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Which a selfish person is definitely okay with, might even like it.

I think it very much depends on what you're doing. Would it make sense to build Google Docs in HTMX? Probably not. Does it make sense to roll out SPA + JSON API for something that is basically a reskinned Django Admin? Probably not.

In Germany only.

It is fascinating that you look at design choices that Chinese Volvo copied from American Tesla (except for the speed limit) and declare that European cars are the problem.

Today we sail

On the Solar Rail

For there's much we just don't know

So farewell with a kiss

Then it's fast for the mist

Till we're sleeping in the cold below

According to wikipedia, there's 128 millions of en-IN speakers, of which only few hundred thousands are native - while there's 248 million native en-US speakers.

You can reapply as a new student and get your finished classes accepted as finished in the new study.

My friend was in a similar situation as you, the same school, possibly, except it was "Electric Circuits 2".

On Wednesday he failed the last exam, Thursday he applied as new student, on Monday he was 1st year student and by Friday he was 3rd year student with all classes accepted. Still had to do the Electric Circuits 2 of course.

Cars replaced horses. AI replaces humans.

The carriage owners in this metaphor are the capital class.

By what metric?

By the metric of Denmark being the leading force being Chat Control, Palantir driven panopticon and worse.

Why do you think they left, then?

Sorry, but how was that murder successful?

There's many anecdotes of people who managed to get lifesaving or lifechanging treatments in the panic after the CEO got murdered. Obviously, anecdotes aren't data - but it is highly likely that even though one life was lost, many were saved.

Terrorism very much does work. The Basque and the Northern Irish terrorists / freedom fighters have gotten a so many of their demands for autonomy met that they disbanded (in one case formally, in the other almost) because they weren't needed anymore. Taliban also got the US out from Afghanistan pretty handily with mostly terrorism.

My favorite is having beer with friends in a restaurant car. It's like going to a pub but with awesome view!

Depends on which powers for each specific choice.

Electric cars don't run on Saudi-Trump-Putin juice, so they're pretty good step in screwing those, for example.

I think that is just the nature of the open core business - but like most such businesses, they're not very clear about how that is what they are, pretending to be open source business instead.

I think it also depends on other stuff. Spain gets bunch of sun even when there's the deepest winter in Finland but even if they are technically part of the same grid, the challenge is getting the energy there.

Can you share where those numbers are from? I'd like to run a similar calculation on my own country.

Also I'm curious if you know how geography fits into this (like sunlight hours and stuff).

There is a few, from web browser games that still simulate the physics [1] to serious ones that include ropes, navigation and crew management [2].

[1] https://www.sailrhythm.com/

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/794860/eSail_Sailing_Simu...

Capitalism us a way to manage resources in a civilisation. A way that assigns enormous resources to Elon Musk the nazi climate denier and minimum resources to climate scientists.

Nobody is getting charged for this in any way.

At this point I just consider anyone taking Russian nuclear threats seriously a Russian propagandist (knowing or otherwise).

Ultimately China and US (and anyone else in the world for that matter) are doing the same thing - helping their domestic industry compete domestically and internationally, because they want prosperity for their country. They do it via different means - China via massive subsidies and US via bans and tariffs, but the end is the same.

If someone tries to tell you that these are somehow morally different, and one of them is the good guy and the other is the bad guy, they are pushing propaganda, knowingly or unknowingly.

This is true for fruit pickers or uber drivers or whatever but it is ridiculously out of place statement for software engineers.

I don't think it's desperate.

I'm thinking companies are now paying for Red Hat license and support on Azure VMs and Microsoft wants that money.

It's an easy thing for Microsoft sales guy to offer to your bosses' bosses' boss next time they're golfing and having expensive dinner together, "hey you can get your Linux also from us, it will save you money by consolidating vendors and whatnot".

I expect many companies will switch to this no matter how much worse it might be than what they had previously.

Does the true version have slave labor, reeducation camps for minorities, needing permission to travel, running protestors over with tanks, and gutter oil by any chance?

It would be naive to think HN is not immune to influence operations. The people singing praises to China are not necessarily people.

Not if you can't run you bank's app on it and without bank's app you can't have bank account. Or interact with government. Or talk to your friends because of network effects around social networks.

I wish it were a real alternative, but it is not the world we live in.

Oh it's easy! There's just two genders - male and political. Just two races - white and political. Just two beliefs - conservative and political.

This is a common dilemma.

Apple's phones and laptop are 100 % the best in the market, but Apple is a terrible evil company - the walled garden stuff, the "you don't really own your device" stuff, the normalization of enshittification (removing headphone jack, nonreplaceable glued batteries, not giving charger with $1000 laptop, ...) that other manufacturers followed, the gold statue Cook gave Trump as a bribe.

But not just Apple. Teslas are the best electric cars on the market - but Musk got Trump elected, literally killed millions of people with his DOGE and did Sieg Heil on stage (twice, so we don't miss it). Or Garmin - objectively the best sport and adventure watches on the market, but evil anti-consumer planned obsolescence policies. You could go on.

I guess the choice is, am I willing to "suffer" (as much as using inferior product is suffering anyway) to not support these people? Or is my comfort mire important than doing the right thing?

And I'm not just being preachy - I have aging M1 macbook, aging Garmin watch and an aging ICE car and I spend few last months pondering. It's easy to prioritize comfort. Or I'm just being a whiny bitch.

(Funnily enough, for phones the dilemma really isn't there - you have just choice of Apple or Google having all your data and no matter how bad Apple is, Google is orders of magnitude worse.)

Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump - not a one time phenomenon, more of a natural progression.