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I'm surprised to read this on HN. Normally I stay away from this crap, but today I'll bite: the Romanian government did very well to sell Romtelecom, BCR and others. And I hope the…

In a different life, I went through multiple interview stages at a FAANG company. In between the sessions, we got to talk to some of the (future) managers. One of them told me that…

Looking forward to a European-wide payment system. Sure, there are apps probably in each individual country that you can use to pay (via a QR code) or easily transfer money (usuall…

Twint is great, I wish more Swiss based people would use it. In the expat community most are using Visa/MC through Apple Pay. I have no idea why.

That's what I am afraid of. The resistance from the incumbents plus the external pressure from the US (and China?) might be to strong. Better go with a federated approach, mandatin…

I know someone that works in the central government of an EU country and have persuaded her to talk to the IT department in the ministry where she works to try to move away from Mi…

> [...] anymore after Trump. We shouldn't have waited until Trump, we had clear signs of distrust when the Americans were spying on Angela Merkel and other European officials [1]. …

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I am confident that those banking apps will (eventually) work without the likes of Google Play Services. Additionally, what i really want is an …

Looking forward having this in the country where I live and in the countries I mostly travel to! Well, actually all over EU. What is unclear to me atm, is it possible to rent a car…

I wouldn't go this way, at least not now. But the European Commission should mandate the usage of EU based software for every public institution in the EU, at all levels. That mean…

+1 for bare metal! I wish I could convince more C level people that that's what we need most of the time.

> And if you are a start-up and you want to grow, the situation is even more dire. I worked for/with several European startups. They really didn't need nor aim for planet scale ope…

Yes, there are local alternatives like Pix here as well, but they only work in the same country. I need something that works across EU countries, like wero. I also need something t…

Going with the default, we were already using other services from them.

> So you move the power from two American companies (Visa and Mastercard) to two American companies (Apple and Google)? What's that supposed to solve? Unsure what you mean, but for…

MS advantage over Google docs was exactly what US cloud providers have over everyone else: lock-in.

We went with Hetzner as we already had good experiences with their VPSes. For this particular db migration, a resonably sized VPS with volumes does the job for us. We don't have pl…

Maybe we don't need that kind of money for things like office software, email, reasonable sized databases, VPS etc.

Best would be to research a local one where you live. Support your community while you're at it!

I would also add lack of technical competence at C level. In my previous job, I have dealt with quite a few European CEOs whos only background was an MBA. Unlike the US where a lot…

Last week I migrated our db away from AWS RDS to a European cloud provider. Everything runs fine and we also have it cheaper! One of our domains is due for renewal in a couple of m…