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I get that I am in the minority here. I also get that 30% is a lot (maybe too much). However, I do worry about getting legislation involved as usually they tend to make things worse. For example, imagine the EU mandated a universal port back when USB-A was all we had.

I’m just hoping they don’t force Apple to open the iPhones. I really don’t want to deal with having to “redo” phones for family members regularly.
Yup, Tony Stark's transparent phone looks futuristic:

http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/01/tony-stark-trans...
Anyone who didn't know that Yale discriminates in their application process has never heard of the Bush family dynasty or they are as thick as a brick.
Which schools?

The school in question never formally disallowed blacks.

"Yale’s first black graduate was Courtland Van Rensselaer Creed, who received his medical degree in 1857 and went on to have a prominent practice in New York City"
I don't think it is, since FAST (finished 2016) wasn't finished until well after the game had been released (2013)—on the other hand, parts of it were built (FAST was started 2011), so perhaps there was partial inspiration? I'm honestly not sure, but certainly a lot of the design is much more similar to Arecibo (if memory serves me right).

I also haven't played the game in years, so take this with a grain of salt :)
For just 29,99 EUR per month
Russian empire had the same policy. They justified it by the fact that unversities were financed by public money, and it would be unfair if most of the student, who this money would go to, turned out jews due to "this group's propensity" to education.
It's a little weird to say that the app store has a monopoly on distributing apps on iPhones.

Does Apple also have a monopoly on writing the OS that runs on iPhones?

Do they also have a monopoly on creating the iPhone hardware? And choosing what they write in press releases?
This simply isn't true, the market is too diverse to make any assumption like you just did. Some do upgrade based on "hardware specs." Go ask your mom what mhz are. Yea, I'll wait.

iOS is the large reason people choose iPhones over Android. The phone is simply a portal to iOS.

Without the OS the phone is essentially a brick. To argue the hardware is the only product is an absolute falsehood.
The video on this link was absolutely striking. The moment we divide up America into racial groups, and then start recruiting, selecting, hiring and prosecuting people based on their race; the fabric of this nation will tear apart.

It is impossible to be a centrist. HN brings you downvotes when you convey a balanced view; friends in silicon valley despise you for offering a nuanced opinion, you get singled out and suppressed. Freedom of speech is degraded by extreme left-wing populace. Extreme right-wingers want a full authoritarian government but at the same time want freedom of speech and expression. That's contradicting and makes no sense.

I feel like leaving the United States and going to a place where there is more unity, thoughtful discourse and peace. Both left and right sides are to be blamed.
> The majority groups are decriminalized against by design

I think autocorrect failed here. Did you mean to say "discriminated against by design"?
Certainly. But I don't think there's anything inherently immoral to that. Market value of item is X - that's what the customer will be paying. There's more value, theoretically, to the customer, in paying that to the producer directly - more income for them, more incentive to continue producing or improving. Similar for the producer, more revenue.

No-one gains value out of rent-seeking middlemen but rent-seeking middlemen.

Note: I am not saying the Apple Store doesn't not add value in terms of payment processing, exposure, bandwidth, and so on. But I will argue strongly that you'll have a hard time showing that this added value is _worth_ that thirty percent cut. I also highly doubt that should it be three percent (as indeed it is on the MAS!), this lawsuit, these arguments, would not be being had.
Many Canadians have known about this for a while, here is what it looks like...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_K6wAARLio
> It should be up to me, not Apple, what software I would like to run on my device.

Sorry, you are building a strawman here.

1) You have the full right to do whatever you want with your phone. I don't argue with that, it's the truth.

2) Apple need not to help you to do whatever you want with your phone.

For some reason you confuse your right to do whatever you want with your phone with Apple's obligation to help you with that.

Do reverse engineering, flash custom OS, jailbreak, it's your right, but Apple has no obligation to help you with that. If it's to hard for you to do whatever you want with their device, buy another vendor's device then.
Meanwhile, I read on this thread that UCSF admitted less Asians.

It was 40% last year. It's been now cut to 22%.

That is a gigantic shift of a demographic of a new medical school class. Within one year.
As a brown guy with a beard, I’ve felt comfortable almost everywhere in the US I’ve been, including rural Illinois, Georgia, and Texas. In my experience, Americans are very uniformly warm and welcoming. Sydney I felt less welcome.
>Mozilla's revenue is $400M a year.

And it can easily drop to $0M a year.

Meanwhile, a good consulting can grow to tens of millions, and even be acquired by a company like MS, etc.
It's quite practical. Takes a few minutes at most to change by hand.
iOS holds >58% of the US mobile market as of July 2020.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
How is everyone's first reaction not that this is Trump electioneering? I have no idea if there's merit here or not, but the replies below seem to largely fail to acknowledge two facts:

(a) All top schools weigh race and gender. They consider student body diversity important. You can disagree that they should, but it's true.

(b) Bill Barr's DOJ is one of the least trustworthy entities in the USA on this subject this side of the KKK.
Even with the baseline+diversity system, you have a situation where people will be rejected because they are of race X - but if everything was exactly the same about them except they were of race Y, they would have been accepted. To me, that seems like textbook racism.

Also, the diverse argument doesn't hold much water to me, because they basically only want a diverse group in terms of race, but not other factors such as income diversity, height diversity, ugliness/beauty diversity, national diversity, parental-scholastic-achievement diversity, athletic diversity, etc.

Imagine if an NBA team said "Sorry, we can't hire you, we have too many black people playing right now"
1. The Harvard case is being appealed. It could certainly work it’s way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

2. The facts are not entirely clear how Yale is using race but a “disparate impact” analysis may yield some insight.
> Tesla has more than enough data to unlock autonomous vehicles

Many people in the automotive industry, myself included, disagree with this statement pretty strongly. Driving data quantity is not equivalent to quality and they are severely lacking in advanced sensor data.
I'm not sure an adversity could ever be anything but subjective.
Amazon can be held liable for products sold on Marketplace, appeals court rules
I'm a software developer considering releasing a mobile version of my software. Is there a way to completely bypass the iOS app store and allow users to download and install iOS apps from Safari? I hear stories like this all the time and don't want to touch the App Store one bit.

Can this be done with Android? Perhaps I could release for Android-only and allow the app to be downloaded with Chrome.
>And in the case of Apple, who killed Flash to help the open web, have knee-capped PWA support on their mobile platforms to force developers to leave their cut of sales through the App Store.

Knee-capped? For years Safari had the best PWA support compared to Android.

And at first it even asked developers to make PWAs, and they said "no, we want native apps".
Ppl still use Google for searches?

Mind.blown.
That does not show, however, that "personality" is used as a "cover" for discrimination. That argument, in fact, implicitly assumes equalism (i.e. that all groups have equal distributions of traits), which in turn justifies representation-based admissions. It is self-defeating in that regard.
at least it would be more intellectually honest and transparent.
Asians experience a lot of racism too. It’s not always the clear cut racism other groups experience but it is reliable enough to have a definite impact. Sometimes it’s country club style “I have an Asian friend” or “not you though”. And then admissions turns around and lumps Asia all together with negative quotas even though there are rather meaningful differences between south, SEA, and east Asian countries and cultures. So someone saying check your privilege to someone who’s parents may very well have earned them that privilege the hard way sounds hollow.
How do they reconcile that with the fact that it's possible to side load apps on iOS? Apple might monopolize the Apple App Store Distribution Market, but is that relevant to the legal argument?
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/ps4-pro/

"Pro" means absolutely nothing. It is a marketing label. Also the price means nothing. What's $1,000 (iPad Pro) to you is $500 (PS4 Pro) to me.
Isn't that obviously going to wean itself out of existence in a generation or two, if whites are (as alleged) being discriminated against so heavily?
The thing you describe works by passing an image through lenses, and reflecting it off the windscreen. That way, you can focus on it and the road at the same time. For transparent OLED-based systems, you'd have to stare at the windscreen to look at them – so you wouldn't see them on the road; they'd look much nearer.
Epic does charge a percentage of sales for use of the unreal engine....
A June 21 podcast episode interviewing Basecamp regaeding their fight against Apple's pulling their Hey! email app for the same reasons: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/is-apple-abusing-its-...

Isn't Apple's 30% cut way more than even the mafia charge local businesses when they force folks to pay protection fees? Or is that standard for monopolists?
Generations of Americans suffered a lifetime of inhaling airborne lead and we're all paying the price of it right now as our insane grandparents burn down the entire country.
This is a symptom of issues that still very much exist in the 21st century. In the US access to a good education is closely tied wealth, which is closely tied to homeownership and property values, which are in turn still benefiting from discriminatory housing policies [1].

As an example, the Bay Area has some of the best schools and most expensive real estate in the country. This is due to a lack of supply, yet to this day it is illegal to build high density and inexpensive housing in the vast majority of lots so that the less wealthy can start building equity, which again is a huge portion of wealth. Ordinances like high minimum lot sizes and low coverage were deliberately designed to make it more expensive for POC to buy into a neighborhood. This is covered extensively in The Color of Law, and is a great read [2].

Perhaps the better approach is to fix these systemic issues so that schools didn't have to compensate for them.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segreg...
In this case, was the Fortnight app removed from phones or was it just removed for new downloads from the app store? It sounds like the latter but the article is unclear.
I'd say, for those schools, last name might be more important than face or skin color.
Sounds great in theory. In practice, the aggregate outcome would be wealthy city-dwelling democrats subsiding poor rural republicans.
We've got it working! (for an unmanned sailboat)

https://www.saildrone.com/
I think if Yale had a true meritocracy for admissions, they would have a majority Asian student body.

And I think if they actually admitted all of the Asian students that fulfilled their acceptance criteria, they would probably want to expand the school so that a more diverse student body could fit into Yale.

Out of curiosity, I wonder how much larger Yale would have to be, in order to retain all th Black, Hispanic, and Native American students that they currently have, while also including the white and Asian students who were discriminated against.

Would Yale be twenty-five percent larger? Twice as large? What's the scale here?
Wait, so in a way they prefer bible studies over actual science?

I’m okay if people want to take a leap of faith, but don’t conflate that with science.
> The problem is student outcomes aren't linked to how much money and resources the school has, they're linked to how much money and resources the parents (and the network of the parents) of the children have.

The consistent positive outcomes of disadvantaged students in KIPP Academies would suggest this is not always the case.
It is the purpose of government to work ensure a healthy market economy. Although, ethics is important, it is far from the only goal. Backwards looking regulation patches places where the reality of a companies actions, lead to a stagnant and poorly competitive arena.

It’s well within the governments rights to say a transactional middleman service can only charge a certain fee. What is important to society is the success of the producers, not the rent seeking middleman.
> The thing is, if Apple alienates developers enough/makes them go bankrupt, the only applications you will be able to use would be the first party Apple ones. That won't be a very enjoyable thing, would be?

I doubt this is a popular opinion, but I'd rather use an iPhone right now with no third-party apps than an Android phone. I do use a few third-party apps on my iPhone, and I would miss them, but it wouldn't be enough to switch to Android.

> If a shopping mall was charging every store 30% of their revenue (not profit, revenue!), it would be very quickly going broke and empty. Yet Apple (and to a lesser degree Google, Facebook and a few others) is getting away with this - exactly because unlike the shopping mall, the developers don't have a choice. It is either play by Apple rules - or be excluded from a very sizeable part of the mobile market.

Would your opinion change if this shopping mall was one of many shopping areas in a large region, but its customers were vastly more likely to spend money, while the other shopping areas attracted mostly customers who walked around but didn't purchase much? Isn't that the analogy with Android, which is a very obvious alternative for both smartphone customers and developers? The only rebuttal I'm seeing is from developers complaining that Android users don't like to spend money on apps.
You are restricting other people's right to agree on terms they deem fit. It's unethical in my opinion, until an agreement hurt any third party.
No, it didn't.

One, it had no standing, nor contractual agreement (granted, a lawsuit can be a big weapon to wield).

> Ferrari took the most offense to his custom badges and floor mats with Purrari logos

And to look at that picture, you can see why, the logos were practically identical and arguable from a trademark infringement perspective.

But he was not and was never prohibited from painting his car (and a cease and desist is not a prohibition).
Can be certainly, but I'm not convinced it would be a selective advantage in all situations - when being coerced by a more powerful human or group of humans for example, it may be most adaptive to be pliant to the extrinsic motivation for co-operation but maintain an intrinsic motivation to act against the coercer's interest.
Android lets you install apps from any site without hassle.

And those apps can charge you money without giving Google a single dime.
+1 I can’t find a source for this. There are some tweets referencing this, but no official data.
I doubt it even costs them 12% to deliver games over a CDN. On a break-even project, the entire budget for the game would be only 8 times that.

I think they charge whatever they can get away with and meaningful competition will drive it down dramatically.
I wonder what kind of account the Home Assistant images are using. This could break a whole lot of stuff - and I've seen projects that don't publish a Dockerfile anywhere.
Ah, right, I read it differently but I think you're right. In my initial understanding the spammers hit back by a huge spam wave, but a counter DDoS could also be.
So if we go back 5 years and exclude the enterprise and exclude mobile devices where the majority of web traffic comes from - Mozilla is relevant?
JavaScript Face Detection and Recognition Libraries 2020
The difference is that if you own an Apple device, you knew you were buying into a walled garden ecosystem. Windows was not sold that way, so for them to cut off unapproved apps would be a bait and switch.
No consumer has the expectation that an Xbox will be capable of playing Playstation exclusives.
Microsoft Surface RT did exactly that.
> Hot water is preferred because it has less gasses dissolved

true, but while the temperature decreases the air dissolves back in.

What makes ice clear is directional freezing, the sheet freezes from below, pushing the gases up. You can try that in your freezer by putting in it a styrofoam box full of water. Just in this case it will freeze from the top and push the gases downwards. The upper layer will be crystal clear.
In a similar way, I find the idea of cold permeating a liquid counterintuitive, because I can picture heat going into cold, but not cold into heat. The energy has to go somewhere!
Yeah I'm really lost about the AMP doomsaying. The fact google has a standard that anyone can use that lets pages be delivered faster and shows an icon on results that do that really doesn't seem like the sort of thing to get worried about. It's weird that this gets treated not only negatively but on par or worse than closed garden platforms.
I can understand the desire for

> Burn it all down. Create a new society formed from mutual aid and non-heirchial power structures.

But that does not exclude capitalism, and capitalism is not inherently evil.
> The contrast between the U.S. and Chinese sanctions is telling: The former aim to punish human-rights violations, and the latter aim to punish speech about those violations.

When you put it that way, it sounds like a badge of honor.

And when China tries to control what can be said within the US, by US citizens (see the article), they can feel free to get lost.
This is election-year flack, pure and simple. Can we trust anything the Dept. of Justice does? The Attorney General is clearly a proxy for Trump's desire to reward his friends and punish his enemies. Barr's first priority is not enforcing the law, it's enabling Trump's twisted agenda.
These proceedings are not about users having no choice (though, they really don't: Has anyone here except you even heard of "mer"?)

They're about developers not having any choice. Developers have to release on iOS. There's no other option, because that's where most users are. Apple has a captive audience, and they're using that captive audience to abuse developers, who have no recourse.

The issue with many armchair commentators on HackerNews is that we look at the philosophy of the situation, and not the reality. The philosophy is "its Apple's platform, it's their right to run it however they want." The reality is "a billion people use this thing." The rules change when you get that big; its not about philosophy, its about doing what's best for everyone. To some degree, Apple does have a right to run their platform how they want: Fuck Their Rights.
Billions of people go to work everyday without doing it out of “passion”.
Linux needs to attract gamers before game devs will widely support Linux. It's a chicken and egg problem that proton neatly sidesteps.

Valve will have a much easier time improving proton than they will forcing devs to make Linux compatible games for little monetary reward.
You can't deduplicate if your 200 applications are using 20 minor versions times 50 mixes of compile flags. You're lucky if any two share the same output.
It's tragic. Unfortunately, it's easy to see things like this in terms of a pattern of neglected infrastructure in the US. Puerto Rico in general has been damaged and neglected to a criminal extent - this particular situation will get media attention for a bit, maybe be fixed but that's likely about it.
Pentagon to launch task force to investigate UFO sightings
I've done exactly the same thing over the last month and wish I would have made the change sooner. The mobile web is vastly improved with fewer AMP results and new Reddit is just terrible. :shakesfist:
Some appreciate it. Some find it too tedious to bother pushing back on it. Meltdown on aisle 5! Toddler requires, and has gone, Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
There are 16 characters between the A of Andreessen and the Z in Horowitz for those that don't get it.
I think they should charge for that service in an honest and fair way, and if they don't do that I think there's a clear argument they are being anticompetitive.
No it isn't. It's still garbage. Mutli-adapter, multi monitor setups are still a nightmare. Graphics performance is still atrocious.

I guess if you need a thin client to your cloud services, linux desktop is great. Not really for lots of other things.
Sigh.

This is something that has been pursued by the DOJ for years.

The lawsuit that began this process was in 2014.

Also, allusions to the KKK are just obscene. You can have political views, but shoehorning them in while exhibiting such ignorance about the underlying facts of the case just destroys the quality of the conversation.

IMO.
Cold is not something that can penetrate.

Cold is merely a relatively low amount of heat energy per unit of mass.

When something cools heat energy is conducted/convected/radiated away from an object causing it to have a lower amount of heat energy per unit mass.
Say you go and buy the latest iPhone, on the latest OS, and wanted to play Fortnite on it. How'd you do it? I don't think it's even possible to jailbreak it at this point.
Let‘s take the example of an autonomous car. Would you also argue that you have the right to run any software on it?

Looking a bit further down the line toward a society with more prevalent and powerful AI there will need to be some kind of certification that the software you are running is safe. It will be almost impossible to enforce this without the help of device manufacturers who will be mandated to only run safe software.

I don’t like that there is currently no way to get Apple to reduce its cut due to competitive pressure but mandating a right to run any kind of software people like is very short sighted move that would likely need to be reversed in time if we don’t want to sink into chaos as a society.

What I could imagine as a solution in the long run is a consortium type governing body for the certification of software that is made up of companies, specialists, and government reps. This would allow something like sideloading of approved apps to take place in a controlled way. Question would still be who would pay for this? Do they also take a cut? Do you pay a one time fee? Is it subsidized by taxes? Also could a consortium do this better than the manufacturer itself?

Maybe we end up with sideloading of apps that still need to be approved but for a one time fee rather than a revenue sharing model?
to put it as plainly as possible, it's absolutely hilarious that tech people buy into these insane myths about AMP, there's a reason why no serious antitrust person brings it up, it's fighting on Google's territory - it's a wide open standard, used throughout the industry, formed in response to proprietary solutions designed to tax suppliers by Facebook and Apple, immediately and fully shared with competitors.