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I consider my iPhone to be a computer.

It’s possible for some middle ground here. If there’s an alternative distribution method, you wouldn’t have to use it.

And it’s of course possible that a lower commission is enforced.

Finally, the biggest issue here is Apple’s extreme power in being able to completely destroy software companies. I don’t think that’s right, personally.
One reason for such change I can think off is application of Goodharts law to estimates, when some managers base the programmers potential pay raise on how much faster than estimates the programmer was.
> to force both Apple and Google to let you install the Epic Games Store from the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store
That is what he asked for in his email to Apple that is part of the court filings. Epic Game Store on iOS with full OS level access without Apple's approval to anything they release. Also 0% fees to Apple for IAP.
What I meant was when you make a product and want
Walmart to sell it on its shelves - it won't be few percents. It will be way more.

Just like selling on Apple marketplace.
> will be your Waterloo

If you're English, that's actually a good thing ! :-)
I'm asking because you seem to speak with experience...

Why do we make video games? I've been programming for 10 years, I love games; wanted to make them. But I went into infosec because it felt...justified? Like it's more noble? But that doesn't seem to make sense saying it out loud.

But your points on understanding game design because of that human-software-machine connection, that just feels like it makes sense.

I'm sorry, this question has just been bugging me for over a year now.
What prevents Google from stopping resolving some domains at 8.8.8.8?
If Epic wins and they create their own store then it would open flood gates for others. There can then be Google PlayStore, Microsoft Store, Steam, Adobe etc. The big players with their own store. This would substantially reduce interactions with App Store. iOS App store can become like Mac store. Not something which Apple would give up easily.
That's true and I know from experience that when teaching people about git, the distinction between git/GitHub can be hard to grasp.

Personally though, I found it very helpful to understand that a GitHub repo is just another node on a graph, and isn't really a more grandiose thing than a node/repo that's on one's own hard drive.
Your entire argument relies on a dichotomy between having a locked down walled garden which gives you privacy, and allowing any apps which takes all privacy away. Are you sure that's actually true? Because for example with PCs it's inverted, Linux is 110% more privacy sensitive than Windows. Openness also means you can protect yourself.
Lifestyle choices only get you so far if you have to figbt against your circadian rhythm to wake up before the sun. Your body wants to stay up late and wake up late, so you just end up sleeping less.
I read through the material you linked — all of it relating to this group “SRBR” — and I find the degree of certainty in your message and in SRBR’s position paper to be curious, because the research cited here doesn’t actually seem to support strong claims about the difference between standard time and daylight savings time, and the position paper seems to be making some rather exaggerated claims.

For example, I followed several of the citations that the position paper claims to show that daylight savings time changes cause measurable negative health effects. Koopman et al showed that social jet lag is associated with higher diabetes rates. This is people who change sleep patterns by more than 2 hours every week. It’s pure unsupported assumption to imply that the switch to daylight savings time twice a year shares these effects. Same goes for Haraszti. Hafner et al studied problems of lack of enough sleep in general, there is no connection to the twice yearly time change.

It only takes a few of these to start smelling agenda, and see clearly that the “plenty of footnotes” pile of evidence is being made to appear larger than it really is. I don’t really get why though. I’d be happy not switching times, but I have good reason now to be skeptical of this research’s claims that there are large measurable differences between settling on standard vs daylight time. Why are you sure that standard time is somehow better, and what does it mean to you?
No, I don't. The 32-core AWS systems must be Epyc, so I'll try benchmarking there.

When OpenBLAS identifies the arch, it is competitive with MKL in single threaded performance, at least for matrices with a couple hundred rows and columns or more.
But MKL truly shines with multiple threads, so scaling on a 32 core system would be interesting to look at.
Everyone can have his own point of view on closed platforms.
But if I make a closed platform - Tim Sweeny should not force me to open it.
I think your point are all valid.

The real question is: Can Apple prove that they are the only one that can provide a store that will keep their customers safe? Because that's what this is about. Epic wants a different store, Apple will argue that they are the only safe store for iOS.
Incidentally, Apple tries to treat phones this way and periodically ends up in legal battles over it - get your phone repaired by a third party instead of an Apple store? Have fun with features being disabled by anti-tamper mechanisms, etc. Obviously there are arguments to be made for it but it sure is unpleasant and shows you how they view their customers' freedoms.
Why is it assumed that these other platforms charging 30% is reasonable?
Have you tried alternative solutions? I currently use NextDNS. It's DNS-based blocking and works decent enough on iOS devices. Not as good as uBlock, but I'm hoping that this will improve once we get OS-level configurable browsers in iOS 14.
Great! I'm convinced designing a functional language and IDE side-by-side will result in greatly improved ergonomics. The Hazel playground breaks for me (Safari), but the direction looks promising.

One of my own (nearly abandoned) toy projects is something similar. It's not easy — at least to me it wasn't — to design a language that is forgiving on as many aspects as possible. Both syntactically and semantically. Turning every error into a warning during development time and keep the impact as local as possible. Type errors turn into implicit holes of type bottom, just make sure the IDE is explicit about it.

One of the tricks I applied is to use indentation style syntax (like Haskell/Python). Now syntax errors only break one level of code. Preventing the IDE from coloring the rest of your buffer red because you still need to type out your closing parenthesis.

Edit: I see Hazal takes the valid-by-construction approach, which is different from be-forgiving-but-explicit. Both are approaches worth of experimentation.
I want a platform that both I and my 72-year-old father can use without concern that he might be phished into downloading another App Store.

Billions of iPhone sales show that people clearly want the same.

If you want a top-end device with a widely used OS where you can install a thousand app stores, you can have one. Any one of a dozen major phone manufacturers will be happy to sell you an Android device.

You might consider your iPhone a computer, but I don’t, and more to the point Apple doesn’t - and you and I both knew that when we bought them.
If you just fire up the client and mine, it will do practically nothing. You will have essentially no compute power, so no chance to ever get the block with the transactions you want included
sum of odd numbers, in shower tiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words#/media/Fil...
Its not just being the miner, its winning the block and including that transaction in the block without it first being included in the mempool and transmitted over the network.
So when I buy an iPhone I get a seat on Apple's board like I do when I join an HOA, right? I can vote on whether they should change these policies?
I did not know about neo-Darwinism prior to your comment. I was addressing specific statement.

Because of your request, I skimmed through parts of the article again, and again only found tautology: "Why do some people believe some things over others? Because some ideas spread through their minds better than others."

I can not claim it is illogical, but because it is highly tautological, it is very useless, and I don't wish to spend any more of time on it.
Of course it's an HDFury product <3
I was just thinking about this. Other examples that come to mind are reading CD/DVDs, dial up modems, and turning on old CRT monitors
The best (worst?) example I know of this going horribly wrong is the title sequence for the Big Bang Theory, which speeds up as it goes along and then cuts to the cast.

Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery <as the pixels start to unravel>, it all started with a Big Bang. BANG (Bang, your Screen is a riot of random pixels. Oh wait, here’s the cast instead!)

Then I caught an episode on another service, maybe Netflix? The transition wasn’t awesome, but it wasn’t awful either. It only glitched for a frame or two instead of a few seconds. Clearly better heuristics were in play.
I don’t know about that. I could imagine it going both ways. But even if Epic pockets more, there might be other apps which pass on the savings. And if not, well at least you can now subscribe to Spotify and Netflix directly on device.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, I really appreciate it! Cheers.
A salesman will call anything that is not his product "legacy" so the word can get confusing. Also there is an issue when commercial vendors start to overcharge, and their software needs to be replaced with some thing cheaper. This can become a higher priority than replacing COBAL.
How about logic/puzzle games? They train our brains in finding patterns and that built ‘muscle’ can be applied in non gaming areas. They also serve as a springboard into software development for many.
I think the danger is overindulging and the gamification of everything, but in small to moderate amounts games could provide some value. Leavig aside computer games, I think playing in general has a very good value in learning.
If Google's work on Android entitles them to be the only store on all Android-derived devices, what rights do Linus Torvalds and all the other Linux contributors have? Or is Google allowed to monetize their work for free, but Epic isn't?

Both companies contribute to the open commons with open source software and sponsorships.
Thanks for the links.

I actually read the whole Sisyphus essay, but it didn't really inspire me. I think I'm probably an Existentialist to some degree, I believe that life has no inherent meaning or value and that we have to create for ourselves such meaning. But most days I'm just going through the motions and I'd rather tune out, or "drop out" as it were. Or as Weezer says "Why bother? It's gonna hurt me."
Actually I agree; but right now the US political landscape is extremely, painfully broken :-(
Which might be a good thing if the loss of knowledge came from employee turnover. If the architect / author leaves, the visions leaves too. Next step is monkey patching, fast forward a couple years, a decade or two, more turnover, and you end up with a indescribable mess.

In this case the replacement is all about re-gaining the knowledge.
It seems like you're fixated on one definition being "standard" and the other being "savings" - as are so many in this debate. When the time shifts, society as a whole moves with in. In general, I find my weekday mornings less social, less sun-demanding than my afternoons. I wouldn't care if I woke up at 7am to darkness and didn't see light until 10:30 if I had those extra hours of sunlight in the evening when I might cut loose and recreate.

The label for 8 am might as well be the TAFNAP era prince logo. The point is everyone goes to work at TAFNAP, businesses are open until TAFNAP + 8. In case you need to run an errand and talk to the guy that repairs HVAC systems. None of these sorts of errands is pleasurable or light-dependent and might as well be done in the misery of the dark that I lend to my employer for my work hours.

I don't know about you, but in the short winter months I'd rather get to work at night, run my lunch errands when the sun is 3/4 up in the sky, and end my work day with a couple of hours of sunlight to spare in the afternoon when my time is my own than burn sunlight driving in a cubicle.

There are some that manage to make use of early morning light to go surf (when the wind is favorable), or do some farm stuff (when the animals are cooperative??). I'd wager that surfers and farmers are a small portion the population and a lot of workers don't have some intrinsic benefit of spending their workday in daylight vs. night.

One detail -
Sometime I need to read The View from 80, but an excerpt my father sent me was to the effect that, being in his eighties, the author can now view with amusement all the young people around him so busy white-rabbitly striving.
When I played competitively (for reference I was USCF ~2200) the most effective way to study was the following (as agreed upon by many coaches and others in the field)

1. Tactics tactics tactics. You should spend so much of your early time here

2. Study the endgame. Those skills translate to all
Parts of the game because I’m studying how the end game works itnrellay opens your up to understanding longer term strategy.

3. Don’t focus on openings too much. Pick a few (like Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, or KIA/KID) and learn them enough to recognize some basic patterns around them. Consensus as I recall is that opening theory adds little value until you hit ~2100+ competitively

4. Once you are consitently at 1850 or so, start really studying in depth the middle game.

5. Finally, analyze great players of the past - pick a few who’s play style you like - and annotate those games yourself. Do this before you read the break downs from the pros, and compare notes. You’ll rapidly get better at this once you do it consistently. Also do the same with your own games
I am using FaunaDB for a side project and your product would be a very good fit to work with their tech.

They have a built-in authentication in their distributed database, but not session management. A lot of people is starting to build things with FaunaDB and struggling with auth. In their Slack they even had to open a channel only for authentication doubts.

So if you are looking for a niche, the FaunaDB integration could be a good shot.
How will it be way more? Honest question. I can’t imagine that it’ll be close to 30% because there’s actual competition in the retailer space.
WTF. I'm speechless.
That sounds like my last bank. I used a 16 character password but could login with the first 8 characters and it wasn't case sensitive.

Every time I interacted with them there were hints that things weren't quite right and sure enough they ended up in the news after a huge IT failure.
>Why, in the world’s richest country, is every metric of mental health pathology rapidly worsening?

Simple. A lot of people are not having their needs met by "the system" while simultaneously feeling the resources are there to have their needs met.

People in third world countries seemingly deal much better in many ways in my experience. Although their needs aren't being met, they see no path to their needs being met, that just feels like reality to them.

People in the US who's needs aren't met have the thing they want thrown in their face to the point of absurdity constantly.
You could always try and find out! Your freedom to take digital purchases (and save data) between different console platforms is a factor here, and historically some platform holders have actively prohibited it and others have not.

Only recently did Destiny 2 gain the ability to transfer save data between platforms. Oddly enough Epic pushed on this kind of freedom too: They wanted PS4 and XBox players to be able to play together, but Sony kept resisting it. They eventually pushed hard on it in public and got concessions so everyone can play the game together now. Now other multiplayer titles from smaller studios also can offer cross-play.

Platform exclusives like a spider-man outfit or playable character are still typically locked to your PlayStation, though.
Inflation means that prices go up.

Mortgage rates for conforming loans are a few points higher than fed rate. That’s cause the government owns the actual loan.
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
Why do we paint? Sculpt? Write? Film? Play or compose music?

Both art and entertainment are important.
Sounds like the Norwegian town Rjukan that doesn't get any sunlight during winter, so they put a huge mirror on a mountain top.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/rjukan-sun-nor...
Slightly unrelated:
Can we have the cake and eat too in the case of choosing
e-book formats for academic e-books?
I mean to combine the adaptiveness of epub and the advanced scientific notation and plotting possible with pdf.
This reminds me of when a French coworker tried to translate an item in a restaurant menu which said 'cabrit al forn', Catalan for 'roasted goat'. Google first translated it to English ('baked kid') and then to French 'enfant cuit au four'. His incredulous face was on point.

I just checked and it still happens today, it probably happens with many other indirect translations with ambiguous intermediate words.
I find opening Medium in an incognito window gets past the wall. Are they now plugging that loophole?
subjugated by corporations, what a life.
This article repeats a common flaw, which is citing the theory of “induced demand”. This is merely rhetorical framing. Demand isn’t induced, but fulfilled. And it is a good thing, because that’s what those drivers want - to make their trips easily, which is what road infrastructure enables.

The notion that increased road infrastructure will magically hold congestion steady or worsen it is laughable. It just means demand hasn’t been satisfied yet. Clearly a 1000 lane highway would not be congested, so there is some finite and lower number where demand balances out with supply. This is no different than supply and demand in any other situation, which is why the label of “induced demand” is without meaning and simply a rhetorical device.
> “Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres.”
I've given up trying to understand. The school focuses heavily on software development, and they don't seem willing to change the curriculum too drastically to make room for a good data science track. But they want to have one anyway...

I wondered if my degree was an exception.
Yes, business as usual but what is actually unpredictable are second or even third order effects from the deployment of technologies. Taking social networks as example, USA's president sounds like doom to me.
Fees were high before the App Store. Verizon VCast (or what ever they were calling it) was taking 70 to 80%. In all this time the percentage has not changed, While you dismiss the console market Apple pours just as much money into maintaining it's iOS ecosystem as any of the console makers.
Power Grids Aren’t Evolving Fast Enough for Global Warming
Won't our activities just move forward in the day to compensate after a while? The soviet union tried this, supposedly because Stalin liked summer time more (decree time).

I think since the numbers we ascribe to points in time are arbitrary, it doesn't make much sense to change them. Short term it will work to fool people. But long term, we should just mandate the concrete things we want to achive, for example:

* School should not start too early

* Evening events, Prime-time TV should not start too late

* Allow flexible working hours

Unfortunately I think we are as a society ill-equiped to make such coordinated changes across government, businesses, entertainment industry, schools and so on. Maybe the government could provide financial incentives for businesses and institutions that follow along. Large unions could push something in the next rounds of collective agreements. And maybe the idea gets enough momentum that others will follow.
If you're dealing with a lot of bullshit, remember that the game should be worth the candle.

Hopefully that motivates you to change things up if it's been shitty too long.
Musk's presentation style has been this way since forever — after watching a couple of his presentations, you kind of get used to it. He's not much of a showman.
Sometimes I wonder if we need a new metric for time of day. The 24 system is very inconsistent throughout the year with respect to daylight.
I’m all for this (meaning bringing diverse co-investors into rounds). I’d add that as entrepreneurs we should add LP riders when doing rounds (where’s your money from?!).

Can’t say I know all these funds super well - they’re not big names outside of a couple - but helping diverse co-investors build track records is a good idea on a bunch of levels. It’s all friends and family anyway.

I will say that Greycroft is one of the few funds who I respect deeply in how they operate and don’t treat “diversity” as an add-on. They’re just a really smart group of people, that I’ve enjoyed every interaction with, that actually have a diverse set of experiences and interesting points of view And investment theses that scale across diverse sociopoltifla outcomes. Novel I know!

I see a few misguided comments here not worth responding too about “merit” and what not. I’ll deal with your anguish if you make a point of it, but please bring some original thought, non-anecdotal or not-bad research cause I feel like I’m reading a bad /r/* thread in the below.
Get Your Facts Right
Consider that advances in decoding how memory and other aspects of the brain work isn't going to be possible until you can read from neurons in real time with high enough temporal and spatial resolution.

Neuralink may be the enabling factor in massive advances in neuroscience, not actually a consumer product, but a microscope.
Verge was a fluff piece for Epic. They go on to paint how the monolithic Apple is bad and throwing out Apple's dirty laundry (which is fine) but poor Tim Sweeney is just fighting for justice. Not mentioning his dealings with Silicon Knights, other engine developers and Valve.
> Canavero sees his announced head transplantation as only the beginning. The goal isn't to save just the lives of people stricken with incurable muscle disorders. The goal is to eventually allow you to grow a clone body of yourself that you can then use to keep yourself physically young forever, by getting recurring head transplants onto donor bodies grown from your own genetic material.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d73e9m/a-qa-with-the-firs...
Maybe explains why so many people in mid-life find refuge in alcohol?
> On 26 March 2019, the European Parliament adopted its position on the Commission proposal, supporting a stop to the seasonal clock changes by 2021. The Council has not yet finalised its position.

It’s not done yet. The process was handled a bit amateurishly unfortunately, which resulted in delays and push back.
I think inefficiencies in these languages come more from garbage collection languages. Allocation is faster since it is optimized with the knowledge that allocations will be GC'ed, and static analysis can help a lot for the short term stuff. Memory can be allocated with linear allocators inside arenas for short term memory, and be moved to longer term arenas when it lives longer. Stuff like that.