Time to see what the next move for Apple will be if they lose the appeal. Because I doubt Apple will be content to lose money on the ruling and will look to collect the fees elsewhere. Without the ability for developers ship iOS apps with no business relationship to Apple you're still pitching your tent on someone else's land.
Readit NewsSpivak commented on Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups macrumors.com/2025/08/21/... · Posted by u/greenburger
> lot of people on this thread don’t seem to realize that solar and wind now work fine without government subsidies
This isn’t about subsidies. Orsted, for example, is being blocked on national security grounds using environmental regulation [1].
Power producers are in on a fix.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-orders-orsted-ha...
Ah yes Republicans, the party of strong environmental regulations and impeding business.
"You betrayed everything you believe in, and for what?"
"To own the libs."
Why shouldn’t they get some equity in return for giving money to a for profit company?
I'm a bit biased because my home state is Ohio and they have it in their constitution that the state can't have a stake in any private company and can't even lend credit to any private company. And this amendment was written in blood, in the early 19th century the state nearly bankrupted itself investing in and taking stake in private companies.
* The state can't risk taxpayer money on ventures that might not pay off or lose them money. How the state "gets around this" is by issuing zero recourse loans. The advantage is that when economic development money is handed out there's not an asset on the balance sheet. It's treated like it was spent. The value the state gets from spending the money has to be independently worth it for taxpayer without considering financial returns.
* It eliminates a whole category of conflicts of interests where the government will get squeamish regulating or punishing bad behavior because it would hurt the taxpayers' investment.
* It also eliminates vectors for corruption as well as the negative effects of the government having direct influence over specific businesses. No backdoor regulations from the state's ownership stake that don't go through the legislature.
So I'm very heavily in the camp that government shouldn't ever be allowed to have stake in any private company. The line between government and private enterprise should be the wall this admin likes to talk about. I certainly didn't expect it would be republicans I would be trying to convince that state ownership of business is a bad thing.
Just? You mean they should have received the stupidly large sum of money without anything for the tax payer?
Yes? That's what grants are. The government is buying a domestic chip industry with that money.
Spivak commented on Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker nkantar.com/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
The best way to make static sites is to install nginx/caddy or whatever basic static webserver from your repos. Then put the .html and files in directories on your filesystem in the web root folder. Done. No overhead, no attack surface, no problems with software changing (deps, etc, etc), lasts forever. Super easy interface (it's your filesystem!).
This project seems more like something you'd do to demonstrate your skills with all these tools that do have use in a business/for-profit context working with groups but they have absolutely no use or place hosting a personal static website. Unless you're doing it for kicks and enjoy useless complexity. That's fair. No accounting for taste in recreation.
The flow where you build the static site into a container in CI, push it to a registry, and then your server watches for changes (watchtower) and runs it behind nginx-proxy is the true lazy solution. Push to your git repo and forget about it. Same config for a huge variety of applications—static and not.
Spivak commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
But why is “academic discourse” needed? The issue is that THIS study essentially falsified data. That can be discussed on its own, without some weird battle of studies each manipulating results to demonstrate a conclusion they’ve each decided on.
That's a much stronger claim, stronger than the one made in Kennedy's criticism. If you or anyone can prove that they actually lied or fabricated data then yeah, nuke the paper from orbit. But if the criticism is that they're wrong—and that is the criticism here, then you tear it apart in the open. And if you want people to believe the opposite conclusion rather than simply ignoring the results then you need some data proving your new conclusion.
Spivak commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
Isn’t the mistake already made? What would the ideal way be to address this?
Hold it up for all to see as an example of bad science. Make your case, back it up by data, publish your findings.
Ya know, academic discourse. It's not like the man can't get funding for such a study. Realistically, if you're going to shout from the rooftops wouldn't you rather it be data that unequivocally proves you right than poking holes in studies that prove you wrong. The former is a victory.
Spivak commented on RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
But then why flex and try to pull the study? Don't interrupt your opponent while they're making a mistake and then dunk on them.
Surely the most transparent thing is allowing this scientific discourse to happen out in the open and let the truth fall out, no? If Kennedy is right and these are dangerous then I want him proven right and the vaccines reformulated.
What a bizarre reaction to a completely standard marketing segment. Who does the author THINK is Monster Energy Drink's core customer?
The picture is a little silly but listing out the demographics of your customer base is like so normal. The marketing for Monster would be quite different if their market was over 65 women.
Although it would be a funny bit to run a monster commercial in the style of something like L'Oreal.
Spivak commented on Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/Kye
Are users, who are not transacting with the platform, doing commerce? What if the platform were hosted in, say, Europe?
If they're outside the country they can freely tell Mississippi to pound sand—the state might compel entities they do have jurisdiction over (i.e. ISPs) to cut them off but that's the extent of it.