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by piva00 1y ago
> $5 for that comment lol. I live in Sweden so kinda couldn't care much less about it, lol. Over here drinking and driving is not tolerated, no amount is considered safe exactly because giving any leeway lets a lot of people to thin
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by piva00 1y ago
> Edit: I’m a Democrat but for each downvote to this post I’m donating $1 to the Republican Party. Y’all are crazy if you think other countries aren’t doing this. That's an absurd amount of butthurtdeness coupled with pettiness, lol
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by piva00 1y ago
Also, macOS's audio stack is unmatched, Windows and Linux are an absolute mess for anything audio-related. It's doable on those OSes but very far from a pleasant experience.
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by piva00 1y ago
Stock buybacks are the indirect rule, it wasn't even allowed for most of the existence of stock markets, it's the odd one out which created perverse incentives. It's not about regulating executive compensation, it's to c
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by piva00 1y ago
Similarly I tend to overdocument everything, everywhere: emails with summaries from in-person chats; messages confirming something decided/agreed upon during a meeting; commit messages with details about why and how something non-obvio
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by piva00 1y ago
The Cookie Law is different to the GDPR, I don't understand how HN of all places keep getting this wrong after 9+ years of GDPR, it's just a meme and I wish people here would be more well informed.
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by piva00 1y ago
If you don't run a business in the EU there's no liability, you are only liable if you have users from the EU and a business entity in any EU country. Blanket bans for EU users is quite common, I see it all the time with local US
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by piva00 1y ago
It's not silly, it's a terrible incentive for companies flush with cash and paying bonuses to their executives in stocks, it becomes very easy to manipulate the stock price with stock buybacks for a larger bonus while letting the
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by piva00 1y ago
No stock buybacks, pay dividends, that's why the instrument exists. Stock buybacks are an aberration of hyperfinancialisation, just pay the shareholders proportionally to what they own.
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by piva00 1y ago
With Scandinavian languages it went full circle, there are lots of everyday English words stemming from old Norse :)
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by piva00 1y ago
There are BYDs everywhere in Scandinavia, doesn't look like Chinese EVs have been tariffed out of the market at all.
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by piva00 1y ago
It's just a bias of what cultures you are more exposed to. The same with messaging apps, different societies huddled in different apps.
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by piva00 1y ago
10 million designated to be spent on early warning sirens get spent on sheriff bonuses and police radios, where's the dishonest cheap shot?
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by piva00 1y ago
Just tell me that "more open minded" doesn't rhyme with "more open to fascist rhetoric" and we can have a conversation.
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by piva00 1y ago
Are you trying to have a debate on what the presupposed end of an ideology such as fascism is by the stated goals of fascists or do you prefer the empirical way it devolves into the inevitable end? I'd appreciate if you don't use
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by piva00 1y ago
> I don’t know of any ideologies whose ends are simply violence. Fascism is definitely not one of them. You don't know much about the EU nor about fascism, why do you feel the need to opine on both while clearly showing you have no
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't think you know what you are actually talking about, you are confusing the EU with Europe, if talking about Europe you are giving a blanket statement over 40+ countries with quite different cultures, societies, etc. If talking a
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by piva00 1y ago
Yes, the EU as an institution is centre-right, its main purpose is to regulate a common market, it's a economic liberal institution, and liberal in this sense is a right-wing political philosophy, not the bastardised "liberal&quot
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by piva00 1y ago
The 3mg per kg per day is of curcumin not turmeric itself. Looking up the content of curcumin in turmeric powder it seems to average around ~1-2% so 2-2.5g of turmeric per day would be 25-50mg of curcumin.
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by piva00 1y ago
Can you point me to the carve outs in the EU's directives? No, I'm not aware of those carve outs (and German newspapers display the GDPR notices for me all the time). Edit: found the "carve out" for newspapers: https:&#
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't think it's a suitable analogy but you do you to try to justify companies breaking the law :) As far as I hear from the HN crowd if the company feels it's not profitable anymore they will just pack up and leave (hence
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by piva00 1y ago
I don't think OP said anything about the spread of the fines amount being equal, they brought up that there are many EU-based companies whom have been levied fines, I believe you interpreted it wrongly and are bashing a non-existing
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by piva00 1y ago
Those companies choose to operate in the EU, if they don't like the legal environment they can just pack up and leave. Why do you think they don't do that? Why do you feel the need to defend companies breaking the law?
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by piva00 1y ago
> Still fits the theme that EU is using GDPR to shake down big tech it does not own. It's not a shake down, it's the fucking law which they don't follow and have to pay fines accordingly. Every single business in the EU ha
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by piva00 1y ago
In Sweden I've seen quite a few businesses sprung up for that, collecting overpaid rent through a legal firm. Completely agree that if it's a similarly straightforward process there will be businesses offering to litigate on the u
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by piva00 1y ago
> Also would have been nice to have a critical look at how the Chinese were able to corner the Solar market via state sponsored means. What would be a critical look though? They thought it would be good to invest in it and so they did, o
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by piva00 1y ago
Sweden still does (and I believe the other Scandinavians as well).
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by piva00 1y ago
> Greece is in a recession for more than 16 years now, with no visible exit, because (one of many reasons of course) it couldn't devalue its currency back in 2009. Greece is not in a recession, it hasn't been in one for a while
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by piva00 1y ago
In that sense the Holocaust was also the "easy solution" to "make the problem go away" when deporting Jews (and other minorities) became too much of a hassle for the Nazis. They didn't start with the idea of "l
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by piva00 1y ago
I haven't worked in places using off-the-shelf/SaaS CI in more than a decade so I feel my experience has been quite the opposite from yours. We always worked hard to make the CI/CD pipeline as fast as possible. I personally w

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