So what is an European alternative to hacker news ?
For Germany, Heise online maybe, www.heise.de But that would be a very big "maybe", because it is very different in all aspects.
That is the German alternative, not the European alternative.
Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
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Globalisation in itself wouldn't be as bad, if the profits were equally distributed. But most often globalisation just means taking away worker and consumers protections so mega corporations can outsource manufacturing/labour/services to cheaper countries with low or no environmental / social protections. Before Globalisation of markets there must be a globalization of citizen rights to the highest standards.
The flawed premise here is that globalization has not already been a win-win endeavour, both for people in wealthy countries and people in poorer countries. The evidence is overwhelming that it has been win-win, albeit with some negative side effects that need to be managed better. We can always do better but that should not involve throwing the baby out with the bathwater based on a faulty understanding of where we…
> The evidence is overwhelming that it has been win-win
It's not a win-win when the rich side wins 100 and the poor side 10
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Nebula might be an alternative to YouTube in general, depending on your use of YouTube, but for the purposes of this discussion, it's still American owned.
For the purposes of this discussion one of its creator-owners is Devin Stone, one of the people in the vanguard of publicizing and opposing what is happening in the U.S.A. right now. * https://nebula.tv/legaleagle
Which is good for Devin, though the ownership of nebula is a little complicated and basically that amounts to a 1/7 share of voting power:
https://medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-95...
I think several of the other cofounders (e.g. Wendell, also the guy from real engineering) seem likely to be decent people too.
But also, for the purposes of this discussion, we're talking about the ability of a capricious US president to make access difficult, and a bunch of YouTubers and a documentary maker are not going to have the resources to stand up to the US federal government.
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Hard times are ahead if nations start to care only about their best interest and not about what is the best interest of the whole world.
Globalization died with Covid when it became obvious that the old order no longer functioned in a world with lockdowns and pandemics, it disrupted the entire supply chain. Then globalization died a second time with the Russia’s war in Ukraine, with the emergence of BRICS and the consequences of sanctions and the breakdown of the global monetary system.
Covid was a hiccup for global trade. The just in time supply chains created by the constant whittling/looting of the MBA class were the problem.
Globalization died when the small minded monster Republicans had been farming for decades escaped its talk radio cage and found Trump. Trump (and his loser-mentality enablers) saw systems they didn't understand, and more irritatingly other parties who wouldn't just lap up shit as they were bossed around, and inferred this meant the US must have been getting a poor deal instead of an awesome one. (BuT tHE dEbT!!1!)
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Can you give some examples of this attitude? I'm not sure I've seen that behaviour anywhere, and it's very difficult to look up examples when your description is so vague.
How about the consequences of US proxy wars? Not a word about the reasons mediterranean european countries keep getting floods of displaced refugees. Maybe if the US stopped bombing their countries, we'd stop getting so many.
If the US wasn't fighting these "proxy" wars, Euroland would have a lot bigger problems. Refugees are a simple problem to fix. Don't take any.
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>responsible for protecting a bunch of far-away places that don't share their values You mean Europe? There's literally not a place in the world (except for Canada and Australia) that shares as many common values with the US as Europe. Unless the very definition of these values suddenly changed for the US with Agent Orange. As far as "far-away places go", it might take a similar amount of time to get from east to wes…
>There's literally not a place in the world (except for Canada and Australia) that shares as many common values with the US as Europe. I just don't think that's true. Europeans seem much more collectivist, whereas the US is more individualist. That's why Europeans express disdain for US policies around healthcare, guns, etc. Europeans express a tremendous amount of disdain for the US online, calling Americans fat, du…
> How would you feel if an American insulted your leader with a derogatory nickname such as "Agent Orange"? Europeans are so used to expressing disdain for the US that they hardly even notice themselves doing it.
This happens literally every day. There's a bunch of xenophobic stereotypes about my country I've only ever heard from Americans, and on average I've received far more vitriol from them than from my fellow Europeans.
Maybe your views are colored by your subjective experiences, without being truly representative of the objective facts? Because I have no idea how else you could have the idea that what you described doesn't happen the other way around.
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From your link > Do European countries appear to perform worse than White Americans in standardized tests because of low-performing immigrants? You are literally citing material that compares as race segregated US to other countries as wholes. I have a lot of very smart American friends, from all across the political spectre. I have mostly worked for us companies. And luckily you are not representative of the average…
>You are literally citing material that compares as race segregated US to other countries as wholes. Yes, the claim is that apparently low US scores have more to do with US racial composition than a problem with the US educational system. That's the point? I hedged with "seems to have pretty good education outcomes" because I'm not sure about the racial composition of Europe for 3rd+ generation immigrations. My expec…
I don't have you pecked as a Trump supporter.
Also, the US only has two parties - so a lot of people are voting because of a lack of better alternatives. This is wildly different than the EU where most countries have a much more nuanced political landscape. Eg. Germany that has 7 parties.
As such I also know that politics in US is more akin to a sports match than what I consider politics in - and this is congruent to what I hear from my US friends with the sentiment: Either you are with us or against us.
What I do have you pecked on is a complete ignorance of the US's political position globally. You seem completely oblivious to the fact that more than half listed stock globally is US - and that this is a marketplace. Ie. not only US capital.
I appreciate you don't want to be in that position. That you want to be a part of an underdog country. But you are not.
When I write "Cry me a river" that is a way to say: Deal with it. Go and understand where the US stands on the global scene.
Hopefully you can get to appreciate the benefits (English is not my first language) and manage the down sides of such an arrangement.
And hopefully you can develop some humility to the fact.
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Because people don't care that much about where their software comes from. They just want the best product available, and more often than not it comes from the States. This is a global phenomenon - Americans didn't care about TikTok being a Chinese company either.
This alone does not explain why new leaders do not emerge from Europe.
Whenever they have, they have been bought by larger and richer (mostloy US) tech companies. Look at Deepmind, Skype, Nokia, Tandberg, etc... Arm is another (although Japanese rather than US-owned). There are also many cases where European founders base their companies out the States for access to higher funding (eg Stripe, Spotify). Another factor is that US multinationals have a large presence across Europe in terms of employment - if a large component of the top tech talent of Europe is employed by US companies then they are less likely to build large European companies.
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The latter is true only if America take a measured, stepped approach to pulling out of Europe. Something I, as a European, have been wanting to happen since 2003. It's insane that we let the US dictate our foreign and trade policy and they only reason we do is because of German fears of rearming. Doing so rashly? That vastly increases the chances because it encourages Russia to do something in the 3-5 year timeframe.
>> Doing so rashly? That vastly increases the chances because it encourages Russia to do something in the 3-5 year timeframe. Can you sit down with a map and draw out exactly *WHAT* you think Russia will be capable of doing 5 years from now? Keep in mind that: 1. We watched the best-equipped and trained brigades in Ukraine bounce off well-prepared minefields and trenchworks in summer 2023. Just like in WW1, technolog…
They can build up a force capable of annexing the strip of land between Belarus and Kaliningrad. They have a large number of experience troops and a massive number of conscripts, their drone capacity currently dwarfs Europe and is expanding. They also have hundreds of thousands of experienced operators.
They also have one of the most capable psyop machines in the world and a massive network of spies / 5th Column in place. They are especially strong in Eastern Europe and Germany.
So there's very much a risk that they try to hybrid style "grab" there then at a time when they have sown political chaos into Europe.
We can reduce the risk of we have overwhelming force available at hand - like we currently do as allies of the US - which makes any such move literal suicide as we would obliterate them.
Also - now this is my viewpoint - by committing to re-arming now and providing everything we have to help Ukraine kick Russia out of their country - a full rout of the Russians - we vastly reduce the risk of anything like that ever happening again and we set the conditions for the eventual liberation of Belarus and demilitarisation and neutralisation of Kaliningrad.
Basically: we get sharp fangs now so we can push the best time-line.
Also: there is an unlikely but not unthinkable scenario where American, under Emperor Trump (or Musk) switch to using gunboat diplomacy and bully Europe the way the British (and other European nations) bullied others in the past. And like America itself did to its neighbours in the Victorian times. So re-arming such that we have complete independence from the US reduces their leverage.
In a good timeline having both a strong Europe and strong US on the same side puts us in a very good place wrt China / India etc in the future.
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> It's unclear how this EU momentum will stand the test of time, even if the war in Ukraine were to stop quickly. I don’t think it really is unclear. The war in Ukraine served as an initial trigger that did spark some notesble changes. But the trump administration even more so. Ask the former UdSSR and Warsaw pact states. They were sounding the alarm bells for a long time and don’t appear to be willing to take any ch…
>Government deficit. And where does that come from? Obviously, it should come from the people of the country or its natural resources. But we don't like to say that, do we?
> But we don't like to say that, do we?
Because it not true. The only body emitting currency is a government