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You paid 4M for your home of land, but are still subject to regulations of the country. It’s your home, but you’re not even allowed to run a nuclear reactor in
by jbverschoor 3y ago
You paid 4M for your home of land, but are still subject to regulations of the country.
It’s your home, but you’re not even allowed to run a nuclear reactor in your garden.
- 160Marks 3y agoBut that depends on where you buy the house. It doesn't matter what service you use an iPhone on, Apple still tells you what you can and can't do. It's not the house builder telling you what you can and can't do; these things are not the same.
- jbverschoor 3y ago> It's not the house builder telling you what you can and can't do; these things are not the same. The house builder is the app developer The gov/municipality is Apple The gov/municipality tells you what you can and can't do. The builder would do it, if you take all the risks and acknowledge that your new building in your garden is not allowed by the gov/municipality. There really is no difference
- jqpabc123 3y agoReally? You are seriously going to compare repairing your iPhone with a threat to people's lives in your neighborhood and beyond? Your analogy is a bust --- the only thing threatened by repairing your iPhone is Apple's profits. How did you ever get to this point? Did Apple infect you with some sort of mind virus?
- cantSpellSober 3y agoSame comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240503 An incredibly poor analogy for the subject of the article, at least that comment didn't take it to the level of "nuclear reactor"