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And after 10 years or so of trying, you'd expect the results to be far better, and more people to use it.

I think the search engine space is very ripe for a startup, but duckduckgo isn't it IMHO.

Adverts on hackernews now eh?

Otherwise we'll be called sexist?

I agree. I don't know why some people act as if it's astounding and something you would never think of - that swallowing magnets can be pretty dangerous.

Difference is though that there's millions of free apps floating around. There aren't millions of free wedges of cheese.

To a lot of people, paying for software is still a pretty weird concept, and evaluating the "worth" of software is quite hard when there is so much free software around.

The more dangerous case is those watch batteries are included in some greetings cards which play music or a recorded message etc. Very young kids can easily chew on a greetings card which isn't going to hurt them, but they may now swallow a battery as well, which may hurt them.

That's an idiotic conclusion.

How about teenagers who play with fireworks and die? Do we need to ban fireworks? Or do we just need parents to educate their children that fireworks are dangerous.

Those statistics are meaningless without comparison.

How many children are hospitalized/die from swallowing coins or lego?

Do we need warning labels on coins?

How many kids are hospitalized/die from swallowing batteries? I'd bet it's a lot more than magnets, and batteries can be pretty lethal.

I would say that when you buy an inflatable pool ring, if more of the area of the pool ring is taken up by warning messages, than isn't, then we've gone too far.

So yes, I think we've gone too far.

Sure. And they were let down massively by their parents.

If your child (Lets assume over the age of 2 or 3), is still eating random non-food items, you have some real parenting problems.

I bought some years ago, and had fun playing with them with my children. If you need a warning saying that eating a magnet is dangerous, you're not very clever.

And if your child (Lets say over the age of 3) is still eating random non-food items without checking with you, then you're not doing a great parenting job.

Don't you think the whole "put a warning sticker on everything" is getting a bit ridiculous?

Kinder surprises still banned though?

You mean he massively abused his position.

People have been prosecuted and JAILED for reddit comments don't forget.

Just a rookie question, but why the hell don't they just install some forum stuff on a web server?

I feel like some people don't understand the gravity of what he did. He edited someone elses comments. What is the point in being part of a community where the website owners may be editing random comments? It undermines the whole thing.

Let me ask a question. If it turned out that Google had started selectively "editing" peoples email coming from Gmail, would you still be fine using Gmail?

Which highlights how idiotic it all is.

If a statement is absolutely fine if the person saying it is black, but absolutely offensive and racist if the person saying it is white, then it's the person taking offense who is the racist one...

I'm not offended - I've never been offended. I'm just calling it out as bullshit.

eg racism can only be performed by white people.

"and I only included subjects who appeared to be a white man"

Ah yes of course - racism can only be carried out by white men after all.

What a pile of rubbish. If you take offense at words, things are going to get progressively worse for you as more and more automated bots enter the scene.

The answer of course, is for people to stop taking offense.

Do these people get offended at spam emails suggesting they need viagra or a fuckbuddy? What's the point?

This is why computers become slower and slower, and people have to upgrade. Because lazy developers make idiotic choices.

It's a static list of items. Hardly very efficient to load all that javascript, do a server request, just to display a list is it.

When will people learn that polls and "projections" from mainstream media etc are ridiculously wrong on this.

They were wrong on Brexit. They were wrong on Trump. Maybe once more countries have results like this the polsters and media will start actually engaging with real people.

Prisoners are big business in the US. It's slavery. They manufacture car license plates, washing machines, etc etc etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUyZkwSDar0

No. Those two have real world advantages that allow you to do things you previously could not.

This is just pointless syntax.

Looks like awful readability to me. No idea what they're trying to solve here.

But my point is that are you just "ignoring" the other side of the argument - if you don't put a serial killer to death, there's a chance others will be killed.

If you don't put them to death, can you be 100% sure saving that life isn't going to cause more people to die?

It's not simply a case of "punishment". It's preventing further crime and deaths.

Nothing I miss.

The Dell XPS goes to sleep when lid closed, and correctly (and fast) wakeup when you open the lid. Battery life amazing as well. So I just shut the laptop, and open it the next day and continue...

Nothing is 100% certain. If you perform a heart operation, there's a chance you'll kill the patient. Does that mean we should get rid of heart operations?

If you put a serial killer to death, you can be 100% sure they won't kill any more people. If you put him in prison, you can't. He may escape, or he may get released early and kill again. Or as often happens, he'll kill other prisoners whilst in prison.

It's a question of whether you value potential victims, or potential falsely convicted innocent people. IMHO the former is a far bigger problem.

I've had macbooks for years. I finally gave up and got a Dell XPS running Ubuntu earlier this year. Best decision I ever made. So much faster, so much more responsive. No massive delay waiting for that idiotic spinner. It's been clear for a while Apple don't care about developers.

Yes I'm aware. I live in the UK. Guns are used for sport, pest control, shooting laptops, etc.