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Anti-competitive practice to benefit itself? Yes, Apple sure has done this, as has Epic and every business ever. A monopoly though? I mean I guess, as much as Epic has a monopoly on its App Store.
> This likely triggered the alarms in the industry who then payed to slip some "counter-argument" piece into HN.

Data point: the OP has 98K+ karma and has been a member since 2007. His/her submission history also seems to be mostly informative. Tin foil hat indeed.
Have you checked Toshiba?
Globally, Hindus are a minority. So whether its a liberal or
conservative foreigner(Christian or Muslim), to them Muslims are
usually a minority.

And foreigners are easily susceptible to believe the claims of Muslims
being a minority without even checking the realities.

Tthey almost always fail to understand that it is Hindus who is the
real minority in Jammu and Kashmir.

Morevoer, Christians and Muslims are of Abhrahamic origins and their
morality is skewed in favor of their version of worship and social
norms.

Idol-worshippers like Hindus are considered beastly and low-life.
So don't expect foreigners to accept what Hindus says as our
moralities are going to cut through their doctrinal abhrahamic
morality though they are separate religions.
What about the refugees from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Jammu_massacres ?
While I don't usually reach for XML when I need a data transport format this particular criticism is somewhat unwarranted. SAX parsing of XML is pretty cheap computationally. The problem is cultural more so than technical. Pretty much every language ships with a DOM parser. Not all of them ship with a SAX parser. As a result DOM is the more predictably available choice.

DOM Parsing is both computationally and memory expensive though which I think is where XML gets this reputation from.
Your number 2 point, ‘learn how to take risk’ isn’t something you ever master, like “learning to play piano” or another discrete skill where you develop a level of proficiency that then guaranteed you can perform successfully at an arbitrary level. Trading is incredibly frustrating in that regard. (Yes, trading is not the only form of risk taking, but it’s my profession and what I focus on). Even after doing it successfully for 20+ years o can’t really explain or teach how to do it, like I would if I was an experienced carpenter , musician, accountant.

I think the important lesson that SHOULD be learned about risk is very simple but incredibly important to long term success— avoid existential risk. In trading this typically manifests as people “selling wings” — ie selling very low probability options that have enormous downside in the exceptionally rare case they come to the strike price. Another variation I avoid is taking personal leverage on my own investments. Yeah I don’t make as much in the good times, but I also am never annihilated by a margin call.

These two things happen all the time, and way more often than everyone but grizzled survivors appreciate.
I know it's probably just illustrative, but the craft in "FIGURE 2: Air is heated..." looks reminiscient of the Tic-Tac of Nimitz fame.

Figure V-24 looks like a stereotypical UFO, saucer shaped with circles around the top and all.
I wouldn't be surprised if this could actually work.

"Being poor is expensive" as it is said and it is a vicious cycle as well. Because not being able to pay the total upfront cost of - in the long run - cheaper solutions, they can be stuck paying smaller amounts but more in total over time. People with cashflow problems might not be able to pay in time, leading to dunning costs cutting into their budgets. Cashflow problems might make them pick single tickets for the bus while a monthly pass would be cheaper on the long run. Not being able to pay for maintenance of the car now? Pay for a more expensive repair later instead. Same goes for health issues.

Once they are able to avoid these costs for a while, they might save enough that they are no longer actually poor (albeit still at risk of becoming trapped in this cycle again when unexpected expenses appear).
>in fact most of the teaching in humanities is just assigning books to read

I don't know what college you went to, but at mine, reading was the homework, and the discussion on the books (even with the professor's inherent biases) in the class with my peers is what developed the profound thoughts and ideas that I still carry with me. Humanities might not contribute to jobs, (I'm STEM) but I don't for a second regret the philosophy classes I took.
Maybe, but I know many people that release free Android apps.

I've done it too.

I think Android App development culture is extremely different than iOS Development.
This is a big deal, congratulations on the milestone. Really looking forward to trying out Reflex FRP / Obelisk from IPFS, in particular the focus on making the source available because fetching Nix packages from semi-public caches and not being able to rebuild them is something that has bothered me for a while.
Well, our DMs only go back two weeks, channels maybe a couple months, so it’s not exactly “all”. It’s annoying how quickly (depending on your admin’s config) useful info disappears from it.
At some point, the inflation does become a problem. But notice how it hasn't yet? Take a look at Japan, which has printed an awful lot of money and yet inflation is still hard to come by.
Curious: how? Is it just always running in the background suspended, and then woken up when it’s needed?
The human mind is one of the most wonderful things in the whole known universe. That we have saddled most of them with meaningless toil and vapid entertainment is disappointing.

The shift to the right coincides with a decades long attack on academia and intellectualism. Change incentives, allow the structures to corrode and the weight to shift and the bridge will come down on its own.

If one is only outcome based and based on simple linear line of sight, we will never make the discoveries. But if that statement is outcome based, we should be settings these minds free to discover everything they can, not just STEM advancements.
Perhaps extension code gets different rules. This code works in Firefox without needing interaction from the user: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/5e8f94ff06bd5f14...
Having spent the last couple decades writing Python professionally, it definitely happens but it’s rare outside of people using Notepad. The major programmers editors have been able to adjust indentation on paste for many, many years and, unlike YAML, that will get an immediate syntax error rather than parsing to something unexpected.
> most of the teaching in humanities is just assigning books to read

To you, apparently, one book is as good as another?
I am often guilty of ignoring real costs of car travel. You didn't even mention the purchase price of the car which is included in the rail ticket. Or the rest of the $0.55/mile in tire maintenance, insurance, oil changes, battery replacement, etc.
What about what the virtual platform Apple provides? The cartridge is the feature rich phone and virtual services Apple provides to get to the device.
Automatic updates, single stop and little worry for malware are all perfectly achievable without a walled garden. It's been a thing on Linux for ages. It even gives you the choice of how high you want your walls, whether you only trust the debian developers or a user-made aur package or anything in-between.
The same thing happened with XML, XML Schema and it's datatype support was after the fact of XML popularity, same as JSON Schema, which already solves this for JSON where adopted, with respect to JSON.

While adoption takes time, the fact that you don't even realize that XML had this problem (far worse than JSON with dates) demonstrates that it's not too late for JSON schema to solve it for JSON.
First, they don't charge everyone 30% (have you seen the emails between Amazon and Apple?).

Second, why break up AT&T in 70s/80s, you know what you are getting into when you sing up a contract with them.
The conversation involves both.
Once Upon a Time I Worked with an Art Teacher Who Was a Big “Hellraiser” Fan
That's because college-as-increasing-earnings-potential is the simplest way to rationalise taking on a lifetime of debt.

Spending $100,000 to boost your income by $20,000 per year for life is a very simple argument.

On the other hand, to argue a manual labourer with a $100,000 philosophy degree that didn't boost their income at all had nonetheless made a good investment requires much more complex arguments about the nature of human happiness and the inherent value of knowledge to the individual and society. Which in turn leads to a wealth of follow-on questions which can't be answered with any finality.
> It has no ads.

I have a bunch of aTVs, and while they’re the best boxes I’ve used, there’s definitely some ads baked in, and in prominent placements.

- The TV app started out as a directory + recommendation engine for services you had “connected” to the app; it’s turned into a series of pitches for Apple TV+ and Apple’s “Channels” feature. These placements are below-the-fold, but the default behavior has the “TV” button on the remote bring up that app (although you can change this to display the home screen).
- In the top banner, the TV & Music apps will (by default) auto-play trailers and music videos (on mute). You can disable that behavior for the TV app, and it’ll revert to displaying your watch queue.
I do programming and gaming on 8GB and don't see that becoming a problem anytime soon.

While there are workflows and software requiring a lot of resources (my work PC has 64GB and frequently uses more than half of that), most "common" uses do not.
he's not saying don't buy that fancy tv. just use a roku/appleTV/etc.

although those devices might also have their own privacy issues. :/ best of the bunch i guess?
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The god damned cookie consent popups do this. The "Decline" buttons are small and grey, the "Accept all and save" are big and green. They'd show empty checkboxes/iOS-style sliders at the off position that show that you won't be getting non-essential cookies, of course when you click "Accept all" these settings get overridden.
Glitch in Koho Financial system led to fraudulent transactions
Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’
Does NOT work on FIREFOX.

Are you * serious? XD
oh and don't plug the network jack in on the tv.
This. America is huge. We could be doing so much cooler things with trains, and the experience can be SO nice. It's a beautiful country to watch going by from the window of a train.

Even if we didn't end up with trains that went way FASTER than other methods of transport, we could be doing so much better. I saw someone advocating for a line along the Northeast corridor departing every hour in both directions.

Where I live we've got the Vermonter, stopping at a (admittedly charming) antique station in my town. It comes through once a day, in each direction. That requires that any trip has to include an overnight stay. If that train ran like a metro train and came through hourly, I'd be constantly travelling to places like NYC and Philly or even Baltimore, to do stuff, because I would be able to come home again once I was done, even if it was late.
It's not the first question addressed in the FAQ, but there is this answer:

"Yes, you can request to delete data associated with Amazon One through the device itself or via the online customer portal at one.amazon.com. We believe customers should always be in complete control of when and where they use the service, and we designed Amazon One with this in mind."

Perhaps, as the sibling comment suggests, this was an architectural decision made based on the requirements for operating in the EU.
>on the one hand, we need informed citizenry who can dissect media and think critically

That isn't what universities are creating though. They're creating people who think one specific way about the world. The problem is that they only teach Marxist ideas about the 20th century, and you have to go elsewhere to get a balanced and realistic view of what actually happened. My humanities classes 20 years ago all glossed over the horrors of Stalin's gulags, the horrors of Mao's great leap forward, and all the death caused by Marxist ideas being put into practice at a wide scale in the 20th century. I had to learn about all these things from my history classes. My humanities classes were all talking about the evils of capitalism while glossing over the 20-100 million dead from starvation and exposure under totalitarian communist regimes. I can't imagine it's gotten any less biased and one sided in the past 20 years.
My point was that to me, being able to do construction at all is remarkable, and an example of how you can do a lot without personal interest.

It's important to distinguish between excelling at X, and excelling at a career in X.

IMO to really excel at a career in X you need passion and career skills. But your passion doesn't have to be in X directly. You can have passion for early retirement, income, or even just competition, and still out-perform most people who do care about X. Per the article, all a contractor has to do is work enough to move up the ladder and I can easily imagine them having their own company and out-earning the passionate contractors within a decade, while I can also see someone passionate at a craft just stagnate because they're happy doing their thing, not realizing that the career side needs work too. And of course, to excel at X itself is its own story. But since we were talking about a career perspective, I just wanted to illustrate how excelling at X itself is irrelevant to someone who's just using X as a means to an end Y, beyond what's needed for career progression.

So I wouldn't agree that motivation for X is a problem for getting to Y. I would see that as a weakness with career skills and not knowing how to utilize motivation for Y itself. But I would say that motivation for X can actually be detrimental for pursuing X itself, for example by being so fixated on pursuing quality that you neglect skills like marketing and networking, which are almost always needed to do anything beyond whatever you can do at home. Being a passionate artist alone usually won't get you far. Being a passionate musician who knows people in the industry can get you gigs in movies, shows, musical events, etc.

And thank you, I also wish you luck in pursuing your goals
I made this video on CHAZ:

https://battlepenguin.video/videos/watch/9f81cd38-3ee9-4f26-...

Here are some of the rioters in Portland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zthJUf31MA

Here are some peaceful protestors trying to break into a Federal Courthouse in Portland using a circular saw:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1286915433828724736

Portland rioters were also disguising themselves as press:

https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1286944321107763200

Donut does a good job of documenting the riots in Portland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHb3xVqxcp8

The fact that you've heard this and haven't seen it, shows just how terrible, corrupt and useless the American media is. Our media is only pushing hate:

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/130029089792245350...
> The seeming inevitable isn't. Things change.

Sometimes some things change, sometimes they don't. It depends how you look at it. For example: there is change, and then there is rate of change. The latter typically doesn't get a lot of attention.

I wonder how the Uighurs look at it, or the millions of downtrodden and disenfranchised people now and throughout history - differently than IT folks like you and I who have the luxury of waxing philosophical about such things.

> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I would say that this is both profoundly true, but also little more than a catchy slogan to reinforce the egos of people who think they are good.
This is a dangerous move. Android users are not Apple users.

They are much more willing to research and change services based on price and performance.

I wonder if this could be the point Google loses their grip.
Every time I find one of those "McAfee SECURE" logos I cringe because they are so tacky. Like please tell me exactly how MacAfee is keeping me safe on this website.
I've always been frustrated that the !mdn bang didn't have this behaviour by default. Looks like I can achieve the same result as you suggest with "! mdn justify-content" which should ease the change in muscle memory. Thank you!
transcript here - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/opinion/sway-kara-swisher...
Fair point! But as a business, it'd be negligent not to make your 'why' case, given that your consumers are looking for it.

Hopefully the business does it in a way that's transparent and forthright. I'm a big fan of making it really clear that a solution isn't going to be a perfect fit for everyone. No point in wasting anyone's time.
He was pretty much made a scapegoat.

Yes he was a terrorist but a repatriated one. India had a policy of bringing youth who have gone the terrorism way, served their sentence et be brought back into the folds of civil political society. Afzal Guru was such a case. Also as mentioned by police high ups who oversaw his case he was a pushover (actual words used "bhondu"). This all turned very convenient for the administration that was under pressure to show progress on the investigation.

The circumstantial evidence found on him related to the parliament attack are of such nature that could easily have been planted by the police (specific example, a scarp of paper with the terrorist handlers phone number found on his person).

Planting of evidence is quite common and rote in India. Judges with a spine discount those. In this case the justice bench didn't -- because the theatre was too important compared to a pushover reformed erstwhile terrorist.
It's likely they add 30% to what they pay their supplier. At least that's what it was like 15-20 years ago when I worked in a games store, for PC and vide games. Board games have better margins.
Koho Financial Inc. processed more than $1-million in allegedly fraudulent transactions after users exploited a glitch. The transactions took place between July, 2019, and early March, 2020. In all, there were more than 1,000 transactions totalling $1.049-million that the company labelled as "fraudulent"

The transactions were enabled by a technical glitch during the transfer of money between accounts that deposited the value into the accounts of both the sender and the receiver.
Consumers can't be made to care about ACR. Giant blatant ads are a different story.
Shedding marginal products and focusing on profitable ones is a classic turn around strategy.

Rail in the US could definitely use a model system to prove out it's viability. The biggest ongoing project is California's and that's shaping up to be a disaster.
Quantum entanglement between large objects
I keep reading this analogy, but it does not make sense.

Apple is controlling access to customers with iOS devices. There is no alternative.

Epic is not. Any competitor can sell to the same people that buy from Epic's store.
How do you know LG won’t update the software later to include ads?
Thank you very much for sharing this.

I'm attempting to support every client in every configuration on my web-based forum, and this would be a nice little toy.
If colleges are simultaneously marketed for the average person and carry large bills (not just in $$ but in taking 4 years of your life), they better be jobs programs at a bare minimum.
(for manufacturers)

"In China they roll out the red carpet, in India they roll out the red tape."
FYI to people trying to follow, this is MMT, Modern Monetary Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
It isn't true in the iphone case either, they don't create a new appstore when they release new hardware generations so they don't check if apps works fine on older hardware nor do they guarantee that the software you buy in their appstore continues to work after updates. Instead it is up to the software provider to update things when Apple breaks their product and to inform the user of which phone can run the app.
> Just don't connect it to the internet.

Smart TV manufacturers are relying on the ongoing revenue from their software side nowadays, so they’ll usually mandate setting up an internet connection as part of the device setup process, and then only give you the option to change networks instead of disabling it outright.

If you’re tech savvy, you can take measures against this, but it’s not going to be simple for most folks.

You also have to worry about ethernet-over-HDMI unintentionally exposing the TV to the wider internet.
Sounds like your college did teach you a rounded viewpoint then?
"I wonder if Amazon will ever compete with..." Yes has to be the assumption at this point
The is the wrong history though. It only matters if you accept the App Store == console analogy, which I don't. Historically speaking, App Store was not based on game consoles, it was based on the iTunes Music Store. Everything about the App Store design was exactly the same as the iTunes Music Store, right down to being in iTunes itself. App developers even uploaded their apps to iTunes Connect (which has only very recently been renamed to App Store Connect).
> notice how it hasn't yet?

We've been pumping new money into financial channels. A UBI would pump it into real channels.

That said, this article is about a municipal program. Cities don't print money. They transfer it from some groups to others.
You're right, but I'd say that the damage has been done.

There was an ugly truth even to the ideal that it allowed scions of rich families to network - so even when it was a jobs program in neither practise nor theory it upped one's chances of success later in life dramatically.

Once that game was known, the attendant success became desired and colleges were flooded with applicants. Colleges optimised for large numbers of undergraduates motivated by socioeconomic mobility, their marketing efforts and staffing levels are optimised for that reality.

I'm not sure when you encountered universities, but I was never aware of them being marketed as anything but jobs programs, and I'm closer to an X'er than a Zoomer.
I could do this, if it was consistent, and if I knew I would have the same seat every day and the train was guaranteed to be on time.

The stress of the commute mainly comes from not knowing how long it's going to take and how different it is every day. If I was able to buy an assigned seat on a train and was able to work (either sending emails or coding) during the commuting time, it could allow me to shorten my time in the office and use that time only for necessary face-to-face meetings.

That'd be awesome, and would presumably let me transition into more full-time remote work.
And (this important) never hook the TV with Android up to a network connection. Only the Apple TV can get to the internet.
I love how the bar graph uses the darkest color to represent white people.
I don't evaluate engineers on feature value, only velocity and quality. If the product owners ask for it, that's what we're doing. It's not the engineers fault if some features don't fit the market and some fit really well.
As much as college was a life-redefining experience for me, I also think it's incredibly wasteful and indulgent to send most 18 year olds to college.

To add to the parent's point, one doesn't need to go to college to have an equally valuable "life-redefining experience". You'll hear similar stories and nostalgia from others who went to trade school. the military, mission, Peace Corps, or even just going straight to work. The "life-redefining" experience has more to do with being 20-ish than with being in college.
There is a difference between it having a network connection (i.e. ethernet) and having internet connectivity - you just need to be able to control the tv's traffic.

If the manufacturers start adding a 4G modem to their devices then that might change things. Hopefully the economics of that never work out.