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point78··on F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
As an ex smoker also, 100% agree!
point78··on 2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers
Overpopulation
point78··on Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?
Damn right!
point78··on The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
You obviously weren't on the internet in the late 90s!
point78··on The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
With regulation what can be done with them tho
point78··on How to Find a Million-Dollar, One-Person Business Idea
Everyone is complainig about the intro, but if you read the entire article some great info at the bottom....
point78··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Lmao. Spoken as someone who doesn't understand healthcare, education or basic social services.

Eu dominates the US for quality of life and standard of living.

point78··on Saving Scotland’s Heritage from the Rising Seas
Population needs to be controlled. Just wait until India, China, Nigeria, etc all start wasting resources like middle class western world.
point78··on A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
He could have probably chosen dozens of low wage jobs though
point78··on The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?
US and UK should be using other governments as examples that get it right.

The answer to your problem is most definitely not to reduce taxes and Let billionares decide what goes where.

point78··on The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?
You mean how Amazon is being sued for hundreds of millions in the EU for dodging taxes?

And the US is probably the worst example in the western world on how taxation should work.

Case in point is this ridiculous idea that what Bezos is doing here should be applauded and not fixed for being broken.

point78··on Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
Uh...yes? You think you can just open a business in country x, break their laws, then shrug your shoulders and say "Well it's legal where I'm from"
point78··on The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?
One person should not choose where and to what social services need funding. That's why we have government and not kings and queens.
point78··on Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014)
Or maybe it's going towards health care, education, and social services. What a concept
point78··on Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014)
This shouldn't even have to be done is the point
point78··on Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon
Pretty easy for a company to rise to the top when you treat employees like one step above prison labor
point78··on Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
The websites are profiting off the visitors no matter what country they're in. If they don't want to follow the laws then block the country.
point78··on Show HN: Remote jobs for people with disabilities
None of these are for remote jobs and just look like they are data farming
point78··on Uber reportedly lost $891M in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows
Half of these "sharing" economy services have nothing to do with sharing...
point78··on Smoking around the world
Very disappointed in EU here! Such a disgusting habit that kills and leads to large quality of life loss later in life.

Needs to be severely reduced or banned altogether.

Seeing 15 year olds smoke is a huge societal failure.

point78··on Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig
Wait, you really have no idea how taxes work in Europe? Higher taxes are an investment, not an expense.

The public pays higher taxes for free education for example so our future doctors aren't 500k in debt when they graduate.

Students entering the programs understand this, hence when they graduate they make lower salaries and then pay onto the next generations future.

Taxes are an investment in society, you get positive return on them.

Just lol at the completely broken US system of education, health care and social services. You live in a third world country, I honestly feel bad for you.

point78··on Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig
The difference here is before the donor had to be a near perfect fit. With this method they can build the scaffolding from any dead body then use recipients cells for the tissue.

So we go from a couple thousand lung transplants a year with 50% mortality to potentially unlimited and much lower mortality (don't really know the mortality rate here but so far looks promising and better than).

point78··on Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig
Scientist in the article says we could see one in patients as soon as 5 years
point78··on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
Craigslist is doing amazing, but they are definitely an outlier
point78··on In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
Sued to hell in a country with 1/10 the money of the western world doesn't mean a lot.
point78··on How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions
10 or 20 a month is completely reasonable for what you need...
point78··on Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation
When you rip off good social services they end up not working for anyone.

If you don't agree with it, don't move there. Society doesn't need people like you.

point78··on Don't let Google take over Berlin
One is a tax dodging multinational, the other are human beings.

You're missing the point entirely.

point78··on Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?
Contact me for marketing. It doesn't matter if the product is the best thing since sliced bread, if it's not marketed it will fail.
point78··on Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings
Yet another reason (among many) the US is such a backwards country.
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