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I hope all billionaires will depart for that island in Florida to bunk with Bozos and Kushner. That poor island will probably sink under the weight of so much ego.

My point is even 8 figures net worth individuals do not pay for someone to clean their house 2-3 times a week.

Who spends new-car money to clean their homes? Maybe ultra high net worth individuals? I know people with 8 figures net worth who spend a fraction of that money for cleaning their homes.

Much better explanation-thank you!

City transit-it transports more people than taxis and uber put together. The trade off is public transit is slower (in my case 35 minutes by link-rail vs 15 minutes by car, and probably 20 minutes if I were to take an uber)

I don’t follow. Your first sentence says you do not care about trash incinerators, presumably next to your house. Your second sentence says you care about the smell.

Trash incinerators are very smelly. You are contradicting yourself. I don’t get it.

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At Amazon, due to their toxic work culture which led to high turnover, the joke was Amazon will run out of new hires, it will have to rehire previous employees.

OMG - strong vibes to Einstein crediting Michele Besso, his colleague at the Swiss Patent Office, with helping him discussing some concepts in the special relativity paper: see at the end of the paper https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf

Sorry, my post was not clear. Today piracy is a superior choice. The bedt product Netflix offered me was when they shipped DVDs - their selection was immense (on par with Blockbuster). I could have pirated then (I was going once a year to my home country where DVDs were sold on open air markets) but I did no do that because was too much trouble.

When Netflix started to be online only I tagged along, and it was OK-ish - selection was not that great but but price was not big either and once in a while I would watch a movie. Today ads are very intrusive and the cost for no ads is $20 / month- which is not worth it for me. Compared to this, piracy is clearly a superior choice.

The selection is still shitty though, even with no ads. Piracy is a superior choice.

Sorry my friend, but Netflix is not a good product. It has a limited selection and, at least for my account, a lot of commercial ads. I am not pirating but I calculated that if I were to pirate I would spend less time downloading the movie than the cumulative time spent watching commercials on Netflix.

bTW - I stopped watching Netflix.

Don’t feed the trolls.

Here is your evidence on mass starvation in Gaza. Shame on you.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165517

https://www.who.int/news/item/22-08-2025-famine-confirmed-fo...

https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencie...

Thanks for the link. Sundar couldn’t be more tone deaf. Pretending this is not a time of great anxiety shows how much stock you can put in his words.

Don’t feed the trolls.

Yeah, sure, Elon will leave US if he is taxed. Where will he go? EU - even higher taxes. Russia? China? Elon cannot even cross the street in those countries without Putin’s/Xi Ping’s approval.

He already moved to Texas because of taxes - I think this is as good as it gets for him. If US Federal Government taxes his wealth (not something remotely possible) he will still stay in Texas.

Extremely disappointing post from pg. conflating income with revenue, assuming one can extrapolate a week-on-week growth rate to any other week (never mind 9 consecutive months or 5 consecutive years), giving as positive examples Google and Facebook.

pg is way too smart to believe even half of this nonsense. I guess he thinks future UK politicians (the audience of his speech) are that stupid.

Or maybe that speech was just to vehicle to make himself heard spewing this nonsense. Heard by whom?

Very disappointing indeed.

Yes, we read the same comment. He did provide a list of free help from EU and it was quite impressive.

My comment about very few things being made in Romania was a clarification re: EU neo-colonialism.

I can’t tell if you are sincere or a shill. But maybe that is a sign you are a master shill.

The GP provided the examples of free help Romania got from EU. The reason the response is long is because you asked more questions.

Here is something you did not bring up: nobody is forcing Romanians to buy EU goods. Romanians also buy a lot of Chinese and Korean goods. EU companies who make money off Romanian consumers compete with Chinese companies.

The fact that there are very few things made in Romania is not due to EU neo-colonialism- is it due to Romanians. There are one or two bright spots in Romania (Dacia, UIPath) but when the best educated young Romanians still cannot wait to leave the country you will not see local champions. And this is 37 years after the fall of Communism.

maybe you are a Romanian living in Romania. Maybe you will be able to convince Romanians to separate from EU and NATO. If that happens, I can’t wait to see the sequel.

Romanian banks were looted by Romanians in the 90s: see Paunesu brothers and BRD. Also see Dacia Felix bank, Bancorex.

Romanian telecom: post communist crash Romanian telecommunications were a disaster. For example two different phone numbers shared the same line (a.k.a. Cuplajul). In late 90s some western telecom companies started investing in Romanian cellular networks- they built all the tower and network infrastructure. I do not understand what you mean when you say the west stole telecoms from Romanian - the west actually built it.

Energy, oil and gas- the heydays of Romanian oil producing days were during the WWII when Romania supplied a lot of the oil used by the Germans. After that Russians took whatever was left over because of war reparations. Since I can remember Romania did not produce oil - it was dependent on Russian imports during communism for example. So there was no oil and gas for the West to steal either.

Re: NATO - in the 90s and early 2000sn Romania wanted to join NATO because that particular generation remembered the Russian all too well. The priceRomania paid was enforcing the embargo on the Serbs during the Kosovo and Bosnian wars.

Re: F16 - romanians are flying some hand me downs from Holland which were purchased at the dizzying price of 1 euro.

I am sorry, but you sound like a Romanian nationalist, one who unfortunately is convincing enough do that the current generation does not know how much better their lives are because of EU and NATO. But who knows, maybe they will get a chance to find out…

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I read so many amazing books because they were recommended here on HN. This since 2022 when I joined.

If anything, food supply in the past 20 years uses a lot less pesticides and herbicides: look at the rise of organic sections in any supermarket.

Since 2000 organic food went from niche to mainstream.

Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions fans have something to say about fan violence.

Everything you said (gambling, fan violence, billionaires who get money from cash strapped cities) applies to the US. If you substitute soccer with NFL, MLB, and NBA the statement stands.

+1. Want to add that in Europe promising players drafted by clubs by age of 10 already get soccer equipment and some token money ($50 / week), practice every day after school and transportation to out of town games is on the club’s bus. In the US at that age parents pay for the equipment, and drive their kids to every game-including out of town. And because US is so large these are long drives.

How does the inter states commerce clause block a state from blocking data center buildout?

If federal regulations allow communities to ban data centers I am all for it. But I think the federal regulation that will emerge will block communities from doing their thing.

Do you have an example of an AI state rule that does not obey the interstate commerce law?

A beast if a Windows PC to do what? Run Trams, Excel, Outlook, and a browser all at the same time? We could do that just fine in 2010…

The parents at my kid’s daycare were in their late twenties / early thirties, had professional degrees (lawyers, physicians, tech) and only one kid in the daycare.

[edit to add this: I am talking from experience, it seems you are talking from hearsay]