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by fakedang 6mo ago
Or maybe they leave voluntarily, because the EU is simply not a place to do business? Because the EU has been regulatory-captured by aging tech entities such as Siemens, IBM and SAP? Mistral, Zendesk, Basecamp, etc. left Europe for the US e
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Unfortunately, they're now in league with Israel and just left OPEC which was under the Saudi umbrella. While it's basically trading one devil for another, the Saudis are at least more pragmatic about regional stability unlike the
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Throwing shit on the wall so that something sticks? At this point, I really don't get what they're after. What about hiring Jonny Ive to create some AI widget to chat with? Gone nowhere?
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by fakedang 6mo ago
More like refugees flowing out, which Egypt doesn't want to deal with. The Palestinians didn't help their cause with Yasser Arafat's Black September uprising in Jordan. Then they topped that up with strong support for Saddam
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by fakedang 6mo ago
No dominant religion in the Middle East? Haha! The reason is fractured is because of the inherent tribalism within the cultures of the region. Strip away the tribalism (Oman, Qatar, UAE to an extent), concentrate the people near a few citie
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by fakedang 6mo ago
STC was defeated after a Saudi bombing campaign, and their independent nation quashed. While there might be holdouts here and there, they are a non-entity now.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
They need the dollars because they're an import-oriented economy, almost all of which are conducted in dollars (nobody wants their dirhams because oil is priced in dollars anyways). Dollars are also useful for their sovereign funds to
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by fakedang 6mo ago
711 AD to 1492 AD is a good 781 years.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Because ancient India was extremely bad at record keeping and maintaining written works (and the destruction of Nalanda university didn't help), and relied mostly on oral traditions to record history. Compare that to the innumerable nu
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by fakedang 6mo ago
We're already referencing the Dropbox antagonist whenever we can.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Recent Western history, 70s to early 00s. I doubt many people were going hungry in the US and UK back then, as much as they are now. The obesity crisis is in part because of the unavailability of nutritious food and the proliferation of che
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by fakedang 6mo ago
> Also good to remember the English versions of Israeli sites have the propaganda for the US and diaspora. The Hebrew versions give a clearer picture of the internal messaging Yes, this is very important when approaching the region. If y
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Times of Israel is mostly Israeli propaganda, although it's good to get an idea of where the conservative majority Israeli pulse is. Haaretz is often objective by global standards, but is a minority in Israeli media unfortunately. I pr
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Asked my friends in both sides of the Gulf and even they haven't heard of these lol. Most likely it's just a shit ton of bot traffic.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Can say from experience volunteering, I was mighty surprised when literally children were being rendered hungry and homeless in London during Covid.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
You still don't expect people to go hungry in a first world developed country. Nor did people go hungry or homeless at this scale before in recent American, British or even broadly Western history. Yet here we are, and the UK is no exc
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by fakedang 6mo ago
It's worth adding that Israel has been on a rampage conducting targeted strikes against several journalists, Lebanese and foreign, and against ambulances in south Lebanon.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
My point is and always was about US government rules forcing foreign banks in third countries to check for US citizenship and residency specifically. Otherwise citizenship checks have always been a thing everywhere. But in order to comply w
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Bye bye Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, etc. Seriously, if you're using any Atlassian product other than Statuspage, you deserve to get your data hoovered up for AI.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Sure, as it is in their purview within India. But does UBS or Santander ask their clients in Europe if they're specifically an Indian citizen or resident? Does RBS send a form to a prospective client asking them to explicitly check off
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by fakedang 6mo ago
NRI accounts are different in that they're localized. You don't have UBS in Switzerland asking me if I'm an Indian citizen or resident, like they do for the US.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
They don't need to send your data if you're not working for a US company, or if you're not a US resident/citizen. That is, sending data to the US is not the default. Also yes, the checkbox wasn't just a single box b
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Incorrect, banks in other countries require this data solely because the US is the only country that taxes its citizens even outside its borders. Compliance with FATCA is the only reason why most banks literally have a checkbox in their app
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Everything in the UAE is about being perfect. It's part and parcel of Arab culture, especially for the Gulf Arabs. Nope, we can't do any wrong, we're excellent individuals, we're an exceptional society, we're a rema
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by fakedang 6mo ago
China's actually far ahead in the AI adoption race for manufacturing. They're investing heavily into hardware AI, robotics and the like. The only reason we're not seeing fears akin to the US is because the financialization is
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by fakedang 6mo ago
And America doesn't? Palantir, Ring and Flock Safety say hi.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Still up. Looks like this is going to be another game of hit the hedgehog.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
Startups and COBOL shouldn't be in the same sentence lol.
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Land of the Free, First Amendment, Right to Free Speech, Democracy, Community Involvement, etc. etc. etc.
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by fakedang 6mo ago
If you're talking sensitive media as in military installations, wartime damage, debris, etc., yes.

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