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New comment by radiator in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

radiator — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:51:19 +0000

This is only one side of the story. No doubt European states have been vassals of the USA since WWII, but this was also what the USA had for a long time encouraged them to do: USA provided security, in return Europe did what it was told to. One reason was also because the USA did not want another strong army in Europe. The USA no longer likes this deal, OK, this is a change of course, to which everyone tries to adapt somehow.

New comment by radiator in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

radiator — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:44:01 +0000

But the cost still finds its way to the end price of the product.

New comment by radiator in "Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have"

radiator — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:38:08 +0000

I notice that you have answered in considerably less time than the duration of the video.

New comment by radiator in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

radiator — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:06:22 +0000

But it would be hard to keep up with a country which has grown its GDP by 50 times since 1990, like China did.

New comment by radiator in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

radiator — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:51:37 +0000

They were neither anti-EV in the past nor will they stop producing Internal Combustion Engine vehicles in the future

New comment by radiator in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

radiator — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:31:46 +0000

I don't know what they are even trying to claim. They cannot seriously shrug off responsibility to AI. The Iranian government's description of the US military as "child-killing" is 100% truthful and Minab might be the worst example, but it is far from being the only one. Even in the comments here in this thread you find more examples.

New comment by radiator in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

radiator — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:26:31 +0000

The solution would seem to be preventing that "Buyer (AI) has crazy money". They already have borrowed billions and are only generating losses so the money should run out. It just needs to be made sure that nobody (taxpayers) will rescue them.

New comment by radiator in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

radiator — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:23:18 +0000

a good example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlGySMlSxRs

New comment by radiator in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

radiator — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:48:29 +0000

> There are "politics and ideology" and there is right and wrong.

That is exactly how six-year-olds think.

New comment by radiator in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

radiator — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:28:21 +0000

Guidelines: Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing.

New comment by radiator in "Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants"

radiator — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:31:45 +0000

> King Richard II would have killed for an iPhone, PS5, air conditioning, and Uber Eats. He'd swap places with you, and he was king.

I don't for a moment believe that, but apparently arguments that cannot possibly be proven are in vogue nowadays.

New comment by radiator in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

radiator — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:51:33 +0000

Governments: come in and nationalize AI easily because it has broken every law anyway.

New comment by radiator in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

radiator — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:32:59 +0000

Do you think the criticism in the article "Why I no longer recommend Julia" about correctness is still valid? * there are too many correctness and composability bugs throughout the ecosystem to justify using it in just about any context where correctness matters *

https://yuri.is/not-julia/

New comment by radiator in "Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'"

radiator — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:18:25 +0000

The sum of 12 billion USD would be correct for paper gold probably. But in practice, the supply of paper gold exceeds that of physical gold.

New comment by radiator in "Fastpotify"

radiator — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:01:13 +0000

For the monthly price of Spotify, one could rent a VPS and host Navidrome on it. In case you already have spare capacity, then it might be (almost) free.

New comment by radiator in "New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years"

radiator — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:16:19 +0000

I always followed trial and error until I reached my target and I had the feeling that my results were much better than if I were randomly clicking buttons. That is, some memory always remained. Or the menu is well thought out and has some consistency.

New comment by radiator in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

radiator — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:26:29 +0000

I think you should check your tires more often.

New comment by radiator in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

radiator — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:48:34 +0000

So I have to make it plainer. Those factories are not all in Ukraine. The governments of the countries who host the factories have switched their rhetoric from 2023. Back then it was "oh, we cannot arm Ukraine with weapons with range longer than 100 km, because then according to international law we are complicit in attacking Russia and Russia has a legal right to strike us back". But in 2026 attacks on non-military targets are celebrated by the same governments who are now proud to have contributed to the hits.

New comment by radiator in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

radiator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:39:25 +0000

Trump himself understands little of everything he does. He cannot be bothered to read simple texts, but he prefers images. His attention span is very short. So he is somewhat like a toddler. But in the end of course he does sign decisions and orders, even though he might have not read them fully. Someone else writes those documents he signs.

New comment by radiator in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

radiator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:37:36 +0000

Public administration in Europe has already started moving away from the american hyperscalers. This is of course happening at the usual speed which is characteristic of all public administration.