Yes. So little marketing crap and you also get to see so many more interesting discussions. It feels like HN ten years ago, but with more people. It's awesome.
You've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously, including multiple personal attacks in this thread, and bad violations in other threads as well. If you keep doing this, we will ban you. No more of this, please.
Just ban me now, please. I am done with the US and YC.
What a disgusting country you have become. Your country threatening to take Greenland by force and you allowing all discussion around that to be flagged. Weak as hell.
the one where a handful of people can coordinate to shadowban / flag
unclear if its the one where the official HN mods (there are only 2) believed to be the ones doing this
the reality is that the official mods are largely hands off, when they do get involved, more often than not it is to reverse a community flagging action, which is where most moderation happens, at a large enough community scale that a handful of people cannot wield this much flagging power
If you believe unjust flagging has happened, the best recourse is to email the HN mods, the are very friendly, helpful and fair
If the story has enough votes before then, it is only downweighted, and only a bit at a time. Same with the flamewar detector, it just pulls stories down a bit. After the score is more than (I think?) 10 votes, it won't get entirely flagged unless mods decide it should.
This is correct. Our company (about 40 people in the engineering team) just did a painful move from homegrown orchestration of EC2 instances to containerized ECS/Fargate.
We will now move to some form of "pure" EU-hosted K8s. No more AWS. I bet we will end up saving lots of money too.
Kubernetes was always the next step. We just didn't know the trigger would be the US going _this_ hostile.
Our marketing director chipped in and thinks it will be worth quite a lot if we can show/say that our service is completely independent of the US - but she wants to say it more diplomatically - exactly how is tbd. I disagree. We should just write it out loud and be proud about it. We'll see.
Perhaps: "We work and live in X land. We run all of services in X land, in facilities owned by people living in X land.
It's inevitable that an "almost-anyone-but-the-US" free-ish trading coalition of countries will appear. The EU will air drop their tried, tested and scaled up trade negotiation teams worldwide during the upcoming weeks.
US spelling bee kids will be great at spelling P-A-R-I-A-H though.
It appears to be a combination of racism, “crabs in the pot” mentality, tribalism and in group motivations, and people looking for another group to look down on because they have no opportunity ahead of them between now and death. Happiness is reality minus expectations.
His supporters still say “It’s not great but I’d vote for him again.” Well, the unfortunate news is he’s near end of life and they footgunned their own economic opportunity light cone. The global economy is going to route around the US accordingly, because it cannot be trusted to trade as an adult vs a bully. They will continue to have their vote and mental model regardless of rationality and logical reasoning. All you can do as a nation state counterparty is defend against military action and disconnect economically.
Same vibes as "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." —- LBJ
Some voted for him for that reason, some for other reasons d. For example, I’ve heard several women voted for him because he said he’d make ivf more available/affordable.
The bigger question is why would anyone believe anything he says, especially if it was going to benefit regular people.
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