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The first sentence in your first link links to an announcement saying this:

> Android has always allowed people to get apps from multiple app stores. In fact, most Android devices ship with at least two app stores preinstalled, and consumers are able to install additional app stores. Each store is able to decide its own business model and consumer features. This openness means that even if a developer and Google do not agree on business terms the developer can still distribute on the Android platform. This is why Fortnite, for example, is available directly from Epic's store or from other app stores including Samsung's Galaxy App store.

The implication is that apps can choose to only publish in stores with more favorable IAP terms, not that each store is somehow eligible to a fixed percentage of the $120/yr fee for a costco membership that may or may not have originated within the app store's ecosystem. Otherwise, at a cut of 30% per store, an app would owe platforms 120% of subscription revenue to be on merely 4 stores, regardless of how the customer converted.
You may have misread my answer: I was not declaring that "egg" meant "ovum", I was saying that other people were.

The "egg" per Wikipedia, is the vessel that contains the developing chick. In that regard, it's analogous to the uterus.

Indeed, assuming we take "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" to mean "...or the chicken egg" (otherwise it's just a silly question, as dinosaurs had eggs), then we can make the analogy to "which came first, the human or the human uterus?"

That should clearly be trivial to answer: the first organism that we could call a "human" must have started developing before her uterus did. So the human came before the human uterus.

I'm saying that this is equivalent for a chicken egg. Since the "egg" is created 100% by the mother, albumen, yolk, shell and all, I'm saying it "belongs" to the mother, in the same way that a uterus belongs to a mammal mother. It's all her own cells.

Therefore, the first "chicken egg" had to be the one laid by the first chicken. So it comes after the chicken.
The fundamental difference is that we observe and interact with gases, electricity, heat and sound.

Dark matter is a plug. We observe the mass of galaxies and based on our understanding of gravity the galaxies should fly apart. The most parsimonious explanation is that there is a large amount of matter we don’t/can’t observe.

We don’t observe it and we don’t interact with it. While it’s the best explanation we currently have, it rankles to have to admit that the majority of the universe is made of something literally unobservable to us except through gravitational effects.
Supreme Court takes up a case that could legalize bribery
Sure, still much higher than one might think from walking around. Certainly surprised me

More a testament to the ubiquity of sprawl in the states than anything I think
> The impression I got was that there are no paid core developers for PostgreSQL, is that correct?

There are (I and several of my colleagues, for example) - but they're paid by employers having us work on postgres, rather than a foundation or such.

> If so, what's the best way to support the project financially?

There unfortunately - personal opinion, not as a core team member - is no good way to fund a "partial" developer for postgres right now.

On a smaller scale than employing a dedicated postgres developer, regularly testing the in-development release (and reporting bugs!), doing ad-hoc testing, patch review etc are a bit easier to start with.
Correct! I believe the term used in research is "time restricted feeding"
This is great, reminds me of a memory trick for recalling string names on a guitar.

E- Every
A- Acid
D- Dealer
G- Gets
B- Busted
E- Eventually
Is 7/11 infrastructure? Tens of millions of people use it to buy the products of providers in a market.
What is ClickHouse and why do all projects move to it?
Have you done a comparison with PostHog? I see a lot of people here recommending them also
It's not like google subscriptions
Please elaborate on the fraud problem. What moat do DD have?
It is ultimately better for the ecosystem (including developers) if people move on.

As soon as your hardware stops getting the next iPadOS version (for iPads this is like 6+ years after release), the clock starts ticking and you have perhaps a year while you can still trade it in for a meaningful value.
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> It's clear as day they know the minute they allowed alternatives, a giant fraction of the App Store would depart because they can get a better deal either elsewhere.

As an user of an iPhone I don't want this. I bought an iPhone because I deal with enough technology in my day to day job and I want a phone that's straightforward to use and doesn't need any attention. So no I don't want to install three app stores on my iPhone and have to deal with 20 different payment providers.

In the end it's important to make the distinction between consumer interests and the interest of businesses that want to sell their product on the iOS platform. I get that this sucks for developers because iOS is from what I've heard much more profitable than Android. In my opinion consumers interests should be weighed higher here and Apple's policies for the App store are mostly pro consumer, at least compared with the situation on different platforms.

Consumers that want a more open platform can always choose Android or Linux phones.
His book The Stars A New Way to See Them is highly recommended. If you ever wanted to learn the constellations, THIS is the book. As per the TFA, he replaces those crazy drawings of fish and gods, and the abstract line-connected dots, with cartoon like stick figure drawings that convey the images of the named constellations. His pictures greatly enhance your ability to find, and to learn, the constellations. I could only find one example of his constellations drawings to give you an idea of his approach [1].

[1]. http://codex99.com/illustration/the-stars.html

I learned the constellations this way, and feel I never would have learned them otherwise. I've since bought a copy of this this book for each of my children and plan to do the same for my grandchildren if/when they arrive.

Side note: What a joy it is to know the constellations! Once you know them, they cannot be unseen. You will recognize them at different elevations, or when they are tilted at an angle. You will see them appear and disappear with the changing seasons. When you travel, you will be surprised to find the familiar constellations in different places, or at different times of the night from what you are used to. It is one more part of the natural world that shouldn't be missed.
I have a pack of AAA Duracells I just went to open the other day which were "use by 2025" that I purchased just a few weeks ago, and one of the batteries in the middle of the fresh unopened pack was already leaking with one end fully encrusted with corrosion.
No, but I read "POSIX norms" as what commonly happens on Unix systems: the filenames you get back are what you put into it.

Most of them don't concern over character encoding and UTF-8 sequences are just as-is. ZFS is again the special case, the normalization property will normalize names on lookup (they are stored as-is).
I feel like you’re projecting your beliefs/values on me. We’ve never met, nor shared any interaction outside of this comment thread. I think it’s improbable that you have any sense for what’s in my heart or what I believe to be true.
Sure, computing as a whole is critical. Apple overwhelmingly is just doing consumer stuff. Servers, military, voting machines, you’re not likely to see that Apple logo.
Please explain how Japan did everything to the contrary of your comment and yet, ended up with lowest deaths in the world.

No lockdowns.
No vaccine passports.
No vaccine mandate.
No mask mandate.

Literally nothing.

Outcome: lowest incidence and lowest mortality in the world.

Seems like they've managed to protect the vulnerable without unnecessary panic attacks. Why?

Sweden also had no lockdowns, and two years in, has lowest excess mortality in Europe, and average on all other measures. Why?

Please show us with numbers how Japan and Sweden did much worse by refusing draconian measures.

Thanks.
Right, there are physical limitations to how physical states can be altered (density, speed, energy) with enough persistence against entropic decay. Persistence is an abstraction to push the renewal burden onto backup maintainers. I'd much rather see work directed towards a self-repairing style of persistence.
“I won’t work for less than $x” is fine.

“You can’t hire anyone else willing to work for less than $x” is extortionate. Competition is necessary for a market.
I have ten or so tantalizing questions which I don't know how to solve stuck in the back of my head at all times. Some of these are truly hopeless (i.e. P vs NP), others seem like something I can probably figure out but just haven't found the right perspective yet (these tend to be more obscure). This list of questions changes over time - sometimes problems actually get solved, sometimes I lose interest in them, sometimes I learn about a completely new area and add a bunch of new problems to my list of things to think about.

If I'm at a social gathering and the people are boring, I take out a piece of paper and start trying to visualize some aspect of a problem I've been stuck on for a while, or compute what happens in some particular special situation. In order to carry out the computations, I find myself making up paper-and-pencil algorithms, typically variations of dynamic programming with some specialized bookkeeping notation so that I can see at a glance what is going on on the paper. My scribbles probably only make sense to me - lots of bipartite graphs with labeled vertices, or directed graphs with decorations on their edges, or sequences of column vectors full of letters instead of numbers with groups of little dots underneath them, or attempts to draw small three-uniform hypergraphs...

Every so often I manage to rephrase one of the problems which is stuck in the back of my head in a new way. Then I think, hey, wait - maybe someone has studied this type of problem (i.e. the rephrased problem) before! I search around, and find some research area that is almost but not completely unlike what I was hoping for, and try to read some introductory material about it. Maybe I download a textbook on, say, "unification", and just read the chapter on "confluent rewriting systems", since I think those might help with the algebra problem I'm interested in. It doesn't, but it gives me a new pencil-and-paper algorithm to play with, so I fill up a blank piece of paper trying it out.

I also have an infinite backlog of books on math that is just plain interesting to me, but which I don't expect to find any use for. Things like advanced set theory, which is interesting from a philosophical point of view (how do we come to be convinced of new axioms? Is it possible to become convinced that "measurable cardinals" really exist?), or average case complexity (is providing a theoretical foundation to cryptography hopeless?), or statistical mechanics (what are all those physicists talking about when they bring up the "Ising model"?). I go through these at a much slower pace, sometimes only getting through the introduction before I have to put them to the side to focus on other things, but occasionally I get a solid two weeks of uninterrupted time to focus on one of these and blow through... well, the first two-thirds of a book, putting off the last third to some time when I actually need to know it.

About once a year, I'm in a situation (often a conference, sometimes an unusually interesting party) where there is someone else I can talk to about my interests.
Well, unless people get a viable theory explaining why the thing that is 80% of the Universe is missing on an entire galaxy, it challenges dark matter theories too.

They are just some not very well known bodies that may challenge all of our assumptions, or may fall in line with our theories once we get to know more about them. What is well, the best you can expect from new observations.
I have lived and worked in the US and I realised that the Australian culture is a better fit for me. I probably would have made more money in the US but that is not #1 on my list of what is important. The amount of misery, stress, and anxiety I saw every day in the US was not something I agreed with. Coming from a well functioning European country, it was a shock to me to see people begging in the streets. Before living in the US I had never seen a beggar “live”. Only on TV. It was a massive culture shock for me. Australia is a perfect blend of Europe and the US. Best of both in my opinion.
I believe the only two remaining candidates along these lines are MACHOs and relativistic neutrinos ("hot dark matter"), but I don't think either of them are considered likely among mainstream cosmologists anymore.
Cities definitely have tiers in China. I guess people use a similar system elsewhere?

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city for some tier rankings. They usually start with London and New York.
So far it has. The amount of co2 emitted by mining has gone up to match it’s adoption… is that supposed to stop somehow?
> Sure it's horrible optics and politics and yada yada but people should consider that the alternative (banning all trading as a member of congress) is potentially worse for open democracy.

"Murder is OK as long as it's committed in the town square" is a terrible policy. Lawmakers taking advantage of insider info, let alone upcoming regulatory changes, to make huge amounts of money while holding public office is straight-up antithetical to the purpose of being in Congress (the people). Want to make tons of money? Great, become a banker or a C-level or a lawyer in private practice, not a congresswoman.
DoJ goes after smaller fish too, but you don't hear much about that.
And a similar system used to be common for shearing: https://www.sheepcentral.com/wool-growers-support-call-to-ph...
Maybe. But they are already doing it:

https://infograficos.estadao.com.br/focas/por-minha-conta/ma...
"armchair" and "no real credentials"

fine if you want to call me an "amateur cosmologist with a few credentials"
The problem is in this case, no amount of blocking will work, because the site was completely broken without those, at least for me :-) Though I can reduce the amount of divulged info for sure, but the very fact they're using them means my order details likely go to third-parties, and it's impossible to prevent that because it relies on that reporting in the chain of logic (i.e. order won't proceed until a successful response from the advertising APIs).

The only technical way around that I can think of is to implement Signal's and other's API proxies and let it return back fake info to the site. But I'm not that obsessed about this issue :-)

Another over-the-top way is to place the order directly against CVS APIs, using their cookies etc. Again, not worth spending time on..
Japan had no lockdowns, no mask mandates, no vaccine passports, no vaccine mandates. None at all whatsoever from the start of the pandemic.

Lowest incidence and lowest mortality in the world from COVID.

What does this mean?
> Masks are nowhere near this level of effect size. Worrying about masks after vaccination is the ultimate bikeshed.

It's not a bikeshed; it's an easy, cheap action with added benefit, not a way to waste time dithering that impedes useful work.

Yes, it's much lower value than vaccination, but that only matters if you treat them as alternatives, which they aren't.
So rich scamming the poor?
What bills will be brought to the floor. What bills have the votes to pass. What bills do not. Access to confidential information which has not been released to the public. Etc. etc.

I'm honestly not sure what you want me to say. You're welcome to Google the issue for yourself and make a determination.
Honestly neuralink is a bigger joke than his other projects. Maybe it will go somewhere but its highly improbable, we simply don't understand the brain well enough to make an input/output device meaningful yet
The point of punishment is not to reduce crime. Revenge is the point. Im not saying you should make prisons harsher. Im saying if you want a societal revenge site. Just admit and optimize for that. Putting that right next to "reform this person" just hurts both endeavors.

Some people could really use removal from their environment and a fresh start where they get discipline and learn a way to be successful.(prison doesnt do this, and a one size fits all discipline approach causes problems too) Other people are just dangers to themselves and others. Mixing the two just damns the people who could be saved.
I've lived in Korea off-and-on over the past decade or so. Just go in visa-exempt and leave every 90 days to Japan or wherever for a weekend. I've never had any problems.

You're not going to be able to find a software job in Korea easily, and if you did, you probably wouldn't like the work culture. Just work remote or teach English if you need cash. If you want more info, just add me on Kakaotalk.
The only major difference between WPA2 and WPA3 (from what I've read, at least) is that it essentially negotiates unique keys for each device that connects to the access point. This adds a layer of security between devices that are already connected and authenticated to your router (i.e. devices you've input your WiFi password for), such that devices can't snoop on or inject packets into communications meant for other devices over the air. WPA3 also claims to provide forward secrecy by negotiating new keys for each connection, but from my own experience looking at intercepted WPA3 handshakes I've seen implementations reuse keys a few times.

Other than that, it's pretty much just WPA2--same AES encryption, key derivation and all that. If you're looking for a router that will provide solid security guarantees, I would recommend one that can be easily flashed with OpenWRT, DD-WRT or some other open source router firmware. Attacks to do with poorly written proprietary firmware are often far more likely (and severe) than the kinds of attacks that WPA3 would mitigate. (side note--OpenWRT supports WPA3, so that's a plus).
Religion provides community, it provides a spiritual outlet, it provides ritual, it provides comfort in the face of death.

There's many benefits and truths about religion that don't require an invisible man in the sky to exist.

That was acutually my original point.

TRUTH can be found in both atheism and theism.
> but a union rule forces them to pay everyone with that job description the same

Why would we advocate for this though? You keep making the claim that unions would advocate for more and more restrictive policies.

First it was guidelines, now it's strictly regimented salaries with no room for performance based pay at all.

You're generating objections because you keep changing your argument. Yes, paying everyone exactly the same is probably not a good idea. But no one is advocating for this, so who cares?
> At this point I’d be happy if Apple just let me install apps outside their ecosystem, then they could at least defend themselves by saying if the developers aren’t happy with the terms of the App Store they can offer alternative methods.

And, of course, you can also use a different smart phone ecosystem. Android makes it comparatively easier to sideload apps and mess with stuff.
Your 'hot take' is that politicians should continue making money on investments like they've been doing for decades?
We require companies to do things not in their interest all the time. My argument is that apple is violating anti trust laws, and the principles behind them, and is required but is not currently being compelled to do these things.
Mega, OneDrive
Don’t you think that they are getting a lot of information before you get it or can influence certain decisions in their favor?

In my view they need to out their money into a blind trust. If they don’t want to do that they shouldn’t run for office and a nice side effect would be that congress isn’t full of millionaires.
> No one is trying to get it for free. They are trying to get it for [significantly] less than 30%.

And Apple charges 30% for sales of digital goods on their platform. You're trying to get what Apple is selling without paying for it. Don't sell on their platform them -- do what Amazon does with Audible or what Netflix does.

> If it's so great to use Apple Pay (one click, easy to revoke payment -- sounds great!)

Because that isn't what Apple is charging for, users don't pay this fee -- publishers do. They're charging publishers for the privilege to sell to Apple customers. I'm sure users like the convenience, I do, but the fee isn't for me. You're absolutely right that it's not worth 30% to me. But it's absolutely worth 30% to you when the alternative is not being able to sell on iOS and Apple knows it.

It's nuts that in threads like this that people begrudgingly pay Apple's 30% fee while in the same breath saying that they're overcharging. Well clearly not since you're paying it. If they were actually overcharging then you wouldn't be complaining because you just wouldn't have an iOS app.
Does anyone know what's going on with iOS 14? I didn't upgrade because Apple said it would still be supported but there hasn't been any news in quite a while.
What if the tinderbox is the point?

It's easy to put down a rebellion of tens of thousands. Imagine how many decades of complete control they'll have out of that one useless act of rebellion.
If you’re running on AWS, you could have a look at https://ownstats.com
I wouldn't say I have a "stride" now. I don't write unless I personally feel the topic is interesting so it's tough to call my writing scheduled or disciplined.

Most of my posts go almost completely unread -- that's fine by me.
The website is lit! Looking forward to seeing more.
Apple doesn't have infinite resources.

> Is it unfair to expect Apple to behave better than others? In my opinion, no. Others might disagree.

Culturally, expect what every you want to expect. But legally, they should all have the same requirements.
Isn't the solve for this to store it on a decentralized storage network like Filecoin?!?
The behavior of light between materials is very interesting. In the below Fermilab video "Why does light bend when it enters glass?" several theories are explained which helped me understand the principals involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmpNM0sgYk

Can anyone suggest a good explainer on light reflection at a similar level to the Fermilab ones?
In fact it's evidence for dark matter, as we can now point to areas of space where we see it and areas where we don't; and baryons and leptons in those spaces behave as expected in the presence or absence of something with mass that doesn't otherwise interact, which is all that "dark matter" is as a broad theory.
Apple should not be entitled to any transaction that happens on the phone. They don't get a cut of money I move through my banks app. Anything I buy on the Amazon app. Do they get 30% of my water bill I pay? Again if something is being bought through the app store, like a game, an app, etc sure. But if your app is about a service that exists completely beyond apple, they should get nothing. Imagine comcast asking for 30% because it happened between your internet provider and an online store.
Japan did not do anything. literally nothing, no lockdowns or mandates of any sort.

They have lowest mortality from COVID. What if the right policy all along was to do nothing?
Yeah, that was the motivation. I had just leaned about the concepts of higher dimensional spaces, and learned about that from some history channel space documentary, and wanted to see what a gravitational field would look like at a 4d offset, naively assuming that it would follow the same strength vs distance relation.