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by ls15 4y ago
I am totally fine with banning verbal attacks on others, just like physical attacks are typically banned IRL too. Basically the same rules can be applied, for example a counter attack in defense is a lighter offense than an unprovoked attac
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by ls15 4y ago
> You don’t need Facebook. There are countries that use Facebook for everything, including business and official announcements. If you are not on Facebook then you are left behind. Mostly just because it is available and "free"
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by ls15 4y ago
> Apparently it's hard to just delete the offending pic Now that would be censorship! /s
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by ls15 4y ago
That fully depends on the content of the guidelines.
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by ls15 4y ago
> The whole central point of this euro scaremongering is that Google will turn over your data to intelligence agencies when U.S. court orders it to do so. I am sure, Google has ways to abuse data that do not include any courts.
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by ls15 4y ago
Exactly, where there is a will, there is a way.
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by ls15 4y ago
> Also, it poops your private data all over the filesystem while creating thumbnails and previews. So the answer is no, absolutely not even a single iota of effort has been expended making sure deleted data is really deleted, and inside
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by ls15 4y ago
> but there just isn't a viable alternative. Why can't the state build a data center and host some Matrix, Nextcloud and Moodle instances? To me that would seem like tax money being used as intended by the taxpayer.
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by ls15 4y ago
Does banning new combustion engines after 2035 really harm the manufacturers? To me it looks like they are all moving to electric.
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by ls15 4y ago
Even if the alternative is dealing for months with a design agency that is creating a three-page website?
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by ls15 4y ago
Most other products cannot run apps. There is no alternative supplier of iOS devices so that people can run the apps that they bought from other companies via the Appstore.
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by ls15 4y ago
> Apple isn't even the market leader in EU, and EU is going to regulate them. They have a monopoly on iphones.
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by ls15 4y ago
> You do have the freedom of software choice already. Not on iOS (until next January when regulation kicks in)
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by ls15 4y ago
Like slaves were ready to take away the freedom to own slaves from slave-owners. In today's world it is not a real choice to avoid BigCorp platforms if you want to work and communicate with the rest of society, so society should have a
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by ls15 4y ago
Companies with a market valuation above €75bn will be heavily fined if they try to skip this.
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by ls15 4y ago
> Real people just want to use the thing that's easy to set up, good enough for their uses, and most importantly already popular. In reality this is not one app, but Skype AND Facebook Messenger AND Discord AND Zoom AND Teams AND Wh
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by ls15 4y ago
How do you do that if Discord is locking your account?
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by ls15 4y ago
Does that also mean that remote employees can move from rural India to Manhattan or SF and get their pay adjusted for cost of living?
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by ls15 4y ago
Yes, they are a reflection of the bigger economic picture.
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by ls15 4y ago
> An equivalent for someone not having kids would be taking time off to volunteer somewhere. Or taking time off to go out in order to find a partner to potentially have kids with...
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by ls15 4y ago
> Whose platform is it? It's the users that make the forum valuable. It's the user's community and content, but Reddit Inc's platform.
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by ls15 4y ago
Insult a synonym for verbal attack
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by ls15 4y ago
I think OP was referring to a site-wide ban that only admins can issue.
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by ls15 4y ago
Because you are not supposed to attack other redditors. Reddit Content Policy - Rule 1 Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Eve
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by ls15 4y ago
Sony's market capitalization exceeds €75bn (the threshold over which the regulation applies).
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by ls15 4y ago
But I found them useful in Berlin (see my other comment in this thread) and Berlin already has one of the best public transport networks in the world, I think. For me they were just closing the gap between taxi and public transport. In term
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by ls15 4y ago
> where is the creative freedom? Creative freedom is for companies that are valued below €75bn and exempt from this regulation. The big ones have to comply with more heavy-handed regulation, as it should be in my opinion.
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by ls15 4y ago
> They have congestion which isn't helped much by shuttles compared to a bus or other high capacity transit Multiple simultaneously driving taxis can be replaced by one shuttle van at times or for routes where large busses would run
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by ls15 4y ago
Berlin had an on demand ride sharing shuttle service, called BerlKönig , that has been run by Berlin's public transport provider BVG. Unfortunately it was recently discontinued, but apparently the BVG is planning a new on demand servi
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by ls15 4y ago
For these companies. As a user, I think that these are great changes.

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