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Right, but there is an exception for carriers such as Twitter from being treated as publishers, responsible for the material they distribute and monetize from their website. They a…

> theres a good chance they’ll screw something up like the waterproofing seal or leave a loose connection that you won't notice until weeks later You must be strongly opposed to ri…

> Repairability is orthogonal to reliability This is clearly not true when we’re discussing user replaceable batteries or the like. It’s a trade off, like most things in engineerin…

> My interests as a consumer and those of "people who make money out of repair" are almost completely aligned I don’t see how. The less reliable the device is, the more business th…

We shouldn’t legislate repairability at the expense of reliability. The only people that benefits are repair shops. That should be up to the user to choose, as it is now.

Yeah - it’s fairly obvious that linked article is in bad faith. The 79-pound repair kit is what Apple uses in its stores to avoid damaging phones that remain under warranty. If peo…

It seems like weird logic to legislate that Apple and Samsung must make their phones less reliable for everyone simply because a 5 year old phone made by a cut price manufacturer i…

Just because people who make money out of repair are making this claim, doesn’t make it true. See for example: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apples-self-service-r...

You don’t have to buy a new phone to replace the battery. Just take it to any repair shop.

This is just wrong. Replaceable batteries add cost and fragility to the device, make battery life worse , and most phones die because they stop getting software updates anyway. Rep…

Why not just stop using Twitter? Who cares whether the FBI has its thumb on the scales or if it’s Elon Musk and his friends? “The world’s digital town square” is a marketing slogan…

Who said anything about doing nothing? Why not just accept that there’s been a Cold War going on all along and we’ve just been pretending otherwise.

Ok, this is fine, but that means we have to classify Twitter as press , with all of the responsibilities as a publisher that this entails.

So every troll and bot farm should be able to have each tweet judged by a jury?

Man that is so horrible. Not all places are like that. Unfortunately it tends to be smaller places that are more trustworthy. I suggest that at very least you may need a good immig…

There is no ‘finished’. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

> Create & grow a community of your dreams with all the features you love from HackerNews (and more!) How did you replicate dang? Was there enough history to train a large language…

> The official narative is: China bad, America good. This isn’t accurate. The official narrative is that America’s way of life is under threat from China. This is just true. China …

> I described what is supposed to happen, Not very relevant to those for whom it doesn’t. > and what happens most of the time. This blithely elides the possibility that it’s not ra…

> He would have been arrested then released on bail and made the next flight. They would both be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Why do you assume this?

> It’s highly unlikely that there’s some individual out there that’s in charge of both situations What a bizarre straw-man. Of course there is no individual. There are numerous dem…

It’s only a multibillion dollar fraud, so it’s fine for him to fly first class. Imagine if instead he’d been caught selling loose cigarettes on a street corner.

> But when you examine it, it doesn’t really make any sense at all. It’s a great way to perpetuate inequality, especially wholly unearned inequality. This paragraph doesn’t make an…

Have you tried putting gravel in your socks at the beginning of the day? It feels great when you get home and finally take them off.

That expectation has generally been based on having a well respected CEO. Having no CEO may reasonably affect expectations.