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> 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.

Simple: a home is worth more than the wood that was used to build it, and me and the laborers are better off working than sitting on our asses, if the government allows us all to get paid for our work. The amount of wealth in the world actually increases when somebody has the impetus to make things happen.

> 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.

If I don’t get paid for running the homebuilding company, nobody is going to bother building the home, so the home doesn’t get built. If we “skip the step” of paying me for organizing things, you just have a bunch of unused inputs. My organizing effort is also labor, and if there’s a mismatch in the supply of managers and hammerers, competitive pressures will adjust how much we each get paid. The role of money here is to balance supply and demand, so the things that get done are the things that other people need to get done. With money, the needs of society at large drive planning (there are externalities that should be corrected by the government through taxation to keep this functioning smoothly). Without money, only the desires of people with guns who can force others to work for free are taken into account.

As a whole, the US has plenty of homes for everyone, but in some regions densely building new homes is mostly illegal, so not enough homes are built. These are the regions where there is a homelessness crisis. Unfortunately the government is terrible at things like deciding how many homes there should be and getting them built, so when it controls the planning process, not enough homes get built where they are needed. Better to just let the developers build as many homes as there is demand for, and tax them to pay for housing for the homeless.
The goal should be self repair. I want the manuals and parts so I can make my own repair.
And the iPhone doesn't have an enormous investment in hardware/R&D/marketing? The only point would be the sold below cost, but I even thought this was illegal (dumping) no?
The concern is more how many of those people will show up to vote against you in races which can have very small numbers of voters, and how much of a hassle they'll make for your office. If someone decides that you're part of the problem, you'll be getting lots of contacts, public records requests, etc. The things which circulate on neighborhood listserves, Facebook groups, etc. can be pretty absurd but they might break down into the 95% who don't care and ignore them and the 5% who care enough to put a lot of energy into obstruction.

None of that precludes doing the right thing, of course, but if it's not an issue you care strongly about you might decide not to fight it. The best countermeasure is for everyone else to tune out local politics less, which is an area people oddly ignore even though it has the most day to day impact on your life.
Recursive queries are better mentally modelled as iterated queries building up a result set. If you think of recursion as tracing a tree, or in trivial cases, a linked list, recursive queries are a breadth-first traversal.

You better not traverse too deep (iterate too much), or you lose the data locality benefits that relational databases are tuned for, and all you end up saving is the cost of round trips to the database.

Many tree structures are better modelled as prefix pattern matching on string paths. Extracting a whole subtree with "path LIKE 'foo/bar/baz/%'" on an indexed path column is much faster than following a series of parent links with a recursive query, more and more so the deeper your subtree gets. This denormalizes the tree structure into the path column - you can no longer make structural edits with small updates - but it's much faster for queries.
"But Apple needs to fund the App Store. XCode, payment processing, reviewers, it all costs money". Yes, very little in comparison. Apple made $50 billion in revenue from the App Store in 2019. $50 BILLION. The data centers costs to serve up this are miniscule in comparison. Apple could build 50 datacenters PER YEAR EVERY YEAR for that revenue.

Reviewers? A staff of 10,000 fulltime reviewers paid $200k per year would cost $2 billion.

Sorry, I'm not buying this excuse. OSX/iOS is free for every piece of HW, and it surely has much much larger costs to staff.

A $1250 iPhone had a $450 cost to make, giving Apple a staggering 64% gross margin, and $800 gross profit.

The costs to run the Apple store should be included as a sunk platform cost of the phone just like OSX. The cost to run the store is marginal. The cost to serve up an additional developer app, to review an additional app, and to let someone buy one, is an insignificant fraction.

It should be free like the Web, or some extremely low cost to cover CC processing fees (~3%) and electricity to keep the lights on.

I'm shocked at the number of apologists who think this 30% cut is somehow necessary for poor little Apple, with a hole in the pocket, with living on their spare change. It's egregious and unnecessary, and exists for one reason only: rent-seeking behavior. iPhones are reaching saturation, and Apple can either find ways to raise the price of the phone even more, lower the costs more, or increase service revenues, in order to keep their stock going up.

That's why you see focus on service revenues, because they can't really lower costs much to make the devices, and they can't really increase the price much more.
> if the answer is a fraction of what Apple charges then it strengthens the case against Apple.

The answer is the same. What now? Will you put down the pitchforks?
Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for this very reason. You might think it's ridiculous but the fight for the right to modify the software running on devices you own has been raging for 35 years and is bigger than ever.
Struggling Under Lockdown, Schools Worldwide Relearn the Value of TV
So California has one-upped Germany: instead of replacing nuclear with coal, they're replacing nuclear with rolling blackouts. Ugh.

And to think, if we just hadn't stopped building nuclear, we would already be rid of CO2-intensive electricity. Instead, we've barely begun, and we've only begin through duck-curve denial. Facepalm.
Exploring Grief in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Thank you. That comment is legendary!
How much methane do you get out of 1kg biomass vs how much co2 if you burned it? Methane is indeed a more potent (if shorter lived) greenhouse gas, but one would guess that some amount end up either in the cow or as manure which then act as a natural fertilizer. Natural fertilizer is also an object which commonly get classified as having zero carbon footprint, which again, is a bit odd. The manure has zero carbon if used as natural fertilizer, but the meat from the same cow does not.
Asking in 2020 what will replace the smartphone feels like asking in 1950 what will replace the motor car.

Augmented Reality contact lenses are the modern equivalent of 1950s predictions of nuclear-powered flying cars.

I don't think smartphones will really be replaced for forty years or more. It sounds like a long time but it really isn't. We've not come that far since the original iPhone. And that itself wasn't that much of a leap from various form factors five to ten years earlier - just a lot slicker in terms of UI. So phones will just get better. One can easily imagine the battery tech improving, perhaps practical rollable or foldable screens, lighter weight, etc. Fundamentally one wants something that easily fits in a pocket (current modern flagship phones are too large), provides a good display for interactive content and allows silent text and voice input.

I think cars, phones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers and TVs will all converge more in terms of control interfaces. There's plenty of evidence of this already with Android Auto in things like the new Polestar 2, the decline of custom TV software in favour of Android/Amazon's FireTV OS, etc. That's felt around the corner for years now, but feels like it might finally happen soon.

Evolution not revolution, in other words.
I trust the device maker more than myself to keep my data safe and secure.
If you are talking about a U2F usb stick I agree with you (I put "incredibly hard" instead of "impossible" there so that I don't get counterarguments with people reading memory with electron microscopes or similar).

If you are talking plain USB mass storage for keys I disagree.
A couple problems.

Looking at the net carbon paints a very incomplete picture. The effect of methane is very different from CO2, you might describe methane as 30x as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2 is.

The other factor here is that agriculture drives deforestation, which releases sequestered carbon.
> Video game consoles are specialized hardware.

No.

> They do one thing and they do it well.

Look up console jailbreaks and home-brew.

> The problem is, both developers and users see the app store and its policies as a nuisance.

Apple does a lot to protect users from unscrupulous practices. Look up the App Store policies and see for yourself.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24154647 and similar comments:

> the magnitude of this is not immediately apparent unless you’ve worked in an agency / freelanced building iOS applications. You have no idea how many user-hostile and abusive things I’ve seen blown completely out of the water with the golden phrase "Apple won’t allow that". It wins arguments in favour of the user instantly and permanently.

> I’ve run up against Apple’s capricious review process more times than I can count, so I’ve got more reason than most to complain about it. But it’s impossible for me to argue that these rules don’t help the user when I’ve personally seen it happen so many times. It’s a double-edged sword to be sure, and I believe the best way of balancing things in favour of the end-user is to be more open than Apple is, but there are undeniable benefits to the user with the current system.
I think a lot of people in the US are concerned about health risks and the way social distancing policies are being put in place. We have still far from flattened the curve in this country - and there is a lot of new research showing that kids carry the disease as much as adults. As a teacher, this doesn't surprise me since little kid diseases always seem to affect us adults much worse than it does them.
Thinking about it as a collapse used to be the most popular interpretation, but it really complicates more than it solves.

All the experiments become much clearer if you think of everything behaving primarily as a wave (all possible paths are taken). A particle is just a special (limited energy) case of this where all paths are still taken but since there is limited energy only one path can be 'registered', and this happens probabilistically.
Perhaps, but the lawsuit isn't specifically about games either.
Source? They specifically state that they're not suing for damages and I doubt they have changed their case in the last few days...

> Apple’s conduct has caused and continues to cause
Epic financial harm, but as noted above, Epic is not bringing this case to recover these
damages; Epic is not seeking any monetary damages.

https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf
You are intentionally muddying the water by bringing code signing (a technicality) and devices for which software distribution was never part of the economics. Nevertheless, yes, I think making ebook readers tied to a single store illegal would be a net positive from consumers. It would let stores compete on their merits as stores and readers as readers. More competition is always good.

Pointedly, my argument is simple: the modern concept of plateform, as has been pushed by management consulting firms for the past two decades and successfully been exploited by hightech companies, is a blatant attack against anti competition laws and I believe the whole thing only started because the US government decided it would only meekly enforce them. Rebranding barriers to entry moats shouldn't make artificially building them more acceptable.

As you rightfully pointed, plateforms seem to be popping everywhere nowadays from game consoles to cars. I don't find that surprising: reducing competition is like crack cocaine to companies. It both means less need to innovate and differentiate and a larger share of customers surplus (theorically all customer surplus but it might be too blatant then). Customers are the ones losing there.

As the whole thing strongly goes against one of the core tenant of modern capitalism, it seems obvious to me it is going to end with more regulations as soon as the political zeitgeist regarding economy will lean less towards extrem laissez-faire. Unless of course, we decide to go full-bore towards nineteenth century style capitalism...
Banking tends to be a big Power user. I bet even in Denmark that's true. :-)
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My favorite example of this is the Spruce Goose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
> VCs are obsessed with finding people they can underpay via selling them on their “vision” and “impact”. They claim they can’t compete with Google and Facebook on comp, but the truth is they don’t even try to do so by offering fair equity deals

It’s not the VCs, it’s the founders making these calls.

Most VCs have no problems with their companies paying market rate for top talent. It’s usually the founders who think they can extend their runway and minimize their own equity solution by minimizing compensation.

Its often the founders, not the VCs, who try to negotiate for smaller employee equity pools.
Afaik paperwork is 'secret', you can watch video of Jessa analyzing leaked copy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OawkqCPi1LQ
TIL

Thanks!
Re option #2, we have found Linode's smallest offering, Nanode, to be remarkably useful for a bunch of tasks that sound similar to yours (and indeed some bigger tasks). Only $5/month, which includes 1TB of transfer, and easy enough to switch to bigger plans if needed.
Lessons Learned from the App Store (2018)
> You can always consider your automated apparatus to be part of the system and hence governed by unitary evolution.

But then wouldn't an external measuring apparatus (or person) observe the system in a single state instead of a superposition? Isn't that the same as a series of nested systems, each measured and having the state recorded by an apparatus that's part of a system that encapsulates it?
[edit: retracted]
BTW, here is a handy way to quickly generate GPG keys (and set up git commit signing and SSH key derivation) on Yubikey: https://github.com/DataDog/yubikey
> must honor a 5-minute data delay requested by the FAA

This only applies to FAA-provided data. And I'd not be surprised if it's simply enforced by the FAA only providing 5-minute delayed data.

Tracking sites that use ADS-B are definitely realtime. My kids and I sit outside on the patio sometimes and track the planes coming at our house (we're pretty close to one of the standard ingress routes to PDX).
> For the first time in ten years

Had your coolant pressure checked lately? Heat exchanger fins clean, clear, and straight?
I hope Epic doesn’t have a strategy that hinges on a PR win forcing apple to back down, because (A) as this thread is showing there are still a lot of people on apple’s side and (B) apple is usually quite vengeful in these things and will not back down here until compelled by court or law.

Just look at what happened to nvidia, for far minor offenses. They were blacklisted from apple’s platforms very thoroughly, and people still mostly side with apple on that one.
> NO. I ABSOLUTELY do not want that. Freaking nightmare.

That's a bit extreme. It's less of a nightmare, and more of an annoyance, that is paid in exchange for competition and innovation.
Oh is this the source of the "make thousands from home" ads?

I am still not clear how this works - and would it not be in the interests of police etc to loudly proclaim how this works so people can spot it?
Sorry, "spontaneously combust" was probably the wrong term.

I just meant material will catch fire from the radiant heat alone, well before the fire actually gets there.
These are basically adversarial techniques to take advantage of weaknesses in a biological neural net. Love it.
They're clearly picking their battles. If they are able to win this case against Apple, they can use it as precedent to (hopefully) pressure consoles to open up too.
Just for the record, I'm not actually complaining about the weather. I still would not trade our weather for anyplace else in the world. But the trend over the ten years I've been living here full time (and some shorter-term stints living here in the 80's) seems alarming to me.
In one sense, yes. In another, no.

There's more than one Christmas.
That certainly depends on how much time off and what was done in that time.
Just read the post your mentioned and you do have some good arguments.
That said I am no expert but I do believe in the LiDAR approach.
It will probably allow other companies such as Waymo to get to level 4+ autonomy before Tesla reaches a working FSD.
So there is a possibility that Waymo or another company using LiDAR and HD mapping will eat the robotaxi Pie before Tesla is able to compete.
Wow, this is so targeted.
Mask fell off.
It's Always the Hot Work That Gets You
They can believe that many actors are injust but can be simply choosing their battles. And phones > consoles in terms of impact. They're also less arbitrary about which purchases take a 30% cut or not compared to phones.
What are the damages in your hypothetical?

Because Epic knows the damages in this real situation and everyone agrees what they are.
By this definition, surely as long as Apple didn't market it free from the App Store, it doesn't qualify as a general purpose device?

If I could install a web browser and libreoffice on an xbox, would that meet your definition of a general purpose device? And isn't that an artificial, monopolising restriction that I can't?
> Apple already actively censors political content in apps...

This is true, which is why I surprised the other day when I found this app called "BLMovement" when I was looking around to see if anyone was making a completely distasteful joke...

https://apps.apple.com/uy/app/blmovement/id1517754969

As a "resource directory", it's not purely political but surely it skirts the line.

I'm certain that if some political movement had popular support Apple would forget the rules though.

(Although, I doubt they'd let this same app in the store if it was called AntifaMovement, QAnonMovement or NationalSocialistMovement.)
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Yes, it will lead to grade inflation. The important question is: does that matter? Exams already have their flaws such as being far more likely to give a flawed bad grade to someone than a flawed good grade. How much grade inflation would you see purely from eliminating that effect? And that would largely be desirable.
Nothing about that dictates it must be an operational level issue. No other carrier has government mandated delivery schedules to remote areas or laws requiring them to prefund pensions for 75 years. Of course no other carrier has tax breaks and government funding. It doesn't mean it's an operating issue though but maybe it is. The point being "government service isn't making money" assumes the goal for that service is purely to make money, which is not the sole purpose of the USPS.

It also does not follow that because stamps cost money we therefore expect the USPS to need no other funding. It's possible for something to be partially subsidized.

This isn't an argument about what should be done with the USPS one way or the other it's an argument against trying to shove everything into "because it's not A it shows it is therefore B" type arguments which don't consider there could be more to the story than A and B.
Many of the biggest Apple games use Unreal Engine, including many that Apple features in the Arcade.
Fair warning, ASL is the only foreign language I learned that isn't a romance language. I found it really easy and intuitive actually, but I've never tried to learn something REALLY different grammatically from English.

But here are my tips: Immediately start by thinking in the language, or at least in terms of grammer. If you think about it, recalling and using words to say stuff you want is one of two primary skills you actually want to develop, so you need to actually practice that. Even if you do this with incorrect grammar, it's still incredibly beneficial. (German is a bit harder grammar-wise, but that's ok, you need to learn to think in the German grammar pattern before you can speak German.)

What does that really mean though? A couple of things: When you think about something you want to say, think about it in terms of grammar. Instead of thinking "I want to go to the beach", think like this:
"[pronoun for me] [conjugation of verb "want"] [infinitive "to go"] [noun "the beach"]" Once that skill becomes a habit, speaking is trivial. It's just vocabulary. A note: I will think in terms of bastardized English grammar so that the grammar I'm thinking in conforms to the language I WANT to be speaking or understanding.

Here's an example: If I want to translate the phrase "I want to do it" to french, I'll think in the french grammatical pattern first. Then I just fill in french words if I know them, or english if I don't. Let's suppose I don't know ANY of the french words yet. I'll think; "{I [want]} [it] [to do]" because that's the correct order in french. "{Je [veux]} [le] [faire]".

To practice this, Learn a couple dozen words and a few phrases. Think about every possible combination and modification you can make with those and practice with imaginary conversations in your head. Then start to generate new things, and fill in the gaps with what you do know. This starts to practice the pattern of filling in words you do know. If you don't know them, guess. Look them up. Gesture. You're trying to communicate not do some abstract thing.

A side effect of this, is that it can be a real bitch to switch between languages if you're out of practice. I sometiems start thinking in the wrong grammatical pattern but filling in words from English. It can be pretty funny.
If I were in your position, I would ask (privately, to avoid unnecessarily freaking everyone out) what their limits on stray voltage and stray current are outside the substation and what they do to control and monitor it. 60 Hz radiation doesn’t seem like a credible risk at all to me. 60 Hz conducted emissions, on the other hand, can very easily kill you — imagine crawling in hands and knees two feet from a downed powerline.

I would like to imagine that regulators and utilities have this under control, but making some effort to verify this could be reasonable.

(49 states permit utilities utilities to ground a current carrying overhead wire at utility poles, resulting in parallel currents in the ground. I’m not aware of this being a documented hazard to people, but it’s a documented problem for cattle. CA is the exception.)