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v0id24on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

Do you mean there's no problem? The appalling situation in France, Sweden, Great Britain and Belgium with crime, rapes, harassment of local residents and the associated financial losses on benefits is striking. Perhaps the situation is better in Spain - I haven't visited Spain in a long time.

v0id24on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

Why then don't people unite against the dominance of not very friendly and culturally alien migrants, Muslims?

v0id24on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

Democracies are vulnerable to many things: populism, vote-rigging, importing migrants to vote for a given party, and much more. Without a reboot, many democracies slide into autocracy. First, the government bans weapons, then curtails civil rights under the guise of child protection, offending religious sensibilities, blocks websites, and gradually tightens penalties for free speech. It all happens gradually. And suddenly you can't write your opinion online without being arrested. The UK is a case in point. Unarmed people are doomed to change things not only in authoritarian countries, but even in nominally democratic ones. Examples include peaceful and not-so-peaceful protests in Iran, Belarus, and Russia in the struggle against the authorities. Peaceful protests without the support of the army and the elite always end in failure. Another example is the protests in the UK against the influx of Muslim migrants, where the authorities support the latter.

v0id24on Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

v0id24on I wish GPT4 had never happened

by tax revenues In China, corporations pay more than 2 times more taxes than individuals (in the US, individuals pay almost 6 times more taxes than corporations). China: corporate income tax (19%), individual income tax (7%) USA: corporate income tax (7.6%), individual income tax (41.1%)

v0id24on EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill

I think they understand. I remember how in Russia they justified the blocking of sites and the transfer of encryption keys for messengers. I have deja vu. At first they were justified solely by the fight against pedophiles and terrorists. Then gradually the fight against pirates, then with misleading information, the fight for fair elections, and so on and so forth. Then they canceled the receipt of permits through the courts. Opposition blockades appeared without justification...

v0id24on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

these are official government statistics, am I right?

v0id24on EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies

This is not entirely true. Even the elite who were included in the sanction lists (Russian) are regularly noticed in the EU countries. They can come to rest through diplomatic channels or through bribes. Also children of people under sanctions live mainly in EU or the USA. While they are investing in those countries, they are not asked questions about the origin of the money

v0id24on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

this in itself is a dangerous precedent for censorship at the request of the twitter management.

v0id24on DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS

  Moscow, Russia
                 test1   test2   test3   test4   test5   test6   test7   test8   test9   test10  Average
  adguard        6 ms    8 ms    4 ms    8 ms    11 ms   5 ms    7 ms    4 ms    4 ms    22 ms     7.90
  google2nd      4 ms    4 ms    5 ms    22 ms   30 ms   18 ms   3 ms    27 ms   3 ms    3 ms      11.90
  yandex         5 ms    9 ms    5 ms    9 ms    87 ms   50 ms   9 ms    9 ms    5 ms    60 ms     24.80
  google         3 ms    18 ms   3 ms    20 ms   29 ms   165 ms  3 ms    18 ms   3 ms    19 ms     28.10
  cloudflare2nd  45 ms   44 ms   46 ms   44 ms   46 ms   44 ms   44 ms   45 ms   65 ms   48 ms     47.10
  quad9          47 ms   48 ms   47 ms   48 ms   46 ms   57 ms   46 ms   44 ms   46 ms   45 ms     47.40
  opendns        45 ms   47 ms   46 ms   59 ms   47 ms   45 ms   47 ms   49 ms   51 ms   44 ms     48.00
  norton         52 ms   49 ms   53 ms   52 ms   58 ms   56 ms   51 ms   48 ms   54 ms   52 ms     52.50
  cleanbrowsing  96 ms   48 ms   60 ms   46 ms   49 ms   46 ms   45 ms   49 ms   44 ms   46 ms     52.90
  neustar        54 ms   56 ms   52 ms   59 ms   50 ms   57 ms   55 ms   57 ms   59 ms   54 ms     55.30
  comodo         80 ms   88 ms   73 ms   113 ms  79 ms   75 ms   75 ms   74 ms   74 ms   90 ms     82.10
  cloudflare     1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms   1000.00