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We classify a general purpose computing device from the perspective of what a user can do with it: if you can word process AND watch movies AND play games AND read books AND schedule appointments AND message people... well, that's not a "special purpose" device, it is "general purpose". Apple absolutely has made a general purpose computing device, and people buy it with that intent (the lawyer of the special district I am elected to the board of seems to literally have an iPad as his only computer).
I forgot that. but still, my wider point remains true, i think.
I would assume the legality depends on where the container fell.
> It's likely to be a "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" type trade.

What does that mean?
I originally bought Roku because their business (used to be) "selling hardware." I figured I'd pay them money, they'd provide a good product.

Now their business is "collecting money from your subscriptions" -- which is not really in my best interest. I got screwed on the HBO Max thing. Now this.

Personally, I'm done with Roku. But there isn't really an option that is "unaffiliated" anymore :(
Would you mind emailing me with your IP address and a screenshot of what you see at https://debug.fly.io when you're on wifi? Finland to hkg is not what we want to be doing.

kurt fly.io
A couple of years ago, a buddy convinced me to sign up. Personally, I’ve only found them to be expensive. Like, they show it as a bulk sales price drop, but it feels more like gimmick original prices (though I don’t think they are doing that, maybe it is just normal prices outside my comfort level).
"The rest are ad supported and Apple gets 0% of the ad revenue."

The vast bulk of the rest likely signed up elsewhere and aren't free users. I signed up online, as I imagine most people do for most services. I'm not sure if Spotify even had an app subscription at the time, though even if it did I wouldn't have used it.

I signed up for Netflix, Skillshare, Prime, Disney+, etc, all on their own sites. Even my Microsoft Office apps I bought a multi-year subscription on some site (saving something like 40% over the app fees). There is zero value for me subscribing to things like that through Apple. Actually negative value.

If it's some single-platform little app that needs a subscription to use the beautifier filter or something, sure, provide that "value".

"there are 199 Spotify app users Apple is distributing the App to for which they get nothing"

They have gotten hundreds of billions in purchases from consumers, all but the very first purchases predicated on a robust and healthy app ecosystem. Apple runs the app store for me, the guy who buys their devices. They are certainly getting loads for it.

It is perverse that Apple bars notifying users that they can subscribe elsewhere, and eventually that is going to be regulatory eliminated.
The logical reason is: To pump prices because you are running a scam.

https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1387956657171271681
What a moot argument, there's absolutely zero competition in the mobile market. The living proof of that is that the only tariff changes Apple ever made in their whole mobile history was because ... of a real threat of an anti-trust lawsuit. They basically admitting the fact themselves, you can't even make this up.

Yes it's a duopoly and yes they are both abusing their market power. It got so bad that you have to get testimonials of mobile developers anonymously against those two companies because they are fearing retaliation against them (yes that does sound like a mafia).
I'm currently typing on a keychron keyboard that I like well enough to use instead of the magic keyboard, but I'm more accurate and faster on the magic keyboard.

As a bonus, the magic keyboard's lower profile means that I don't have to use a wrist rest when I use it, unlike all of my mechanicals, even though I've got the lowest profile available mechanical.

They're extremely well engineered keyboards not worthy of your hate.
Why does it suck compared to Slack?
I'm tired of writing it but Apple's App Store does not prevent malware and scams.

See my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26966785
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What's the legality of Roku shipping a third-party client? Does the Google/Oracle decision have any impact on that?
I work with someone who loves optimisation, i.e. reading books and then assuming everything we do is wrong and demanding we change it.

Glad I'm past the point where he liked to spend hours arguing that stuff. Hard to make someone understand that just because someone wrote something in a book it doesn't mean it makes sense for our application or development needs. Theory loses out to practicality in real applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
Good for her, but, she's just being used here to trick people into pumping money into a huge scam.
Just go find an original meme image, claim it to be yours and sell it as an NFT. Profit!
Yes I had to settle for something other than Skyline as well. I also bought a separate keykap set thinking it wouldn't come with any accent keycaps for WASD, but it did. So I have a lot of spare keycaps.
It's like a trendy type of signature.
I thought about that, but I actually don't have an issue with involuntary key presses on the Gateron browns. Ironically, this does tend to happen on the HP Laptop.

But I think it's related to the "on / off" thing. Usually my hands rest their weight on the wrist-rest, but if I happen to shift the weight towards the fingers, I'll feel the gaterons start to move and have the time to stop. With the laptop, on the other hand, I don't feel anything and when I do, it's too late.
I've been able to obtain some funds through paid binaries. Basically the major other options are: selling support, hosted instances of web software, patreon/subscription models (long buildup period before there's noteworthy income), paid work on individual features/bugs (formal contracts work better than bounty models), and general 1 time donations (typically very little income).

It's hard to make a lot of cash in open source. It can be done, but 'success' is likely not going to be what happens in the end.
You stated don't see how could i implement this workflow in liveview.. I've presented you a way.

In case of any errors, notify the user, refresh the state .etc => This would all be done server-side and the client side would simply react automatically. The client side code in this case would have been minimal.

I don't think I'm diminishing anything. For quite a few years I was neck deep in React/Vue world. Now that I'm actively using LiveView, I can properly compare the differences between both approaches, cons and pros. For any new project, in the majority of cases I would pick Elixir with Phoenix LiveView instead of Elixir/Phoenix (backend) with React/Vue (frontend).
The question really is do you think that it's fair to expect app developers to meet the criteria and then pay the Apple tax?

To be clear, I'm not decided on my opinion yet, I can see merits on both sides of the argument.
It's also an extension of basic property rights. An owner of property may will it to whomever he pleases on the event of his passing. It's no different from simply gifting property while alive.
That sounds like people burning money. I have this vision of a large bonfire on a tranquil beach with people having soft casual conversations where that fire is burning large stacks of large denomination cash purely for aesthetics.
I think it means doing something high risk for low reward.
This doesn't even work as a status symbol, because I think there would be mass confusion at a dinner party about what, exactly, has just been bought. This doesn't seem to be a good, service, right to do something and it is difficult to see why this particular non-fungible-token is distinct from a different NFT claiming to represent the same thing.
Just to be clear: “ownership” in this context means a pinky promise from the creator to not create more NFTs of the same work.

It does not include any copyright assignment, or other aspects of ownership one might think of with physical items.
That makes sense for Apple but not for the Apple users, users pay more so users lose and Apple wins, this shit does not fly in other countries.

For example for currency exchanges we had laws(in Romania) that you have to print in giant fonts all the fees/taxes. The law was created because the giant text was showing some values and the fees were hidden or printed in small fonts somewhere unreadable.

IMO aa country could force Apple to print on their iPHone boxes something like (30% of your subscriptions or Farmwill gems go to Apple, buyer be aware that you can probably buy the subscriptions cheaper on the developer website but Apple won't allow them to show you the link because they are greedy)
How are you screwed, exactly? You can still watch tv, no?
For context Youtube TV has maybe 3 million subscribers. Youtube has over 2 billion active users.
Actually, measuring the value of money as something other than the measuring stick to compare capital assets doesn’t make sense, regardless of how fashionable it is to defend money printing by verysmart internet economists.

See what I did there? It’s not an argument.
yikes. why?
> Just think about it: one company is in practice entitled to 30% of what any other business makes (in any industry)!!

This seems to be the case for all markets. I don't really see myself winning a case against wallmart if I complain they want a markup on sales of my product and that they are misusing their "monopoly" on "wallmart shelf space" by not allowing me decide to put my products in their store without their say, or without letting them earn money on the transactions that happen through their store.
Although true, there isnt anything better than the free market. The only other alternative i've heard is always either dictatorship by goverment or something where the employees make the decisions. Both way worse than the free market. Any ideas how you would fix this? Personally i would have a free market like we have now, but laws to prevent mega corporations, because they are the problem.
If I am not mistaken they compare AWS (cloud services) with the entire IBM company (cloud services, consultancing business, …).

Which would make it a strange comparison (but ok, it would just emphasize the size of AWS)
They're comparing AWS revenue to all IBM revenue. IBM is engaged in a number of other areas including fabless semiconductor design.
> Apple holds a gigantic market in their grasp and by controlling it so tightly and by forcing everyone to use their billing, they give the customers what they want.

Sorry, this is irrelevant. If people want a monopoly, that doesn't change the effects of that monopoly existing.
I mean , for other stuff, like desktop or web apps. Reviewed and checked to rigorous usability and safety standards. Apple claims that this service is worth 30% of a program's cost
but have you heard of Kyndryl? :) IBM is like dark cloud market nowadays. No one has any idea what it does but it still makes money somehow
So, if I understand correctly, it's just an evolution of the cryptocurrency itself? In the sense that instead of having a token you have an unique token? And going back to the currency analogy it just means you have a banknote with an autograph?
I don't know what people do with their keyboards but for decades I've been using cheap membrane keyboards for coding/gaming and never had reliability problems, and I keep a keyboard 5y+. I just changed because I wanted to really.
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Yes, it’s general with respect to the functionality available - that doesn’t mean you can do anything. Do you disagree?

I don't understand how people can be shocked when Apple says their devices do A, B, C and D, but people complain and want government action so the devices do E.
Same! I bought a chrome cast without realizing I couldn’t watch Prime on it, then I learned about the Amazon/Google dispute. I felt so disappointed in these companies.
I rather enjoyed the way that website loaded on my iPhone.
Read the article. This specifically has nothing to do with financials and all to do with, what some consider to be, a large over reach by google.
Too bad, I'm from Germany! I appreciate the tip though :) I also love that product's name and how well it fits into the discussion as a whole :D
In the fourth painting of the list you can see that he stylized three wolves in the mountain's features and in the fourth from the last (Istanbul) there appears to be a bear in the looking down at the deer grazing. Very nice work.
There is big "Apple recommended" text next to it.
You can't have unaffiliated solutions with DRM, just multi-affiliated.
For that 2nd graph, he chose buckets that are uniquely poorly suited to evaluating his statement about whether returns tend toward 10%.

It looks to me like, if he had instead made them (5%)-5%, 5%-15%, 15%-25%, etc., then the mode would indeed have been the 5-15% bracket.
> “The purpose of humanity is to gain knowledge.”

I think that “to expand awareness“ is a more fitting term for that.

Is what we DO with our knowledge that really matters.
This is an excellent project! I wish it success.

I am taking one photo per season of one particular tree in my commune's forest.

This woman has been taking self portraits once a year for 17 years, with last year's photo in this year's: https://www.ignant.com/2019/01/21/the-mother-as-creator-a-ph...

We need more long, slow art projects.
This explanation making rounds on Twitter is actually pretty good: https://twitter.com/yogthos/status/1387570034139140102

As for being an adult and not getting ELI5, see the last paragraph in that explanation. Yes, I am serious.
I think Valve is a good example of how to do it. Sure they also take a sizeable chunk out of sales, but they seem to compete on the same terms with their games with everyone else on Steam.

Going so far as to clearly make an unfair advantage doesn't make sense if your platform is already printing more money than you could reasonably spend. As is the case with Apple, and with Valve. Music sales are probably a drop in the ocean compared to what they make on hardware and the appstore overall. They just got greedy and started acting like assholes when it came to their competition.
I have NO idea! I know some financial institutions advertise (and sponsor) really big sport events with viewership that ranges in the 10s of millions. It is possible there is a distinction between "We are a company, remember our logo" and "we are a company, use our credit card".

I do know that proxy variables are just as bad as discrimination variables. So, if I approve based on zip code, and zip code is highly correlated with a protected class - that is not legal (think: red lining practices).

But it gets tricky. If black people use pay day lenders, can I decline because I see pay day lenders on your credit history? Not directly, but I can decline if I see lots of "open lines of credit" or "delinquent loans".

In my area, we also go back over our variables to look for "accidentally discrimination" e.g. no one would expect that: high income, large down payment, expensive car loan, commission based income would correlate with a protected class - but maybe it does, so we better check!
It's journal.

Alice pays Bob 500 000 USD. Alice owns Bob soul. Record checksum: 0x3345dfe3. Journal checksum: 0x3345dfe3
Charlie pays Bob 500 USD. Charlie owns Bob meme. Record checksum: 0x1305eee5. Journal checksum: 0x995faac2

And so on.
Yes:

https://xemu.app/

https://xqemu.com/

Are both original Xbox emulators built off of QEMU (Xemu is a fork of XQEMU). I've only used Xemu, but performance was pretty good for the games I tried on it (it doesn't have a way to upscale rendering yet though).
I think (a guess from experience) that a huge amount of Apple work is done under intense time pressure, and prioritized as related to the bullet point list of new features being pushed for that release's marketing communications.

The installer being better isn't going to sell more computers; it ain't really broken, so there would need to be some real incentive to do anything other than incrementally fixing it. (This is not to discount the small amounts of polish they add to these tools bit by bit over time as they are incrementally improved, such as the black full screen background for the system updater.) A total overhaul of such a central system (used regularly by millions of machines during updates) is a gigantic risk, to put it mildly. They also just took one such big risk with the whole APFS migration/system volume thing, which to their credit went well.

Every now and then Apple will actually rewrite an app, like they did to Disk Utility not long ago. This usually makes it worse, and relegates anyone serious to the command line tools (which are fortunately quite complete and comprehensive, even if their man pages aren't).

I have a feeling they spend the most high-quality application developer resources on things like iWork and FCP and stuff that users actually live and breathe every day, not stuff they run a few times a year unattended.
> the data of a few decades.

1926-2020 is 95 years. Calling that "a few decades" is downplaying it. I'd say it is safe to take 95 years and from that extrapolate a 30 year future with wide margins. In your analogy: looking at 95 people and saying "the average group size is between 2 and 5".

> ... 90 data points and assumes the next 90 data points will be alike.

Are we reading the same article? I don't see it predicting anything 90-points forward. Even the predictions for 30 points forward are very much on the safe side: merely a caution and establishment of a (well-known) generalism. A conclusion in that article:

> don’t know if the next 30 years will be this kind to investors in U.S. stocks. You could make the case investors should reduce their expectations going forward.

> But if those lower expectations turn out to be correct this makes thinking and acting for the long-term even more important than ever.
Think of a slowly advancing steamroller, with pennies scattered before it. You can run around picking up these pennies, for small but consistent gain over a long period of time. Just don't take your eye off the steamroller!

The canonical example in recent times is the XIV blowup of 2018, which inversed VIX (a security tracking market volatility). So if you held XIV you basically bet that large market moves wouldn't happen - you're shorting volatility. Take a look at the graph to see how that ended up; the steamroller caught up to them! https://www.rcmalternatives.com/2018/02/why-did-xiv-implode/
Nah, I just study history. Many strategy games nearly completely ignore logistics-- certainly any semblance of realistic logistics. Though actually when I do play strategy games I avoid those more realistic simulations: I want to focus on strategy, not the fiddly logistical details that actually make it all possible. Sort of like choosing a higher level programming language where many fiddly details are handled behind the scenes and I rarely have to bother with them.
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What is your explanation for the explosion in asset prices over the last year, if not inflation? Do you think the assets have become fundamentally more valuable?
That case isn't relevant but its probably against Googles ToS and easily blocked if they care.
Discrimination means choice. Faceboogers Anti-Choice Policy is going to cause lots of handwringing. The only important implication for society is if any attorneys can make money off of this, that is the most important part of anti-discrimination policies.
Anyone interested would just buy some other NFT instead. I'd say this is still a more valid """art piece""" to own compared to a random generated pixel dude.
You can sideload on Android and yet there are stories all the time about Google removing some app and destroying some ones whole business. It's false to say that multiple avenues for app installation destroys apples leverage over app makers. The tyranny of the default is very real. Facebook is not about to move to the epic store so it can violate your privacy more.

Besides, there doesn't need to necessarily be a competing store. Even the ability to install from a website would be enough IMO. Apple can put up a scary message before you install a non app store app, and epic can side load their app. If you want the benefit of the app store, you can pay the 30%. I suspect most developers would. Additionally, you still have to get your app signed through apples developer program, so if they revoke your certificate, they could still destroy you.

And I think we can let go of the idea that apple curates it's apps for safety and security. It's been shown repeatedly that they let scams through all the time, while scrutinizing and removing apps over tiny mistakes around phrasing of payment.
The description here https://twitter.com/charlottejee/status/1387722711766650884?... , whilst snarky, seems like a reasonable summary.
> Verification is at least as complicated as writing the program you are verifying.

I guess, writing a proof is basically like writing a program. Then checking a proof ought to be like *running* a program, not proving an arbitrary property of it. If your proof/program evaluates to "false", it's a wrong proof. So this is all a question of having an appropriate semantic model of computation/proof-checking, on which you can check your proof.

You could then ask: "why is it that I can always run a proof? What if running it does not terminate?" To which I'd have to admit that I am really, seriously not an expert on this, but I vaguely recall that interactive theorem proving systems like Coq have a non-Turing-complete type systems. Maybe it's for a relevant reason?
Or the German stock market of 1914. An 1914 investor would have had to have held for 100 years to get his investment back.

The major point is that only looking at 90 years of American stock market returns is very serious cherry picking. We can get a lot more data by including non-American stock markets. The last century was a century of American ascendance. 100 years from now America still might be at the top, but I wouldn't take that bet. Even if it is, we won't get the gains we got from rising to the top.
> Imagine the same scene on mice. "Hey, are you tired of your ball mouse? Want an optical mouse? Well, the technology is cheap, but we're going to charge you $120, just because!!"

My, I better not tell you what a MX Master, G903 or Kone Pro Air retails for...

That said, I think you're asking too much if you expect a mk to cost about the same as a membrane keyboard; I think a 2x-3x price increase is totally reasonable considering that a membrane keyboard is trivial to assemble compared to one made of 102 individual switches, and that the production scale is so vastly different.

On the other side, I'm typing this on a Lenovo keyboard that's technically a membrane but it's so sturdy and clicky it feels pretty close to the brown-switch Cooler Master I have at home (which was definitely a cheaper mech, I think I paid $65 or so for it).
A bit off topic but I just want to thank you for such a great site. Just this morning I had been linked to it for a travel diary of LEJOG.
You are correct. You can still watch youtube videos on your roku. New subs to Youtube TV will not be able to get the Youtube TV app on roku going forward.
Google-led paper pushes back against claims of AI inefficiency