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There is no actual legal proposal at all to introduce mandatory screening (yet, anyway). In my opinion, such legislation would be unlikely to pass EU parliament. It is more likely that the current temporary rules allowing voluntary screenin
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For the record, the feedback period on the EU charging port directive proposal is still open until tomorrow: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... I quickly glanced at a couple of th
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"Pre-auth" works the same way for VISA/MC debit and VISA/MC credit. The amount is (temporarily) deducted from my available balance when I use a debit card, just like it is deducted from the credit limit when I use a cred
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I also used to tick that preference when a choice was provided, but have stopped doing so after encountering too many cases of text/plain versions being broken one way or another. Not that common, but still too much of a hassle. Some
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The actual joint statement linked to in the article ( https://slovenian-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/media/x3rjw... ) does not mention mandatory screening. It is a more high-level declaration about working against chil
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> PDF from ISO [1] is €150, from EVS [2] €19 Note that to get a non-DRM PDF from EVS, you need to select a multi-user license which makes it €28 minimum (inc. tax). But the paper version is also €19 + shipping.
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If you are willing to read, here's the original decision PDF, including details about fine: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/cases/dec_docs/39...
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Do you believe Google benefited over $2.8B from showing its shopping comparison results above those of their competitors in the 13 affected EEA countries? I doubt it. The fining rules EC follows are intended to ensure the fines exceed the b
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Employment does not have to mean fixed or restricted work times.
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I don't think they ban you for chargebacks, similar to how they don't ban you for PayPal claims (which I've used several times), unless there is an unusual amount of them or other such circumstances. They just deduct it from
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It does not directly answer your question, but many (most?) merchant agreements in EU have significantly higher fees for accepting non-EU cards. E.g. Stripe takes 1.4% vs 2.9% for EU vs non-EU (card-present EMV transactions are typically mu
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PayPal's dispute window is considerably longer (180 days from transaction), though. Credit card chargebacks are also an option.
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Around here (Finland) there is a moderate amount of various cards in stock at the biggest computer retailers, the prices are just high: https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/catalog/706b/Naytonohjaimet/... (in
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EU has still not done it (yet, anyway). This is not an actual legislative proposal of any kind.
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See the Feedback section on the initiative ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... ) for various comments from various organizations/companies, pushing for various things. As far
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But the commission has not actually proposed it, has it?
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There is no actual concrete proposal at all yet, so this is very far from passing in my opinion. (I think this is the initiative: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa... ) The article i
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But the video is still usually rendered to an OpenGL surface, so there is interaction between them.
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EC opens in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of Arm by Nvidia(ec.europa.eu)
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Add /us to make it work (i.e. see the Pixel 6 models): https://store.google.com/us/category/phones
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> Phone switching feature—again, I'm surprised this is new for them. Being able to do it from iPhone, too, is a nice touch though. The feature itself is very old. I think they are implying that in previous versions it did not transf
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My guess is that it is because electronic customs info is now mandatory (e.g. US STOP Act), and the printed labels come from a system that can transmit this info. With handwritten labels the postal service at the shipping end would have to
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Back in March 2020 the Posti allowlist was 32 countries, the rest were suspended. The list was gradually expanded with more countries (with 64 allowed countries in Oct 2020), and the allowlist was replaced with a list of unreachable countri
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The article writer believes EU spec indicators are just horizontal (amber) lines so they would not have the issue. But presumably those would be too small for US rules so they lit additional segments, making the arrow, which is what the par
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Finland also has voter-decided party list order, but here you still vote for a single candidate - the party list gets ordered according to votes received by individual members. Seats are distributed to party lists according to their vote sh
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FWIW, Amazon.de switched back to the full detail emails in June this year.
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No. If you increase the speed of 24 fps video 4%, it becomes 25 fps. Frame count does not change, frames are just shorter.
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> But weren't they already using it in this case? No, Amazon never used Apple's payment system for books.
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> most DVDs were encoded 480p and 24 fps Only in NTSC regions. PAL region DVDs are generally 576p and 25 fps.
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Personally I don't believe the (non-)progress Amazon's plans have any relevance with whether their complaints about SpaceX are abusive. "Amazon files more complaints than SpaceX" is similarly irrelevant. I consider the c

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