alt Hacker News>It’s like saying my car isn’t really a car because I can’t adjust spark timing.
What if it only drives along select predetermined monetised routes?
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kuboble • today at 11:54 AM
Even a car that you are not allowed to drive at all is still a car. It just isn't your car.
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What if my aunt had three wheels?
I don’t see the value in hypotheticals like that. If the claim is that a computer is not really a computer unless every user can do any low level operations they want, is it also true that a car is not really a car unless every user can do any low level operations they want?