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ifthenelseend··on China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
The Brandenburg Airport in Berlin is already took 15 years instead of 5 and it is still not ready...
ifthenelseend··on China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
In Germany it will take 15 years to build a hospital. True bureaucratic hell on planet.
ifthenelseend··on 250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web
How much money did you get from Microsoft for disclosing that vulnerability?
ifthenelseend··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
another reason to switch to android
ifthenelseend··on Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says
No. they are separate revenues in report.
ifthenelseend··on Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says
Just checked the report and this is true. Microsoft haters becomes really annoying with all their lies.
ifthenelseend··on Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
Google is a scam company. Stop using it.
ifthenelseend··on Gitlab was down
You guys should consider switching to GitHub. Much faster, no 500-errors, less downtime.
ifthenelseend··on Show HN: Hide Likes Everywhere
when will hacker news finally remove like buttons? there is a reason why studies are performed using double blind technique.
ifthenelseend··on Google Kills Cloud Print
anyone in their right mind will use any product from Google? They deprecate like 90% of their services...

https://killedbygoogle.com/

https://gcemetery.co/

ifthenelseend··on 40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year
If you need an offshore corporation, it can be opened for a few hundred $, but if you need to do the same for example in Germany, then you have to pay 25000 EURO to found a GmbH.
ifthenelseend··on 40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year
Tax heavens have MUCH lower taxes, but they also have other benefits like very little bureaucracy, better privacy and better protection from lawsuits.

You will also have a lot of freedom managing your company. For example, if you try to move a German company to another country and that country has lower tax rate, then Germans will put additional punishing taxes on your company for the next 10 years, despite you are not living there anymore. You will never have that issue with offshore corporations.

ifthenelseend··on TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction
Meanwhile Intel is working on 14++++++++nm technology that improves performance by 0.000000001%

This will be an easy game for AMD and TSMC...

ifthenelseend··on HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
GDPR is a total failure: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190521/17425842255/one-y...
ifthenelseend··on HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
No. Just because someone from north korea visited my website doesn't mean I have to comply with north korean laws. Otherwise you need to comply with laws from 200+ countries and need an army of lawyers+developers. Exactly the same with EU countries.
ifthenelseend··on HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
GDPR law is illegal. You cannot force a company to follow your laws if it doesn't have a subsidiary in that country (unless there is a special agreement between two countries). So I don't care if my SaaS is compliant with GDPR. Good luck trying to sue me outside of EU...
ifthenelseend··on Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developer?
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme / P1

- up to 64 GB RAM

- 15' display with 4K resolution & 500 cd/m²

- Super fast CPU with 12 MB cache & 4,6 Ghz, 12 cores

- Best keyboard (much better than Mac)

- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or Quadro T2000 for the P series

- only 1.7 kg (~3.5 pounds)

- USB-C & Thunderbolt

ifthenelseend··on Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says
UI is not that bad, but the product is very complicated for startups. For example, I can create a website on Azure with just a few clicks as a single item in my account. On AWS, (even if I use Beanstalk) I have to create VPC, load balancer, security groups, S3 bucket for code and a lot of other things... not easy to manage and takes a lot of time!
ifthenelseend··on Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says
two weeks later they said it's only worth ~ 10B
ifthenelseend··on Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
EU is the nightmare for every startup with all that laws. No time to develop the product, because there is a lot of bureaucracy that take all your time.
ifthenelseend··on Web Development Simplified with Svelte
Svelte is great, but I will probably use the new Blazor framework from Microsoft that compiles to WebAssembly. The benefit is that I can use C# instead of JavaScript.
ifthenelseend··on .NET Core 3.0
Now you can easily write the following state machine in C#:

    static State ChangeState(State current, Transition transition, bool hasKey) =>

    (current, transition) switch

    {

        (Opened, Close)              => Closed,

        (Closed, Open)               => Opened,

        (Closed, Lock)   when hasKey => Locked,

        (Locked, Unlock) when hasKey => Closed,

        _ => throw new InvalidOperationException($"Invalid transition")

    };