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Fraterkestoday at 2:13 PM1 replyview on HN

I do mostly enjoy all this moving to European tech because the thing being replaced is usually owned by Microsoft.

I do kind of worry though: there's a broad trend of countries trying to become less reliant on eachother, and in my mind the long period of peace we've had in much of the west this past half century has partly been because we're all in business together.


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cjs_actoday at 2:25 PM

They said that the First World War was impossible due to increasing trade dependencies between the European powers, and look how that turned out. ‘This is a terrible idea,’ is sadly not the deterrent to starting a war that it ought to be.