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by petre 9mo ago
We are still making hardware and feel the same way about the US market. The litigation is insane. Meanwhile the Chinese don't give a damn about any of those.
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Good thing we're not in the US to terrorize us with the ICE.
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I gave an iPhone a shot fof like a week but had to return it because it didn't have alternatives to the apps I was using on Android. Apps like BitCalculator, Convertbee, Aegis, a decent calculator with sin/cos/log and the abi
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by petre 9mo ago
This stuff goes back to Yalta, so just forget parotting these ideas. The US never wanted Europe to be self reliant concerning security, up until Trump and the Paypal mafia. Fortunately De Gaulle gave the Americans the finger during his pres
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by petre 9mo ago
Just wait until he asks for total control of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
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by petre 9mo ago
Bots don't count as people. They're not represented demographically. They also don't have voting rights. Yet they're spreading propaganda to influence how people vote. So one could argue social media is rather anti democ
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by petre 9mo ago
The current US president cares enough to have writen a letter to the Norwegian PM whining about the Nobel he didn't get and of course, Greenland. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-
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by petre 9mo ago
Google Chat used XMPP to build an user base and then cut it off from the Jabber network. That's when I stopped using it. Or was it when it got integrated into Gmail? Then they rebranded it and binned each iteration several times.
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by petre 9mo ago
Previous HN discussion about setting up a GmbH. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959368
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by petre 9mo ago
Have you seen the paint schemes on new Chinese cars? Wow. Embedded glitter, chameleon colors, while the European car industry is doing boring primer like paint schemes. I always joke that they applied clear coat onto primer. And that's
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by petre 9mo ago
We can always eat bugs that the EU authorized for human consumption. I would at least. Cricket farms are more sustainable than cattle or pig farming. I like to think of them as grass shrimp .
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by petre 9mo ago
Those countries don't export much food, except maybe for maple syrup and instant ramen.
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by petre 9mo ago
The US doesn't have Chat Control. They use blanket mandates to ask FAANG for your whereabouts.
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by petre 9mo ago
It was mainly the USSR's doing. China managed to switch to state capitalism. I guess we'll see how that works out for them.
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by petre 9mo ago
> But they had to buy the materials for that balloon after the Stasi had found the remains of their previous attempt The repressive state apparatus was moving too slow. Maybe they hoped there won't be a second attempt after the firs
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by petre 9mo ago
> Putting young men into fresh uniforms to march in synchrony A security circus and a waste of time. Look at the Korean People's Army. Their main areas of expertise are marching in synchrony, digging trenches, construction and agric
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by petre 9mo ago
> wouldn’t even allow location services on her phone to put exif data in photos This should be standard practice, I do it as well. Not East German but East European. We had our own Stasi that would terrorize youths for listening to Weste
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by petre 9mo ago
In Europe they have an issue with the economic refugees from Muslim countries. And in Denmark has the counter example of Sweden where they cause trouble. That's why the far right gets people's votes. Of course, all they do is poin
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by petre 9mo ago
Dreadful weather but otherwise a nice country.
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Yeah, he also hoped to rent Venice for his wedding, but he had to move the venue because people got annoyed. They'll probably also get fed up with him shoving his cloud down their throats. He could then move on to mining asteroids usin
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by petre 9mo ago
I'm obviously not going to show my id to Zuckerberg's website or any porn sites, casinos because I don't trust those bastards. They're also not the police, so they lack the proper autoritah to request my an id.
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by petre 9mo ago
Not a fan of Cloudfare but why should it be responsible for providing pro bono services to the Italian government during the winter olympics? If one gets drunk at the pub and threatens the staff after being served free drinks, they get thro
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by petre 10mo ago
Unsurprising. In his first mandate he withdrew the US from the TPP after 7 years of negotiation and the Iran nuclear deal (JOPA), the TTIP negotiations.
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by petre 10mo ago
Stop worrying. You don't have to liberate everyone. The Iranian regime will screw itself up by attacking Israel. It's usually smuggled parts if they're small enough. Someone outside of the country usually makes the subscripti
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by petre 10mo ago
Black market. We had satellite dishes in Eastern Europe during communism. Bribe some people, shell out some insane amounts of cash and it can be done.
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by petre 10mo ago
It only makes sense if one wants boat a left and right handed camera st the same time. But then it's got the dials on the wrong side.
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by petre 10mo ago
There are still Maduro-linked armed rebel groups like the ELN in Venezuela that aren't that keen on the US version of freedom.
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by petre 10mo ago
Not necessarily, but there is the risk that ELN will further consolidate power. Maybe the US dies not want the group's leader, Antonio Garcia, to be the next president of Venezuela. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na
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This is quite a bit like the invasion of Panama by US forces and the removal of Manuel Noriega from power. Except Noriega wasn't "elected" like Maduro and the US doesn't have a strategically important canal to protect in
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by petre 10mo ago
Because they had their own union called the USSR, which collapsed due to military spending, oil price drops and centralized inneficiency. This was before Putin's mafia took over. Maybe this could offer more insight: https://

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