wafflebear

Hitchens called himself an "antitheist" and certainly expressed that sentiment freely, I don't see why someone shouldn't express anti-atheism freely.

Violence is obviously already illegal, as is anti-semitism in many western countries.

Really? Name one NSA cipher that is better than an equivalent academic-designed cipher? DES? SHA2?

In other words, the best system of government is a sham democracy where the public are mollified by frequent elections, but prevented from changing the status quo.

OK but then we're not talking about the real world where teenagers are able to access anything on the internet (regardless of filtering), but a hypothetical world where adults have total control over teenagers.

I guess what I'm saying is that the premise is false.

Teenagers can get jobs and buy their own devices. Any age restriction past 13 or so is kind of pointless in the 21st century.

Not applicable to Telegram, but if the app is open source and you have a Mac (!) you can install it using Xcode.

Since Signal is actually open source, you can install it even if Apple decides to block it in the future (if you have a Mac).

The users of Coq and Isabelle are generally people with mathematics degrees who check their work. Not your average programmer.

Only criminal laws are prohibited from being retroactive, because the Supreme Court works in mysterious ways.

How about adding the number of days in the current month?

It seems very implausible. Anyone with that level of sophistication may as well look for exploits in bitcoin exchanges and steal the bitcoins directly.

I believe "persons" is similar to "people" but differs in register.

For example, there is a UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Obviously, native speakers would say "people with disabilities" in almost every situation, but that would be too informal for the title of a treaty.

Likewise, law enforcement use formal speech such as "persons of interest" to bolster their authority, but nobody would ever say "I sat next to two Australian persons on the flight".

You must live in a very safe country if you think it's reasonable to post your home address on the internet for all to see.

The problem is that there is essentially no limit to how detailed a map can be. As long as Google continues to add detail to their maps as fast as Apple does, Apple will not be able to catch up.

Most other products have a plateau where adding more features ceases to make the product better.

Apple Maps definitely has improved a lot since when it was introduced in 2012.