobody has a solution that makes sense to both sides.

Banking on the collapse of America to push Israel is funny but not realistic. This peace agreement is exactly because of fear of another obama style middle East policy. This is the UAE and Israel getting together to make sure they can counter whatever nonsense a democrat with Obama leanings starts to pull.

Everyone remembers the Iran deal and Obama's actions in the un at the end of his last term. I promise you people in Israel are as capable of planning as you are, and aren't relying on the fall of the us.

Declared unsustainable but still no solution from you - which is the same reason people with your opinion can't get elected in Israel. Israel is much more sustainable than Gaza but trying to go in to clean out Hamas is not sustainabkr. There are a lot more issues of sustainability than you seem to consider because you aren't considering real world geopolitics
What has worked in other countries, namely Australia, is MVNOs. The government is considering mandating telecom companies to give MVNOs access to their network, like they mandate cable and internet companies, but it is unlikely such a decision would be made anytime soon. Australia is truly a success story. I wouldn't mind if Canada's telecom landscape becomes more similar to Australia's.
in the end i think apple relents and opens the app store in order to keep subscription revenue from music, tv, etc., because all of these high profile attacks are basically death by a thousand cuts. In the end everyone loses but the lawyers.
They mostly prevent jail breaking because the same processes that jailbreak a phone can often be used to hack peoples phones because they’re security loopholes.
And a lot of adults were similarly disappointed. I mean, aside from the whole possible loss of livelihood and disruption to earning potential thing... I’ve seen adults who were really looking forward to these things that didn’t pan out as planned thanks to COVID:

- professional conferences
- sport games
- concerts
- school reunions
- weddings
- grieving death of elder together with family
- baby showers
- travel/vacations
- birthday parties
- having friends over for support while stuck at home with a newborn (editors note: it me)

It’s been hard of everybody. Maybe this is my perspective from having grown up in poverty/underclass talking- but I don’t get this hand wringing over how hard this is for children in particular.
> if it were easy (or even possible) for the community to build an alternative device but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

One of the main roadblocks is intellectual property law. If IP didn't exist, there would be all sorts of iPhone clones with modified versions of iOS.

I'm OK with closed source software being legal, prohibiting closed source would be tyrannical. What I'm not OK is with software patents, copyright, anti-hardware-hacking laws, etc.
Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process
Easy now, don't give them any ideas
Graphics card drivers is a solved problem. Intel/AMD "just work". Nvidia works okay-ish if you don't mind closed source drivers and unless it's a card nvidia has dropped support for. In both cases, switching to Windows is not an improvement: all the bad parts of nvidia on Linux also apply to Nvidia on Windows.

HiDPI is mostly fine, with the exception of mixing high dpi in xorg. Mixing DPI works in wayland. So I'll grant you that the combination of nvidia+mixing DPI doesn't work, because nvidia's drivers don't support wayland.

Otherwise I strongly disagree, and I'm genuinely confused as to why this myth persists. Wrangling drivers on windows is a huge pain. There's no one "update" button I can press to update all my drivers, let alone all my other software. I have to go through the driver manager and manually right click and select "update driver" which frankly nuts. And to update the graphics card I have to periodically go to nvidia's website and check manually? What year is it again? Why doesn't Windows do this for me?
Woah, seriously? If this is true, that is truly anti-competitive. Apple would be basically trying to pass off the competitive disadvantage a 30% cut costs by passing it onto the developers.
This is basically what happened to Android as they moved an increasing number of essential features to Play Services.
Simply not true. What is your source?
1. Epic violated Apple's ToS (apparently intentionally, to start a legal battle that they want to have right now due to EU investigations into abuse of monopoly power by large tech companies like Apple and Google)

2. Apple has to enforce their ToS (there is legal precedent that if you don't enforce your own rules, then you don't care about them - so it's a good idea to follow your own rules) so they had to boot Fortnite from the App store

The big deal is that this might trigger significant legal judgements that may determine what tech giants can or cannot do on their platforms.
The problem these guys seem to have is that it was him who first blew the whistle. So they their dislike of him as an excuse.
Palemoon looks pretty good. May give that a shot, thanks.
It's enforced through visibility / rankings in Google Search results.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/about-amp

Isn't there a term for using dominance in one market to compel behavior in another?
I went ahead and created a very simple yet effective excel sheet based on the blog.
https://github.com/amar-laksh/FBM/blob/master/FBM.xlsx
there's other forces at work with the rush to open schools than just covid19. Keep in mind, extended unemployment is expiring as well as a number of other emergency programs. School is the only place where many kids get a semi-square meal regularly. For many kids it's also a much safer environment than not school.
The year of Linux on the Desktop probably would have actually happened.

But that's really not the right comparison. It would be more like back in the pre-clone era IBM taking a cut of everything that ran on a PC. They might have even gotten away with it had the courts gone the other way on the BIOS copyright lawsuit. Probably would have set personal computing back for years.
The Foreward to Michael Cohen's New Book
I highly doubt they’d do this in the first place, but even if they did, iOS developers would still be using Macs.
>as you could (at least in theory, probably in practice too) sell other hardware to run ios/macos, or resell legally obtained, and modified software without Apple restrictions.

This wasn't true when Apple was a small fry so why would it be true when they are the largest US phone maker?
How can this thought persist in a world where everyone is supposedly more tech savvy than ever?

Seems like those that wish to use Apple (consumers, Epic) should either deal with the consequences, beg the government for help, or build their own open standard.

For me I lean towards building the open standard and teaching people how to use it. The App Store is for the lazy.
This is the first week in two months that there have been fewer than a million new unemployment applications. There are a million jobs and 40,000,000 unemployed. Evictions are starting, and noon to night in courthouses across the country it's people losing their housing, probably forever. But Bezos is doing all right, he's up a few billion so he'll let it ride. And Congress must agree, because they're taking a break until Labor Day.

Reform what? What's left to reform?
I can confirm we do.
Sorry to hijack but an outrageous example from Google: Chrome silently & automatically detects when you login to a google website and uses this to log you into Chrome with that same account. They then hide the option to disable this in advanced settings. They are now trying to create a monopoly in the browser and steal additional data.
can you imagine the same argument but on a computer?

you buy a macbook and now you can't install ANY software that is not on the macOS appstore. oh! and you can't install a different OS.

would you accept that? what's the difference?
Monique Hanotte: The teenage Belgian spy who walked 140 airmen to freedom
> There isn't an iPhone industry

Of course there is. You can argue that it shouldn't be the deciding factor here, but you can't argue it doesn't exist at all.

iOS is basically a geographical region. It's like saying there isn't a California market because it's instead the US market. Or that you can't be considered a monopoly because people can move. Yes, they can, but there's significant burdens to that movement. And it turns out that burden was enough to consider things like utilities to be monopolies. Is the burden on switching between Android & iOS high enough to be considered a barrier to free competition? I'd say yes, it is. As such, iOS is its own market in which Apple is abusing monopoly position.
On what grounds are you demanding that Apple sell the product that you want to buy?

They sell products. Those products have well-known rules. If you don't like the rules, don't buy the product.
I think everyone is just assuming that Epic will win. I don't think that's the most likely scenario. The US is a very different legal and social environment than it was 30 years ago. More likely it's going to set a precedent that device makers can do exactly the things that Apple is doing, and more than that, they'll become the norm and you can kiss any "open" hardware platforms goodbye.
Nope - setting up an iCloud account is filling in a username and password. Your approach doesn’t even come close to being anywhere near that easy.
I agree with these (hopefully not incorrectly) restated things I think you believe:

* It is more likely that MMR has few significant long-term health effects than if COVID-19 does

* COVID-19 effects are unlikely to be binary outcome

* Effects need not be universal for them to affect parental behaviour

However, none of that agreement is important to the discussion I was hoping to have. My comment was solely on the epistemology. I suspect you also use the same methods I was talking about in my previous comment.

If that is the case, then perhaps some other day we can argue about what the priors are. If we're good about it, we'll end up with the Aumann Agreement Theorem (+ corollaries) result, and rapidly agree (through likely both of us shifting our priors as we exchange information).

I think we have no disagreement and am happy to conclude this here.
The threshold the US government uses for market share is typically 50%, along with exclusionary conduct.
Fuck AMP. The fact that there is no way to turn it off is one of the main reasons I don't use Google on my phone. DDG often has slightly poorer results, but I often find answers to my questions in Reddit threads and Reddit has a horrible mobile experience. Between AMP and them throwing 15 different popups at me to get their app (why would I want their single tab app?!?!), it's borderline unusable.
You've touched on exactly what worries me most about the Trump era. Somehow, unnecessary combativeness and flamboyant disagreement has come to be valued in and of itself. As if somehow anyone wins by acting childishly.