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They could at least have the decency to just secretly do it and then pretend like they aren't, like our government does. This is why physical switches and remov
by Awelton 3y ago
They could at least have the decency to just secretly do it and then pretend like they aren't, like our government does. This is why physical switches and removable batteries are the only way forward.
- jb1991 3y agowhat is "our" government? this site is worldwide..
- Ycdr4thfdd 3y agoY Combinator is an American company and the website is hosted in the US.
- rekoil 3y agoPersonally I think that "X is an American site" is over-used and doesn't actually make all that much sense when applied to things that cover general world-spanning issues. But that's my opinion.
- skyyler 3y agono one implied that, stop being silly
- PawgerZ 3y ago> Y Combinator is an American company and the website is hosted in the US. What else would this imply?
- rekoil 3y agoI wrote a stupid message first that the person above you replied to accurately, I changed my stupid message to be less stupid while still reflecting my opinion on the matter.
- throwawayadvsec 3y agoGoogle, reddit, amazon, twitter, and every meta website too. This is a dumb observation. US people needs to stop pretending the USA are the only place that matters on earth.
- Given_47 3y ago[flagged]
- blueflow 3y agoThis article is about France tho.
- jb1991 3y agoWhat relevance does that have to the question, may I ask. Do you think, for example, that every user of Twitter is American because Twitter is an American company?!
- drannex 3y agoFairly certain you can apply this to nearly any government.
- AdamJacobMuller 3y agoAny government with the resources to do it, probably is.
- swader999 3y agoTake your pic, most G8-20 are doing this.
- 13of40 3y agoI've (unfortunately) got a habit of accidentally assuming forums are "in the US". I think I would put it down to a couple of things: 1. Most native English speakers are in the US, so the accidental assumption that someone is American is more often than not correct. 2. The internal voice that reads text to me has a generic male American accent.
- horsestaple 3y agoThe US is the largest country with english speakers, but it does not have the majority of speakers [1] (just India plus Pakistan have as many). So your assumption would be wrong, even based on statistics. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English...
- 13of40 3y agoThat's why I qualified it with "native" - the US has by far the most English-as-a-first-language people. In my head everyone speaks like an Anglo guy from Idaho, and since HN is text-only, metaphorically speaking the lights are out, so I'm left without a clue where other people are sitting or where they are from. In other words, if you found yourself in a dark room with a thousand English speakers who all sounded like Jesse Pinkman, what country would you assume you were in?
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- jb1991 3y agoI'd be willing to bet that less than half of this site's users are American. There is a huge software engineering community in Europe, for example, and there are more Europeans than Americans, let alone the large populations of Asia, Australia, New Zealand... English is the dominant second language in the world.
- 13of40 3y ago
- baby 3y agoI like this comment because I always assume a majority of people here are Americans, but I'm not, and maybe it's not true anymore.
- jb1991 3y agoI'd be willing to bet that less than half of this site's users are American. There is a huge software engineering community in Europe, for example, and there are more Europeans than Americans, let alone the large populations of Asia, Australia, New Zealand...
- fennecfoxy 3y agoPsssssh, everyone knows that New Zealand doesn't exist, it's why it's not on any maps!
- Awelton 3y agoPick one
- djfm 3y agothey have no doubt been doing it, they're just using the panic of a brainwashed population thinking they're on the brink of Islamic revolution to normalize it
- Ialdaboth 3y agoAt this point, they don't even need to brainwash anybody - they will just 49/3'd the law and say "xxxx it" to the parliament.
- varispeed 3y ago> and removable batteries Probably that's why the batteries are not removable in the phones...
- meragrin_ 3y agoNah, profit motive by the companies is reason enough.
- hollerith 3y agoOr making the phone more reliable, particular in high-humidity climates, where you want to prevent air from getting to the electronics as much as practical.
- pteraspidomorph 3y agoSoonish? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96210/making-batteries-more-sustainable-more-durable-and-better-performing https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...
- xdrosenheim 3y agoMeh, phones with removable batteries are still being made. Samsung's Galaxy Cover line has plenty of phones with removable batteries. Some even feature the much feared IP68.
- aio2 3y agoGonna have to agree to disagree. I feel it's significantly better to know that someone is doing the spying and all that. Why should they hide that they can spy on whoever they choose? When they don't make clear what happens, we end up in a position where everyone's uncertain. And, as history has shown, it makes things significantly more difficult. There's no decency in that.
- AshamedCaptain 3y ago> This is why physical switches and removable batteries are the only way forward. You'd gain nothing. What are you going to do, remove the battery for a couple hours per day? And then if there's any crime, the police is going to immediately suspect anyone who had the battery removed from their cell phone at the time, which they can trivially detect.