How can you give every subdomain in *.shopify.com their own entropy pool without also giving domains the ability to serve a distinct subdomain for each user (eg, user-1.example.com & user-2.example.com) and therefore bypassing the restrictions Apple is seeking to implement?
That’s the debate happening in the GitHub issue. I think a natural answer is with carrots and sticks. Shopify will police their platform if that is what’s necessary to prevent Apple from destroying its business by cutting them all off.
There aren’t that many “build your own store” SaaS platforms, so it is feasible to maintain a whitelist.
It may sound strange at first to propose that Apple should be essentially auditing the behavior of other companies, but they have shown a willingness to pick up that
mantle. Apple has already undertaken the huge effort of regulating the business practices of anyone on the App Store with the privacy label and other areas such as payments for digital goods. In this case, they’ve sort of delegated responsibility to a volunteer effort, which is understandable given how the situation evolved, but doesn’t seem sustainable.
It's Trumps own fault that he chose Twitter to be his way of messaging the public. Why not build whitehouse.gov/words_from_the_pres? Twitter isn't funded by taxpayers and we aren't entitled to it.
No one is operating in a free market. Free markets don't exist in the real world - all markets have externalities and influences other than those created by the markets themselves, if only due to those markets existing within states under frameworks of law and regulation. Arguments from simple supply and demand never describe reality accurately enough to be useful.
That doesn't answer the point raised by the parent comment. If I need programmers, and I'm only willing to pay minimum wage, then only one or two show up, is there a programmer shortage? There's plenty of programmers available, just not at minimum wage. The same applies to the school district example. The shortage is because they're not willing to raise wages.
That's exactly the problem affirmative action is supposed to address. That's exactly why I support it, even though it wasn't in my own interest back then. So what's your point here? Do you support AA, or oppose it? The "point" that discrimination already exists was not in dispute.
It doesn't take that much skill to know that a certain stretch of road doesn't have cell signal and how to set fire to a truck. It takes even less skill when you know there's no human on the truck to stop you
