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The first sentences are this:

France fines Apple €25 million for slowing iPhone software

France's consumer watchdog slapped on the fine two years after Apple admitted its iOS software slowed down the performance of older phones.

Then a huge photo.

The failure to notify thing is fine - Apple should notify folks that

a) they may be using a non-apple battery if they can detect that - was a common scam to replace the battery with a junker just before resale to show full battery for those checking

b) showing battery life for batteries they know are legit

c) warning users (and/or giving the user an option) to extend battery life by running phone slower.

Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices.

Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this regulation. These types of things don't recognize that phone design is a CONSTANT power management / speed tradeoff. If you demand things run 100% speed at all times - poof - your batter life is gone.

Hiring bias litigation is common and expensive in other states.

The advice you will get on HR side is because no binding arb. agreement is in place you are exposed to full litigation efforts including attorney fees.

These can involve disparate effect or implicit bias - which can be difficult to defend against.

I got paid as a consultant a lot for short term offsite projects -> then they want to hire you. So the random gigs can sometimes be a take home interview. I liked it because if I didn't enjoy working somewhere I could tell them I was busy with my other projects and we'd end on good terms.

80% of the time this is not true. But 20% of time it is. That's often enough to scare folks away.

which makes it even worse - if you interview 20 people, and 1 in 20 is a media rampager - every time you provide feedback on a hiring cycle you will have a rampage.

I think they've got SpaceX confused with the SLS system - now that has sucked up billions for zero launches.

Huh? Medicine is highly regulated. If this was a market you would have hospitals posting prices and negotiating with customers directly on price / quality.

Instead health plans market to EMPLOYERS (not the consumers of the actual product). Trust me - the service there is pretty amazing! Tax law is designed to in many cases benefit these employer negotiated plans.

What is this product?

When people cold call me to sell me investment advice I hang up.

When I get a betterment / personal capital / fidelity advert in my feed talking about their new whatever, I'm at least mildly interested and sometimes click through.

Do people really fall for the boiler room stuff still - it's VERY hard to believe that beats google / facebook / instagram (for product sales) etc

These are the scammers that would report 4,000 5 star reviews for tiny law firms supposedly handling high end ip matters? It was a total scam set of ratings (they claimed to just use top 5% of firms as well but the “ratings” they claimed users left were garbage) - their transparency might have to be “we were caught making up reviews of attorneys on our site”? Don’t know details but someone could find a bar complaint or lawsuit I think

My laptop has USB-C charging and already the cable doesn't fit properly ($1,200 machine). I've tried cleaning it and blasting it with air - so annoying. Have on-site service so may have them come out to figure out what is going on.

Agreed - I'm curious how they are able to globally deploy so quickly where others (apple / tom tom) take FOREVER to update.

Do they just have someone ground truth with satellite and street view? They do have that data for most of the corrections I make (which are frankly rare).

Look at your most used apps - none of them are "responsive pages". That should tell you something. Folks who have tried responsive pages haven't done that well.

I am curious - what is the most popular responsive webpage on iphone would people say? I'd like to check out the current leader in this space.

What's funny is that people who are paying like the masking tape construction - they often just want something working.

Sorry - but Uber is very much a app first app. Most people using it are coming through the "proprietary" ecosystem parent wants to get rid of.

I don't use starbucks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it also had a proper app store app and didn't require users to use a web browser to access the app.

If anything - this proves the user preference for apps vs websites.

Does this have anything to do with Dell support info - it used to be literally right after buying a dell product (within a week or so) you'd start getting scam calls with your dell info.

Dell always denied it, but it was pretty funny. They had service tags and everything - anyone else get that?

Seriously - a big deal to me for sure.

Can you give some examples of simple open cross platform systems that make money?

I like my apps to be apps and a lot of the "Apps" that are HTML/js are janky cross platform and are tricky to pay for (vs one touch on ioS)

What’s a good netgear alternative for switches from 5 port to 48 port - too late for us now but for next buying wave

If you can do it separately from any systems conversion you will be much happier. Either before or after.

And see if you can keep some of the key minimum editing in or your users will hate you forever. I've heard comments 5 YEARS later about this issue.

The comparison here is to a transit system that uses vehicles which can be serviced by car mechanics. This will be cheaper.

And rail has otherwise struggled in the US.

The amtrak story is not great. I've tried to use them repeatedly, and outside of northeast corridor it is cheaper to fly then to take them anywhere. Let that sink in, the cost to get you up in air, and FLY is cheaper than rolling along on low friction rails. When you say why is it hard to understand that rail is cheapest it's because folks KNOW that things like buses are MUCH MUCH cheaper.

This is ignoring the absolutely stupid cost to build one mile of rail tunnel.

You clearly haven't.

ERPs that allow editing maintain a transaction log of edits.

What users like about editing is they can run reporting for LOB's, then edit based on feedback / coding / miscoding, then rerun reports that are clean from a detail perspective without 100's of in/out offsetting entries you get when folks have to post reversing entries to back out errors. It's actually easier to review for correctness if you don't have to wade through 100's of junk entries that are reversed out.

Different systems allow edits in different ways. Some are journals under the hood with the initial and reversing entry marked to hide visibility for non audit situations. Others maintain a log of edits, the date and time and items edited.

All of this can be turned off at a permission level. Generally no line staff can edit, and closing a period to all edits is up at the top. And even when users can edit, they are always locked out as periods close.

Yes - auditors do flip out if you edit into a closed period (understandably because they have to re-audit it). Users have gotten that confused with auditors not liking changes in periods that are not closed - actually - auditors want users to prepare the most accurate financials possible to submit in as simple a format as possible. Editing often allows that.

Anyways, netsuite allows users to delete reversing journals from the original entry, oracle allows editing GL distributions on a posted entry (and uses an audit log for this) because if you had to deal only with reversing entries to fix stuff or had to reverse reversing entries to fix stuff it would drive everyone crazy.

Except you get a cut of the profits - how many "managers" get that - seriously?

Interesting some decades ago I think McDonald's did a study that led to something called the 4 minute McDonald's universe which was a distance they found people would go for spur of the moment purchasing. Obviously impractical, but this idea of optimizing for total revenue has been around for a bit I think.

Cypto -

it might be helpful if you could spell out some of the specifics of their current violent attacks on LGBTQ folks. This would make your "corporate doublethink propaganda" claims stronger.

And that’s why people won’t like your system, including the auditors

Yep - having travelled a lot in Europe it is crazy how quiet some trains there are. Some just have a very light tick tick sound

I hope this is a joke, but if not please look into the cost and timeliness of subway maintenance costs by unionized workforce’s dealing with things like switching and signaling equipment - your claim is that this is drastically more efficient than some car mechanics?

And if your number is low - you are not counting deferred maintenance which is huge in these systems

And is the hardest thing to do in a big org.

My one addition -> focus not on the new things the system will do for you (which is what the bosses are into) but focus on what will change / be lost compared to the system you are using.

Oh, we can't edit transactions anymore ever? OUCH. Everyone edits all the time.

Haha - so true. The first versions of some of the financial packages built on salesforce and elsewhere - so SLOW. Click, wait, dropdown -> wait for it to populate with the 1,500 items when devs probably only tested with 5 etc etc, then click, wait, click, wait. All much better now of course, but the early years were terrible.