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Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by NalNezumi »

827a wrote: post #255
Tadpole9181 wrote: post #243

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If you're going to resort to calling others here "fascist clowns", again, you should really meditate on how much of your thinking is influenced by the media you consume. You aren't actually reading and understanding; you're glancing and concluding. I honestly don't think anything you've suggested has happened has actually happened. I don't know how to convince you of this; you might be too deep into the disillusion t…

>I honestly don't think anything you've suggested has happened has actually happened.

>you might be too deep into the disillusion to be pulled out. I can at least say on "having the official government channels call him a "king"", it was an unofficial channel (Trump's personal truth social feed)

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698 (If anyone is confused, NYT did post an article that claimed only in the title that is was on truth social by Trump, but in the first paragraph of the article mention it came from official Whitehouse accounts too)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by trust_bt_verify »

827a wrote: post #256
trust_bt_verify wrote: post #235

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You must be against the proposed tax cuts as we do not have money for those either, right?

Ultimately I am supportive of a surplus budget. For the next fiscal year, it comes down to how much spending the government is able to cut. I will say, the whole idea of DOGE giving $5,000 to every American feels quite unrealistic and unnecessary; that money is far better suited being dedicated toward stabilizing the fiscal situation of the federal government.

You mention the stimulus checks but dodged speaking on the tax cuts proposed by the house. Tax cuts will cost far more than the stimulus checks.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by fc417fc802 »

kjrfghslkdjfl wrote: post #96
vvpan wrote: post #19

If Europe somewhat deregulated startup stage businesses an countries issued more visas to engineers it could probably turn a lot of things around. So far European founders have been moving to US. But these days I imagine I'm not the only one who doesn't want to work in the shadow of US technofeudalist oligarchy and receive money from people like Marc Andreessen.

Could you point out specific examples of what is too regulated? I never understood this complaint. True, I also never bothered digging into it because I started out with the belief that it's just a talking point. But I'm happy to be proven wrong.

Not sure but I've read that employee termination rules and employee compensation requirements are problematic for startups over there. That for a company at that stage certain risks can be existential rather than just "win some lose some" so having them forced on you is not a good situation.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by AlecSchueler »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #269
AlecSchueler wrote: post #263

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As a European I rather have the regulations than the AI to be honest.

We'll end up with the AI, anyway. But by then it'll be foreign-controlled AI as everything in tech in Europe is.

It's hard to get out of bed for a race towards the lowest common denominator of behaviour.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by mytailorisrich »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #274
mytailorisrich wrote: post #269

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We'll end up with the AI, anyway. But by then it'll be foreign-controlled AI as everything in tech in Europe is.

It's hard to get out of bed for a race towards the lowest common denominator of behaviour.

Some things are inevitable, particularly when a new technology appears.

The choice is then whether to lead and have an opportunity to influence and benefit, or to follow and have neither.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by knowald »

croemer wrote: post #110
Daril wrote: post #79

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Yes, I was considering Hetzner or Scaleway, I have a few months to decide before my current prepaid plan expires. Thank you for the heads-up !

I've had 0 issues with Hetzner's servers, they're great at that. I hoped this would translate to cloud services as well, but it turns out (not surprisingly in hindsight) that offering a fully managed service is something completely different than cheap and easily administered server.

That's a good point. I've been surprised and frustrated by the S3 issues we've encountered since the hundreds of servers we are hosting on Hetzner Cloud have rarely had any issues. Only now i realize that this is the first service they are offering apart from networking that includes LB.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by JoshTko »

madspindel wrote: post #50

I've sold all my holdings in US companies to instead invest in STOXX Europe 600 alternatives. I know others here in Sweden that have said they have done the same. In Sweden, Russia has always been the enemy. My prediction is that France and Germany will soon join the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) and it will be the end of NATO. UK will probably join the Maximator intelligence alliance. The death of Five Eyes and NA…

I'm doing the same, about 50% of the way there. The soft power is why the world admired and trusted the US as a safe haven. Now we're the unreliable bully. No one wants to invest in that.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by AlecSchueler »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #275
AlecSchueler wrote: post #274

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It's hard to get out of bed for a race towards the lowest common denominator of behaviour.

Some things are inevitable, particularly when a new technology appears. The choice is then whether to lead and have an opportunity to influence and benefit, or to follow and have neither.

What a depressing thought. It's inevitable we will live in a prison but at least you can choose the colour of the paint on the wall

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by mytailorisrich »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #278
mytailorisrich wrote: post #275

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Some things are inevitable, particularly when a new technology appears. The choice is then whether to lead and have an opportunity to influence and benefit, or to follow and have neither.

What a depressing thought. It's inevitable we will live in a prison but at least you can choose the colour of the paint on the wall

AI is inevitable. Whether we will live "in a prison" is not.

Re: Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

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Post by Daril »

svilen_dobrev wrote: post #190
Kelvin506 wrote: post #31

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I'm in the U.S. and doing the same. While EU laws don't protect me as well as they would someone on the correct side of the pond, I do still benefit from better integrity and transparency. Would you be up for making recommendations?

for plain e-mail, recommend migadu.com (swiss) . They do only that ------ one thing that seems tricky though, is smartphone OS software. Apple + Google is on like 99% of everything. i went few years with Sailfish, all fine.. but they support only 5y+ old devices, for a reason or another.. and i got tired of waiting, and switched to Android. hmmm

I bought an used phone and an used tablet supported by LineageOS. I installed e/OS (derived from LineageOS) on the phone and LineageOS on the tablet. The hardware is like new and with "debloated" software it works very well.
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