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by s_dev 8mo ago
https://european-alternatives.eu/ Based on your comment you probably aren't gonna discuss in good faith but move the goalposts each time.
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Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc The names of birds. tl;dw: Knowing the name of something gives you no knowledge of that thing even if you can name it in every language but it's super useful
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Colourful terminals are so useful. I have mine colour coded according to the working directory depending on the project. So I can see which terminal is associated with which project even if there are twenty terminals open. The scripts are e
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A big problem in America is the entrenchment that is happening. People are becoming so polarised there is no common ground left for discussions and people aren't open to new ideas or thinking. I genuinely feel I can't even discuss
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>We are building cryptographically verifiable integrity into Linux systems. Every system starts in a verified state and stays trusted over time. What problem does this solve for Linux or people who use Linux? Why is this different from m
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>Amutable is based out of Berlin, Germany. Probably obvious from the surnames but this is the first time I've seen a EU company pop up on Hacker News that could be mistaken for a Californian company. Nice to see that ambition. I und
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If Russia is so corrupt that operating there makes you guilty, then why should we trust Russia's Interpol requests?
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This is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
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by s_dev 8mo ago
>Not denying that Russia abuses Interpol The Bill Browder case was clear abuse. In case anyone is looking for a single precedent of this.
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>What does Israel have to do with this article? Because others are asking why people are protesting for Gaza and not Iran.
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by s_dev 8mo ago
There probably isn't the same awareness. This is the first I'm hearing of a massacre in Iran. It's so hard to keep up with the news these days and for many it's just recommended to avoid it because it's all outrage
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I think there is a lot of nuance here. Just as councils and developers can construct ugly buildings artists can also add ugly work to walls. I agree there is a spectrum. On one hand you've Banksy or Basquiat adding to a flat grey wall
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Fascinating, I do love street art and tastefully done graffiti. Some of it is obnoxious. I think it does add to the character of a city e.g. New York, Berlin, Montreal, Paris all have some amazing work etc. I submit Irish Graffiti I see her
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by s_dev 8mo ago
>But I saw the comments of how quickly it seemed the general population of other nations flipped like a dime. It's been ten years of Trumpism. This wasn't a flip of a dime. The opinion flipped after we were threatened with anne
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by s_dev 8mo ago
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-regist... It's all in there.
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That's not the main purpose. The main purpose is tech independence.
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https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht... The digital Euro has not been implemented yet. Some analysts are skeptical but this is the EUs answer for Visa/Mastercard.
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by s_dev 8mo ago
European companies operate under stricter privacy laws. GDPR is applicable world wide but has serious teeth and enforcement within Europe. Small US companies with no presence in Europe can effectively ignore it. However if an American were
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That doesn't make Hacker News European. It is American. Y Combinator is American even if pg is originally British. Stripe is American but its founders are Irish.
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To clarify empowering the EU is literally the opposite of Nationalism or are you discussing the recent surge of 'American Exceptionalism' of the current US administration?
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I think he means Hacker News rather than EU Alternatives.
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by s_dev 8mo ago
https://european-alternatives.eu/about It's all clarified here. If you think it's missing some great companies add them!
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by s_dev 8mo ago
It's a cool project but it is 'niche'. I think the purpose of the site is more about the alternatives to 'large players', platforms and infrastructure companies. Still Constantin Graf should have clarified out of po
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by s_dev 8mo ago
High US salaries come from US VCs having to bid against other to capture talent. US VCs have more capital than EU VCs. This is why. The EU is now going to start pumping money in to building European alternatives. EU software dev salaries ar
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by s_dev 8mo ago
You've posted that twice in this thread. I don't think it's as damning as you think it is.
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I'm sure there are much bigger and more worthwhile criticisms to be had than this. It's something they should fix and if they did would you suddenly switch to Scaleway? I think you would consider other factors first. A good critiq
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Ireland and Malta. You would be shocked at how well certain nationalities like the Dutch and Swedes speak English.
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Scaleway is slick. It's like a European Digital Ocean.
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Same submission from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627097 What's insightful to me is how fast the list of alternatives are growing. The list is much better now than 2021 and we still have a lo
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