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> Are you thinking of recombinant growth hormones?

I might be yes, I could be mistaken.

> Cow's milk is full of growth hormones

This is true in the US, but not everywhere.

You could apply the same argument against guns.

I'd prefer neither had it.

Neither can be trusted to retain a glass of water, let alone personally identifying information that can spur advertising campaigns and sway elections in countries around the world.

A simple flip/slide phone.

I wouldn't want to live in either country, but for entirely different reasons for each.

> Why do you think we don't know how to deal with it properly?

Is this a serious question?

We bury it underground in vast bunkers with hundreds of warnings and ominous-looking signs inteded to warn people thousands of years into the future not to fucking open the thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

Of course we don't know how to handle it. We basically dump nuclear waste in glorified landfills. Look how great that turned out for our regular waste that doesn't pose the grave threat of biological/ecological hazard.

Letting a media company design and build a nuclear power plant when they have precisely no experience in that sphere seems dumb to me.

> it's using the authority of the State to restrict certain liberties in the intent of doing good.

That's called civilisation.

And the US doesn't have absolute free speech. It never did.

Just like other democracies, it has restrictions on speech for various reasons, some good and some bad. It's about where an individual country draws their line on the spectrum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

Some US states have obscenity laws that other developed democracies don't. Obscenity laws. Just think about how insane that is as a concept.

> unless they outright block US services from their networks- in which case there will be riots in the streets.

People aren't going to be rioting in the streets because they lose access to Google and Facebook, come on.

People in western democracies put up with a hell of a lot worse than that from their governments without rioting.

> You can't outcompete a free nation. That's kind of its main advantage.

I'd like to believe that was true, but I think China will prove us wrong in the coming decades.

Civilization games taught me that vassals, when powerful enough can break their vassalage and become free again.

Perhaps that's what is happening with China. It's no longer dependent on the US in the way it was and in time, will eclipse the US as the largest superpower.

That's just common sense for a developing economy.

Hopefully his ideas will follow.

> The US does this, but I'm glad it's a country where we value being able to openly criticize our government for it.

Around half of your population don't seem to want that at all as long as 'their guy' is in power.

Absolutely.

There's no political will to do this unfortunately.

Israel, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and certain individuals, organisations and lobbying groups in the United States.

To name a few.

Is this how the free market is supposed to work?

That's not true about the United States. The entire US road network has been designed with cars in mind since at least the turn of the 20th century.

> The 70% don't understand that Medicare for all would kill off the private insurance industry.

Perhaps they do undestand and simply don't care? Why should they? Insurance is a parasitic industry.

GDP tells you precisely nothing about where a country's wealth is going, who it is going to or even anything about the well-being of its people.

GDP may as well be simply a measure of how much richer the rich are getting.

> Unfortunately, equating a human life to dollars is always insulting. To that individual, their life could be worth an infinite amount and more than all the money in the world.

True, but that's irrelevant. My life is worth more to me than any comapny could pay, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't expect recompense if the company poisoned me to death. I would want to enjoy my final days in as little suffering as possible and leave something behind for whoever I might care about.

The fact is, that by making them ill you have effectively ended their life. It's manslaughter, perhaps even murder, and you have prevented them from working to support their family.

If you're going to live the remainder of your life in suffering I would bloody well hope the parties responsible start emptying their pockets for you and your family.

I can't believe I'm actually having to defend the concept of compensation from a company that poisoned someone to death. I know HN has a serious case of corporate sycophancy but this is on another level.

'Science' certainly is divided on the matter, (and I'd say most of it does not paint glyphosate in a great light) which is why Monsanto tries to suppress the science it doesn't like, hires trolls to brigade social media and engages in obfuscation and obstruction.

> Imho: because Western populations care about environmentalism and don't like to use their power to compel others, even if that would be more efficient.

Do you really believe western nations don't use their power to compel poorer countries to act in a given way?

A poorer nation probably will misrepresent what they do with the trash.

The sellers can't in all honestly claim they didn't know this would be the result.

This is a childish excuse.

So when you say that stating there are no boundaries is a good thing for Israel, would you have held that same view in the 1930's and 1940's when most of Europe was busy trying to resist another organisation that also did not believe in boundaries?

> Also, as an Israeli, I can 100% confirm that Israelis have absolutely no issues with crossing any kind of boundary. The fact that others think that such a thing as "boundaries" exist only serves as an advantage.

Maybe as an Israeli you can see the hypocrisy in stating that there are no boundaries when, if it wasn't for a large part of the world deciding that in fact there ARE boundaries that should not be crossed, the Nuremberg trials would never have been held and Israel would not exist at all.

But you go ahead and ignore your own history.

> The "recurring revenue" model has really soured the experience of playing video games.

In fairness, that particular model seems to be mainly attributed to the kind of EA/Ubi/Acti/ annual 'AAA blockbuster' shovelware.

All games I play currently on PC are free of this crap. No game I've bought in the last year has had anything like this either.

That said I mostly play games that are highly moddable.

This is telling me that 45 tweets are coming from North Korea.