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You go to Target looking to buy a Walmart-brand bottle of bleach. Is that anti-competitive?

Heading out but you pick up a few PC games. By the way, Target was paid to put those up on the shelf.

Grab a Sony Playstation gift card. They get a percentage of that as well.

At checkout, you sign up of the Target bank card save 10%. They get a nice initial chunk from that and the bank running that card pays a monthly percent to Target for sending them over their customer.

(don't look into the publishing companies' tactics cause that will send you over the edge)
Valve has been making amazing in-roads into the Linux gaming sector with Proton.
I'll reiterate:

I've already stated, the market decides to buy iPhones understanding (even appreciating) that the user cannot side-load non-Apple approved apps (other than through a less trusted channel i.e. the browser). As such the market through demand, has decided there is a niche ecosystem where 30% fees for in app purchases are appropriate and fair.

Why is this market dynamic an issue given there are so many games and tons of competition on and off iOS?
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Wouldn't you expect long-term side effects from hospitalization that likely involved a ventilator and sedation? Not an expert here. Maybe someone else can chime in?
To your first assumption...

It seems unlikely that anything can be subdivided, repeatedly, into arbitrarily many groups by arbitrary criteria whereby comparing all possible groups (i.e. comparing the non-empty members of the powerset) yields statistically insignificant differences for all discernable moments.

Unless the thing is truly homogeneous. Which people are certainly not. For example, I clearly have less than average tact.
Lisp implementations using C means that the implementations may have C-related vulnerabilities, not Lisp programs themselves. You're not facing the risk of creating new C-related vulnerabilities by writing new application code in Lisp, even if the Lisp you're using has substantial amounts of the run-time written in C.
What are they doing besides the payment processing APIs for IAPs?
Sunglasses block much more than 30% though. And can have a mirrored surface so others can't see your eyes, or your creepy app notifications :)
Google Kicks Fortnite Off from play store
I'd be curious if there were any science outreach programs for kids and adults that were made available to the people in Puerto Rico...
Docker is the most major example I can think of of something that only runs on Linux.
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Tourism is only about 5-7% of Puerto Rico's economy. The majority is pharmaceutical manufacturing and services. It's true there is a lot of corruption. Colonialism seems to select for opportunistic and unprincipled public servants. If you want to learn about the island, I recommend you read War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis. It does a good job of summarizing Puerto Rico's history with the United States. Best of luck.
There’s more than one comment here about competition and I’m curious how they compare because the article seems to write them off:

> Like electric cars, they enjoyed a brief vogue in the early 20th century. And likewise they were never considered viable for “real” boating until quite recently.

…

> And in fact there are a few competitors, but they tend to be even more niche or piecemeal jobs, mating an electric engine to an existing hull and saying it’s an electric boat that goes 50 knots. And it does — for five or 10 minutes. Or there are custom boat builders who will create something quite nice for a Zin-type customer — head on over to Monte Carlo and buy one at auction for a couple million bucks.

> Zin sees his boat as the first one to check every box and a few that weren’t there before.
The Hyperloop car proposals all seem substantially longer than a Tesla, so maybe of you stacked two or three layers in there.
Those suggestions would probably be better if everyone building a website had infinite man power. But in the real world adoption is going to suffer if you have to make a separate document for web, print, a11y, etc. Then someone will say "Why don't we have a unified markup language that we can use to produce each of these documents for us?" And then XSLT will be invented. And what a mess we've made.
Cars are extremely complicated; boats are much simpler because the production volumes simply do not support such complexity. That said, an electric boat is subject to a great deal of corrosion and other problems; I personally know of two electric boats which have caught fire and sustained significant damage.
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Do they break out specific App Store revenues and costs somewhere? I see Net sales for "services" (which presumably includes App Store) at $13.1B last quarter and the cost of sales for "services" at $4.3B.

If that was entirely off the 30% App store cut, they clearly would not need anywhere near the 30% to cover their costs (net sales are >3x cost of sales). But, lumped together with other services its hard to say anything specific about App store.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/FY20-Q3_Consolidated_Fin...
Maybe. 60 years is a long opportunity for memories to shift their details while retaining the main thrust. Try skimming the book, perhaps other scenes and characters will feel familiar; skimming my own copy certainly did for me.
Was going to post the same. If I were going to get an electric boat, right now it'd be a Candela. They also make microadjustments to the foils while cruising, which is a cool innovation.
Posting like this is explicitly against the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules, we'd be grateful.
Where do you get the information that "suffer forever or die" is the fat part of it? In my anecdotal acquaintances none of the 5 cases I know of (2 with mild hospitalizations of just over a week) fall under that "fat" part of the curve
I don't need fewer ways to escape from Hacker News.
Yes because taking bad drugs which you can’t know that they are bad without multimillion dollar drug trials and stopping a corporation from polluting is the equivalent of typing in a url bar to choose an alternate search engine or choosing an alternate phone.

Are you really saying that Google doesn’t have the capital or reach to better market the “openness” of Android?
Outgoing?

Here in real life, off the internet in a swing state, 100% of the people I know have become Trump supporters. Opinions on his response to the viral pandemic include "fine", "irrelevant because not his problem", and "who cares". Opinions on his environmental and climate policy are uniformly "more please" and "crank it to 11".

The only dip in popularity came with the bump stock ban. That really ticked people off.
I can't see any implication from that position with respect to E2EE except that these platforms shouldn't be allowed to have it.
Failing to make the distinction among a general audience always implies that all that exists is a choice: to be or not to be postmodern. It implies that the individual's own subjectivity is replaceable as a meta function of their same subjectivity.
Rocket should _soon_ not need nightly, but the documentation for currently available releases from github states that it still does[1]. (The compiler is ready, but the code/cargo.toml hasn't yet caught up)

[1]https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/getting-started/#installing-rus...
> You are completely wrong.

Not really. Not being allowed to host on the Google Play Store does not mean not being allowed to install the app on an Android.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/3/17645982/epic-games-fortni...
It's important to record that a decision was arbitrary, if it was.

For example, my father was in a meeting (snoring, as was his right as the longest serving member of the organization) when he overheard someone say, "We shouldn't change that, it's probably done that way for an important reason." Luckily, he woke up and interjected, "No, I picked that arbitrarily 30 years ago. Go ahead and change it." It'd have been better if he had written down the rationale, but don't judge. He wrote down plenty over the years.
Exactly! The example just describes a cartel of companies that have an understanding of non-competition. If it was a truly competitive the prices, features and offers would always be better to attract customers all the time.

While 30% is steep I don’t think Apple is at fault here. You wanna be able to use their carefully constructed walled garden with security protections, servers, payment system and users? You have to pay to play.
Fortnite is probably the most profitable mobile app out there and Apple's negotiating position is, effectively, "Fuck you, pay me!". So Epic turns to Apple's main competitor in Google. Google's negotiating position is, effectively, "Fuck you, pay me!". That's clear and convincing evidence that the app market is fundamentally broken.

If Microsoft was playing hardball with Rockstar over the next version of GTA, as an example, Sony would be falling over themselves rushing to get it as a PlayStation exclusive. The console market and app market just aren't comparable.
The larger the vehicle, the more problematic. We need small, rightly sized vehicles. Commuters to office jobs don't need maxed out hardcore trucks, and allowing super old/polluting heavy duty trucks to spew garbage onto our communities is sad. We should make it easy and cheaper to switch a very dirty vehicle for a clean vehicle. Carbon taxes are nice for the long term, but we also need very rapid improvements in the dirtiest polluters: trucks, older vehicles, those driving without cat converters (common in my area), and obviously coal plants.

There are programs to buy back citizens' dirty vehicles, in Vermont they tried to reduce the old truck fleet to lower CO2 emissions. The problem is the owners were just fine with their trucks, why should they need to retire their machine before its' time?

There is a process of convincing here, mere economics hasn't been enough. We need all citizens, not just one party or the other, to help fight air pollution. I recognize the poorest will have the hardest time, which means those in power should support climate justice for lower income or frontline communities.
A gaming console store is different from a smartphone store. One is for entertainment while the other affects everything in your life.

If anything, smartphone stores will be under more scrutiny.
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Heh, game publishers are responsible for their decisions, not some "cruel" Epic who seduced little foolish publishers.
This is surprisingly difficult with a device like an iPad or smartphone in landscape where the camera is off to one side. Even knowing where the camera is, the image of the person on your screen that you're talking to tends to pull your gaze back. You can do it; it's just an effort.
This really needs a dataset to go with it. Preferably one from different countries and with different currencies and tax identification number styles.

Invoice recognition is a tricky subject, the companies that specialize in this field have spent a large amount of time and money on the problem, it would be great to see some kind of benchmark vs the commercial services.
Most important point everyone forgets to mention: this is NOT about having the tech or not. We have artificial satellites for a very long time.

This is about spending a few dollars more to have them properly painted.

Think about this, Musk and Bezos are saving a few cents. In exchange of astronomy.
Drone footage of the ship:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3SyPM9m2U

Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wakashio_oil_spill
web technology, especially widely supported web technology, was moving at a much slower pace during the KHTML days though.
Apple didn’t just come up with the idea of ad blocking because of Firefox. Apple couldn’t implement the form of ad blocking that Safari uses on its mobile processors and still keep Safari performant before the iOS 8/iPhone 6 era. You could tell the performance difference on the iPhone 5s (the first 64 bit iPhone). They didn’t even support it on 32 bit phones.
I've reread your comments, and realized I might have answered a different question in my comment before :)

In theory, you could request broad permissions, and have an interpreter sitting inside your app, dynamically loading its own code over the wire, so you'll never have to update from the app store (unless you want more permissions granted).
But as far as I understand, this is forbidden by the Play Store policies (e.g. Facebook got told off for doing this https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/googl... ). Although I'd imagine it's easy to slip such code past reviewers, unless your app is very popular and worthy a more thorough review that can catch it.

Also I'd imagine there is some grey area there, e.g. your whole app could be a webview simply displaying web frontend -- surely it's okay to dynamically load javascript? Not sure how the policy works in such cases.
His position with respect to E2EE seems to be that social networks and other communication platforms shouldn't be allowed to have it.

It's pretty clear what his philosophical outlook is, and what he would say about ANY widely adopted use-cases of E2EE.
Maybe I’m just playing the uneducated fool, but that much electricity, surrounded by water with a boat having wet decks is a little worrisome to me..
Funny how this is hidden from the front page eh
This sounds like a very old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiValue
The problem here is Apples user market capture.

Through iOS devices Apple has created a market of users they are the very protective gatekeeper for.

Windows PC user market. Not locked down. Though MS has a store you have Steam, EGS, GOG, Origin, UBS etc for games alone. Let alone productivity apps.

Android market. Not locked down. Though google play store is the gorilla other stores exist. I like F-Droid.

EPICS Unreal game engine? Doesn't have a locked down market of users. It would lock the business into a payment scheme though.

Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo consoles. I fear they are similar in terms of gatekeepering to users and should be subject to whatever outcome Apple is. They seem a bit more open to begin with though so are likely to be less affected. It also makes them not the prime offender, though offenders all the same.

Ultimately, want to sell to an Apple iOS user? One choice.

Separately then, is this anti-competitive or simply smart business? I'd answer : Why not both? The business wants to make money and until the law steps in, they will do it.
I'm personally a huge fan of the SPADE framework from Gokul Rajaram. First Round has a really good write-up on how to use it. [1] It serves both as an ADR and also a framework for making that decision in the first place, in one. I've introduced this at a few places I've worked and it's been very well received.

[1] https://firstround.com/review/square-defangs-difficult-decis...
More than what? No one is paying 30% for payment processing on the web.
Doesn't look very seaworthy to me. A bit of chop and i bet that thing will struggle and be a very rough ride. Might work ok on a lake or something though.
For someone who is "into the humanities" you ignore the fact that the Frankfurt school were some of the first who were actively rejecting this posturing towards reason. The "Dialectic of Enlightenment" is a treatise on the problems of rationality. It was written pre-WW2, as Hitler came to power. And it was quite correct in that this obsession with brunt progress was a fire that caused the Third Reich to rise up. It's very similar to what's happening right now, so please don't muddy up this discussion by saying that it's all witchcraft because it makes you sound like you are just spewing Ben Shapiro.
I believe they only consider ‘digital goods’ to be in-app purchases. For instance you can’t buy kindle books or streaming video content through the amazon app(s).
It’s also pretty inaccurate and reductive.
I can only directly relate to solo/small-team projects:

I find writing text (preference: Markdown) and sprinkling it with visualizations (tables, graphviz...) to document stuff very useful and productive.

I don't see this as a burden but rather the opposite. A good portion of programming is not writing code, but thinking and communication. Using text as a direct output of this process helps in many areas. Mostly because we have a limited capability of keeping stuff in our heads at any given time.

A typical categorization of these documents would be:

- specification: describing the thing you build in detail

- todo-lists: organizing actions

- guides/instruction: describing usage of the thing you build in a accessible manner

- meeting & discussion protocols

The thing is: None of these things are extra or can be avoided. The only difference is whether you write them down or not.

The article describes something I would put into the fourth category, or maybe a fifth where you describe intent historically (like design documents).

I personally don't write design-documents or ADRs, nor have I ever seen them. But I assume that these become valuable in larger organizations and teams with a higher communication overhead. As soon you need to talk about these things over and over you want to write these down.
So is the claim by Elon Musk that current iterations of Tesla vehicles have all of the sensors and compute power needed to be fully autonomous (Level 4+ I guess?) in the future, via software updates only, a specious one?
Gates has never shied away from the idea of amassing enormous power over others to himself and others he trusts.
Especially since the software is FOSS and you can presumably migrate to another provider or back to fully self-hosting if you wanted to.
Canada approves of this. Those talented workers no longer able to get to the US, can now discover a better destination. ;)
It seemed like you were positing public transit and bike infrastructure as an alternative to cars...particularly as a money saving and healthy alternative to those 'who are barely scraping by after the pandemic who have no leeway in their budget for an auto tax increas'

This may be true in some areas, but not most.
And if this thread were about my employer and their policies, I may choose to weigh in on them also.

Saying that, console games are more often than not the size of a Blu-ray disc, with triple-A games exceeding 40-60Gb in size, sometimes larger. Some popular games come on multiple discs. An order of magnitude larger than the less than 100Mb size of most iOS and Android apps, which are downloadable over a mobile connection. The hosting, bandwidth, CDN, and sales costs for the digital versions of those games and their patches can't be cheap, and are often subject to flash traffic surges, particularly when million of players decide to download them (and their updates) the second they're released. This is to say nothing of the myriad of hosted services that are provided that are unique to consoles.

I don't know what business deals are in place, nor can I make a statement on the perceived value that the publishers who publish on consoles place on what's provided, however its worth noting that even before Fortnite was removed from the app stores, the target of Epic's complaint did not include Playstation, Xbox, or Nintendo.
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I'm not discounting moonshot business ideas. I'm saying there's a bunch of capable people out there that may not have any idea what exactly to build. And I'm saying people like that could benefit from active discussion on ideas of what to build, and people that already have ideas of what to build would benefit from discussing their startup idea & business plan with others prior to diving in head first.

I'm basically saying mix wisdom of the crowd with the startup-idea generation process.
> Driving on one side of the road offers no obvious benefits compared to driving on the other side

If that were true, then why did Sweden go to the trouble to change in 1967?

The fact that they did so, and that doing so was to improve interoperability with neighboring systems, might give you some clue why getting rid of CSS and HTML requires more than mere 'obvious benefits' to justify it.
Why did you put "confused" in quotes? It's pretty obvious why people who bought Windows computers would be confused when Windows software doesn't work on it.
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Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?
If you're in the fortunate position during this time to be both employed and able to move to another location--whether permanently or temporarily--I'm curious to learn where you may be planning to move and what factors are influencing this decision.

Stated more broadly to those who may not fall in this bucket: if location did not affect your career prospects and/or economic wellbeing, where would you move and why?
> we could achieve similar outcomes to affirmative action

Hopefully much better, affirmative action harms even the minorities it attempts to help, let alone others like Asians: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-pai...
And that's also why Apple insists on calling your personal computer(PC) a Mac instead. Clearly they don't think it's your computer.

tHiS IS nOt a Pc BUt a mAc, you know? ;p
Then start with the Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox and Steam stores. They take 30% off the top as well. Epic's store is only doing 12% for now as they try to catch up to the bus they missed.

Wanna get a DLC? They all take a percentage. Also regardless of the money you spend on making your game. They all have to review it and only if they approve will it get published. Going to selling some XBox physical disc? You pay your percentage on what you print not what sells. Also you need to use a trusted disc manufacturer, they pay a percentage to XBox also, note this is all the same for Sony and Nintendo.
They don't play only on one device, a lot of players will fallback on another device.
I appreciate you proving my point. High end desktops are not viable on Linux, which is a shame, because I really wanted it to work.
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You might've read the mirror on the Cloudflare blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-languages-which-almost-becam... (Not sure if it was updated.)
Beyond the obvious difference that Microsoft has a monopoly marketshare on PCs, and Apple has a minority marketshare of mobile devices, mobile devices are categorically different because they are always with you. This generates a whole different slew of concerns around privacy and apps being able to access your information with or without your consent.

By maintaining control over which apps can be sold to end users via the App Store, Apple is able to offer a layer of control over how these apps can access (or not) your personal data.

There's nothing ridiculous about wanting to maintain data privacy/security on mobile devices, and that being of a higher priority with mobile than with a PC.
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This setting won't in itself stop you using any apps. But apps can (I think) determine where they were installed from, so a banking app might be able to detect this and bail out.

Google's Android (don't think this is in AOSP; probably tied to Google Play Services) also checks non-play-store apps for malware on your phone, and might reject them if they contain malware.

Some apps also try to detect rooted/jailbroken phones and won't run (or at least give a warning) in that situation.
What you're describing is a natural monopoly.
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On p41 of the .pdf:

> Paytm may not be a direct competitor building a search engine, but all of these use cases are user journeys that never touch Google.

Emphasis in the original.
I found this interesting given the target audience of this presentation and what we know from Snowden about the American intelligence community's integration with Google.