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That's the small scale developer edition.

I don't know anything about home robots, but to me this seems to be the first design that is practical to bring to consumers. Not 2 human arms (or even legs) and some expensive face, but instead just a Roomba-ish base, telescope arm with grabber that moves up and down, camera on top.


Yeah, they should go here price first and make cheap hackable platform that would be awsome.


A different source [1] describes certain product categories. Initially products like swabs, forks, plates, cups, stick for balloons that have non-plastic alternatives.

[1] German: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/umweltschutz-verbot-von-ei...


I see this as primarily avoiding garbage in the environment.

A paper bag or cotton swab with wooden stick just dissolves if it ends up in nature. Plastic versions are around for a long time.


If India (or any other country for that matter) would be in an armed conflict with the US, they would probably also consider banning various US controlled services.


China is not in armed conflict with US , why does it ban every app that civilized world uses ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...


protectionism.


I asked about the algorithm thing--that's what I'm curious about. Where specifically does that belief end.


I'd guess that double-standards are inevitable and desired when there is an armed conflict between nations.

If Indian government sees no harm in US apps whilst banning Chinese apps, this is the definition of diplomatic pressure. Asymmetry is the tool used to apply this pressure.

Your point is valid - we have no way to know Facebook algorithms and it is a blackbox, but this isn't supposed to be a symmetric comparison for aforementioned reasons.


> It's different quality of service.

I think that’s only true until it arrives in the US though and USPS delivers the package to your door. Sure, total time is long, but the cost to USPS seems similar?


I'd bet this has to do with capacity, similar with network equipment. If you operate below capacity, it's hard to tell apart a high priority packet from a low priority one. You will start noticing delays in low priority packets only when you start saturating your network capacity.


Actually it has to do with how international shipping rates are arbitrarily set by committee every 4 years.

Here’s a planet money episode on the topic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...


They seem to fall under the “reader app” exception that I understand as basically consumption of licensed works such as movies, songs, books.

My guess is that those categories just don’t have the margins to support a 30% cut without charging more then other platforms. An email service, dating all or games are basically arbitrary prices where every sale is making some money for the company. The store cut is annoying, but basically it’s still revenue.


Unclear to me, but this might disallow a higher price for Apple in-app purchases:

> 3.1.3(b) [...] You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase.

from https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#mul...


They could just price it atronomically high in the app, like a bug, which will trigger people to reach out to others or investigate.


I don't think this type of clever lawyering is going to work when you're against a corporation that rules with an iron fist.


- Sales staff to get event organizers to use their platform and help with setup. - Customer support to deal with issues. - Maybe loss and employees to deal with fraud of some kind (since payments are involved).


I can understand that for a crooked carrot, but for example a tomato with broken skin actually gets bad pretty quickly.



Yes - sorry, this is the comment I was referring to. I'm not aware of _bugs_ in `std::sync::mpsc`, more concerns around things which could have been done better which are now not possible to retrofit because of the guarantees of the standard library with respect to backwards compatibility.


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