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> Apple is a minority player in the smartphone market

They're the majority in the US (https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...), which is relevant for US antitrust law.

> If it should be illegal for Apple to have a monopoly on their own product then it stands to reason that it should be illegal for Epic to have a monopoly on their own product.

Just because two cases can be abstracted to "monopoly on their own product" does not mean they are the same. Otherwise we'd already know the outcome from the US vs MS case.
You can do this with a republic. California’s direct democracy has shown itself time and again to be a bad idea. People vote emotionally. They approve expenses without requiring funding. They vote property taxes down. Ultimately you need the buffer of a republican system to cool heads.
GDP growth, Consumer Confidence Index, Unemployment Rate. I'm not sure there is any one thing but you can get insights from a range of signals.
They can still run the same business model, they will just have to increase employee compensation (and fares).

This is like saying that raising the minimum wage will drive McDonald's out of business. At the current prices, sure, but McDonald's will raise prices 10% to compensate (wages are not 100% of the cost of a burger) and keep on trucking.
Ubuntu is the most simplest.., 20.04 means it was released in april 2020. Windows 2004 means it was finalized in april 2020, but released some times later (may? june? who knows).., plus they both try to release every 6 months and in case of ubuntu you know that even aprils are LTS, so it's always predictable to know what's the latest version.

mac 10.15 means what? and the next release is gonna be 11.0. someone who doesn't follow or use macs has no idea to figure out if the latest version is 10.15 or 10.14, or 11.0...
It's market cap weighted, so they make up more than 1% of the index. Just based on the numbers shown (+2%, -5%, and +37%) they must represent about 17% of the S&P 500.
As someone who power lifted for many years I get it. I needed > 500 pounds in order to max. But, I also know that's on the extreme end. Even then though, give me a 70+ pound kettlebell and I can crush my posterior chain using cleans and snatches.

It is possible to get good workouts with minimal equipment.
I love that we have ideas and theoretically a combination of technologies that can take us to Mars and beyond in a short timeframe. The way I see it is that while chemical rockets are un-economic, as you point out, for a large scale colony, what humanity needs is a demonstrated need and a catalyst to get us to explore the more exotic propulsion technologies like nuclear + ion drives + hydrogen.

Chemical rockets will take us from 0 to 1, and the economics will drive the next technological development to take us from 1 to n. I think it will work the same way as when telegraph wires were exploding around the US and we realized copper resources were a limiting factor. Did we give up and say "well, let's wait for the next technology"? No, we kept building the wires and other industries sprouted up to handle the demand (notably recycling).
It can be mine mistake, is it not allowed?
Not having concrete examples, but the book 'crossing the chasm' claims, that the majority wont buy from you whatever you have and they need unless they know 2 other companies (succesfully) using your product. Supposedly the step from a few sales to fully tapping the market is hard even if you have great products.
The censor triangulates your signal and fires artilery shells at you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/satphones-syria-and-su...

Now obviously satphones use very different protocols from these modern internet constellations but I wouldn’t bet my life on them being impossible to triangulate.
Mortality rates for flu are correlated with very similar risk factors as COVID-19 and COVID is more deadly by an order of magnitude overall. Also, it is now becoming clearer that children are just as susceptible to adults and can harbor substantial infections and be highly contagious even without symptoms.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/20/children-co...
The market is not fair. People have to eat, and will look for whatever job that can get that will help them eat and provide for their families.
OK perhaps that should have been "attempt to take out" but I don't think you use nerve gas for anything other than trying to kill people?
So those 500 stocks are now the "economy?" Its a very misleading title.
I don't use 4chan but always assumed they never had a mod and that was the whole point of the site. Interesting! Who exactly is the mod?
yeah i mean frankly speaking it’s just not worth the risk to hire someone from ca given the law. it’s not like ca employees provide anything special over other state’s that would justify paying them more for low skill jobs that can be done remotely
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it's not that simple. by that logic you could say eliminate minimum wage and any other legal employee benefit. companies are in a position of power so they must be regulated
What you actually need is pragmatism and not dogma.

I have a hard deadline external to the company by which time the project, and it is a project, needs to be done of else the company can't sign up new customers.

It would be pretty irresponsible of me to only focus on the next two weeks until it was done as I'd have no way of really knowing how close or far it is to completion, how we're tracking and if we need to make adjustments.

We did a rough plan. We worked to it. We evaluated how we were tracking and we shifted things in sprints around accordingly.

The benefit of agile is introducing short feedback loops that provide information you should be acting on.

Good project management also provides benefits.

Take the benefits from both, or leave one set of benefits on the table.
Is there a way to become a node for PeerTube, and help the cause with your CPU and bandwidth?
You're right, we'll make it completely voluntary for the transportation providers to participate.
I'm in a non-rideshare field. The law here (AB5) has been a disaster, a total mess.

One proof point, workers in a TON of fields have absolutely flooded Sacramento to get exception after exception into this law. This is not a normal principles based law. This a law with "principles" that are so ridiculous that everyone then goes let's carve these random folks.

Get a grip.

Imagine if we had laws like this elsewhere. It's pathetic - really.

Some of the carevouts.

physicians
surgeons
dentist
podiatrists
psychologists
veterinarians
insurance brokers
lawyers
architects and engineers
private investigators
accountants
securities broker-dealers and investment advisers
direct sales salespeople (often horrible abuse here with door to door sales)
marketing professionals
travel agents
human resources administrators
graphic designers
grant writers
fine artists
enrolled agents
payment processing agents through an independent sales organizations
photographers or photojournalists
freelance writers
editors
newspaper cartoonists
and lots more
I think gig musicians want to be sure they have a carveout.
Fisherman are doing carevouts.
I think truckers are getting a carevout.
A bunch of beauty industry jobs
A ton of contractor and subcontractor work

There has got to be some transit union or something pulling strings here - because the law is horribly unworkable even for folks who DO want to do the right thing. Most are resigned to waiting until everything is carved out but uber and lyft.
"How do you fight SDI orbital-based weapons platforms ?
Oh, it's easy. launch a truckload of nuts and bolts into orbit, and blow it up" (c) Soviet military cicra 1986
In my view your view is immoral
Also, Uber requires cars to be relatively new, which means drivers have to make substantial payments on the car itself.
No, you're a contractor in that example. There are high fixed costs to hiring an employee. You're not going to get anyone on board with these micro-shifts, period.
What I'm saying is what I said. Why don't you answer the questions?

Wages decrease because there's more supply than demand. That's why surge pricing exists. The issue isn't the feedback (surveys align with the thousands I've talked to), it's that you don't think AB5 affects flexibility.

However paying by time requires shifts. Ridesharing needs to meet demand. Employees have to be placed in the best location and time to avoid idle drivers. This would lead to fewer drivers working longer hours and less coverage. This changes the service that people expect and pay for, leading to less riders and then even less drivers in a bad feedback loop.

All because some people don't think other people can choose how to spend their own time.
The post can be a recap though or targeted at the general audience, not to us who "heard those arguments" before.
According to this article, billions of desktop operating systems users would not be able to handle their computers without destroying them with malware.
Um, try the Curb app. Here in NYC, it competes just fine with Lyft and Uber, but uses licensed taxis. There's hailing, pickup, walk-away payment ("pair to pay"), etc etc
CloudFlare fixed the vulnerability in what? One week?

As much as cloudflare downplayed the vulnerability, it's nothing in comparison to how much researchers overplayed it.

If people really gave a shit about the impact on the poor affected innocents, the best thing to do was to fix it silently and wait 30 days for internet caches to clear before disclosing. Also raise an immediate deletion request to google on the 100 or so affected pages it stored in cache, that's ridiculously little compared to the alleged impact.
That is, indeed, very interesting ... it reminds me of the "pot in pot" method of refrigeration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator
You forgot: increased traffic[1] in already congested cities and tried to cover up rape and sexual assaults[2][3].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721139488/uber-and-lyft-cause...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/business/lyft-sexual-assa...

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/uber-silences-women-sexu...
Could you use the waste heat to boil something and then spray it out the back as extra reaction mass?
The strength of an organization is it's ability to overcome the weaknesses of any one individual. Developers don't have to have a business sense, product owners don't have to be technical, etc.

In the Dev world, there are QA engineers, code reviews, multiple environments, user acceptance testing, etc, to protect the codebase.

In the corporate world, a CEO doesn't have to know how to do everything. He knows how to make good decisions and to defer to people who are more knowledgeable than him on specific issues.

Good processes stop problems before they make it to production. And while an individual can make a mistake within an organization, the organization's processes will serve as safeguards that prevent that mistake from being propagated throughout the org's codebase.

In the case of Citibank, they should have good processes in place to prevent this kind of colossal mistake. So again the mistake of an individual should not be propagated but reviewed and fixed before affecting anything. As the other guy said, they should have had measures in place to prevent this kind of thing, especially considering it is a significant aspect of their overall business strategy.
Tangent:

$6/hr sounds a bit low; actual costs are probably higher.

The IRS standard mileage rate (the amount you can deduct from your taxes for each mile driven) is $0.58/mi (https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/standard-mileage-rates)

$6/hr operating costs means the driver is driving a max of ~10mi/hour, if costs to operate are in line with IRS guidelines.
Troll. Or, if you'd like the longer version:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All of this exists in the Curb app, which btw is competing just fine in NYC.
Almost certainly I'd feel different. To be absolutely clear, I find the case for eradication to be extremely compelling for exactly that reason. The risk I have in my head that I want to mitigate, and which makes me unsure of where I stand on this issue, is not any sort of ambiguous "humans shouldn't play god" or "live and let live" or anything like that. The obverse risk we should consider when fiddling with an ecosystem on such a grand and potentially irreversible scale is whether we will accidentally disrupt the food supply in a way that's more catastrophic than the current catastrophe that is malaria.

There aren't many catastrophes worse than the current state of malaria, I absolutely agree and we in the western world ought to take it much more seriously. However, there are possible catastrophes that are much much worse, and fiddling with low level food chains is one of those actions that might open us up to such risk.

Again, not sure where I stand. What I do know is, presumably like you, I think we are not taking this seriously enough and addressing it with all the might that it deserves.
Because a lot of drivers start driving because they already can't find an alternative form of work?

Or they already have another job (or several) that does not pay enough. However, they can't find yet another job with flexible enough hours.

When the job market is garbage, "just let the market solve it" doesn't really cut it.
Have you considered the bass-fishing market? Your boats are a little expensive but not terribly so. Speed might be a bigger problem.
The door frame pull up bars are non-permanent, and can work in many cases. At most you might have to paint a bit.

If you're in a city there has to a playground nearby providing all sorts of options.

I think people just get too tied to a gym, when there are countless options to get really good workouts if the gym is unavailable for a period of time.
Rational adult humans sell themselves into modern day slavery in order to feed their families, see the Qatar World Cup Stadium for example. That doesn't mean we as a society should support or enable that. That's a ridiculously naive line of reasoning. What is rational for an individual in extreme circumstances does not and should not automatically make that valid legally.

Similarly, if a market is saturated with under-paid over-worked labor forces, then you can't end up with humane, fair alternatives. You'll get those when you eliminate the exploitative markets first. Uber & Lyft didn't make new markets. They didn't create new job opportunities. They replaced existing ones - namely, taxis, and they achieved disruption via unsustainable economics & exploitative practices. There's no reason to believe that when that hole is plugged that all "order a ride" services will vanish. We'll just have taxis again. Remove some of the barriers that gave taxi services pseudo-monopolies, and there you go.
They're very different attitudes indeed. E.g. compare OP to the level storage of VVVVVV: https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV/blob/cf53de9ed5cd82a...
>Taxis are an obsolete service, Lyft and Uber are overwhelmingly favored by customers and businesses.

As a customer, I might favor the Uber/Lyft experience over a taxi, but I sure as hell don't favor the way that Uber/Lyft treat and pay their drivers. There's a difference.
Maybe relying on the exploitation of others for vital services is a bad situation to be in in the first place?

I'm sure uber and lyft drivers are also extremely upset by this, since they are only being exploited because they are vulnerable.

The fact that these drivers cannot survive without being exploited and that your sister can't be mobile with out their exploitation is not a problem with CA law makers.

Its beyond insane that so many people on HN will jump through such tremendous intellectual hoops to justify the world that they exist and temporarily thrive in. These companies might make your live easier today, but the distance from where you are to feeling that exploitation is not as far as you think.
Taxis and real-time ride sharing operate quite differently, for one, I cannot just turn up and hand signal to stop a moving vehicle from the latter.
You are right, I missed that the number of tests was ~1 million, no way that was randon testing.

So, probably the mortality rate is higher.
I wonder if there is any bayesian tricks to estimate the infection range given 1/8 people got tested, regardless of selection bias.

edit: actually the overall deatheate could be lower, because we know the number of deaths, but not the exact number of infected -- if overall the infection rate is lower then 27%, the deathrate is lower than 1%.
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The "it'll take time to make this change and so we're suspending services for a while" argument is just a PR stunt.

Even if you disagree with the law, Uber/Lyft knew it was coming - they've known for a long time now. Instead of getting ready for it, they chose to spend their time filing lawsuits (which were never going to succeed) and preparing for a ballot initiative. So let's not argue that the law itself "put drivers out of work altogether." - Uber and Lyft did that.
Different species have different attributes. The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) from SE Asia is invasive in the Americas and carries nasty diseases -- yellow fever, dengue, zika, chikungunya. It's a highly aggressive biter, highly adapted to marginal environments, and can breed in a tiny pool of water the size of a bottle cap. It tends to be active in human-settled areas. If ever a mosquito deserved to be wiped out, it's this one.

I'm not sure about Italy; I imagine you have plenty of species migrating up from Africa. If you have a lot of mosquitoes, probably there is a water source they're breeding in -- a pool, an old tire, a nearby pond? If you can find a breeding source, dump a mosquito puck in it -- a safe algae that kills mosquito larvae.
The only remaining difference is presentation, not content/information. Any money there is wasted, except for (bad) entertainment purposes.

(sorry, didn't really want to take this further OT, but could not resist)
That is outside of the scope of TypeScript, which is to be a statically typed superset of JavaScript with no runtime cost.

It's easy enough to write a runtime type checking library; I wrote a tiny one that I use in basically all my projects: https://npmjs.com/package/narrows
In Vancouver, at least, there are three players involved in providing most taxi rides:

* The taxi company, who offers fares to the driver
* The driver, who operates the vehicle
* The owner, who owns the vehicle

This means that at the end of the night, the taxi driver has to pay out to the taxi company and to the vehicle owner. This makes it very easy for a bad night to be a financial loss for the driver, since they still have to pay out regardless of whether they got good fares and tips or awful fares and tips.
Well, even in this metric, there is an obvious separation between the 3 spacial dimensions and time. For example, a negative ds^2 indicates a fundamentally different kind of distance than a positive ds^2. In fact, events separated by positive distances would be considered entirely independent, while those separated by negative distances can have influenced each other; events for which ds^2 = 0 are simultaneous in any frame of reference.

Further, if two events have are separated by a negative ds^2, then all observers will agree on the order in which they happened, though they will not agree on the length of time that passed between them, or the relative positions.

Note that I'm using your version of the equation for the definition of ds^2 > or <0, though in general I've seen it expressed the other way around, ds^2 = dt^2 - (dx^2+dy^2+dz^2).
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You're assuming competitors with actually viable business models weren't waiting for exactly this opportunity. Spoiler: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/uber-and-lyft-competitors-pr...
Beyond a certain market share, that argument doesn't hold anymore. That's where anti-trust comes in.

Which market share definition, you ask? IMHO it is the definition that defines decision making for app developers, on whether they can skip the Apple platform or not.

So Apple's percentage of global smartphones doesn't matter, what matters is:

- Apple's 2/3 share of app store revenues.

- Apple's share of users in rich, developed markets such as US, Europe and Japan, which (source: ben-evans.com) varies between ~50-70%.

It is unaffordable for app developers to skip the Apple platform, since that's where the majority of paying users are. And as a result, they should fall under anti-trust laws that protect small players.
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I have worked for some companies that were total failures and some that were global successes. Having been through the failures first, I was excited to see how the magic worked at a massively successful company, but to be honest the differences are more subtle than anyone would believe. The big successes were happy to do things that had been disastrous at other companies in my experience, and did not pay much attention to the things that the popular press considered the secrets of their success.

As disappointing as it is to think this way, it’s much like explaining the weather or the stock market. I think people need a story, but both inside and outside the company we are just guessing why a company fails or succeeds.
Elsewhere in the thread someone with a wheelchair bound sister mentioned that she doesn't like taking public transit because she gets harassed and gawked at for her disability.

Also, accessible transit benefits everyone with a stroller, as well as the elderly and anyone else with a temporary injury.
Epic is fine with the appstore, but it wants to handle it's own in-app payments. You can have an app store with a separate in app payments; Uber does for example. Epic says as much in it's argument for a preliminary injunction.*

Stadia is actually more of an existential issue than Epic because they want to run unapproved games.

* https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...
GPS and LEO satellite internet are very different. GPS is meant to be received by near-omnidirectional antennas anywhere on the planet. Starlink satellites will place multiple spot-beams acting as cells and customer receivers are high directional as well.

Jamming Starlink would require satellite tracking and high gain antennas. And you would have to have separate jammers for each spotbeam that the starlink satellite casts on the ground.
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Every node in that mesh network will get a missile, problem solved.
If 27% of the NYC population have antibodies, and half of people infected don't test positive for antibodies (too long after infection, mild infection that was defeated without antibodies, etc), then NYC is at or near herd immunity already.

There's a lot of studies saying that antibodies go below detectable levels within 2-3 months, even though that doesn't seem to mean that these people are no longer immune.
They got a reprieve until the election. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/20/app...