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What can you do that will give someone living 500 years from now a reason to care about your existence? If there is a reason they will find a way. If there is none even a website that may still survive will hardly have any visitors.

No one is complaining against "law & order". The whole thread is about police misuse of power. You really don't see the difference?

One can pick and choose statements like this and put tailored spin on it and make any statement a lie. example, Apple says this is the best iPhone ever. False , I like the one with headphone jack better. Are we going to put all statements by all companies to this level of rigor?

By all means. But you can't write laws targeting one company..

For example.- from what is being discussed - "Requiring Facebook to publicly disclose its internal research". -- either make all companies disclose internal research or none of them. You can't just pick and choose.

I don't understand which of these accusations are actually breaking the law. They all imply that Facebook isn't being a Good Samaritan, but that isn't actually illegal.

Police using violence against someone who is not violent is insane. Anyone doing so should be disqualified from ever being a cop.

I don't think that is the end goal. But obviously we need protections to make sure this doesn't lead to that case.

//I am no fan of digital ID's

Why not? What's not to like about it? if it can be implemented in a reasonably foolproof way? Isn't being able to ditch the wallet a huge win?

//Bundling the OS with hardware...

What about bundling camera, speaker, screen, processors etc? They are selling a product. You don't complain about car companies bundling 4 wheels and a motor.

like the internet?

// I want more money but not more responsibilities (sounds crazy, I know,

Not really. wanting less money and more responsibilities is what would be crazy.

This is very cynical. If you can't even tell your family how much you make what's the point in having a family? What is a family for in your opinion then?

Hard truth is Apple has really built its ecosystem brick by brick and is constantly getting stronger. And other companies don't even seem like they have their eyes on the game wrt ecosystem. They do some parts better than Apple but no one seems to be focussing on the big picture. Once someone is fully in the ecosystem (phone, iPad, Mac, watch, Apple TV and some iCloud services) it's really hard to find another ecosystem that works as well.. and that's not a good thing for the industry in general

So if some restaurant business says X (gays, christians, asians etc) not welcome we don't want to host them, that's fine too?

I wish there existed some decentralized device that can do iCloud backups and people can just buy that divide and set it up in their home.

> Generally no one (seriously) programs a computer exclusively with a mouse. A keyboard is used. Surely, there must be a reason for this.

Yeah, looks like there is a reason for this. Keys are only present in keyboards and not mouse..

Cancun!

They have clauses for this in the contract and also penalties for that.

The sellers of a house I gave an offer for is.

What are they doing to those who are currently stuck with these horrible 20 year contracts? The one their door to door salesmen sold to unsuspecting seniors without properly explaining the lease terms?

I know what they are doing. They are asking for 35K to get them out of the contract.

I was of the same opinion and had respect for what Tesla stands for and what they do. Until I encountered Tesla Solar. The contracts these guys try to get you into makes Comcast or Exxon Mobil or medical insurance companies feel like saints.They have door to door salesmen who sell this to unsuspecting 80 year olds who don't even understand what they are signing up for

There is a thing called PPA. Usual lease terms is for 20 years or more. No way to get out of them without signing your life away. They make you pay for what it generates, not what you use.. I had to walk away from a really good house just because it came with a Tesla Solar PPA..

Hypothetically speaking, what if the said company acts with ulterior motives, is blatantly anti national, blatantly trying to interfere in elections, cause riots etc. What should a responsible government do then? Hypothetically.

The right thing to do would be to let repairable products and non repairable products coexist and people can vote with their wallet. I don't see why Government has to stop a company from selling non repairable ones. If making something non repairable means it can be more compact or lighter and if there are people who prefer that what's the point in stopping that free market transaction?

Can you elaborate on why you think robin hood is better than etrade?

For anything worth securing we have security engineered into it, like passwords, encryption what not. But for insider trading we are just supposed to assume that the players play right without any checks or balances? I don't think just the SEC is sufficient to prevent this.

> you were more anxious when you were drinking ? that's a first

drinking habit increases baseline anxiety. it's not that having a drink will make you more anxious in next few hours.

Is there a HN for finance?

Top 100 richest people etc is an outlier by definition. Chasing that phantom isn't going to get one anywhere. For those seeking to build meaningful wealth (think ~10M etc and not billions) it's better to be grounded and focus on the simple more predictable things one can control and build systems for good side income, passive income, do the np brainers like 401K, Roth IRAs etc. But unfortunately one can only read about the Bill Gates of the world and there is hardly anything written about the guys in 10M range that have 3 Valeros and 2 subways and a motel.

//And yes, you have to work to earn it,

Like how all the existing owners earned it?

That is in theory. If BTC becomes legit one fine day, what percentage of the world owns BTC and what percentage of the world's wealth will they own? If that doesn't scare you I don't know what will..