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by mytherin 6y ago
Perhaps I didn't make myself entirely clear - I completely agree that they should be regulated. I would even suggest going further than that. Neither Apple nor Google should gate-keep these market places in the first place. No privat
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by mytherin 6y ago
It isn't an abusive monopoly position basically by definition: Apple is not a monopoly in any market that they participate in. There is tons of competition in smartphones, laptops, etc. The problem is not one of monopolies - the proble
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by mytherin 6y ago
> It may not be technically correct but everyone understands what tax means here. That's exactly the point. Everyone understands what a tax means, so calling something that is not a tax "a tax" is intentionally misleading.
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by mytherin 6y ago
I'm not sure how those are comparable. Most people don't need extreme HA for their websites. It's totally fine if a standard webshop goes down from 2AM-3AM, or if a personal blog is down for a minute because an S3 VM crashed
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by mytherin 6y ago
SQLite runs in airplanes [1]. I would say that is all that needs to be said on whether or not SQLite is production-ready :) In fact, I would argue SQLite is the most well-tested and production ready database system out there. [1] https:&
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by mytherin 6y ago
I don't think the above poster was critiquing the quality of the web, but rather stating that the web has the same problem of generally being consolidated into the hands of a few big players (Google/Facebook). If you make a websit
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by mytherin 6y ago
Not on Windows, but on the Xbox the official store is certainly the only app distribution method. The iPhone/iPad actually have a lot in common with the Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo: they are devices that come bundled with a loc
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by mytherin 6y ago
Privacy would be one area where Android/Google is generally much worse than Apple. If you care about privacy you would not buy an Android phone, but then if you care about open systems you shouldn't buy an iPhone. Now your hands a
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by mytherin 6y ago
Is it that much worse than the effect that photoshop had? We have been able to fake pictures/images for a long time now. What changed is that people no longer blindly trust pictures. I assume something similar will happen with video.
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by mytherin 6y ago
I have to disagree with you there. How exactly is discussing a problem being "wilfully blind towards that"? You argue that they are supporting Apple despite this problem - but what is the alternative? Android? They have many other
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by mytherin 6y ago
Mister Gotcha [1] is ever relevant. [1] https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by mytherin 6y ago
Both bad. Android may allow side-loading a bit easier than Apple, but the Play store is still a large monopoly on Android. It comes pre-installed on basically every device and is the de-facto way of installing software there. Side loading r
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by mytherin 6y ago
> Giving the poor $1M is the same as taxing the rich more heavily. The richest would just leave, and those with more modest wealth would be less happy, possibly leaving in the future. There have been countries that seized the assets of c
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by mytherin 6y ago
Isn’t the fact that the current system is so extremely complicated (and because of that, expensive) exactly one of the reasons UBI is so appealing? Cutting out the bureaucracy will save a lot of money that can then be send to the people. If
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by mytherin 6y ago
You stated that the poor people would be in the exact same situation if they got UBI. Clearly this is not true if the UBI would be $1M. Perhaps $1000 is not enough to accomplish this, but it is obvious that UBI has the potential to lift peo
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by mytherin 6y ago
Correcting for something is much easier said than done, and it is very often done incorrectly. Blindly trusting researchers to do so is a mistake. Here is a quote from the abstract of the paper linked above: > Results: The inpatient grou
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by mytherin 6y ago
I haven't read this article in-depth, but at a glance I did not see this discussed there: can't this simply be explained by smokers generally having a lower life expectancy than non-smokers? If most people that have severe COVID c
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by mytherin 6y ago
Indeed it is a programming bug - but programming bugs happen. In my experience writing programs as if bugs will not happen is typically a bad idea :) Throwing an exception here is basically free (just another switch case) and gives the user
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by mytherin 6y ago
This behavior occurs in internal functions and is not triggerable by the user. The only way to trigger this behavior would be to create unit tests that test small internal functions by feeding them specifically invalid input. This is possib
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by mytherin 6y ago
That heavily depends on the size of your codebase and perhaps also the language you are writing in. Writing in C++, for example, I often have switch statements in the form of: switch(type) { case X: ... case Y: ... default
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by mytherin 6y ago
Advertising has been effectively done without tracking for decades. The trick is to do filtering at the content level, rather than at the consumer level. Odds are if you don't care about cosmetics, you won't watch videos about cos
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by mytherin 6y ago
That metaphor falls apart on multiple levels. Paying for a meal is a transaction that both parties explicitly agree to. Tracking in its current state is mostly done without the consumers awareness/consent. Tracking is also not required
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by mytherin 6y ago
Very true, DuckDB is very young and we have so far focused on correctness over performance. As a result we are still missing several optimizations that more mature systems do have, for example, proper cardinality estimation. We are working
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by mytherin 6y ago
The main reason for that is that DuckDB is currently single-threaded, we are currently actively working on parallelism for DuckDB which will resolve this :)
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by mytherin 6y ago
DuckDB offers a SQLite compatible interface; we use it extensively ourselves as it allows us to use the SQLite shell directly. The internal design of DuckDB, however, is different and not directly related to SQLite. As you mentioned, it is
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by mytherin 6y ago
I think it's definitely related. At least it is my impression the Microsoft stores exist primarily for the Surface lineup. I also don't expect them to end the Surface lineup immediately, but it signals that they are at the very le
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by mytherin 6y ago
Looks more to me like they are giving up on their Surface line-up specifically, rather than all their consumer focused products. The Microsoft stores & Surface line was Microsoft's attempt at copying Apple with expensive devices wi
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by mytherin 6y ago
> The fact they went to shit has nothing to do with analytics. Perhaps, perhaps not. Analytics can definitely guide developers along the wrong path. A typical example is that it leads to simplification to cater to 80% of their userbase a
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by mytherin 6y ago
> How so? Are we comparing real-world performance or artificially limited what-if-scenarios? That's my critique with these benchmarks in general. Remember the point of this thread: speculating on how fast ARM chips will be for c
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by mytherin 6y ago
Clang (not LLVM) was made by Apple [1, 2]. They specifically hired the lead developer of LLVM to build it because they were not happy with GCC. At this point many other companies have also contributed, but Clang is first and foremost develo

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