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the stock market itself is the result of a conscious policy decision because it's a tightly regulated legal fiction, not some random thing that plopped out of thin air. Trading securities is subject to countless of regulations, which is what makes it attractive to investors in the first place.

So, the fact that stock market allocates capital efficiently is true in a broad sense but says nothing about how participation or regulation ought to look.

The second statement also is too vague. Stock returns should arguably be available to all, but activities like day-trading almost exclusively produce losers. Pretty much the only reliable way for the average Joe to make money on stocks is to passively invest, which again means this does nothing to justify the existence of Robinhood's model. Distributing the returns of stocks and design of the market are orthogonal issues, or if anything justify more restrictions.

If you want equitable distribution of stock returns you put everyone's money into a sovereign wealth fund that invests into some index fund and send everybody a check at the end of the year
Well, then you've still destroyed small independent software vendors, open source projects, and individual projects for which the cost and complications of running an LLC as a liability shield is unsustainable.

The issue with defining liability here is primarily what conduct should make a company liable in the first place (and doing so in a way without horrible consequences for user freedom), not what the damages can be.
You phrase this as an either/or proposition... either 1 app store with its gatekeepers and rules (and frankly, the Steam supremacy was a good king to live under...)

The real answer is neither. Fuck all these proprietary launchers and app stores. There are other answers.... personally I feel like these platforms need to be run and controlled by a nonprofit, with a charter that holds customers' and business' needs equally without a primary duty to greedy shareholders. Either that or sideloading

edit- and I think most folks are OK with living under a good , just king. Steam is this, and many argue that Apple was this at some point in their past. Since we are all apparently too stupid to handle a truly distributed method of installing software like sideloading or old-school brick and mortar retail, we have to learn to live with a store of some kind, with all that entails. And in that case, we're OK if the platform is fair and just

> because they'd either have been capriciously rejected, or because their developers can't make the terms work to their satisfaction

edit2- this never really happened with Steam, amazingly enough. Surely there are edge cases, and there are certainly reports of Steam staff working with devs to ensure a positive release (which is a nice way of saying they have probably forced developers to alter their product), and Valve has certainly made some bad decisions (which they thankfully backed down on). But Steam was such an improvement over the old distribution model that its downsides were almost unfairly outweighed by its upsides. And now they own the market with such a large competitive moat that Epic has to give away boatloads of free games (and good ones too!) and a PR campaign of trashing competitors just to seed their userbase.
Is the program even available in the EU?
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Because it’s the least worst option.
Authorized Service Providers and Independent Repair Provider are two separate programs. IRP was created a few years ago specifically for iOS devices. This article says that it's expanding to Macs.

ASPs have been around for decades. Computing stores in many US colleges/universities are ASPs. In the past, when Macs were much simpler, they were allowed to do a fair amount of work on then. However, you're right. As Macs have changed and everything has become fused together, ASPs have basically just become an interface between the customer and real Apple. Basically a "Genius" bar not in an Apple Store.
Actually, the scenario you describe "one store chain in each reason" is a common scenario. Outside of major urban centers it's not uncommon to have a single grocery store, hardware store, etc.

Energy distribution is different because it's a government granted monopoly.
I have very little experience with the other BSD flavors, but FreeBSD will be different than Linux, for sure. I used to use Slackware and I would say FreeBSD is fairly comparable from a “clean slate” perspective (although now it’s gotten much more full featured). On the surface you will get the usual support for Firefox, your choice of windows manager (I use xfce) and so on, but expect to do some tweaking. Using xfce as an example, the basic install is very different and fundamental than what you might find on something like Linux Mint, but if you see something you like, once you know you can do it, it’s typically not too time consuming to figure out how. More of this will be on your shoulders though. Sometimes you’ll find small things like right clicking on an archive to trigger an unpack won’t work out of the box, you’ll need to add that yourself. But once you get things dialed in, they stay.

After some reflection, I think the number one reason I’ve stayed with FreeBSD all this time is it’s so dang stable and it just works. Historically speaking, I can’t think of anything radical ever happening since I’ve been using it. When it comes time to upgrade it’s been fairly painless which boils down to making a backup and running a couple commands (crossing your fingers is optional, but I think it helps).

TrueOS may be tempting but my experience with it was not very good. In fairness maybe it’s better now. I just use the vanilla release and chug along and won’t deviate again. No point.

But for you – not sure. I write code for my bread and butter and am steeped in technology – I most certainly have blinders regarding the complexity involved, but again, if you’ve been using Linux for 10 years this may not be an issue for you.

*Edited for ramble.
This is very cool! I was building something similar but with a different crowd in mind, basically inbetween business and ops people as a "data sanity gatekeeper".

I was debating going with a similar stack (postgres(t)) but am currently playing around with sqlitebiter. Cool to see a similar product like this!
And the council members are so incapable of critical thought that they believe that the loud nutjobs who show up are representative of their constituents?
The summarizer is actually really intelligent. It will rewrite some sections of the text (although subtly) in natural ways. Definitely an abstractive summarizer
Increasingly for me it comes down to "principle".

If you try to support all the features that could be supported, you will end up buried in the bottommost layers of the tech stack, because that is how these things always turn out.

If you try to make life as easy as possible, in contrast, you most likely end up sucked into the Web stack and limited by what the browser does.

If you try to make the project "minimal" you may end up boiling the water into an empty pot - it does nothing because it wasn't trying to do anything.

But if you have other principles in mind as you start the project you can evaluate the stack in terms of whether it facilitates study of each principle. "Minimal" is just the principle people tend to grab when they lack for others - add others and minimalism has the intended clarifying effect. There are still tradeoffs to that, but they are much less deleterious.

What other principles can be applied to software? You have many options: Ethical concepts, of course, center the good for society. Cosmology often has ideas for the specific design paradigms. And artistic ideas like improvisation, remix, and so on suggest the mode of use. Most software tends to assume Taylorism by default: Automating for speed and productivity along a few measurable axes. If you relax that assumption you can often streamline the features.

In any case, having a set of principles in hand lets you shop for tech purposefully: From principles you end up with rules, and from rules, specifications. That makes evaluation easy.
They do. These types of Qualcomm modems run QuRT, a proprietary RTOS, on the Hexagon processor which handles the baseband and the LTE stack. There is also a shitty little core that runs "psuedo-Android" - you have adb and things like that, but it's mostly a more traditional embedded Linux environment- and handles certain AT commands (they actually go to the baseband first, but get IPCed over to Linux for handling after parsing if they match a registered command).

With root on psuedo-Android, you can probably get code exec on Hexagon - especially for the cheaper modems, they have an older version of the Hexagon architecture and to work under this architecture things like ASLR are relatively rare. But it's more work - there's no obvious "execute arbitrary shellcode" IPC message, you need to do more RE/VR.
Did you even see that stupid youtube? It kind of pissed them off!
Hmm hn usually shadowban you less swear words..
Is there a reason you don't wish to batch inserts into transaction(s)? Otherwise, you're asking the database to commit (fsync to disk) between each insert statement.

Other ideas:

- Have multiple processes inserting in parallel (this interacts with the commit_delay and commit_siblings settings in postgresql.conf)

- Use unlogged tables (but table is truncated on db startup)

- Put fsync=off and synchronous_commit=off in postgresql.conf (but db may be corrupted in a crash)

- switching to BRIN indexes might be an option, but depends on data
The question too is whether UNIX is copyrighted due to the pre-berne convention distribution of the system w/o copyright notices... And there's also a question of latches as well should this ever be litigated (I suspect it won't, but I never anticipated the SCO suit, so there you go).
right now alot of people are looking for work. the less people that apply, the better your chances are of getting the job. so if you see that only 3 people have applied, then you apply and flood indeed so it shows over 100 people applied, chances are noone else will apply. your odds of getting the job have gone up.
I'm retail and if someone was front running me they would be broke by now. A lot of the brokers have terms where they trade against your position.
As a daily user of Linux for the best part of a decade I'm curious where Linux falls short for you?
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Robinhoods advertising is disgusting. Encouraging people who make very little money to gamble that money on the stock market is just taking advantage of those who don't know any better - do you really expect to compete with the investors paying 20k for a Bloomberg terminal, who get all the news 15 minutes before you can even hear about it?

If they had been advertising about how low their fees are, and how you can invest your savings in ETFs or something I would have no problem with it since that is a reasonable thing to do. But suggesting that the average low income person should be day trading is just predatory.

I even saw an ad (not 100% sure if it was Robinhood but a similar product) that was telling a story about how someone was in tens of thousands of dollars in debt, and day traded until they were out of debt. All these trading apps seem to be targeted at people who will almost certainly lose money, and who generally don't have much to lose. I mean I have no problem with an app advertising an easy way to do day trading, just don't act as if it is anything other than gambling.
It's a common enough term of art in political discussions. I wouldn't think twice about using it.
Like I said, arbitrary line drawing. The only reason you can't do photo editing on a switch is that Nintendo hasn't approved a photo editing app on its store.

How is that really different than what Apple does?
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> They want to ensure that games are of high quality so as to not hurt the reputation of the platform itself. They want games to help sell consoles. And that's how video game consoles always worked.

And my argument is that an overall better (according to each individual buyer's preference) software experience is a major (perhaps the single largest) differentiator of iPhones over competing smartphones. This has always been a major part of Apple's marketing and indeed is the primary reason I use an iPhone. Yes, on the iPhone it's "games and other apps" instead of just games, but I don't see that being a major difference (particularly since game consoles can serve other purposes too, like media consumption and home automation).

My argument is that iPhones are and have always been essentially "the game console of smartphones" or "the appliance of smartphones." In fact, that type of description is often used both pejoratively by iPhone haters and lovingly by iPhone fans. They're simply not made for or marketed to people who want a general-purpose Unix PC with a cell phone antenna built in, even though technically they are essentially that (note, of course, that iPhones and game consoles are technically general purpose computers, but that's not really relevant).

> They're general-purpose devices at this point — both by design and by how Apple markets them. The problem is, both developers and users see the app store and its policies as a nuisance.

I strongly disagree with your impression here. My impression has been that complaints about App Store rules have overwhelmingly come from a small number of extremely large developers (unsurprisingly, developers that are big enough that they want to make a play to shift some of Apple's market power toward themselves). I don't see iPhone owners complaining about App Store rules, and I suspect one reason is that anyone who values being able to sideload any software on their smartphone has many very nice Android options.
I'm also a 9-hour-a-day person. My partner is probably at 7, but gets up quietly. I can function ok with 7, but I'm miserable and much less functional with anything less. Up late packing and up early for a flight? Misery. But, though I won't be going again soon, I enjoy a lot of the aspects of flight and most importantly, I don't have to think much during.
Looks like there was local resistance to the project. Here's a synopsis of the retrospective documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbArKOxg2w
It absolutely shared history with Larry Wall's patch.... It took the 2.0 sources and started improving them. I ran across a blurb about this somewhere. Also, the code structure is clearly derivative: variable names, function names, wording of messages.
A single human is smart, people are stupid.

They’ll install ANYTHING, no matter how hard it is and how shady the site is. They can’t help themselves.

Then their phone is rooted by a bad actor and spreading malware. Who do they blame? Themselves? The shady site? The creator of the trojan?

Nope. Apple. They’ll shout from the rooftops how Apple ruined their life and business and remand restitution.

The easiest and most reliable way to prevent this is to lock people in a walled garden and make sure they don’t poke themselves with anything sharp. Yes, it sucks for the smart ones who know that shart things hurt, but that’s the way it’s gotta be.
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The mechanisms used by Hey and xCloud would clearly be used by less trustworthy companies for nefarious purposes.

Hey was able to alter their app trivially to comply with the guidelines, so it actually represents nothing at all here.

xCloud can’t be altered to comply, but nevertheless if app steaming were allowed in general, all of App review could be bypassed by bad actors.
Nintendo never puts their games on sale but Fortnite is free, plenty of games go on sale all the time, and Epic is welcome to add to that list of free and discounted games if they're so inclined.
I thought we/the usa stopped kidnapping people and torturing them with Bush2 leaving office. Is that not true? Any recent cases? I am aware we still keep people in Guantanamo and Obama and trump order the murder of people. But secret kidnapping was over I hoped. Maybe the next pres will stop extra-judicial killings?
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I don't see a huge issue there. You need not necessarily be able to run your code in parallel to game, the console could provide the option to run either your game or other code.

Of course you can now make the argument that any form of code execution increases the attack surface. And you're right but hypervisors can be quite effective. Also the XBOX One can be put in developer mode to run arbitrary UWP apps and has not yet had any major exploits (to my knowledge), where the PS4 has no similar features, but has had several firmware versions with significant security flaws.
Perl’s DBD::CSV can do this. I would be surprised if Python didn’t have something similar.
Shar's workaround is for leading white space. This is change is for not assuming traling newlines.
Lack of access to capital.
I'm not following your example on the homebuilding company. It all seems nebulous to me. Could you help clarify?

Where is the 10% profit coming from, and how are you able to afford a home for yourself from the ten that you built?
Are you using the profit off the other 9 homes to fund your own home? (i.e. the profit is the 10th home?)

Maybe the root question to all that is: What do you mean by "the amount of wealth in the world actually increased?" I don't truly understand that.

The only way you have profit is by not paying the laborers their worth who built the homes.
If you have a profit margin of 10% then you're paying your workers 10% less than what they should be getting paid.

Now, taxes and wealth redistribution sounds like a huge caveat to me. You tax the profits from the home building and redistribute it.
Why bother with the whole home building thing in the first place? It seems like extra steps Why not just build and give people homes and skip the the intermediary step of money?

Another question for your homebuilding example: Why do you think you deserve a house for essentially free using your "profits" while other people have to pay for the house?
What makes you better than them? (This is not directed at you, but the hypothetical homebuilder. If it's reading as adversarial, I don't mean for it to be.)

Your home building scenario with profit margins is a great example of how profit totally distorts motives so that the problem you're solving isn't meeting people's needs, but instead meeting the need of making more money.
In the US, we have a housing problem. We have lots of homeless. We have the technology to build people homes (even efficient, dense housing), but since it's not profitable, it doesn't get done.

For anything like that to get done in our society, it must be profitable. You can see this in action with how much of our public services are struggling.
private kindergarten - 3 weeks virtual only, then 100% in school (10 kids)

private 2nd, 7th - 3 weeks virtual only, then hybrid model. One week on, one week off, 10 kids in class.

I ran calculations for the probability of a serious infection and it is something like

1% prevalence *
5% transmission rate
1% hospitalization rate

.0005% chance per contact of being hospitalized

chance your child doesnt get hospitalized per extended contact .99995

with 10 children in the class plus a teacher, the probability of being hospitalized is .99995^10 or 1/20,000

I can work from home and my wife is a stay at home. I know a little about a lot of things so can teach them pretty much anything. We had a lot of fun in the spring.

I dont love the pandemic, but it has been great for us as a family.
Xbox isn't central to modern life like a smartphone is. Also, the game consoles use a razor/blades model, they're sold at a loss and make money through the sale of games. Smartphones are not sold at a loss.
This UK government did away with most coursework and also with sitting half of the papers in your penultimate year, half the next. Against the guidance of most universities and schools. And setting themselves up for this.
You can't do that... Hey got taken down for exactly this.
They also hide certain aircrafts.
But wouldn't losing 9% of production reduce peak capacity as well?
> Google doesn't do that because that would be an abuse of their market position and they would get rinsed in the courts.

Are you sure that Google doesn't do that because the Android platform is an extremely viable and lucrative alternative to iPhones, and that people who value the ability to sideload software on their smartphones flock to Android for precisely this reason?
It's so natural and normal to rely on extended family and community for help. For some reason, I think American culture encourages us to be more independent and self-sufficient as the end game. I bet it brought your family, friends and colleagues a lot of joy to be involved in your children's lives. We are two and I do not know how we'd do it without grandparents and honorary grandparents.
>where is academia?

Where is the need? The web was invented to expedite publishing journal articles. Unless you're advocating that academics start publishing apps instead of articles, I don't think we can expect some unrelated non-profit sector to solve society's problems.
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"Even if we were, net zero by 2070 (the optimistic outcome here!?) would be pointless, civilisation would be over long before then anyway."

Why?

Even with every worst case szenario of continous droughts and floods and loss of some islands and coastal land etc.

We could grow everything we need in (automated) greenhouses.

Only if the transistion chaos leads to all out nuclear war, but that is not really a fixed thing.
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Hey, I‘m at the point where you are.

Nothing to add, just good to see I‘m still not insane and all the best to you.
It's always odd to hear people complain about California weather.
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> civilisation would be over long before then anyway

What are you even talking about? If you are truly worried about climate change then this hyperbole reflects poorly on your cause.
So any action what-so-ever in response to an action you claim is called retaliation? Fine, call it whatever you want, it is reality. Epic clearly picked this fight, let's see how it goes for them.
What do you think about the chance of your child passing on the disease to someone older or the teacher?
> Moreover, Amazon couldn’t even tell users to visit Amazon.com, much less offer a link or, as Android allows, a webview of the store.

I was recently baffled by this on the Bandcamp app. You can't purchase music through their iOS app, and there isn't even a link to the website where you can purchase it. Instead there's just a "purchasing music is not supported on this device" message.

Likewise, on my own app, I had a blog post (webview) about our patreon (with a link, of course). And Apple flagged it during a random bug fix app update. So I had to edit the blog post and remove the link to our Patreon. And from what I could tell, there isn't even a way to use the proper Apple Pay/whatever system with Patreon subscriptions.
Apps and videos pose different security risks, but I assume you know this.
That's a bizarre argument. It seems to imply that Apple could avoid these allegations by either increasing or decreasing the restrictions they place on third-party developers.