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I don’t need apps on my iPhone to do 100% of all things that apps can do. I am fine with some restrictions, so long as there’s enough reliability, consistency, privacy and security.

If there are alternate app stores, I am sure others would make their apps exclusive there and demand you download them through these stores:

1. Facebook will want a store that allows them to build an app that has no ad or data collection restrictions.
2. Epic will want a store that allows them to directly charge for in-app purchases.
3. Google will want a store that allows them to track your location in the background regardless of your consent.
4. The New York Times will want a store where you cannot find a way to cancel your subscription.

And so on... I end up having to download 5 or 10 stores, and end up with a poor user experience.

And what do I get in return? As a consumer, I see no value for me.

I spend a small fraction of what I spend to buy my iPhone on apps per year. If their developers want to charge more to recoup their 30%, I am fine with that.
Can I ask who this high-risk processor is?
Epic has been very clear from the beginning that they would like to viably run a store on the major mobile hardware, they are not claiming that stores are bad in general.
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The fact that iOS is closed doesn’t in practice take away my freedom as a user basically ever. The store is overflowing with apps, the prices are comparable to the Play Store and there’s nothing but minor functionality differences between Android and iOS.

The fact that the App Store is closed really takes away freedom from developers and publishers who have no choice to play ball with Apple and who I am always happy are getting constantly bullied into not being shitty to their users.

It really is pretty amazing that Apple gets to take 30% off the top for the privilege, Apple wouldn’t have any real leverage if companies didn’t mistreat users to the point where Apple’s garden is a panacea.
The community has probably never been noob friendly. A common meme shared in the Dota 1 days (before LoL and Heroes of Newerth) was "Welcome to DOTA, you suck."

Also, I believe you meant Valve made Dota 2.
https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/1*c28F7YXjNo-GpmB9bBmbrA.pn...

This chart clearly shows multiple data points per resolution under the old fixed-ladder scheme, and under the new scheme the new data point for 1080p is lower on the video quality scale than any of the old 720p encodes. That's a pretty significant difference, and my question about where these new encodes fit into their existing price structure remains valid.
Ok, I got the part with the arbitrage bots and frontrunners - but could someone ELI5 to me what the uniswap contract was supposed to do in the first place?
I think that's not true until Office365 kicks in. If Microsoft "goes down" today, just gets wiped out by some futures FX swap gone wrong, then all the Hedge funds, the doctors notes, the airplane checklists, they will pootle along fine for years.

It's only when a central single point of failure is introduced does critical infrastructure become ticking time bomb.

An open source peer to peer zoom would reduce such risk - and any sensible government would find that - cries of private business be damned
What true nature? Following their word and their terms for over a decade for all developers worldwide?

Do you want to see side deals with your privacy too?
He was, however, defending his workplace. Supposedly he worked at one of the car dealerships in the area. (and then left to try to provide medical assistance and was unable to regroup with his group at that dealership)
January 2000 - $60
January 2010 - $30

I did just eyeball it from a few months before. And note, I said 2000...not 2001. And even at the end of 2001, it did nothing for a decade plus.
This one?

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> Oh, I don't know. They could ask the developer for a fee. How about that?

Yes, they could do that. I just don't understand the reason why they should be forced to.
IBM didn’t open up because of suit on mainframes. They really didn’t care about the personal computer market and just got open source parts and paid MS a little money for the operating system.

The use of “private APIs” is a red herring. Every software developer for the last forty years knows about the concept of a public interface that they promise not to change and private implementation details. Some languages force it and others do it by convention.
Yes, because buying an Android phone instead of an iPhone is like moving to another country.

As a consumer, you can push for improvements by voting with your wallet and flat out not buying Apple products. As a developer, you can push for improvements by not supporting that platform. Given that you have alternatives to Apple both as a developer and as a consumer, I don't think there's any justification for the government to force Apple to accept Epic blatantly breaking the terms they agreed to comply with.
Ultimately, this isn't about App Store revenue. Yes, iOS generates far more IAP revenue than Android, in general. But, does this apply to Fortnite (maybe), xCloud (no), Hey (no), and the many other apps which have been Banned By Apple?

I'm not talking about writing an application for iOS and Android, then selling it in the store. I do think that's a separate case.

I'm talking about, as the best examples, xCloud and Hey. Web services which need to offer a mobile experience. Microsoft will be fine without Apple, but Hey faced legitimate business issues when Apple kicked them out. These companies are uninterested in the App Store Economy: They just want distribution.
Epic is just an example, and a very marginal one at that. I assume most app dev could really use fairer pricing from Apple.
12k? Never heard of. Let's go with 8k, which is 7680x4320.

Assuming our current standard of 8 bits per color with no alpha (3 bytes per pixel), which may be too low if you care so much about your monitor, your required bandwidth becomes:

7680 * 4320 * 3 * 1000 = 99532800000

99532800000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 92 gigabytes per second of bandwidth you will consume just to pump stuff to your monitor. Better not use integrated graphics!

To give a comparison, here's 4k@60hz:

3840 * 2160 * 3 * 60 = 1492992000

1492992000 / 1024 / 1024 = 1423 Mb/s.

Also notice that 8k monitors already employ tactics such as "visually lossless compression" (which means: lossy compression but they think you won't notice) and other stuff aimed at trying to not really submit full frames all the time.

Forget your 12k. It will only be useful to increase your energy bill.

Edit: fix calculations.
Indeed but that wasn’t the point I was making. I was saying those who argue the App Store as a monopoly (ie because it’s the only repository on iOS) miss the point of what a monopoly legally means.

I agree what we have is a duopoly.
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Netflix should be able to get the EDL, which would probably take care of most of the work.
I mean, sure, at a kernel level. It has its own GUI rendering stack (Freon) rather than the usual X11/Wayland of "normal" Linux, and it's Freon that has their acceleration support.
These are great. The free FontAwesome icons have a bit of a cutesy feel to them, nice to have another option.
I'm not sure when Ethereum supporters would wake up. Ethereum's design creates this kind of Dark Forest problem. When it is programmable, you are at risk of being overpowered by bots. Computers are far more efficient than humans. Smart contracts are not smart. If they're too complicated (smart), humans can't comprehend them. So they're mostly dumb. Bots will overrun humans. With Ethereum, you know you're entering a digital Dark Forest. But you still want to explore it. You venture into the Dark Forest and got attacked. It does make an interesting story. But it's a fairly useless system.

With cryptocurrencies, you want to "slow" the system down. You want more redundancy. You want less efficiency. It's the only way to fight the automation monsters. Bitcoin is money. Ethereum is a fun and experimental Dark Forest.
The jittering is caused by the Apple TV defaulting to 60p frame rate for all content. But if you turn on “match frame rate” the jittering goes away.
That's my baby!
I wanted it to be convenient and electronic transfer but my lawyer said I’m simply not allowed to. I had to get cheques from my banks and hand deliver them to the lawyer’s office.

I’m not sure I fully understand, in retrospect, the desire to shave off inconvenient corners for large life events you do so rarely. I think there’s real wisdom in some of these things being so slow and old school.
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You made a very compelling case about why it would be difficult for everyone to switch between software like the root comment describes.

But the article goes a step further and says that Zoom specifically is of critical importance. I don't think this is true. Zoom is a brand, not a unique technology. If they suddenly made everyone pay $50/day, the world would switch to alternatives very quickly.
I'm surprised this kind of topic inspires such discourse. I wonder what makes it different than other topics.
What do you think the government does with the money? Keep it?
They saved you a tiny amount of money now at the expense of the future accumulated effect of lobbying against medical and insurance reform.

It’s like mortgaging your future and the generations after you in exchange for a few dollars.
I think this belief in "digital native" supremacy is magical thinking:

* Most kindergarteners are illiterate and innumerate. That alone severely limits their ability to quickly navigate an unfamiliar, complex UI, much less the extensive number of relevant abstract concepts and references they've yet to learn about.

* I've never bought into the "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" mentality, especially when simultaneously discarding the value of transferable experience. My senior-citizen parents know how to use iPads just fine, thank you. My dad started programming in the punch card days and has at least used computers almost every day since; don't you think there's some relevance to more modern computers?
Have you tried turning “match frame rate” on?
I like to play Fortnite with my kids. I hook up an Xbox controller and play on my iPad Pro. One kid is on a Switch, the other on an Xbox. As of yesterday, I can’t play with them. I very much miss that experience.

However, I still support Apple’s decision to pull them from the App Store. Why? Because I don’t want there to be another mechanism for in-app purchases on iOS that isn’t subject to parental controls. I love my kids, but there is no way that they should be able to buy anything from an App that I haven’t approved.

Note: I’m sure this would never happen with my kids as they know better and we’ve discussed the perils of in-app purchases and avoiding installing games they see in ads. But their accounts are locked down, just the same.
Captchas move a problem from one party to another. Service has a problem with bots, it adds a captcha, now the problem is on the legitimate users to prove they're not bots.

Like any technology, captcha has been invented at some point.

There's plenty of opportunity to solve the bot problem in a different way.

2FA doesn't address the same issue. It's not designed for the service to distinguish a human vs a bot. It's designed for users, to protect against account takeover.

P.S: I highly recommend this podcast on the history of recaptcha https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/860884062/recaptcha-and-duoli...
There are two dimensions to these graphs. Yes, they've drastically decreased bitrates, but if the cheaper plans still cut off those curves at 720p or 1080p, then you're not necessarily gaining video quality.
it hasn't engaged in this level of abuse.

Well, I couldn't buy a computer from a major company with an alternate operating system without paying Microsoft in the 90's, so I'll say that's pretty damn abusive.
If that were the case, you would have seen Chrome’s market share increase faster in the EU than the US where there was no browser ballot. That wasn’t the case.
That's not the same. People living in California cannot relocate to NY just to use a different store. iPhone users can in fact buy an Android phone to escape Apple. I think this line of argument is very weak and will never succeed in an antitrust trial.
Apple does NOT prevent other browsing engines.

It prevents you from dynamically compiling code at runtime which is a needed rule because otherwise apps would just run around the curation process.
It's not creativity. It's optimization. No new explanatory knowledge is created unless a human analyzes the move and learns something from it.
Debunking reports claiming Covid-19 definitely wasn’t made in a lab
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Doh, that should have read 'there aren't many other use cases for decentralized transactions'.
> No matter what opinion one holds on mobile store rules, they are their rules and so far you have the choice of following them (which is also somewhat iffy) or not being on the store.

A valid opinion is that those rules are illegal under current federal statue. Another one is that although they currently aren't, they should be.

> Separate the issues and angles and see it for what it is: just a bunch of legal departments having a fight.

Yes, but the only reason they get to adjudicate it in tax payer funded courts is precisely _because_ the decision will have a major impact on consumers and developers as as whole.

It's a surprise because typically these departments have a much larger incentive to settle, and not to create new case law. It's giant news because of the potential impact to many individuals and to the industry as a whole.
GoodRx/Coupons creates some odd problems/interactions with insurance.

We were prescribed liquid Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) for a child with the flu. We have high deductible health insurance. The insurance "discount" cost was $105. The GoodRx price was $40.

But this creates an odd and illogical conflict: Hypothetically we should always pay the lower price, but the higher price counts towards our insurance yearly deductible and out-of-pocket maximum, whereas the GoodRx price does not.

So we have a type of insurance specifically designed to encourage us to find cheaper medical services, but GoodRx undercuts the insurance itself, forcing us to choose between our deductible and the rational price.

The US should just outright ban insurance "discounts" (which are a fiction anyway). That way everyone pays just one price: Cash, insurance, Medicaid, or whatever. Plus then medical providers can actually publish realistic price lists instead of fiction with "discounts" on the fiction.
> People living in California cannot relocate to NY just to use a different store. iPhone users can in fact buy an Android phone to escape Apple.

In what sense can people in California not relocate to NY but people with iPhones can relocate to Android? In both cases moving is possible but the cost is far in excess of the cost of the typical product you'd buy in the store.
For instance this is what happens in the U.K. if you don’t pay your water bill.
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/water/water-suppl...

You can be disconnected from electricity in rare circumstances, but I personally haven’t heard of it...
I’m sold. Amazing idea.

I wish I could decide how large each instalment was.

Edit: the most bizarre thing. I’m trying to scroll and the ink is smudging everywhere and I can’t read things.
You have a good point about empathy. No one wants to feel unseen, or like their problems don't matter. The real thing that is required is that people have (most importantly imho) the willingness and also the imagination to think about the difficulties others must face. No one's life is completely pain free, and we could sidetrack into some Buddhist thought based on that. But, objective differences remain. Someone can drown in 6 inches of water as well as by falling off a boat in the middle of the ocean, and be just as dead, but it takes a lot more work to get out of the middle of the ocean.

I think that people need to feel a sense of agency, self control, and meaning. That sometimes means they feel the need to greatly downplay the role of good fortune in their current life circumstances, and play up the mistakes of others to explain others' situations. It's an extremely common cognitive distortion, and it causes a real sickness in society.
Maybe. We're talking about the same company that only allows their software to run on their own hardware. It looks like having full control of the entire user experience is a sacred rule that they must never break.
I dont care about free games, I have more money than free time.
All I want is that games work on my platform, which is linux.
They killed rocket league, because its not worth it to support platform that is used by 0.3% of the playerbase.
Somehow they managed to do it before epic monies, but now its just too expensive or something. So fuck em.
We tried that with Windows Mobile, xda-developers and cab files before. It didn’t work.
You forgot the most important part: "answering the question of 'what can even go wrong?' with 'everything'."

This isn't about making stories on reusable rockets, it is about how those reusable rockets would affect the common man's life negatively. You know, "high tech, low life". Of course if that wouldn't make sense (cannot think how reusable rockets could affect everyday life, at least in a direct way), then it isn't much of a fit for Cyberpunk.

Framing Cyberpunk as only about networks, body augmentation and corporate feudalism is IMO too narrow and restricting - these can be the symptoms of high tech but they aren't the only thing that high tech can do or affect negatively.

I mean, what is next? Restricting Cyberpunk works to only be set at night while raining? :-P
Do you have a source with more info about Tinder pricing based on gender and sexual orientation?
My mom worked very hard and well for a company that administered benefits for union employees. The way that things worked would be that if you worked at least a certain number of hours in January you would have medical insurance coverage in March. But not February. If you worked the required number of hours in February, you'd be covered for April. And so on.

In going through her things after she died, I found letters to her bosses about how well she'd treated the plumbers, electricians, etc. I know she would take work home and do it off the clock.

What was really unfortunate, for me, is believing that her job shouldn't exist. To me it's crazy the expenses we have a universal healthcare system.

Of course, that also applies to avoiding taxes, etc. There was an attorney interviewed on a recent podcast about tariffs - he specialized in finding things like shipping bikes from China without tires and the tires from Vietnam would be much less in tariffs than just shipping from China.
For the record, when the librem 5 birch came out and I got my shipping notification, that guy (Jay Little) literally asked if the FedEx package was real.

I also made a forum post (on Purism, not Reddit) about asking how to charge the battery after a deep discharge (turns out I just needed to keep it plugged in to get it charged). That guy apparently goes through the Purism forum to find posts like mine because he THEN posted it to Reddit as proof that anyone investing in it is a moron and how I specifically am a moron.

He also said he personally despises the CEO of Purism.

That post was also before there was any hardware shipped. He was convinced hardware didn't exist and Purism was scamming everyone.

I say that to say I personally think that person is a troll or has some deep personal issues. I would not pay any attention to what he says.
That's true, but Epic is more of a friend to open source than Apple: they donated money to both Blender and Godot Engine. Also Epic benefit from game development being more open in general even if their own engine is not open source.

If they gonna win in battle with Apple and will be allowed to have their own store then it's also make it possible to setup more of alternative stores for e.g open source software without waiting for jailbreak.
That's not really answering the question, which I think gets to the point of the distinction you made. Is it okay to censor discussion of the Islamic religion? That's a concept. We can agree it's not okay to censor based on an individual, but you distinguished the types of censorship based on concepts and individuals. Why is it okay to censor Islam but not Muslims (or is it not okay, in which case your prior delineation of circumstances doesn't hold)?

> It is acceptable to enforce the rule that laws cannot favor Islam.

That's not even about censorship, so I'm not sure how it applies.

Again, this is why I think it's important to have a well thought out argument, otherwise it may be hypocritical. I'm not even pushing a different side, I'm just trying to get you to articulate specifically why these two things are different, and pointing to examples doesn't do that at all. It's just a list of value judgements that you assume someone else will agree with without providing the rational behind those judgements (presumably believing it's self evident).

If someone cannot distinguish why two separate situations are different but states as fact that they are, then they are being hypocritical, whether those situation are different or not. Nobody should be stating things as fact that they can't explain. Being hypocritical has nothing to do with the truth, it has to do with knowledge, actions and beliefs.
The size factor has lost money pretty consistently. It is also a very suspicious factor generally because there are very obvious non-risk factor explanations (i.e. liquidity). Just generally, FF do very irrational things with their models (i.e. not including momentum)...they are credible but the way they do things is obviously not quite correct (Fama spent decades saying this kind of thing was totally impossible).

Market cap weighting is fine, if you actually end up with something reasonable...which you don't anymore. I wouldn't really recommend equal weighting either...so...
The ide, language, servers, and platform to support the app aren't worth anything? Really not trying to be dense here, I just don't see how this isn't just Epic thinking a price is too high and wanting to pay less.
Apple may win, but they aren't winning me over as a developer. All this tells me is that I don't want to develop on their platform lest they change some rules under my feet.
My dad is/was a ham. My experience growing up with ham radio in the house was so negative that it's just kinda a turn off for me. Going back to the early 90s, for a lot of those old boomer types ham was mostly just a way to out-do eachother by showing off their rigs. It's kind of disappointing to me that they have this awesome technology they could have been taking to the next level but instead just spend hours whistling into the mic and bragging. In addition I got a sense that many of the old guys were actively working as gatekeepers as a way to stroke their own egos.

These guys were a big part of the hobby for years and because of that the hobby has been stagnate. But from what it looks like it seems that they're swiftly being replaced by the newer generation of tinkerers in recent years which is pretty awesome.
I have been hearing about the superiority of Intel's compiler for a couple of decades now. Back when GCC was a tiny baby compared to what it is now, and when Clang/LLVM didn't even exist.

I wonder if this Intel compiler 'superiority' is still the case today, or if this is just a meme at this point.
I didn't mean the flair that appears next to your username in comment-replies, but you still get the "Reddit Premium" and "Gilding" badges on your profile's Trophy Case section.

On GitHub, you get the purple "PRO" badge next to your username on your profile page and in the profile-tooltips elsewhere on GitHub.