Anyone else find it odd that the headline clumps Zoom, a service that relies on the internet being up, with Verizon, arguably a service that ensures that the internet is up to begin with? Feels a bit like saying "the power's out, causing issues for P&G and your refrigerator"

Here is a question that I don't have an answer to: why was HyperCard so good? In simple terms you could say it opened a door to a new set of possibilities, that it was the precursor to the internet, etc. But I can't escape the sense that HyperCard demonstrated the potential for things that have not been realized. Anyone else have that sense, that somethings have been lost in what we have now?

It claims to cover IAP [1] only, which wouldn't include Amazon nor Uber as those payments go directly to those entities. Also many companies who formerly relied on IAP, like Netflix and Spotify, are starting to bypass it entirely [2].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/

[2] https://musically.com/2018/08/22/netflix-joins-spotify-in-by...

Serious question: Would it be legal for them not to?

As a climber, I wish this were less widely publicized. Free soloing is extremely dangerous, and dozens of climbers - including experienced ones die doing it every year.

I work at a data science company that uses both, in a DevOps capacity. We actually have a fairly hard policy against R in production or in client deliverable code. That's mostly because of the difficulty in 'productionizing' R code, and the relative immaturity of several common R libraries. However that having been said, nearly all of our junior Data scientists from a non software engineering background do pick up R faster and feel more comfortable in it, so we mostly use it for rapid prototyping.