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How does buying an android fix the issues surrounding the green bubble? How does buying an android let you use an apple watch? How does buying an android fix all the cross dependencies of super apps that would be utilised between android and iphones?

To fix the apple issue in the US you don't need to buy 1 android phone you need to buy 175 million of them (and, to apple's credit, not the cheaper ones if you want to match apple performance)... or you could enforce the law to curtail the more aggregious of apple's anti-competitive behaviours.

Sure, but twitter is not financialy stable and if it goes bankrupt then it's not Musk who decides what to do with a gifted x.com; it's used in a way that makes twitter the most value for the shareholders not the majority shareholeder. And as i said (with reguard to wework) if it's not gifted and with the knowledge of the abuses that a shareholder who is lending(and by lending i mean any convoluted contract that leaves Musk in control of it) a company a key asset can inflict on a company, then it's easy for minority shareholders to sue or even agencies to step in.

I expect he's kind of buggered there. He likes the X name for more than just twitter so he won't want to lose control of it. At the same time twitter would be hard pressed to justify using a domain they don't control especially after the wework scandal (or a small part of it) about the same thing.

I'd bet the 'scrubs' making AI art are enjoying it so to twist your words why would you force them to do the do work they don't enjoy (learning to paint) to get the part they do. You obviously wouldn't decry a painter for not making their art by carving marble or the Mona Lisa for not being as big as The Creation of Adam (funilly enough the Mona Lisa took longer to paint). Though I do feel for the 'real artists' who probably aren't enjoying being forced by economic considerations to output what they view as crap quality using those tools.

Having said that I bet you're seeing many more developers creating AI art stuff because frankly there are many more developers who enjoy making art and being creative that than there are developers who enjoy creating AI CPA or AI citation stuff. So the getting-rid-of-unenjoyable-work-AI stuff is mainly being made by those seeking a profit and it's naturally much less open as they'll sell it as soloutions to those seeking it.

Apples argument that they're complying is about as brilliant as "I don't need a liquor license because I'm not selling beer I'm renting glassess for the time it takes to drink a beer". The only way to get into 3rd party stores is to pay (or be at risk of having to pay) Apple which is not the case if you only distribute through the Apple store, this clearly disadvantages 3rd party stores in comparrison to their own store.

>Any apps distributed through third parties pay their own CTF if they meet the threshold.

But that cost to free apps means that useful free apps won't sign up to the program, and therefore won't be available in the third party stores. It's a distinction without a difference. While I'm sure Apple will argue the distinction when they get pulled up on this, it's pretty obvious that the EU is expecting viable 3rd party stores and Apple will be forced to deliver it. The more they screw around the more likely that EU will set stronger regulations with less discretion on implementation.

An iphone seperated from the mac business would either need to run it's own icloud that is open to other companies (e.g. mac if it still wants to sync with mac) or it needs to use 3rd party integrations (e.g. icloud if it's its own company or still part of mac). In one case iphone is making more money and is more open in the other it's spending more money and is more open (which is which; who knows) in either case mac and iphones incentives are no longer aligned on keeping a closed icloud and one (or both) of the products would likely become more open which is good for customers and the whole point of anti-trust.

The sucess of iPhone/mac/icloud doesn't really factor into it (some of them will shrink and some will do better as they're not subsidizing other parts of Apple or can canibalize other parts of Apple's market). You'd be right in asserting the success of Apple is a factor, as those who are arguing for such a seperation would say, it's making outsized profits by not competing fairly in several of the markets it's in.

In that spirit of horrendous stories that make you want to support laws on your right to own the physical hardware you bought: have you heard about the airbag for bikers that is subscription only and doesn't activate if your subscription is not up to date.

https://jalopnik.com/this-dystopian-biker-airbag-crash-vest-...

I'd just like a DRM filter on steam. You can filter out free to play and DLC so they never appear on the store page. It would be great if you could also filter out DRM (even by type if they're feeling motivated).

Then i'd bet if they gave the publisher statistics on how many people never see their game because it contains denuvo or a 3rd party launcher you'd see meanigful change, and if not then at least the store is nicer for the steam customers who care about it.

There's also some weight in the word senior as that can also be referring to someone who's moved up within paybands within the same jobtitle as well as the (now less certain) expectation that someone who continues to work at the same place will get promotions to more senior positions as they show they're capable of them.

The closest I can come up with:

"Singapore on the Thames"

But I'd assume it's more remainers pointing out that GB wouldn't be like Norway or Switzerland being dismissed as "Project Fear" and rembering the double negative as a positve affirmation by the brexit shysters.

To reply just as flippantly: We could take the same aproach to alcohol and gambling, drop all age restrictions and put all the responsibility on the parents, then businesses will truly be able to run efficiently.

Of course good parents have to be involved in raising there kids well but that doesn't mean we shouldn't subsidide education or restrict companies from sending kids down coal mines(even if they really want the money). Mostly because good parents can fail and bad parents exist and if society isn't going to aim for turning kids into good adults then it'll just get worse generation on generation.

As to 1) The prisoners dillema is a pretty basic example of how the best possible co-ordinated action is not necesarily the best possible individual action. i.e.

other kids not on social media/ your kid not on social media Δ0 happiness

other kids not on social media/ your kid on social media Δ-3 happiness

other kids on social media/ your kid on social media Δ-10 happiness

other kids on social media/ your kid not not social media Δ-50 happiness

Maybe some form of co-ordination might be in the parents best interest... maybe some form of representative could do something about it if it's in the kids best interest?

The meat used to be much cheaper (at least local to NZ) when sheep were farmed primarily for their wool rather than meat. Basically each ewe could give you 5 or 6 rounds of lambs that were surplus to keeping the population stable and they'd mostly be timed for spring when pasture was productive enough for the extra livestock.

You'll hear plenty of hikers complain about hikers if they are also creating unwanted noise (usually from portable bluetooth speaker).

While unprecedented can mean unexpected or out of the norm it can also mean never before seen/done. So technically yes every point on the predictable upwards trendline is an unprecedented amount when we reach it in actuality.

Even assuming that HN readers may feel the word is emotive it's pointless to quibble about it when realistically any discussion about the details of climate change are going to be more emotive with such clinically correct terms as "climate refugees", "ocean acidification", "deadly heatwaves", "longest cyclone season", "3rd once in a century storm in the last decade".

That might be acceptable if no thought went into the combination of the two things.

I accept people must work at height. I accept that people occasionally fall over by accident. We have guard rails and harnesses so that I don't have to accept people falling to their death every time they trip at height.

For example it wouldn't be ridiculous to think that if the browser is tightly coupled with the OS (to the point that it doesn't change when you set the default browser) that you can have the embedded browser opened with a no nag/no ad flag set.

While I think a proposed "inbound fees" soloution is a ridiculous one other countries do not have spam calls figured out.

The reason it happens so much more in the U.S. more than other countries is the ease of exfiltrating money from an enviroment where on average you can get a wealthy target (relatively, even if someone is living paycheck to paycheck if they're paying $4000 in rent it's a pretty big paycheck worth targeting). If the US starts to get on top of spam calling there's a very real chance that the countries it doesn't happen often in will 'enjoy' a similar level of spam as established scammers retarget their efforts.

The good news is the US telcos are forced to do a lot of the heavy lifting in forcing foreign telcos they connect with to begin using SHAKEN/STIR protocols. This means that other countries (which are in just as bad a technical position as the US) will be able to pass similar regulation on their telcos, without having to worry about accidentally forcing them to cut off entire other countries, as most legitimate telcos will have cut their teeth while dealing with the US telcos.

N.B. SHAKEN/STIR protocol requirements basically means that you can identify a call and say to a foreign connecting telco "Here are these identifiable calls that are a problem, I'm sure it's not you so go talk to the smaller telco you provide services for that you can identify with these number (even if we can't) because we don't want to be forced to cut you off". It basically removes the deniability of "Well we've got 10 smaller sub telcos servicing the country/countries and no system implemented to tell which of the 10 is selling to bad actors" because it enforces having a system going out and if your not getting your sub telcos to use shaken/stir on the way in you're the problem.

I mean that's one of the reasons keto is so popular. For a lot of people they manage to lose weight while being able to enjoy what they eat while they'd have trouble sticking to better diets. There's obviously draw backs and if they eat only bacon a keto diet isn't going to help them but if they do keto "right" it's an improvement for them.

Giving alternatives to marginally improve might be more useful than a tough love aproach of saying "Since you know the best thing to do, if you don't want to do it that's on you".

In that vein some things that may improve the amount of exercise you do:

Joining social sports club, the focus may be more on wining/improving skills/social aspect than exercise and so may help take focus off the unenjoyable part and a commitment to your group/team/opponent may be more motivating than a commitment to themselves for some people.

Walking/cycling desk setup. An initial outlay in cost but if it's there and you're doing it while concentrating on something else it might be a significant improvement.

Setting an alarm/timer to do a set of weights or squats every hour or so, stops your muscles atrophing if nothing else and will mean when you do purposfully exercise your not immediately discouraged by how sore you are 1 minute into it.

Any everyday routine you can more easily force into your day. Maybe a jog around the block/up and down apartment stairs before your morning shower. Or join the gym that is along your commute rather than the cheaper one that you need to purposefully drive/walk to. Maybe you listen to a chapter of audiobook while doing pallates as soon as you get home. Forming a habit has the highest initial cognitive load, quite often it's easier(not easy) to tie it to the begining of or end of another action you do everyday than it is to do something at a specific time.

Don't let best be the enemy of better.

I'd argue, that with more polarized disussion and team politics, there's more cognitive disonance simply because people have strong beliefs about topics they are less informed (or disinformed) about. As analogies are great for highlighting discrepencies in belief they are more offensive (in that they cause negative feelings) to a person considering them.

A more noble alternative is that the level of internet discourse has become so much more refined these days that if you simplify a new position to an old analogy you're just retreading old "solved" ground rather than discussing the nuances that make this particular topic business as usual/the end of society. To be fair most people are anti shooting babies and pro killing harmful parasites but neither of those analogies are particuarly novel or useful in an abortion discussion unless it's the first time you've considered the topic.

We've been using previous equivalents of DCPL3551CDW and MFCL3770CDW in work site container offices for basic printing/scanning not much seems to have changed from the previous models in that use case and the latest (installed last month) seems as solid as previous iterations.

The more abused ones (plenty of dust from gravel lots and probably takes a meter tumble every 6-12 months (not that we'd be told about it)) last 2-3ish years before something get finicky enough on them that replacing them makes sense. The ones in the more cared for areas haven't had an issue and have only been replaced because site managerials want a newer printer when the mistreated printers are 5-6 years newer than theirs (but no actual issue with the printer).

I can say that quality hasn't changed noticeably from what I have seen in this narrow band of their products and that these machnies have done well and lasted longer than other ocassional cheap printer we've put in for whatever reason. I'd extrapolate from that to say ten years in a home office printing a few pages a week should be easy for them (Though maybe there's a part that gives up the ghost after 7 years that I don't see pop up in our use case).

Can't comment on linux support.

To comply with section 24(2) of the DSA. You need to publish that information about your number of EU users.

Currently there's no strict rules on how you calculate or even necessarily the information you publish. Other than saying based on your calculation your number of users is below 45 million (in the EU). In the future there will be delegated articles on how the calculation must be done.

Obviously the regulation was made in comitee with team of lawyers but I expect the justification for "Why should a corporation have to disclose MAU?" is something like:

* The majority of businesses will with minimal work be able to tell the difference between having under say 4 million EU usere and having 45 million eureopean users so they'll know if they're in a range where they should be concerned about the regulations.

* If they're getting to a size where they have millions of users (in europe alone) they should have the resources to put in place logging/policy to figure out if they're approaching the 45 million EU users with more confidence.

* By making them publish a statement saying they've done what they believe is due dilligence on making sure the rules don't apply then enforcement becomes much easier. Auditing only needs to be done randomly on a handful of sites that declare they're just under the limit and on those who look like they are taking the piss saying they're well below the limit or seem to be growing but keep saying they're just under the limit declaration after declaration.

So these numbers are shown in Apple's case because it's in a companies best interest to show they're acting in good faith in working out these numbers (Especially since in Apple's case they're trying to differentiate the services so that they can try to reserve the right to not apply the DSA to some of those services in a possible future). Stating a number (or that you're well below the user limit) implies you've done a real calculation (i.e. I only get 44 million site visits from anywhere in the world every 6 months so I can't have 45 million EU users) and in the case of an audit where it's not the case shows you were acting maliciously/with gross negligence/with a calculation tha needs to be changed, making any enforcement much more justifiable.

The major issue is we know the minimal least effort steps involved to keep these things working aren't hard.

Release a firmware update that updates the device to only point to ips/domains in the private range as it's new control/update/whatever server and update any security certs to a new releasable one.

Then open source the server software if not still in use, or roll back the firmware the x number of years to the point were the requirements to maintain the device started diverging and release that version of the updated old firmware/old server source.

There's no ongoing cost to the company and people can continue to use their devices if they wish to put in the effort to maintain it. I mean I'm not up in arms about this case, but it's such a common story about how device/software is no longer usable because finance wants to turn off a server that it should be SOP in every sunset plan. I'd go so far as saying it should be regulated as the minimum.

As the saying goes "Good lawyers tell you why you shouldn't do something, great lawyers tell you how you can."

The GPU passthrough is relevant because it means that you don't need to build out a whole machine for just windows to isolate it. Instead you put a GPU in either your server (or your main machine) pass it through to a windows VM and then stream from it (through something like steam big picture, nvdia streaming, sunlight/moonlight, etc) knowing that the only info Microsoft slurps up is gaming related. You can even isolate windows from the internet if your gaming habits don't require it.

There is a pretty big "experimental" scene with small and ultra light airplanes. Experimental here basically meaning you can't use it for comercial. So mostly because of the costs of certification and liabilities involved and how the segment of the market is lifestyle/hobyists you end up with a lot of nice modern small planes that only the owner/syndicate flies and only for personal flights.

There's plenty of neat little planes out there, my favorite was basically the go cart equivalent of a jet that I saw at our club airport. Something like this https://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=92070

There's advantages to both terms. Bus factor maintains the (possible) fiction that people care about their coworkers/bosses enough that they'd transition out if they had the choice. Bus factor highlights that there's no way to get that information even if the person is nice enough to help for effectively free.

Gender is a social construct in that various 'gender typical behaviours' don't necessarily correlate with sex between cultures. That implies it is a learnt behaviour.

In a society where someone of the male sex is pressureed to be male gendered there will be a larger correlation between gender and sex. Which would mean miracle balding cures would do better targeting the male gender if they don't have the inofrmation to target the male sex.

I haven't suffered from this but anecdotally proper calibration as well as better tracking and frame rate do have a significant effect on whether people suffer such side effects. The Quest series (which if it was bought to a party is my guess on what was used) are great value for money and are competent VR devices (and leading in some ways) but they make compromises to achieve this and I wouldn't rule out the ability to comfortably use VR based on a bad experience with such a device.

Having said that I'd agree network effects for personal uptake are killed by "Just spend 3x as much on the headset and peripherals and have a computer that cost 4x as much and you can use it in a dedicated room you've set up your tracking lighthouses in".

Back in the early 2000s so long as you were buying two or more copies of Adobe Photoshop it cost as much to hop on a 28 hour round trip plane ride from NZ to the US to buy those copies rather than purchase and download the software off Adobe's website (which was geolocked and priced to match the only local physical distributor).

With physical goods price discrimination is limited by arbitrage opportunity in moving the good from one country to another. With intellectual property licensing can tie a good to a location which means that the price discrimination can effectively be any amount.

My personal opinion is regulation should proscribe the price discrimination past some multiple of purchasing parity to curtail the worst possible abuses. Having said that it's not a major real world problem while piracy remains as an outlet for abused markets.