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dtquad

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    I hope China will look into this. The Western mind will think it is "unnatural" and playing God with nature on a completely unprecedented scale but large-scale geo engineering like…

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    Comment #43711815

    In that regard the Danish pension funds are actually playing it safer than our neighbors. The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the largest of its kind in the world, is 40% US equit…

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    Comment #43701157

    Maybe apps that take less than 3 minutes for a 17-year-old to install, register account, and learn how to use, are not really defensible "monopolies" and maybe these apps shouldn't…

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    Comment #43701089

    >monopolies Where exactly? They lose market share to every new AI wrapper app and most young people are on the Chinese video app. >are good because line goes up The "line goes up" …

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    Comment #43700521

    This anti-big-tech hysteria in the US is dangerous. Applying early 20th antitrust thinking to modern tech companies is short sighted and doesn't show the whole picture. These Ameri…

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    Comment #43699399

    The reason many prefer Cursor over VSCode + GitHub Copilot is because of how much faster Cursor is for tab completion. They use some smaller models that are latency optimized speci…

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    Comment #43687744

    GPGPUs ended up becoming the AI/cloud accelerators that FPGAs promised to be back when Intel bought Altera. FPGAs are not ideal for raw parallel number crunching like in AI/LLMs. T…

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    Comment #43665912

    >This assumes that he has more power than the tech companies lol Even the San Francisco city council is bullying American tech companies and tech executives. The power of US tech c…

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    Comment #43665827

    >the Chinese economic model of government-controlled economic direction, though not perfect, would work better You want the US government to provide more subsidies to US tech compa…

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    Comment #43662881

    >Linux, where there's just one thing, but its free and impossible to monetize directly Redhat and SUSE are multi-billion dollar Linux distro companies.

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    Comment #43662790

    Google is the primary target for current US anti-big-tech sentiments that are getting political traction with Lina Khan and Steve Bannon teaming up at a recent conference against U…

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    Comment #43662124

    The Pelosis' trades are public knowledge. Pelosi and her husband have outperformed the market by being tech-optimistic Californians. One of their most lucrative investments was inv…

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    Comment #43662073

    How would a "friend of Pelosi" know when Trump would post his "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" and "90 days pause" posts?

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    Ask HN: What are you using Gemini 2.5 Pro for?

    I have been blown away by how good it actually is when using it in Google AI Studio and turning the temperature down to 0.7 or less. The "vibe coding" claims about one shotting ent…

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    Comment #43636476

    >Too early for the people fundraising to build US manufacturing capabilities. It's a good idea to hedge against future trade uncertainties. After COVID some Danish and German compa…

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    Comment #43630465

    Interesting and important question. I know MobilePay by Danske Bank is one of the most popular payment apps and can be linked directly to a Danish bank account (probably using the …

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    Comment #43620874

    There are alternatives to both inefficient government-run monopolies and US tech giant monopolies. Even a small country like Denmark has multiple software and finance companies doi…

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    Comment #43616102

    A lot of US undocumented immigration is not people jumping the US-Mexico border but instead people from India, the Middle East, and China intentionally overstaying their Visas. Obv…

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    Comment #43604096

    Twitter was never really big in most European countries. I only have an account to follow AI hype and drama.

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    Comment #43576535

    The Trump administration seems to have given themselves completely free reign in Yemen. Iran and Houthis forgot that Qatar is no longer paying Western NGOs to say every Saudi bomb …

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