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Because...uh...NATO.


Well, glad you asked.

The part that goes wrong is that you don't have to view a Privacy Policy behind a tiny poorly colored hyperlink before clicking "I Agree".


Decreasing attack vectors means supporting less solutions and organizations that do this shit, not more of them.


Not fully, but they're still very much involved. Money talks, and they're invested.


I was always under the impression that the reason you couldn't undo was purely to encourage putting thought into your votes, instead of clicking after the first sentence, getting through the rest of the post, and looking to take your upvote back.

Guess I was wrong. I'd say 30 seconds should be enough, with this thought in mind =]


The main use case for the unvote button is for mobile, and on a spotty mobile connection it might take a lot longer than 30 seconds until the action registered.


Sometimes I'll vote on a comment, and then as I'm reading the replies and clarifications, or other comments elsewhere in the discussion, I'll realize I misunderstood something and will want to go back and change my vote.


I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned anything about Niantic being an "independent" spinoff from Google/Alphabet.

Interesting to think about what personal information they're gaining from this, as well as mapping information.


Nintendo (along with Google and the Pokemon Company, which Nintendo also partially owns) invested $30 million into Niantic 9 months ago [1].

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-16/nintendo-g...


Because the FSB will always have a backup.

Rehashed NSA joke, likely very correct.


That's quite a presumption you have there.


They do also have a vested interest in bringing internet to developed regions in a way - where else are you supposed to get the low-cost H1B labour?


Yes, clever as a fox for running a wildly insecure server that foreign nations could spy on her from, in order to dodge FOIA.


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