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Fantastic - this is long overdue.

It's one thing to have a marketplace where consequences flow back to sellers. In amazon's case however, the sellers are always long gone (they don't even track who sold what) AND amazon provides no recourse.

If I owned a mall, the sellers can still be easily pursued if they do bad things (strong paper trail beginning with the checks for credit quality for the lease). Amazon blends the inventory together (WHY??) and then good sellers get horrible reviews on their product because others ship and commingle crap fake stuff among the many many annoying things and you don't have any functioning consequences for victims of fake products - including other merchants and buyers.
Ongoing discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24149352

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24149606
And again it’s because no one bothered to write toolbars and viruses for the Mac. I never got viruses on a Windows PC but are you going to say they don’t exist? You never had to clean up your less tech savvy relatives computer?
By the way, you all know this is going to come up in California this fall? Because there is a proposition on the ballot (Prop 16, ACA 5) to repeal the current CA Constitutional section that government shall not discriminate based on race.

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ballot-measures/pdf/aca-5.p...
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

"The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting."
1. What's the evidence to support a view that Apple and Google would charge 2-5%? Steam charges 30%. Epic takes 12%. Origin/EA takes 30%. Amazon takes an average 13% but it scales up to 25%.

2. Nobody gives a shit if this is better for developers, do they? Epic could charge +30% on IAP and use the Apple IAP system which is orders of magnitude better than anything else in the market. Developers set the pricing, and Apple handles security, authentication, refunds, etc. Consumers know it's a consistent experience across the platform.

3. The only benefit anyone seems to be able to come up with here is "choice" and a misguided belief that prices would come down as if by magic. Video game publishers took up to 60% of video game sales in physical stores, but the ARP of a video game has risen since 2008 and the advent of Steam and other online stores.

4. Seems like Apple has built a successful hardware/software play at least partially based on the fact that consumers don't have to do bullshit things like entering credit card details into some third party payment gateway to buy things, or deal with different refund policies from different folks. Consumers have flocked to the platform and now its success is being used as the basis of an attempt to strip it of its competitive advantage.

5. Same thing happened in the UK with sports coverage. The English Premier League was only broadcast on Sky until a few years ago. £29.99 a month got you all the live televised top flight soccer. Now to watch all of the televised soccer in the UK you need Sky Sports, Amazon Prime Video, and BT Sport. And Sky Sports prices have not decreased in real terms. (Oh, and BT's tech infrastructure is hot garbage.) I don't know anyone who loves the experience of having three different services to deal with and paying more money. Nobody is bleating about "choice" now.

6. I object to this on exactly the same terms as I object to Spotify's bitching that IAP margins -- which have been the same since before Spotify launched -- are too thin. They operate a business where they pay sixty cents of every dollar they make to rights holders for fuck's sake. Why are they bitching at Apple telling them that if they want to do a monthly subscription and net £9.99, they need to charge £14.28? Why can Spotify try to tell Apple that the HomePod -- a fucking speaker -- should let Spotify onto the device natively (when you can already connect via Bluetooth)?

7. Nearly every online store has serious arbitrary limitations placed on it by the operator of the store. Many of these are to do with the user experience, but many of them are a means of paying the bills for something they fund (hosting, marketing, app review team, developers working on APIs). It helps them sell phones, but it's intertwined with the user experience.

8. Gruber's point stands: if you think it's OK for Microsoft to prevent Sony from selling a PlayStation game streaming service on the Xbox Store, I don't see why you have an issue with this. It's not the same as Netflix: it's more like an app store within an app store.
Gah! One of their reports within the past 5+ years. It was in an analysis of risks by major energy modalities. Unfortunately IPCC's content organisation is a disaster.

Analysis unit was deaths per GWh or similar.

I'll see if I can find it though I'm not optimistic.

Our World In Data posts similar stats, premature deaths/yr at 1 TWe/yr generation:

Coal: 25
Oil: 18
Gas: 3

For the safer options, statement is inverted, as years for 1 death:

Nuclear: 14--100
Wind: 29 years
Hydropower or solar: 42 years
Solar: 53

Note w/h/s are all within the range of error for nuclear. (And why hydro isn't broken out separately I don't know.)

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
The Rakuten Americas marketplace will close for new purchases on Sept 15, 2020
sharp - that is part of my point actually :)
Most of the changes we (I work in a platform team) make may perhaps only modify a couple of lines of code, but took significant time and effort to reach.

As an example, we recently decided to adopt the use of Kubernetes CPU manager. The actual change was modifying the resource requests for some applications. That part of the code is highly dynamic as apps change and are retuned over time. To store the decision to use CPU manager in a commit message or even a Github PR would not be appropriate -- it's discoverability is too low compared to its importance.

Unlike Git commits or PRs, our ADRs are a rich archive of well thought out decisions with all the rationale that went into making them. We can easily see which ones remain relevant. But what I think is the most important is we have all the information we need to change our decisions and we do. We no longer fear making change because we might not have all the context, or we forgot, or the person who made the decision quit last year.
I want 0 stores.
Agree many platforms (primary care services, insurance etc) provide chat support for general health issues. Let me break down into two scenarios: pre-diagnosis vs after diagnosis.

pre-diagnosis: we got lots of patient ask "is this cancer" question. Because the symptoms sometimes are not super obvious, an oncology nurses with many years of experience is able to ask the right questions, and give you much accurate answer. The fact is that early diagnosis matters so much on the outcome.

after diagnosis: again many questions can only be answered by oncology professionals. Even the dietitian, which we also offered on our platform, they are required to have oncology training, understand chemo drugs, then be able to offer professional coaches.

We are thinking to collaborate with those primary care telemedicine/insurance platforms, so they can refer their patients to the specialties ones, like us
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> They're tacking on a recurring revenue stream (App Store) onto their one-time sale (iPhone). Margins on both fund the innovation machine.

How does Samsung's devices division manage it?
I think 32-bit microcontrollers will be with us for a long, long time.
So, now you know 8. Three weeks in bed, recovery another 4, still not 100% but managing. That's been 5 months now.
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There are already alternative app stores on Android (perhaps most notably, Amazon) and that hasn't impacted their 30%... so what exactly are you expecting?
There’s actually no need to use race as a proxy. For instance, you could just help poor folks regardless of race. If certain races tend to be poorer than others due to historical circumstances, that gets automatically taken into account. If the distribution of poverty across races changes over time, the process responds automatically to take it into account.

This has the advantage that it can easily react to individual people instead of forcibly identifying people with stereotypes about their race. For instance, members of historically privileged groups who are nevertheless very poor can still get help instead of being treated as if they are an aggressor in society. This could cut down on a considerable amount of vitriol and unrest by treating people more fairly.
I’m not surprised at all. This is a novelty for them. If this were a regular occurrence as in countries where rioting is socially mainstream they’d be singing a different tune.
A developer working as a contractor and charging his clients a fairly reasonable rate of $120/hr could make that.
> a deal the Palestinians called a "treacherous stab in the back".

This direct quote they later attribute to Hamas, not multiple Palestinian groups. What do you think the purpose of framing it in this way is? It seems to me to be picking the most inflammatory statement from the most radical of the prominent Palestinian political parties, amplifying it above all other statements, and attributing it not to the political party in question but to all Palestinians. If you read this differently I'd be very interested to learn why you think this statement was put in the first sentence of the story only to be clearly attributed pages in.

I'm not sure what the purpose of referring to my post as a diatribe is. If you care to clarify I would appreciate it.
Daamn... I've been building it with clang for the past hour (I dunno why the heck this taking soooo long, I think on Linux it builds much faster). I guess it won't work for me either :(

upd: Looks like the proper way of building is with gcc, but it builds without GUI. I need GUI.
Sure, I will totally support such implementation that neither restrict people movement nor have occupancy restriction, at least for this specific virus.

If let say covid has severity of anthrax or ebola then restricting people movement maybe justifiable but not otherwise.
> By any measure, having to hand over half a billion dollars is just an insane cut of revenue to have to give two companies that had absolutely nothing to do with conceiving, designing or developing such a successful game.

Uh, you know Epic makes a 12% cut of all games sold in their store, right?
It's fascinating that Google is deciding to form a unified front with Apple instead of playing the "good guy" and taking an opportunity to paint their competitor in a bad light. It really betrays just how important that 30% fee must be to them. The plot just keeps thickening.
> So, how many Apple products Apple said could not be repaired have you repaired?

Ok so...

A) Non-repairability is not planned obsolescence. At Apple’s scale, they can’t repair every breakage with the quality people expect, so they opt to replace.

B) You’re making huge accusations, but it’s seriously unsubstantiated. I will say that I agree that products should last longer, but that’s a technical challenge not a financial decision.
I've been very critical of Apple, but Google deserves the same as well. Hope Epic files a lawsuit against Google too.
Anyone know when this article was written? I'm pretty sure I've read it before, but there's no date on it.

Edit: Checking the Wayback machine, it seems to be from 2016.
They develop the platform, including the API's, the toolkits, X-Code, updates, and the stores themselves (bandwidth billing etc). I wouldn't say they do nothing. Putting a value on that is harder, but you at least have to look at what they provide holistically. Its not just the app store.
What I’m saying is that the vast, vast majority of desktop users have an entirely satisfactory computing experience today, using operating systems that let you install whatever you want.

Yes, if you go back in time you find OSes with hideous security models that made things like keyloggers possible. Mobile OSes today do not have those problems, and have strict permission prompts that gatekeep functionality.

Yeah, I’m sure there would be some shitty experiences if people could install whatever they want on their phones, it’s the price of giving everyone that freedom. But if desktop OSes in 2020 are anything to go by, it’s really not that big of an issue.
The developers didn't actually know where the problem is because they didn't root cause it. They knew it lay within a certain pretty large bounding box (a particular query), but didn't drill into it further, beyond checking that indices are used (eliminating some inadvertent unindexed search as being the root cause).

If you actually know where (or each one of the multiple wheres if several places collude), that is usually very close to knowing why; often the same.

They should have had the intuition that if a query takes 20 seconds, even in a testing scenario where the system is not bogged down, it must be churning through a lot of data all over the place. Then think: does the query actually need to be looking at a lot of data? Maybe it's wastefuly looking at more records than necessary. They didn't imagine what the machine might have to do to satisfy the query, just accepting it as a black box that the DB has optimized as well as it can be (so just throw hardware at it).
"Epic gave Apple over $360 Million dollars in the last twelve months just to list the game in it's app store"

The stat you cited was for two years, not one. Further, they paid $99 for a developer account "just to list the game" (and any other games they want to list). The fees you are mentioning are only for transactions that occurred on the Apple device. Their "v-bucks" can be bought on other platforms and are cross platform (for some platforms - Switch and PS4 do not allow cross-platform in-game currency). But strangely Fortnite gave no discount on their Windows app, for instance... (almost like they set up this whole ridiculous charade just to play the crowd).

Now add that anyone assuming Apple is actually getting that full 30% is deluded. Apple sells iTunes cards at Costco often $100 for ~$80. They have lubricated the market to encourage grandparents, etc, to give their relatives gift cards, and created a system where people feel confident enough to buy. Those gift cards become vbux. Without Apple's and Google's system, they would never have made a fraction of what they've made.

I hardly think Apple is innocent in this -- their position on cloud gaming is absolutely wrong -- but the horde that is suddenly falling in line behind Epic is uproarious. Sweeney is playing this crowd like a fiddle.
If only the alternative operating system to the iPhone was owned by a company that had a popular website where they could educate consumers.....
I don't necessarily disagree, but does that imply that whether or not something is a general purpose computer is reliant on the current software status of the machine rather than the hardware? You can crack some smartphones or install Linux on older Playstations.

Tautological was in reference to the argument about whether or not we should be able to install things if an iPhone is a general purpose device.

If that status relies on what software lets us do, then the answer is always going to be no, because if they don't let us then we aren't allowed to.
Except throwing money at the schools doesn't do much of anything about the problem. Schools reflect the students they get far more than they make the students.
Great video, thanks for sharing it. Haven't heard of this guy before but he does a really nice breakdown.
I don’t see Apple shutting down App Store even for spite. Not sure their operating expenses on App Store but if they reduce their cut, it won’t look bad on the books.
No, the opposite. I’m saying that Epic is demanding an exception for selfish reasons, but Apple waiving their fees will benefit consumers.
Concentration of bad stuff matters though.
> Life has risks - you could fall off a ladder and injure yourself

Great analogy actually. Ladders are dangerous, yes - but we don’t make them necessary to daily life and they’re certainly not something most people interact with
I don’t think there’s particularly a right or wrong here. I’m solo myself and have felt for a long time to be in an inferior position because I don’t fit into the ideal 2.3 founders statistic. It took more than a few years for me to move past this as a major disadvantage. There are positives and negatives, as with anything.
They reduced prices on all platforms though. And iOS users aren't 100% of Fortnite purchasers. I haven't yet found a good source but from [0] which says ~$300mm/mo total and ~$30mm/mo iOS it's 10% (higher than I expected tbh). So they lose 100% of iOS revenue and 20% of PC and console revenue from this.

If Epic wins and are allowed to offer alternate IAP for 20% discount, that increase profits for Fortnite on iOS by 10%, but all the other Fortnite platforms lose 20%.

Maybe Epic will raise the virtual prices of Fortnite goods over time to make up for it, eg a skin will be 1500 vbucks instead of 1250. But I'm guessing Epic has larger ambitions, such as making V-bucks systems for all games that use Unreal Engine.

[0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/fortnite-statistics/#2
Yeah, kids are bosons...
> I’d love to have the option to sideload apps on my iPhone.

As would developers.

Computing used to be free as in speech. You could host an `.exe` file on your website and point customers there to download it.

Now most people use phones and >50% of Americans are out of your reach.

Don't claim that security sandboxing, privacy, and protecting users is why this has been done. With the appropriate design, users can be protected and the freedom to compute can remain.

Don't push the blame on the web not being a sufficiently native platform. Cross-platform APIs could have been built. It would have saved centuries of human effort writing both Android and iPhone apps. Think of all the human innovation capital wasted. Maybe some of these people could have been solving cancer instead.

Don't compare this to Nintendo. If I write a video game in C++, I can distribute it on PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Android, iPhone, Steam, and on my website. Most gamers own more than one of these platforms at a time, making it easier to reach them, but they tend to have only one type of phone. Additionally, Nintendo is not a general purpose computer. I don't do dating, online banking, taxes, or groceries on the Switch. We don't hand out Switches to school children.

The App Store's unhealthy product placements and ratings led to a race to the bottom. Apps are $0.99 with a lifetime of free updates. And Apple takes a 30% cut. They dehumanize engineers and small businesses.

In a time of pestilence and famine, Apple's grain silos are overflowing. Yet they take from the mouths of the very people that helped build their platform with back-breaking and thankless effort.
There is GOG Galaxy[0], that is trying to gather all your games from different platforms in one place. However all platforms (except Steam) constantly disconnects from the Galaxy which is really annoying. I understand there can be a lot of reasons for this. But I like to think that those emerging platforms simply do not want being accessed from the Galaxy. For this reason I prefer buying games from GOG and Steam when possible.

Also, to install games from those 3rd party platforms one still needs to install and launch those platforms. So this limits usefulness of the Galaxy.

[0]: https://www.gog.com/galaxy
So the whole ransomware and virus problem is imaginary?
Even if they won it would have been a one-time settlement. That would give them a couple months of runway. And that'd be the last money they ever see, unless Microsoft would throw them a bone with a Bing deal. You can't undo history. Chrome users aren't going to switch to Firefox.
> “ If you play games on Windows you're familiar with this situation. They all want to run 24/7 and cram their UI in your face at every opportunity, and you just want to play that publisher's one game.”

Yes, thank you! In fact Epic is one of the worst of these stupid stores about blasting you with corner-of-screen advertising even when you’re doing nothing with it.
Oh it was a fun ten years
you're so smart
I had to dig in the wayback machine for the "nonsensical infographic" dead link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120717123816/http://people.ope...
Wait, this is news to me! What aspect of Android is making autoupdates impossible? Apps can replace their contents, and apps can run in the background... shouldn't that be all you need?
First off, that's globally, not the US (in the US it's ~50/50.) Secondly, despite Apple not having a "monopoly" on the install base they do essentially have a monopoly on store expenditures and revenue. There is a reason why Apps launch on iOS first (usually), AppStore members are more likely to buy the app and do in-app purchases than Android users. This is BY FAR. I forgot the exact numbers, but I believe it's near double or triple that of Android. The AppStore is a cash register for Apple, 30% is insanity.
One of the non negotiable condition to get the pile of money was to not publish the game on steam, removing it if it was already there and cancelling preorders. That's not exactly friendly to developers, forbidden to publish to the other platform with more customers.
"As of 8/6/2020, CDC has received reports of 570 confirmed cases of MIS-C and 10 deaths in 40 states and Washington, DC."

"99% of cases (565) tested positive for SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The remaining 1% were around someone with COVID-19."

https://www.cdc.gov/mis-c/cases/index.html
> Actual applicability to water is kind of harder to evaluate. I've long thought that you could indeed have an Mpemba effect caused by persistent induced convective currents in a fluid: so a hotter thing placed into a fridge might create a more dramatic internal flow as its outer boundary layer cools and changes in density, the convective current would certainly increase the slope of the hotter cooling system beyond the naive temperature scaling, and might then persist as a physical difference even after the two systems arrive at the same temperature, leading to a faster cooling speed of the convective system that "started out hotter". But I mean I have never really done experiments to confirm that sort of thing.

This sounds like what I was thinking but I'm not sure. Do you mean the actual boundary layer in the hotter fluid would have a higher convective heat transfer, due to increased turbulence/thermal mixing at the surface of hot water (versus cold water)? Thus hot water will cool faster?
Please take it with a pinch of salt. Like nearly everyone else here I'm a CS student first and an appreciator of the humanities second. While I try to approach and learn about this stuff with an open mind my visceral reaction to anyone who criticises rationality and the scientific method is not a sympathetic one. It's probably better to read actual philosophers than someone who just likes to read wiki pages while their code compiles :-)