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agree. Plenty of places to talk about this. There is no tech or startup angle for this.
by quietsegfault 9mo ago
agree. Plenty of places to talk about this. There is no tech or startup angle for this.
- superb_dev 9mo agoHere’s your angle: It’ll be harder to build your startup if we descend into the next world war
- CalRobert 9mo agoNot to mention that plenty of people (myself included) work in Europe for US startups and having a war break out between the US and Europe could threaten that arrangement.
- Esophagus4 9mo agoBut if we play six degrees of separation, everything is tech related. I flagged this. There are a million places on the internet talking about it: Twitter, news outlets, Instagram… even my loony relatives have all weighed in on Facebook. No need to add this forum to that list of places talking politics - it’s against the guidelines for HN anyway.
- johnnyanmac 9mo ago>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. I think evidence of a potential war escalation falls under the "unless". Are we really going to be starting WW3 and have people like you keep covering your ears because you need a cozy space?
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- blurbleblurble 9mo agoThere is no tech/startup angle in that there will be no tech there will be no startup.
- scelerat 9mo agoThe implications of the ongoing ruptures to the global political and economic order are significant. Tech is both influencing and influenced by these changes.
- nick_ 9mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=That%20includes%20more%20than%20hacking%20and%20startups. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Tha...
- Esophagus4 9mo agoAh, you conveniently left out the rest of the guidelines: > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- johnnyanmac 9mo agoSo you have no intellectual curiostity of the stakes here, at all?
- Esophagus4 9mo agoYes, you nailed it. Surely that must be it. Fantastic work.
- tlocke 9mo agoI'd have thought there are many tech angles. For example, in a possible Greenland invasion, what are the implications of the US having control of dominant platforms such as Windows, Android and Apple? Not to mention all the dominant cloud platforms.
- dpc050505 9mo agoWhat happens to these platforms becoming insolvent on any international debt when the rest of the world abandons the US dollar and dumps US bonds?
- mikewarot 9mo ago>There is no tech or startup angle for this. The devaluation of the US Dollar that is likely outcome of this will disrupt our supply chains leading to chaos. I expect 80% or worse. Also, this will drive interest rates through the roof, drying up funding. Even if you're not interested in politics, it's interested in you.
- II2II 9mo agoLook for opportunities then? The early days of Silicon Valley were literally the product of defense contracts and defense research spending. The whole consumer and business products thing (hardware or software) came much later. Even the early days business computing, the days of mainframes and minis, were largely driven by east coast companies.
- mattnewton 9mo agoI wish I could tune out, but unfortunately these policies do affect tech and startups.
- Sabinus 9mo agoPlenty of political-tech articles get flagged too.