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Apple doesn’t monetize physical goods sold in apps. It’s how an Amazon or Costco app is possible
I’m not sure about the other two, but T-Mobile has an unlimited data plan that is $40 a month for unlimited everything for a phone and $20 month unlimited for tablets if you have at least one phone on the plan. They don’t throttle you but they do prioritize your data over 50GB. I’ve never seen it happen.

But because you can’t just add more wires to the airwaves, there is a limited amount of bandwidth no matter what you do. So that’s fair.

They offer unlimited tethering still 512Kbps.
Articles like this one mean to be a correction to a misperception that I don't see many people suffering from. Are there many people who both know what GPT-3 is, and believe it has achieved sapience?
North Korea didn't have nuclear weapons for almost half a century.

There are enough conventional artillery pieces installed at the border to flatten a substantial fraction of Seoul in minutes.

More fundamental than that conventional mutually-assured-destruction deterrent, there are larger forces that matter: North Korea exists because China and the Soviet Union wanted it to continue to exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#China_intervenes_(O... The international sanctions on North Korea continue to fail because North Korea's existence is convenient.
Yeah my plan is $40NZD and only has 4GB a month :( was on a 10GB plan for $60.
Should also take into account cost of living. I believe Internet cost much more in poor countries.
The majority of the cost is simply for being able to participate in their market of 1B+ credit cards which lets ISV's frictionlessly sell Apps direct to consumers globally, it's not for the direct tangible benefits the App Store otherwise they wouldn't outlaw competing services that would handle the same services for a reduced royalty %.

Although what's not being discussed are negative consequences of allowing multiple App stores vs Apple's single unified curated UX. The UX for searching, purchasing, managing payments/subscriptions would be more fragmented & confusing. Being able to bypass curation by installing Apps from another App store which could install malware, scams, privacy violating & other undesirable Apps would hurt Apple's brand as a simple, secure & safe platform parents are confident in using themselves & giving to their kids (which for example allows us to manage/disable IAP's).

At 2M+ Apps your App isn't going to magically appear in front of all consumer devices, you still have to do the majority of the marketing yourself, unless you're lucky enough to be listed in editor picks or some curated list, but you're not paying for exposure or discoverability as the % royalty is the same regardless.

With that said 30% seems fair & standard across most platforms [1]. I don't really understand why 30% is unfair for iOS which has created the most lucrative & accessible market for ISV's. It's simply a cost of participating in a market. Just like you don't get free shelf life in shops (virtual or physical) if you make a product, free access to Game consoles if you make a game, free top search placement if you make a website, etc.

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
26:13 "Before landing the [radiation reconnaissance] helicopter – a check for radioactivity. Even in the very centre of the site, it was insignificant."
They also spam the sitemap with their links.
Pricing is whatever people are willing to pay. The market value is not inherently tied to assets intrinsic value. Markets are clearly pricing in growth perhaps irrationally
I agree with you regarding holding nukes keeping them from being invaded (so called "nuclear peace"). I was referring more to the part where you said "democratized in the blink of an eye" which could be interpreted as a positive thing. Not trying to dunk on you, just that this kind of phrasing is how Americans let themselves be led into wars.
What is the justification, to disconnect this machines, and do by hand what currently is automatic?
What ultimately made me pull out of the Mac App Store was the fact that publishing with Apple meant “app with customizations to accommodate stupid rules”, and $EVERYWHERE_ELSE meant “upload and be done with it”. If you haven’t checked lately, the Mac App Store is a pathetic ghost town for the most part.

On iOS I guarantee that if the App Store had even one alternative, many apps would do the same and bail on Apple, and you’d see a similar ghost store.

Also, since Apple loves to compare its grand scheme to how physical stores used to behave, let’s examine that: there isn’t a single physical store that demands to have complete control over everything in the boxes on their shelves. If you open a product box and it contains a card with information, such as a link to the company web site or other stuff, then that’s what you get. If apps followed this sane model, Apple would just let apps put whatever they want “in the box”, including sensible things like INFORMATION about account sign-ups and other products, and links.
That only works as long as the housing bubble lasts.
> no security warnings or other jank

This will hopefully never happen. A security warning is a must. The average user has no clue what they are even doing and don't understand the risks they are accepting. A security warning might just be clicked away, but at least you were warned.
Stenographers aren’t just fast typists, they are specialists trained to produce a written (shorthand) record of the hearing in real time. Audio recordings make this obsolete. Certified full transcripts are still needed, but they can be produced more quickly using concurrent typists and proof readers, and more cheaply because you don’t need to hire specialists trained in the use of expensive stenotype machines, or pay them to sit around in the courtroom when nobody is speaking. It’s not a novel idea, which is why I mentioned that as far as I know, stenotype is now used only in the United States. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13035979
>They would be democratized in a blink of an eye

North Korea existed without nuclear weapons from roughly 1945 to 2006, or over 60 years, as far as I know.

Not to mention, South Korea has never had nuclear weapons, and despite being invaded by North Korea, still exists.
Motherboard usually handles fans based on temps.
Well, if it was hydrogen iceberg it would not only accelerate when leaving Sol system, it would also decelerate when closing in.
Hardware companies never do software well. It's a freebie.

Strangely, some are starting to do software better -- so they can monetize data they collect.
They weren’t, though! Uber and Lyft are being told that they should have been classifying drivers as employees all along because they’re treating them like employees. This has been plainly obvious from day one.
Great to see Montana companies. I’m just an hour north of y’all.
what they could do to derive value we would pay for

For someone that found Linux in the 90's and watched the birth of Mozilla from the ashes of Netscape, that's a very strange thing to read.

This site is not Slashdot, I know. It always had another kind of relation to business and money. But still...

I have no idea why Mozilla should need a business model. Much less I understand why should we think of one and agree on it.

How much money does it take to maintain a web browser? If it's a lot, maybe, just maybe, we should agree on a reduced feature set and refuse to use something more complex. Some people here talk about text mode browsers. I'm not so radical. Just keep it simple enough to be maintanable by a dozen of volunteers.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. A lot of the Uber/Lyft users I know were (pre-Covid) Uber Pool/Lift Line users. Cramming into a car with strangers that takes 2-3 diversions on the way to your final destination isn't really luxury; it's a stop-gap for when the trip you're making is underserved by transit.

For my lifestyle, owning a car would be the "luxury", not ride sharing.
No, it is a metasearch engine but not a crawler.
Have you considered FreeNAS? You can buy pre-built appliances or build your own. I did the latter and I do everything on your list apart from cloud backup to backblaze and I run Emby instead of plex (but plex is supported natively). You can definitely do cloud backup - I just don’t. I also use it as a time-machine server for my macs. I exclusively use UniFi network gear in my house and I find my NAS to be as bullet proof as that.

You could build a far more powerful NAS yourself than you can buy from Synology or the like but I appreciate that not everyone has the time or interest.
They can’t take 0, the service isn’t freee to develop
I'll add my anecdote: last year I took a long bus journey two ways between Hamilton, Ontario and the Philadelphia area. At one of the transfer stops, Binghamton NY I think, I picked up a 14GB SIM card and activated it in my phone, and it had signal almost the whole way to Philadelphia, I was watching videos the whole way, and made two video calls. Population density on the east is higher, but it's not that high, cutting through Pennsylvania.
The stock market is living in a dream land where it doesn't matter that the real economy is doing badly, they can count on nearly unstoppable supply of money flowing from the Fed. In this situation it is obvious that all stock prices will skyrocket, but the most probable outcome is a crash in 1929's style.
Even European countries are generally cheaper then US when it comes to mobile internet. E.g. France is 10 times cheaper on average. While France minimum hourly wage is $11.83 and US minimum hourly wage is between $7.25 to $14.00 (depending on state). It seems that US is a bit expensive regardless of the salary. Mobile companies are very competitive in Europe, and European regulations put fuel on the fire by making the number portability mandatory very early. Reducing the friction to change mobile operator while keeping the same number and with minimum to no downtime.
> Sex itself may be a basic psychological and physiological need

I was referring to companionship rather than sex.

> "the idea that one's worth is determined by having sexual partners" is not. The latter is entirely a cultural and social construct

I think claudiawerner is making an extremely uncharitable assumption in the first place that the primary complaint is about ego rather than loneliness.

But, even granting that point: it does not seem, to me, like a "cultural and social construct" that one's self-esteem would be affected by this type of loneliness. I find that claim self-evidently absurd, to be honest.

> Why would you literally quote one fragment of one sentence from claudiawerner's comment

Because that's the point that I wanted to reply to.

> just to misconstrue it entirely in rebuttal?

I think you are the one misconstruing my argument.
If cities do it collectively, OK, best of luck finding the talent and funding to build it, but OK. What I really don't want are substandard balkanized ride hailing services. I have the same gripe with mass transit--I need a separate card for different systems, sometimes in the same city.
The expectation of privacy loses it's meaning when the group size grows. It's more likely what you said remains private when you say it in a group of five people than if you say it in a group of 50, 500, 5000, or 500,000 people. IMO supergroups and channels don't need E2EE, normal groups in Telegram definitely do. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. E2EE where expectation of privacy can be assumed from group size isn't a problem.

Also, Signal has no upper group size limit but E2EE would make group with 100,000s a bit sluggish. But that's a problem that reduces with Moore's law.
People can use google then. The vast majority of people around the world use android
There is also http://multibootusb.org/ I stumbled across it while looking for a NixOS package for this one.
>I'd like to see regulation that forces Apple and Google to allow any and all app stores on their devices, and the process of installing apps through those stores must be, by law, equally easy and straightforward as through their own stores (i.e., no security warnings or other jank). The law should make illegal restricting developers to any specific payment processor(s), too.

Not the same kind of regulation you describe, but still one that may solve a big chunk of your issues was covered here roughly a month ago[1], In which the EU plans to make those kinds of platforms more transparent, especially concerning bans and sudden refusals. But I see how that may not go far enough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23841409
> its extortionate fees

Their fees are not so high as to be extortionate. They're not close to being deserving of that hyperbolic label.

The Apple and Google fees are a dramatic improvement over the model that they gradually replaced over the past decade.

Want to get on a retail shelf? Nope, you can't. One in a zillion odds you find someone to publish your box to retail - congratulations, now you get to keep less than 20% of the sale price.

If Apple's fees were 1/2 what they are, developers would be saying exactly the same thing about them. That's because the fees will always be too high unless they're close to zero, and in that scenario Apple is carrying an unfair burden.

And if you forcibly open up more app store competition, and then Apple decides to drop their fees below other competitors, it'll kill the store competition and Apple can sustain that indefinitely thanks to their device margins. They don't need to make money on the market. Then everyone will bitch about that being unfair competition, despite Apple serving up the low fees that were demanded. And on the complaining will go forever until we have a hyper regulated market with pricing set by bureaucrats. Why? Because Apple is really big, that's the real reason why. People hate big corporations almost universally, Apple is in the can do no right group; no matter what they do, a lot of people will bitch about their choices. The end result will be massive, stifling regulation, which everyone will then bitch about the consequences of.

> now I actually make more on Android. The Google Play review process is a breeze compared to Apple's laborious and stifling rules (although it is not perfect either by any means), and at some point, it's just not worth the hassle.

You should be making more on Android, it's a larger market. It's good that that former imbalance has corrected itself. Fortunately you're not entitled to an easy review process. It's a great thing that Apple adds friction to their store. It's their market, they should be able to set the rules. If it's not worth the hassle, then it's not worth the hassle, you've solved your own problem: give up on the Apple store.
Except for the situation of being directly impacted by shockwave, the medium - air in this case - can't move faster than the speed of sound, ie the speed with which the pressure differential causing the movement is propagated. Once the fireball expanded and shockwave passed, the mushroom goes up because it's hot and thus it is moved by the atmospheric pressure. For example you wouldn't have mushroom going up without an atmosphere. It is able to go that fast because the whole surrounding volume was preheated by radiation and the shockwave with the resulting speed of sound increase .
But in the brick & mortar scenario, the negotiation happens on more of a level playing field. Both parties have a reasonable alternative if an agreement isn't reached -- the manufacturer can find another retailer, and the retailer can find another supplier. In this case there's no such competitive market.

Granted, 30% would be low for retail, but surely digital marketplaces would charge less if competition was allowed. To get a sense of what pricing would look like in a competitive market, we can look at Steam, Epic, etc. for app distribution, or Stripe, Braintree, etc. for in-app purchases.
This would likely have been the case.
docker-compose and kubernetes
Though I don’t believe in silver bullets, I like the idea of decentralized bottom up organizing as a way to reduce the power of anyone “at the top”.
Kurzgesagt video on this: https://youtu.be/v3y8AIEX_dU
Even this commonly parroted "fact" isn't true. Cambridge Analytica exploited a Facebook misfeature that let them scrape a frankly ridiculous amount of data from users who took their quiz thing. Certainly Facebook shouldn't have allowed random apps access to this user data, but straight up selling data would be an act of immense incompetence on Facebook's part. Their whole business is keeping the data to themselves and selling access to targeted advertising based on that data.
> One of the nastiest things I've seen from the "analytics startups" espousing how they're GDPR friendly and compliant and privacy friendly is that they advertise stuff like CNAME cloaking, using random URLs or hostnames for data collection, etc.

> This is incredibly disgusting behaviour: the end-user has EXPLICITLY signaled intent to opt out, gone out of their way to try and protect themselves while blatantly signaling that intent that they do not want it, and the "privacy respecting and caring new not-like-the-other-guys" data collection service is attempting to repeatedly force itself on the end-user, sometimes trying multiple times pretending to be different hostnames, lying about what it is, etc.

> I have seen bullshit "analytics" SaaS bruteforce its way through dozens of generically-named cloudfront or akamai hostnames until they find one that works.

I agree with you; this is very bad. I might suggest for the user software to allow setting a list of allowed requests and prohibit others (if random URLs or hostnames are used, then this will block data collection, since if they try it, it will just end up annoying the user keeping asking), and/or to have an option tiat if too many improper accesses are attempted then all access will be denied (if it tries to bruteforce it ways through dozens of stuff, then none of them will work, especially if the browser pretends that the connection is just really slow!!!).
Getting out of iOS dev was the best career decision I’ve ever made. My baseline level of stress and frustration has plummeted. I also enjoy using my Samsung Note much more than I ever did any iPhone. It feels like the training wheels have been taken off my phone.

As developers I think we should all do what we can to nurture the open web. It’s the last truly developer friendly platform.
Um, I would imagine most stores would actually control what’s on and in the box. Every item in Walmart does have to be approved by Walmart first
If you have your closed-source app audited, everyone needs to trust the audit company. And I've seen some shit audits in my life that told absolutely nothing about the actual security.

Open source means anyone can audit and verify nothing was done after audit.

Moxie more or less audited WhatsApp's Signal protocol implementation, and people are right to be concerned about whether changes have been made since FB bought the app.
As someone work in that industry, I see that one huge cost is people (including me) working there. So first step will be eliminate or convert these millions or so jobs in telecom industry which currently offer middle class living to about or below subsistence level.

Another will be to bring down quality of service level. A couple of years back I was india and area where my mother lived had service down for like a week. That area must have a population of at least few 100Ks.

Third to have very little customer service staff. People here have legitimately said why the hell do I care about 1000s of customer service/call center staff. I want my service cheap. In countries like India they have done that. Social media call these companies evil but I think they are just trying to run cheap service.

Fourth is to spend much less on network equipments and field testing. Service is announced at much cheaper price point but backend systems are severely overloaded so one gets much more network/call drops.
> GPT3 correctly grasps that there is a hidden context to this weird prompt.

That is interesting. How does it indicate its understanding that there is a hidden context?
Israel managed to significantly lower the rates with the introduction of the following changes:

- Ban on SIM-locking of phones to one provider

- Allowing users to change providers without losing their phone number

- Ban on "exit penalties" for customers leaving a contract

- Forcing existing infrastructure providers to share their infrastructure with virtual or not-yet-fully-deployed new providers
from all the solutions, this seems to be the most simple with readily available tools. Unfortunately it's still not as short as I would like it to be and I hope I remember the syntax with -exec $CMD {} \; the next time I need it.

Thanks to all the helpers, who took their time to propose solutions.

But what I was trying to say is: I would be ok with adding a new command to the tools I use on my machine, VMs and containers. fzf, fd, rg are tools which make my life easier. I would prefer to have the features of fls in ls itself or a tool similar to fls in coreutils, moreutils or another package .
I know it's not the intent of the article, but the only thing I can think of is that it must be nice to have "family and friends" that can afford to hand you $50K each to back your strange new idea.
In popular culture they “suggest” things in the component list to get price down to what they want. The iOS comparable would be Apple suggesting refactoring for performance.....Walmart is much more aggressive
Big disadvantage of Mercury is its depth in Sun's gravitational well. This is worse than planetary escape velocity, because you have to pay it on both ways (to get to Mercury as well as get back). Another problem is radiation which this close to Sun and with no atmosphere is pretty huge issue.

Light intensity is irrelevant. Energy in the form of light is pretty much free within solar system unless it is somehow obstructed. Free in that you don't need to take it with you and it is completely renewable. If you have less light you just gather it from a larger area. Mars has actually pretty good light intensity because it has thin atmosphere (it blocking much less electromagnetic spectrum).

For a colony much more important are parameters: how difficult and long to get there, how much need to be taken with you (ie. do you need to have water/air with you), how much protection you will need to live there (temperature, differences, atmospheric pressure, radiation, gravity, etc.)
The Tsar Bomba was never intended to be a practical weapon. Modern computing (ever had to read/sign a disclaimer for FEM software saying "I will use this to make nukes"?) combined with espionage at the time means that there is almost no chance that there is anything particularly useful contained in the footage.

I also read that, as well as it being detected by an American nuclear surveillance plane, the detonation wasn't actually publicly announced within the Soviet Union.
Territorial pissing is a regrettably common — innate? — portion of the human experience that when reading the grandparent post I was just like “ugh, people.” There probably is some string of triggering incidents or resource contention but at the end of the day separate institutions are naturally inclined to competition not collaboration. Especially in highly politicized environments as things historical or museum tend to be.
Similar thing with my photos. All other files can be replaced, what I can't do is re-travel to various locations and re-take the photos I have!
> On iOS I guarantee that if the App Store had even one alternative, many apps would do the same and bail on Apple, and you’d see a similar ghost store.

Yes, I certainly would, and the only reason I haven't already is I have no other way to get my app into the hands of users who own only Apple phones and tablets.