arlort

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by arlort 2y ago
> I have never seen a way to do this proposed that doesn't have horrific side effects There's some sort of fetishism of systems and technology on the internet and especially in technical forums like HN where people have this id
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by arlort 2y ago
The Council is as much part of the EU institution and as legitimate a part of them as the Parliament There's no avatar of the EU manifesting out of thin air in brussels so it makes sense for the EU as a whole to bear the blame for the
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by arlort 2y ago
Only the commission But commission and council aren't acting in a void (parliament neither), if there's appetite for a legislation amongst national governments the commission will work on a proposal The same works to a lesser exte
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by arlort 2y ago
This doesn't really fall across conservative / progressive lines, and those lines are already pretty blurred in the EP We'll see how it goes but it's hard to say what the result will be purely based on the elections resu
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by arlort 2y ago
this specific proposal had the benefit of already having had votes on it, so you could've probably found the parties' voting records there. But yeah, there's a broader issue with how european politics is approached since it i
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by arlort 2y ago
I guarantee you the number of people who voted in the EU elections thinking of this is negligible And also the council has its own legitimacy which is not dependent on the EU elections, if the EP voted on this as a lame duck you'd have
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by arlort 2y ago
Not really The member states are as much a part of the EU as the parliament is. It's disingenuous to say that this is not the EU, of course it's also disingenuous to say that the EU is a monolith who wants this at all levels, but
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by arlort 2y ago
Technically the commission came first, after this vote it'll go to parliament and then if there's a need for mediation the commission will be involved together with parliament and council
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by arlort 2y ago
> the constitution states that no law can be enforced that is contrary to the ECHR Yes, but the decision of what is contrary to the ECHR is made by the ECHR and they always give pretty ample margins to member states. The ECHR is supposed
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by arlort 2y ago
Beggars and the homeless have always existed in any relatively large settlement. I'm fairly sure that if you got transported back to ancient mesopotamia you'd find homeless people
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by arlort 2y ago
The EU charter of fundamental rights does not apply to national law And the echr gives a lot of leeway to national laws
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by arlort 2y ago
> An issue that didn't exist in the past doesn't need to exist in the future Do you genuinely think homelessness is something of a new phenomenon?
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by arlort 2y ago
> makes everyone worse off no matter where it gets built No? It's not like the vagrants will disappear if you don't build an housing lot. They'll just exist not in your backyard and continue to be an overall issue. That&#x
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by arlort 2y ago
Saying that human nature in the absence of societal pressures is the true human nature is questionable We are social animals, taking us out of an environment where we're part of and accountable to a community is our true nature is like
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by arlort 2y ago
> paid for by inflation rather than taxes How does inflation pay for services and infrastructure?
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by arlort 2y ago
The same features of pio can be implemented via FPGA, but it's a lot more complicated to do so, and probably you won't find FPGAs as cheap as on the pi
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by arlort 2y ago
Flowers + greenhouses is still barely 1.5%
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by arlort 2y ago
Plenty of great use cases have already been pointed out, but what I also love is that sometimes I get carried away and use the close window keybind on the wrong terminal, with tmux set to create a new session when the terminal is launched (
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by arlort 2y ago
> Dear HN'ers; what can we actually do about this instead of preaching to the choir? Lobby and get involved in national/EU politics. You can start by voting next week
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by arlort 2y ago
Interesting, TIL, thanks
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by arlort 2y ago
> ICC can issue secret warrants Do you have a source for that? This doesn't make sense to me since it relies on more than a hundred different countries to enforce them, it'd be impossible to keep anything they do a secret
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by arlort 2y ago
No. In fact the entire thing that makes Chinese surveillance so bad is that they don't need an ID to identify you
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by arlort 2y ago
Presumably they can but it won't prove their legal status in the US, assuming the local government even recognises it as a legal form if ID
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by arlort 3y ago
If you never did look up videos of competitive geoguessr pros (yes, that's a thing)
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by arlort 3y ago
> cases the Supreme Court grants cert A better metric is the percentage of all cases. SCOTUS granting cert already indicates there's significant willingness to overturn more often than not
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by arlort 3y ago
Judges are supposed to be impartial but they're still just human. Moreover even when they are perfectly impartial (and the US is more lucky than they appreciate in how professional their federal judiciary is, particularly compared to t
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by arlort 3y ago
Another three very neat ones are - https://github.com/eza-community/eza (ls with some added visual sugar) - https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom (htop but with graphs) - https://githu
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by arlort 3y ago
You buy 6 or 8 bags or groceries every day?
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by arlort 3y ago
Either I missed the part where the article mentioned the policy in paris being unconstitutional or that equivalence is overly-exaggerated at best
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by arlort 3y ago
They're saying it's done as an electoral bribe so that the people who benefit from this policy will vote for the party who did it

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