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ponector··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Depends on criteria. Flying doors? Boeing wins
ponector··on Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
That's not true. They are friend with russia.
ponector··on 'I've applied for 300 jobs. My 25 years' experience is worthless'
It's like complaining about absence of job interviews while living in NKorea.

That's a good thing for the world: at least some sanctions are working.

ponector··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Does it account for diary, eggs, leather?
ponector··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Why do you think they need to do proper QA? People are going to buy their products anyway.
ponector··on Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman
Trump is not a king and is destroying the country. Charles is a king and is doing a great job.
ponector··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
You don't need tests. Your users are going to do all the testing!
ponector··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
How there could be a war if Trump had finished it in 24 hours?
ponector··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
There are multiple occasions when drones were hunting russian helicopters. Tough target to kill with one FPV drone.
ponector··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
>>manned aircraft are still the only platforms capable of executing critical missions in complex, dynamic environments.

Only if the mission is not against a peer adversary. Manned aircraft cannot bomb russian refineries. Manned aircraft cannot cross the frontline in Ukraine.

ponector··on How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
$13m is much more than the cost of ballistic missile like Iskander.
ponector··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
USSR couldn't do much without all western support. Lots of disposable soldiers but no weapons for them.
ponector··on US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions
EU will have IRIS, it's own version of starshield by 2030.
ponector··on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
Even so, the game publisher will sell you a game with 15 minutes campaign demo and then ask for the season pass subscription.
ponector··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Not everyone wants a nuclear power plant in their backyard. Even less wants to pay billions for the delayed construction.

Nuclear is a good technology but not commercially viable.

ponector··on Netflix is laying off roughly 6% of its workforce
For sure they are not laying off people in Hyderabad...
ponector··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones
Next move will be to help russia to restore refineries.
ponector··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
In my opinion, Amazon has terrible ui. It's impossible to find something unless you are looking for a particular product of well-known brand.
ponector··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Same millions of random people who eager to enlist, travel thouthands kilometers and die in a ditch in Ukraine in exchange for some extra cash.

Same random people who works and support military machine with money and labor.

ponector··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Agree: not great not terrible.

Great will be when all huge data center are visited by free range unknown drones, like what happened to the Wildberries.

ponector··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Refreshing is also a wording. Drone attack during the war is called "an incident".
ponector··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Military personnel use the same Yandex services as regular people: delivery, maps, taxi, etc.

Also Yandex is a large cloud provider, they host a lot of government-connected companies.

ponector··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
It's illegal to store CID outside of russia. Tovarish from KGB is watching and ready for action.
ponector··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
How VAT could help? Unless you mean to dramatically increase sales tax to European VAT level? Like 23%
ponector··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
But it is not illusion. Everyone knows about conditions at Amazon but they never had an issue to hire people.
ponector··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Nowadays service jobs are externalized. Try to compare how big chunk of the population are in service industries now and then.

Back then they had a private coachman and now you have an independent contractor with the Uber app.

ponector··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
Topolino is not a car, but a quadricycle with the same regulation applied (45km/h max speed)
ponector··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
You can always buy a Corolla for 25k. People who buy new car have extra money and want an expensive one.
ponector··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
The only reason to update from my pixel 7 is to get more storage. Otherwise a perfect phone
ponector··on In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
That may work on weak western state, but not on crazy russians. If they were wise they wouldn't invade Ukraine but simply bought it like they did with Belarus. Would be cheaper than war!
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