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I never said that crime as a whole increased, but the violence reached a whole different quality. You (deliberately?) misinterpret comments you don't agree with.

Stabbing people -which was never a big issue- has become very common, for example. Kicking people when they're down and out etc. Hurting people for fun. Someone I knew was stabbed and murdered for no reason at all. Not even a robbery. Just killed.

Even in fights, there used to be some unwritten rules of respect and common sense, but they're gone. The people who are responsible for most of these violent crimes brought this crap with them.

It's gotten to the point where knives are forbidden in certain areas and knife bans are under consideration.

I'm talking about Germany, by the way. How about you are a bit more open-minded and stop assuming other users' nationalities?

Which one do you want citations for?

These are all publicly accepted problems by now, so I'm not going to do a writeup for all of them just because one person asks for it.

Your downvotes change nothing, by the way. This is not a sinister outlook, it's already happening right now and I'm provably right.

We get more police and they get more permissions, including broader surveillance, and they're looking to adopt tasers like in the U.S. The last few years did this and hardly anyone is arguing it anymore.

The surveillance state you don't want is coming, and you are the reason.

I'm decidedly against government surveillance, but it feels like our government are deliberately inviting crime to further the needs and arguments for complete surveillance.

Now that violent attacks against the police and emergency services, stabbings, rape, murder and generally a complete refusal to accept the law become more common, I'm at the point where unsolved crime bothers me more than protecting people's privacy, so it evidently works.

It's ironic how the people who want open borders are creating their own dystopian future, but are too short-sighted to realize how they're being used.

In the end, the borders will be closed and we'll end up with not only a lot more problems and surveillance that none of us wanted, but the net result of people being better/worse off will also be negative.

B-b-but they spread information that could lead intelligent and informed people to miss the vote!

Who doesn't get the voting date from Twitter these days?

If you are misled about when the vote is by a tweet from an account with a wojak avatar, it's probably for the better of mankind if you don't vote... or procreate.

I'm with you on that. Eagerly waiting to be fed my opinion and then post about it on FB and Twitter. My friends are going to love it and I will feel appreciated.

This is actually a good chance for alternative app stores, because that and the browser are the only essential software you'd be missing from the package, and the browser can be replaced for free.

I hope we see Google Play vanish. Their pricing and the way it's ran are cancerous.

Competition would be good, even if it's from Amazon or another major company. Phones with Amazon Apps and Firefox instead of the whole Google software package? Yes, please.

This seems like a common sense thing that every intern would consider. Why the Microsoft development team didn't really raises some questions not only about their QA, but about their whole development process.

I know completely computer illiterate people who use Ubuntu. Your opinion says a lot about you.

The cynic in me thinks they found a patent in the portfolio that they value at more than 3.4 bn and they can now use it royalty-free.

Microsoft must want free access to a particular patent from that group really badly.

Does that work for you?

It isn't - except if one of your main messages is being against capitalism. His credibility is now zero.

Banksy is a sellout.

That would cause quite a lot of changes. A lot of stuff in super markets, at least here in Europe, is private label, too. The manufacturers use it to test different prices, taste, etc. and I guess also to deter competition from entering the market.

What if it was the 5 eyes who are responsible in the first place (knowing that the targeted services are used all over the world) and now they want to

a) officially deny anything happend

b) unofficially shift the blame to China

Whatever happens, my popcorn is ready.

Ok, it definitely happened.

Consider that Apple also stated this a few years back:

"We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."

Their whole business is built around lying to customers.

I always assumed these guidelines to be more of a joke, as they also say

Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle.

which HN staff themselves blatantly violate.

The socket activity was hit hard by Spectre/Meltdown patches

Did you even read the article?

I want to condemn this, but given the current state in western countries, I'd feel like a hypocrite.

We have so much light censorship and politicians get to lie without any consequences. The institutions who play along are rewarded and those who try to speak out about it are discredited.

There's illegal surveillance that we only get to know about from whistleblowers.

Political correctness is used to silence millions of people and invalidate opinions without having to debate anyone.

Elections are won through illegal social media campaigns.

If anything, China is copying us.

He does bring up valid arguments and deserves a scientific response.

The people who complain about this and instead of refuting his points instantly cry out make themselves look bad.

Take your sound logic somewhere else, please. We are in the midst of a shitstorm here.

For the love of god, please save the window position of the developer tools when they're in a separate window. Firefox also fails at this.

We appreciate your feedback

We deeply appreciate all of the passionate users who have engaged with us on this

If only we could believe this. The last few Chrome updates have clearly shown that Google will undermine the users' privacy in the blink of an eye whenever they see fit.

When there's enough backlash, they will apologize in a cringy way and make some minor changes to appease to the community.

I had my reservations against Chrome, but changed to it anyway, because Firefox was in a bad state at the time. Now that is no longer the case and Vivaldi seems to be quite good, too.

Goodbye, Chrome.

Seems pretty great so far.

Is there a way to get the Firefox autoscrolling behavior, i.e. middle mouse click to toggle auto scroll mode?

Considering how great Google are with regex, if your domain has anything Google in it, the cookies will probably be kept forever.

http://www.google.com.somedomain.com

Looks a lot like "google.com" to me.

Not only after installs, but also with bigger updates.

It's always a reminder that with Windows 10, the user is never in control of the system.

Good. Kids have enough time to use their phones during the rest of the day.

Students' performances -at least here- have been steadily declining, despite simplifying the teaching material. There's an astounding amount of young people who can't use their native language properly and fail at simple math. I refuse to believe that the distraction from smartphones and social media has nothing to do with that.

I really don't get why people suggest lawyers and c&d letters as step 1.

Because that's exactly what Apple would do if you used their stuff without permission?

Thanks. I suppose the common sense rule also applies if you buy furniture or move in or out of an apartment.