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an jedem Eck steht ein Zigarettenautomat.

Na Mensch, wenn es doch bloß eine Gruppe von Menschen geben würde, die sowas verbieten könnte. Menschen, mit einer gemeinsamen Mission, quasi eine Ko-Mission.

Alles, was du als Problem anführst, kann legislativ bekämpft werden. Dafür musst du auch keinen Schwarzmarkt haben, sondern es einfach sehr unattraktiv machen, zu rauchen. Preis ist da nur eine Schraube. Andere wären zB Verfügbarkeit und Nutzbarkeit.

Alleine so ein schwedisches Modell mit staatlichen Läden, die das Monopol auf Drogen haben, würdest du schon sehr viel Menschen vom Konsum abhalten.

There was a very simple phone from Samsung a few years back that had a solar cell on the back.

Since the battery lasted over a week anyway, you could easily double the battery life by just having it in indirect light.

Modern phones are guzzling so much power that it's hardly useful there.

Germany has Spaghetti ice cream, but that's at least real ice cream just made to look like spaghetti.

I feel like there's a very fine balance for the effort required to publish a package.

Too easy and you get npm.

Too hard and you get an empty repo.

I feel like Java is actually doing a relatively good job here. Most packages are at least documented a bit, though obviously many are outdated.

The leadership on both sides would not only lose power, but likely end up in prison or dead, if there's ever peace.

They won't do anything towards a peaceful solution.

I don't need your location.

Pager transmissions contain a sender and a receiver. That's all the information you need. If a known Hisbollah sender sends to a receiver, that receiver obviously has some ties to Hisbollah.

Of course that's emotional.

Reducing suffering is based on the idea that I don't like suffering, therefore I don't want others to suffer. That's emotional.

And what exactly is a logical reasoning?

Pretty much all political reasoning is emotional, but for some reason, only the "other side" gets emotional.

Wanting equality is an emotional reason. Wanting absolute freedom is emotional. Freedom of speech, aristocracy, fascism, anarchism, progressive income tax are all, if you keep asking "why?" emotional choices.

If, at any point, someone says something is good or bad, well, that's emotional, simply because these are purely human categories that are not rational.

Because that way they avoid any competition.

Thing is, businesses like Google's ads are not linear. If you can track 90% of people 90% of the time, your ads are much much more valuable to advertisers than a company that only tracks 70% of the people 90% of the time. So it makes sense to create a moat by literally shitting money on everyone around you.

Think about the opposite: if Apple would switch to DDG by default, most people would leave it at that. And that would mean, a significant chunk of the US search traffic is gone. Europe and the rest of the world are not that apple-heavy, but Apple users are rich power users (on average), these are extremely valuable.

By tracking who sent what to whom?

If you know the phone number of a Hisbollah member and they send messages to a set of pagers, these are likely Hisbollah pagers. If you do that to several phone numbers, you get a pretty comprehensive list of members. You don't need to know, where exactly they are. That's simply not relevant.

And again: if it's a supply chain attack, you don't even need these contacts. Just a single entry point into the supply chain of the organization.

No.

Google pays to keep its monopoly on search.

Chrome, Android, etc. all are just tools to funnel views on their ads.

If Mozilla would fold, Google would have a monopoly on browsers, which could cause problems for them. So they finance fake competition.

No other company could pay even close to that amount of money.

Ich frag mich immer wieder, was die Politik sich von solchen Maßnahmen erhofft, wenn gleichzeitig die reguläre Arbeit der Sicherheitsbehörden aufgrund von Personalmangel nicht erledigt werden kann.