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hardware manufactureres might even be found to owe compensation for the unreasonable externalities (cracking) forced upon the customers.

virgins do still have their virginity to loose, don't they?

from another perspective; you get paid to not pollute the planet and do nothing instead.

first world problems ...

as i tried to explain: it does not

wouldn't call it genocide because it is not a selective measure. but yea, "preventing births" does qualify

glory hole et.al.

> societal downsides become more and more apparent

not sure, but in the greater picture of overpopulation, porn seems to be a cheap and effective measure compared to medical/physical alternatives.

i mean yes, it's suboptimal. but hardly news that for the real deal, you gotta leave the main road.

right, russians went from cyber-shady to cyber-pure-evil and now everyone has to cut ties...

also safe to say that a vast majority of ppl on the planet can't afford for-profit cancer treatment

i mean, why waste effort on curing ppl that contribute to global overpopulation.

> Contrast that to Facebook or Twitter, where only positive signals exist

i've never seen a downvote button on HN. Is my browser to old or not supported?

that sounds a bit like you'd prefer a certificate guaranteing that you will never die over one that pays when you do.

> It's been two and a half decades since people started using the web as more than just a delivery mechanism for text and images.

I still do (mostly)

i just seem to miss why its favorable to curtail millions (incl. children) of their lives and stomp the economy for the benefit of thousands. shouldn't we have banned alcohol, tabacco, ice-cars, firearms, gambling ... first if this was so important?

agreed i sound a bit pessimistic here, but companies regularly show that the only thing that matters is the bottom line, so i stand by the assertation that breaking the law/eula is not really a question of ethics.

second point; you and i may not be using android and google backup, a vast majority does.

i think he was saying that there is nothing preventing fb from having the wa-client piggyback the content of the messages back to them and call "oops" if found out.

also the issue of device-backups containing the unecrypted message history which is beeing shared from google to facebook.

whole hearted agree.

additional reminder that fb-messenger, whatsapp, imessage and probably a lot others started out as xmpp forks/dialects and even this was not enough to save us from the corporates.

> Clearly you are in the tiny minority, because almost every car manufacturer is adding basic AP like functionality even in base versions of cars

the average car in germany is 12 years old. from this perspective new-ish cars are a minority .

was going to say this.

amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.

sometime it feels that way, but another way of putting it is investment in something that succeeds you and your partner. how is that not "my stuff or my partners stuff"?

fully agree. have my apologies everyone

i'd say everyone that exists/-ed is a winner in the procreation "game" (life).

while the argument about time/kid holds some truth, an opposing truth is that single kids often lack a sense of humility in regards to attention by others and a lack of sociability because they never really needed it.

as a parent i can tell you that _NOONE_ is prepared before having children and that there will be times when your consideration and love leave you alone and you gonna fuck up.

but dont read this too negative, kids are the best there is!

and while a lot of the hn audience may think like:

> I hope parents can be considarate, prepared, loving and financially stable before having children.

if you wait til everyting is "perfect", you loose to the despicable retards that dont care.

> 1 minute may be a technical pppoe cleanup/reconnect timeout.

i'd second this guess because its a common setup. OP could check the external ip before/after the reconnection and verify this way if it changed.

would also be helpful to know connection technology (dsl/cable/wifi/fibre..) and name of the isp

> That has turned out to be a really terrible rule.

maybe in the ivory tower of web shit, but it is essential for internet/society. like you said

> in cases where the other end is not negotiable.

aiming for robustness is key if you want to enable a diverse ecosystem.

> SMS between Android phones are rock solid

not just android, they work with every mobile handset even with the poorest reception or (even lack of) data-plan.

i use ~200 sms per year, pretty constant since i got my first mobilephone.

kinda sad we didnt come up with something better thou.

not op and aware this may not be representive, but i share the preference for telegram as a just-works, "fun" and high-penetration messenger with whatsapp as a first and sms as second compatability fallback. this beeing in germany.

tg is light on resources like phone storage and bandwidth (and hence money) and has excellent multidevice support.

apart from that i don't belive one can have a seriously private conversation involving a device running popular versions of android/ios.

until chrome starts doing in-app doh by default and everyone else will be be drowned in captchas :-D