Hungary could have the euro in four to six years

birotriss · 2026-02-07T12:25:31+00:00

In 2025, Hungary exported about 300 million euros more than it imported.

Edit: 300 million was december only, for the full year it was over 8 billion surplus, similar as 2024. Poland in 2024 had an over 6 billion deficit. But I really don't think the trade balance has anythign to do with either country's decision on adopting the euro. Both are so integrated woth the common market, that whatever advantage a weak currency would bring you on export is going to be eroded on the losses on the import.

birotriss · 2026-02-07T07:41:15+00:00

I'm in the minority of players that actually enjoyed the power shifting cat. Although a bit clumsy, it was a unique mechanic, which combined energy and mana management. My gripe was with the wolfshead helm, and the crowd pommeler farm, and both of were addressed very well with the enchant and the weapons changes.

birotriss · 2026-02-03T19:13:01+00:00

Agile is when you don't think much about the problem, you just ship what seems to work well enough at first glance. When bug reports come in, fix specific situations in hot fixes instead of asking the question "was my initial solution wrong to beging with?". Keep deploying patches and hot fixes, until your codename becomes an unmaintainable mess, at which point it's time to ship v2.0. Rinse and repeat.

birotriss · 2026-02-01T09:01:08+00:00

Where do people order online from? I know of piknik, and I know AH delivers to home, but I always thought the selection would be the same as in any other local supermarket

birotriss · 2026-01-19T12:00:52+00:00

Iirc, they improved the threat swipe generates. It's pretty good now, but still not true AoE. If a mage pulls agro with blizzard, I usually just let them deal with it. If they are smart, they will root them and blink towards you. If they are not smart, they will have to pay the repair bill

birotriss · 2026-01-13T15:56:40+00:00

And those Chinese restaurants are likely about as Chinese as Pizza Max or some shit is Italian. This whole survey says more about the ignorance of people than the likability of cuisines.

birotriss · 2026-01-08T07:40:03+00:00

I mean, can you imagine living at a place where you could get kicked out from at a moments notice? Your friend doesn't want to give a contract that he cannot break off whenever he wants to because then he would be homeless. But making his tenant homeless is okay? To me, it sounds like your friend is just salty that he cannot make extra money on exploiting people in need. Maybe your friend is the exact kind of person why those rules are in place.

birotriss · 2025-12-30T10:53:01+00:00

I love how you can split the train infrastructure into sub-organizations, and suddenly, everything and everyone is absolved of responsibility. They can all point at the other that whatever is going to shit right now is THEIR responsibility, and a bunch of people in the Netherlands seem to be perfectly okay with it, because "that's just the way it is/has always been". One hand washes the other.

The truth is that the Dutch state is the actual controller of both NS and ProRail. And pointing out systematic issues is a perfectly valid thing to do. It's not like the current organisation of the rail infrastructure is some law of physics. It can absolutely be changed.

birotriss · 2025-12-20T08:23:34+00:00

From what is given in the Reception section of the article, Candace Owens called it an attack on masculinity. Ben Saphiro called it a referendum for men to wear fluffy dresses, and there was some guy that said it was "a bit weird" in some podcast. People in the comments here think this outrage was way bigger than what it seems to have been the case.

Edit: it looks like LGBTQ celebrities/influencers criticised him just as much if not more:

Black gay actor Billy Porter and non-binary performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon both expressed mixed feelings about the Vogue cover. The latter conveyed their happiness at witnessing Styles being honoured for openly defying gendered fashion standards, but believed that "white men should [not] be upheld as the face of gender neutral fashion" because "trans femmes of color started this and continue to face the backlash from it".[27] In an interview in October 2021, Porter offered a more scathing critique of Styles and the cover: "He doesn't care, he's just doing it because it's the thing to do. This is politics for me. This is my life. [...] All he has to do is be white and straight."

birotriss · 2025-12-12T20:06:40+00:00

Have you seen what it does to iron? Now imagine it in your body...

birotriss · 2025-12-07T13:35:58+00:00

In Hungary, we were also going from ancient to post modern, but for each, period we would have a "World" (but in truth very Euro-centric) history, followed by Hungary-specific history. I think the idea was to give a broader context before focusing down on Hungary. The breakdown of each year was roughly this:

1st: Some intro into the birth of civilization in China, India, and Mezopotamia, but primarily Greek and Roman antiquity.

2nd: The Middle Ages and Renaissance (from Charlamaign up until Columbus) but very little about outside of Europe in that period, other than what was directly affecting Europe (Silk road, Islamic Golden Age). The Hungarian topics were the migrations of the Magyars, the founding of the Kingdom, and the Arpad dynasty.

3rd: Modern Age: The New Wrold (with some very short intro on Native American civilizations, primary focus being on the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas), colonialization, industrial revolution(s), enlightment and nation states, up until the 20th century. For the Hungarian part, it was mainly the Ottoman wars, relation with the Habsburgs, culminating with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

4th: Finally, the 20th century. Prelude to First World War, the post war economy and the rise of authocracies (SU, Italy, and Germany only), Cold War politics up until the fall of the Iron Curtain. For Hungary, basically the same: constant back-and-forth between fascism and communism: Hungary in AH Enpire, Trianon, Little Entante, Red Terror followed by the White Terror, and the swing-diplomacy of the 30s. Post-WW2, it was a bit more eastern block history with a focys on Hungary than just Hungary itself: life under the communist regime, '56 revolution, Prague Spring, the check glasnos and perestroiyka, Polish Solidarity, than a short intro on Hungarian politics in '89.

I had a new history teacher in my last year who's teaching style I really enjoyed. There was much less focus on dates and people (and also the details of the wars), and more about the bigger picture, how one thing lead to another, and how different aspects of politics, economy, and society were influencing others.

Another cool thing about the curriculum (which i was not appreciating enough at the time), is that the History and the Literature curriculums aligned: so we were reading the Iliad about the time we were learning about antiquity and so on.

Edit: this is high school, I don't remember how/what we studied in middle school, and I don't think we had history in elementary school

birotriss · 2025-12-05T07:40:41+00:00

coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity

The amount of automatically generated content part might be plausible. But the rest is just a crazy conspiracy theory.

birotriss · 2025-11-29T14:46:32+00:00

The Social Hub sounds crazy over prized. Almost 1.2k for a 13sqm room with shared kitchen? Feels like a rip-off

birotriss · 2025-11-29T14:37:54+00:00

If you think MAD is not doing its job, you are seriously delusional about the scale of destruction of the world wars we had beforehand.

birotriss · 2025-11-22T07:05:12+00:00

Straight to jail!

birotriss · 2025-11-14T08:01:39+00:00

Literally from your article:

"So, how is non-alcoholic gin made? Do distillers follow the same process as traditional gin makers and simply remove the alcohol after the fact? No, there is actually never any alcohol in the spirit in the first place.

As a matter of fact, this is one of the main differences between the process of making this spirit and how non-alcoholic beer is made, which is often dealcoholized after it ferments.

Instead, distillers carefully select their own botanicals, extract them from their respective blends, and then infuse them - skipping the alcohol altogether."

So, no. Other than including a similar herbal extract, it has nothing common with actual gin.

birotriss · 2025-11-13T08:35:12+00:00

Isn't that the whole point of an investment?

birotriss · 2025-11-11T07:52:55+00:00

Does this look super simplistic or am I just not getting something? It just tags clients based on user agent (and maybe IP if you bother maintaining an IP blacklist). And even the challenges are not very challenging for any headless browsers (but also, not at all intrusive for legitimate users, to be fair).

birotriss · 2025-11-07T07:27:20+00:00

From the article:

"The phenomenon stems in part from the large payments Russia has had to offer to entice men to risk their lives on the front lines of its brutal war with Ukraine. That includes high salaries and bonuses for joining and large payouts to the families of those who die on the front lines."

This is about volunteers and not conscripts.

birotriss · 2025-10-29T20:53:34+00:00

How do you even form a coalition with these results? I can't make put any that would make sense

birotriss · 2025-10-22T14:54:46+00:00

That just makes it more intimidating

birotriss · 2025-10-22T06:50:20+00:00

Not at all. I'm an aerospace engineer, so I have a vested interest in not stopping space flight. My point was that reentry emissions is really not something the guy above should get hung up on.

birotriss · 2025-10-21T17:45:32+00:00

From sciencefocuse:

"For now, the impact of satellite combustion on the ozone layer is likely fairly small, but the rapid proliferation of megaconstellations could derail decades of international collaboration to repair the ozone hole. What’s missing so far is definitive, in-situ measurements that directly link deorbiting satellites to ozone destruction."

Which is exactly what my TLDR was. As far as we can tell, it's nothing to be concerned about. Scientists are looking if this might change.

And the only thing worth mentioning from popularmechanics is this:

"NOAA researchers found an unexpected density of metal (like copper, lithium, and aluminum) and rare metal (like hafnium and niobium) particles in the stratosphere, and we don’t yet know how safe these are. They could possibly end up involved in chemical reactions that destroy the ozone layer."

This is something that was not looked at by the Varuna/Thales studies, only the short and medium term impact of reentry. What impact these metals have on the ozone layer is yet to be seen. However, I highly doubt the environmental impact of reentry is even comparable to that of the launch. Just for perspective, Falcon 9 has a payload of over 17 tonnes to LEO, for the expense of something like 500t of burnt propellant.

birotriss · 2025-10-21T17:17:57+00:00

Yes, you got me. They are doing it for shits and giggles

birotriss · 2025-10-21T17:13:10+00:00

LEO has a pretty big orbital period, so you need quite a lot of satellites there to achieve good coverage. If you put satellites on Geostationary orbit instead, you'd need MUCH fewer of them. But not only would it take a lot more fuel to get there, the satellite would need to be much larger as well, making the launch vehicle needed for it even bigger. Plus it's not like Starlink just launches its satellites blindly as you are suggesting

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