> Apple has also made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store.
This is confusing to me, does this mean Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify will be in violation as well? None of these companies allow subscription or digital goods transactions in their iOS apps.
I’m not sure why Patreon couldn’t replace the “subscribe” button with a “wishlist” button within the iOS app. They could add a link that opens your wishlist in the browser too. It turns what should be 1 click into 3, but it seems far more sensible than accepting the 30% fee.
Admittedly, I also wondered about this. I'm taking Patreon at their word (for now), but I would welcome Apple making some kind of statement indicating that Patreon is allowed to disable payments in the app.
And if it is true that they're not allowed to disable payments, I would also love to know what's special about Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify (other than their size) that would allow them to "get away" with the same behavior.
> Has the world entirely forgotten about websites?
Perhaps, if only the segment of the population forced to use a browser that didn't support PWAs for over a decade. I can see why they would forget about websites over a long enough period of time.
What do you do on Patreon that only a application could do, and not a website?
I subscribe to a bunch of Patreons, and most of them are videos (which I can view on a website) or they're downloadable assets I use my PC for accessing anyways, wouldn't make sense on mobile no matter app or website.
For what? Clicking a “pay this person $5 a month” button? Maybe commenting on a post or watching a video? I don’t see how the platform could affect that in any significant way.
Any sort of audio/video control for sure, which is a substantial portion of patreon content. Also, if you want to support offline content, it's nearly impossible to do it in a browser.
The app is better for viewing the content you paid for. Patreon is not just for subscribing to creators. They also deliver content. This isn't hard to understand.
Hell, Jobs originally wanted there to be no iPhone SDK, and for everyone to create webapps. Man, that would have been a better world. Initially it would have sucked, but the mobile web platform would have improved so much faster, and APIs for doing native-y things would have been complete and useful 15 years ago.
Do increases in suicide rates from social media addiction count?
There are emails unearthed from the early days of Facebook where utilizing addiction feedback loops were discussed to retain and maximize young users.
The Anxious Generation provides a lot of evidence correlating the rise of social media and a major increase in depression and anxiety related disorders.
There is a bit of history behind it and other Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. Originaly there was CentOS which was the "open source" / free version of RHEL. It was known for stability and reliability as a Linux distro for enterprise applications. CentOS was also 1-1, bug-for-bug replacement for RHEL.
This was good for a long time, but Red Hat dropped support for CentOS a few years back and stopped updating it. So Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, and others popped up to replace CentOS.
What's sad is that it's mainly the US that has problems with this. China has managed to bring multiple of this reactor design to fruition while the US still screws around with building just two. I live in Georgia and the almost decade of overruns and corruption are being about to be paid for by Georgia Power customers via rate hikes.
France and Finland have had excessive difficulty with their EPR.
My hypothesis is that modern economies with high wages will simply not be able to build a nuclear reactor economically. It appears to require a certain amount of 20th century technological advancement, but not so much economic advancement that labor costs are too high.
France had a much better track record with nuclear in their first round of building. France can also build large construction projects without the massive cost overruns that the US has had. But they can't seem to get a next gen reactor built.
The first EPR project in France (Flamanville-3) had problems documented in an official report (dubbed 'Folz', per the name of its main author), sadly AFAIK it wasn't translated into English: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/rapport-epr-flamanville
Because those were the first EPRs ever. Now that most caveats and issues are discovered, next ones should be drastically faster and easier.
> France can also build large construction projects without the massive cost overruns that the US has had
Not always, some easily go overboard, like with the Parisian Philharmonic, or the absolutely massive Grand Paris Express (~200km of new high capacity metro lines around Paris) which has seen the budget go up from an original estimate of 19 billion to 35 billion (euros). Completely normal considering the scale and complexity, but still.
Hinkley Point C, started 12 years later, is going swimmingly I hear! Going to cost the consumers ~$150/MWh and it is starting to look likely that EDF even at that incredibly high price takes a loss on it.
> Since construction began in March 2017, the project has been subject to several delays, including some caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,[10] and this has resulted in significant budget overruns. As of May 2022, the project is two years late and the expected cost is £25–26 billion,[11] 50% more than the original budget from 2016. It is currently planned to be commissioned in June 2027 and has a projected lifetime of 60 years. In February 2023, EDF announced that costs would rise to £32.7bn and completion would be delayed by a further 15 months to September 2028.[2][12]
Do you have any examples of a very high cost reactor dropping by a significant amount on a subsequent build?
South Korea was able to eke our small decreases in cost (though some people have ended up in jail for falsifying record keeping). But otherwise, costs tend to rise. And I'm definitely not aware of a drop of 50% or so, to bring these excessive costs into the realm of competitiveness.
It's a bit simplistic to blame only labour costs. Large, complex civil projects often have cost and schedule overruns because contractors know they're going to get paid anyway so are incentivised to make the project slower and more expensive.
Smaller, simpler projects don't tend to have the same issues because contractors know they can be replaced easily if they fail.
What is the pricing model for this? I don't see any mention of cost anywhere on the site at first glance. When you download the gif shows a "Get CoScreen for Free" button.
I think most of this stems from the fact that local governments are notoriously bad at improving infrastructure at the same speed as approving high density housing developments. They will agree to add hundreds of homes or apartments and just ignore the need for a better city or county public transportation system.
Why isn't it done as a pay-as-you-go deal with developers? Make the permit to break ground contingent on making arrangement to finance the road and utility build-outs?
I live in Georgia and this whole thing has been a cluster. All Georgia Power customers have a rate increase that goes into effect once the plants start producing power for the grid. Westinghouse went bankrupt due to incompetent contractors and under-the-table deals and Georgia Power customers are having to foot the bill.
Not to mention that Georgia has a multi billion dollar government budget surplus. Personally they should use that to keep power rates low. With the additional rate increases being requested by Georgia Power the citizens of Georgia are looking at a 40% rate increase in the next couple of years.
