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New comment by misantroop in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

misantroop — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:12:13 +0000

That plus privatising a lot of it. Kills two birds with one stone, eliminate regulation and fill your pockets with cash.

New comment by misantroop in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

misantroop — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:55:20 +0000

So much different analysis for something as simple as insider trading. Remember, Trump always said stock market performance was everything. Then this week suddenly, stock market doesn't matter. In retrospect, it's all so obvious. Neither me nor anyone else could expect them to be so bold about it.

New comment by misantroop in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

misantroop — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:33:25 +0000

Trump couldn't care less about America. He treats the presidency as his private business. This was all a ploy to make a lot of money, nothing else.

New comment by misantroop in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

misantroop — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:28:21 +0000

This is pure manipulation. It was engineered to just that from the start. Since it's America, no investigation will be done to look into who profited here - possibly billions off regular people who had margin calls. 3rd world country.

New comment by misantroop in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

misantroop — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:56:49 +0000

Insider trading, pure and simple. You can bet his son-in-law and all his buddies made hundreds of millions here. America is a 3rd world country, nothing else.

New comment by misantroop in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

misantroop — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:47:51 +0000

Zen is a much better fork.

New comment by misantroop in "Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of neglect"

misantroop — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:13:25 +0000

Microsoft help pages claiming that they will not refund your unused credits if your card has expired or details changed. So Microsoft effectively is taking all the users credit for themselves. Filing a complain with the appropriate EU regulator on this as debit/credit cards expire regularly and that's just an excuse for Microsoft to take your funds.

New comment by misantroop in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

misantroop — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:16:26 +0000

You only paid $2000 for it, what did you expect.

New comment by misantroop in "Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams"

misantroop — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:06:52 +0000

Correct, I should have specified it applies to more significant events. Simple paperwork is typically not an issue. Lived there for 10 years and was amazed at how even relatively small cases aren't handled honestly. For example when my vehicle was hit, the police registers the crash and and the driver afterwards flees, the courts determined that they cannot say who was driving. Absurd in any civilised country as then the vehicle owner is responsible or at least interviewed. This is my personal experience, one of quite a few, not hearsay.

I also had friends dealing with legal for multinationals, for things to work you needed to know the right people or pay the right people. Otherwise your licenses and approvals would mysteriously simply never be processed.

New comment by misantroop in "Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams"

misantroop — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:30:01 +0000

Philippines is corrupt to the core as well, from courts to police to civilians. So the real reason why POGOs were thrown out of the country was that the didn't pay off the right people. Nothing gets done in Philippines without bribes.

New comment by misantroop in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

misantroop — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:34:16 +0000

And the reason why it spreads so well is still concentrated industrial farming.

New comment by misantroop in "Polars"

misantroop — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:59:20 +0000

Any new library will have a learning curve. I used Pandas for many years and never could get used to it, never mind memorize most of it. It was always all over the place with no consistency. Switched to Polars a year or so ago and never looked back. I can now usually write it from memory as the method structure is clear. Still running Pandas in a production system that doesn't get many updates but that's all. Even if you like Pandas, you cannot ignore how incredibly slow it is and more importantly, a memory hog.

New comment by misantroop in "What I learned getting acquired by Google"

misantroop — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:46:22 +0000

Startups operating in Americas are founded in US. Rest of the world is different. For example, Lazada is huge in SEA and was created by Rocket Internet (DE). Delivery Hero (again, DE) is massive in SEA as well, the US ones like DoorDash have absolutely no presence. Uber isn't a thing anymore either. In fact I see far more European and Asian companies operating globally nowadays, US startups are quite isolationist.