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> Does a letter being delivered within the same zip code even touch these machines?

Completed ballots are only occasionally mailed in the same zip code, and often not the same city, as they tend to be mailed in to county election offices, not the precinct balloting locations (which often aren't permanent government facilities and when they are still are not permanently associated with the elections office.)

So, yes, machines that sort non-local (not same zip) mail would handle most mail in ballots.

And the postal service has been notifying state officials that (despite it never being a problem before) it's “delivery standards” do not support delivery ballots on the timelines in each notified states law for mail ballotsm

And the President has openly stated that he is opposing Postal Service funding to block use of mail-in ballots.

It's not even something that is trying to be hidden.
They do mean earlier, don't they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect#Definition
Wow - are we living in the same borough? Brooklyn has been a nightmare for me. It's gone downhill fast in my area - horrifyingly dirty streets and sidewalks, junkies laying around everywhere, there's even a pile of stolen belts being watched over by homeless people on my corner. This is in an area where a 3BR apt is at least $3k/month.

I can't wait to get out. Been here ten years, working remotely for the past five. Can't really justify it anymore unless things improve quickly. Got randomly assaulted outside my own building a few weeks back - the guy didn't even try to take anything. Just punched me in the face five times and ran off. I went through a similar wave in the late 80s as a kid, I don't like the looks of all this.

It may get bad for you quickly as well. Consider being ready with a plan B.
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>They aren't actually race-blind

Do you mean they take race into account when admitting an individual?

>Ultra-low SAT scores are a plus!

Do you have direct evidence of this? Just because black and hispanic applicants have lower SAT scores on average and they're harmed overall by ignoring SAT scores doesn't mean having a low SAT score is a plus. Black and hispanic applicants might have a much different distribution of SAT scores than other applicants.

>If and only if you belong to a certain race.

How does that work, are the admissions people factoring in race?
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I honestly did not even think Apple Music was on Android. Are their other services there too, such as TV, News, etc?

EDIT: Yep, the only 3 apps from Apple are: Music, Beats and "Move to iOS"
I was asked today, something with the lines: "Why don't you organize and fight? Why don't you build an open ecosystem, which you will use to replace stores."

I was thinking after that a) we could make a store (that's the simple part) b) when enough of us were behind we could pressure for it to be accepted

Because even if Epic wins and we can have some improvements, it wont fix the issues

I would donate and work for the cause, what about the rest of you? How to get started, Apache Foundation?

EDIT: I have to add, I would not work for this 'because it is the right thing to do', but to ensure that I can do business in the future without fear of A+G
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Nah, I didn't call you stupid. I just meant that those kinds of "technically..." comments are lame and so often wrong. And they create boring threads like the one we're in here :-)

Anyway, I think you get my point and hopefully I wasn't too harsh but sorry if I was. Have a good day/night!
I have a counterfeit copy of Horowitz and Hill bought via Prime, I called twice and talked to folks and the response was basically, FU with have your money, not our problem.
Yes its freezing and icy for 7 months actually.
Believing that scientists, teachers, economists, ethicists have been deceiving you all these years, while a POS reality TV star with decades of lying, bigotry, cheating people, dozens of credible accusations of sexual assault, cheating on his wives is somehow your beacon of truth and honesty. You are a bad person.
I'm not sure. I work in a small stable team and I had to do a tech due diligence report... it's really amazing being able to go two years into the past and pull the exact reasons why certain design decisions were made.

Not all our designs and decisions panned out ofc, but just having the articles already helped a ton getting through that DD and it really helps give new starts a much better feeling for the code base and where it came from
how do you keep FANG employees from commenting?
I think you are saying that they are right, but also very, very wrong?
Apple sort of ok, Google worse, Epic worst. You guys should don't seem to understand what kind of companies these three are.
You're getting down voted, but I agree. While the footage represents a technological marvel, it doesn't fill me with dread that there is some sort of deep fake genie waiting to jump out of the bottle.

I think the choice of speech is also quite telling. They chose a target with low video and audio resolution and a lot of interference that could mask some of the imperfections of their algorithm. Despite all this, oddness induced by the deepfake process is still quite evident.
It’s pretty ironic that apple just removed fortnite for for doing this same thing.
Shouldn’t this mean that google pulls Apple Music from the play store now?

Edit: seems google is ok with this
> Black Americans on average have a tenth of the wealth of a white family.

And the median?
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You end up needing more complex optics to focus the image comfortably onto your retina at a distance that feels comfortable. An OLED display on a glasses lens with no other optics would just look like a bright blur between you and the rest of the world.
Baffling for sure!
Virtual Tracing: A simpler alternative to distributed tracing
In the same situation also trying to climb the corporate ladder but more interested in early retirement than material wealth. I'm guessing that the FAANG that I work for will go to commute-one-day-per-week for everyone when this is all over so we're taking that bet and moving to Napa this week. 1.5 hour commute one day per week (when we eventually go back) is doable in exchange for the huge decrease in cost vs Santa Cruz (where we also looked). If it doesn't work out, we'll reevaluate in a year and maybe move again. Worst case: we saved a ton of money on real estate for a year.
No, we shouldn't have had an alternative app store on iphones. Apple doesn't have a monopoly. Nobody is forcing anybody to buy an iphone to get online and make calls.

If you start a company, and you have 50% market share [1], do you want to be treated like a monopoly?

In a free market, Apple should be allowed to operate however they see fit, as long as they don't have a monopoly. Of course it is annoying that they can demand that much, but that's how open markets work.

All those developers who want better conditions on an app store, nobody is preventing them from joining their forces and creating a better operating system that promotes their own store with more favourable conditions.

Android is a sitting duck. Take objective c, the bsd kernel and the openstep libraries and link them up to your own mobile operating system. As long as Oracle doesn't win against Google, it can even have the same api as ios and thus all the existing apps from the apple app store. At first, offer it as a ROM for android devices, then start making your own. Apple's devices are expensive. Customers will love to buy cheaper alternatives.

Judging by the upvotes of this story alone, there should be 1000 developers wanting to have their own app store. If half of them invest some time of their life to create a new objective c operating system, they should have something operational in a year or two. Most likely much faster than the legal proceedings that could create a second app store on ios, with the nice benefit of being in control of the process.

[1] Research into Android vs iOS market share in the US shows that the market leader remains Google Android, with a 51.1% market share in June 2019. https://leftronic.com/android-vs-ios-market-share/
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How would you determine these actors? Any ideas?
> As an example, HN could start requiring users to link their LinkedIn accounts. Every comment could show the user's current employer (if it's a major one) without revealing the user's real name.

I downvoted you. If it makes you happy, know that this downvote is completely organic.

I'm just annoyed by someone suggesting that we remove one of the real advantages of HN: availability of real pseudonymity.

Edit: I also sometimes vote in the same direction as supposed voting rings and I am starting to see Dans frustration with all these accusations.

I have been here for more than 10 years and I have started to get a feeling for some of the weird voting patterns here now. It has even gone so far that I am joking that I want do go to university to hopefully do a study of group dynamics in online communities :-)
> but not how they lose money on rural deliveries

It's part of the USPS pricing structure that the dense urban environments subsidize the sparse rural ones.

It's not a question of "just one more package" being basically zero cost. In the aggregate there is incremental cost to delivering more packages, and that cost is higher for rural packages than urban packages.

Apparently, the rate structure just assumes a certain urban/rural mix without accounting for a trillion dollar company with enough capital to arbitrage the lower urban delivery cost.
> I'm half Asian, and half "white" (which is weird in itself because it's technically a bunch of different races bundled into one light skinned bucket).

Do you see the term "Asian" as having the same weirdness? It's even more geographically & ethnically overbroad than the word it replaced, as well as compared to 'white/european/caucasian'.

To my recollection, a big part of the reason the former term was shunned is because it verbally homogenized distinct ethnicities from south-east asia that would prefer to identify distinctly... only to now double down in literally including the entirety of the largest continent in the world! (which I guess just returns to the more historical use of the former term, but whatever) :)
> Android is not equivalent to Pixel though.

Linux is not equivalent to a specific device either. That distinction is meaningless to developers, who will just get the device that lets them do what they need to do.
What is the difference between an app asking for your cc number and a web page? Do you wish Mozilla was a payment processor and you couldn't pay for netflix without giving Mozilla a cut? What about google?

What if in order to sell you an iphone as a non mac user your browser vendor required Apple to give them 30% of the purchase price? What if they refused to render pages that tried to work around this?

What id your ISP required transactions being conducted via their networks to cut them in on the deal? Hell why not your computers OEM?
> Given the fundamental differences between corporations and governments

I disagree with that line. I feel like people are desperate for there to be a difference based on some 9th grade civics class, or because an animated anthropomorphic piece of paper sang to them about bills in elementary school.

The British East India company had the power to jail and kill, for centuries.

The Head of the Executive Branch is the CEO of government agencies.

Anything is possible.
I will join other commentators in saying that this is super neat.

I am surprised that there's such clear and methodical street-level records of basically every address in such a large area from this point in history.

I shouldn't be so surprised though, it's not like humans were any less intelligent, organised, and resourceful. I guess it's just the sheer effort needed by the teams and the required assets (film, cameras, development, filing, etc) to pull this off. You can see that some blocks were photographed in summer, some in winter, and some in between, so it was clearly a large exercise.

Also, the fact these records still exist and weren't destroyed by accident or oversight over the past 80 years is fortunate.

I wonder if now the photos are digitised with GPS coordinates, given current photo-stitching technology, whether it would be possible to process these and stitch together into a more seamless virtual walkthrough of the streets? Sure there'd be gaps, but it would be cool to be able to put myself at ground level and meander among the streets of days gone by...
> Well, let me be the first to say I won't be shedding anguished tears for a multi-billion dollar Chinese tech giant known for it's close ties to the CCP.

Me neither nor for a USA backed company owned by one of the richest mans on Earth.

I am rooting for a healthier economy that helps everybody. Apple takes 30% cut of small developers, that are the ones that depend on that 30% to break-even. I want apps to be cheaper for consumers as they do not need to add a 30% as a fixed cost. It is not about Epic.
I did not get a remote position. I eventually left the company though and started do consulting instead so I'm mostly working remote (and 100% at this point due to covid).
Epic store is better because they're less greedy. I purchase new games in Epic just because I know that this way game developers will get a bigger percent of the money I pay.
The large diversity in culture, race and even language of "Hispanic" makes it worthless as any kind of rational grouping.
Tech used to be unified in support of open and free information, and against monopolies and closed platforms. During the era of Slashdot, everyone in tech came through and saw the downside of Windows and Office and Internet Explorer dominance. They supported Linux and Firefox and filesharing, mocked Micro$oft. But now tech people are split because half of them are employed by big tech, partly because more people have gotten into tech for the money so they were bought out from the very beginning.

And not only these pro-platform votes, look at all the negative discussion that happens here around university. In every single academic thread, where academic principles oppose big tech, the most upvoted threads are those that dismiss CS education, the university research system, the professors and humanities, while upvoting the "I dropped out of college" stories.

Big tech has done a lot of good, in elevating programmer salaries, and some companies contributing to a lot of open source. But walled gardens and subscriptions and censorship are money makers prized by capitalism. So they are always trying to "kill" the web, "boring" standards like email and XMPP, open research, and self-distributed software.
> Named arguments is okay I suppose, but IDEs solve knowing the order of arguments.

Named arguments are incredibly helpful for functions with a bunch of optional parameters, like setcookie() -- instead of

setcookie("cookiename", "value", 0, "", "", false, true);

to set httponly (the last argument), you can now skip over the unused parameters and write:

setcookie("cookiename", "value", httponly: true);

Not only is this more concise, but it's also self-documenting!
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It is one thing to make apocalyptic predictions - they could be reasonable conclusions of possibilities, unreasonable, or anywhere in between. They can be discussed on their own merit. Heck even why they personally conclude something may be discussed and considered, and something to try to understand even if disagreed with or considered wrong. But the "here is how you should feel" leading bullshit is a clear run-arround for critical facilities that takes far too many people.

Nothing makes me write a source off as a bad actor more than panic mongering that /tells you/ how to feel as opposed to leaving it to you to decide. It is not only a sure sign of a manipulator because of scared people being easier to manipulate. It may be unduly harsh, caustic, or sharp but I have absolutely lost patience for this tactic.
This is the problem with companies 'forcing' their proprietariness at the expense of interoperability.

Devices have been a lot more usable over the years but there does seem to be quite a lot of deliberateness when it comes to preventing competition, especially so for devices.

In the West, if Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter decide they don't like something you're doing, you're pretty much off the radar and at a massive disadvantage in whatever market you're in.
> That wasn't my point--I know she has a long history with Mozilla. Rather, there is no evidence that should would otherwise be commanding "competitive" CEO pay commensurate with Mozilla's size otherwise. Her work history pre-Mozilla would not make her a strong recruiting choice for a $2.5 million dollar position, at least IMHO.

Of course her work history prior to Mozilla wouldn't make her a strong recruiting choice for a $2.5m executive position. But that's a bit of a false premise, as the Mitchell of today has nearly two decades of executive experience that she did not have prior to Mozilla. If you include the totality of her career (inclusive of Mozilla), she very much does have the work history to be a strong candidate for market rate executive positions.

That being said, it does seem like she's just coasting on her prior momentum and is no longer materially contributing anything of value to Mozilla. In which case, Mozilla would be better served with her stepping down and someone else taking the reins. But that'd be true irrespective of whether she was paid market rate or below.

> Ummm...webkit?

I said it was a plausible alternative, not that it was the only one. Both KHTML (itself spurred by Mozilla's release[1]) and Webkit after Apple forked KHTML, could have also destabilized Microsoft's browser dominance. But I'm not very confident either of them would have done so - KHTML may not have had the resources to achieve what Firefox did, while Apple had the resources but Webkit at the time was only targeting Apple's Mac platform.

> Also,it's somewhat ironic you point to the non-profit foundation as her success story, while she makes "market rate" pay by virtue of her being CEO of the "for-profit" side of things.

In the context of her success story, you can't look at each side in a vacuum. The for-profit side only exists because the non-profit side created it as a wholly owned subsidiary. And the non-profit would never have been able to grow Mozilla to where it's at today without having created the for-profit. The hybrid structure thus optimized Mozilla's potential and has generated billions more in income than Mozilla otherwise would have, while also protecting those billions from being syphoned off by private owners or public shareholders, allowing it to be re-invested into Mozilla's mission. Taken as a whole, it's a point of success that bolsters her case for being a strong recruiting choice for a $2.5m executive role.

[1] KHTML's development wasn't predicated on Mozilla, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tldf1rT0Rn0 gives the impression that Mozilla's existence nudged it out of a development lull
Any specific names you can list?
Thanks; I was trying to figure out why their total came to ~75%.
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Just cause you both bridged from my comment, first thanks.

But I disagree that consumers agree to 30% because they continue to buy expecting sideloading to be relegated from relevancy.

If polled, I doubt consumers would guess the royalty is even that high. Someone should run a survey.

I am in general, very favorable toward Apple as a company. I’ve commented before that I believe in the company’s stance toward privacy. I see Apple as a benevolent dictator in its continued security restrictions on MacOS. With some exception to his deference to Trump, I admire Tim Cook as he presents himself as a person.

However, I have also sold apps through the App Store.

And there’s no real way around Apple’s massive financial success. It’s so big, if it were a person they would be burned at the stake.

There is an upper bound on reasonable net income.

This isn’t even about tax revenue, it is about any developer getting more than 70 cents on the dollar for their work.

Getting an app into the App Store barely means anything; you have to market it. Sure it is “safe” and incredibly easy to install. But good luck thinking that because you see a Ready For Sale message your app is going to be a hit.

In my experience, Apple is snobbish in interaction with developers.

At least historically, there is very little goodwill, even when Apple magically decides to “feature“ your work. Which is again self-serving because they take their cut regardless.

I am having a hard time defending Apple’s rate. Not because of Epic but because of someone like me who wants to sell software on the best (and only other serious) mobile platform.
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I know OP in the tweet mentioned wikileaks but it's not like anything on wikileaks is new or particularly news worthy lately. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the BlueLeaks hack.
> It gives Google more control over basic functionality of the internet.

How? Google controls neither the AMP specification nor the third party implementations like Bing's.
> I am sorry, I don't understand. Will you be suddenly forced to install all the shit from all the sources? Nobody is forcing you right? How does your position change with the new one?

No, but it may mean some apps will use different payment prompts & systems, different cancellation systems for subscriptions, have different return policies, and so on, and it may mean that sometimes an app I want requires me to either go sign up on another app store or else not use the app, while right now 100% of apps on the platform are on one store, so that is never an issue. If I want to deal with that mental overhead and risk I can go use my PC. I have options if I want that experience. I don't on my phone and tablets.

> Are you arguing having firefox and ublock on iphone will suddenly make it more pleasant to browse the web and you don't like it? I am sure you are not.

Effectively every site works alright in Safari. It has to. It might not anymore if Google can banner-ad enough of the iOS ecosystem onto Chrome using their own renderer instead of Webkit.

My kindergartener's school iPad won't come with some cheaply-made app marketed to schools that contains an entire web engine (makes cross-platform easier, don't you know) that has a bug that lets it access the open web, bypassing the OS web controls. It can't, because if it uses a webview it has to use Webkit, which obeys the OS settings. That's a good thing.

For that matter half the apps on the app store aren't the mobile equivalent of Electron, shipping with an entire browser on board, for the same reason of developer convenience, wasting my disk space and killing my battery, because they're simply not allowed to do that. Again, good thing. I don't want to have to try to figure out the damn stack an app was built on before clicking "buy". It's bad enough they let React Native and Phonegap and such through the review process. I wish they didn't.

I don't know how it's so hard to understand that the locking down is a feature to many users. I want more devices that do that. Everyone worries about some dark future of only locked-down devices but here I am annoyed that there's a monopoly on those, while I've got a ton of options for my other computing needs. If I want a safe, low-maintenance, but still highly-capable machine for some non-tech-nerd in my life, which they'll be able to use pretty well totally independently, I have one option. That sucks.