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pie420 commented on EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink techcrunch.com/2024/12/16... · Posted by u/gniting

s1artibartfast · a year ago

That's more or less what I suspected. I think it is fascinating to see the cultural differences on these topics. In the US, both parties of voters are extremely critical of such partnerships, claiming either corruption or waste.

Why do you think this is? Are the EU voters less price critical to spending? Are they simply more trusting?

pie420 · a year ago

what are you talking about? this is happening all the time in the US with Spacex+USGOV, Boeing+USGOV, etc.

pie420 commented on EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink techcrunch.com/2024/12/16... · Posted by u/gniting

lm28469 · a year ago

> EU does nothing

HN: aha look at these losers they never do anything

> EU does thing

HN: aha look at these losers they're doing something we already did

pie420 · a year ago

I don't see anything wrong here. here's what could also happen, but has not:

> EU does thing the US hasn't

HN: OH SHIT USA NEEDS TO HURRY UP AND DO THING TOO

EU just needs to stop being behind technologically.

pie420 commented on We all took the DVD boom era for granted filmstories.co.uk/feature... · Posted by u/thunderbong

hx8 · a year ago

That is how Hollywood does movies. Other film traditions will more accurately adapt the source material. For example, many animes are a shot-for-shot recreation of manga.

pie420 · a year ago

shot-for-shot recreations are a waste of time. a robot or algorithm could copy. we watch adaptations to see a new perspective on an old tale. if you want a copy, just read the original.

pie420 commented on We all took the DVD boom era for granted filmstories.co.uk/feature... · Posted by u/thunderbong

gjsman-1000 · a year ago

There's a difference between adaptation; and retelling the story in a way that damages the integrity of the original. Many of the above changes don't make sense even within the movie's own material. Even if the books didn't exist, Faramir's filmic story arc (as just one example) would be a badly executed example of character development.

pie420 · a year ago

The retelling of a story can never damage the integrity of the original, and it is very foolish of you to even suggest that it could. The original is always the original, and is unimpacted by anything that comes after...

This is as silly as suggesting that Tolkien's work somehow tarnishes or damages nordic/germanic mythology. utterly ridiculous.

pie420 commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

liontwist · a year ago

I don’t have to defend anyone against murder, it’s illegal and wrong.

pie420 · a year ago

Usually illegal, not always wrong.

pie420 commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

Kye · a year ago

It's always weird to me when people want to exclude them from stats.

pie420 · a year ago

Why? I'm not in a gang or a mob, so i am safe from their silly little squabbles. I don't care how many gang members kill each other. I also don't care how many people die in DRC civil wars, because I am not in the DRC. I don't care about people dying on other planets and in different galaxies.

pie420 commented on U.S. math scores drop on major international test chalkbeat.org/2024/12/04/... · Posted by u/akantler

carabiner · a year ago

Overall though, US scores in math & science are excellent and near the top of the charts: https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1864412480677576816

pie420 · a year ago

18th out of 50 is not excellent for a HEGEMON country that essentially rules europe, south america, and half of asia. I imagine Britain was better than 18th out of 50 during the height of the british empire.

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pie420 commented on Kagi Teams blog.kagi.com/kagi-teams... · Posted by u/icar

mvavassori · a year ago

I know that everybody here likes to bash on Google but i tried ddg, bing, qwant, brave search, all the other niche ones (searx, swisscows, etc...), and i found Google to be still better than all of them, especially for technical stuff.

pie420 · a year ago

product made by monopoly company worth $2T is better than small startups with less than 30 employees. shocker. the reason people are supporting Kagi is because we see the trend with google quality and we want alternatives, even if they are currently worse. it's called activist consumerism. it's why we supported AMD when they were at the brink of bankruptcy, and now look at their CPUs and look at intel.

pie420 commented on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals ft.com/content/1201f834-6... · Posted by u/kvee

_1tem · a year ago

If you go to the doctor with a problem and get a blood test and they say that everything looks fine, but you don’t feel fine, then you don’t say: “well the numbers are right, I should feel fine”. Rather you try to find what the numbers aren’t capturing, because you know something is wrong. Same with the economy. The perception of the economy being bad is really pervasive as demonstrated by the last election, and perception matters, because selective numbers don’t tell the whole story.

pie420 · a year ago

You're describing hypochondria

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