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Care to explain? Besides the accidental 5 of course.

You did include both of these in the same comment, though: > Would this also ban spam filters? Fraud convictions? > But these are straw men Anyway, at least in the US (but I also a…

In reality they have a somewhat limited say in who the Commission president is going to back and almost no influence on its members. Compared to most national parliaments it's extr…

> She was appointed by the EU parliament IMHO that would be perfectly fine on its own (or do you think that any parliamentary state is not a "real democracy"?). But the problem is …

> The role you're talking about is more like that of the Speaker of the House in the US or the UK. Both are elected by members of the chamber, not a popular vote. Not really. The c…

Really? Some cartel operatives believe their actions are justified for some greater good? Well unless you count filling your own pockets a "greater good" then they are objectively …

> They'll buy a $20 blender that will die in a year rather than the $100 blender that will last a lifetime. One problem for consumers is that often it's very hard to tell which is …

The idea is (well according to France at least) that they'll monitor those chats and report the suspected "criminals" to the government. > Is there a check box to state that you ar…

And your point is? Generally only unelected officials are allowed to formulate or propose EU policy (the EU "parliament" is only there for rubber stamping it) how is that similar t…

> Telegram is end-to-end encrypted in private chats Not by default (unlike the other services you've mentioned )?

> Benjamin Franklin Supposedly that's not his quote though? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342251

Well in Telegram's case the idea is that they knowingly provide taxi services to those criminals and do supposedly nothing when it's reported to them because they are "too small" t…

> Unelected officials = experts What? Not in the commission. It's a 100% politically appointed body made up of politicians, it's just not elected. Also even on the lower levels bei…

And battery life with most laptops (even the Framework) is pretty horrible on Linux compared to Windows without excessive tweaking (and even then).

To be fair from the perspective of most consumers what downsides does the Air have that are only there because it's an "ultrabook"?

> and the pricetag at 2-3x a similarly-performing windows equivalent, and probably +50% on similar screen windows equivalent. Can you actually list any of these "equivalents"? I'm …

> people's life would be better with a decent-travel keyboard Most people don't generally seem to agree with that, though (not explicitly, they just generally don't prioritize thin…

> will arbitrarily use 2-3x idle power draw while on battery for no apparent reason You might be thinking about Linux? IIRC OS X wasn't particularly impressive about that back in t…

Why? It would just seem silly not to take include the fact the CEO of the company you are relying on continuously behaves in an erratic and unpredictable manner (and is also trying…

They are only expensive and desirable because of these people.

Calculators also had a track record of shattering human benchmarks. Also saying something like: > has a sound theoretical basis Without backing it up at all hardly makes much sense…

Stock buybacks are basically just more flexible dividends. Companies used to payout way more in dividends in the past now they do buybacks instead.

> If they can fire 80% most companies should What's special about "them"? Twitter was technically never a particularly complex product that required some kind of exceptional talent…

> Personally if they are selling around USD500 - USD600 > well especially in developing countries. Why? They can already buy a Lenovo/HP/etc. laptop for I'm not sure the $50-100 or…