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I'm guessing you're from the US and the parent poster is from the EU?
by floodle 4y ago
I'm guessing you're from the US and the parent poster is from the EU?
- seanw444 4y agoCorrect. I don't care which government is in question, though. None are worthy of my trust or data.
- tinco 4y agoI work for a company that does projects that are sometimes funded by the EU. I've never heard of the EU ever asking for something in return. You submit your project, the EU either decides to give you money, or not, and you do your project. Sometimes they check whether you've actually done what you said you'd do. No one in the EU has time to deal with the output of the billions of euro's they invest in random projects.
- gmfawcett 4y agoIt's not clear if you're trying to make us feel better (the EU doesn't care about this project's data) or worse (the EU has ineffective oversight over this project -- anything could be going on).
- Nimitz14 4y agoThat's not true. You clearly have no clue of the administrative side of things.
- tinco 4y agoAh thank you for enlightening us with your treasure trove of information.
- opdahl 4y agoIf its a small project they very rarely «check» that you have done what you have done. A lot of it is self reporting. The reporting of course takes a while and you have to describes for instance your results, which wouldn’t be too hard to fake but I assume very few do this.
- seanw444 4y agoThat's true, but there's: A. No way for me to verify nothing shady is in the investment deal, and B. The government may be able to turn around when the project gets big, and say "hey remember when we funded you? Yeah, now we have a say. We need you to do ___." I don't like using software or projects funded by things I disagree with. And the government is overwhelmingly so.