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maynarkh,

Yeah but he took loans from the billionaire equivalent of loansharks to buy it.

maynarkh,

And that would still not make you particularly wealthy.

maynarkh,

Thank fuck for that.

maynarkh,

Europe has nukes, and an industrial capacity that dwarfs Russia multiple times over and is roughly equal to the US.

Russia has about as much chance attacking Europe as Japan would attacking China on their own.

Also without Europe, the US has no capacity to develop semiconductors better than what Russia has. In the extremely unlikely event Europe falls to Russia, the US will not be far behind.

maynarkh,

I’m going off the deep end a bit here, but reports started off with two missiles. I thought it must have been a Ukrainian AA missile chasing a Russian cruise missile, with the Russian missile responsible for the deaths.

Then news suddenly shut up about the second missile, and started selling it as one Ukrainian missile.

I wouldn’t be surprised it was covered up so NATO didn’t get tested.

maynarkh,

That’s one very weird source you’re linking.

maynarkh,

Not with decent labour laws. This is only true in the US.

maynarkh,

Is there support for serving it out to a browser similar to vscode.dev? I’ve been looking into having something like that, and I didn’t find anything that was similar.

maynarkh,

Just speaking to the first one as I have some experience regarding that, the reason people feel Hungary has been a better place to live under communism might be because of any of the following:

  • First and foremost, Hungary was living beyond its means after 1970. The ruling communist elite (this term should be an oxymoron, but somehow it seems it isn’t) fearing an upheaval because of the global economic downturn, started to take out loans to keep the country placated. Hungary was never able to repay this, and indeed its liabilities only grew under the communist regime.
  • The current set of idiots changing one another actually have to have the country repay all that money. So yeah, Hungarians feel that living in a mansion bought on a loan so to speak was much better than having to pay for it and getting evicted.
  • Speaking of the current idiotic leadership, Hungary never really ousted the communist regime, so they transitioned into the new elite. Most current Hungarian politicians were well positioned in the previous system, or were outright party members.
  • Regarding the current leadership and why people feel that the EU is bad for them, Hungary spends more money on anti-EU propaganda than its whole education system and has done so for more than the past decade.

In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era.

No other Central or Eastern European country is so blatantly serving the interests of Russia and China over its own and (that of its aliies’) either. Maybe that’s not a coincidence.

Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country’s switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy

Calling Hungary’s economy a “market economy” would imply that the majority of Hungary’s capital assets is not captured by government aligned interests.

I don’t personally have experience with the rest, but what you’ve written implies Hungary would be better under communism. The truth is, Hungary has a huge voter bloc that wants to go back to communism, and they elect fascists that promise to do it. The result is obvious.

Oh, the transition to communism wasn’t simple either, Hungary set the still-unbroken world record for hyperinflation in the fist years of communism, when they managed to inflate their whole money supply to a collective value of 0.3 US cent. So those guys were obviously saying “we were better under the monarchists!”. And they were in clear majority, before communist elites in Hungary called in Soviet troops to reestablish the repression.

maynarkh,

Except the current Hungarian elite and the previous elite are the same people.

maynarkh,

It was WWI, not WWII. And the war was lost under the monarchy.

And Russia wasn’t a superpower back then, it was barely a Great Power.

The leadership of the USSR was a genocidal imperialistic regime, but it did in fact get Russia specifically from snowsleds to space shuttles.

In the meantime it caused irreparable harm to most of Eastern Europe.

maynarkh,

Lot of budget airlines sell cheap tickets for the last seats of short hauls in that price range.

In Eastern Europe, it’s a whole thing, people buy a cheap ticket for under 30 EUR there and back anywhere. Think like Budapest to Milan, spend a weekend, maybe not even booking a hotel.

It’s bad for the destination as well, because if you can’t pay for the plane ticket, how are you going to pay for anything else? But you still take your space in the crowd.

maynarkh,

I imagine the user experience would be just that “our site only works with Chrome”.

And then Google could close the loop with requiring such requirements for Google Ads integration.

maynarkh,

I think the level of government capture in the US is unique. The EU is kinda balanced, as many good things as bad in this regard, while the authoritarian part of the world is definitely not corporate controlled.

maynarkh,

Since this is something that can be used as a DRM solution, hacking it might be already illegal under the DMCA. IANAL though.

maynarkh,

Man, we just had a scandal about Facebook tracking on the IRS website. You don’t need TV to live your life, but you definitely need to file your taxes and do stuff on the Internet to live a happy life.

“Vote with your wallet” is neoliberal bullshit. Just check recent FAANG acquisitions to verify that.

maynarkh,

And it is in the EU.

maynarkh,

You can write duck on the internet.

maynarkh,

stuff like the Arab spring

Would explain why the Saudis gave money to Musk to buy Twitter.

maynarkh,

3 billion devices run Java.

maynarkh,

That’s a weird headline, my first impression was that Macron was the one sending the finger.

maynarkh,

Not just zoning, the average office building needs thorough work for that to happen. Washrooms are centralized and one per floor in an average office building for example, for it to have a bathroom for every apartment, it needs extensive piping.

It can definitely be done though, I live in such a building myself.

maynarkh,

Amazon and Bezos himself has pretty close ties to Wall Street. You being herded in is the returned backscratch for very favourable stock market “accidents” that led Amazon to an insane valuation and competitors on the short side of the investments.

maynarkh,

Okay, but solving problems is only “feasible” or “sustainable” if it keeps lines going up.

maynarkh,

I think that’s why it says “emergency”. Asking for help is okay, dumping your problems over to me so it’s my “emergency” is not.

You can ask for help and give me some of your work, but not your responsibilities.

maynarkh,

This is not a famous thing, it’s just that I’ve heard someone at a past workplace say this.

“Doing the same thing that got you here into this position will not make you successful in it, it may not even be enough for you to keep it.”

To be clear, he wasn’t saying it to me or anyone, he said it to himself as a life lesson he learned going through promotions and changing companies. The point was to stay humble and don’t expect your past accomplishments to get you through future challenges.

maynarkh,

My home country has one of those loans, and I have no idea whether it’s beneficial or not since it’s classified for 30 years as is the Russian nuclear power plant contracts or the money we spend on our oligarchs.

maynarkh,

RHEL gets enterprise support from RedHat / IBM.

Point is, if you work for some big corp, when you buy something, you want proper warranties meaning people to blame if it breaks down. I have seen corps want to pay for stuff available free just so they can point at someone if there’s a problem. Ubuntu is mostly fine, Canonical does offer support, but “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”.

maynarkh,

What’s the opinion about System76’s mini PCs? I’ve just ran across them and thinking of getting one.

maynarkh,

OP is referring to the fact that the Ukrainian parliament was cozying up to the West, as the West was trying to get it as a close trade partner, which would have circumvented Ukraine’s reliance on Russia, effectively pulling it from Russia’s shrinking sphere of influence over to the West. Also, the revolution that started the open conflict has allegedly had a lot of clandestine support from the US.

maynarkh,

Are political questions out of scope for this community? There is no rule like that in the sidebar.

maynarkh,

Yeah, maybe I should try to read more carefully.

maynarkh,

The reason pickups are as popular as they are in the US is mostly because they are heavily advertised. US people like trucks because corporate America tells them to, very effectively. They sell so many trucks because they want to, and there is two reasons for that.

The first is a long standing trade tariff with the EU that prevented significant competition in that specific category. The second is that environmental regulations are more lax on that same category, presumably lobbying has to do with that.

A person can live alone but regularly car pool with coworkers, get together with multiple friends, go on day trips with family, or make extra income by driving for Uber (larger vehicles can charge more). Heck, sometimes just needing extra leg or head room rules out most regular sedans and makes an SUV more comfortable.

Most SUVs and trucks have much less room for people than equivalently sized other vehicles. If you want very comfortable and roomy, look up a minivan. A VW Transporter has enough space inside to have a table you can sit around, seats more, if needed has more cargo space, consumes less fuel and is smaller and safer than an F-150.

In addition, if a person’s activities require a lot of cargo capacity, that essentially leaves you with either an SUV or a pickup as the primary options. So whether it’s for luggage, buying stock for a family store, etc… that could be another reason for purchasing an SUV.

You can buy a van with more cargo space than either a SUV or a truck.

Sometimes, people feel that having a higher view of the road is safer because they can see more of what’s ahead of them.

On the contrary, data shows that the higher centre of mass makes it much likelier that the truck will roll over, making them much more unsafe. This actually more than offsets the fact that in collisions, trucks and SUVs cause more damage to the counterparties, so they are more dangerous to both the occupants and everyone else. That said, if it makes you feel good that you will “win” a collision, consider the fact that the counterparty is also human, and may be someone you know. Every week, 50 children, predominantly toddlers get hit by their own parents driving SUVs, mostly while parking or getting out of their own parking area, due to the bad visibility these vehicles provide.

So don’t fall prey to judging people as only needing an SUV if they have a large household or live in rural areas. It’s a lot more involved than that.

It’s actually very simple. No-one needs a SUV or a truck, large households or business owners need vans, rural people need actual off-roads which they don’t care if they get all scratched and banged up from actually being used off-road.

US car manufacturers on the contrary NEED you to buy SUVs and trucks, and they spend a ton of money trying to convince you that you think you need that, too.

maynarkh,

That’s a damn great picture. Two black vehicles, yet one has better seating, better visibility, safety, cargo capacity, mileage and emissions, and is most likely cheaper as well. And it’s maybe a bit smaller if not the same size. It’s the van on the left.

maynarkh,

I still think that open standards would better enable long-term support than more effective vertical integration.

We need an open source smartphone.

What would Twitter look like with an absolute number of Likes in the system?

What would Twitter look like, if Elon flushed all likes, throws x Likes in the sytem and gave it a go? Every Like has to taken from the system and there are positive and negative points just like here or Reddit. If you don’t have Likes anymore you have to dislike something else you liked in the past. It would be entertaining...

maynarkh,

They would have real tangible value and became an asset subject to speculation and manipulation like crypto.

maynarkh,

SUSE feels a bit more relevant nowadays. All in all, I feel this is a win for European tech.

maynarkh,

Are you anti Sweden in NATO or anti Turkey in EU? The guys below think the second while on the face of it it sounds like the first.

maynarkh,

Wonder when the big copyright trolls show up at their doorstep instead of pestering random retirees for pirating Matlock.

maynarkh,

Can’t or won’t?

“But your honor, that would be devastating to my client’s case!”

maynarkh,

Not really the case in most of the EU.

It doesn’t count obviously if it’s a misplaced item and the price is clearly labelled for another item. However, if a store leaves discount stickers on some product late, or mislabels some price, they are obligated to sell at that price. There is caveat that it only works if the price is believable, but I managed to get a ton of shrimp that just arrived at a Lidl 90% off one time. Family was eating shrimp for weeks.

maynarkh,

Otherwise anyone can just run around with a 10/20/50% off sticker and force any store to sell them whatever they want for much cheaper.

Or they can just steal it, it’s just as legal. In my experience this is law in a lot of the EU, including Germany and a bunch of Eastern European places.

In my case, it wasn’t a misplaced 90% off sticker, it was just that the normal price tag on the shelf was printed with one zero less. It was also a “premium” item at the time, so the price wasn’t that much off, just cheap. It wasn’t just a bunch of shrimp, it was ready made, cleaned, arranged into a neat circle with dipping sauces in the middle.

On the other hand, I had a thing where Microsoft was introducing Skype to a country where the local currency was around 200:1 to the dollar. They messed up the currency conversion, and it defaulted back to 1:1, giving everyone a 99.5% discount on consumer electronics. It was obviously not honoured, and the law was clear, so no lawsuits either.

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maynarkh,

The logic of what you’re saying is that the executive teams Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg would provide better leadership for the UK than the current people.

I mean it’s a low bar, but I wouldn’t go that far.

maynarkh,

That’s why they don’t feel they can operate in the EU, as the EU will mandate AI companies to publish what datasets they trained their solutions on.

maynarkh,

I feel you guys are arguing very precise legal matters without defining the jurisdiction. I mean sure, go ahead, but it’s meaningless. One could say “I live in this random country and we don’t even have a concept of copyright, therefore it does not exist!”

maynarkh,

That’s kinda the point, it’s trying to be Twitter but “brand-safe”.

maynarkh,

Twitter lost a staggering amount of its advertising revenue.

maynarkh,

Vielleicht machen sie es zu einer Funktion von TPM und schreiben TPM für alle neuen Computer vor.

Die Lösung hierfür ist rechtlicher und nicht technischer Natur. China und die USA zeigen, dass der Aufbau eines technologischen Überwachungsstaates möglich ist.

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