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I'm curious -- what are you hoping that argument will accomplish? Freedom of ANY kind allows bad things to happen. The most secure world is one in which we are all locked up, nobod…

I keep asking people to explain why they downvote posts like yours and nobody wants to. I guess they know the reasons aren't good, they just can't help giving in to the desire for …

I explicitly added the disclaimer to preempt your attempt to ignore my question, which you did anyway. Fantastic. You know exactly what I was trying to say. ONE counter example to …

At the risk of a reddit-style comment: "Yes please." Honestly just reverse the drug bans, treat them life public health problems, and disband agencies like this. Nothing good has e…

How the hell did you manage this. Honestly what's your secret. I need to make sure my kids turn out this way. I want tech to augment their lives, not replace them (or destroy them)…

You're taking one example and generalizing it. I'm sure someone did something productive with cocaine once too, but that's not generally its outcome. (just a random example that oc…

I was 100% convinced my kids won't get these devices until their very late teens, when I saw how my less than 1 year old reacted to the phones my wife and I use. Because his reacti…

This is how these things always go isn't it? We invent this incredible technology that augments what we do, what we can be, what we can learn, and what we can believe... and then w…

You haven't answered the question and I was interested in the answer too. What would one or both of these stores need to do, to qualify as 'anti-competitive' to you?

I have a rather large project that is in a stage where asking "where do we host it?" is appropriate. I was > Happy to push to Github now. It's a data point of one, but there you go…

There's now a bulwark between developers and bad actors attempting to use Github and the legal framework against them. It is very probably that outside actual, valid legal justific…

Yeah, came here to say that. Wit.ai looks interesting but I won't touch it with a 100ft pole as long as they require Facebook login. Unfortunate they have to promote the walled gar…

I guess a super obvious question is, why do they do this instead of having a robust antivirus ecosystem? I mean I guess I already know the answer, "marketing". "Look, macOS doesn't…

You're making the assumption the "average buyer" knows anything about this issue, which is incredibly unlikely. Therefore, their buying decisions are not made based on it. I think …

Yeah, I absolutely loved my Lumia... best phone I ever had. Crushed when it stopped working after... 5 years?

There's a companion setting, "Configured Connected User Experiences and Telemetry" that if you give it a valid hostname:port, it will send telemetry to that host instead of to Micr…

Whoa. This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. Taking a serious look

"It's technically possible for you 30 Spartans to defeat 100,000 Persians so go ahead, good luck" doesn't sound like a winning strategy. I think the overall point here is to have t…

Yeah, I don't think there's any meaningful way to "port" a "gmail.com" email address away from Google. The entire internet infrastructure is set up so that can't happen, based on t…

I'm 100% certain that a number of opportunities I've been offered have been because I proved a certain level of competence by maintaining my own email and domain; this certainty is…

I worked at Microsoft for several years about a decade after they lost those famous lawsuits and I can tell you that the company culture around monopoly power and user rights was i…

> The odds of these things happening are to be weighted against each other Mmmmm not quite -- they have to be weighed against the consequences if they happen. For people who have h…

Honestly it'd be hard for any 3rd party accounts to make that claim except Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and maybe? Twitter and github? At one point I was signed up in over 300 plac…