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> You don't pay cash on those apps you mentioned IIRC in some countries cash is/was an option.
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> UK would safe them from Germany and Russia and was betrayed The balance of power is not even remotely similar to what it was back in 1939. Even if we ignore the economy and armament production modern Russia has severe demographic issue
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To be fair modern Russia is not exactly the USSR or Nazi Germany (let alone both of them put together). Their army was decimated (huge understatement) in Ukraine. Their demographic situation was pretty bad before the war. But now? If you c
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> With a US president shouting Depending on what happens with the congress. There are still some semi-sane (concerning foreign policy) Republicans in the Senate of course they'll probably struggle a lot more with manipulating him&#x
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> Cloud wasn't predatory in this. I'd argue it's still quite predatory. Basically, they reel in users with other services/products and then charge extortionate prices for egress specifically with massive margins just
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3y ago
> Paying for peace of mind is much less important. Sure, but it's pretty important from the perspective of the people you might seriously injure and their families.
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3y ago
Why can't it be both? I mean the coverage limits in the US are still ridiculously low by Western standards and would hardly cover serious treatment throughout much of Europe despite healthcare being cheaper there.
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3y ago
> But overall the state has a bad history of trying to manipulate markets especially through dictate. If the market is competitive and the cost is excessive then yes. If it's an oligopoly/local monopoly and the providers can ch
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> You can disable the new UI though, and I doubt that will change They have been pretty vocal that long-term it will be removed and that it probably won't be included in the 2025 version. Of course hopefully they'll come to the
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It's so bizarre to me what they have been doing lately. This and that horrible new UI designed entirely for 13" screens or tablets which just turns their IDE into VS Code. They are trying to compete with a free product by trying t
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> Electricity in the US is expensive It seems very cheap compared to most of Europe though?
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Or Paris getting about as cold on average in winter as Washington DC
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> the party that occupied it doesn't want it That's not that obvious considering all the illegal settlements. I'm sure they want the land just not the people living there. But yes, no clear solution especially considering
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A very small proportion of websites/webapps actually need those new features though (or should anyway..)
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3y ago
I'm pretty sure you can access and use Vivaldi in every European country regardless of how wealthy it is.
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> Hamas attacks again and again. Considering how reliant Netenyahu's political career was/is on Hamas continuing to exist it's likely that's going to happen anyway. An actual long-term solution would be a huge blow t
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> chapter in their country's respective histories and a major cultural movement against the possibility of those kinds of atrocities happening again It's true that that's the case today. But it took a while for this transi
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> The world is overwhelmingly pro Palestine That's arguable, certainly in the west at least. Even if most people oppose the current war/atrocities that doesn't mean that they generally favour Palestine (or especially Hamas
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> During the US occupation of Japan or Germany post WW-II could Which was a temporary state and certainly didn't last for 50 years. > It's true that Americans didn't settle those regions (they built military bases they
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> They just want Palestinians to have full human rights Hamas certainly doesn't want Palestinians to have full human rights. Regardless of how unjustifiable some Israel's actions are or what one might think about them Hamas is
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Weren't the Normans more culturally French than anything else at that point? William the Conqueror did speak it as his first language.
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Yet they basically monopoly in the datacenter GPU/AI market mainly because of software. > Some market segments even spend thousands of dollars in Nvidia's hardware What segments are those?
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> there is no local sympathy like in the Epic case Epic is in no way more "European" than Apple.
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I always (for the last ~10 years or so at least) found Apple documentation extremely poor overall.
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And 10x higher fees (Unity is/was about 0.05 to 0.1, not even close to $0.5
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The parliament is hardly relevant though, it's pretty much a joke. The non directly elected commission and council control EU's policy.
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> Software is hardly the hard part, or even costlier Tell that to Nvidia. HW is a commodity with relatively low margins unless you can lock in your users in some other way.
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> really like something that isn't perfect. You don't have to defend flaws that it clearly has. Certainly true. But it's not clear at all how does the product solve these specific problems (they say "Painless Scalabil
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But that seems like pretty much the equivalent to "rm -R *"? And also just a permission/configuration issue.
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> close to five hundred years To be fair what we consider to be "western democracy style" didn't really exist prior to the late 1800s. Even Britain only started resembling a democratic state in the 1830s.
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