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12 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
“Oh, we should probably say that in Europe, maybe you can comment on this, especially in Eastern Europe, but Europe in general, piracy I think was more acceptable than it was in the United States.”
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- 12 Jul 2025
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…They did and they didn’t. They knew I had the phone lines. They knew I had the computer. I don’t think they really understood that I was trading pirated software that was both illegal and whatever else was going on. Oh, we should probably say that in Europe, maybe you can comment on this, especially in Eastern Europe, but Europe in general, piracy I think was more acceptable than it was in the United States. I don’t know, maybe it’s just my upbringing- Even that conversation wasn’t present. I never spoke to anyone growing up in Denmark-…
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