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mortarion

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    Comment #49082177

    It's not possible. High living costs, high energy costs (100x of China) and high regulatory costs all mean that if you were to build a modern fab, you'd need to sell your product f…

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    Comment #49082014

    It's simply not possible to build profitable fabs, or large industry anymore in most of the EU. This won't change. Laws and regulation has put a stop to this. The best that EU can …

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    Comment #49004581

    Well, guess I will take my repositories elsewhere.

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    Comment #48904351

    This is basic metallurgy that every metal forger and alloy designer is already aware of.

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    Comment #48688595

    Marxism, communism and socialism are all extreme far-left ideologies. Being anti-immigration doesn't automatically swing the party to the right. As written on Wikipedia, "left-cons…

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    Comment #48688476

    Örebropartiet is not a extremist far-right party. All their policies is extreme far-left except immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party

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    Comment #48627496

    You can if there's a direct threat to your life (i.e. you can see that the intruder is also armed). But you can't use it against someone for just entering your premises illegally. …

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    Comment #48586459

    The company is "W Social AB", meaning "aktiebolag" which in Swedish is what you in the USA would call an LLC or "joint stock company. So they are 100% looking to monetize and turn …

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    Comment #48586365

    The guy who runs W Social, whilst he has a software developer background, has worked most of his time in the financial world. W social is also an LLC. It's a corporation with share…

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    Comment #48566934

    SpaceX is 90% xAI and 10% space. It's no longer a space exploration company, it's an AI company (with a sub-par product). Insane (and dumb) valuation, kind of like Tesla.

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    Comment #48279520

    We're terrible at company and brand naming here in Europe. Just look at the "Wero" payment solution (formerly/currently iDeal). Like, who the hell came up with that stupid name? Th…

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    Comment #47792174

    Most people in the USA live within 100 miles of the border. That 100 miles limit was chosen for a purpose, to weaken protections for most US citizens.

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    Comment #47599026

    Russian military technology has not evolved since the 90s

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    Comment #47599006

    9/11 was not a military action against the USA, and the invocation of article 5 by the USA was illegimate.

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    Comment #47452189

    Agents should be treated like users. Would you give another user you know is a bit careless, write access to your important documents and data? Probably not. I get it that people d…

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    Comment #47087031

    In the EU the platform becomes responsible for posted content, the moment someone notifies them that they are hosting something illegal. They have plausible deniability until notif…

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    Comment #47086991

    Compared to the USA, we have incredible privacy in the EU.

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    Comment #47086863

    Countries in Europe (and most of the world) have positive constitutions, which defines what the government "must do" (for its citizens), whilst the USA has a negative constitution …

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    Comment #46884167

    Not only that. This law exists like this because of a EU directive. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/93/oj/eng Let me quote again: Pay attention to c.iv specifically: (c) ‘ch…

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    Comment #46884072

    This is the actual law (Brottsbalken 16:10a) https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/sven... A person who 1. depicts a child in a pornographic image, 2. disseminate…

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    Comment #46884039

    Maybe you should look up child pornography laws in Europe. In Sweden, the mere act of scrolling by an image depicting (real or not) a child in a sexual position, and having it stor…

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    Comment #46884015

    Maybe US law makes a distinction, but in Europe there is no difference. Sexual depictions of children (real or not) is considered child pornography and will get you sent to the sla…

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    Comment #46883830

    This is the cyber crime unit. They will exfiltrate any data they want. They will use employee account to pivot into the rest of the X network. They don't just go in, grab a couple …

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    Comment #46869789

    Within the Schengen area, you don't really need an ID to get on a plane either. In fact you can go through security screening in many places without an ID or a valid ticket.

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    Comment #46869749

    In most of the modern world, it's impossible to go through life without a bank account at the minimum (which requires an ID), but not so in the USA, there you can live your whole l…