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It's surprising how far Brazil has come in terms of financial transactions. Truly something amazing.
It's also unsurprising to see outlets like The Economist somewhat criticise this, along with fintech corporations, because the government is offering a free and high quality alternative to something that companies would have done exactly the same but for money.
No one's saying that you should take an absolute standpoint. I'm just asking, what's wrong with China since you made that comment as if China is bad for some reason.
Let's not confuse the company with the country
What's wrong with China? They're wonderful in the OSS ecosystem.
I'd rather not play stupid games for barely a prize worth it. With other words, I don't want US immigrations officers going through my phone, seeing a Trump critical message and throwing me into a hole for two weeks. I'd rather pick safer destinations :)
Yes. As someone publicly critical of the Trump administration, I don't want my entire social media presence crawled by immigration officers, just to end up in some detention centre for weeks or months. I'd rather just stay at home or travel to safer countries like Canada or Mexico.
Sadly too many people on HN are part of the tech right, or straight up crypto bros and hate seeing these headlines.
I have family in the US that I used to visit on a yearly basis, and as of this year I am afraid to visit them ever again. I'm an engineer with a very good income and a very stable life where I live. I would never immigrate illegally to the US to do some illegal job for scraps. And yet here we are, no one is safe. Anyone can end up in one of these hellholes.
Time to move away from Apple before they train their AI Models on the rest of my data that they left untouched
Free speech absolutists, am I right?
Oh no! You're banned now! Look, the international word police has put a warrant out for you.
And other problems that do not exist.
Funny. Who would've thought that a shitshow of an administration will bring instability?
LMAO. You clearly need to read more about Hitler's rise to power and how he was actually elected. You people really do not understand politics nor democracy.
That ban is imaginary. It never existed. Many people decided to use other terms at their free will and others didn't. Both terms can be still found in plenty of projects.
I've already switched to Tuta since it's a company that aligns with my own values a lot more. Cancelled my proton subscription.
Time for the EU to ban Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, due to foreign interference.
"Sometimes" fails. If sometimes is every day.
The US hegemony is dying and it is showing. The sign of a crumbling empire. Also, funny how any made up argument about national security goes before the first amendment.
Not if you learn something out of it! And thank you for the legal advice (:
That's what happens when the neolibs design the economy and no one under 40 can afford to start a family.
The delay is now such a common occurrence that the train manager does not even both to mention it to disembarking passengers.
Do these corporations even have proofreaders?
https://www.kenn-dein-limit.de/alkoholberatung/informationen...
You can definitely buy beer.
Does this not support the authors point that he had to work hard to find these places?
Just because a tourist is too ignorant to find these places doesn't mean they don't exist. There are plenty of them. They are mostly old-school and don't have big ads outside. Use google maps. There are plenty.
Private payment processors (like MasterCard and Visa) can for any and no reason refuse their services. Ridiculing and dismissing the author's concern by pulling out the "big scary globalism" straw man is disingenuous.
If you're pushing for cash-only or card-only other than for tax evasion reasons you're pretty much ideologically tainted.
Otherwise, I'm no longer going to discuss this "journalist outlet" that is just a mouthpiece for alt-right propaganda. Especially one that can't differentiate between germanic and german.
I could definitely feel the propagandistic nature of this piece of "journalism".
The author literally starts the article with "The city is struggling to remain itself"
This article seems more like propaganda than actual journalism.
Paying your taxes is not an issue. It's called being responsible.
The author of this article seems to make some very obscure points here. First and foremost: "You have to work pretty hard to find a bar serving traditional Germanic beverages and food." What does the author define as "Germanic" beverages and food? As a german that has lived for some time in Berlin I'm quite sure that there are more than enough places to grab "Germanic" beverages and food at. They just don't stand out much. [EDIT: For those who don't know, Germanic doesn't mean German. Germanic means something different]
Then he continues to discuss how "fortunately, there seems to be a grassroots pushback against such globalising trends" which I find equally weird. He comments about the existence of burger joints and ramen bars as if these are literally destroying the city's economy. How are german restaurants (which definitely exist in Berlin) and foreign restaurants mutually exclusive?
I also like to mention that many places prefer cash only in Germany for tax evasion reasons, not because of some made-up "grassroots pushback" against the big, scary globalism of.. foreign restaurants. (???)
Another obscure point is that "eager-looking under 18s try to get in [beer breweries], only to be politely turned away without any fracas." which is again, a very stupid point to make, since you are allowed to buy beer at 16 in Germany already.
Then he quotes a person of supposedly Eritrean descent saying “But the people coming now, they don’t learn German and they don’t want to work.” which sounds pretty much like your average alt-right talking point, that has been disproven over and over again.
I'm really sorry, but this person seems to know literally absolutely nothing about Berlin, Germany, or life in Germany in general. This article is mediocre at most and a farce.
Did someone play around with the servers again? :) Maybe he chewed on some server cables this time
I really like this ELF format diagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format...)
"Retaliation" for some already public dick pics or what? "ThE tWiTtEr fIlEs" are a nothing burger story to attract more idiots to Twitter.
Same, I need to know if I should enter damage control mode and deflect this from Elon or if to simp for him if this happened before. Very important information
I'm genuinely curious about this too. I've never heard about such a thing to exist.