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This is not true. Most of the ones arrested, however, is definitely true. Check the comment above.

The 3rd most popular journalist in the world is a random dude? Do you even believe yourself?

Avast did their IPO in London. Most companies I have heard of were considering doing it in Singapore.

Fair play to them. They are in a bit of a bubble here in Prague as noone from my Czech/EU network has worked for them, but still the product is great, their treatment of community - excellent and I wish them best of luck in the future as well.

P.S. I am currently shilling for Jetbrains Spaces to the leadership :D

This remotely reminds me of European PSD2 - it was also meant to turn banks into utilities, but in the end even web-scraping the online banking was recognised as "providing an API", thus seriously limiting its real world use.

Otherwise this digital dollar is nothing more than a cheap marketing trick to counter the rise of crypto.

The electricity is used to verify transactions, which has a massive added value many times exceeding the cost of the electricity invested.

Calling this a waste of electricity is the same as calling the hundreds of thousands (if not more than a million) of employess of central banks, regulation authorities, payment processors, etc waste of air. Really really naive and childish.

P.S. Did anyone ever calculate the carbon footprint of all these people whose jobs are going to be taken over and compared it? I haven't done the approximation/calculation, but I am pretty sure that cryptocurrencies are going to be a massive improvement over the current system in that aspect as well.

I am really sorry, but this article reeks of incompetence so much, that it is useless. Starting from the very second sentence.

I am to busy to go into detail, but if you'd care to know more, I can explain, prepare an analysis or consult you at 1200EUR/h

Or how many relevant people were indicted after Dieselgate. Or a single time a member of the judical system was. It is actually feudal societies that we live in.

>For full disclosure, most of the images I got of the protests personally were from a twitch stream called "Woke" which was a compilation stream of about usually 5-10 simultaneous protest streams from different cities. I don't think I ever once witnessed arson or another crime, despite having watched that stream ever night during the height of the protests.

Sorry, but this is classical gas-lighting. This is absolutely equivalent to saying - I saw Leni Riefenstahl's movies and there were no people dying in concentration camps, so Nazi propaganda is factually correct. There are tens of thousands of criminal acts documented during those 'peaceful' protests and I don't think that anyone with IQ >80 and the slightest bit of self-respect would ever take what you're saying seriously.

Btw, these days even far-left HN seems to be split in two and I was sure it would be one of the last bastions of group-think. I guess we live and learn.

"Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law" What is the proof for that? The article specifies none... Not even hard evidence.

Apologies, but this sounds like it came straight from underneath a tin-foil hat.

And to be honest, racism and <insert-color> supermacy are the most primitive & superficial form of collectivism and thus disgusting, but...

If the idiots on left are going for affirmative action, which is basically discrimination based on superficial qualities such as gender, race & religion, why the idiots on the right should not be allowed to do the same?

Well, at this point they are a publisher not a platform. In my eyes they eagerly & willingly accepted the responsibility themselves.

Trump wants the oppsite actually - platforms not to moderate it. Not that it is any of his business this way or the other.

Or accidentally trigger a three-strike rule or infringe some odd sentence in the 300k pages of regulations that concern your business... Europe is not going to have a big tech company (or even mid-sized for that matter) until this legal approach changes in an extreme way.

Yeah, massive taxes on all fronts (employment, corporate & VAT) accompanied by insane beuracracy, GDPR and tons of other pointless regulations... My favourite would be "the right to be forgotten", which is probably 20x more outrageous than Trump's current tantrum.

Surely Twitter would be better off in Germany, that's why today's Europe's literally full of thriving tech giants :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

On top of that if there was evidence behind all indictments, then we would not need judges, only prosecutors. It is up to the court to decide if "there is evidence" or not.

Thanks for taking the time to critique my psyche, reading habits and personality. It would have been somewhat better if you stuck to the topic in stead of lowly as hominem, but in some cases this is too much to expect :D :D

How could they be related to something that did not stand in court, in other words did not legally happen? This is quite the contradiction.

* What about the Russian troll farms running fake pro-Trump social media accounts?

Until there is no hard evidence, those troll farms are conspiracy theories. Besides, these days the left press is so ridiculously biased that NYT, Guardian, etc could easily qualify as troll farms.

* What about the hacking of Clinton's email server and strategic release of those emails right before the election (even though the e-mails ended up containing nothing incriminating)?

You mean the "e-mail server" (lol) which was "hosted" at her bedroom? You do realise that here of all places there is probably the highest number of people to see how ridiculous this is.

* What about the many people lying/obstructing justice that were investigated? Why were so many people caught lying if there was nothing to hide?

There is always something to hide, the question is were they guilty of what they were accused or not. Also after this appeared:

'What is our goal?' one of the notes dated January 24 2017 - the day of the interview - read. 'Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?'

I would not give too much credibility to those investigators.

1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8271953/Unsealed-me...

Apologies, the source is wikipedia's page on Paul Manafort[1]. Also the article says he was involved with Yanukovich, not with Putin, but still in the worst case this is in the equivalent to the Biden-Poroshenko tape[2].

Tax fraud rendering you guilty of all the bad things you were ever accused of is not really sound logic. Also, I am not really defending Manaford - tbh after reading more on him, this whole Ukrainian foray seems to be one of his lesser offenses. But for example in the case of Flynn/Trump where prosecutors were taped discussing how they need to "find him guilty of anything or provoke him to cross the law", there is no doubt of bias.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lA3oOo1oZc

> Paul Manafort, the chairman of Donald Trumps' 2016 campaign is currently serving a 7.5 year prison sentence relating to this investigation.

"He was convicted on five counts of tax fraud, one of the four counts of failing to disclose his foreign bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud."

So, he was convicted of tax fraud and bureaucratic discrepencies. While factually related to the investigation, none of these charges has nothing to do with what the investigation was about.

Yet another post, that is 100% factually correct and still gets downvoted into oblivion by the leftist bots. LOL.

Am I a career politician? But actually you might be right - just noticed Massie[0]. If he was to act like a typical politician he would let the food shortage strike and only then go solving it to gather extra points. Rand Paul also seems to have something like a conscience. Guess when such people would have any say on real matters though. Never. And with nation states still being the main actor, there is no such person in Brussels, unless we count the hell-raising clowns like Korwin-Mikke and Farage who raise hell for the sake of raising hell.

0. https://noqreport.com/2020/04/26/rep-thomas-massie-has-a-pla...

Come on. Intentions are never noble. All politicians have their respective owners. Be it officially through lobby groups or unofficially by local oligarchs without middle men.

Not only. It worked out really well for the new board members a.k.a. GDPR officers a.k.a Politkomisars.

Great submission! I found the examples on the cardinal virtues very useful.

Colour profiles, display calibration.

And yet it is the leading cause of premature death among accidents and thousands of times less safe than alternatives such as trains or airplanes and... surprise, surprise - staying at home!

> ... with their own lives. You're talking about allowing people to risk other people's lives, and no, that's not ok.

So, let's ban driving then?

I would say that in Prague all the hip places have them, they are also quite popular in Sofia (this is what I had on New Year's Eve as I was on antibiotics), though there are still a few nice bars with Pepsi/Coke. I would presume that this is the case in most of the Eastern EU. The small towns and classic pubs usually got Kofola/Derby or some other cheap local alternative. Btw the manufacturing price of soda is almost negligible.