EdwinLarkin

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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
This is disgusting.You literally advocate for governments to strip people of their human rights.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Why is advocating for violation of human rights not a bannable offense?
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Both Taiwan and South Korea's values are in direct contrast with what we call Western Values. Violating the right to privacy is one of them. South Korea's spying on its citizens is second only to China.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I dont see this going anywhere.Most of China can be pushed to dark ages by a confident and experienced black ops (Mossad?). Most of China's power is in its coastal densely populated cities that are not possible to defend in any meaning
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Ask HN: Did the government regulate renovation / construction during pandemic?
1 points by EdwinLarkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
The only reason corporate embraced open source is that it saw it as a way to drive the small and medium sized businesses out of the market. Why pay for an editor when the good guy Microsoft gives it to you for free? People have been delusio
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I doubt Comac airplanes will be allowed to land in any european or american airports.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I dont have an answer to your question. The healthcare system has never been designed for even epidemics let alone pandemics. Nor has it been designed to account for rich countries stealing medical professionals. And yet people have to some
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I have talked to dozens of people from my circle. Some had covid and some have not but all of them agree on one thing and that is that life should just go on.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I cant see mental health service provider nor can I just visit a GP. They simply dont work anymore unless it is an emergency.
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Ask HN: Are we ready to take our lives back?
11 points by EdwinLarkin 6y ago|22 comments
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
We have killed direct sales / SaaS for some types of software (because of corps giving it out for free)
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I live there :)
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I hate it that we have degraded software into adware or begware.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I am a european and agree with OP. Vienna is nice but smelly and one does not feel particularly safe there. CJK subways are super nice because people dont smell. Still they are too crowded and usually in super huge cities where commuting is
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I am not anti-american or anything like that.I even acknowledge american dominance in Tech and better conditions for skilled workers (read much higher salaries). That said as a european I have to consider my interests and interests of my bu
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Entrusting your business to an american entity is the stupidest idea you could have thought about. Especially us europeans should not rely on American services at all.It's not worth it. American corporations are just as much a liabilit
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Manufacturing coupled with enviro taxes is coming back to West.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Having children is a commitment with very little reward at the end of the day. If you want to see an increased birth rates find an incentive for people to have children. People no longer want to commit half of their life for nothing.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I find comments like this one deeply insulting. Societal problems that countries like Korea face are a no joke and cant be easily solved by "bringing people over".
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
It's simple really. Google does not make products that people want to buy. They make products that people want to/have to use. Amazon understands the people that actually want to pay for products and is able to capture that market
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Ask HN: Any predictions on international travel next year?
8 points by EdwinLarkin 6y ago|4 comments
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I could not get a job because I was considered too young.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
It has been the opposite experience for me in continental Europe.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
American cancel culture is borderline cultural imperialism akin to communist China. Ask any (eastern) european open source maintainer how badly they are being treated because of their different opinions. Dealing with anything american is th
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Could be because a lot of startups are just trying to squeeze just as much traffic as they can with very little capital involved. It's basically here's my app that does billions of things and wants billions of users and runs on po
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I understand the business model of these companies. Really. I dont blame Apple or Foxconn or whoever that tries to squeeze as much as they can. But we (as the western civilization) can make deals with most of these countries and set basic s
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Taiwan Wistron, Taiwan Foxconn. It does not matter whether it's a communist China or democratic Taiwan it's all the same just to squeeze some dollars at the expense of human lives. Is it so hard to pay reasonable wages even for lo
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I am a young not so healthy European and would very much prefer a better wage than these perks.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
This is my experience as well. The smaller the company is in the DACH region the more it can afford to pay. On the other hand one downside is the lack of capital for anything else (like no perks or expensive hw or even being cheapskates whe

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