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Part of the motivation for these protests was the inflation making it hard to afford everyday living. Not working means even less money.

Israel has killed more than double that in Gaza, and that’s only what’s been confirmed as many bodies are under rubble and millions are left living in tents: https://aje.io/5b4h1e

Any failure that causes a loss of control or communication with the satellites, especially as a result of attack or software update rolled out to many of them that contains a latent bug.

How do you convince those pre-diabetic people to use a GLP-1? There was quite a bit of backlash about the one-time injection COVID vaccine when it was mandated.

For a simple version bump, I feel like brew is fine. Or do you have other tooling updates in mind?

You should go to the casinos yourself and find out! As someone who's made it to late game Luck Be a Landlord, you will feel right at home!

I'm not trying to be mean here, but it feels like you have no idea how a slot machine works...

It has every aspect of the slot machines I was playing just 2 weekends ago at casinos in Reno, but without credits being deducted from my balance per spin. Instead, in this game, you must pay lump sums from your credit balance to the Landlord after N spins. It's thinly disguised gambling with fake credits, but with a "Gamble now, pay later" twist.

EDIT: my mistake, it appears from the video you also pay one credit per spin, in addition to the rent.

The cost per spin is the thing that makes it gambling.

The "landlord" aka casino is constantly requiring that you pay `X credits within N spins` or else it's game over. That is just moving when the subtraction of player's credits happens from every spin to every few spins. It's effectively X/N credits per spin, per "rent" notice. That's a core game mechanic.

You realize you're trying to argue that this is appropriate for children, where the whole game is they pretend to be a gambling addict trying to make their ever-increasing rent payments (which children don't have) by taking spins at a video slot machine.

Walmart is selling one right now

The ESRB and Walmart are OK with kids playing a casino gambling simulator, but that doesn’t mean Google or Apple should be too.

For a parent who looks at their kid playing on their phone with a Vegas-style video slot machine on the screen, complete with a "Spin" button, it appears to be gambling. At a minimum, it’s normalizing real-life casino gambling motifs for their child. Some may find that objectionable for children, and it appears the tech companies agree.

If you can't see that this is 99% of a video slot machine game, just without any cost per spin and 8-bit graphics, then maybe you should visit a casino: https://youtu.be/Vaw2g0tQo58?feature=shared&t=102

That’s why replica guns are _required_ to have bright orange tips on the barrel: so other people (like police) know it’s not real.

If this game is centered around a Vegas-style slot machine aesthetic & animation, people will think it’s gambling.

There is iCloud for Windows: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/what-is-iclou...

US tariffs were put in to prevent Chinese cars from competing here too.

Yes, Hezbollah is a political party and militia rolled into one that uses terrorism achieve their goals. But there are no good guys here.

Likud is a terrorist organization that killed thousands of Palestinians through the IDF. Not to mention Frenchmen, Americans, and Arabs. Their forces recently bombed schools, refugee centers, and other "safe" zones in Gaza. They've fired indiscriminately at reporters and humanitarian aid groups. The party's espoused policy is against statehood for Palestinians and instead encourage settlement of their territory, even through violence.

Hezbollah is a political party that holds seats in Lebanon’s parliament. It’s bizarre to paint them with a broad brush.

The difference is that Western media only refers to the detonation of boobytrapped devices that have injured thousands of civilians as an “intelligence operation” rather than a terror attack.

Can you explain how result builders are half-baked?

They’ve been used for more than SwiftUI by now. The Regex support since 5.7 uses them: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/swift/5.7/regexes

It’s not about size. Maximizing profit without losing too many customers is a major focus of business education.

The plethora of crappy, bootleg cables with USB-C connectors that are single purpose (power only, low-speed data only, etc) has created plenty of e-waste, in addition to confusion. I don’t see how this is an improvement over the licensing model, where you know every cable works the same.

Are Chrome plugins capable enough to sustain a paid store model? I thought they were becoming more restricted to stifle ad blockers.

One missed jobs report is a convenient reason, but I don't think that's it. Investors were upset the Fed didn't cut rates just before that report dropped, so they're doing a collective sell-off to force the Fed's hand.

On the bright side, having only one browser to support makes life a lot easier, too.

You don’t have to pay Apple a penny to run a website. I’m talking plain HTML5 / JavaScript and a URL.

Perhaps you’re assuming I mean a PWA, Apple sign-in, or Apple Pay? I believe those are non-standard integrations with the OS provided by Apple, for the convenience of developers.

It would be great if everything was standardized from the start, but standardization can also hinder technological progress and creativity. It’s a trade-off.

Perhaps I’m in the minority here, but I don’t bemoan paying for development tools. I pay about $60/year for a JetBrains IDE because it makes my life easier and that’s how I make money. Devs pay for APIs and SaaS to make their lives easier too.

I don't know why Apple should feel entitled to own the relationship with a businesses customers because they also use an iPhone when it's an ancillary part of the product.

Apple provides a custom operating system (frameworks, drivers, security updates, backwards compatibility, etc) to make that business's app function, and continue to function, at all.

You can write and maintain a website instead of an app to avoid that.

Google relies on power for their datacenters, so if they get into the generation of it, they'll further vertically integrate and save money. Once they dominate the power generation market, they can raise prices on others.

I mean it was famously tested in 2015 after the San Bernardino attack. Apple didn’t back down [1] and later sued the company who sold the zero-day to the govt to unlock the phone [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/14/azimuth...

The layer of management reporting to leadership are yes-men.

It is true [1], but it may not be strictly enforced. I find it fascinating that they are specific about which kinds of Christianity are accepted (Protestantism and Catholicism).

[1] https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-r....

Looks like it's 95% AI-based announcements and a few simple Android changes. They really are betting the whole company on one idea for their products.

It's not weird for a publicly traded company.

If you can't train the model, you don't really have control over a product based on it.