But why should this apply to Apple's iOS App Store?

Maintaining a fair *public* market is important for the general *public* and is thus an important role for the *public* government to play. None of this should apply to a *private* market, as long as no-one is ever forced into a situation where they only have access to that private market.

You can't even stumble into this private market by accident, you need to consciously make the decision of buying an iPhone. You end up in the public market just by being born, which was not your choice, so yes, the public market needs to be safeguarded against monopolies.

But any consenting adult can make the choice for themselves to enter into Apple's private market and accept whatever rules Apple enforces. They can also leave whenever they want, which again, you can't really do with the public market.

Here in Belgium, it even seems as if there are less strokes or heart attacks... Doctors aren't quite sure how or why, but the numbers are there.

I, and I assume many other people, would gladly hear what better alternative you have.

Recycling is only needed for things that are used once or twice. There's no reason to assume this bead would wear out and need to be replaced frequently, so for such a purpose, plastics are fine.

They could absolutely choose not to obey the Chinese law. It's just that they would then have to accept whatever punishment the Chinese government decides to impose on them. Which they are absolutely not willing to risk.

Well, forcing me to watch 5 seconds of an ad for something I'm not interested in, doesn't really help anyone.

Use those 5 seconds to show me 10 ads that I can skip immediately and maybe one of those 10 will catch my eye, and maybe then someone might actually make some money off me.

Almost right.

Our chromosomes exist in pairs, and we have 23 pairs of them.

On one particular pair, women have two X chromosomes and men have an XY combination. Thus, the most obvious genetic difference between our sexes exists only on one chromosome, which is why in common parliance we refer to "the X chromosome" or "the Y chromosome". But again, in both cases these are part of a pair.

When reproducing, both parents give one (pretty much randomly selected) of each pair of their own chromosomes to the child.

Meaning that women always give an X sex chromosome to their child, and men give 50% X and 50% Y.

Thus, two women will indeed always give two X chromosomes, leading to a girl. Two men will have 25% female children, 50% male children and 25% children with YY chromosomes. A quick google shows that pretty much no-one knows what that would be like. It is not impossible that it would not be viable.

Unfortunately, the free market does not at this point in time have a mechanism that makes a person pay for the pollution they produce with their car. So subsidies for technologies that pollute less are basically just a fix because 'breathable air' is not part of the market.

Sorry, but this is in no way, shape or form a 'right'. Governments should not get involved in this. Vote with your wallet. If people want phones whose bootloader they can unlock, they should stop buying Huawei phones immediately.

First of all, of course a project like this slows down near the end. The last few villages are more than likely the most difficult to reach.

Second of all, at least the PM didn't announce that those last remaining villages weren't worth the effort.

Please explain how Europeans are leeching and freeloading, when all these medications are being paid for?

I can imagine that there's still quite a few places in the US where the nearest doctor is a few dozen miles away, with the next nearest one double that.

Not everyone always has a choice of doctors.

Actually, since we're talking about data that can be changed and/or corrected over time, it is vital to store all this data as an initial set, accompanied by precisely timestamped changes. Because if something occurred when the data was incorrect, or with a previous version of the data, then that exact situation needs to remain preserved for posterity.

If I sign my name to a contract today and I legally change my name tomorrow, then that contract needs to remain valid. Having a tamper-proof ledger that correctly records what my name was at the time of the signing, and what my name is right now, means that no-one can claim the contract is no longer valid just because of the name change.

There's AT to PS/2 connectors, PS/2 to USB and USB to whatever your iThingy has. I don't see the problem.

A simple click on the very firt link (to the Garadget site on Indiegogo) teaches me that this is NOT a garage door opener.

It is a sensor detecting whether your garage door is open. It also seems to be capable of opening/closing the garage door "by simulating taps on the wall button".

So no, the fact that this person's account was closed off does NOT mean he couldn't open his garage door anymore.