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You can opt out of Apple ecosystem simply by changing your phone.

You can't not opt out of your government ecosystem (Or at least, it's more complicated).

This is like calling Walmart profit margin "tax" ... just buy in another store.
Hyperinflation usually occurs for one of two reasons:

1. Supply-side shocks such as disruptions in oil production, food production, etc. that cause shortages, leading to massive spikes in price. This happened in the 1970s during the oil crisis and led to stagflation. Zimbabwe had a crisis in food production, leading to hyperinflation.

2. Lots of foreign-denominated debt. Latin American countries experience hyperinflation because their debt is usually in USD rather than their domestic currency. Printing money to service foreign debt leads to hyperinflation. Weimar Germany had this problem when attempting to pay back the foreign-denominated debt reparations.

It's very rare to see demand-induced hyperinflation. That occurs when countries print way beyond the capacity of their economy to handle. If the US was at full capacity utilization and full employment, then an increase in the money supply beyond that would lead to inflation. But currently, the US is nowhere near full employment or full capacity utilization, so the threat of high inflation/hyperinflation is - to put it bluntly - nonsense.

You could make the argument that the stock market is overvalued because of current policy, but that is not hyperinflation.
It sounds like you don't understand the point of "herd immunity".

If individual people don't want to get vaccinated, it's not just their problem.

It contributes risk to everyone else, by pushing the R number higher, increasing the size and duration of clusters, and potentially tipping the balance towards permanent pandemic instead of the disease fading out.

That's the point.

In light of that, "as long as they don't ask others to keep the infinite quarantine" doesn't make sense. If lots of individual people decide not to get vaccinated (assuming there's an effective one), they won't be the ones asking for stronger quarantine.
I'm not fully convinced about a hyper inflation along the lines of Weimar Republic or Venezuela or even Argentina levels inflation for that matter.

However, I understand that this is only and only because of US dollar being the global reserve. The real outcome of this is that all countries that handled covid better and are back on track economically, now are richer, because the US dollar is poorer. They can either choose to provide more liquidity in their system, thus raising their GDP or just stay rich with higher currency values.

Either way, Americans are poorer. And maybe deservedly so given the mismanagers that have been running the country.
Golang string distance algorithms (Levenshtein, LCS, Hamming)
The US has been hiding it's inflation for a while now. If you compare the quality of products vs the price of europe compared to the US, it's not even close.
They're the same battery. Maybe packaged slightly differently, but being able to remove it does not affect it's ability to supply power.
> What's with the obsession of calling everything 'tax'?

It’s a great way to get people upset that they have to pay for something because taxes have such a negative connotation in American politics. Taxation is regarded as financial oppression in some political circles, and it’s easy to co-oof that message for other purposes.
Another note from the underground. The problem is, like Dostoesvky wrote through the mouth of the Undergound Man, the human requires pain and misery in his daily existence in order to have a default want-to-live or want-to-thrive instinct. The lack of misery will banish us to these endless ruminations of self-hate from our lack of desire to live like the "men of action" (Sanjay, in this case) we obssess about. My kids call it "FWP".

It's a tragedy that can be fixed by tragedy. Often the tragedy is self-inflicted. Just to want to live! on our own terms.

It's a mess.
I count only one other big platform (android). What are the other ones?
It is still unrelated to the point of comparing the percentage of funds taken from its owners or misappropriated in the blockchain vs fiat. The activity may be illegal, so what? They were still desired by both participants. Bringing that to the story is still goal-post moving.
Procrasturbation
This is a take that I generally agree with. To be honest, I kinda feel the same way about breathless think-pieces talking about GPT-3.
> What’s wrong with a bigger standard library?

Maintainer time mostly and for some uses bloat.

> If you dynamically link, it makes no difference

I had projects that were limited by the time it took to load and initialize the program binary and loading/linking the C standard library was the largest dependency it had.

> and if you statically link, any decent linker won’t bring in what you don’t use

Santa, a sufficiently smart compiler and a decent linker walk into a bar. Here the joke segfaults because someone passed the wrong buffer size into sprintf_s.
Tesla is a pioneer of mass market EVs, but is not in any way a pioneer on self-driving cars.
A tuned antenna is correlated to frequency, a shitty antenna can be any size. In a microscopic robot needing likely µA of current an untuned antenna could be sufficient for power.

But that's me speculating, I don't know how to power an injectable micro robot. If I did the link might have been about me! RF might be completely inappropriate for power.
> Computers will never fully automate mathematical reasoning, because mathematical reasoning cannot be fully automated.

One possible reason why mathematics cannot be automated is because some important piece of contemporary mathematics is fundamentally unsound, e.g. ∞, LEM, AOC. Mathematicians are very clever at building and manipulating formal systems, but are prone to mistakes and must accept on faith some foundations to make any progress. If you spent your entire career building a castle and someone like Gödel or Brouwer came along and claimed the whole thing is built on sand, naturally you (and all your venerable castle-building colleagues) would be unwilling to simply accept this development and move on.

I suspect what many people call mathematics today lost its course somewhere after Cantor, who was a supremely clever human being, but either mentally unstable or driven to madness trying to operationalize infinite sets. If our universe were infinite, maybe his ideas would be valid, but even then we could never build machines to verify those claims. While it has produced an abundance of useful ideas, it also generates a number of paradoxes (e.g. Zeno, Banach-Tarski), which are simply incompatible with the universe in which we live.
Quite impressive. Good job dude!
Would that apply to Visa/Mastercard/Amex? Stripe/Chargify/PayPal? Would the law require a break down of how much goes to Stripe and how much to Visa? How about currency conversion, would that need to be listed? Bank processing fees would need to be in there too ...
that's not the only explanation. they are plenty of lit market public policy outcomes that promote irrational markets.

its better that you aren't an expert in the lit market or the dark markets, god forbid the people form enough consensus to actually change it.
This piece is also interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_bombing_debate
So there were definitely evidence of what was going on.
The allies were getting their asses kicked till U.S joined the war so I'm not sure there was much that could have been done...
At my current company we play the "soccer" mode after the sprint planing and we have so much fun.

Whats really nice that it is cross platform and has very low requirements, so it runs on every computer without a hitch and there is no excuse to ditch the little round.
I don't think it's really comparable; no one is going to be breeding batteries like cobras, regardless of the reward.

Indeed, the comparison with bottle deposit programmes is apt— there are people in my city who rifle through blueboxes on the curb pulling out refundable items. Maybe this bothers some people, but it seems like a reasonable thing; you couldn't directly pay someone to do that work, but you can incentivize it to happen anyway, same as shopping carts get gathered up and returned by homeless people for a dollar a pop. If a token reward motivated people to scrounge disposed-of electronics pulling out lithium-ion batteries for return, that would be terrific!
In your original comment, you literally said pumped hydro (along with others) was an imagined technology.

This is widely known to be false, and I wrote to correct that.

> What is imagined is that it can be expanded at scale...

No power generation method that we have is a universal solution, and as long as we have nation-states we shouldn't expect it to be.

But pumped hydro has indeed been expanded at scale, and it is in operations, as the wikipedia page I linked demonstrates.

It's not helpful to say things that are obviously false.
I think it has to do with loneliness so many complain about. When being social is seen as waste of time useless thing, people dont socialize except in work. And that has consequences precisedly when yoi need friend the most or when work is highly competitive.
I have a feeling this is even more damaging for Millenials, because they constantly compare themselves with the rest of the world. In a sense, even leisure has turned into competition.

When I was in my teens a long time ago I did sports and learned classical guitar. If I had seen the acrobatics you see daily on Reddit or the "casual home musicians" on Youtube, I'd probably have given up all my efforts.

Doing a backflip seems like the normal thing any guy should be able to do nowadays.
The fact that every major digital platform just so happens to have the exact same fee and that it hasn’t decreased in 20 years is a clear indicator that this number is not subject to market forces.

A general solution would be great. The mobile operating system is the most important platform to discuss this issue. There are only two players in this space. And the anti-trust case against Apple is much much stronger than against Google. Therefore they rightfully get more attention.
I agree that GIT limits human provers as much as it limits automated ones, but I don't agree that it's irrelevant to the issue.

A human mathematician can lean on intuition in ways that a computer can't. Given a theorem that resists proof, a human might develop a feel for whether it's worth continuing to prove via conventional means or whether the troublesome territory is better approached from a different axiom set. That intuition may be driven by the problematic theorem being one of the true-but-unprovable ones that Godel assures us exists without that cause being apparent to the mathematician.

The automated prover, on the other hand, faces a halting problem here. Unless it is given some explicit reason to expect that the target is not attainable, it might try forever. So such a prover might need to be GIT-aware in ways that a human doesn't.
Oh, I know they have people who know this is a problem but every time that I spend time somewhere with an unreliable connection I encounter problems in apps and websites made by those companies. That’s the difference between knowing it’s a concern in theory and making it a regular part of your testing.

This is especially noticeable in their web apps because they rarely reimplement the functionality which is built in to the browser. When I’m on the subway, mbasic.facebook.com has things like a working reload but the app and Facebook.com will both fail to do elementary error handling and will often discard whatever you entered.
Until this is done, you could just give your visitors the download links you used to download the frameworks.
Doesn't seem to me overly complicated.
You think this should apply to Google Play, Xbox, Epic, Steam, and everywhere else?

As the judge who ruled against Epic on the breach of contract wrote:

”There appears to be evidence that everyone that uses these kind of platforms to sell games is charging 30%. Whether Epic likes it, the industry and not just Apple seem to be charging that. Right now, Epic is paying Apple nothing. Epic itself charges third parties.”

Every company providing any service or good could be required to provide cost/margin accounting, as well as disclaim industry norm practices such as pay-for-placement in grocery stores or advertised retail price limits at BestBuy... does that seem right?

What would this 30% notice have said for the billion free downloads of Fortnite? When IAP business model is used to underwrite free to play, should it not also underwrite free to download? Epic can’t have their cake and eat it too.
yeah that's not a thing. Humans do regularly "solve" undecidable theorems, if by solve you mean "come up with heuristics that are good enough". Possibly even "provably good enough", as in "if there's a flaw in the algorithm, the lower bound on the badness of the input to make it unreachable in the lifetime of the universe".
Watching sports and memorizing athletes’ stats is another waste of time a lot of people partake in. Here’s to hoping people are more productive during this hiatus.
It will cost me $49 to replace the battery on my iPhone SE. Moreover Apple will recycle the battery. This seems fair.

Doing it myself would require $34 in parts plus tools and skill I don’t have.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+SE+Battery+Replacement/6...
I realise it’s a medium on that scale and I cannot argue otherwise.

But I think how private that data is to the end user should also be taken into account. It’s a medium for technical risk (relative to server remote exec), but it should be seen as a high priority for the company and rewarded as such.

If an end user were to ask that company “why did you leak all my private data” their response would be “your data is worth less than $250 in human labour and is seen as a medium security risk”?
People get annoyed by Apple doing this but Visa/Mastercard/Amex have been doing this literally for decades ...
I actually used GH archive to mine github data! Two notes:

- The easiest way to access the data is using Google Cloud Platform -> BigQuery -> githubarchive. Google lets you write SQL queries for 1TB of the data for free. So you can filter or aggregate the data you want, then download it.

- This is the sad part. Github data is notoriously noisy, and not really valuable for data mining. [1] My work was on predicting GitHub collaborator skill using open-source collaboration data. Filtering out bots and people who use GitHub like a version of Google Drive was very difficult.

[1]: https://kblincoe.github.io/publications/2014_MSR_Promises_Pe...
There are plenty of things that can be done to make it comfortable. For many bikes, if legs get stiff you can just stand up. There are some models that would be arduous, some that would be so comfortable as to put one to sleep, and some that are a good mix of comfort and performance. Either way, being in the landscape as opposed to in a car is a different and wonderful experience.
My comment was mostly a poke at the claim on HN and elsewhere that starting engineers make a vast amount of money.
Considering the country was founded on tax related grievances, it would make sense that at least an iota of the culture grows up hating taxes.
That's extremely disturbing how can they justify banning tik tok for inciting ethnic violence yet give facebook a free pass?
It’s a fee, or a charge. It’s not a tax by the definition of the word.

Why not call it a fine? Or a bonus?
Probably mostly "stock buybacks" and "Apple unrelated R&D" at this point.

More seriously though, I'm not sure if anyone outside of Apple could actually tell if the app store as an organization is revenue neutral or not. Certainly their services revenue has been growing over time

https://www.statista.com/chart/14629/apple-services-revenue/....
Conflating tax with profit margin is a bit muchthough don't you think? If Facebook wants this, they should be willing to indicate how much margin they make on every ad buy they happily take money for.
The story and mutilations look very similar to the epidemic of chupacabras attacks that we had in Argentina in 2002. It was covered for a month by all the major newspaper and TV stations. [spoiler alert: it was just the misclassifications of the result of mice and foxes and other animals eating the corpse]

Autotranslations:

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Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation it seems return rates range from low 70s to high 90s percent for deposit-refund schemes around the world - not perfect everywhere - but plenty of countries have 95% rates which is as good as one can expect.

I'm sure the rates would be a bit lower if poverty was eliminated. Plenty of people collection bottles from trash cans and parks. The high rates imply that most people recycle bottles consumed in their own house though.
Android doesn't do this. By the Play Store guidelines. this kind of app would be permitted to use its own payment processing instead of in-app purchases.
Dropbox and co pay $10,000 for the same exploit.
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> You can opt out of Apple ecosystem simply by changing your phone

The issue isn’t the end users, it’s the app owners. A single entity controls access to the large majority of paying customers (after all, Apple makes most of the profit compared to Google/Android),
Or when you find yourself between jobs.
It is not chattel slavery. It is that far off to other forms of slavery.
The photosynthesis in sugarcane is about twice as efficient as any other plant. In addition, the sugar is easily extracted (unlike eg. maize), and a large percentage of the crop mass (also unlike maize).

IMO a big chunk of what killed biofuels was the wrong choice of crop.
Use isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol to soften the glue.
I’ve found that of the best ROIs for any existing large C/C++-using-C codebase is meticulously going through the compiler warning options and enabling all of the things that didn’t make the cut into -Wall or even -Wextra. After getting strict warnings under control and making them CI errors, again meticulously go attribute all varargs printf-style functions with the appropriate format attributes. Those two things have always been such a reachable goal even for one person and prevent everyone else touching the code from introducing sneaky bugs that slip past review. The newer compilers now check and can error if the maximum range for a value would exceed the buffer space you’ve given it, even if you think those values could never occur in practice.
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Makes me think of a meme or cartoon:

https://me.me/i/cmdr-rheon-magerheon-replying-to-griglager-t...

Though when I was a teen "gamer girl" -- mostly RPGs -- I looked like a cross between the two images. You can be a gamer girl and also be pretty and like nice clothes.

I was usually the only girl there. Glad to see progress on this front across the globe.
'Here' and 'Now' as the characters in 'The Angel In The Clock', a cartoon movie to raise money to fight Cancer.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_angel_in_the_clock
You think you hire the best person for the job... Just like the Swedish in the HBR article I quoted were sure they invest in the best project/person while they were discriminating negatively women (the discriminating positively men).
It would be cool to see - like it’s console-karting counterparts - characters from the universe of the hardware. I realize Linus Torvalds isn’t licensable IP, but would love to see him throw bananas out back for Stallman to avoid. I wonder what other “characters” would fit in
I have been on a streak for weeks, usually in the top 10 of that week's tournament, yet I am actually making no real progress in actually learning the language. Nothing is really going to beat rote memorization and full immersion I feel.

This isn't as big of a problem for latin based languages (English native) however.
I read this and remembered a plan I had journaled when I was 30 years old. I was working in a stratified IT department that I liked pretty well and had mapped out a plan to be at director level by age 40. I left that organization at age 33, took a short term position and then one I liked even better, putting me in a lead role that could have led to something director-like. Then the company laid off most of my team and I took off. Now I am in an individual contributor position again and have just turned 40. Many times, life works against plans and it's better not to get too attached to them. Other things are accomplished in the meantime that may not look like much but in the bigger scheme, are quite meaningful.
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As long as it exists, private health insurance will incentivize providers to cherry-pick, lemon-drop, and sell insurance that they have every intention of not making good on. Those are the core "innovations" they are in a position to deliver, and they are the core innovations that get delivered. The concept is evil, the act of carrying it out is evil, and regulators are to blame precisely to the extent that they allow private health insurance to exist in the first place. They are complicit, to be sure, but "simply following incentives" does not absolve the private side of this equation from moral responsibility. Legal responsibility, yes, moral responsibility, no. Hence: evil.
The point is Apple forbids developers from letting customers aware of the 30% tax.

And if you really want to oversimplify the discussion to a brick and mortar analogy, it's common for grocery stores to make taxes explicit in receipts: https://i.imgur.com/Lp3nwlH.png
So I'm totally on board with everyone knowing something about the liberal arts and trying to expand your world outside your traditional scope.

But I think "understanding" can mean just making connections within a single tech field, even without involving liberal arts. For example, a grade school math problem: "Assume the earth is a perfect sphere with radius 6378 km, and you have a piece of string just long enough to reach all the way around the earth's equator at the earth's surface. How much longer would your string have to be to make a perfect circle exactly one meter above the earth's equator at every point?"

The answer is 2(pi) meters. That's true for any spherical planet of any size -- that's what it means for the derivative of 2(pi)(r) with respect to r to be 2(pi). That is sometimes not the first thing people think of though, because of the grade-school context they associate with this problem....
I think Apple did start the 30% cut? Or at least standardized it. iTunes 0.99 songs is the first place I remember 30% digital cut being a thing.

That actually made sense because credit card processing fees were 0.25 + ~3%. So hey, yeah, 30% seems fair as processing fees will be 28 cents.

However when digital goods sell for $10 or $60 a 30% tax on top of a 60 cent or $2 processing fee is all of a sudden not so reasonable.
First amendment applies to the US Government, not Apple, but it is a free speech issue in principle.