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by vincnetas 6mo ago
and you comfortably ignore all the adds that get in your face when opening any news or commerce site. you would not need these popups with agree and list of third party data aggregators if you were not selling all that visitor information t
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
when job of ceo is to make sure that policies around the globe don't interfere with business: "Cook will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world."
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
... other EU consumer-protection regulation ... like unified charging cable, free EU roaming or intercountry bank payments that are instant and almost free, air travel protections?
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
how long are you willing to be without your phone? banking apps, public transit tickets, calls, messages, digital signatures. this is luxury not many can afford these days to be offline for days.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
bookmarking this to revisit after couple years.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
403 Forbidden Access to this resource on the server is denied!
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
Publishing date : 2026-04-01 So you can guess how serious this is.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
continuing on personal asistant analogy, i bet even now we have ultra rich people who are not smart enough to do things themselves but are smart enough to buy (hire) smart people to work for them. And even allow them to make decisions witho
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
Can i selfhost?
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
what a coincidence i too grew up in USSR and my parents and friends were part of above mentioned human shield. And i can tell first hand that there was no coercion. just call to action.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
they have drones though and they are quite physical.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
but iran has physical control. lets call it a buffer zone for toll collection. And funny that you mention act of war like it was(would be) caused by iran.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
how do you know that iranians are forced to do this now by their government and not doing this in support of their country? do you think there are gunmen taking them to the bridges?
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
does policemen shooting at you when you don't listen to his orders is considered terorism? i would say its just enforcing tax collection.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
do you remember what usa president stated just couple of days ago? to destroy whole country. didnt it sounded credible enough?
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
When Lithuania was fighting for independence from USSR civilians gathered around key government buildings to protect them. in a sense they were human shields as none of them were armed. but they did it voluntarily. this happens when you thr
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
article mentions that this was triple tap. i doubt that missiles missed three times hitting same spot.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
this somehow excludes such human concept as sense of belonging. might be in usa it has atrophied already but sense of home is really important in some places. place where you spend most of your life, where you have you real social network,
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
yes it takes multiple generations until empires collapse. even then there are remains left. usa will not disappear it will just become less relevant.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
basically make decisions that make no sense but benefit you financially. Sample. you run a printing business. you dont own it just run it. you sell your main printer and assign a performance bonus to your self. next month your business is c
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
what do you mean by single country? All the cultures in these countries can not disappear in 10, hell even 100 years. And i would prefer that they would not.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
Do you have any numbers for this? I somehow have doubts that US tech companies pay more taxes in EU.
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by vincnetas 6mo ago
I doubt this would work for the better. As we have recently seen when carriers got parked near Iran.
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
yes, the distraction is real. How many times i was busy with my day job on some task when for some reason i had to wait for something (coworker reply, build to complete, approval to be granted) and automatically opened HN on in a new tab...
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
irony is too week a word for for this situation...
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
Well this brings back initiative to stop throwing RAM at the problem and start optimising the code. Would like to see what smart people can do when there are money saved from buying more RAM.
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
no no, please we don't want to get back to dragging files to your project to make them work.
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
long term in a sense of centuries? i think they can afford this.
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
yes, but win ratio is adjusted to that.
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by vincnetas 7mo ago
Right, so why advertise gambling or any other of them?

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