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c6401··on EU Competition Chief all but confirmed Apple to be forced to allow 2nd App Store
>Me maybe not, my peers would surely be forced when the big apps move away from the AppStore not because of the commission but because they can get away with shit that Apple doesn’t allow.

Yeah, because that is what totally happened with Android which has 72% market share. Or is it? In actuality there were some alternative stores like Opera or Yandex store and all of them die out on some point. Amazon has an android store but you can't find a lot of apps there. There are vendor stores like samsung's or huawei's stores and my favorite f-droid, for OSS apps. But you can find EVEERYTHING in google play store and you'll have a hard time to live without it, like on Chinese devices or if you want to have de-googled android you'll need to find APKs on some weird mirrors. So no I don't buy it.

c6401··on A third of Covid survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders
Wow people do incredible mental hymnastics to prove themselves they are safe and all these studies are flawed. No matter how much effort have been put into research it will never be good enough.
c6401··on WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
>or useless pollution Given the energy needed just for one transaction the currently popular ones are actually about useless pollution. It's not like bittorrent when it's not a technological problem but rather copyright owners agenda. In case of bitcoin, it is actually unsustainable technologically as a currency (as opposed to an asset). I get that cryptocurrencies can be efficient but not the ones that are popular right now.
c6401··on Scientist behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccine says her team's next target is cancer
IDK they used measles virus in the movie, but in mRNA they don't use virus at all. They just use lipid nanoparticle with mRNA, it can't replicate. It just delivers mRNA to cells and the mRNA is used by the cells as a boilerplate to manufacture some proteins. In case of SARS-COV-2 vaccine it's spike (s-protein), not the virus itself, not lipid particle protein RNA, just RNA for the spike alone. RNA is not stable, for our human proteins we constantly manufacture new RNA from DNA. So basically we send command to manufacture some spike proteins so that our immune system can learn to recognize and neutralize the spikes. The movie parallel is just on the surface but in reality it works differently. I'm not saying that you shouldn't start packing your zombie-apocalypse backpack though.
c6401··on I Want a New Duck (2020)
That's the point of protocols. It doesn't matter if it's a duck or not, what matters is that it can quack. Like in case of iterable, it doesn't matter what it is, what matters is that you can iterate over it. You can as well rely inheritance if you want.
c6401··on CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
Probably you will be able to switch raspberry 4 compute module to raspberry 5 when it came out. No guarantee of course but probably slot will be the same.
c6401··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
* jinja2 as general purpose templates * org mode * yaml (sorry but I like it and write it without more errors than the other formats) * docker / docker compose * rss * rofi -dmenu * .http files to keep requests * sentry * ansible * atom hydrogen - the most comfortable programming environment where I can execute my code as I write it, there are other solutions but they are worse for me * spreadsheets * vuejs works as compiled framework, but integrates everywhere - userscripts, jupyter notebook, app prototypes, etc etc
c6401··on R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
Hydrogen for Atom actually can have executable python in markdown, and more - write python in .py files and execute strings or define blocks by "# %%". It's not the same of course but for my usecases it's more convenient (given that it works in a proper code-editor with all needed plugins).
c6401··on Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
>refused to go on lockdown on time Not sure if there was a definitive understanding when it was on time. As far as I remember, lockdown in Moscow started on March 23.
c6401··on Literate DevOps
atom with hydrogen plugin can run these
c6401··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Sorry jira but it's you
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