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by petmon 5y ago
Rust sometimes throws away errors when they would be awkward to handle - close() in Drop and println!() are important examples. A Hello World with a closed stdout will correctly fail in C but "succeed" in Rust because it ignores E
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by petmon 5y ago
Did Apple claim it would impact sandboxing? I don't think they did. A realistic example: today if your iOS app wants to track users, it must go through AppTrackingTransparency.framework, which allows the user to opt-out, and use the de
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by petmon 5y ago
Epic Games tried side loading Fortnite on Android, and then went back to the Play Store. Here's their statement: Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such
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by petmon 5y ago
The case against MS was abusive licensing practices. MS blocked OEMs from choosing their own default browser, and charged OEMs a license fee even if the computers weren't running Windows. That doesn't apply to Apple which does not
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by petmon 5y ago
It's not "enforced;" it is managed through various means including namespaces, header includes, and prefixes. For example, SQLite is a library whose functions all start with 'sqlite3'. In practice it works well enou
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by petmon 5y ago
Yes. You can do a quick and dirty estimate working backwards from the article's own figure of 2.6 million COVID hospitalizations in the US. If you very generously assume 1/3 of Americans have been infected, you get a hospitalizati
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by petmon 5y ago
To be clear the 0.89% figure was obtained by dividing hospitalizations by population, so it includes many unvaccinated people who have not caught COVID (yet). The chance that an unvaccinated person who is COVID-positive will require hospita
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by petmon 5y ago
Miners have real expenses: electricity, depreciation, etc. Miners also generarte revenue, $45 million per day is a reasonable estimate [1]. This revenue is extracted from the Bitcoin system through both transaction fees and inflation (creat
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by petmon 5y ago
Do not question the paperclip AI. GP does not "get to decide" but hopes to persuade. One possible grim future is that home solar panels do not displace fossil fuels, but instead suffer the same fate as GPUs: eaten up by cryptocurr
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by petmon 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies, unlike trading cards, have large negative externalities. They are causing component shortages, driving up GPU prices, enabling new scams and ransomware, wasting electricity, accelerating climate change. It might be justifi
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by petmon 5y ago
No expectation of future returns. People who hold cash expect to lose money.
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by petmon 5y ago
Probably Simpson's Paradox. A 59 year old is both more likely to be vaccinated and to die from any cause, compared to a 10 year old.
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by petmon 5y ago
Please edit said comment to add a /s or similar, its intent wasn't apparent to me either.
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by petmon 5y ago
Fantasy sports is explicitly betting, where any winnings are acknowledged to come from the losses of other players. On average, players will lose because of the house rake, but skillful players may beat the odds. Axie Infinity seems to be s
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by petmon 5y ago
Typically people spend money to play games. How can any game generate net income for players? It's not Wimbledon where fans pay to watch. I think any income must come from a stream of new players, meaning it's a Ponzi scheme.
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by petmon 5y ago
It's your opinion that Safari is inferior and broken. IMO desktop Safari is better on UI, privacy, and features like autofilling SMS 2FA codes. It's "behind" on APIs like WebUSB or Idle Detection, and that's another
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by petmon 5y ago
Yes and very much so. Look at the GPU market: probably crypto has stimulated some GPU additional capacity, but overall crypto has been highly net-negative for non-crypto GPU uses. Imagine if crypto did to the solar market what it has alread
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by petmon 5y ago
Yes we agree that Apple has the technical capability of decrypting Messages that have been backed up by users who have enabled iCloud Backup, even if those messages were previously E2E encrypted. I think Apple should fix that. Your link des
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by petmon 5y ago
If Messages E2E crypto were backdoored, then why would the FBI take an interest in iCloud backups? I too wish iCloud backups were E2E encrypted, but that is a very different claim from "Apple assumes you desire privacy from everyone bu
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by petmon 5y ago
How does Apple treat Roblox and Minecraft differently than Fortnite?
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by petmon 5y ago
Phone number is a valid point, but in many other ways Apple actively avoids collecting its customer data. Location data, Messages, Apple Card transactions, health and home, Siri are examples.
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by petmon 5y ago
Wait, it's not like Filecoin, where the space is made available to other people? The storage is just being deliberately wasted? That sounds ridiculous.
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by petmon 5y ago
Is this competing with Bitcoin in the sense that maybe I could buy a coffee with it? Or is it competing with S3?
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by petmon 7y ago
Lots of people photos to their wall, or change their profile pic, etc.
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by petmon 7y ago
Because the company is large and the churn in the app is very high, it is hard to keep track of what's happening across the app. Does Facebook activate the camera during feed? The answer may depend on which user is logged in (A/B
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by petmon 7y ago
The EC supports battleground states, NOT rural states. Maine is very rural, Florida is not, but Florida is where the campaigning occurred. This distorts our national priorities. For example ethanol subsidies are so high because Iowa is a ba