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Which country has an anti-complaining bias? I’m guessing it would be somewhere people are empowered to solve their problems. High purchasing power countries? The US and UK used to …

> It's also worth noting you only admitted you were not an expert once your initial post was debunked No, that was in the original comment. I added only the paragraph prefixed with…

I clearly stated “I’m not an expert on this” and publicly corrected my mistake to not mislead readers. Don’t fulminate, my brother, see comment guidelines on HN for more info. Ther…

I think selling hard drugs being criminal is OK. But the US should actually do something with the severe addicts rather than just tossing them in prison, or creating laws against t…

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-heart/202...

Ah, thanks for the additional knowledge. I’ll edit my comment for clarification. Epic Games v Google is going to appellate now, though, isn’t it?

Yes, ultimately our morals, culture, and sense of justice gets enshrined in law. But I did feel a big difference between living in a common law country and a civil law one. There w…

Well, it’s common law, not civil law. So lawyers, juries, judges and so on all heavily influenced the Epic Games v Apple outcome, as they did in Epic Games v Google. The next time …

Why one or the other?

There are moral principles, and legal principles. Legally, you are right. But the moral perception of piracy is shifting, and broadly speaking, this entire debate is in the moral/p…

Games are always pirated if they are even a little bit popular. I work in the games industry, and games I worked on are always pirated, but the more popular they are, the more copi…

I don't think the three points you made are a consequence of speed limits or making cars inconvenient. They are a consequence of city planning and making public transit and bicycle…

The jailbreak patches are for the walled garden, too. Security is not a concern for those who use jailbreaks. They want to get their devices in the insecure state and go to lengths…

I was not mislead by that comment. It was clear that most people have their messages accessible to Apple, which is what the article also talks about - how privacy of "blue bubble" …

Wouldn’t this cause more pollution? Lower fuel efficiency, increased congestion, more half-clutch inching, more stopping, more time spent by each vehicle on each road… …At least as…

Why do US banks do that? I’ve never had a UK or EU bank call me to verify a transaction. Do you have the IdentityCheck/SecureCode/3-D Secure stuff (2FA for online transactions and …

My Samsung “HDR” TV can only approach what an HDR image looks like on a studio display if a bunch of these settings are on and balanced just right. It feels as if Samsung deliberat…

“In some respects” is such a weakening qualifying statement, that it could be made about anything. In some respects, this comment is like Pulitzer-winning writing. (Pulitzer writin…

You’re responding to a statement you straw-manned. The comment you’re responding implies a slippery slope, not an equivalence between DIY safety and letting kids be outside.

I also wonder what that means. What target would this software be compiled for? Apple Silicon or x86? If x86, then some feasible but difficult approaches exist, such as a translati…

> There was also a time when the iPhone looked like this - https://i.imgur.com/wwH2UoF.jpg Yes, but you are straw-manning the argument. This is skankphone UI - a UI used by the tec…

I think it's at least five elements: 1. Hacker-tinkerer culture, where you want to build new things that haven't been built on new hardware for fundamentally non-commercial reasons…

An interesting read on grit that was popular on LessWrong, despite not being posted to their platform - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyHvCwWh_BwukwNE-y61oBCj...

Some people think it's not a big deal. I don't know why.