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I cannot even imagine browsing the internet or using my devices without Consent-O-Matic and NextDNS.

with almost all options and filters enables ofc


AI was mostly based on machine learning, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there were very primitive AI/ML examples even decades ago. Thus, I agree with the parent.


Good point.

OTOH, in that sense, internet (or more specifically, WWW) is technically built in Europe, so can we say WWW is a European product? :D


I wasn't trying to be pedantic. I was just hoping to see if it was a new and novel European social site project or if it was just spinning up an instance of an existing project.


No worries, me too. And I agree with you as well.


www was built in Europe but the Internet itself was built in USA! :D


Not OP, but my experience was most of the malware-like apps on App Store were top ads of apps with names similar to the original ones: such as Whatsapp or Office.


I geniunely wonder if Windows G's start menu also use React and if the start menu, right click or Windows Search still sucks in Windows G or not :)


React Native, halfway between Web and native.


No, he's talking about ReactOS.


Not op, and I generally agree with your assumption but not for Microsoft, as I don't think it's limited to Windows:

Teams, Office (especially online), One Drive, SharePoint, Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn, all became very shitty and partially unusable with increasing number of weird bugs or problems lately.


And it's not just Microsoft. Apple and other are having the same issue. Something fundamental seems to have happened post Covid but before AI.

WFH, flood of Dev hiring, increasingly hostile worker relations, a bunch of web 2.0 folks finally retiring, VC money drying up...

take your pick.

Software is just crappy these days.


> Something fundamental seems to have happened

It just became more visible: testing _is_ expensive and time consuming.


But M$ share price goes up! Investors are smart as they are rich! And they do believe in this all!

/sarcasm


> Then invest in and attract people to build it. I'd move to Europe if the salary was competitive.

True that. Also in many countries in Europe, IT jobs are not "special" anymore and salaries are similar to the median.


There's no profit in technology so there's no interest in starting a business leading to low demand for workers.

Stimulate the sector directly through investment and indirectly by enabling competition and the demand for jobs will increase - following with it salaries.

Cash injection isn't enough though, if you don't break down monopolistic barriers, businesses will fail regardless


Isn't the salary difference more about differences between Silicon Valley (or Big tech in US) and Europe?

One competitive advantage of the US is probably that often equity is involved (although this can be a disadvantage too if it replaces money and doesn't come on top).

Also don't forget that in Europe you often have a better safety net (especially if you loose a job) and lower rent.


Apple, do you want to lose customers? Because that's how you lose customers.

But seriously, one of the reasons why I got iPhone for my parents to replace their Androids is it's relatively safer environment. But this change increases potential spam and attack surface.


It's impossible that they will loose more money from gone customers than make money from this change


> 147 countries import oil from Iran

Could you please provide source to this claim? I asked ChatGPT but it didn't know :( Sorry...


>Iran, a member of the OPEC oil producers group, exported products to 147 trading partners in 2022, according to World Bank’s most recent data.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/trump-tariff...


Oh, thank you very much. That was very helpful.

I asked ChatGPT again for the source of 147, with that quote, which replied me:

> I don’t know the full list of those 147 countries because the publicly available World Bank summary statistics provide only the total number, not a ready-made list of all partners. The detailed underlying data (e.g., from UN Comtrade or the World Bank’s WITS interface) would be required to extract the complete set of partner names.

So I went to the World Bank WITS for Iran's oil exports and the latest data shows 65 partner countries: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/IRN/Yea...

These are just for the oil. Probably the number of countries with any active trade with Iran is higher.

( PS: Also don't get me wrong; I didn't ask the question or did the research to try to prove you wrong; I am just curious to learn more about it. I was primarily curious how is still a trade with Iran, and if the sanctions against Iran has ever changed since 2022 - especially after Russian invasion of Ukraine )


This reminds me of the definiton by Lionel Robbins:

   > Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
Or the simpler version I remember:

   > Economics is about allocating limited natural resources to unlimited human desire.


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