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Clearly VW engaged in deception of the customer as they cheated their test results. Customers are protected from such deception by the law. My point was to criticise the "Internet …

That's where the government intervenes by legislating, thereby society is protecting individuals from themselves (and from harming others). I don't see how there is a need to do th…

> The end result is that web is more spammed, my advantage disappers, and the new solution probably costs more than the old one, but now no one can go back. These are not the only …

> Satisfying someone's needs doesn't justify anything. Not all needs are meant to be satisfied - especially if they conflict with the needs of others, whether directly or by genera…

I prefer BitJam because some assholes keep requesting awful dance/gabber tunes on Nectarine: http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/radio/radio.php

It's not an editor, it's an IDE. Just look at the Python support they expect to add next year: "full intellisense, debugging, profiling, pkg mgmt, unit test, virtual env, multiple …

The problem with naming things "what they are" is that the scope of the project can change over the years, so that the name selected 5 years ago doesn't appropriately reflect what …

The good they've done is fill the demand of 1/6 of the world's population who use the site. > So far the data seems to indicate that internet.org is comparable to releasing swarms …

Stupidest title I've seen in a while. I thought there would be underground beaches and carnivals.

And there have been at least as many cases of political abuse of the police force, should we also cut down on that just because there is a potential for abuse? Many instutions that…

> Your very insistence that you have the only right point of view on this makes me even more against ever allowing anybody who thinks like you the power to involuntarily commit any…

> Which people? "Mentally ill" people aren't a homogenous group, and the fact that someone is mentally ill and living on the street does not imply that they are incompetent to make…

By "crazy action" I mean for 2 years wilfully undereating, not washing, living in filth, not responding to basic communication (even to your own daughter) and standing for long str…

This already happens with homeless people: they become diseased, malnourished, get drunk and hurt themselves. Once the trauma has reached a certain degree that they require hospita…

Not every mental disorder warrants institutionalisation; I never said that. My point was to clarify that a medically diagnosed person who does some crazy action should be instituti…

>Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder in the DSM until the mid-1970s. The understanding of relatively highly-occurring afflictions such as PTS and schizophrenia is evolvin…

> But who decides who has control over their mental faculties? Who decides who is competent? The state? The family? The physician? Who is the most competent to make this decision? …

The difference is he has a genuine medical problem: a mental disorder , i.e. it's in the DSM.

> Schizophrenia is a lifelong illness. Do you keep someone imprisoned for the rest of their life so that you can forcibly medicate them against their will? No, until the mental dis…

These people don't have control over their mental faculties; they aren't competent enough to make a choice for what is best for them in the same way that minors aren't allowed to g…

> What gives you the authority to institutionalize him? A government has the duty to provide for the welfare of their people. It's every government's goal to make their people heal…

What kind of society lets a mentally ill man roam the streets, deteriorating, instead of institutionalising him and helping him recover?

> The bill will not say unbreakable encryption is illegal. It's already being planned, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498280

How so?