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OBS has no Vulkan renderer. Only OpenGL, DirectX 11 (on Windows), and now Metal.

Their 14th generation CPUs are just overclocked 13th gen. They are raising the thermals and increasing the clock speeds correspondingly.

Even Turkey?

Could easily be someone in the EST time zone. There aren't that many events that would be earlier than 8am EST.

That doesn't mean that the entire population of those countries is actively hostile to you.

Very few, however native desktop applications are becoming a rarity these days anyway. A small number of professional apps and games, but game engines are already targeting ARM due to phones.

But you can purchase a Spotify subscription on a different platform (say, Web), and then use your account on iOS, enjoying the same experience as every other iOS user. The only part of the experience that's different is the one time sign-up process, for which Apple wants to charge a permanent 30% fee for the entire duration of the subscription (even if after that you happen to primarily use Spotify on Desktop or Android).

This puts Spotify in a weird spot. Their only options are:

1) Charge more to iOS users. This seems unfair to them and of course they will complain and blame Spotify when they find out they've been overcharged since Apple explicitly forbids informing customers about their fees.

2)Charge ~10-20% (depending on the share of iOS subscribers) to users of all platforms to compensate for Apple's fees. Why should I as an Android user pay extra so that someone else can make purchases on an iPhone?

3) Status quo - disable subscriptions on iOS entirely, make customers jump through the hoops to figure out how to purchase a Spotify subscription.

I don't have the exact figure, but I imagine that quite a few Spotify customers use their subscriptions on multiple platforms. Apple just wants to take a permanent 30% cut if the the initial subscription was handled through an iOS app. Maybe this isn't such a huge problem for game DLC where there is no fixed unit cost, but companies like Spotify need to pay royalties to music labels, etc.

How many Muslims did China actually kill? I mean, what's happening in Xinjiang is obviously very concerning, however I don't think anyone has ever produced any evidence that a literal genocide is happening. Mass incarceration? Perhaps. Brainwashing? Maybe. Genocide? Highly dubious.

Why won't 350 million American citizens do something about their own government first, before engaging in moral grandstanding in respect to other countries? No, this doesn't mean just getting rid of Trump - the entire political spectrum is complicit in millions of deaths every decade.

US calls itself a "Democracy", so you're supposed to be more empowered to make a change than an average Chinese citizen.

Yes, also impoverished and displaced several million people.

Consider the impact of all the regime change operations undertaken under the patronage of the United States in countries like Iraq, Lybia, Syria and Yemen, as well as devastating effects of economic sanctions on Iran, Syria and other nations.

Not every decision is going to be entirely rational, especially when it comes to giant corporations with thousands of stakeholders and various internal incentives that may not be visible to outside observers. E.g., sometimes companies do stuff simply because it's helpful for someone's upcoming performance review. Apple probably has a team responsible for trademark protection and these people have to regularly demonstrate activity to justify the budgets.

Palantir is just a minuscule part of SV ecosystem, entirely insignificant in the overall picture.

Do the intelligence agencies actually agree on this as unanimously as you're saying? Here's a quote from the testimony of James Clapper on Russia/Wikileaks connection:

"The evidence there is not strong" https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4631568/clapper-wikileaks-con...

No one is arguing Google's revenue is mostly ads. It just doesn't mean Google is a one-hit-wonder. There are different advertisement products.

You could generalize any company that way. Apple would be a one-hit-wonder who's revenue comes from one source - selling consumer electronics.

Direct democracy isn't automatically good. Just look at California.

SF welfare system is the reason there are so many homeless in that city.

Even if there is a bigger reason for wanting her out, there is no reason for them to expose PRISM that way. Immigration officers already have rights to deny anyone without explanation.

I just don't find anything about that article logical.

> the US authorities may have been reading her private Facebook messages for weeks.

That's ridiculous and puts the whole article under doubt. Nobody would waste that much time on her.

There is no reason why Go can't quickly catch up with Java. It's memory model is better suited to optimization vs. JVM.

He said "as much as possible".

Schmidt already tried telling people this would happen:

"I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

Instead of praising him for honesty, people started taking his quote out of context. "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

Skype was actually developed in Eastern Europe (Estonia).

Youtube is porn-free though.

Seriously? Why is that on Hacker News?

I would imagine Valve making more money from Steam now than from their own games. Remember they sell a lot of third-party stuff there and take their cut on those sales.

Graphic design is not Computer Science.

That's just sad.

I have the opposite feeling - 5 years from now hotels will be a niche to be used only for exceptional circumstances.

If iOS is your platform. First you have to decide if you want to do a desktop game or a mobile game. Pursuing both at the same time is a bad idea for an indie developer.

Just use Java. Worked great for Minecraft, which is probably the most successful indie game to date.