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Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:00PM (#50173276)
It’s a strawman because you went for the absolute worst comment. If towns had the power to remove comments from their pages, 99.9% of the time it would be used to remove comments that criticise the local government. I’d rather read the occasional deranged tirade thank you.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:32PM (#50171504)
That goes against Facebook policies and the account would get banned. Not to mention that’s a gigantic strawman.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:58PM (#50171018)
>Towns can't delete comments.

Ehhh, good? Should you be able to remove my comment here just because it's a child of yours?

The left-wing wants to destroy Western civilisation and rebuild it their way.
1. They secretly defend the interests of the wealthy, which want slave labour from the third world. This coincides with left-wing policies, even though they do it because they want to see the civilisation destroyed.

In any case, the average plain, poor person of the country gets screwed.

That's a interesting theory. Usually what happens is the opposite: a right-wing party will pretend to be right-wing to win the election and then when in power it will do whatever the left-wing party does.

For example, they will promise you to kick one billion immigrants, and then when in power they will say that they actually can't do that because of law or economic concerns… and then they will increase the rate of immigration.

Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:28AM (#50165334)
Where exactly have I mentioned a race? There are lots of Arab countries, and there's a big diversity of races among them. What is the purpose of your comment, exactly?
Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:41AM (#50164151)
The system was put in place by Norwegians, so yes, it has everything to do with that.

Maybe the misunderstanding is about my first message - when I said “these peoples” I meant Arab countries, not this Salman whatever guy.

Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:24AM (#50163938)
Norway has done it.
Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:51AM (#50163595)
Personally I feel exactly the same - these peoples simply do not have, on average, the intelligence required to deal with such amounts of wealth and power.
The issue might have been resolved had the Spanish conquistadors not prevented sufficient sacrifices.
This is a good example of why the right wing is such a joke in Europe. Look at what they call “far right”.
Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:33PM (#50156958)
Of course their conditions are inhumane: they are not human.
Re:Another day another GitHub incident on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:28PM (#50154400)
We are not short of GitHub alternatives.
>they tend to try to pay the less taxes possible

So, like everybody else? Or do you try to pay more tax than you owe.

In what way does loading a website using the Claude Code harness not respect the commons, as opposed to using Firefox? If anything, using Claude Code is better, since it doesn't load the unnecessary static files (javascript, css, etc), saving the website CPU, I/O, and bandwidth.
Chrome and Firefox aren’t people either.
Claude and ChatGPT are user agents. For obvious reasons, they serve the user, not the websites' owners. (Also, if you don't want people to be able to access some information, then don't put it online.)
Potentially it adds a lot of work depending on what kind of game it is. Some make no sense without the online component - think something like Counter-Strike
Can someone explain why fetch costs money. I thought it was your locally-running harness doing it. How can they charge you for that?
If it depends on your use case then it’s not neck and neck…
Re:Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:09PM (#50136844)
Apps have made things so much easier. You get a list of restaurants and you choose your order. You know what restaurants are available, no need to know their phone numbers, you have the menu, the prices, no more waiting for them to pick up the phone or understand you in the noisy restaurant over the phone. If the experience sucks the app will reimburse you.

And immigrant slave labour has made it all affordable.

Re:Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:20PM (#50136575)
Ah, that one is easy. These services would have been popular in the past had they existed, but they didn't. There were no apps and no immigrant slave labour. Now that these things exist, the services exist and have become popular. Turns out people like others doing stuff for them. For example, maids. Who wouldn’t want to have one if they could pay for her?
Re:Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:09PM (#50136494)
Really you can't see why getting stuff delivered to your door is popular, or is this a rhetorical question
Beep beep! We have detected your mild criticism of the EU and have applied the necessary downvotes. Have a nice day!
Re:I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:19PM (#50124898)
Maybe he shouldn’t be accessing people’s passwords. If you start looking into someone’s wallet you can expect an abrasive response.
I know posting deranged tirades about the supernatural powers of Russia is HN’s favourite pastime but this goes way too far.
No, that’s not how it works. The Netherlands do not determine whether the subjects of evidence-gathering requests are guilty. The request is processed without any kind of judgement.
No, that’s not what I said. “Crime is illegal” - how about a serious argument?

Ask GPT-6 if aiding terrorists, which is what the US accuses these people of, is illegal in the Netherlands. If it is, then the server can be seized under the collaboration treaties.

Read about dual criminality. Terrorism is illegal in all countries of the EU. Also this isn’t about Germany. Once again ask your LLM of choice.

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