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> I don't see the problem, Epic explicitly went around the app store's payment process and terms of service.

Epic HAD to do this in order to force the issue in order to claim specific harm. Of COURSE Apple pulled the app, and Epic knew they would. Epic now gets to claim that Apple's behavior is consumer-hostile and anticompetitive. That's a claim they cannot make without a concrete example of harm (this is just how the courts work). Saying that "Apple was within their rights" is the same argument as "If it is legal it is moral" which we all know is not true.

> Why should Epic get a “special arrangement” from all other developers?

They shouldn't. And neither should Amazon - they do. Or any other example where Apple has made exceptions to their rules, if your company is big enough.
If you don't like the service or product, don't buy it. There are Android, Sailfish, Postmarket, Mer.

It's extremely unethical in my opinion to force some service provider to adjust the service to your needs/preferences.
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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2020.0057...
If it only affects 'millions of dollars' then it'd be manageable for Yale.

If it affected federal research or pell grants, that would be much more substantial.
Why do schools need to know the race and ethnicity of their applicants in order to make merit-based admissions decisions? Even things like geographical location and economic adversity can be anonymized and quantified. It seems like a no-brainer to hire some accounting firm to filter applications for racially identifying material before they are reviewed by the admissions board.
It's easy to engage in a zero sum game of fighting for the "fair" share of the pie, but I believe the fundamental problem is that our education system as it exists today has immense scalability problems: it's built upon the idea of creating scarcity around qualifications and putting people against each other. I honestly think we are already headed in the direction of providing a more open education through the internet. COVID has probably accelerated the process.

I hope we can find ways to lift each other up rather than bring each other down.
I think the post hit the nail on the head with the question paraphrasing „Why do companies buy project management software that only project managers love But engineers hate?“ The answer is project managers manage projects so need project management software.
Most self-driving companies use simulations to see how the model performs in unseen scenarios.
Of all alumni is dangerous because these schools banned black students until the 70s.

Then when allowing them actively worked to limit entrance.

Finally they all operate with legacy admissions so the racist bans on applicants have a long tail
...In the same way that cannibalism is the logical conclusion of capitalism.

Don't get me wrong - the impulse is there and some people think that way. Just like are absolutely people who would peddle filet of Steve.

But amplifying the marginal to discredit the general is fundamentally dishonest, and we won't do that here, right?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "stifle"?

Fortnite is a clear example of a success story of competition on the iOS platform. Epic has been making tons of money (billions in profit) for years thanks for Fortnite and in some part to iOS and the AppStore.

This current battle between Epic and Apple is about profit sharing and that's all. Have you seen the number of successful games on the iOS platform? Competition is thriving! But I do agree both companies are greedy.
A similar case happened in Italy, and again, because of corruption that led to bad engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
My first thought was "well of course they don't," but their concept renders do indeed have opaque black.

I'm guessing these are just technically uninformed renders with no basis in actually-proposed applications, but it seems at least plausible that one could combine transparent OLED with a transparent LCD backing (sort of the inversion of a backlight) to create a variable-transparency screen.
I'm sorry, but is that true, that Tesla has enough data to unlock autonomous vehicles? My experience is that until you get an ML model to do X, you never know if you have enough data to train it to do X. Or is that just your opinion, that they don't need more data?
Even worse. Imagine millions of people knowing this and still buying these inferior phones.
See also: The most expensive chip in the ARM world by Marcin Juszkiewicz [0]. It's written by a core AArch64 developer on the lack of a full-function boot ROM on most ARM single-board computers, forcing developers and users to fight with vendor-specific bootloaders.

> So SBC… Which means playing with U-Boot. In the past it meant random fork of it. [...] you have bootloader(s) built. The next step is taking microsd card, finding out which offsets to use. Then put bootloader(s) at proper places so CPU can read them and boot. Usually it also means that you have to use MBR style formatting [...]

The reason? A EEPROM chip is too expensive, an astronomical cost of $3! The author was half-joking, but only serious - $3 is really expensive for most single-board computers.

> The solution is SPI flash chip. But it is very expensive - 3 (three) EUR for 512Mb (64MB) chip (if bought 1000 of them). Far too much for 99.99% of SBC probably. Probably 64/128Mb will be enough even. And they are cheaper (128Mb is 1.7 EUR). Still too expensive…

[0] https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2020/01/29/the-most-expens...
Here is a previous decision on race from SCOTUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford

Maybe they get it wrong sometimes?
Install F-droid, or one of the Chinese markets.
I was referring the the balance of power between large states (House) and small states (Senate) as a metaphor for not wholly espousing the binary outcome equality of opportunity or equality of outcome.
For me, access implies the right, opportunity reflects the demonstration of those rights.

There are a lot of examples of equal access to programs in this country, by the letter of the law, but in practice locally, folks were unable to access these opportunities.

The FHA most immediately comes to mind. The letter of the law of FHA versus local implementation by local banks, bank executives, realtors, mortgage brokers, even home sellers were able deny opportunity though technically these programs were accessible to all.
Tesla's first car, the Roadster, sold for $120k (~$145k today after inflation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(2008)

Gotta start somewhere.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.
We have created for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology.
Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths.
Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.
We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.
Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.
We shall prevail!
In serious "oppression olympics" circles, I've seen it claimed that they're "not people of colour", aka they're white.

Which is an indirect way of achieving the same ends.
I’m fine with that as well. I’m good with both Apple taking the game down as well as Epic filing a lawsuit.
Separate hardware and software. If you buy an iPhone, you have the right to put whatever software you want on it. Similarly - Apple can restrict whatever software they provide to you on those devices in return. Future software updates, App store, iCloud etc.
Equality of outcome would mean that the race/ethnicity/etc proportion of people admitted to Yale would be similar to the appropriate proportion in the general community instead of being wildly different.

Equality of opportunity would mean that if two equally qualified persons of different races/ethnicities/etc have the same chance of getting admitted.

The big issue is that you can't have both, mostly due to various family and childhood circumstances that mean that different groups have different rates of "getting to X years old with qualifications/skills/preparations Y".

For Yale admissions, you can have one, or the other, or a compromise in the middle. You can have a situation that's unfair/unequal according to both criteria, but you can't get both "types of equality" at the same time, as increasing one generally requires to trade off or sacrifice the other.
What percentage is reasonable?

For a $20 app the current model is that you pay Apple $6. If you waved a wand and made it 20% you pay Apple $4. So the difference in this case is only $2 (while you get $16). That's small potatoes.
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It reminds me a bit what my parents told me about the soviet union. So basically it was kind of the same. Too much jews in the universities, so lets discriminate them. The same is going on here, as far as race plays any role.
Kind of sad to see this kind of decision making around the globe.
Let’s be honest, this has been coming for a while, like the ever increasing length, irritation and regularity of YouTube ads, Apple has been training you to accept an App Store only Mac. My guess is the Arm Macs will knock everyone’s socks off with freakish thinness, unreal battery life and performance, be extremely cheap and completely lock down the computer to Apple taking 30% of every piece of software you purchase and Apple being the only way to install software.
I keep hearing "general computing device."

Define this.
Didn't the supreme court rule in favor of hardvard in a recent discrimination case? How are the facts different in this case?
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The villain in the original ad was, I believe, the IBM.
> Jearl suggested that the most likely explanation for this was evaporation: when water cools down from near boiling to the freezing point, as much as 16 percent evaporates away, compared to 7 percent for water at 160 degrees.
Will probably bear much less weight than usual, since those TOS themselves are effectively the subject of the suit.
This is too expensive and short range to sell in any significant numbers. That said, batteries are steadily becoming more energy-dense and less expensive. That means the proportion of cases where an electric boat makes sense will be steadily increasing.
A similar issue came up in relation to California's rules against giving IQ tests to black students:

"Amaya said Fontana school officials tried to explain their action by showing her copies of Peckham’s 131-page ruling. Because Amaya is a Latina and Demond of mixed racial heritage, officials told her she could have her son reclassified as Latino and he could be tested."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-05-mn-139-st...
>proven

Nothing was proven. This is just an allegation right now.

Wait until the court date. And then the SCOTUS overruling the decision, because like you said: discrimination is required for affirmative action. And universities like Yale are specifically allowed to discriminate for that purpose.

For any allegation to stick, the Feds will have to show that the reason was not for diversity. Which, obviously, it is.
I've had a couple of observations about this whole process, and I would love to be convinced (either way!) with real data / evidence.

1) For all the contortions that universities in the US go to, to adjust and hand-tune their population -- does it produce a meaningfully better class than if they used a simple score cutoff? Would such a class (chosen by simple, unbiased score cutoff) be so much worse at innovation, leadership, (alumni donations??) than a class chosen by our heavy judgement-laden process? Sports, maybe?

What is all this extra effort and political decision-making worth, in actual outcome? Many other countries use purely exam based entrance. Or allow anyone in, and test them once there and kick out if they don't pass. What is the value of the "high judgement" method of admissions? Is it that you're more likely to produce a president or CEO?

2) To echo Justice O'Connor's final question on the matter in oral arguments, when do we know that we're done with this policy? Who says we're done and fixed the situation? How will we know we've reached a point where we can agree that we've achieved something that was the goal, or is it just arbitrary, up to whomever is in power at the moment? If not, will this just go on forever? Is that not ripe for some bad side effects, or worse, corruption of the process?

3) Why have universities adopted themselves as the place where this modification of outcomes should be applied? As I understand it, the problem of diversity etc. etc. happens long before the college/university stage. Attempting to fix it at the end does no one very much good, than if the effort was applied earlier in students' lives. Or, the metrics by which you decide if it's working become softer and softer.

I struggle to find satisfactory answers to these questions, and therefore don't find myself convinced for why AA is reasonable (or legal).
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She was arguably a bit careless in the moment that lead to them getting caught, and since pushing that stack of fliers wasn't really useful for their greater aims, that kinda proves your point as well. The idea of the White Rose not getting caught, so rather shortly before the end of the Nazi regime, and Sophie Scholl writing more letters, or even books, is fit to make me cry with homesickness. It's an unspeakable loss.

But otherwise, if you read the interrogation transcripts, I don't think she regretted anything. She knew what she was doing and why she did it, and she knew she did well. IMO her life ended so much better than that of people who just give in to pressure against their conscience. It's not like those are immortal, and then they have to spend the rest of their time with who they became, too. Some find a way back, most don't. As Shakespeare wrote, the coward dies a thousand deaths -- Sophie Scholl died but one, and it was rather majestic, if you squint just right.

I still wish she would never had a chance to prove her greatness in this particular manner and had survived instead, so don't take this as me negating your point.
I may get a lot of hate for this... But I think affirmative action has opposite the desired effect. The majority groups are dicriminated against by design. I don't think this does anything to fix the tensions causing racism in the first place. I think it makes them worse.

The government should find a way to benefit minorities without outright descrimination against those that doesn't fit their definition. My personal favorite idea is improving schools. If we diverted enough money and resources to primary schools in poor areas, we could achieve similar outcomes to affirmative action without just switching the groups we discrimate against.
> People with mixed backgrounds choose the category with the most affirmative action benefits.

This statement is a sweeping assumption about a whole lot of people.
Also for anyone too young to remember the dot com boom, the founding partners (Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz) are some of the legendary techies from that cycle (of Netscape and LoudCloud/Opsware fame, way ahead of their time)
There is something else wrong with your server. Very wrong. You need to do some process tracing and find out what syacalls are so expensive that you're seeing this kind of CPU usage
You're conflating different things under the header of "Apple's iron grip" here. It is beneficial to your parents that Apple prevents spyware better than Google does. It is not beneficial to your parents that they obsessively seek and destroy any way developers might get a single dollar from an iPhone user without giving Apple 30¢.
How do rural folk benefit from either? Distances are too great for biking and the lack of density precludes mass-transit.
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That kind of quantitative methodology was scrutinized in Gratz v. Bollinger, and judged to be illegal.
I don't know about Sony, but I'm pretty sure Apple got the idea for their app store business model from Nintendo, who notoriously was the king of the walled garden business model. I'm pretty sure Nintendo took a 30% cut as well.

The only reason Sony is not charging exorbitant amounts (if they really aren't) is because they're in heated competition with Microsoft over being the preferred first release platform of popular games.
No no no, that's because you didn't burn it down the right way. You just need to fundamentally change human behavior and motivations for it to work. I don't get why this is so hard to understand
>Seeing as even comments can get stale, how accurate do these docs stay?

Part of the idea is that they're immutable, append-only. They express why an architecture / decision was made, when it was made.
Got you, thank you very much!
But you don't have to buy an Apple phone.
That'd be Blizzard without even googling if there was a steam exclusive
It was also in Battlefield 4 ("Rogue Transmission")
Truly equal access would not result in equal graduation rates or equal outcomes.

I don't think "equal access" is really what the crowd most ardently pushing this would accept.
I don't think online lectures is the opportunity that plaintiffs in this case felt they were deprived of.

Do you think that "we simply need to publish all lectures online free of charge" is a good answer for the plaintiffs?
Android can easily sideload applications or use other app stores. It simply isn't a problem there.
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I'm not making a disingenuous argument, I'm saying exactly the same thing that most of the people replying to your original post are saying.

You've taken the phrase and made up a new definition for it. I'm saying that the phrase already has a definite meaning. Feel free to make up your own phrase though...so long as it's unique.
“is not a computer”...
If we just hadn't cancelled Eich because he once gave $1000 to a cause that isn't in vogue, the internet might actually have two popular browsers.

Instead we have a CEO who is destroying Mozilla while profiting handsomely.

But at least she is woke.
> Fortnite could have chosen a different game engine at the start (this is not about terms changing after all)

Right. Apple's terms were clear from the start, so Fortnite had no reasonable expectation to be allowed to violate them. Just like Fortnite could have chosen to use a different game engine if they didn't like the terms of a particular game engine, they could choose to focus on non-Apple platforms (or choose to abide by Apple's terms on Apple's platform) if they don't like Apple's terms. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
> And in fact Microsoft tried this (both with Windows RT and Windows 10 S) and in both cases few people bought in (or, in some cases, wound up 'confused' that other software wouldn't run, leading to the eventual sunsetting of Windows 10 S).

It’s funny to me that One of Microsoft's strongest arguments is “well we tried it and consumers don’t want it that way unless forced upon them”.
Dark-suckers.

http://web.mit.edu/kolya/misc/txt/dark_suckers
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The price was right on a PS VR, so I got one and thought briefly about playing around with VR using Unity. The ecosystem was so locked down (and becoming an official developer such a challenge) that I gave up and never looked back.

The appeal of developing in Apple's ecosystem has always been the exposure to large audiences, the (relatively decent) tooling, and the ability to creatively actualize your ideas. That last one goes away when Apple starts looking more like Sony.

I'll leave it up to lawyers to decide if this is illegal, but I know this certainly makes me less excited about developing my next iOS/OSX app
I mean, I see a ton of articles of "newly discovered species" that the locals knew about ages ago. As well as "newly discovered pharmaceuticals" or any of that other stuff. I never attributed this to some kind of patriarchy or male worldview. I think it's totally rational to argue that sometimes the scientific method, which was developed in a european country, takes time to catch up to local knowledge in non-european countries.

I don't really see any scientific study or evidence to prove that science is somehow being overtaken by some narrative force. A random's tweet doesn't prove much to me. Of course, if science does prove your claim, the paradox is that science is again catching up to the observations of the locals (of the internet).
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This years UCSF admissions also caught a stir. Asian admission cut in half from 40 in 2019 to 22% in 2020. Student demo suggest it was cut from 60% the years prior.
> A federal judge in 2019 cleared Harvard of discriminating against Asian American applicants
It can easily be argued that the app store is just as much the product as the A13 chip.
Apple isn't forcing game developers to put their games in Apple App store. Go build on android.
> These sorts of absolutes show a complete detachment from reality and absence of any practical experience in the field.

But you are making these baseless assertions yourself?

Obviously you can have issues if you are not using automated linting (both in the editor and on CI). That’s part of the failure.
Except Microsoft did not create and sol you the hardware?
And the 1968 Hong Kong flu, which killed 1-4 million people, world population half of what it is today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic
My high school chemistry teacher simplified it down to the greater "rate of change" of temperature dropping, for the hot water, causes it to end up freezing faster than the cold water.
I would happily trade away:

- 1 whole semester of in-person instruction for all 56 million school-aged kids in the US

In exchange for:

- The cumulative remaining years of the 50k(?), 100k(?), possibly even more that will die directly from the virus in the US alone

- Freedom from long-term health issues caused by the virus for another several hundred thousand at minimum who won't die but also won't get "the flu"

Now your turn. What is your number?
Even though I empathize Francoise Brougher's experience, I don't think this has much to do with gender bias. First, reading the article again, one can completely replace the gender points and the entire argument still holds. This is just typical company politics and employees vs founders vs senior leadership fights. I doubt the author may also know this but just use gender bias to catch eyes and align with the main stream discussion about gender inequality. Second, how do you know Ben and the other two executives are men? They could be LGBTQ. What if Ben and the other two men stood out and declared themselves as female? Did the author have gender bias?
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If Yale doesn't choose to fight it, it will fall on colleges with less resources.
Because you may understand that if you sell 10,000 units at $5.99 you may sell 20,000 units at $4.25.
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