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This is where the situation gets complicated. Apple's position is that you can't use their devices to sell digital goods not via them. It would be as if a bottle of shampoo at Target had on the label "Buy it online instead of Target for 30% off."

If you can get your customers to buy your stuff on your own with your own marketing not using Apple's devices then you win and get to keep the 30% but if you use your app to sell to a customer then Apple gets a cut.

> Apple forbids selling interactive content for their platform

This isn't entirely true. If you make a game that sells in-game currency then you can get around the 30% by having users buy your currency packs on your website. But you can't use your app to direct them there. And if you're like "that would be a death-knell for any game" then you understand why Apple charges and premium for it.
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> So either it is next to impossible to begin doing it (seems like a bizarre conclusion), or, perhaps more likely, nobody wants to do it

Or it is an incredibly good procedure for a tiny minority of the projects, but sucks for the vast majority of them.
I suppose in a way they are monetizing/selling the use of your data because they're collecting it and selling the aggregation of that data back to advertisers.

Sure, it's not a selling of the raw data record but with advertising and targeting an advertiser can get pretty close.
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Word to the wise. If you haven't seen the videos (more specifically their aftermath) I'd recommend you avoid them. I'm sure a jury will watch them enough times for all of us.
Almost free when you consider the tax deduction.
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Am i the only one who thinks we are not giving credit to Trump administration for more de-regulation specifically this one? Relaxing the regulation to be fair.
> The option isn't hidden on android at all, it's dead simple. There's a warning dialog, but I can live with that.

I can't. If I'm going to distribute my apps outside of Google Play, I need to tell my potential customers to crawl through their phone's settings page, clicking through various menus, then ignore the scary warnings that strongly imply I'm about to infect them with malware and steal all of their personal data. And I would have to do that in every single language I want to support, and of course would lose sales from people who don't want to bother following these long instructions, especially since they have to close their web browser (and hide the written instructions) to actually do it. And I also have increased support costs because I need to respond to emails from people who couldn't figure out how to do it (in all languages), and I have to constantly worry about being blocked by the "Play Protect" program, which scans apps installed outside of Google Play, sends them to Google's servers, and then decides to block them at Google's discretion. And if I happen to get big enough to where I potentially become a competitive threat to Google, then I have to worry about their "white hat" hit squad finding exploits in my software and sending it to major news outlets to ~~tarnish my reputation~~ I mean protect users.

Or I can avoid all of those Google-created problems by giving Google 30% of my business.

So while technically you could distribute your apps outside of Google Play, it is not practical at all thanks to all of the anti-competitive barriers Google has put up. Anyone who thinks that Android is a healthy environment for competition is being naive, or has no experience with consumer products.

> * Steam is a very specialized case: Not quite an app store [Apple credits itself with inventing the App Store, despite Steam existing since 2003, so Apple agrees with me on this], but they all but created the Linux game market, and got in before the Windows Store was created. Yea, if you create the market or get in in advance or on stuff the official store doesn't include, you can survive, but the general rule is that the official App Store wins.

What do you mean? Steam is 100% an app store. It's a store where they sell applications (although mostly games). Also, Steam was not at all the first game/app store on Windows or Linux. It was simply the best back in the day; so good in fact that it beat straight up piracy. Even today they're pretty great, despite the 30% cut (although that situation is completely different to the one Apple and Google are in)
In consumer, the customer are typically advertisers and the users are typically the product. Facebook ad products are just as strangely designed, complex and such, because no one approving Facebook Ad spend in a big deal is the one using it. So the same company can actually end up with both, a "product" that serves decision makers in ad agencies, and a "product" that retains consumer eyeballs.

When you say clunky, inefficient and bizarre UX, you mean the user UX, which doesn't matter in enterprise. If it didn't save a VP or better yet the CEO of a large company mad time, make them more money, save them money or mitigate risk, it would not be there in the first place. Because systems like SAP are incredibly good at both doing that in complex use cases and making the case for it, they prevail.

Startups often try to go enterprise and say their UX is better. Notion may be great, but based on pricing it's creating <$10/user/month in enterprise value. There are products in specialized industries (e.g. Bloomberg in finance) that charge $2000/user/month. They serve the real customer, which is the VP or CEO who signs, very well.
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The solution here is to outlaw targeted advertising, so that marketing budgets can realign to appropriately pay for normal advertising again.

As it is, the efficacy of targeted advertising is a myth. Google claimed in a blog post that their own internal study showed over a 50% benefit in targeted advertising for publishers... but an independent, academic study showed a difference of about 4%.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/targeted-ads-offer-little-...

https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/disabling_third-pa...

(Google has suggested, of course, that their wildly different outcomes are because you know, Google has data nobody else has, and obviously Google would never manipulate it's exclusive access to all that data to make studies look like what is best for their business.)

Adtech giants need advertisers to believe they need targeted advertising, because targeted advertising relies on mass data collection only they are capable of getting. If people realized the necessity of using Google and Facebook's mass user data was... a complete lie... any old ad firm could compete with their businesses.
Bret Weinstein offers a different perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmnawxwCAHc
The word 'efficient' is intended to be significant in the quoted sentence. Efficient labour participation is different. It means that a guy who can become a lawyer performs law. It means that a guy who can operate as a bricklayer lays bricks. And it means that a guy whose peak is unskilled labour is only going to perform unskilled labour. If you put your lawyers into ditch digging and your bricklayers into coffee delivery you can get 100% labour participation without efficient workplace participation.

This is commonly the flaw with Arab nations' use of their workforce of women. They are all working a lot of the time. It's just a huge waste of what they're capable of.

Slavery is similar. You just flatten everyone into unskilled labour. You lose. People will better fall on to the curve where they can participate the best in a free society than a slave society.
Top Federal rate for W2 income: 37% + 2.9% Medicare + 12.6% on the FICA portion.

Top Federal rate for dividend/profit distribution: 20%

All other things being equal, as the company earns more than your base wage, you want it to be treated as dividend income.
A friend of mine has four kids and three au pairs. Plus frequent overnight guests like grandparents. That's not going to fit in 2500 sq ft.
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Every feature of the lexer should be testable through test cases written in the syntax of the language. That includes handling of bad lexical syntax also. For instance, a malformed floating-point constant or a string literal that is not closed are testable without having to treat the lexer as a unit. It should be easy to come up with valid syntax that exercises every possible token kind, in all of its varieties.

For any token kind, it should be easy to come up with a minimal piece of syntax which includes that token.

If there is a lexical analysis case (whether a successful token extraction or an error) that is somehow not testable through the parser, then that is dead code.

The division of the processing of a language into "parser" and "lexer" is arbitrary; it's an implementation detail which has to do with the fact that lexing requires lookahead and backtracking over multiple characters (and that is easily done with buffering techniques), whereas the simplest and fastest parsing algorithms like LALR(1) have only one symbol of lookahead.

Parsers and lexers sometimes end up integrated, in that the lexer may not know what to do without information from the parser. For instance a lex-generated lexer can have states in the form of start conditions. The parser may trigger these. That means that to get into certain states of the lexer, either the parser is required, or you need a mock up of that situation: some test-only method that gets into that state.

Basically, treating the lexer part of a lexer/parser combo as public interface is rarely going to be a good idea.
I am from Europe and one thing that I have heard is that your new DA is buddy with Antifa and announced that only major violations will get punished. This is basically a written invitation to rioters and looters to keep going. Oh, and of course I saw the Adam Haner scene that looked like a beheading from Irak until he was kicked in the head by BLM "Security", which then reminded me more of the curb stomping scene from American History X. Also, I did not fail to noticed that your mayor decided to completely ignore this incident. So yeah, from my narrow view, Portland did not look like the posterchild of civilization recently.
> Somehow, magically, most republicans only care about the USPS.

I could argue the opposite right now. Seems "the other side" only wants to champion USPS right now, even though only a year ago everyone would have been in near agreement USPS needs reforms. It's political... I get it, but does everyone here arguing get it too? Doubtful.

In my time serving as a legislative assistant for a California Assemblyman, we fought against several state controlled pension funds, including pushing for divestment from Iran. These attempts were always met with fierce opposition - "you're destroying my retirement!" and more. Anecdata I know...

Pensions, in my opinion, are universally bad. You, the individual, should control your own retirement. Too often these pensions, that people rely on, dry up or disappear suddenly due to gross mismanagement.

If you're going to have a pension - it should have to be funded for a massive amount of time. Maybe not 75 years, but the average person's working years (ie, 40 or 50 years). Making it impossible for the pension to be gone through no fault of your own is what we owe people stuck with pensions.
Do you think most people are aware of that context?
"If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades."

Sadly, that's not difficult to do, especially if the artist has critics, media, museums, and galleries propping them up and giving them publicity.

The history of 20th Century art is full of shock art antics which rile up the public.

One of the most telling examples is Piero Manzoni's "Artist's Shit"[1], which (true to its name) consists of tin cans containing Manzoni's excrement.

Manzoni sold the cans for their weight in gold ($37 each in 1961), but since then they're selling for as much as €275,000 each.

Poetically, some cans have since burst because of the gases built up inside, making the "art" worthless.

The estimation, outrage, and value of such "art" in the art market, in the eyes of critics, and in the view of the public aptly summarizes a lot of modern art. Perhaps that's why they sell so well.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit
I am very confused as to how approval of third party app stores comes into this? The flow I'm thinking of is going to be "you install a third-party app store, which is identical to any other app except it has one additional capability that it takes an IPA and can request that the system install it". Keeping that in mind, is your comment still pertinent? If so, how?
> Our securities markets work

According to what standard? Is the fact that I can’t invest $5000 in my friend’s startup an example of our securities markets “working”? Not according to any rationally justifiable standard.

Certainly the impulse to protect grandma’s life savings from predatory fraud is a good one. But the proper way to better society is through empowering individuals to make better decisions. An example of a better system along this principle would be a local (county/state) investment office that you go through that checks over the terms of the deal to make sure the terms are legal and the parties are fully aware of what they’re getting themselves into. That would protect against fraud, without violating my right to freely and consensually associate with other consenting adults. “Others might do a bad thing, therefore you should be banned from doing a good thing” is not a logically coherent standard — yet that is the essential argument of the SEC and it’s “accredited investor” protections.

Your view that these markets are “working” is merely an indication that you lack imagination. How much better would the world be if there weren’t arbitrary restrictions on economic exchange? It’s impossible to know, but history shows that advancements in liberty and justice have breed unprecedented wealth.
> As always with the products other people are making, you have the choice to not buy them.

That's how it works in the material world. Data works differently. Data is infinite. You can have as much as you want. Why would anyone buy copies when making new ones is as easy as copy and paste? Only the original copy must be paid for.

So there is in fact a third choice to buying or not buying data: obtain a copy from someone who already has it. Copyright law is all about getting rid of that choice. It's all about making sure that creators monopolize the means to make copies. Copyright is about the right to make copies.

Making copies of data is a fundamental computer operation. We can find this ability in functions such as memcpy, in programs such as cp and HTTP servers. Making copies is trivial. Anyone who owns a computer can do it. Without compromising our freedom to run these programs, copyright law is unenforceable.

So it's not just ideals. In order to actually enforce copyright law, computers must be made to answer to the copyright industry instead of users. As a computer user and programmer, that's not the future I want.
I downvoted you, but let me try to understand your worldview a bit here, tell me if you are in disagreement with these ideas I'm attributing to you based on what I'm reading:

1.) If it can be pirated, it should be pirate-able.

Taken to the extreme, does this extend to the realm of people's appearance? With deepfakes I can 'pirate' someone's face and voice to be used for things they would never agree to.

2.) All distribution mediums are middle-men between a creator and a consumer. Whoever is making money as a middle-man is in the wrong. The person making the least money as a middle-man is the least-wrong.

Piracy services only make money on selling ads and file-download/storage subscriptions, and not on a per-consumption basis. They make the least profit from the middle-manning, so pirating services are the least wrong middle-men.

3.) Creators don't need monetary/financial/fame incentives, they should only create for the act of creation-itself.

Consumers will naturally request and "commission" more work from the creator if their work is good.

I know I'm taking it a bit far on the first one, but I can't help but think that you might agree based on reading your comments.
I believe they made modifications after that, yes.

But if you believe they don't still provide access via substantially similar APIs to "trusted partners", I have a bridge that may interest you...
Yes it's difficult to compare. Many people like to take into account the efficiency of the electricity production when talking about EV, which is an important thing to do, but forget that gaz does not appear magically in a gaz tank. The efficiency of having gaz in a gaz tank is shit.

I don't have the numbers because I'm lazy, but I remember reading that it takes more energy to bring one liter of gaz in a car tank, if you consider the full chain, than the energy required to drive a EV on the same distance. So even before you start to turn on the cars, an EV has used less energy.
I have an Md, a Phd, and I'm a computational biologist at MIT. I think this qualifies as expertise.
> If I just focus on the implementation [...]

Agreed, but why would you even write those tests to begin with?
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Ohio LLC’s are a powerful vehicle. Pay $99 once and never pay again.

Plus Ohio is super business friendly (red state).

I use a registered agent that files on my behalf so it’s $250 all in to get it done.

If you know your idea will take a few years to manifest into revenue and you want to shelter the IP somewhere an Ohio LLC is the place to do it IMHO (not legal advice).
Boeing did not abuse the tariff system; they used it exactly as designed. The tariff system encourages reports by competitors, and awards a portion of the collections to the competitors.

I am a free-trader, and think all tariffs are bad, but Boeing acted in the spirit of that law.

Bombardier's aspirations were stymied by an incredibly expensive certification process, which they underestimated.
I mean it's not exactly crazy, if Apple gave any ground in this department you would see every app desperately trying to push their users off-app for a sale.
I don't disagree.

I scanned the linked article and I noticed several instances where the author made explicit references to contrast between these grand architectural gestures and the plight faced by many Soviet workers and commoners.

Did you feel the author failed to adequately address those realities?

It's always a bit difficult to strike the right balance between "talking about the subject at hand" and "acknowledging human suffering that was directly or tangentially related", particularly when discussing historical matters, since just about any event in history will be at least tangentially related to various horrors suffered by assorted individuals and groups of people.

The linked article appears to be written for an audience that has a passing familiarity with the Soviet Union and therefore gives only short mention to the (extremely important, more so than architecture!) human cost of such achievements.

At any rate, I do suppose it's better to err on the side of over-acknowledging human suffering than to do the opposite.
> The relationship of slavery and the US constitution should be part of the context everyone is aware of. That means it should be part of education everyone receives.

Why should someone in for instance Brazil know of these details of the USA history? The context for the Brazilian constitutions is part of the education everyone receives here in Brazil, but I don't recall learning anything about the USA constitution in school. Don't forget that HN has an international audience.
There are a lot of books out there to use as training data. Fifty years is plenty of time to perfect the plagiaristic mashup. I expect autowriters to dominate the market for "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl." stories that are set in the past. There might be a job, half novelist, half computer programmer, done by humans who tweak autowriters to add up-to-the-minute details to their stories.

I doubt that "I'll even settle for a book that can rival human authors." states a sharp edged criterion that separates before from after. Crossing the gap between rivaling Barbara Cartland and rivaling Tolstoy mind take a century of software development.
Jailbreaking used to be as easy as going to a website and clicking "jailbreak".
Was really hoping there would be more substance to this. It's about as helpful as the solution to depression being "just stop feeling sorry for yourself!" Little better than the Protest Song-- "the world's going to shit, everything is awful, but all you have to do to fix it is...<mumble mumble mumble>."

That said, it's not wrong, just seriously low-effort and underwhelming. The same advice applies to healthy living-- ideally you want to reduce "cheap" dopamine hits (sugars, fats, etc.) and replace them with the rush you'd get from exercise. Some (can't speak for all) rehab clinics put patients to work doing menial physical labor (gardening, etc.) around the grounds for this purpose-- the intent is to replace their synthetic drug-based dopamine cravings with a self-generated and sustainable alternative. If nothing else it gives you something to do for a few weeks to get your mind off of the malaise that comes with withdrawal.

In the end, if you're feeling lazy and bored, no amount of advice from underqualified and overprivileged yahoos on the internet is going to get you off your ass enough to do something about it. There's a reason people end up in these ruts to begin with.
> For one, they're aware of crashes, bubbles, etc. and have probably even lived through at least one of them.

The Panic of 1929 was far from the first crash of the 1900s, let alone the only large crash in history. The Panic of 1893 would have been the big crash that everyone was afraid of before 1929, but there were more minor crashes in 1901 and 1907. Railway manias and land speculation-driven crashes litter pretty much every decade of the 19th century. The 21st century is unusual because it's pretty much the first time in modern financial history you make it an entire decade without some sort of recession.
What countries have high moral standing in the world?