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by sjy 6y ago
Yes, but I’m not about to give up my lease and start shopping around for rural real estate during the pandemic. Most of the upside of living in the city is gone for now, but I expect those advantages to come back next year.
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by sjy 6y ago
What does this mean?
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by sjy 6y ago
Companies don’t compensate employees for the cost of their commute either. I don’t see the big deal here; the marginal cost of working from home is often pretty close to zero.
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by sjy 6y ago
I think you might be right, but do we have any examples of this happening to a real legal system yet?
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by sjy 6y ago
> it's based on precedent which is almost like a crutch for poor specification It works for software. “Working software over comprehensive documentation ... Responding to change over following a plan ...” https://agileman
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by sjy 6y ago
The phone is trying to achieve WYSIWYG and failing because it’s a hard problem. It’s difficult to reduce the continuous experience of visual perception to a fixed image obtained from a digital sensor at one moment in time, but skilled photo
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by sjy 6y ago
All other things being equal (and I take it your point is that they might not be), lower fees are generally considered an improvement by the developers and users who pay the fees.
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by sjy 6y ago
What makes this case clear cut based on current legislation and precedent? In what sense is “regulation” or new legislation an alternative to antitrust litigation? The U.S. has been dealing with alleged monopolies via protracted trials abou
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by sjy 6y ago
> a similar anti-trust suit filed by an Apple user was thrown out without a trial on grounds that the customer was not able to sufficiently demonstrate Apple's practices harmed them Which case is this? Epic’s complaint [1] only ment
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by sjy 6y ago
The co-authors Gosling and Potter have U.S. affiliations (you can click their names in the above paywalled URL).
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by sjy 6y ago
The scientific article summarised in this piece is clear about this. The effect size is quantified. It’s not fake science to look at small effects. > It should be noted that the magnitude of the effects is generally quite small and the o
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by sjy 6y ago
That’s a fascinating story. I wonder what procedure was actually performed.
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by sjy 6y ago
The full citation seems to be Maguire, Phil, Mulhall, Oisín, Maguire, Rebecca and Taylor, Jessica (2015) Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science. pp
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by sjy 6y ago
You’re right – but at least when the government passes regulations that require collection of data, there is a public debate and a public record of precisely what must be collected and why.
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by sjy 6y ago
What do you mean by “purely” circumstantial evidence? “A popular misconception is that circumstantial evidence is less valid or less important than direct evidence ... Many successful criminal prosecutions rely largely or entirely on circum
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by sjy 6y ago
I don’t think the argument generalises quite that far, but it does go as far as “more information is worse.” The presumption of innocence is a valuable principle to which this applies. We ignore evidence that suggests that someone is guilty
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by sjy 6y ago
Such a person did not “believe they were operating within the law” as stated by the grandparent.
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by sjy 6y ago
Government officials do face charges when they commit crimes such as abuse of public office. A court decision on the interpretation of the Constitution is not a “ruling that a crime was committed.” Drawing on your doctor analogy, it’s more
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by sjy 6y ago
> the reason I choose Apple is because their product and software ecosystem the one I love the most out of any big player ... we’d probably agree on 90% of your pain with Apple Sounds like you’re a bit conflicted. I also chose an Apple p
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by sjy 6y ago
You can find this in Epic's filing. As you point out, Epic's federal antitrust claims were not as well received as their claims based on California law at the temporary restraining order stage, but they have not been finally resol
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by sjy 6y ago
They didn’t disclose for months, and when they did, they failed to credit the researcher who found the bug, and started their blog post by saying “This is a fancy way of saying we’ve dialed up the security of the app. It wasn’t unsafe befor
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by sjy 6y ago
> Why buy a device known for the creation of a walled garden as one of its defining personas? It is possible to like the garden and dislike the walls. I really like my iPad mini, despite hating the fact that I need a Mac to sideload or d
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by sjy 6y ago
Online game stores are convenient, but I don’t understand why I need to open them and have ads shovelled at me just to use the software I already bought. The app stores integrated into most OSes do not do this. I’d prefer having everything
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by sjy 6y ago
Putting to one side the issue of how content producers might feel about a world in which Netflix was the only game in town, I think fragmentation is a much smaller problem for app stores. Consumers need to launch a streaming app whenever
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s not easy to distinguish between legal and illegal tying, but that doesn’t mean that disclosure to the buyer is an adequate defence. More commonly, the seller would argue that they lack the market power of which tying is said to be an a
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by sjy 6y ago
The law says that jailbreaking is legal, but it doesn’t say that Apple can’t stop you from doing it. Apple’s jail is also legal, and you can only break out of it when Apple makes a mistake. I wouldn’t defend antitrust as a “consistent legal
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by sjy 6y ago
I’m sure I remember people saying the same thing about proof of stake 2 – 3 years ago. What’s the hold up?
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by sjy 6y ago
You’re right, the judge has not ruled that Epic is likely to win the lawsuit in the end, given that the case only just started. But you claimed that iOS was clearly not a legal monopoly, when Epic is suing to establish this point and a fe
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by sjy 6y ago
The law (Sherman Act) does actually say that “Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize ... any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony.” The test
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by sjy 6y ago
Apple had the chance to write and file this 34-page response to the application (which partially succeeded). https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/21/appleepic.pdf

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