156 karma · joined December 11, 2019
It's one of the reasons for the "one to throw away"-idea of writing shitty code first just to get it to work, and then remake it after you have thought through the problem by coding it.
Europe certainly takes it seriously. Germany and France has spoken out officially against it, with Macron even visiting Greenland to show support.
Denmark is freaking out, and want to remove all dependencies on the US as quickly as possible.
First source, but there are many: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/world/greenland-annexatio...
This has, for obvious reasons, been huge news in all of Europe and especially in Denmark.
I'm sure MAGA Americans want to hand-wave it away, and since Trump is so difficult to understand and says so many whacky things, we're all hoping he doesn't mean it, but it's underscored the need to quickly get independent of the USA.
That said I can see how autocompleting from the first three letters of each word for "beaver-grass-hypocondriac-shelf" might be easier for a human than typing "beagrahypshe"
The US has laws that give them the legal right to snoop on any data about EU (avd other foreign) citizens.
Those laws make it impossible to follow EU privacy laws as a US company.
One of the two have to give, and the US should make exceptions for EU citizens, or rescind the CLOUD act.
If nothing else, it's refreshing to pay for search, to support non-ad-driven revenue models for the most important feature of the web.
That's how all other markets work. Billing hourly is the death of progress.