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cbnotfromthere

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cbnotfromthere··on Launch HN: Cosmic JS (YC W19) - API-first drop-in replacement for WordPress
But NOBODY has to employ ANY developers (full time or not) to have a Wordpress blog / web site.

You guys are a solution in desperate need of a problem.

cbnotfromthere··on Practical Facts about the Human Brain
"While meditation is now widely accepted as beneficial"

No offense but your claim is absurd. Other than placebo effect, there are no accepted benefits of "meditation" (whatever that means) within the scientific community.

However in the new age, gluten-free communities...

cbnotfromthere··on Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination (2018)
"And written Romanian is used for scripts, songs, transcripts and under a 100 novels"

You meant that there are only less than 100 novels written in Romanian? If yes, that's one of the most absurd claims I've read in my life.

cbnotfromthere··on China unveils draft law to allow fully foreign-owned enterprises
"the 55+ autonomous regions in the US where only the richest get to afford their rights in a Federal appeal's court."

What are you talking about???

cbnotfromthere··on More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision
For example a CTO could say unilaterally "no, we won't help build the great search firewall for China".

That would be absurd, as such decision has no technical merit.

cbnotfromthere··on 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old
VHS tapes in 2010-2011?????
cbnotfromthere··on Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along
Destroying a market economy keeps leading to the same disastrous results.

That's the part statists keep ignoring.

cbnotfromthere··on China used Huawei to hack network, says report
"I expect the Chinese are less exploitative in their investment approach than the Europeans that acted in Africa (slavery and just outright theft was the modus operandi for centuries), yes."

This is an absurd comparison. A normal comparison of hypotheticals would be Europeans today vs. Chinese investments today.

"China has 10,000 years of documented history"

That's an even more absurd claim, wow! Actually it's LESS than half of your claimed period.

"and this is a long game, they don't seem as interested in get rich quick schemes as some other civilizations."

We're not discussing "civilizations" here, but governments. More specifically, the government of a dictatorship.

cbnotfromthere··on U.S. Says China State-Owned Company Stole Micron Secrets
"even hostility towards other countries is mostly to build patriotism and unity among their own people."

LOL! Tell this to Vietnam, Philippines, Mongolia, and most of their frightened neighbors.

cbnotfromthere··on U.S. Says China State-Owned Company Stole Micron Secrets
Because of course a propaganda book from foaming at the mouth, dictator-worshiping, and Anti-American hypocrite Oliver Stone would provide truth. /facepalm.
cbnotfromthere··on Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+
You seem to confuse freedom of speech with freedom of press.
cbnotfromthere··on IBM’s Old Playbook
The amount of implicit absurdity behind your words is astonishing. Basically outside die-hard Marxists nobody takes such claims seriously, because it implies lack of competition.

Hint: the cloud market has PLENTY of competition.

cbnotfromthere··on The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B
"For people in democratic republic countries"

So obviously people from the UK, Norway, Netherlands, and Spain should not get involved /facepalm

cbnotfromthere··on Saudi Backlash Threatens U.S. Startups
LOL! Kashoggi was (or is) a Saudi citizen. That's why he had to go to the Saudi consulate to get some papers.

Duh.

cbnotfromthere··on Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
Similar service????

Simple Analytics is a real service. Blockmetry is a 90's-looking page with a "contact sales" button and not even a demo (nevermind a real product).

cbnotfromthere··on Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
You were an employee by your own admission: - his name on papers - his name on bank accounts - he was paying you a salary.
cbnotfromthere··on Berlin Google Campus occupied
"And eminent domain is not the only way to force people to move. Renovate the building, you may now raise the rent so people can't afford it. No eminent domain, people were still forced to move."

So it's not just fake news from you, it's Communist fake news. Because you claim that market transactions are FORCED. You have the right to your own opinions, but you don't have the right to your own facts. You claimed FALSELY that people are forced our of that Berlin district, while what actually happened is that some people did not want to enter into voluntary transactions.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

cbnotfromthere··on Berlin Google Campus occupied
"many people that had been living there for decades and sometimes were quite involved in the improvement of the area are now forced to move"

Please slow down with fake news. No eminent domain ever happened in that area since 50 years ago, hence literally NOBODY was forced to move out.

cbnotfromthere··on How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
> "We've been Christian for thousands of years."

LOL

cbnotfromthere··on Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)
The problem is not the start with a state license, but expanding to a federal license.
cbnotfromthere··on Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)
This is incredibly sad.

I've used CA in France and it was a very miserable experience, even by French banking standards (which on themselves are surprisingly low).

I'm using them in Egypt and it's a shitty experience too. Better than French CA, better than most government-owned banks in Egypt, but still shitty.

cbnotfromthere··on As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume
"Macedonia (FYROM, the country) [...], despite their nationalist"

You say nationalist as if that's something wrong, even forbidden. Greece itself is being run by nationalist governments since decades (disregarding their political color). Austria is run nowadays by a nationalist government. Heck, the US is run by Trump, who is a nationalist.

"and expansionist government"

FYROM has never ever even hinted they, a 2.1 million people tiny nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_o...), have any territorial request on Greece, an 11.2 million people nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Greece). As Greece is part of both the EU and NATO, the idea of an expansionist FYROM is pure and simply ridiculous.

cbnotfromthere··on Susan Fowler Rigetti to Join Opinion as Technology Editor
Is Susan Fowler related to Martin Fowler?
cbnotfromthere··on Tariffs China imposes on every country
<quote>Also, these trade wars with China have been off and on since the 1970's if not earlier.</quote>

You're obviously confusing between the trade wars with Japan and the trade wars with China.

cbnotfromthere··on Egypt sarcophagus: Mystery black tomb opened in Alexandria
As there is no political entity called "Europe", by definition there can't be such rule / law.
cbnotfromthere··on What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
"CodePush was the main reason why our team went with React Native instead of Flutter."

If so, why not Ionic?

cbnotfromthere··on Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO
"post-soviet EU member"

Poland was never part of the Soviet Union.

cbnotfromthere··on Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO
What's the issue with their charter?
cbnotfromthere··on Help the Moldovan company RITLabs to survive
" $1B stolen from it. Not from a company, but from the country!"

You exhibit a severe case of reading comprehension disability. For these money to be stolen "from the country" it would have required the disappearance of funds from the Treasury or the bank accounts belonging to the central administration.

That was not the case: the money had been syphoned off from 2/two commercial banks, namely Banca de Economii (Savings Bank), Banca Sociala (Social Bank), and Unibank.

Except for the names, all this info in in the CNN linked to.

And to pre-empt a silly reply, no, the National Bank bailing out these banks doesn't mean the theft extended to the government. That's the government being either stupid or having no choice. The theft itself was from companies.

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