Many companies could «definitely survive without the HNer's business», the question is wether the HNer's opinions hold more value technically speaking or not.
I mean, Saudi Aramco makes much more money than Apple, could «definitely survive without the HNer's business», but I guess nobody would say that their «design decision favors far more users than it doesn't».
> Apple achieved a global desktop/laptop market share of 9.6% and ranked fourth behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell. In the United States, Apple accounts for 12.7% of the PC market
> the only actual performance most consumers are likely to notice
Remember when Apple made the Power Mac QUAD, to indicate that the system had FOUR processors, because "men should not live of single thread performance alone"?
> "With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture and the fastest workstation card from Nvidia, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we've ever made," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in a statement.
Of course they can't advertise the multi core performances, because they are lower compared to similar systems, just like with the Power Mac they could not advertise that the system was greener, because it wasn't.
1 - Apple is not going to enter the server market ever again, especially not the generalist cloud infrastructure
2 - 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops, most of them are sub $500 laptops.
Amazon best selling is ASUS Laptop L210 Ultra Thin Laptop, 11.6” HD Display, Intel Celeron N4020 Processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage priced at $199
Basically only Mac users who upgraded to M1 are going to notice the difference
> Can you expand on the second point? If something can’t be liquidated/sold, how can it be collateral?
It means that to ask for 1 you need to already own 1 in the form of different cryptos from the one you are loaning.
So basically you are asking for money you already have in the first place.
With crypto it makes sense: if I loan you 10 bitcoins and you disappear, those bitcoins are lost forever, so to ask for 10 bitcoins you have to put the countervalue of 10 bitcoins in (for example) ETH and freeze them so they act as collateral.
The authority that requires the account access is responsible for the permissibility of data retrieval and data transmission. The BZSt only checks whether the application is plausible.
So it's clear that the authority __has to__ require access, it's not granted automatically.
The request has to be plausible (whatever that means, but it's still a limitation)
The banks, on the other hand, are not allowed to find out anything that an account is being accessed. Therefore, an account retrieval does not lead to negative consequences for the bank customer.
So the bank gains no further knowledge about you.
Quoting the article you posted here:
The account query only provides information about the banks with which someone has accounts or custody accounts. No information about the account balance or account movements is transmitted to the tax office.
Since 2009, it has only been possible to access accounts in cases expressly determined by law, for example if it is absolutely necessary for the taxation procedure:
IMPORTANT --> Before accessing the account, the person concerned is usually asked to clarify the matter himself
IMPORTANT --> The master data is only called up if this request is unsuccessful
which matches my previous response:
AFAIK in Germany they can ask you to submit your banking history for tax purposes (for example they have doubts about your declaration), if you fail to submit it or refuse, they can go to the bank, but you are notified way before they go through the bank and if you comply with the request*
AFAIK in Germany they can ask you to submit your banking history for tax purposes (for example they have doubts about your declaration), if you fail to submit it or refuse, they can go to the bank, but you are notified way before they go through the bank and if you comply with the request, they don't go to the bank at all.
Also the request must be authorized by the state tax office, it's not like every government employee can request and obtain the list of all of your transactions.
Apple is saying that the only way to make secure software is remove features that they don't want or don't know how to implement in a secure way.
It's like saying that cars are safer if you remove the wheels.
In your analogy, you are implying that progressive web apps are possible only if they support the smaller set of shared features among all the vendors.
Meaning that a single actor can ruin the game for everybody else.
I think that if a vendor is the only one refusing to support something that is common everywhere else, it's the vendor that is at fault, not the developer.
From the same article: Solar power in 2019 accounted for 1.8% of U.S. utility-scale generating capacity
At the end of 2019, the United States had about 1,100,546 MW—or 1.1 billion kilowatts (kW)—of total utility-scale electricity generating capacity and about 23 million kW of small-scale solar photovoltaic electricity generating capacity
from 23 to 172 it's only 7.5 times more
you need to increase production 15 times more to reach the current total output.
As a payment system must comply with local laws in order to operate legally, GNU Taler must be designed to comply with these requirements. GNU Taler must provide an audit trail for investigators operating under the law. Furthermore, we consider levying of taxes as beneficial to society, and fair taxation requires income transparency. Thus, GNU Taler must enable authorities to track income
Which makes a lot of sense.
Privacy of buyers is protected from the merchant, that doesn't imply that the payment is untraceable (or that complete secrecy is necessary).
> Also it performs at 10W, not at 15W and does so without a fan (in the case of the MacBook Air
The comparison is with a Mac Mini that uses a fan.
15W is not far from 10W, considering Ryzen are still 7nm
IMO even 35W is not much at all, for 18 hours on battery and that kind of performances (especially the multi core).
The difference is negligible for users, assuming 8 hours a day for 365 days straight the 15W APU would consume 15KW more, in Italy it would cost about one euro more.
Take for example the `als` benchmark for java renaissance.
It has a lot of options, one of them used to not force GC.
Was it set?
What version of Java?
I'm running openjdk 11.
When I launched it it gave me this warning
20/12/14 18:55:20 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Would a native hadoop library make a difference?
And how much?
There are other warnings complaining about lacking some additional library and switching to default, but what really surprised me is that on this particular laptop that mounts an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz with 8 cores, a CPU at least 5 years old, I could beat the i9 benchmark.
The `als` benchmark for the i9 completed in 3581.838 ms, on my (very old) laptop the running time was 3533.964 ms.
They have been at war for 2 centuries like much of Europe.
Depending on who you ask, Ottomans were their allied or their enemies in Scandinavia, at times they have been both like Denmark allied of Ottomans against Russia that then switched side and sided with Russia that gave them land from Sweden.
There were big differences between Scandinavian countries and they have been at war for a long time.
Denmark for example owned Ghana, like Belgium owned Congo.
They were richer than say Finland.
France has been involved in less wars during the same time span.
Another example: Spain and Portugal weren't bombed during WW2, they were not occupied, they stayed mostly neutral, but didn't develop an high trust society.
I was in my office 20 years ago watching the streaming from the website of an Italian newspaper that was broadcasting the CNN news channel.
Streaming was already a thing in 2001.