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> Apple doesn't give a shit about innovation when they are making money hand over fist

It's crazy but I didn't even notice this paradigm shift until they announced their credit card. Apple used to be the company to push boundaries and revolutionize computing in some way every few years. The last real "innovation" I feel Apple has come up with was the Retina display, pushing OEMs everywhere towards higher pixel counts and better overall user experiences. Before that we got everything from the iPhone and iPod and even iTunes, to USB and WiFi brought to the mainstream, to crazy, beautiful designs that worked well, like the iMac G4.

Just for instance working off local memory, The iMac hasn't seen a form factor update since what, 2012 when they slimmed down the curve? Which even then was a minor facelift of the 2007 design at best, which itself was an aluminum facelift. Before then we had new iMac designs every few years, between the G3 in '98, the G4 in '02, and the G5 settling on the current form factor in '04.
How would companies live up to the long-term expectations? Who's holding them accountable? What's the investor's discovery mechanism for more long-term oriented companies? These are some of the things we think about.
Very interesting, thanks for making this!

Why the extra unbound DNS server? I assume PiHole is using it, but why not just point PiHole at the final server?
What are the listing fees and procedures? Are you similarly regulated to NYSE? Can smaller startups and Reg D List?
Oh man, I feel you. My clever solution has been large houses and kids who are used to a work-at-home dad... but yeah
Up to 90% of the positive cases in the US would not be positive in Germany due to how PCR tests are performed in each country, and what countries code as coronavirus deaths also differs. Making comparisons between countries is hard. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
I had to be both.
Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective
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are there already companies on the pipeline for the IPO on LTSE?
if profits from this borderless internet are not borderless, then there is little incentive for a borderless internet.
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:) you need you replace you envelop or do some serious research.. your assumptions and calculations have very little to do with reality.

Unfortunately, this is typical armchair, internet commentary some people prefer instead of doing actual research.
Top 10% for deaths? How is that a win?
>Through no fault of their own is a bit of a stretch.

Apple has exhibited the same behaviour wrt right to repair, and afaik there is no trivial way to install a different OS on your 'old' devices, whether they are left crippled beyond use by Moore's law approach of software design (you know, write whatever barely runs now, and assume future hardware will be able to tank it), or whether by the inability to easily replace components.

This happens with every single company of this scale (and none have been this large before, right?)

Yet we will continue to humour the people who are literally paid to defend their corporate overlords online.
Isn't the whole point to Paul is that he realizes how screwed he is about half way through book 1 (causing space genocide) and just endlessly runs from his own destiny and hides away in his castle for all of book 2.
I see classes as nodes in the power grid that transmits and transforms data instead of electricity. These nodes are wired up to other nodes via methods - their binding points. To be precise, a class is more like a spec that can be used to build an instance of that node. In some cases there's only one instance.

The main advantage of classes, I think, is that they define one underlying principle for all these data transformer nodes: that each node has a few binding points with certain interface: named methods. The nodes don't have to look this way, but restricting the freedom of design choices to this pattern makes it easier to compose many nodes together. It's like setting the expectation that all cars are squarish: it's easier to build the infra around cars when you know how they can look in general.
I used K-9 for a long time, but I got a new phone with Android 10, and K-9 is not supported for Android 10... I switched to FairEmail and it's great. Even syncing which was not working very well on K-9 works great on Fairphone. Got it on F-droid anyway...
s/better/worse/

Edit: No, better is correct, missed the switch from 11th in europe to the 10th in the world.
Just for the record there is NO ISM band in ITU region 3 (in which NZ is located)
I helped build the PNL for my projects, company doesn’t (can’t) hide finances from the project.

Since I can see total unit sales and total income and it’s broken down on SKU- then it would have been easy for me to see a discrepancy from what I was told our deals were by my masters at HQ but there never was one.

I think you assume too much of executives, they are consumers of our work, they don’t create any reports or such themselves.
Another app so another company can surveil the user as well as google?
You can get identical electricity from different provider. You cant get identical platform from not apple.
there are a few nerds here and there that actually prefer the weird Unix/BSD that Mac OS X is based on but theres no way Linus Torvalds is using the normie focused MacOS Big Sur and the current environment

Apple used to support freedom in programming and use of the computer.

That has not been the case anytime recently, they've taken the prison system of iOS and slowly implemented it on 'macOS'
Their online stores are 100% closed, walled gardens.

As far as I know, the courts didn't require that Nintendo, Sega or Sony make the consoles open - they just didn't make it illegal to reverse engineer the protections.
There is an important point to make here. Sweden doesn’t have any laws where the government can order a shutdown. So even if they wanted to do a lockdown they couldn’t. Doctors can order individuals to be quarantined but not the country as a whole.
They had 5838 COVID deaths, and around 5900 excess deaths.

Portugal has 1800ish COVID deaths, 5800 excess deaths.

Yes, Sweden fucked up and Portugal is amazing! OR maybe, just maybe, either COVID deaths are counted differently OR the lockdowns caused people that wouldn't have died of COVID to die for other causes due to lack of treatment and support.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking...
Isn’t the point that they didn’t close the country so that’s a massive up side.

Here in the UK we closed everything (much too late to be effective), spent billions on furloughing everyone, and still loads of people died, and now cases are going up again anyway.

(For clarity - I’m not anti-lockdown. I haven’t been to a shop for months. I’m doing my bit either way)
Epic should take advantage of this momentum and launch their own gaming device, with Google/Apple stores saturated as they are, gamedevs like me will welcome it.
Are we measuring properly in each country? I would assume that we have somewhat reliable numbers for much less than 195 countries.
No, better: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Bad luck.

A small country or state has an higher chance of being an outlier. 11M people live in Belgium, and a lot of +/- 10M inhabitant regions in larger countries have an higher death rate (Paris, NYC, Lombardy, Madrid ...).

If you live in a large country, some highly impacted regions will be offset by less affected regions.
> a similar anti-trust suit filed by an Apple user was thrown out without a trial on grounds that the customer was not able to sufficiently demonstrate Apple's practices harmed them

Which case is this? Epic’s complaint [1] only mentions the word “standing” once and seeks broad restraints on Apple’s “conduct” that go beyond the enforcement of one TOS clause. I can see why strategically, Epic thought it was best to build the record by breaching its contract with Apple first, but it’s not clear that this was an essential precondition to the lawsuit.

[1] https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf
Omg, thank you for this! The balloon model always confused me because I could never understand what was in the middle of the balloon, and why we were on top of it. It's an odd 2d example using an object that is 3d, the balloon.

Raisin bread, oh I love thee even more today.
That's a really good way to leverage security. Respect to Epic for that.
By what measure are they better off?
> What else in the computer industry has improved by a factor of 10 over the last decade?

SSDs were still SATA in 2010 and capped at 500GB/s (and in practice were slower than that). High-end SSDs today are maxing out PCIe 4.0 x4 for 6000+ GB/s.

GPUs probably have a 10x increase in speed. AMD 5870 and GTX 200 series... yeah... that's way old.

Hard drive capacity is probably 10x bigger, maybe.

CPUs and RAM haven't improved much. Most things seem to be getting faster though.
Local regulatory barriers exist and if you aren't persistent you can't overcome them. There were many times where I wondered if it was a bad idea or .. what am I doing here.

Being a telephone company made it easier to permit and working with the groups to permit it became possible.
I can’t disagree more with the idea that we shouldn’t have tech like 5G “thrust” upon us.

Sure, AT&T 5G isn’t great now, but it’s all about spectrum allocation.

That spectrum allocation will only become more and more 5G-leaning over time. 5G isn’t the same great leap as 4G was, but I’d still take it over 4G.
We don’t know that. The body could heal. Also there was little thought to comorbidities in most papers.
quote: Microsoft’s App Developer Agreement states that “[n]ew App and in-App Product submissions to the Store are required to use Microsoft’s commerce engine to support purchase of any In-App Product(s) that are or can be consumed or used within [the] app.”

Appendix A1 (page 16) here https://www.analysisgroup.com/globalassets/insights/publishi...
You are spot on. this is one of the best use cases for Emrod tech
They didn’t. Although they didn’t protect the elderly in the beginning, which is official.
Then how have $117m passed through your exchange? If no companies are listed on the LTSE, how are stocks being traded on the LTSE?
I've had good luck just running this sort of thing as an offline process, especially for external dependencies. We used to get 'pink' for this lookup and now it's "<span>pink </span>" or somesuch.

It depends on the SLA, of course, but it's cheaper to check every few hours than on every request, and you get a couple of alerts instead of a constant stream of them.
Yeah, it's not like peoples' traffic profiles didn't completely change during that period. (Going from bursty web surfing and downloads to everyone pulling down 25 mbps 4K streams continuously at the same time.)
The excess mortality is harder to fake or mis-measure though. There are no perfect numbers here (a lesson about measurement in general), but there is no reasonable argument that the US is doing anything but much much worse than Germany.

And yet Germany is not currently "locked down". The argument that Germany is among the best of all countries at handling this is not an argument for "if everyone just wears a mask and doesn't leave their home forever" -- that is not what happened in Germany. At all.
Microsoft is betting on (the not yet mature) Blazor [1,2] framework for porting .NET applications to WASM. Here's a CRUD app WASM example [3] -- there's an initial load time, but once loaded the app seems pretty responsive. There's a bunch more demos here [4] to get a sense of the performance.

There's even a HN clone built on Blazor [5]. This very thread can be found there.

[1] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/blazor-webassembly-3-2...

[3] https://becksblazor.azurewebsites.net

[4] https://github.com/StevenTCramer/awesome-blazor#samples-and-...

[5] http://blazorhackernews.surge.sh
People are not fine with it, if you can't use a PC for gaming then you have 2 shitty choices (expensive games, different subscriptions to unlock features, pretty bad customer support) BUT this is a bad argument why Apple or other smarphone or PC seller can just lock things up, the judge should consider the potential hard done to users and not the history of game consoles.
Are you talking about the Play More Unlimited plan from Verizon? That costs $80 per month for one person and also includes taxes and fees.
OMG! This isn't a joke? Part of the reason you want uniformity is so you can learn what kinds of problems your customers are going to run into and your service personnel understand how to resolve them. If every Tesla is essentially unique then they've gone straight back to the 18th century! Wow!
Sure. Here's Citadel's profile from FINRA: https://files.brokercheck.finra.org/firm/firm_116797.pdf

Scroll down to page 9, you'll see they are a member of The Long-Term Stock Exchange
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Well spotted; great for sild! Looks like the 40% claim was due to a bug in benchmarking (which makes sense, and can happen).
Not entirely without lockdown; gatherings are still limited. Allsang pa Skansen performed without an audience.
Yes, it will create some additional potential energy.

That doesn't contradict strict conservation of energy - it just adds another energy source that has to be accounted for when balancing everything.

It might contradict the aphorism "energy is never created or destroyed", but I'm not sure that was ever science.

It's more fun to think about it in terms of thermodynamics. Can that extra energy be used to reverse the second law of thermodynamics? I'm guessing not - it's so diffuse that it's probably impossible to use it to reduce entropy. The math for actually doing those calculations is well beyond what I know, though, so I'll just say that one's no more than a guess.
The end is when COVID is either endemic in your country, or is no longer able to spread exponentially even without any non-permanent large-scale interventions.

Sweden can't "throw in the towel" and go back to before 2020 -- the people who have died have already died (and notably, more than half of the COVID-19 deaths so far in Sweden happened before May 1, and about 90% before mid June). Implementing lockdown measures now won't bring those people back to life, and since the number of cases is low and continuing to decrease now, also would have very little benefit otherwise.

Unless you're referring to stopping lockdown measures as "throwing in the towel and admitting you fucked up", in which case the answer is "definitely not before there's some plausible story you can tell about why it's fine to do that now but wasn't before". And any country that hasn't had widespread community spread like Sweden is likely to see the same sort of spread Sweden saw early on if they implement the same measures Sweden did.
I recently got in a silly argument where the crux of my argument was that the reason the US is mishandling the situation is because the pandemic was politicized since day 1. The response I was met with was: "no, it's all Trump's fault".
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/ explains why and how unbound is used.
I mentioned these groups in the slides. You can find those slides on the NLNOG website.

https://nlnog.net/static/live/nlnog_live_sep_2020_jared.pdf
Yes, similar to NYSE and NASDAQ. All of our exchange fees are regulated: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/ltse.htm
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I do sometimes wonder how consistently different countries attribute deaths to COVID. There's no way a naive direct comparison is accurate.
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False. There is a large number of things that the government can limit/recommend to not used/etc that haven't been utilized.

(I do recognize this argument from when arguing about this with swedish leftists.)
France has 5X the population density of Sweden though, so maybe France did much better considering that. Sweden has lots of barren arctic area though so it may not be a fair measure. You'd want to know how many people the average person interacts with pre COVID or something.
>This does produce an interesting side question though: aren’t we (humans) shrinking in relation to the universe? Or, without the click-baity phrasing: isn’t the universe growing without us?

Yep.
This is so fantastic.
Regarding functional imaging, I would be very surprised if they could get meaningful BOLD signal at that little field strength.
Why could be as simple as actual testing en masse, and publishing of the results.
Yep... considering the skin effect, any microwave radiation would start heating the outside skin layer first, and it would hurt long before anything inside you was "cooked".

If you got locked in there.. then sure... maybe.... but staying in there and not feeling it (or just feeling "warmer", until you die...) nope.
oh man people assume they aren't fighting the consoles clearly have not read the lawsuits themselves

epic is proposing a 12% rate to all the stores and asked Google for it as well, they have fought playstation policies against crossplay and won in the past.
Compared to their peers in northern Europe that fared far better, the data does not suggest vindication. They have 5x the number of cases per capita compared to countries with similar social/economic/geographic conditions.
We'll hit the wall on the technology eventually, just as we have for desktop computing. A 10-year old desktop is still perfectly serviceable. Imagine saying that in 2000.
Fair point about comercial vs open and non-commercial, but until we see what Mozilla actually does, I wouldn't choose the pessimistic view.
I can imagine why not all details are addressed here. Seems like big part of the community is very negative towards Mozilla and for sure they extremely careful with what they say and what they promise.
good question. also, would it be affected by other elemental forces such as strong wind, snow (rural NZ!), earthquakes, temperature, the gamut of the sun's output, etc.

would also like to know if/how it will affect mobile phone towers
> For anything non-trivial you will want inline comments.

Yes, JSON needs comment support back.

> Also while any JSON can be expressed in YAML, the reverse is not true.

This is a feature not a bug.
Ironically the person this quote is attributed to spent the majority of his life owning other human beings. I'm not sure we should put much weight into his opinion of "essential liberty".
Ignorant questions:

1) He showed that he can achieve 700ish Mbit/s at his place. Does it mean that the 20 subscribers of his service are sharing this? If he wants to increase the overall throughput does he have to place more fiber cables?

2) Did he use any sort of repeaters to deal with the attenuation of the signal?
When the virus is either under control or has become a normal part of the disease cycle like the flu. Right now all stats are incomplete and no one knows how the situation will develop based on the strategies.

> It's like saying let's wait for the company's bankruptcy before we judge the CEOs performance.

Yes, it's like that if it was in the middle of a worldwide recession with incomplete numbers and all companies were dealing with similar issues. Sweden has done some things differently, and it will be interesting to see how that stacks up when we eventually know enough to judge it.

> We have enough data at this point to see what works and what doesn't

Do we? To me it seems like we have both successful and non-successful countries taking wildly different strategies and the long term effects on society are not known. Either you know something the rest of us don't or you're wrong.
"Better than the worst" is not really a "vindication" though, is it?
>The challenges that they describe have felt familiar, and their accounts have given me hope. One step at a time, medical and scientific advances eventually subdued that deadly virus. They could do the same for the coronavirus. “With H.I.V., it was never just one thing,” Gandhi told me. “It was a lot of little things that added up to a big thing.”

The big difference between HIV and COVID-19 is how easily the virus is transmitted. If HIV was as transmissible as COVID-19, there is no way we would have gotten a handle on it.

There are already psychological, educational, and economic harms that are occurring with the lockdowns and social distancing. It is not something that can be maintained indefinitely. We either get a vaccine, or else people, especially young people, are going to say "screw it, everyone is going to die anyway, I will take my chances with the virus."
>Complexity always exists somewhere. You can't remove it, only try it make it easier to deal with.

This is simply not true. Most complexity in today's systems is completely avoidable. Most developers are just mentally stuck and don't even try. "Managing" complexity is a great way to achieve job security without becoming good at anything specific. Instead of learning how to design system people are learning how to write config files.
What does "cooperative development" mean in this context? Don't see any explanation on the site.
I've worked on a top free cross-platform game for Xbox One and our experience was absolutely not "build a game, and monetize it however you want."

It took months of back and forth and the Xbox team had plenty of input from UX, to monetization, particularly when it came to users buying stuff on other platforms and using them on Xbox.

Sure, MS let us do what Sony and Nintendo would not, so I guess they're the most "open", but make no mistake, it's Microsoft's platform.
This is The Times in the UK reporting here, wholly owned by News Corp (aka Fox News' parent). They're trying to paint the failures of Sweden (5th highest per-capita death rate in Europe) as a success the same way they do in the US.
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Are the laws actually clear in many countries? Or is this a matter of the political culture?

In the US, at least, the government's behavior has only a loose asociation with "the law"
I've been looking for an initiative like this for so many years! Not even a month ago, I spent an afternoon looking all over the internet for somebody trying to build a native mail client for MacOs. Since DéjàVu from the lead dev of Sparrow, nobody it seems nobody has tried to do this. I haven't yet tested Mimestream but I already praise you for trying to do it! I will definitely give it a try and pay for it!
I'm not sure how to search for this to verify your claim, but I'm intrigued. Do you happen to have a citation to a ruling that you can share?
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I could breathe normally during my gastroscopy. No pain though it felt strange. The MRI was a lot more taxing mentally, and I had some of the same issues as you. Best of luck.
Here's the slides

https://nlnog.net/static/live/nlnog_live_sep_2020_jared.pdf
In cities and suburbs that are already built out, someone must draw the shortest straw. Desires and wants should always be trumped by need.
> but that would be impractically expensive given the cost of mobile data

That needn't be the case with 5G -- there's a lot more bandwidth to go around, particularly with mmwave, so home broadband (with unlimited or near-unlimited service) are more feasible. Verizon is piloting a home 5G service in several cities for this reason, and it doesn't have a data cap.
> the pandemic was politicized

What does that mean? How did it lead to a bad outcome?
Not trying to antagonize, but I'm looking for more research / validation on long term effects. Can you provide a source for me? Thank you!