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by arlort 4y ago
Not sure how you'd define a metric for "better outcome" to be honest
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They aren't because it's the whole idea behind the separation of the executive from the legislative power.
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> I wouldn't exactly call them for known being a tech nation And? > So why does USA fail at this? Because, and I'm going from memory here, should be Schrems I or Schrems II if you want to dig deeper, in the view of the ECJ (
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> non-EU The problem isn't non EU services, it's the US CLOUD act Other countries have legal systems which are considered as offering equivalent protection: > The European Commission has so far recognised Andorra, Argentina,
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I think it might be because Fahrenheit is the one unit in the US customary system which is not particularly arbitrary compared to the metric equivalent and it actually has some advantages in day to day use since it maps pretty well to human
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> and is obviously better suited for scientific purposes Celsius and Fahrenheit are equally arbitrary / bad for scientific purposes, Kelvin is the only scale that makes sense since it's zeroed at absolute zero. Celsius is only
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IIRC fines by EU agencies go into the EU budget reducing the member states contributions for the next year
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> Preunification Italy was under the rule of various northern European countries and was heavily influenced by their standards of record keeping The only part of italy under rule of northern european countries was the northeastern portio
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One of the partner universities in the original project was the University of Tartu in Estonia
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Hence the "shady" part
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_... If you search for "three main cumulative criteria" you find the three criteria (tldr: turnover in EEA >7.5B€ or capitalisation
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by arlort 4y ago
Because laws need to be justiceable Overly general laws are prone to either evasion or arbitrary and unjust enforcement
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tbf Senate would be a better name for the Council of the EU, reducing by a good half the confusion when talking about "Council" in european politics
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Council support (for the general targets/scope) is almost guaranteed before a commission proposal sees the light of day, it might get amended and / or clash with parliament amendments but the fact a proposal has been made is a goo
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You can't, not in a perfectly verifiable way At some point app A needs to know how to decrypt messages received on app B and/or vice-versa Nicely designed apps will do so on your device, shady apps will do so on servers, as a cons
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I don't think other countries are lying But eurostat depends on data being provided by national statistics agencies, so it wouldn't really show
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> If authoritarian governments want to take away cash If an authoritarian government is taking away cash they've already passed the step at which making/importing this kind of object is illegal And if you can import this kind o
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They're also creating a packaging center in Italy https://gamingnews.cyou/here-is-intels-plan-for-europe-a-pac... And an R&D center in France https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en&#
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For that kind of power draw I think the proposal doesn't mandate anything anyway
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IIRC it doesn't even exclude funny cables as long as the option remains to use an USB-C cable too So if you really want I believe you could issue a double port Clunky for smartphones maybe, but should be trivial for larger devices
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> they own huge parts of the country And they would keep owning them if they were made to abdicate
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I don't think the two are equivalent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems#By_cul... For the last 2000 years it seems no major civilization used base 12 or 60, almost everyone has been using base
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Unfortunately we do not count in base 12 so whatever benefit comes from more fractions being rational is greatly offset by the disadvantage of having to multiply/divide by 12 in base 10 > measurements and ratios, based on vernacular
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It was a yes/no The relevant parts of Article 17 TEU (link below) are: > the European Council, acting by a qualified majority, shall propose to the European Parliament a candidate for President of the Commission > This candidate
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He meant there have been changes without a general election. And it wasn't a comment on the UK being a presidential system but (likely) rather a comment on my second point in the comment above, that point being that in Italy we're
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There have been, but it's quite rare and not something they spend a whole lot of time thinking about > Council (assuming you are referring to the council of the EU) I was actually referring to the European Council, since it's t
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> Every member state can veto every EU commission proposal This is just false But the commission can't do much without the agreement of parliament and the member states as a collective (even though member states can be outvoted by o
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I'm also italian Turns out our system, while based on the same basic principles evolved in a very different way from the UK/Germany etc For the UK the main difference is that most of their governments are majority governments, due
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This is complicated by the threshold required for censure being 2/3 instead of simple majority However the real problem is political capital, if parliament wanted to they could just refuse to adopt any law or budget etc unless X member
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It enters into caretaker mode after the election of the parliament, so how long it stays might vary depending on how long it takes for the council and parliament to elect them. But the term is tied to that of the EP For instance this last c

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