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The gold standard for fair prices are those set in a competitive marketplace.
https://www.techradar.com/news/epic-games-store-to-keep-nabb...
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Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamewar style comments to HN. These threads are getting exceedingly repetitive. They're also getting nastier. We don't want those qualities here.

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Hard to feel any sympathy for these trillion dollar companies.

I'm sick of it all. Large corporations have way too much power in our world.
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I'd think somehow turning heat energy into power would be ideal since human bodies naturally produce and regulate heat. Or maybe some sort of chemical breakdown where the energy could be relayed as a power source.
> The reason drugs in Canada are cheap is because the provinces negotiate the prices, not because they socialize the costs.

This is false. The reason they are cheaper in Canada is that the federal government sets the prices based on average price in a list of comparable countries and forces the manufacturers to follow it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/prescription-drug-prices-1.32...
I too enjoyed using ddd back in the day. A few weeks ago I needed to visualize a complicated data structure in a Rust program that I'm working on and sadly it completely failed (http://db48x.net/reposurgeon/Screenshot%20from%202020-08-04%...). I spent some time trying to figure out how it was supposed to work (my guess is that GDB's pretty-printer is getting in the way), but didn't have much luck. I think we're going to have to reimplement some of this stuff. I ended up writing some code to dump the data structure out to graphviz. (http://db48x.net/reposurgeon/pathmap-diagrams/generated-path...)
Incredible how many posters are missing your point!

As a gamedev I 100% agree with your assertion that games are useless. An expression I use in game design is "fictional friction". Nothing in my game is real. None of the struggle is essential. Every mouse click or decision was a fiction I designed for players.

Nothing prevents me from giving players infitnite money, in fact there is a dev cheat menu which does just that. Instead all my effort revolves around crafting fake value for otherwise meaningless bits.

Thus games are the peak of software design: people put up with other software to pay for chances to play mine.
Two people viewing the sun at its zenith at the same time can disagree as to what time that occurred by hours using standard time. You’re advocating the abolition of time zones...
Edge caches aren't free to run, it's true. But at Apple's scale, they are not a significant expense either. It's important to understand that Apple does not pay the same retail bandwidth costs that your mvp web app does on AWS.
The real fallacy here is attempting to frame 'monopoly' by its dictionary definition, and not the definition used by the government[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
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It's not a surcharge on your bill. That's when you have to pay 30% more than the main price. This is you paying the main price, but the organization you (likely) want to support is only getting 30%.
It's cool that Hacker News decided to nuke the "Chadwick Boseman"[1] thread from site and replace it with this 2016 repost nonsense.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24313165
We're definitely getting more of the Chinese robocalls and other SMS spam here in Australia too. I think there are two sides to it: scammers like everyone else are feeling the pinch from reduced economic activity, and desperate people are easier to scam.

A lot of scams do feel like low hanging fruit that would be easy to track down. I think there is a lack of will and capability for resolving "small" scams of up to a few thousand dollars which can be crippling for individuals.
Specially the ones I'm interested. It's mostly others' comments that I see downvoted. With mine I see another problem: responses use to be completely unrelated to the point I was trying to make.

I'm not an English native speaker and ellaborating in technical topics is more difficult than in pop-sci or net folklore. Spending a long time composing a comment just to see it misunderstood or downvoted is discouraging.

If you take a look at my recent comments, there was someone complaining that he could not control his browser completely. I've had some success using Chromium Embedded Framework. I suggested that and got a -2. Why? I don't know, because it was a post about Firefox? So what? Someone that disliked another thing I said?

It doesn't matter, but it happens to be my most technical comment in weeks, maybe months. Other of my comments with platitudes are much upvoted.

Most discussions are polarized. Sometimes I start to write a comment writing a disclaimer saying that I'm not in side X, but... when I notice that, I stop and cancel. And that's not only politics or bigco.
That's bad, 100% bad. My TV does not need to be playing detective and monitoring every use of it. My car doesn't prevent me from exceeding the speed limit, not does it report me to authorities if I do.
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Just for reference: the EU has capped credit and debit card transaction fees at 0.2 and 0.3% and both are still profitable.
And yet iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits, because iOS exploits are so plentiful in comparison.
It did (especially for older people), but in the states that were willing to expand medicaid (the red states refused so there's an income gap where you make too much to qualify for subsidy, but too little to afford the regular prices)
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> If Stripe can claim Wells Fargo doesn't want to process porn payments, and that's legal, how can an American court rule for Epic?

1. Stripe is a minor player overall. Lots of other credit card processors

2. Stripe is not preventing you from collecting payments from your customers. You can use a different payment processors.
> 3) No distractions of being on a tablet or having access to apps or the web.

I hear you about this one! I don't understand how someone could concentrate on learning/reading when sugar rush in the form of apps and web browsing is available one click away...

One possibility to remove the negatives of the distractions but keep the benefits of the tablet (e.g. digital content, interactivity, video lessons) is to install an offline learning app like Kolibri, which allows you to pre-download all the content then turn off access to the internet. For example you can have the entire Khan Academy content offline (assuming 40G storage), then give them the tablet and be like browse all you want, since all the content will be educational and not youtube junk.

- Demo: https://kolibri-demo.learningequality.org/
- Download: https://learningequality.org/download/
- Info for parents here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lizKhBkdrccfRWxo-NIKlfl...
- Content catalog: https://catalog.learningequality.org/#/public?languages=en
- Source: https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri (Django+Vue.js)
My 2013 MBP is chugging along with Linux and OSX dual boot. I haven't logged into OSX in over 6mo. Only upgrade was a 2TB SSD.
> FB: Apple blocked us from warning small businesses that 30% of their revenue on Facebook goes to Apple.

Was FB trying to warn small businesses? I read the article as FB trying to warning users making a purchase, not small businesses organizing an event.

> Also FB: We're a multi-billion dollar company but we can't cover the 30% ourselves because fuck Apple.

You think it's reasonable for FB to lose $.30 on every dollar that passes through? That's not a sustainable model.
> It's far worse. Microsoft may have played dirty tricks with bundling, but they never prevented developers from distributing competing software.

In a way, they did. They made deals with OEMs to only ship PCs with Windows on them, and not, say, BeOS or Linux.
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The most expensive payment gateway I have ever seen is Paypal, which charges 2.9% of the sale. Apple is acting as payment gateway, yet they are charging over ten times what a payment gateway would charge
Would you be okay with if a web based company, say Google:

1) Delisted you if you didn't support their payment option.
2) Blocked any content that tried to criticize it.
3) Forced you to support their login as an option, and also didn't place it as the first option on the list.

Then why are we okay with someone trying to do this for the mobile internet?

Apple treats apps like they own the phone. My own mental model is it's my phone, and apps are an extension of the mobile internet.
Actually in your case it depends on the employer.

The plan you had was $2,000 (wow, that's really a lot though) and your employer was willing to pay $1,980 (again, that's a lot compared to employers I worked for) in addition to your salary.
> Nothing I said has anything to do with price fixing and collusion

Let me take a breath and collect myself.

> The remedy in this scenario is to simply not buy Amazon fridges, not have the government step in and force Amazon to change its fridges.

If we have two companies that sell fridges and they've both agreed to not lower their prices and to not let people repair them, your solution is to not buy from company A?

How does that solve anything when they're colluding with company B?

That's called a duopoly - something I asked you to google.

> Legal intervention should not occur unless Amazon was the only fridge seller in the world.

Do you understand why this is wrong given what I've said above?
> As things are, if you can, it's just dumb luck.

Funny, I've gotten 8+ hours of sleep over 95% of nights in the past 5 years. I must have a string of very good luck. It probably isn't due to lifestyle choices.
CC companies charge about 2.99% + $.30 transaction fees.

Marketplaces (as a startup type) typically charge between 5-10% and survive off that.

30% is outrageous.
Next: make the actual time where you are located closer to the actual solar time instead of being several hours off (plus or minus) versus the actual solar time.
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> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Every evil regime in existence has found itself with no lack of willing people to fill the role of police.
Too bad he gobbles up Apple's speech... he should know by now that actions speak loader then words.
Interesting how every big dog is attacking Apple as they continue to be the lone-wolf in enabling privacy and a secure platform for their users. Apple users are mostly computer illiterate because its Apple’s mission statement to enable computing for everyone. Because of their ease of use, they are now targeted to open up their platform in ways that will jeopardize both their increasing user-privacy and user-security.
I've always been confused by DPOs. Isn't it essentially a money-grab by initial investors waiting to cash out if you don't need the capital infused by the IPO?
Most jobs don't depend on the sun, which is why most office workers don't get to enjoy windows.

The jobs that do already have seasonally shifting hours.

Permanent daylight time means that by default, everyone gets to enjoy more sun. Permanent winter time means that by default, everyone gets to enjoy one less hour of daylight by default, unless their company is charitable enough to shift their hours.
At least Samsung Galaxy Store can do those things.
He nails this performance in what could be the best SNL skit of all time.

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I think it is called natural monopoly in economics. And it is one of the more generally accepted[1] economics findings that natural monopolies should not be in the hands of private corporations, but public.

(Obviously one can discuss whether it actually is a monopoly or not given android around.)

[1] One significant exception to this almost universal agreement is of course the private owners of said natural monopolies. Estimating the relevance of their opinion is left as an exercise to the reader...
All of the gas stations in my neighborhood have a cash/debit price and a higher credit price. Maybe handling cash and debit cards doesn’t cost them $0, but I suspect they’re not offering this discount out of charity. The cash and debit handling costs are already reflected in those numbers.
if you're stuck with 1080p as the maximum resolution, than the quality you can get with the revised ladder is strictly worse, because Netflix will want to jump up to UHD resolutions, but your device won't support it.

"As a side note, we do have some additional points, not shown in the plots, that are used in resolution limited scenarios — such as a streaming session limited to 720p or 1080p highest encoding resolution. Such points lie under (or to the right of) the convex hull main ladder curve but allow quality to ramp up in resolution limited scenarios."
> As such, for long lived sessions, just having one token makes that the weakest link in that user's security. That's why we believe that this is a problem worth solving = minimising security risk.

Can you help me understand the specific attacks you're trying to mitigate that aren't already solved by a combination of best practices implemented by current engineering frameworks (session management across most fairly mature tech stacks) and browser controls (e.g. samesite cookies)?
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0 if they insist to be the only app store on the ios platform and to sign every piece of code. Otherwise whatever they feel like.
Go spec is quite short and understandable. The implementation handle quite alot for you, which is not simple, but makes many applications easy to write. Code is fast to write and easy to read. Golang really has 2 types of references, not pointers. I find C and Python slow and tedious to use, and would rather not share memory if I can avoid it, including using pointers (use map instead). It depends what one wants from a language, where golang fills a nice untraditional niche where experience and newcomers can meet. I find Go optimizes more concerns than any other language, which in turn makes it an opinionated balance of several dimensions.
In my opinion this just hurts everyone, and requires us to make drastic changes to our work culture. Permanent DST is a simple band-aid fix that does a lot of good while we think carefully about solving the hard problems.
There is no 'true' category for anything.

The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
No need for decephalization! Babies up to the age of one year have not yet formed minds. And, the leftovers after research and harvesting are a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Seriously, I believe the essential problem is that we don't want to get used to treating beings who look, seem and feel human, as non-human. We want to, and are, moving in the opposite direction.

Man's inhumanity to man is worse than cancer.
Or even better, allowing people to buy other phones
COBRA is essentially the employer's plan without employer's subsidy. The employer's plan seems cheaper because of that subsidy.
No, I'm not talking about China w/ regards to podcast apps.

And yes parental control apps were banned because they used MDM... Which they used for years and yet all were banned mere months before Apple released their own parental controls. The reason is acceptable the timing is extremely suspicious.

For Google voice, Apple themselves said they banned it because it duplicated functionality and was "confusing". Now it's quite likely the carriers pressured them to ban the app which, in my opinion, is even worse!
There you go. Actual numbers showing profitability on day 1 on IPO and none of that "We may never reach profitability" disclaimer notices from bullshit hyped startups out there racing to the stock market with only gigantic losses to show; quarter after quarter.

What I see about GoodRx is sustainable and they are not even trying. I would gladly buy this stock.
The idea that a website can store things locally on my machine -- especially without my knowledge or permission -- is !@#$ing absurd. The idea that a different website can then access that data is beyond infuriating.
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I created and removed several single letter emails as part of a test once, and I made several short names (mine, spam@, etc). The biggest problem was that too short would take the backend down because it received more mail than could be indexes at the time so too short or too common would get deleted to protect the system. As far as I know Randal still has his though. :-)

But yea your right about the plus I guess Ii didn't read it detailed enough.
That would make it worse not better as thr temperature differential is the power source. Something which binds to and cracks blood sugars would be closer in terms of exploiting bodily resources for the task but would still have many challenges at that scale.
My point is kind of off-topic, but as a financial analyst, I really want every country to stop using DST.

It is such a hustle to cope with financial tick data taking DST into consideration...
If you focus on only one country, it is not a major problem. However, when you start looking at various markets (e.g. London, U.S., Japan etc) at the same time, things get crazy...
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16729555

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10917446
You must have this controversial "free will" I hear so much about..
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Depending on how it's installed (the two ends of the spectrum being either downloading other app stores via Apple's App Store or downloading them from safari) it can cause issues with how Apple's standard of "no malware" stays even when downloading apps via those app stores.

For an example, with alternative app stores it's very likely you could release a jailbreak and have it installable without a computer since most (non-checkm8) jailbreaks break out of the sandbox and exploit their way to root access and installing an dpkg frontend. That's all well and good until someone does the same but hides jailbreak code in an inconspicuous app that initiates the jailbreak in the background, and instead of installing dpkg it installs a keylogger/keychain dumper that sends all passwords to a remote server.

Either Apple will still need to review these, have IPAs notarized, or have contracts in place with each app store developer to ensure the same app review quality. I don't see epic accepting any of these scenarios without a fight.
That does not answer my question. Did they abuse monopoly, and if they did - how?
You've added a number of details to this hypothetical scenario that weren't actually in the original scenario I was replying to. Let me go ahead and agree with you that if two companies have colluded to fix prices, then regardless of how big they are the government should indeed intervene.
A neuron contains thousands if not millions of transistor-equivalents in the form of gene level and ion level switches. I'm not saying that you couldn't do it with 100 transistors, or that everything in a neuron is needed for this application, but I just wanted to clarify.
It didn't explain, though, why did the Americans require the destruction & burial of these planes in the first place?
I sense robots not made out of similar materials may be easier for dealing with a cancer. It’s “out of band” - cell’s for instance seem to communicate through chemicals so the robot cells are likely to respond (or not) to the things in the biological system.

As for more traditional robots with ~100 transistors, why do they need to be autonomous? Why not mesh network them and control them as drones?
You are making an Appeal to Authority.

Privacy is a tough problem - I know many people - very intelligent people - who have given up and have figured out their compromise.

I use apple devices, and although I see their good points and bad points, I think pro-privacy is apple marketing rhetoric.

(examples: no firewall possible on ios; "content blockers" are opt-out -- with no way to determine the sites being visited; apple creation of iBeacons plus no ability to turn off bluetooth in quick settings; more dark patterns as time goes on)
> the only way this works out for anyone is if Epic wins a slam dunk because otherwise Apple elegantly demonstrates that their control can never be broken

Not necessarily. Even if Epic's solitary actions aren't enough to break Apple's control that doesn't mean more developers acting in tandem can't swing the balance of power. Microsoft and Facebook have already mumbled that they are in support of some of Epic's complaints. If those two try to force the issue now as well, and if more developers in general take a stand together (even Google has reason to join in; Apple Music doesn't use Play Store's IAP for subscriptions on Android while Youtube etc is forced to use AppStore's IAP on iOS), I think Apple might just blink first...