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quotha··on Apple, Epic, and the App Store
Maybe you should read more about Epic games the “private” company. It is owned mainly by Tencent which answers to the Chinese government.
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
Yes exactly, I don’t know how much effort they put in to just discussing it with Apple, but it is clear they planned this out and that’s why I don’t like about it. And their plan seems a bit melodramatic to me.
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
Yes I see that, and you can apply that to all sorts of things in our lives. It’s still arbitrary where the line is that keeps everyone happy, I guess Epic thinks it’s < 30% but I am just not with them on this fight
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
Well it used to be dude, that is the whole situation here.
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
So, Epic should get special treatment? They don't have to pay the fees? Just everyone else? How is apple supposed to run the app store? They kinda know what they are doing or why else would so many people buy their iphones?
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
So any action what-so-ever in response to an action you claim is called retaliation? Fine, call it whatever you want, it is reality. Epic clearly picked this fight, let's see how it goes for them.
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
Really? Sorry, that is not what I think of at all regarding this situation.
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
I hear ya, but something smells real bad about how Epic decided to wage this war. They were clearly picking this fight, now I am not sure that was such a good idea.
quotha··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
This is not retaliation, it is consequences.

First comes an action, then a re-action.

(you can't switch 'em round for your own satisfaction)

quotha··on NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone
Do you still have the right to remain silent?
quotha··on NJ Supreme Court: No 5th Amendment right not to unlock your phone
Kind of what I was thinking-even if you don’t forget, how do you force someone to unlock, and what is possibly a fair punishment? Sounds crazy ruling to me.
quotha··on Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
Actually, a lot of people read, most of the time there were no brown M&Ms and the stage was set up correctly.
quotha··on Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong
Everyone wrong? Including this author. Why is there another surge of infections in the summer time here in USA?
quotha··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
Don't make all MacBook's with a camera that a lot of your customers want to cover up all the time.
quotha··on Amazon pulls Washington Redskins merchandise from website
A name change is all but certain, and has nothing to do with amazon.

I like your point:

Within the Southern United States, "Yankee" is a derisive term which refers to all Northerners, or specifically to those from the region of New England. —from Wikipedia

Good luck changing the Yankees name!!

quotha··on How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS
Reads like a self help book of the month
quotha··on Airbnb measuring discrepancies in guest acceptance rates [pdf]
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quotha··on DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
Well for me it was back in the 90’s
quotha··on It's time to take alternatives to dark matter seriously
So without dark matter explaining the planets not flying out of the system, there is actually less gravitational force, yet they are obviously still not flying out. Why? Simply due to the shape of space.
quotha··on 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
Watch this film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Inferno_(film)

quotha··on 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
You might be interested in the film "Into the Inferno" by Werner Herzog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Inferno_(film)

quotha··on Apple is facing rage from developers over the commission on the App Store
The real problem here is that the App Store is a monopsony.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monopsony.asp

quotha··on As many as 6B Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
Maybe cause something like earth is a 1-in-kagillion chance
quotha··on Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions
This is because the App Store is a monopsony

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051915

quotha··on Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
What is your business/website ?
quotha··on Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
That's what I am wondering, why is the stock so high? We used MongoDB maybe 6-7 years ago, and quickly moved on. Does it cost a lot to use?
quotha··on Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories
Those stories sound awesome, my kids would love them!
quotha··on Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?
The human brain.
quotha··on My favorite Erlang program (2013)
My favorite erlang-based blockchain

https://aeternity.com/

quotha··on Simple, solar-powered water desalination
So the salt is just going back into the ocean. How is that different from other systems, they end up dumping the salt somewhere.
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