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endisukajon Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)

Why? It's their data and their right to have it deleted.

endisukajon Tell HN: Goo.gl (Google link Shortener) is shutting down

That's Google for you!

endisukajon How to scrape anything on the web and not get caught

For example?

endisukajon Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

> ad-free

You don't want the people who make the content you enjoy to earn a living doing that?

endisukajon Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost

Isn't that counter-productive though? I'll just take my business elsewhere and develop for competing environments.

endisukajon WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Because Yandex and Baidu give your data to some of the worst governments in the world.

endisukajon After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs

You are supposed to use it with emacsclient. You run spacemacs as a daemon the first time and just connect to it all the subsequent times.

endisukajon Venice without water

They also sold half of Europe to the Soviets, started a war in Vietnam, and nuked Japan.

See? Goes both ways.

endisukajon Airbnb CFO Departs Amid Tensions, Leaving IPO Timeline Unclear

Can you "rent out" only a room with the rest of the rooms being unoccupied? You can say you are not renting out the entire apartment, it's just that the other rooms have not been occupied.

endisukajon Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan

If you have fiscal cooperation, a single currency, a governmental body that forces regulations and laws to its member states and in the end even a unified army (which I think will happen in the future, especially since the US is taking more and more of an isolationist approach to foreign policy) isn't that closer to a federation than it is to a simple trade union? Not all federations need to be a massive nationstate which in Europe would be impossible by definition since you can't create a new nation out of thin air in a few years when you have nations that have existed since the time the concept of a nation was created.

endisukajon Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan

In the end, the EU needs to do what it must to survive and that IMO means federalize. A united EU would not need an anchor for safety.

endisukajon A Simple Compiler in JavaScript

... but why?

endisukajon Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders

Are we still usig IQ as an argument un-ironically?

endisukajon 2017 and the Rebirth of Cyberpunk

... and no other news since that trailer. It sincerely hope they don't delay it much more. Nothing good ever came from delaying and causing a game to be over-hyped.

endisukajon Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons

Mafia existed long before that though. The Camorra for example had a defined structure and was known as a phenomenon even in the Kingdom of two Sicilies.

endisukajon Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker

And enable DRM in my web browser? No thank you.

endisukajon Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

https://markerbox.co

It's an easy to use, bookmark manager. I was disappointed in how bloated pocket became and opted in to make my own solution. It's still in early stages right now but a lot more features (and at least an Android app) are coming.

endisukajon Bitcoin Is Evil (2013)

He fails to understand the fact that it's not necessarily Bitcoin _per-se_ that will bring change to world economy and the banking structure; it's the underlying technology that has value and perhaps even for Bitcoin itself it's where the store of value lies.

endisukajon Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

That's mostly football ultras[0] though. They are usually the lowest common denominator, it's like saying the US has issues with education because there are people who believe that the earth is flat. Besides, I did not say there's no racism in Europe, I said it's not institutionalized.

I should also add that discrimination in European countries is based more along ethnic and nationalistic lines, not race or color the way it's in the US. While in the US people are categorized by their "race" (black, white, asian, middle eastern, etc), in Europe they are categorized by their country or geographical area of origin (Polish, Italian, French, English, Eastern European, Western European, etc). A black English guy is not primarily "black", he is primarily English.

It's also quite interesting how US-centric this website is and how patriotic most of you are.

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras)

endisukajon Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

Avoiding the culture of dividing and collecting data based on race makes a society racist? That's certainly an interesting way of looking at it.

endisukajon Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

Do you have any proof for that? AFAIK the percentage of black people in prison in the EU is smaller than in the US for example.

I know that this does not prove everything but it's one way to measure institutional racism which is kinda hard to measure in an objective way.

endisukajon Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage

You'll be hard-pressed to find the sort of systematic racism found in the US (especially by institutions) anywhere in Europe. Sure, you might get the occasional glance if you are black especially in Eastern Europe and it's mostly because out of curiosity since there are not many African immigrants in ex-Communist countries as there are in, say, France. But other than that you'll be fine.

I should say though that Eastern European countries do have issues with Islamophobia in general, so if you are muslim I would not recommend those countries.

endisukajon WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities

Not much they can do against tech behemoths based in the US though. They can stop them from gathering EU citizen data, or at least approve laws that try to stop them but who knows what is really happening behind the scenes.

endisukajon Update: Looking Glass Add-On

What's wrong with Pocket?

endisukajon DuckDuckGo vs Google

Has anyone ever been sent to jail in the U.S. because of their (innocuous) searches?

endisukajon DuckDuckGo vs Google

You think Bing, Yandex, and especially Baidu are better for your privacy than Google?

endisukajon Ask HN: Is it harder getting a tech job now vs. 5 years ago?

A programmer must have heard of them and know at least some superficial difference. A cardiologist probably knows the different parts of a kidney and how they work.

endisukajon RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017

Erdogan and those closest to him are not religious fanatics. Religion is just a tool for them to gain and consolidate power.

endisukajon Uber banned in all of Italy

> I am not a huge Uber fan, but some of the points here neglect to mention how broken the country of Italy is.

You deduced that from your extensive experience in buying a sandwich?

endisukajon Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

> and I now think that is android, not linux.

Android is Linux.