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> Microsoft’s case was about parlaying their monopoly in Windows to the browser space by making Internet Explorer an intrinsic part of Windows.

Nope, they have been accused and sentenced of abusing their dominant position by forcing OEMs to pre install IE on Windows, before the integration started.

The way MS force them was with restrictive licenses that practically threatened OEMs to do what MS ordered or face legal consequences and risk to go out of business.

The second accusation was that MS used internals secret API for their product not available to third parties giving MS an unfair advantage.

Those API were also shared among few OEMs that helped MS secure its dominant position.

> Law professor Eben Moglen noted that the way Microsoft was required to disclose its APIs and protocols was useful only for “interoperating with a Windows Operating System Product”

The third of their anticompetitive behavior was to pay some OEMs to not install (or offer to customers) other operating systems on their hardware (including BeOS, for example)

"Microsoft's true anticompetitive clout was in the rebates it offered to OEMs preventing other operating systems from getting a foothold in the market."

Does it sound similar to what Apple does today?
It's closer to regulating the railroads' predatory excesses, which we did.
Welcome to Chrome monopoly. Show as off as u are doing opensource (yeah 90% opensource) but hide DRM , do some weird trick to make YouTube fast using some shadow/hidden api, spread ads like malware using extension manifest v3 . Look at Andriod how hard it is to use ad blocker.
What's worse, Nuisance crime or high impact crime? Do we come down on the fellow who stole a Twix bar for the n-th time or do we lock up the guy who proved that we really need million-dollar locks and alarms for the library holdings?
Sounds like the worst idea ever. Hope these practices will stay in the US only.
Ketamine is also a CNS depressant and would have the same compounding effect when mixed with alcohol, it's a wholly inappropriate drug to administer to someone who was in a state of "alcohol-induced excited delirium"
I think Randall's image is a bit misleading. I mean it is correct and fun, but for an uninitiated person it might cause impression that going down the well costs zero energy.

That of course is true, if you are stationary. Then you just start falling like apple from apple tree. But almost no objects in space are stationary, typically everything orbits something and frequently multiple things at the same time. Think about a rocket that is on an orbit around Earth. It is not free to fall to Earth, it must expend delta V to slow down enough so that its perigee is within Earth atmosphere (and typically well within atmosphere or it will just bounce off it).

At the same time, the rocket orbits the Sun, so even if it leaves Earth it still is not free to "fall" into Mercury. It must expend delta V to slow down so that its perihelion lowers at least to Mercury orbit.

So the graph on xkcd is correct, but with regards to bowling balls you might want to shoot up or let fall down from a position that is stationary in some celestial body's frame of reference.
Thankfully we don't use "almost certainly guilty" as the criminal standard in the US. So, you're still injecting an innocent person with drugs to detain them.
I have a question about this. Is SEO really still relevant and necessary? Is it really effective?

I've been wondering about this for a while. It seems to me that everybody is doing it anyway, and that in the end what counts is that many pages link to your page. Meanwhile, search engines heavily penalize certain "optimizations".

If you have a page that loads instantly and contains all the standard meta tags and keywords, does additional SEO really make a difference? Are there really any "tricks" that work?
You are conflating nudity and porn when they are two different things, and as far as nudity is concerned, focusing only on whether it is okay according to Christianity to be naked, rather than the other question more relevant to this story, which is whether it is okay according to Christianity to see someone else (who may or may not be Christian themself) be naked.
You do it knowing that it could be a terrible financial decision, cost at least a year of your life minimum, and that 90 to 99% of new businesses fail. Or at least you should know that. But you do it anyways.

So no, I think most don't regret it.
I'm also on the same journey and it all rings true.

I'd like to learn more about their strategy for fund raising, as I'd guess most people going down this path would be tending more towards the bootstrap/indie hacking/rev generating end of the spectrum
Those weren't ads. I separated them from the rest in my original post. I used a freshly wiped device with vpn.

All those things are against their policy and some of it is illegal so it shouldn't be on it with thousands of likes.

> fb ads are served based on off site web history and cross domain activity right

Good point. There should be more regulation on this.
If people want to use it then there is a need. You can't just tell people to stop having sensibilities
>When you move into iOS town, the only store within a thousand miles is the App Store.

A thousand miles?

I've switched between iOS and Android multiple times over my smartphone life (Android to iOS to Android to iOS). The switch is trivial. Yeah, it is like going between Walmart and Target, and not knowing the aisles layouts or having the loyalty card, but it's a pretty easy barrier and you'll figure it out quickly enough.

All of this moping and crying speaks as if Apple drew everyone in and then suddenly changed the rules of the game -- some master bait and switch -- and now everyone is finding the gates locked. Yet it has been the same rules for the entire ascent. Everyone who has bought an iPhone in the past decade+ knows that there is one app store, it's curated, etc. None of this is new. Every developer who made an app knew the way the store works, the rules, Apple's cut, etc.

Apple is on the wrong side of history with some of their current positions (cloud gaming as a big example of Apple being wrong), but this whole thread feel like people who want to force their way by grossly exaggerating their grievances and opposition. Many of these comments read like an absurd parody.
A paramedic isn’t going anywhere near a person waving a gun or a knife to inject them. This is only for people who are already restrained.
> If I gave out poisoned food for free, I would still be as liable as if I sold it. Sure, it means there is less free food given out, but ultimately, it's a net gain.

Non-accessible open source software is more like running a food stand at which you give out free food, but the food contains peanuts, which is clearly stated on your sign. "contains peanuts" ≠ "poisoned".
pullup resistors.

When the switch is closed, it creates a direct connection to ground or VCC, but when the switch is open, the rest of the circuit would be left floating (i.e., it would have an indeterminate voltage). For a switch that connects to ground, a pull-up resistor ensures a well-defined voltage (i.e. VCC, or logical high) across the remainder of the circuit when the switch is open. Conversely, for a switch that connects to VCC, a pull-down resistor ensures a well-defined ground voltage (i.e. logical low) when the switch is open.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-up_resistor
If you’re looking for a positive, at least your country’s leadership isn’t taking advice from a television pillow salesman.
These sound like easy documentation fixes - maybe open an issue?
I wonder if YTS users could go after the operator in court for its illegal conduct, or for its use of their personal data in particular. I'm guessing the site being illegal isn't relevant unless they personally have their copyrights infringed, but I wouldn't be surprised if this use of individuals' data without consent is illegal, especially if the shakedown letters turn out to be fraudulent.
> as long as there are alternatives, it's the user choice to get into the walled ecosystem.

Coercive bundling should warrant anti-trust scrutiny, whenever it occurs. It may only seldomly warrant action, but the very ability to coerce counter-parties appears to be a strong indicator that the traded good is not inherently fungible with another offering.

> that is for the customer to decide, not the legislator.

It's not clear to me what basis this claims factual authority beyond your personal understanding of the world.

Alternatively, and equally glib,

That is for society to decide, not the individual.
I think the J-Value approach is important for guiding policy but bawolff's criticism is valid. The article states:

> Sadly, of the 160,000 people evacuated due to radiation fears, there were 1,121 deaths in the first 3 years from physical and mental exhaustion.

When the public’s perception of risk is misaligned with official messaging, this logically will increase anxiety levels. Well informed high-trust societies should do best with a transparent and well communicated J-Value based policy. Measuring trust and refining communication practices seem like important aspects of the public response.
> Nobody said you shouldn't try.

Actually a lot of people do say exactly that. I've heard it quite often both online and in my personal life.
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> You also have the long, complex and constantly changing list of rules which need to be applied for each update. They are very strict about noting down the copyright of all the files, for example (which I can understand to some extent).

Tracking licensing information very strictly makes sense.

Other than that, however, the Debian packaging process is something only a lawyer could love.
Some people are unable to recognize awful architecture when they see it. I like a lot of Saarinen's work, especially his furniture, but even Homer nods, and his Grosvenor Square building looks like a cinderblock with a grudge.
Also happens in Canada (https://communityedition.ca/paramedics-in-wr-will-soon-admin...), they administer it for pretty much the same reason as in the US. And Australia.
For some reason in America half a butt cheek is worthy of a 15+ rating in films, but “general release” films are fine with burnt bodies hanging from trees
I would really love to see more open source applications on the app store like:
scummvm
Dosbox
iSh

I imagine that app store issues prevent these publishers from publishing to this platform. That's pretty sad especially since there are working builds for iOS for these applications.

It would be nice if Apple supported open source a bit more than it has on these platforms.

iPads and iPhones are fairly powerful devices. My iPad would replace my laptop for many usecases if I could download a CSV file and edit it in a text editor without safari blocking the download and if I had a bash terminal and the ability to download and build source code without jumping through hoops.
Nowhere does the article claim stereotypes are inherent. A common tactic - when confronted with evidence you don't like, switch to arguing that it doesn't support a stronger claim you made up, without acknowledging that it does support the original claim.
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I take a shower in the morning, nude. I go to the beach, there is nude people. I go to the gym and after taking a shower, nude people. I look at Instagram/Facebook/Any social media, there will be almost nude people, same with ads all over the place. Sometimes I sleep naked too. If you have a family, there is plenty of nudity and can happen at any point. Anyone who raised a child will give you an idea of how much nudity there really is in life.
> In terms of PR, Apple is turning into Disney

Interesting and thinking about it, Disney as a company seem to have more in common with Apple as a company consumer interaction/perception than other tech firms compared to Apple.

Actually the whole comparing Disney to Apple is very insightful, certainly helps get a better perspective upon things.
You think that all baskets are equally bad, hence the approach to separate data. I say follow the money. Apple gets its money from consumers buying devices, Google from businesses buying ads, MS from businesses, buying MS because, well...

Now, who has the best incentive to protect consumer's data?
Delphi's FireMonkey framework offers cross platform on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux with a single codebase and single UI. It works similar to how Flutter works in that it uses DirectX, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Metal API to draw the native like controls. Plus offers access to some native controls (mixed together) On Linux it uses GTK+.

There are thousands of hours of video tutorials on how to build cross platform apps with FireMonkey on YouTube. But really it is just all built into the IDE. Select the platform. Compile. A Linux machine and a macOS machine are required to compile for those platforms. Because it is an integrated IDE everyone is together so there is less tooling to fight to compile for all platforms.

Plus Delphi has staying power and plenty of history (25 years) behind it just like Python and PHP (verses newer languages and frameworks which may not be around later).

There are other libraries available for Delphi that let you build apps like Electron (webview based apps) or entirely using native controls on iOS using Storyboards if you prefer that way.

If I can self promote for a second here are 100 cross platform sample apps built in Delphi:
https://github.com/FMXExpress/Cross-Platform-Samples
f = goods price model

uk = United Kingdom

f_uk = goods price model of the United Kingdom

Seems to work. Did I misunderstand?
Airport security do this - say iPad when they mean tablets. They also get upset when I leave my kindle in the backpack
Because my goal is to move everything to self hosting whenever possible. Also there is nothing stopping anyone else from using it.
No, not really. Most people don't want to watch graphic sex scenes with their parents. It's not a "muh America" issue.
Solo founder here.

Make a product that people want and are willing to pay for.

The product may be in what appears to be a crowded field. Identify niche opportunities or cases where an established leader is doing a poor job.

It's fine to do some consulting on the side to pay the bills. Of course it will take time away from the product you are building; just be able to recognize when it's too much and scale back consulting or turn off the spigot completely once product sales take off.

It's fine to work according to your own schedule and needs, not some idealized '100 hours/week' VC fantasy schedule.

Investors don't care about you, they care about their returns. As you don't fit the pattern of what they expect for a successful startup, they will either ignore you or make very unreasonable demands - find a co-founder, work twice as hard, follow this or that model. Ultimately, it's a waste of time at best, a loss of control and failure at worst.

Once you have cashflow, offload certain business tasks to pros who can do it better and cheaper than attempting it yourself. Hire when you have sufficient cashflow + cushion.

Take pride in what you are building, the customers you attract, and the skills you are learning.
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It is a lot by recreational standards, but the anesthetic doses of ketamine are higher than the recreational doses.
My local microcenter has been jammed packed since the pandemic started. I also purchased 2 a few months back and a bunch of accessories.
> According to a judge or a police officer, probably not

I'd naively hope that a judge wouldn't side with a police officer here, but I think the fact that resisting arrest is inherently criminal is a pretty big flaw in the US legal system.

I live in a jurisdiction [1] where resisting arrest is not criminalised in the same sense as the US, and the idea that a police officer could unlawfully arrest you and then immediately have lawful grounds if you resisted is very alien to me.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resisting_arrest#England_and_W...
Covid 19 is dividing the American worker
Besides, QtWebEngine allows you to embed chromium into a QT app which means you can effectively get a similar stack as electron but also have the option to use desktop native widgets
I have no clue, the first time I read about ketamine was in a article [1] about upcoming partydrugs in The Netherlands. In that article they mention that ketamine is generally used as a anesthetic for horses. But having things done to your body while you cannot decide about that is just horrible and should be banned.

[1] https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/ketamine-steeds-populairder-gro... (Dutch)
I would be really surprised if they estimated this poorly and would guess they were just irritated by him and decided to up the dose as punishment. If I am wrong then they receive zero training when estimating weight and multiple officers are terrible at it. To mistakenly confuse a 140lb for 220lb is poor judgement to the point that it strains credulity.
Delightful! I'd say this manicule is a proto-emoji of sorts.

> Thomas Pynchon parodies this punctuation mark in his novel Gravity's Rainbow by depicting a middle finger, rather than an index finger, pointing at a line of text.
> If you treat shell as a DSL for files and streams, nothing can beat it.

That sounds exactly like the approach of this crate - easily let you use "the files and streams DSL" directly from a general purpose programming language (Rust). You get full access to shell, but only need to use it where it's useful.

I've done the same thing many times with Python, Node, and Ruby, just with template strings which isn't as pretty as this rust macro (even if the latter can be a bit mysterious)
Totally agreed; in general the advice a VC will give you will be what they consider you need to do for them to be interested in investing in you.

This is not the same as ‘good’ advice, and will often be diametrically opposed to it.
This sounds like the VM hypervisor was not correctly setup to provide the required access to your USB stick to the virtualized OS. That’s hard to fix from inside the VM.
America doesn't have a '15+' rating, lots of 'PG' movies have butts in them, and what 'G' rated movie has burnt corpses hanging from trees??
Samsung is to launch the Samsung Galaxy M51 with a 7000 mAh battery
Especially since the operator is a UK company, subject to GDPR. This kind of trade with personal data is one of the big things GDPR is supposed to protect against.
> How do you estimate the weight of a person?

Practice. In theory if you're doing this a lot, you should be able do a decent job of estimating +/- 10%, which is more than accurate enough.

There are certainly other complications (some medications are dosed on "ideal body weight" (ignoring subcutaneous fat), etc...)
I recently finished a project in JavaFX and am looking to build another application. I've been unsure of whether to continue using Java or use native widgets.

I'm very comfortable with Java, but one of the issues I've had is the size of the resulting binary with the JRE included (it's possible to not include a JRE of course, but it's much easier to have it bundled from a user perspective). You can use jlink to reduce the size of the bundled JRE so that it only includes relevant modules, but does it actually reduce the binary size by a significant amount?

Also, JavaFX doesn't seem to have backing from larger organizations like Electron does. Are there any well-known apps created with JavaFX. I know IntelliJ was created with Java but using Swing if I recall correctly.
Sounds good but... Is this what's needed to use FireMonkey? https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio

Price seems to range from ~$2000 to ~$4500 to use it, which feels a bit steep.
They mentioned it in the article that the only thing stopping someone from stealing things they are supposed to be protecting is a good conscience.
https://archive.is/UgYQP
Yea, it's so easy to call any product someone builds a zomby startup'. Once you are live and people do not continue to use your product, then only it might be right to call it a zomby startup, but not before...

I am always quite surprised that many people think "yea, you always can build a software in a few weeks. If not bah, not good'.

I think SOME softwares requires month if not years of building. Because there are difficult technically.
Those complicated softwares can be a game changer in the field, because well, the technical entry is so hard.
So let's see more those softwares like perhaps future BIG success. Not just future 'obvious failures'.

I think this makes sence.
Users have been dialog blind for decades. They instinctively click OK. This hasn’t been helped by the laws passed forcing almost every website to pop up a “we use cookies” dialog. As usual, anytime the government gets involved in regulating anything it doesn’t understand it makes the problem worse.
Also a solo founder here.

The comment about going from dev to marketer is huge. I'm in that phase now and it's pretty daunting. I've spent so much time obsessing about the product and now that I finally have something...how do I get people to use it?

I just started brainstorming ideas and it's actually fun to start diving into something I haven't had to think about before. Yes, daunting but so is everything about being a solo founder. It's just another hurtle to jump.

If you're serious about your product and enjoy the solo founder journey, you'll find comfort and stimulation in the new adventures that present themselves to you.
In america if the police are killing you, resisting that death is a crime. If someone had attempted to stop the police from killing George Floyd, they would have been arrested and charged.

You can imagine the confusion that arises when plain clothes police seize people.
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Does anyone know of something similar for Go?
I really hope your startup flies - can't wait for a world famous app with a malayalam name. Aaha, anthass.
Not quite. It’s only in the 20th century with the rise of pass production that every paper had strong advertising income, and thus the need to expand circulation to a geographically defined group (with ad-reading partisans on both sides). This is what made them compete with quality differentiated investigative news content, and that is how you get the news culture in question.

If anything today’s decline has produced a regression to the earlier days of the 18th and 19th centuries, where you sold the content itself, reaching for sensationalism - often overtly political sensationalism, which sells great - and yellow journalism.

Ad based papers traditionally hated opinion pages because advertisers didn't really want to be next to controversy. But readers love them. Now that you once more need to sell to readers more than advertisers, now that you have a million choices of news instead of maybe two per city, the whole news medium turns partisan, whether it’s the NYT or Fox.
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Great post, these strategies are very similar to mine. I've been bootstrapping solo for 12 years while holding fulltime jobs and growing my family to 5. I'm currently working on my 3rd project and as life throws more and more distractions and negative thoughts emerge from my unconscious, having a consistent plan like this is best way forward.

The main take away is goals, tasks, ideas, and random thoughts, you have to get them out of your head and onto paper (digital or otherwise) and this could be as unstructured as the thoughts themselves. They key is to materialize internal thoughts externally, to capture the essence outside myself, and to give myself room to work on that small task that will push me forward now.
Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with Covid-19 containment measures