skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
58% is enough to clear a 50% threshold.

I didn't say that 58% immediately means monopoly: it doesn't necessarily mean it's a monopoly, but it can mean it. I was correcting the OP who claimed that "Apple isn't even close to a majority in any markets!" In fact, Apple is a majority — and a sizable one — in the market US courts care most about: the US market.

It's probably a monopoly for a variety of reasons, including its majority market power — which as you point out is typically one of the necessary (but not sufficient) markers of monopoly — as other commenters have pointed out; e.g. its exclusionary conduct such as banning XCloud, Fortnite, etc.
ehh, but this is kind of like blaming the results on hitting concrete vs hitting a cornfield. Yes, you might have a slightly less bad time hitting the cornfield, but the height of the drop is the more determining factor.
Over the top cynicism doesn't help. Biden isn't the second coming of Jesus, but to suggest he and Trump are the same kind of politician as Trump, or that his cabinet and appointees will be of the same kind as Trump's, is insanity. Trump is the first president we've had who behaves as he does. Nixon, who wasn't nearly as corrupt, felt compelled to resign because he thought the Republicans of his time wouldn't back him up. Things have changed. And if they change for the worse they can also change for the better.

Democrats (and Republicans) are domestic terror groups? Was Obama a terrorist by your estimation? Carter? And the cure for this is a military coup? When has that ever worked?

False equivalency and hyperbole ensure things don't get better.
Epic just want more profits, making things very inconvenient for users but having to sign up for their own payment processing. Once they got enough users on the platform they want to cut Apple out.
That’s exactly what Epic is trying to do. Their point is that the cut is too big, yet Apple refuses to negotiate.
People often accept restrictions on their freedom, but that does not mean those limitations aren't harmful.

We should be able to install what we want on a general purpose computing device. You can already see the Apple mentality creeping into other companies like Mozilla, who suddenly find it acceptable to limit user freedom for questionable reasons, and the normalization of stripped user liberties that Apple champions is worrying.
HN is a site populated largely by people with the exact skills necessary to make something like this, solo, in a relatively short time frame. I see absolutely nothing that would lead me to believe it’s anything but one individual’s project that they happen to be passionate about.

I first saw it a couple of days ago and realized that if that domain was available, others would be. They were - I ended up with a half dozen or so great domains relevant to this election and am in the process of putting together a series of sites targeted to specific aspects of the candidates’ publicly espoused beliefs and actions. The hardest part is writing content in a way that is reasonably objective and with proper sources. Actually building the sites will be fairly trivial - grab a template, some of already available photographs of the candidates (it falls under parody, so it’s “fair use” under US law), and toss it all up on a cheap cloud host.
You're right that the fear should not be death.

> According to Makenbach, there are two main issues in dealing with the coronavirus. The first is to what extent this disease, which mainly affects the elderly, should be allowed to damage younger generations who are losing their jobs and falling behind in education, he said. And the second is to what extent the virus and measures against it should be allowed to further increase inequality. Socio-economically vulnerable people are more likely to become seriously ill, and also most disproportionately affected by drastic anti-coronavirus measures, Makenbach said.

https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/06/netherlands-dealing-coronaviru...
Epic could distribute the game themselves easily, if you don't remember they have their own videogame store in PC.

They do the same on Android.
From what I have read of his philosophies I can imagine the reasons Stallman might not use a browser -- and I think that is an oft-repeated, old, unsubstantiated rumour. I would be he uses one. The reasons I prefer the command line to an over-sized, slow, graphical program are different. I was introduced to computers in the VAX era, not the Javascript era.

Curious if those SO mirrors did not show cruft like "Hot Network Questions" on every page, would you use them instead of relying on an ad blocker.
I assume "invented" is tongue in cheek. A more accurate word might be "predicted".
It has a non-zero Vit-D but watch out for mercury.
>That's great. You should have that choice. But it should be a choice.

The choice is Android - the platform used by some 80 percent of software users. I don't see the argument for regulatory actions, when consumers can (and do) easily choose to use other mobile platforms, if they don't like the terms of the iOS App Store.

If consumers want to be in the walled garden, great, they should be free to make that decision. If they don't want the walled garden, then great, they're free to pick other platforms. I don't see why the government should force this option upon consumers.

This situation isn't like Microsoft Windows in the 90s, where consumers effectively had no choice but to use Windows.
So the operating system?
I am not defending closed platforms, but technically, you are free to jailbreak your phone, they're just not obligated to provide any support after that, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Legality
> The fact is that the virus inhabits the lungs, and damages tissue as it replicates. Just because someone isn't having an acute symptomatic response doesn't mean that there couldn't be long term effects from infection

If this is the way to treat with life, how would you be still alive? Isn’t it the very reason we get ill because the body is treating the virus.

Do you have any source to believe that asymptomatic infected person has long term negative effects from infection?
In the filing Epic tries to define an "iOS App Distribution Market" and an "iOS In-App Payment Processing Market". The suit will probably turn on whether the court accepts those definitions or not.
Apple’s property?

This computer in my hand is mine, that argument works if you’re building your business on top of somebody else’s SaaS or social network, even then it has limitations.
Who is going to paye for app distribution, app review, search, hosting infrastructure and all the other critical features developers and consumers need?
I agree with this sentiment... But I wonder if Apple considers iPhones to be general purpose computing devices, or even wants them to be. They're not marketed that way, likely most users are uninterested in using an iPhone this way.

A separate concern is around anticompetitive behavior. There is no way to sideload an app, or even use a competing app store, and Apple is charging rent. This is pretty clearly anticompetitive behavior that harms consumers.
But you don't /really/ have a choice. Once you've dumped more than a few hundred bucks into the ecosystem (or in some friend's cases, thousands) you literally must throw that away to use a different store. You cannot say: "Oh, I'm not going to the Apple store today, I'm going to use the Microsoft one." There's no competition, nor opportunity for competition. The broader smartphone app markets do not compete.
This is extra-disappointing because Oregon has previously successfully gotten Facebook to cooperate when planning its large infrastructure projects. The Prineville facility was designed with local environmental and labor concerns in mind, but this coastal venture looks disastrous.
They would if they could get away with it. Look at telemetry and the general disrespect for users’ privacy preferences.
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You are ignoring the point about how content farm adcram jibberish regularly beats out actual good content, SEO wise.

Not new cutting edge ideas that have passed your old ideas by, and Google is doing the world a favour.

A pile of garbage.
Totally! I'm really worried what'll happen when these docker images I made get deleted. Dockerhub doesn't give you ANY details beyond the download number (which stops at 10k+) so I can't tell if they're still getting used or what.

I'm hopeful they'll add statistics/refers when this goes live.
>I definitely don't want to see more stores or payment methods for digital goods on my i-devices.

Why don't you not use it or go elsewhere then? Everyone who uses iPhone to play games just got told to switch to Android. It's easy to switch!
I simplified a lot obviously but an organizational can last years and years before seeing the effects of reputation pressure. And above applies fine even if $Z > $X modulo nitpicking.
> How is this different from having a repository of queries somewhere - this is basically a query repository but not in the active language in fact.

Looks like they do fancy stuff like template substitution &etc instead of just opening a text file and feeding it to the sql engine.

I was looking at it and thinking "why not just use jinga?" but then you wouldn't get the 'query manager' object and name spacing (and probably other features I've missed).

It actually seems a fairly good way to mix languages, I haven't looked at the code to see what they're really up to but I like the concept.
Interesting how quickly this gained traction today, and how some of the initial reports came from sites with direct ties to Tencent subsidiaries.

Oh, Tencent has a large stake in Epic? Who knew.
Apple's, basically. That's OK. Let Apple screw people. It's a good opportunity for competition to develop. Or we can regulate Apple and competition won't develop.
What I'd like to happen and what the law supports aren't always in sync.
How does regenerative breaking work?
Nope. A company doesn't need 100% market share to count as a monopoly under US law. The threshold for market share is typically 50%, along with exclusionary conduct.

I also, by the way, didn't use the word "monopoly" (although I think Apple is one with iOS): I used the word "majority." So I'm not sure where your comment claiming that I confused "mono" and "majority" is even coming from.
The 20% is temporary incentive to get away from iOS’s 30% it’s all about them lineing their own pockets
I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid

Perhaps people are simply desensitized to kids catching colds & flus? My kid probably brought home twenty different novel coronaviruses, all before his second birthday.
Aren’t bins intentionally left unlocked (or rather most dumpsters don’t even have a lock) on the streets so that whoever willing to take away their contents is able to? As far as the business is concerned they don’t care who takes their trash as long as it does get taken away.
Hey, thank you so much for your reply.

My message wasn't meant to dismiss quay, I hope it didn't come across like that.

I'll be giving a look at what's repo in during my vacation... I haven't loaded that many images on my private harbor registry, it might still make sense to switch :)

Edit: I just realized that the bug bash ends tomorrow... :/
I said

>What its marketed as and who it is aimed at.

I am not sure I can make my position any clearer than that. It's not an item in a spec sheet. It's what you're claiming to be selling.
CO2 and VOC trend to be less problematic, though my sensor does pick up some 200 PPB VOC sometimes indoors in a relatively new building with adaptive energy saving ventilation system. Outdoors is below 40 PPB or better, near busy street some 120 PPB.
> I wish there was more conversation happening about other countries who have already successfully put kids back at school.

> That might give confidence to people in North America who feel uncertain about it.

This is like trying to give someone confidence to jump out of a plane without a parachute by talking about all the people who've safely jumped out of planes with parachutes. It's BS: the situations are different, so the examples don't apply.

Step 1 of opening us schools in the US is implementing policy to get to the (lower) infection rates of those countries that have been able to safely open up schools. Unfortunately, there are US political factions that just want to skip that step and go straight to the end of the plan.
Walmart is tough on terms but meets obligations. I worked on a farm in high school that sold would sell them Fall stuff — pumpkins, cornstalks, etc.

They would pay net-10, which was unheard of, most of their big buyers habitually paid late. The local grocery chain would pay 60-90 days late on a 30 day invoice. The cash in hand was worth sometimes losing a little money.
Simple: You use ELPA or MELPA Stable, and if necessary clone the repo and install the package via M-x package-install-file.
> My opinion is that it's not even close. Not by a long shot.

at last we agree. That's your opinion and nothing else. you also seem to confuse/conflate fashion with fast fashion. It seems just as fair and interestined as conflating movie making with the worst money grabbing by the numbers movie ever made.
Yes the choice is not to buy Apple, there are plenty of android phones which are just as good spec wise and cheaper.

Also pleas don’t make this about “poor people” the devs might make less money but the consumer pays the same price other than for the devices themselves which while well worth the money since they are per year cheaper than android devices that lose support faster than the next model comes out are still luxury items.

The screen that offers an alternative which I assume is the same “allow apps to be loaded form untrusted sources” as android has, would definitely have an impact on me as it would undermine the security model of the device I’m using.
Americans prize party loyalty over democratic principles
Point still stands. In the U.S. our ambulances are equipped with remotes to trigger light changes to improve speed. The roads are also much wider, with bigger shoulders that are less dense, etc. This is a very dubious claim, to be able to achieve 50% faster response times in the U.S., an ambulance would have to on average travel twice as fast, which is not necessarily even safe or desirable from present speeds traveled.
The security issues SUSE raised were actually fixed, but the Snap developers did not respond quickly enough with the info that the issues were fixed.

> I'd like to point out that the reason for the closure was not a failure at addressing any of the raised issues, but a failure to reply to either of the requests for a status update in July and September.

https://twitter.com/sysrich/status/1206593475833151488
If you care about the economy, the best thing we (the US) can do is follow the lead of other countries that have gotten this under control with evidence-based measures, and push the government to provide support to those in need, so the economy can bounce back quickly, rather than sliding into depression.
Docker save and docker load- I use this often for air-gapped installations and it works exactly as well as docker pull in my experience.
> Apple does not allow apps to work in background and must rely on push notifications to wake up from sleep

Apple does not allow non-Apple apps...

There are a multitude of cases where Apple apps have different rules, access to different APIs than you or I.

The "correctness" of this (morally/ethically/legally) is a separate debate I'm not entering into, but there is a distinction.
P.S. - You've edited your comment. My comment still stands

I cannot assume that a single person is not proficient in tax regulations in 155 countries around the world?

> Again, Stripe and others offer all of this for a much smaller fee.

I don't know who "others" are, but Stripe definitely doesn't offer that. https://support.stripe.com/questions/charging-sales-tax-gst-...

If you're using Stripe, you need to make sure you charge the correct tax, and it's your own responsibility to report it correctly in the countries that require it.

There are services on top of Stripe that can do that for additional fee (e.g. quaderno.io), but then again, it is worrying that you're not aware of your tax obligations taking worldwide payments via Stripe and also that you're not aware of what Apple provides you for 30%.

Not knowing either is fine, but I'd say both are Stripe's and Apple's faults that you are not aware of this.
You say that but google has literally proven that to not be true.
Where did you get this silly idea? Linux gaming has never been stronger than now, thanks to Steam's Proton.
Don't forget the $100 fee required to even create an app.
No, no, ... Turbo Pascal is what is more portable than C.

Proof: just look at graphics. You just write your graphics code in a platform-independent way and use the correct .BGI file for your graphics hardware.

And it's safe: no pointer arithmetic or void; real array passing. Module system for dependencies. No makefiles needed. No problem of linking a stale object file that didn't get rebuilt due to a missing dependency rule.

Turbo Pascal is the golden future, my friends.
Oh man... That ad was huge... HUGE when it was released. It has its own wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)
Asides from 486 to Pentium III, I've been using AMD since the K7. Intel has been the 800lb gorilla with lots of questionable anti competitive business practices. For the most part Intel already has market dominance and better performance so engaging in such to such underhanded behavior to secure their position doesn't sit well with me.

I'm also an ATi fan and since they merged with AMD it doubles me down on loyalty.

With Ryzen and Vega/Navi it's a lot easier to recommend AMD products. While they might not have the peak absolute performance their value is much better than the other alternatives. Unlike when AMD went with the Bulldozer architecture, I always died a little inside when I had to recommended an Intel Core i3/i5 over AMD's offerings.
Correct, but that's the question: is this a random sample, or do their methods have a selection bias?
My “cloud account“ is on linode and it’s cheaper, less of a hassle, and more feature complete than Microsoft’s/google’s/apple’s offerings.
> No. Not in my experience.

Then your experience comes from somewhere with little concern for security.
'ticks per person/hour' - there's a fun stat!
Yeah, the CDC actually says that COVID-19 is safer for healthy children than the flu now: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
I feel like the 'idea' of the iPhone was in the global zeitgeist for a long while before it was actually made.

As I child, I can remember watching a program called "Beyond 2000". In one particular segment, it showed a newspaper being replaced with a digital screen that you could hold in your hand. That idea -- a screen that you could carry around with you -- seemed to be something we were always working towards.
I’m not sure weaponising a demographic not known for particularly rational responses to things is that good of an idea.
Great question, we start with breast cancer for two reasons:

1. population is big enough for us to perfect our product, 1 in 8 women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their life time, Men will be diagnosed as well.
2. the complexity of breast cancer is less comparing to other types, and there are more very good oncologists in this area as well. Since we are small, we want to maximize the quality of the service with limited resources.

We will expand to other cancer types later on. Many cancer centers actually have a separate breast cancer department, examples in new york city: mount sinai dubin breast center
You can fix their budget issues by removing the burden placed on them in 2006 that they fund their pension obligations for 75 years. No other entity, government or private, labors under this burden, providing for the retirement of employees who are not yet born. They were profitable for the six years before this law was passed, by Bush and the Republicans, and they would have been profitable for the last 6 years had it not been for this law.
> Apple is providing the platform that enables Epic to distribute their game for FREE to a billion+ users. Why shouldn't they take a cut from the in-app purchase monetization?

Then they should charge the developer for install costs + profit, not charge for all transactions happening in the game that have nothing to do with Apple and impose no cost on them. That's retarded.

It's like a landlord taking 30% of sales from the local florist rather than just charging rent. Totally messed up.
Parents can mean 2 parents, parents of certain ideology, from specific country/countries, etc etc
We have to either acknowledge that PCs/Macs were a historical accident (a happy one, IMO), much like the open web of yore, or we have to legislate the shit out of everything that has a general purpose CPU, basically requiring every Turing machine sold to have an officially supported setting to enable running arbitrary code.

It can be off by default, and probably should.

But trying to hair split console from computer from cellphone makes less and less sense everyday and we all know it.
They will lose as the TOS clearly indicates the rules and Epic agreed to them. This is basic contract law. Apple has a massive team of experienced lawyers.
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Epic is showing the commercial on an infinite loop on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1294006412931223552

(Infinite Loop pun not intended)
Emphasis on “sometimes”.
That’s a different problem (which can be addressed by enforcement of other, existing laws) but doesn’t justify making picking up trash illegal.
You can run any code on it already as a developer.
But you don't pay 30% more - if it was the case that devs were allowed to make the iOS in app purchases 30% more than the counterparts, that would be fine (well, not fine, but at least it would give the people options).

Apple has blocked stores from doing so in the past, demanding that the iOS price be the same as outside iOS, effectively taking 30% of developers revenue when bought through the app store.
Brakes are unnecessary even on fossil cars with manual transmission due to engine braking.

The only time you need brakes is keeping still and emergencies.

I just had my 2012 Volt rear brake discs replaced due to corrosion. The discs were almost unused but too corroded to pass inspection.
Actually neither Japan nor Germany have a central govt authority similar to the CDC, and they are far outperforming the US response.
My answer to that is: what about PCs? Of course you're right, and I'm right too (I'd like to think ahah). This is freedom at the cost of security; this trade-off, as in real life, has no simple solution. I certainly don't pretend to have the answer here.
Oh, but the rest of the world can afford a crapple phone just fine. They just are not gullible enough to fall for the iToddler toy phone meme.
It sounds more like removing restrictions than ADDING features. Push notifications already exist but with arbitrary restrictions. They don't have to "build" anything.
I thought it was cool that in the video, the Apple developer agreement (requiring a 30% cut) was faintly placed on the walls.

A nod to the "walled garden" term.
This land was owned by Jordan, not the Palestinians. It was lost by them in 1967 and they lay no claim to it today. Israel has every right to make this land as prosperous as the rest of the country.
The device may be yours but the App Store belongs to Apple. Can you walk into a Walmart and start selling your stuff?
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