Something changed and adjusting is slow

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The good news is the ocean is vast. You don't need to be on a Titanic.

Why not just ask Google AI or ChatGPT to help with choosing?

Politics should put it on the agenda. It would influence my vote

Marketing, like Volvo cars being safer etc

From all I can tell, Volvo's cars are safer.

But that's just because it's true.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct?

I would assume most Airbnbs have hidden cameras, but that's just a feeling

that would be bad for their reputation

The arguments that some put forward against the eu are as educated as the people declaring fiat money a scam back in the Bitcoin hype phase.

While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about.

> The arguments that some put forward against the eu are as educated as the people declaring fiat money a scam back in the Bitcoin hype phase. > > While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about.

Indeed! As I just learned in this comment, the EU is about to collapse and Iceland would be stupid to board an already sinking.

Makes me wonder where these commenters get their information about Europe/EU from, and whether these comments are a projection of either ignorant or ideologically motivated animosity towards the EU.

There are obscene amounts of money involved in financing anti-EU marketing. The European unity is a thorn in the eyes of Russia, the US and China. A (reasonably) united Europe is the fourth major player on the global scene. 27 individual states aren't influential by themselves and are much easier to be influenced.

This is the reality of this.

For larger countries is much easier to deal with Europe when it's a bunch of small countries butting heads with their neighbors.

Currently, the EU is in a de facto war with Russia, in a trade war with the USA and China, and previous colonies don't seem to care too much for the West either.

The USA would like to see nothing more than an explosive end to the EU and the Russians have been trying to kill any united front against their invasion plans for longer than the EU has been around.

Every major world power has the money and motive to spread misinformation about the EU. They're influencing extremist European parties to repeat their talking points so they can point at a source on the "inside" as well.

The more people think the EU is some kind of awful oppressive regime, the more power the other world powers will gain over Europeans.

Colonies would be more than happy right?

Why do you think you're not biased towards the EU? The EU's share of the global economy has fallen from something like 30% to around 13% (PPP). Not all that long ago they even had a larger economy than the US. They've already had the third largest economy within the EU leave, approved overthrowing the results of an election that would have viably set another [strategically critical] country on its way out, and now the EU's largest economy is having an anti-EU party gradually come to be the top party in the country.

Here's another interesting datum. In 2004, 3 of the top 5 economies in the world were part of the EU. [1] Today? 0. [2] So you have sharp decreases in global relevance paired with significant increases in internal issues and pressures. Perhaps you think the EU will overcome this, but to me at least - that's the view that doesn't align, at least not in an 'obvious' fashion, with the data.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

I imagine every time they see a cookie banner they feel a chunk of the EU crumbling.

> While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about.

Are we supposed to believe you know something about it? Would be helpful to have a different perspective from people who know better or claim to.

> The thing is I don’t see you asking that same question to the other Americans in the comment section here making stupid claims, with clearly zero clue on how the EU actually functions.

Well it’s just because I bumped into that comment first, really.

While I agree on the fact that sometimes comments aimed to the EU are overblown and inaccurate it’s also true that lazy answers like “people don’t know what they’re talking about” are not proving anything wrong

That is quite a textbook straw man argument.

Fiat money literally is a scam though after the gold standard was abandoned.

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/purchasing-power-of-th...

https://www.visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2016/6/1/us-inflat...

Why not give an example instead of expecting me to believe your assertion. You may be right or wrong; I have no idea.

I see a lot of questions here that can be googled or asked with AI chat. Good question, but I also think, why didn’t that person just find out themselves? It’s so easy..

I think I could have done that. Just like you and I could have received this news on Twitter or on Google News. Maybe Reddit? Or we could have asked an AI chat/agent, "Give me news for today." But here we are, aren't we?

And I learned an interesting tidbit from one of the commenters here.

This person isn't actually asking a question, they're performing ignorance as a protest to HN's U.S centricness.

I also think there must be more

please don't hide scrollbars :)

Yeah, that was the first one my eyes went to. The only scenarios I can think of where it is acceptable to hide scrollbars are infinite canvases where you’ll draw your own non-linear ones (and even then be disappointed because they can’t look or behave natively), and things like maps where you remap scrolling to zoom and might want to use a backing invisible scroll area for that rather than consuming scroll events (which are somewhat more limited).

In short: unless the native scroll bar will be wrong, do not under any circumstances hide it.

If you mean the "Hide scrollbars" note, I agree 100% (:

There are a few specific situations where it can be useful, but I added the caveat precisely because it’s generally not a good practice.

>There are a few specific situations where it can be useful

re scrollbars, Can you give an example?

An online game for example.

You wouldn't want to hide scrollbars though.

You'd want to make it so either:

a) There is nothing to scroll in the first place, so you don't need a scrollbar

b) Capture the pointer so all interaction only occurs within the game's area.

Sometimes things overflow and you don't want scrollbars popping in and out.

Sure. I was thinking of fairly narrow cases, not ordinary page scrolling:

- A swipe/drag carousel with visible arrows or dots, especially a looping carousel where the native scrollbar does not represent a meaningful start and end

- An accordion or expanding panel that animates to reveal all of its content. During the transition, its intermediate height may briefly produce a scrollbar (and a visual flash), even though the fully expanded state does not need one

- Highly visual or experimental interfaces where scrolling is communicated through another control, or where the scrollable area is decorative and scrolling is not required to access the content

Only time I've seen that work is when making a carousel. Once you're using scroll snap it's already not going to behave the way you'd expect a scrollable container to, so having a different indicator doesn't feel so egregious to me.