Atropos

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by Atropos 12y ago
Unfortunately the law does not work in this direction: It is perfectly fine under EU law if Spain treats its own companies worse than Non-Spain EU companies. Lacking a cross-border element, the EU freedoms (Freedom of services/establis
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by Atropos 12y ago
You need to realize that the EU is not federal in the sense like the USA - the EU and its member states have a much more complicated relationship. The EU is a supranational entity and the EU Commission is the executive body of the EU alone.
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by Atropos 13y ago
That may be the official US/UK media narrative, but it is nonsense to anyone who looks at the underlying data. Do you realize that a restructuring of Greece debt has already happened with Greece private creditors incurring around 53.5%
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by Atropos 13y ago
I really don't get the amount of hate and derision the European Union is always getting from US commentators. Culturally and geographically, for example Finland and Greece do not have much in common - yet Finland is willing to help the
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by Atropos 13y ago
With regards to attracting international students, the effect of English being the language of academia cannot be overstated. If you compare Germany with countries like France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan or South-Korea, I would rather doub
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by Atropos 13y ago
There is one German company offering a solution ( https://www.sofort.com/eng-DE/ ), but as far as I know, it's still unclear if their users don't break their own banks' ToS-
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by Atropos 13y ago
Going public involves giving up a lot more control, since private investments of qualified investors are basically a freely negotiable contract, while offering shares to the public is legally standardized. For example, once public there is
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by Atropos 13y ago
You are either horribly misinformed or simply trolling. The reason MAXIMUM roaming charges are set by Brussels is that the competition in the telecommunications market EU wide is not working. The main reason for that is a particular market
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by Atropos 13y ago
I would estimate that it would be pretty much impossible for the average internet user to find child pornography or videos of murder/rape etc. But I find it is hard to estimate if the reason for that is targeted government action, or it is
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by Atropos 13y ago
Pretty weird. On the one hand, there clearly went some effort into this. On the other hand, they are not represented by counsel (p.36), which makes the likelihood of the case being thrown out for procedural reasons regardless of the merits
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by Atropos 13y ago
I don't believe you can "train" to require less sleep, the people for whom it is possible are probably neurophysiologically different. Your example would contradict it, but I think you made it up, some statements will sound strange to anyon
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by Atropos 14y ago
It already is, at least IP lawyers should be aquainted with the term, even some scholarly articles at ssrn.com use it. But it probably wouldn't be a prominent term in judgements, because it is too broad and doesn't describe "what the troll
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by Atropos 14y ago
Yeah it is incredibly easy to short Bitcoin by trusting an unregulated, anonymous website without exposing yourself to any counterparty risk... There just isn't any real way to short Bitcoin, because if your investment thesis is true and co
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by Atropos 14y ago
"The real reason" for the current price hike is most likely http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin meaning we are back in a super high interest in bitcoin phase. Maybe because that is because the world just realized the "currency
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by Atropos 14y ago
The whole "Cyprus people are getting into Bitcoin" narrative is a total lie as well. But I guess Bitcoin is a great learning opportunity for spotting Scams etc., as long as people don't lose too much money, it might even be beneficial.
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by Atropos 14y ago
You do realize that I quoted numbers for the last 10 years? Since the Eurocrisis started, the Euro has losses of around 6-10% against the other major currencies, so your deflationary argument isn't really sound. All I wanted to say is that
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by Atropos 14y ago
What exactly is your point? If we see market prices as reasonably efficient, the current Euro price shows that the typical "Stupid Eurocrats idiotic mismanagement of the flawed Euro project will lead to European collapse in 2 weeks" simply
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by Atropos 14y ago
Smug US/UK commentators have now been shouting for 3+ years about how incredibly stupid the EU is, how the Euro will break up in two weeks... But why is the Euro up 16% against the USD and 23.3% against the UK pound over the last 10 years?
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by Atropos 14y ago
Your question is actually examined in history research. Generally there is something of a ,,forgetting curve'' for historical events, after which they leave the general societal awareness. (Of course estimations are hard, but around 50 year
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by Atropos 14y ago
In my 5 years of University in Germany, probably 95% of my courses had at least 300 students and there are exactly 2 professors who know me as more than "the random person who just raised his hand". Simply recording the lecture with a camer
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by Atropos 14y ago
I'm not from the US, I have neither in depth knowledge who Yglesias or this magazine is. From his wikipedia profile it seems he studied philosophy and never worked in finance - which is exactly what I would have suspected... I'm not saying
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by Atropos 14y ago
He doesn't seem to know what he is talking about. This "If your profit is not healthy, people sell your shares and then you get bought out by a private equity firm" There are P/E ratios between "massively overvalued" and "massively underval
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by Atropos 14y ago
Well it depends what their target market was. If you are going for "traditional newspaper readers", betting that tablets will replace paper over the long term, then I can't imagine stuff like "single click" to matter. I for one don't think
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by Atropos 14y ago
I'm not a programmer so maybe I'm way off, but I don't really see how -in the context of newspapers- the right to sell a native app on the appstore can be worth 30%, while a HTML5 version would be "free". And I also can't see how only targe
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by Atropos 14y ago
Do you have a source for this? I have never heard this and I very much doubt it is true. If you look at the "Paying Taxes Report" from the world bank + PWC, the UK has a yearly time to comply of 110 hours - versus 175 hours USA, 207 hours G
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by Atropos 14y ago
But using Linux was not a decision of the IT department - it was a political decision by the city council and the mayor. If they decide to give a subsidy to Linux to promote local software development, that is perfectly within their mandate
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by Atropos 14y ago
Even apart from the rape allegations, I have lost all respect for him because of this "hiding in the embassy" thing. He can't go to Sweden because he "might" be extradited to the US? Even if he is extradited, he still has access to the US j
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by Atropos 14y ago
As a non-technical person with just a basic ability to program I would still agree with you - basic programming is only "hard" in the sense that the grammar of languages like French or German is "hard" - maybe the better word would be tedio
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by Atropos 14y ago
Don't count out the Euro just yet! From Wikipedia reserve currencies: - 1999: USD 71.0%, Eur 17.9% - 2012: USD 62.2%, Eur 25.0% Sure the next 5-10 years might be worse for the Euro, but for things like a global reserve currency one sh
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by Atropos 14y ago
While I agree with the opinion of the article, the content is quite superficial. Some things that arent mentioned could have a much bigger impact in the long run than some school programming project in Estonia: - The European Venture Capita

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