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Comment Re:Devil's advocate (Score 5, Insightful) 204

See the thing is, an app review is a review of the app: I expect to read whether it crashes my Android system, asks too many permissions or whether the UI is horrible: App reviews aren't really meant to review the policies of the company behind the app, now are they?

Normally not, unless said policies prevent you from using the app for the purpose you got it for.

People get the Robinhood app to trade stocks. If they cannot use it to execute the trades that they got it for -- regardless if it's due to a buggy implementation or a deliberate policy -- then a low rating is justified.

Comment Re:trust (Score 4, Insightful) 204

It's funny how you think in a "just world" the hedge funds should be arrested and tried for market manipulation. Seems a bit cock-eyed, aren't the redditors doing exactly the same thing?

Reading comprehension is important:

What is manipulation is these brokerages limiting a segment of investors from increasing the price further, resulting in the price being artificially held lower (to save some hedge funds that shorted it). In a just world, they would be arrested and tried for market manipulation.

Comment FTFY (Score 1) 129

The RedHat binaries contain trademarked data so you are not allowed per copyright law allowed to freely distribute those binaries.

Trademark law.

RH sells support contracts which includes you the right to download and use their trademarked binary, if you use it on more seats than what RH says that you are allowed to use it on then you have violated the subscription contract and per copyright law you loose the right to the RH binaries.

Contract law.

Comment Simple (Score 1) 18

The ministry is additionally seeking clarification from WhatsApp on its data-sharing agreement with Facebook and other commercial firms and has asked why users in the EU are exempt from the new privacy policy but their counterpoint in India have no choice but to comply.

Because you did not show willingness to fine them 4% of their worldwide annual revenue for privacy violations.

Comment Re:Doggies!! (Score 2) 138

I'm a bit skeptical because I already know that this bit is either outright false or not quite correct, depending on how you read it:

Nutritional deficiencies came from the absence of fat and carbohydrates, not necessarily protein. Indeed, if humans eat too much meat, diarrhea usually ensues. And within weeks, they can develop protein poisoning and even die.

There have been many cases of people living off of meat only diets for years at a time with no ill effects. If the meat is totally lean meat, like rabbit meat, then supposedly you can get protein poisoning, but if it has fat, which most meat does, then you should be ok.

Which is explicitly mentioned in the summary (emphasis mine):

"During the coldest years of the last ice age -- and especially in harsh Arctic and sub-Arctic winters -- reindeer, wild horses and other human prey animals would have been eking out an existence, nearly devoid of fat and composed mostly of lean muscle."

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