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by wcarey 6y ago
Alas for the lack of breakout rooms when hosting from an iPad.
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by wcarey 6y ago
As I’ve said, tradeoffs. The raspis I’m talking about run about $100 for a complete system. Not nothing, but accessible to many people in Apple’s target demographic. They’re ideally suited for what you’re aiming at. One example jumps to min
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My argument is that some harm does befall at least some consumers. You might judge that harm worth the other tradeoffs, but it’s not zero.
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Perhaps it benefits Apple, but it also benefits me in ways I’m happy to pay for (and would be unable to pay for absent the collective bargaining).
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I’ve been a part of a small group of users not offered that choice (essentially, install remote access on your personal device or terminate you employment), so I appreciate Apple negotiating for me.
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Broadly gym subscriptions aren't handled through apps. I'm assuming that there will be a tragedy of the commons, something Apple has only been moderately effective at preventing, that will reduce the quality of terms-of-service fo
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What it it's essential to the life of a relatively small group of users? It seems like the rights of smaller groups like that are the ones that most need collectively bargained, as they'll be in a relatively poor position to neg
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For some definition of "app business", sure. But there are plenty of companies making plenty of money in software without touching any app store. To be sure, Apple's popularity puts them in a really good negotiating positio
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Would you support compelling developers who have a monopoly on a particular app to support all available app stores? It seems like a developer who held a monopoly in a particular app would be the in the same position Apple is in with the ap
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I'd say that I'm less defending absolute monarchy, and more defending the rule of law against the Hobbesean state of nature, with all its caprice and cruelty. For example, if Apple conducted plebiscites of its users and used those
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by wcarey 6y ago
In the same way, though, that you can suggest I work somewhere else, I can suggest that you run your app business on another platform, so that doesn't seem to advance the argument very much? Plenty of folks make a living on the web or
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That seems like a concession that people who currently enjoy the first-party-only app store situation may indeed lose something if third-party-app-stores become a thing. You can argue (as I think you are) that those losses are outweighed by
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Part of the reason I pay Apple for their devices is that they have offered to solve this problem for me. It's part of the value proposition of their device.
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The bargaining is between users and developers. Developers have increasingly taken adversarial positions with their users, who have accepted increasingly onerous terms and privacy policies because individual users are not in a good bargaini
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It seems like there are two assumptions underlying your argument: 1. Users have perfect choice in which apps they install. 2. Developers will release their apps on all available app stores. But many users are compelled to install apps that
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by wcarey 6y ago
That wasn't a comparison. If 3rd party app stores are a thing, you might be compelled to use them by yet other third parties, contrary to your claim that no one would force you to use third party app stores.
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> Nobody is forcing you to use a 3rd party app store, but Apple is forcing everyone to go through their store. Many employers do that very thing. How many people have been compelled by employment circumstances to install Zoom despite its
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I wonder whether people's opinions about Apple's behavior here are isomorphic to their opinions about collective bargaining writ large? If you're the sort of person who releases iOS apps, you're far more technically incl
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by wcarey 6y ago
Delegating that control is, in effect, a form of collective bargaining. Whereas Epic could convince individual users to accept whatever terms of use they wanted to impose, effectively Apple collectively bargains for all those users. That me
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If you enjoy thinking about that, book VII of Euclid would be right up your alley: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookVII/book... The algorithm you describe is VII Proposition 1.
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by wcarey 6y ago
Ruggedization is a vast understatement given the energies involved. On top of that, your payload needs to be able to circularize from a negative perigee, so it would need lots of onboard delta-v. You’d also either have an aimable cannon or
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by wcarey 6y ago
I think there's a new paperback printing under way. Happily, it's not the end of the world acquiring them piecemeal, as each volume tells a coherent story and takes some time to read through!
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And Greyhound depicts a relatively calm series of engagements, compared to what actually happened. Consider the U.S.S. Borie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Borie_(DD-215) which rammed (!) a U-Boat in high seas, was
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by wcarey 6y ago
If you enjoy The Good Shepherd, The Ship is a similar book about surface combat in the Med.
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It's surprisingly readable. Good history is storytelling, and Morison was there for much of the history he relates. You could get a great picture of the variety of modern naval warfare by picking up the volumes on Midway and the Stru
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The book by C.S. Forester that the movie is based on is even more realistic, though the movie is pretty good. To really dig into it, Samuel Eliot Morison's magisterial History of Naval Operations in World War II does a good job talking
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There are an enormous number of (small) churches that don't function as business entities in the way you describe. Taxing churches would adversely select against these, encouraging all churches to behave more like businesses. It&#x27
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Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is a great read. I wonder which quadrant Graham would put Burke in?
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I think the term is a zero player game, where the initial configuration of the game determines the outcome. The card game War is another one. They’re good for teaching the mechanics of game playing without requiring the cognitive burden of
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Which critical edition do you prefer?

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