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> Authorities suspect that Huawei lobbyists have paid bribes to MEPs in return for backing their cause in the European Union.

Isn’t that the cost of doing business in the EU?

And sadly the US for now: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fcpa-anti-bribery-law-exe...

> that’s progress, not a problem.

Agreed. Most of us aren’t washing our clothes with a washboard, yet the washboard not long ago was a timesaver. Technology evolves.

Now, if AI rises up against the government and Cursor becomes outlawed, then maybe your leet coder skills will matter again.

But when a catastrophic solar storm takes out the grid, a washboard may be more useful, to give you something to occupy yourself with while the hard spaghetti of your dwindling food supply slowly absorbs tepid rainwater, and you wish that you’d actually moved to Siberia and learned to live off the land as you once considered while handling a frustrating bug in production that you could’ve solved with Claude.

> They were competently directing that money into their bank accounts.

And selling user data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209768