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This is absolutely true in the USA. Frito Lay has done this for years, paying supermarkets for more and more shelf space, while the smaller, regional competitors were left with less and less room to sell.

This happened to my father in the 1980s when he owned a distributorship for a regional potato chip company here in the Midwest United States.

No, you can develop your app for free. Here are details from Apple's own site about the free vs. paid memberships.

https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/

Just out of curiosity, I looked it up in an American dictionary and it does have a noun form over here, as well, but it's noted as "chiefly British, informal".

Although, the term "big ask" is something I'm certain I've used before, as well as others, but more in a business/corporate context.

Or maybe I've just watched a lot of British television?

I completely disagree. It's a well-formed argument, and he's calling out someone for making a lazy argument.

It's also right after Trump sent a mob to attack Congress.

ROFL

Would you please elaborate?

I feel a bit lost as to what we're looking at here.

Intentions are not motivations. They may have great intentions, but Starbucks is absolutely acting in their own self-interest when they decided to come out with this policy. It has everything to do with changing the narrative following the incident in Philadelphia, referenced in the article.

Totally anecdotal here, but we bought several physical books for our nieces and nephews this Christmas. These were all requested by them, too. Totally didn't expect that.

My BBS was up from about 1991 to 1995 or so. I still have all of my data. It lasted until I graduated high school, which was at about the same time that I got a dail-up shell account from a friend, which allowed me to directly access the Internet. That changed everything.

Eventually, that Spring, I installed Windows 3.1 specifically so that I could use Netscape, which was at version 1.1 at the time.

FidoNet was a big part of why I ran that board, and it was my gateway to the world in the early 90s. I met so many people that way.

I've been using Charles Schwab Bank now for about 10 years, and I love it, as well. They had the reimbursement of ATM fees back then and still do, which is amazing.

Hmm. What's interesting about it?

I'm no expert, but I do know that in Indianapolis we've had many housing developments in the downtown area that have a requirement for a certain percentage of units to be rented below market rate.

You have to apply to rent those units, and you must meet the income requirements, in that you can't make above a certain threshold if income. (Not sure what other factors are taken into consideration.)

To me, this seems like somewhat of middle ground between being 100% market-driven vs. full-on rent control.

Such as?

I've been a sysadmin for 20 years, so I suppose I just see things differently than you.

What argument is that, exactly?

I don't see self-hosting email as being any different than any other self-hosting service. I mean, take "mail server" out of our your analogy above, and replace it with "web server," and everything still applies.

And why does that matter, please?

My take is that they didn't want to invest resources into making the FTP client secure in Chrome because it's usage is low, so they just decided that it'd be better to just remove it entirely. Whatever.

Anyway, it's not like Chrome couldn't send the URL to a dedicated FTP client. Hell, it could even be another browser like Firefox. It's not going to be the end of the world -- just not as seamless of an experience and one would like.

Ah, I'm glad to see this make it to HN. I first learned of Emperor Norton sometime back in the 00's when I was listening to music by Emperor Norton Records. I looked them up, and learned about Emperor Norton himself in the process. It's a very San Francisco story, to me. I love it.

Oh, there were.

Tyco International Adelphia Peregrine Systems WorldCom (which was a big one)

And there were many more.

In the USA, one simply has to contact their representatives to let them know about their opinions. They track it, whether you want to believe that or not. Whether they use it or not is another story, but we're not a direct democracy here, so we elect representatives to make decisions for us.

Stickers are purely an extension of one's ego.

One study isn't scientific fact.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Ever bought or sold a house?

I wouldn't doubt that there are genuine concerns, but what Facebook is doing has nothing to do with actual civil liberties, which isn't something that FB grants or could even take away.

I don't miss any of that. I remember having to maintain "FrontPage Extension" on IIS systems back in those days, and it was rough.

Not everyone in the software world is a developer.