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point78··on It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
So improve public transport and pedestrian areas. OP wants to create multilevel highways.
point78··on Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong
For starters it means not integrating them into a country with concentration camps, kills journalists, suppresses dissent

Hong Kong was a democracy, it getting eaten up by China is horrendous.

point78··on It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
This makes no sense whatsoever and probably one of the worst ideas I ever read on HN.

Banning cars works very well along with pedestrian streets and public transport in Europe.

point78··on How Much Air Pollution Is Produced by Rockets? (2017)
how will we get to space of we kill ourselves first
point78··on China's super camera can pinpoint specific targets among of thousands of people
Don't fool yourself, the West has it too but we don't publish it. (And anyway look at cctv in london)
point78··on ‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality
Ok and your first point, but your second point...That's exactly what a free trial is by definition. It's free for a period of days until you are a paying member.
point78··on ‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality
I fail to see the problem here. There are dozens of these apps offered for free, some the developer decides to charge per month. User just has to find the free ones.

Should Google now tell app developers what to charge? That's ridiculous.

point78··on Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found
Does the internet count
point78··on Brains are the last frontier of privacy
Troll, you're making 0 sense. Socialism and government works very well when done correctly (north europe).

Take away government you'll just have kings and queens. You think they would respect your rights and/or life.

You must still be a teenager and have not gotten through this part of world history yet. When you do you will understand.

point78··on Brains are the last frontier of privacy
>They do not have the ability to compel people to surrender to unlimited search

They dont? Says who? Who the heck do you think will have power to do whatever they want whenever they want?

You think the 1% will distribute wealth and power fairly and evenly?

Governments are in place to democratically do this. If you think the 1% wouldn't kill you in a heartbeat take a look at world history or some dictatorships today.

You really have no idea what you're even saying.

point78··on Brains are the last frontier of privacy
So you prefer to go back to kings and emperors? Without the state we will all be slaves to someone.
point78··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
I think we're all specifically asking how the heck you monetize extensions
point78··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
The only important question is what is his revenue
point78··on Breaking Down the Chrome Web Store
Carr to elaborate
point78··on How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
So because your little experience in a tiny state in the middle of nowhere on a planet of 7 billion people is good, it means the entire planet is good.

Got it.

point78··on Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Ah I see now. Yes.
point78··on Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
The keywords in my sentence was "american" and "eastern european"

EE is known for sex trafficking young beautiful women and mainly in Europe. That an American has his hands on them is even stranger.

point78··on Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
The keywords in my sentence was "american" and "eastern european"

EE is known for sex trafficking young beautiful women and mainly in Europe. That an American has his hands on them is even stranger.

point78··on Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
A 60 year old American financier who's uglier than a frog has 2 teenage eastern european models as "assistants"....does that add up to you?
point78··on Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
This was just as true 30 years ago also
point78··on YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
Yes they are, but you're leaving out the most important point here. It's content SPECIFICALLY designed for babies. The onus is on the producer - whether it's toys, videos, ads - for us to have some regulation saying x is ok but not y.

By your method of thinking...let's just make everything OK for babies and let the parents decide.

That makes no sense...it's why society has laws (Why can't I go buy a bazooka in Europe? Because there are laws).

point78··on Committed to a Safer Google Play for Families
Do you have kids?
point78··on YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
Completely wrong, everything targeted at children (for decades) is regulated. If your kid is watching Sesame Street on PBS and an ad for The Sopranos appears - that does not happen for a reason.

Uploading cartoon nursery rhymes and having an ad for drug trafficking come up is idiotic.

point78··on YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
Free. Just like public broadcasting system is free and when watching Sesame Street an ad for The Wire (Or whatever came up) will not happen.
point78··on YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
Cartoon nursery rhymes directed at as low as even 1 year olds will sometimes have ads popup for a tv show containing drugs and guns. Completely inappropriate!

EVERYTHING that deals with children whether directly or indirectly is strictly regulated, and rightly so.

Television programming as an example, for 70 years only permits certain ads to be displayed on children's shows.

YouTube should be regulated by the FCC in regards to this and very easily can have a checkbox for advertisers and providers to check that says the content is for under 13 or not.

point78··on Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
Brilliant and morally acceptable are definitely two different things
point78··on Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
Google needs to be clear on what causes apps to be removed, and based on account history should be way more lenient on what would cause account termination...

I.e. 4 years good standing 3 strikes, 5 years good standing 4 strikes, etc

point78··on Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men
Say anything you want is a lie. Let's see some real hate speech in a column targeted at minorities. You won't. So why should it be tolerated for any group.
point78··on Police arrest student leader over laser pointers in Hong Kong
Do it. Not sure why you're being downvoted
point78··on Insured price $2,758, cash price $521
Well as screwed up as the system is one little part of why prices are so high is to cover when people don't pay.
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