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To me, Paypal is something I use to pay online so I don't have to fill in my credit card info everywhere. Klarna fills that niche for most Swedish stores nowadays. But from the website, it seems that this app is mainly meant for person-to-person payments - similar to Swish (kinda only available in Sweden I think)?

Curious if this will be able to conquer the nordics where we already have Klarna for person-to-business and Vipps/Swish/Mobilepay (depending on country, Vipps seems to be growing out of Norway though). Feel we're very content with our alternatives here already.

I don't think that's true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it's diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the "Five races under one union" (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the "Three Principles of the People" formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It's foundational to both Chinese republics.

(but if we're talking about the language, then "Chinese" is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)

And also RIP Ukrainian demographics. It's great to see Russia hurting, and they deserve their scars, but it's gonna take a very long time for Ukraine to recover too. They'll have EU support, but EU's economy probably isn't gonna be in great shape either. And you can't buy babies.

Ericsson did it, so can't be that much against EU law. Though maybe they can sneak around it by being huge and multinational?

I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.

Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.

Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?

6 days a year is quite a bit, but also the frequency at which it comes up in conversation is not really relevant to whether people want/don't want?

Of course they're free to not join, but I struggle to understand how McDonalds can be the cheapest alternative? I don't think it is at all here in Sweden at least, not even close.

Not necessarily if you run workloads within the datacenter? Surely that's not that rare, even if they're mostly for hosting web services.

Personally I really don't care which, though it would be nice if there was some kind of consistency throughout Europe and not having e.g. France and Germany in one time zone but Netherlands or Belgium in another.

If I was dictator I think it seems reasonable to draw lines west and east of Germany, maybe Poland can be included in Germany's zone too.

A wild idea would be to have the lines cross through countries so they're actually "correct" and the EU is seen as a whole entity rather than just individual countries, but that's probably quite impossible/impractical. Beautiful in a way though, surely a man can dream.

Switzerland because it blows every other European country out of the water in terms of salaries. One consideration would be if you're planning to have a kid they have shitty parental leave in comparisson.

Everyone wants this and it's taking decades....