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This comment has no relevance to anything. I never said law-abiding is a requirement for life.

But I can all but guarantee you will not be able to find more than one or two examples of police killing a law-abiding citizen and receiving no punishment. It doesn't happen.

And for those that aren't familiar with Caltrain, that train blasts its horn two or three times before each stop and the horn is so loud that you can hear it from a mile away. Living as close to the train as that house is would be miserable.

You're essentially saying "don't use data to inform your decisions." This is trolling at best. No idea how this is the top comment here.

Every website on the open web is a walled garden. Attacking Facebook for doing something every other website does is an attack on the open web.

Your argument is tantamount to saying the US isn't a free country because you have to take your shoes off when you visit your friend's house. And then saying your friend should be required to pay you for taking your shoes off.

They could very easily opt out of getting scraped by Google. They choose not to though because it is beneficial to them to have Google help people find their content.

Also note, Australia has specifically said removing article snippets from search results is not enough for Google to avoid payment. This legislation is not about protecting websites from content theft. It's solely about the Australian government forcing Google and Facebook to pay the propagandists that helped them get elected.

Metallica almost certainly still got paid, so I doubt they care much. Blizzard is probably furious.

"Money is made up therefore it serves no purpose" is just a bafflingly implication. Care to provide any detail at all about how your moneyless society is going to work?

Google Play Store is a monopoly. Developers literally can't leave unless they want their android installs to decline by 99%.

That post is three hours old with 1000+ points but is somehow ranked below multiple older posts with fewer points. It's currently ranked #27 putting it at the bottom of the homepage. It seems somebody is manipulating HN's ranking in effort to push it off the front page.

Let's see if the DOJ goes after them for predatory pricing first. Twitter may have bought themselves enough favor with the Biden administration that he'll let it slide.

Yup, the argument that they must be evil because they're named after a crystal ball from Lord of the Rings is one of the least convincing things I've ever heard. I have no idea why this is so consistently parroted on this forum.