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more like because it’s safe and there are penalties for injuring pedestrians and cyclists, and because the infrastructure is great.

not riding a bike because a helmet is ??uncomfortable?? is ridiculous and probably self-selecting

Your son probably needs therapy if he's this terrified of a non-life-threatening incident that is quite rare more than the incidence of death from covid-19.

it was never about being afraid, it was about taking part in society and helping so that your son, young people, the elderly and immune compromised don't die.

as for "experimental gene therapy injection", mRNA vaccines are vaccines and the mRNA in the vaccine does not alter genes, that's actual misinformation about how mRNA vaccines work.

that’s how free file works in the us….

> “all this for…” — you’re employing someone for 40% a full time duration. of course you need to do the right thing, ensure they get the right wage, if you need to pay benefis, etc.

this is such a privileged position and you think you should’ve just been able to pay cash and potentially screw someone over?

ah yes, the beeper, more high power than the top end 5g UC flagship phones. because that makes so much sense

“we” — you mean that you decided for your family, removing agency from other humans

mine took like a few weeks and was very painless, even in berlin. anecdata ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pretty weird take, am neurodivergent and recognise showing up for my role is important for opportunity.

nobody is living in poverty bc FAANG promote more people who are f2f, that’s silly.

not every role is for everyone

did you not see spotify’s original dma posts? if you think apple’s comments are trash, daniel ek’s are even more immature

they also must love millions of vulnerabilities and outdated software too!

funnily enough, elon himself gives me such great shame. he perpetuates an us vs them mentality with his personal beliefs, boosts racists, fascists, and antisemites, and uses his loudspeaker to attack minorities almost every day.

he has put a lot of money and taken risks on interesting and useful ventures, but i don’t think his vision for humanity outweighs the negativity and hatred; we can’t go to mars if we all kill each other

what? that’s just shy of 32k a month. enough to save for all your retirement, pay a mortgage, support a family, go on holiday, do whatever you want. and if this supposed dev did $999,999 he’d only pay 15%.

hardly anything left? i made less than that at a FAANG and live an amazingly comfortable life.

also, everyone pays sales tax: consume more, pay more. how is earning over $350k in cash a year net a bad place to be? this is insane

people commit crimes with: cars, money, public transit, restaurants, food, bathrooms, roads, … why don’t we get rid of all that?

we don’t remove all rights to privacy for people in their homes because criminals use homes too. tech should be no different

i saw this comment and literally shouted “holy fucking shit” — i use zz method, but i came across lots of his resources before!!!

leetcode interviews and intense algorithmic problems for roles which don’t require such acumen can definitely be ageist

the pronoun issue is your own, however, and speaks nothing to the character of colleagues who may be genderqueer. they aren’t aliens, they’re human beings.

why buy one if you saw the wwdc vids and already believe apple is locking you out of… their own product?

sounds like an excuse to be on the hating apple train

said OS underpinned iOS/iPadOS/VisionOS/tvOS etc., has more users than linux, and is the only other major OS that consumers think of besides windows.

it's also hugely relevant for sw dev. i don't quite get what this point is. macOS has always had small marketshare, but large profits from hw

translation doesn’t always carry the same weight. look at the bible— entire sentences that have different meanings or subtext. in one language, a verb may mean “to do something as your responsibility” and in a translation it may simply be “to undertake a task” — this sort of nuance is lost really easily.

additionally, books and written word doesn’t always equate to having saved knowledge. think about the tribe and kin concepts in many indigenous languages. entire ways of life can be lost. we know a lot from our europe’s ancestral indo-europeans lived from the reconstructions of proto-indo-european by way of the modern languages and written history but there is so much we do not know that is just lost.

small languages have also died out because of colonialism, national identity laws, and a host of other factors.

i agree, though, that computing could be sooo great for these languages if we moved past weatern paradigms

as a ploy to get manufacturers on board with their “open” platform which they now control (and also have stupid fragmentation issues)

have you heard of licensing for chip technologies? maybe from qualcomm?

the reason apple doesnt pay carriers is that the market has changed and handset makers have more power. also phones work on wifi too ;)

this analogy doesnt work because it’s not at all even in the same realm of utility or function.

the reality, as you say, is that development and operation of services and APIs isnt free, and you are not entitled to sell your apps to apple’s users. the og iPhone didnt even have an app store; a lot of work went into making a great product and an ecosystem.

developers and apple enjoy a certain relationship, and users love iOS apps, but its not true that developers have the right to do whatever they want (privacy, security, not their platform).

go invent your own OS and phone then

it’s the price users will pay for the phone, not the price developers pay for utilising apple APIs and services?

people (companies) want to emulate apple because they sell devices like hotcakes, and develop or remove features that users eventually like/want/expect/don't miss, which brings down mfg cost and enables new technologies.

i don't understand why people say "meh" about companies copying apple, _as if it is apple's fault_. it's samsung, google, huawei, etc. making those decisions. if apple has 20-30% marketshare in most of the world, but has stronger fanbase, makes more money, and pushes tech boundaries, of course other companies will want to follow.

it's not about users though. it's about the business relationship between gatekeeper and third parties who want access to the software and APIs and platforms.

if you sideload an app you are still taking advantage of apple's UI, user base, API SDKs, etc. and apple did enter into a relationship with its users which it wants to protect, in terms of security, privacy, and functionality of the device.

if apple wants to protect the enclave, for example, by ensuring alternate store apps use its APIs, that makes sense. this was never about running arbitrary code on iPhone; that's not what gatekeeper status or the DMA was meant to provide.

apple is like 22% of the market in europe. where's all the furor about every other business? the 78% owner also has a lot of issues, but i understand that apple is just so hated for being a company whose products people enjoy that don't get canceled after one year of operation.

also, the DMA doesn't say that apple can't make profit. the EU is still a capitalist society, and until there is a regulation that says what companies can and can't charge for phones, developer entitlements, services, then... there's not much to be done.

lastly, if there were no fees or hurdles or restrictions for alternate app stores then every single large company (not just gatekeepers) would open one so they could plaster their ads, make their own profit, drive users to their own stuff, and basically capture them in their fiefdom. and the DMA makes no provision as to how alternate markets need to behave. i and probably many many others do not want meta or msft or tencent or whomever to steal data, use underhanded business practices, ship shitty code, and do basically anything they want (that apple nor its users could control or do anything about) and that's just wrong.

openness is good, but if the cost is that chrome takes over the world like IE again and that meta can spy on iOS users and drain their batteries like no tomorrow, and force users to use their NFC payment system and secrets manager and whatever other ridiculous crap in order to use their social network, please stop. the DMA has failed if that is the case. we'll head back to the 90s and dumbphone era when you were trapped to use, see, or suffer from terrible and insecure 3rd party applications.

the one thing that cannot be argued is how good apple is at data protection and user privacy. please don't ruin that for millions because spotify wants to earn more money.

it’s so interesting to me how the DMA applies to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Bytedance, Meta, and Microsoft, but the last week i’ve only seen interesting and hot posts on HN about one gatekeeper in particular.

all of the notions that apple must do x or y and if not, they violate the DMA and the EU must take damages— or that somehow the DMA is flawed and needs to be rewritten, are kind of wild. the DMA applies to everyone equally, so either something is allowed or it is not, and we dont know yet what the EU will say.

this is only the beginning, but the desperation of companies like Spotify and Epic openly trashing any semblance of a business relationship with the company that has 22% marketshare in Europe is pretty wild to me.

everyone pays something for launch, no matter who they use, and SpaceX has to build and launch the rockets themselves. Starlink may be getting some sort of deal already, but it's monopolistic to utilise your own technology (especially when it's government funded) and deny others the same right for the same price.

additionally, Starlink's D2D is like what 6 satellites? most of the existing sats cannot be used for device connection, so the playing field is very much level and open to many.

this completely discounts dozens of startups and universities that pioneered cubesats, swarm deployments, and engineers who developed amazing RF tech, not to mention the companies that SpaceX acqui-hired to develop this technology.

it's really interesting how even here on HN there's such fanboyism. Starlink D2D isn't even a thing yet and yet D2D already exists in the world.

for 3 years i worked in a building with one. it was the best part of coming in in the morning and super fun. no accidents that i noticed in the time i was there.

why do you feel excluded when your kind are likely a majority in the place you live?