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lava_pidgeon··on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
In the US.

In EU law it is very likely against GDPR.

lava_pidgeon··on Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany
Related vw self driving project in Hamburg https://www.moia.io/de-DE/blog/autonome-mobilitaet-in-hambur...
lava_pidgeon··on Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
That's selection bias. China was "lucky" to had the best strategy. But what about the dictatorships who stocked to the wrong strategy.

Though it is still interesting to research about Industry politics. In Europe almost all economics looked trapped into the capitalism Vs socialism trap.

lava_pidgeon··on Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad?
Sorry but the author needs in US Tech. I work 40h, have a friend circle, use my money for fashion, restaurants. Similar a Chinese friend is quiet happy.

It's not I like to work more but it needs a good reason.

lava_pidgeon··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Some of the best social media is heavily moderate. This includes HN and r/credible defense . With a Quiet transparent and cheap LLM I imagine a social media website where you can have good discussion about everything around the world it would be a game changer and on my to-do list.
lava_pidgeon··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
Either you are a super human walking in water bowling water.

Or some US america who does not get fact that this context is talking about German Energy and the European heat wave and Fahrenheit is not used any metric in this part of the world. I considered especially rude that you assume the reader should convert the value though Fahrenheit is mostly used in USA.

lava_pidgeon··on Future euro banknote design proposals
Liechtenstein is heavenly tied to Switzerland, Monaco to France. They don't exist without Democracies.

Safety is definitely not the only metric on Life quality. There is a reason why Singapore is called Singaboor and South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have a way more cultural impact.

lava_pidgeon··on Future euro banknote design proposals
" Like all decision in democracy, it is not about finding the best solution, it's about the solution with the least nr of votes against it. That is why democracy never works in the long term, because it is a long, drawn out, trip to the bottom. "

Working democracies are the countries with most livable places on Earth..this includes many countries in Europe.

lava_pidgeon··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Sorry OPs first sentence mentions this is basically impossible in the US and then compared to EU or UK. There is a certain tone and I don't think this comment was a good faith criticism on EU or UK policy
lava_pidgeon··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
The US government killed two people protesting against their migration policy. Oh boy, MAGA is deep into America. Thanks for reminding me.
lava_pidgeon··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Oh boy , this is American exceptionalism at its finest. The US has by far the most authoritarian government of all mentioned entities. Really you should protest against your government.
lava_pidgeon··on Flux 3
Reddit is open for minors and parents browse Reddit on their leisure time.

Otherwise a Gen Ai has to check this subreddit

lava_pidgeon··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
I can judge an analysis even if I am not aiming to write another one.

Sorry this debate is getting weird and boring. Have a nice day.

lava_pidgeon··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
Ok and you couldn't get my argument: Why not Rumania, South Korea? These countries have also a great quality of internet. On mobile Poland, France and Austria?

This is also a difference between an ideologicopinion piece with a "Ive told you so" and "Markets are bad " to an scientific review.

lava_pidgeon··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
It is an essay not a scientific paper. As such it's more an opinion peace. The first question in my head why it does not compare with Rumania and South Korea.

It might be they had a more free market approach (I don't know really). Poland has a strong wireless connection infrastructure and it has there a market approach e.g.

The reason the essay from Switzerland compares to Germany as both counties are part of the German speaking world and to the US as Americans are very loud on HN , Internet so you need to canter this audience.

That's why I don't like this essay. This very specific sound from "we know it better". This essay doesn't want to find the best way for this type of infrastructure. Ironically I know this sound only from Germany.

lava_pidgeon··on Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
I'm not American but I can tell city - land conflict, geographic conflicts are a very much thing in the whole world. I mean we have more contemporary political research so why not cite these.

Oh, also communism, Marx ideas were a catastrophy for Eastern Europe. Greetings from my vacation in Bucharest

lava_pidgeon··on Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
Economist has a global audience. The report about locally specific things are outdated as they are other countries to report about.
lava_pidgeon··on Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
Maybe a political conflicts are more complex than a guy 150 years ago thought.
lava_pidgeon··on Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
Railway is national and cross border is always expensive. For a similar distance you can check Hamburg - Munich.

Europe is too poor to subsidiase long travel trains :p EU policy is more to introduce more competitions into the system / partly privatise it (like it works in Italy)

lava_pidgeon··on How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
You do some heavy assumptions about European nations
lava_pidgeon··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
There is a constant change in politicians and parties and views among people (hello 2022!) about policy topics inside the EU all the time. Do you seriously think politics in the EU stays the same?
lava_pidgeon··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
This questions are discussed a lot. I just refer to the draghi report and also in the start up field the underdeveloped financial market in the EU. Finance markets have a negative vibe (rich people, greed, causing huge problems like 2008, antisemitism) so most politicians didn't care.
lava_pidgeon··on Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Nibelungenlied (not Nibelungsenlied) was racist? That needs a citation
lava_pidgeon··on Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
"Europe's biggest problem (I do not mean just the EU, I mean everyone from the UK to Russia) is that it is in denial about its decline, weakness and irrelevance to the rest of the world."

I disagree on this broad statement.

lava_pidgeon··on Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
In case of Germany nope. Germans were not against the wars but there was not a huge support case. Especially WWI it was only a nationalistic educated minority who supported the war. Most people were not so keen to die
lava_pidgeon··on SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund
It does currently happen. In Germany alone there are 3 rocket companies + 1 space vehicle based on governmental programs. You can ask chatgpt for other projects.

And yes, my pun which you didn't get just says: Building rockets isn't hard.

lava_pidgeon··on SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund
I'm happy to tell you that Nations don't want to be dependent on the US government and Elon Musk.

So there is a big race to build the next SpaceX. And I can assure you building rockets isn't rocket science. Other companies will follow propped up by their governments.

lava_pidgeon··on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
I disagree that the EU allows illegals to enter it's territory. There are many many prohibitive measures
lava_pidgeon··on Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
Germany as well
lava_pidgeon··on Declining America
You are right.

I know by intuition the place is of course way more complicated.

It's just a growing frustration based on Wikipedia pages, the homophobia made by Muslim refugees, talking with Atheist by these areas...

I guess the fact that Islam sees itself as a purer version and successor religion of Christianity doesn't help inner self criticism.

By the way we can see the same behaviour of Americans.

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