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> Can someone ELI5 why Apple is considered to be anti-competitive for not dedicating resources to assisting another business

(emphasis mine)

Nobody said anything about Apple assisting other businesses. They could easily just let everything be, but instead, Apple is going out of their way to prevent competition.

Imagine if your favorite Linux distro only allowed you to install software from their package repos, and you had to jump through tons of hoops to install software from outside their repos, and adding other repos was impossible.

I know you'd say "I'd just switch distros!", but in the mobile world, you effectively only have two choices.
> Oracle it not that bad anyway, it's just stupidly expensive.

Full of bugs, some that destroy speed, some that destroy data, some that just make a feature that you need unusable. More heavyweight than lead (although it gets fast after you throw enough hardware). Lacking any capable or usable management interface (but then, that excludes everyone except for postgres and mysql). Impossible to program. Impossible to predict how your program will run.... And my favorite, absolutely fragile, any wrong code you run there can take everything out of the air.

And yeah, stupidly expensive and comes with the Oracle legal team.
Does it replicate the same kind of "evil" bugs as in the article, or does it provide an improvement?
Yet you are ok with your Microwave/Washing Machine/Car etc being supplied as a software/hardware combination...
Natural immunity, or any discussion of our immune system doing its job, is a right wing talking point.
Players use Microsoft Flight Simulator to fly through Hurricane Ida in real time
What pain points do you see with Amazon ES, if I may ask? I'm considering migrating to it.
Ironically, in that book a nuclear power station is a plot device and the key to humanity's survival.
It was pretty genius from Epic, they knew they'd get banned, but it instantly showed how the consumer is harmed by this behavior (pay more, get less).

Every mobile game with a cash store would instantly give you a discount to go through a different provider.
Tim Cook on Tim Sweeney: “Is this the guy that was at one of our rehearsals?”
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>The point is, no insurance is just going to say you pay next to nothing because of... Instead, they will say you are in the lowest risk category, and here's your rate.

It was never claimed that the insurance would cost nothing. There are, of course, uncountable health risks that are still in play.

>Big Tobacco was sued and lost in court, so they are easy to "pick on". Nobody has sued Big Sugar.

I do not know what this has to do with anything, nor what "sued in court" means as specific lawsuits have specific claims. It is correct that tobacco was separated probably because, politically, it is difficult to argue that people should pay for other people's smoking. And that is my point, that the risks we choose to subsidize and not subsidize are based on politics.

Hence, alcohol and sugar get a pass because lots of voters like those and want the smaller portion of people who do not consume as much alcohol and sugar to pick up the tab for those who cannot. Smokers do not have the numbers to result in sufficient political power to force others to pick up that tab.

>We've already seen what strict rules on alcohol does to the country, and doubtful anyone is ready to do that again.

I never claimed society should stop anyone from consuming alcohol or sugar.
I just am up front that I like having multiple girlfriends. Also that I don't date anyone or do anything that would upset whoever I am already with. I.e. I am open and honest, am able to commit, and am loyal when I do.

It has not been an impediment. Obviously some ladies would never share. But it is surprising how many will if they really like you, like who you are with, and it is factored into who you are from the beginning.
Well, I'm not sure they have a choice! :)

My original point was I believe it has to do with their life and schooling in China, not so much social media apps.
That's a video by a British YouTuber, who has entertaining videos with quite often interesting perspectives, but who I think is quite biased in favor of a rosy British perspective.

I don't think he's a good example for attitudes of _French_ people towards their own history, which us what this thread is about.
For context, Netflix was getting 15% in some markets and that was not enough to keep them on IAP.
have used airbnb's planner - it's great. Admittedly, not in the past year - but then I haven't travelled, either.
>Grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Anthony Fauci. The award to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization which studies the spread of viruses from animals to humans, included subawards to Wuhan Institute of Virology and East China Normal University. The principal investigator on the grant is EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, who has been a key voice in the search for Covid-19’s origins.
What makes you dread going to work? I used to have that experience a lot, and in my last couple of jobs I finally figured out how to set expectations clearly and know my boundaries, and it’s almost completely disappeared.

What do you key off that makes you not want a job? Is it possible you’re filtering too hard up front and excluding things that could be a good social fit?
Just FYI, no amount of coercive mandates and force applied against your fellow human beings to make them take these shots, which are marginally protective against transmission at best, will actually do anything to make you safer from Covid or reduce your paralyzing fear of it. TPTB will continue to menace you with the specter of The Virus as long as it is making you behave in ways useful to them -- namely, by handing them more power.
Recreating Xkcd comic with tweet-size algorithm: U.S. Namesake Cities
No. There's only an LLC who's bylaws state that the managing member is whoever the holder of record on the blockchain is. Effective transfer of the property is affected purely in crypto space through transfer of the NFT, possibly within a smart contract.

(Of course the smart contract can be coded with the option to defer to a human arbitrator in the case of dispute, but that doesn't even have to be a duly appointed judge. It's just an address on the blockchain that we point to. Almost certainly we'd pick an arbitrator that respects crypto title.)

The only way for the fiat legal system to pierce this scheme is to either invalidate the LLC in the Wyoming court system or to directly appropriate title to the real property from the LLC in the local county. Both are pretty unlikely.
Yup. As a consumer, Apple's IAP and Apple Pay driven experience is pretty darn good. I wish their business didn't revolve around subscriptions as much, but at the very least it does make purchasing really easy as a consumer.
The were very real concerns within the apartheid government about a racial civil war: not everyone in the government was convinced that ending apartheid was a great idea.

You also have to remember why the apartheid government developed the nuclear/bio/chemical programs in the first place, and who they considered to be their enemies - looking at the range of the respective payload delivery platforms (or lack thereof) should give you a hint.

> Tribal dynamics are still a very real thing there[...]

...and the apartheid intelligence apparatus fanned those flames of division to the bitter end, by supporting, and providing training for the IFP militia[1] to put the ANC on the back foot.

> [...] it's not inconceivable that a leader might decide to slime those jerks across the way that have been rivals since well before colonists showed up.

The apartheid government didn't consider black people to be citizens of South Africa, instead, they were regarded as citizens of balkanized Bantustans which were supposedly sovereign enclaves, divided by tribe, and forcibly moved (by the apartheid government). I have great difficulty believing the same apartheid government was motivated to denuclearize in order to avoid inter-tribal strife.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Marion
I don’t work with Microsoft stuff as much anymore, but my big beefs with Microsoft product documentation are:

- It is was often unclear what version of the “thing” was in scope. An article from product version X will reference X-1 documention.

- Microsoft will gaslight you. If you interact with them on a significant issue, you need to snapshot their product docs. I’ve worked with Premier on issues when pushing products to the edge of their limits, and the product group will edit the product specs in near real-time.
I just watched the Edmunds review of the Plaid's acceleration in drag race mode. The car spends about 20 minutes cooling the batteries and then it drops the front suspension (launch control or something?) and happily accelerates from 0 to 60 in around 2 seconds.

This is just a toy for rich people to allow them to waste resources faster. I understand the desire, but straight-line performance is about the least interesting thing in a car (to me)- I'd rather have an underpowered miata with excellent handling.
Virtual Machine Dispatch Experiments in Rust
Yeah, I would be perfectly willing to set up subscriptions through Stripe if they gave me a way to manage all those subscriptions in one place.

My worry with the "anti-steering" requirement being removed is that every company will redirect me back to their own website with their own payment system, and I'll have to manage all of them individually, or phone up their call center to try and get anything cancelled.

Easy to avoid by not subscribing to anything, but every app seems to be trending that way.
She tweeted about making the dean's list (or similar) at her law school, so perhaps not.
A very simple step in the right direction would be to create more places where the exchange of money for goods and services is not a requirement for attendance. It sucks to be too poor to go to the library 8 miles away because you can't afford the bus pass.
>you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

There's no way I'm turning kids loose on a spreadsheet to tally their votes for a Disney vacation.
The Surprisingly Strong Supreme Court Precedent Supporting Vaccine Mandates
> theories about things like the “mark of the beast”

My hope is their anti-vax research eventually leads them to learning about DNA.
The GP you are replying to provided a citation for their claim. Please provide one for your claim as well.
Yeah. It’ll probably morph into something between a trade and a secretary tier position, where you receive orders from a business analyst, expand on then and feed them into a language model which does the actual programming. Right after that the business analyst does that too and finally their job is also automated.

I expect this to destroy the “gig economy” of freelancers too, but only after existing programmers are forced out of normal employment and into “freelancing” with drastically reduced negotation power and workplace protections.

All the technical depth and fun is going to be removed unless you’re one of the very few most elite human programmers.

It breaks my heart seeing this happen but I can’t do anything about it.
My advice to everyone is to grift their way into a startup, get as much equity as you can, sell it and retire early.
With UBI coming in 10 or 20 years it shouldn’t be too hard.
They're the kind people engage with. There's obviously a lot more astroturfing and disinformation, but most corporate marketing on twitter is done by humans. Steak-Umm, Oreo, Microsoft, Wendy's, even indie game publishers have a human running their accounts.
No, they just want repeat customers.
Something like https://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/ ?

I wonder if there are other RBLs worth subscribing to and blocking.

As an end user with a compromised device, it might be frustrating though... but then they probably should know and do something about it.
I'm surprised a "sales guy" is asking for equity instead of asking for more commission. I'm possibly _more_ surprised you aren't sure how to respond.

What is the value of equity in a lifestyle business? You, as the business owner, are the only one who can answer that. Does equity mean profit sharing? Or are you planning to sell the business or IPO someday? ("lifestyle", to me, suggests the answer is "no")

Did you ask why he wants equity?
The thing that kills me about Oracle is that since the license does not allow benchmarking, we (or at least I) don't know how it actually stacks up to the competition. Of course, that's the idea, but it would be cool to have that data.
> vs saying a whole ‘sentence’ in one go (fast and natural but you’re probably going to have to go back and edit/try again)

"probably going to have to go back and edit" is generally not the case with my Conformer model, which allows fast paced usage like this with practice: https://twitter.com/lunixbochs/status/1378159234861264896
The article said that the ceo was involved in shooting up a synagog... soooo.... kind of hard to defend as 'striving to do better'
Stripe provides a lot of tooling ( more than apple) for compliance. Apple is hardly the only payment provider which simplifies payment processing for small developers.
Which basket?
It's the very first paragraph.

>In April 2020, news broke that Banjo CEO Damien Patton ... pled guilty to involvement in a 1990 shooting attack on a synagogue in Tennessee.
I am not claiming this is the case, only pointing out a subtle difference between “maintain a standard of living…make a better life for your kids” and “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”

The former is self-concern, the latter is dividing the world into whites and non-whites. similar to japanese people making a distinction between japanese and non-japanese, it is not automatically supremacist, but being concerned for the survival of your race (or preferring politics that keeps your nation and your race aligned) does seem awfully close to thinking that it’s better to keep your race in charge.

so to me, i would need someone to explain how being white nationalist is distinct from white supremacy. is a nationalist just concerned with whites becoming a minority? why, if not the assumption of superiority?
I mean everyone's assuming that non-IAP subscriptions are going to be 30% cheaper but I don't really buy it. If the market has proven that someone will pay $10 for a thing, suddenly offering it for $7 seems like a bad business move.
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This all pales in comparison to the mandate Biden announced last night for all healthcare staff at facilities which take Medicare/Medicaid to be required to take the vaccine. Probably a good 20% of our nursing staff is at direct risk of being lost because of that new measure.
That's still a skill I'm trying to get used to. For work emails, I've for some reason trained myself to add a bunch of fluff at the beginning and ending of emails.

For last ~year or so, I've been trying to get more into the habit of keeping my emails extremely utilitarian, e.g. bullets of my questions, bullets of what I need, and maybe the best way to get ahold of me.
Still, only 2 states have the power to unleash universal destruction - all the others have delivery systems but they don't have much quantity, so their weapons are essentially a deterrent force that can be used to either retaliate for a nuclear attack (thus, hopefully, preventing one) or used in an ultimatum to prevent invasion of their homeland or capitulation, but that's it, they can do extreme harm to the target, killing millions of civilians, but they can't eliminate an opponent state the way USA or Russia can.
Not necessarily. I think a belligerent alien civilization might be frequently warring amongst themselves, driving various factions to flee their planet/system/local group. If transport and hiding were easier than seeking out and killing those factions, such a civilization would spread quickly, driven by their belligerence.
As I understand it, the footnote about confidentiality does not supersede state law that employees may discuss their mistreatment publicly.
This type of placement scoring is almost never done via security cameras. The CV and data storage costs required for that to work at scale would be enormous.

It’s much easier and cheaper to just record what shelve/height/area products are placed in and reconcile that data with sales. The data will be more noisy, but you can capture so much more valuable information for the same investment. You can also usually apply the models in retrospect, since most larger chains already record where products are supposed to be.

Cameras are really only used at corporate test stores in small numbers. Camera data is usually looked at manually and only focuses on a specific product or area.
They already do, at least in commercial settings.

But this article is about foveated rendering that is able to track eye movement to keep the hi-res area under focus. The eye-tracking tech is the least interesting part of it!
> Empty strings are equivalent to null.

No, they are not. Empty strings are completely different from null, and if you go returning them or testing for equality, everything will break by random some single-digit percent of the time. The same for concatenating, taking the length or iterating.

I imagine there's some deterministic procedure to decide what leads to an empty string and what leads to null. The one thing I know is that if you insert it on a table, you will always get null.
> Are you willing to spend 27% more for everything

This makes what is, IMO, an unjustified assumption: that competition in the payment scene will drive prices down for the same item based on payment method.

Instead, I think we'll see the same thing we see with the cash/credit card split: The same price regardless of your payment method, with price differences lining the publisher's pockets.
For the entire healthcare sector? Maybe.

For pharmaceutical companies? In comparison to a liability-free, recurring subscription, mandated by the federal government for hundreds of millions? Not so much.
Would it be a violation?
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Tuon mukaan koivunlehtiä pitää syödä 1.1 kiloa elinvoimat ylläpitävan (5 MJ) energian saamiseksi, eli olisi hieman parempi kuin pettu. Ei hullumpi (108 kcal/100g) Noin suurta määrää ei suositella.
Haha, actually I had an episode of BPPV myself, not related to my VR work. Triggered by a day of snorkeling, of all things.
If you're counting on acquiring immunity naturally consider this:

1. You got sick and now you have antibodies but your internal organs, like lungs are scarred. You'd have likely avoided some if not all of that damage if you were vaccinated.

2. Your immune system might be targeting parts of the virus that are less universal across virus' mutations so it gives you less or little immunity against mutants. mRNA vaccine is specifically targeting the spike protein which so far has been unchanged enough for vaccines to be more or less effective against mutations.
I think that type of writing is more like digestion... the author is enriched by the process, but the product is not fit for consumption.

I think most journaling falls under this category -- there is a reason it is called a "brain dump", heh.
A bunch of ape NFTs just sold for $24.4M
The exception to their statements above is if you use Apple Pay however
Web pages which are accessible without a login are public.

So are advertisements posted on the street outside your house.
It is somewhat arbitrary; yeah, smart phones can run whatever, but practically, they don't.

For many reasons, the vast majority of people stick with the OS a device ships with, and mobile OSes are directed towards app stores and limited filesystems, and desktop OSes are directed towards applications (with a side of app stores) and visible filesystems and what not.

You can run Android on a desktop PC, and you can (if you try really hard) run desktop Windows on a phone or a game console, but that's not how the devices are generally sold, and that's not how the devices are generally used. Apple sometimes claims their tablets are as useful as a computer running a desktop OS, but they don't provide Xcode for the iPad, do they?
Waze is also great at flickering in your periphery when you come to a stop.

Waze used to be good, like 11 years ago.
This counterpoint is also explicitly called out in GP's post:

> You might be thinking "Well that's just him, or people who are weird like him." but it turns out that other people often benefit from the same accommodations as disabled people, only less so. You can look up the term "curb cuts".