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If that is the case, how did this government get a majority?
It did because that's exactly what people want, it's just that many people will tell you otherwise because they live in an information bubble and cannot believe that there exists voters outside of their bubble.
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You absolutely could go bare-metal with emerging local platforms and a Chinese stack — that’s the path Russia (and obviously China itself) is heading down. But... Equinix? US. Digital Realty? US. NTT? Japan. Interxion? US. CyrusOne? US. That’s your top five DC/colo operators in Europe. Same story with Tier-1 and Tier-1.5 ISPs. It’s not just software. It’s not even just hardware. It’s the whole stack — down to power g…
And that is not an excuse to do nothing. Much to the opposite, it should be an acknowledgement of risk, and that steps should be taken to have an infrastructure less dependent on foreign nations. Especially when they are hostile, such as the US right now.
Any long-term, shared investment relies on continuous, guaranteed political and economic unity. Today it’s the US that’s hostile — but how confident can you be that tomorrow it won’t be a PiS-led Poland, or even an AfD-led Germany?
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I wonder why can't we have a fully open source e2ee that would be easy to use?
Matrix is getting there.
Wikipedia says [0] it was started 10 years ago. I wonder what's the hold up?
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Matrix is getting there.
I keep hearing about Matrix (protocol) for a long time now. Wikipedia says [0] it was started 10 years ago. I wonder what's the hold up? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
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This is a great point where nationality does not reflect political values. Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians. If a global set of "Don't be an asshole" values could be defined, put into words, shared and progressed, it would have much greater value to a consumer and the world than merely going back to nationalism and protectionism.
> If a global set of "Don't be an asshole" values could be defined, put into words, shared and progressed... Being a cynic, I expect the speeches to start with that then smoothly translate into "and therefore we have to spend more money on waging war in foreign countries". The US is exemplifying some of the best international values right now of trying to find a sharp end to all the meaningless dying we've been seein…
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Fair enough. I suppose it is your decision to donate 1%. But would you like your president to make that decision for you? Would it be okay with it you if they asked you to sacrifice like 60% of your pay towards this cause, that too indefinitely?
It's a donation towards the greater good of Europe, so up to a certain amount I am absolutely for it. I have no say in taxation in the first place (well, indirectly through voting, but you know what I mean). 60% is excessive though, and would make it impossible for people to pay bills. That's detrimental for the future of Europe :)
Would you still support to fund this and make this conflict go on and on, possibly until someone becomes so desperate that they do something stupid?
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And that is not an excuse to do nothing. Much to the opposite, it should be an acknowledgement of risk, and that steps should be taken to have an infrastructure less dependent on foreign nations. Especially when they are hostile, such as the US right now.
Would the investor even outlive the investment though? Imagine building data centers in the UK — only to get Brexit halfway through. Any long-term, shared investment relies on continuous, guaranteed political and economic unity. Today it’s the US that’s hostile — but how confident can you be that tomorrow it won’t be a PiS-led Poland, or even an AfD-led Germany?
Is Europe less stable than other countries?
What is funny (or sad) is that this submission is now flagged. A list with very interesting tech entries (I had no idea Poland had an actual RAM/storage factory, not just distribution).
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Signal comes from the country where the Prism [1] is still functioning. While it has open source, NSA can request from deployers on any stage to inject surveillance functionality: request from Signal authors, from Android / Apple Store repository maintainers and probably many other actors on the deployment chain to my mobile phone. I could install it from sources but I do not have any guarantee my message sent to my…
I wonder why can't we have a fully open source e2ee that would be easy to use?
what would you say about simplex's UX? https://simplex.chat/docs/guide/readme.html
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Fair enough. I suppose it is your decision to donate 1%. But would you like your president to make that decision for you? Would it be okay with it you if they asked you to sacrifice like 60% of your pay towards this cause, that too indefinitely?
> But would you like your president to make that decision for you? Not without a discussion, of course, and I may disagree with the decision after the discussion, but on the whole I have been happy enough with the parliamentary systems where I have lived within Europe that I can say yes to this. What would upset me and concern me to no end would be if the premiere went rogue and made these decisions unilaterally whil…
So what I am trying to say is that may be some people are acting from this point of view (which makes a lot of sense to me, if you are realistic), and is actually not unsympathetic to Ukraine.