3.1.3(d) Person-to-Person Experiences: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person experiences between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments. One-to-few and one-to-many realtime experiences must use in-app purchase.
This is huge news. Being able to use third-party payments methods to bypass Apple's 30% charge is essential for service driven marketplace apps. Classpass and AirBnB bumped into this issue [0], but, I wonder if this exception will apply for them?
This is such a cynical outlook on the world. Of course there are for-profit companies -- most I would argue -- that have a positive impact on the world, and Tesla is one such example.
R + the tidyverse (dplyr, ggplot2 etc.) is easily the most elegant data analysis combo I've used. However, I tend to use Python for this usecase nowadays, primarily to reduce friction when working with others where Python is the lingua franca. Also, RMarkdown is superior to Jupyter notebooks in my opinion.
This is very cool. Relatedly, as a data scientist, I wish companies would expose their APIs through SQL. I've spent a lot of time pulling data into ETL jobs from things like mixpanel, adwords etc., and having a unified interface would make things much simpler.
I'm trying to understand the architecture of Splitgraph. Are all foreign data wrappers controlled directly by you, or can third parties host a database and connect it to Splitgraph in a federation?
Agreed, with modern reactor designs nuclear "waste" is a misnomer. The Dutch keep all of their nuclear waste in buildings open to the public for tours, buildings which also happen to house priceless artwork:
I think the fact that binary size has become smaller rather than larger is notable in a world where most other software seems to be increasingly more resource hungry.
The problem with vertical farming is where does the energy come from? An acre of solar panels is not capable of supplying enough energy to grow an acre of crops, even with the efficiency gains we've had in photovoltaics and lighting with wavelengths tuned to crop growth. What's the point in having fields of solar panels when we could have smaller greenhouses filled with crops?
If only nuclear energy was politically viable in the west we could have vertical farming and so much more.
It seems you misunderstood the article. When a minority has an intolerant stance about which the majority has no preference towards, the minority wins. For example, the majority doesn't care if all food is kosher. But, the majority would care if all food was vegan.
I agree, the lack of stack traces can be annoying when debugging Go programs. Instead of returning raw errors everywhere, the problem can be alleviated by adding some context to returned errors:
if err := foo(x); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("foo: bad argument %s", x)
}
A recent discussion here on Latacora's "How (not) to sign a JSON object" [0], had me thinking of CBOR. Unlike JSON, MsgPack, protobufs, BSON, or any other commonly used data interchange format that I'm aware of; CBOR has a canonical representation (although, with seeming ambiguity in float representation) [1].
Anyone have any thoughts on using canonical CBOR for object signing? Currently, I'm building a system with a content-addressable data store, and I'm particularly interested in data formats with a canonical form for this use-case.
3.1.3(d) Person-to-Person Experiences: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person experiences between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments. One-to-few and one-to-many realtime experiences must use in-app purchase.
This is huge news. Being able to use third-party payments methods to bypass Apple's 30% charge is essential for service driven marketplace apps. Classpass and AirBnB bumped into this issue [0], but, I wonder if this exception will apply for them?
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/technology/apple-app-stor...
Edit: In excitement, I missed the last sentence; group services aren't covered by the exception :(