Aerroon

Votes like that are, imo, entirely against the idea of a (representative) democracy. I wouldn't mind if votes like that were itself illegal.

Yeah and the consequence of this is that all these things become inaccessible to normal people. These licenses will cost a lot of money. The insurance companies will be scummy as hell.

All these demands always seem like rich people wanting to make sure regular people can't do anything.

Why do people always demand strict licenses and mandatory insurance for everything? Scooters, bicycles, small drones. What's next? Need a license for the paper airplane you made because it might poke out someone's eye? Human bodies are big and heavy - they can do a lot of damage if "used improperly" - should we require a license and mandatory insurance to go outside into public spaces too?

A license requirement for a car makes sense - you're dealing with forces well beyond the norm for what a human body has. Small drones though? I just don't see it.

Germany is just a stand in for "some country" because there are countries that do this. I guess I should've used France instead?

Perhaps I wasn't very clear - we had video streaming sites before youtube. The local sites could not keep up with youtube.

Could a European competitor have even existed when even youtube struggled with the GEMA lawsuit for over half a decade? And that by the end of it they still had to pay?

Right until the Germans decide that something should be blocked globally, not just in Germany. And now you have a problem, because there are going to be 150 other countries demanding the same kind of treatment.

It might work, but it also might bloat the whole operation so much that the social network becomes non-functional.

The way it should've happened is that over the last 20 years EU governments should have tried to keep tech companies doing well in Europe.

We had video streaming sites like youtube. We had cellphone manufacturers. We had chat applications.

But the conditions for these companies were better outside of Europe. Now we're stuck with everything not made in Europe. (South Korea is more relevant in consumer tech than the EU.)

European governments still haven't swapped off MS.

The differentiation comes from the problem space being so enormous that differentiation is almost certainly going to happen.

Can you explain how every video game has a crazy amount of clipping going on? Is every single developer just lazy?

How come pretty much every modern UI is garbage? Are the devs just lazy? Like google.com on mobile does not have parity with the desktop version (there's no "set specific date range option).

In anything you do, there's a point where you've got to say "okay, this is good enough" and ship it. In fact, I would argue that using pixel art itself is "settling" in the majority of cases.

That sounds ridiculous though, no? Look at how much forest the country has. Making it a national news story seems out of proportion.

But if the user thinks it looks fine, then won't most players think the same?

I just don't get the complaints about "use proper art" when it comes to games. Most of the time the game has some other, far more glaring, visual issues (anti-aliasing, clipping, icons-not-matching-items).