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arlort
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Don't quote me on it but I don't think it was that important at the time the author is looking at
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They really should make the gram the official unit now that they moved away from the "block of platinum in a basement" model
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No, they can't on this. This procedure requires "only" QMV. That's not to say it'll definitely pass, but there's no veto https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system
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The "shoe on the other foot" expression implies that the two situations are the same, or at the very least comparable The situation in hungary is the government violating core principles that stand at the heart of the EU with beha
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Don't know how it's related to the project but I guess they'd want to use the satellites for the quantum key exchange
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All official releases only mention government use, I think the idea might be to use a government contract to help the industry develop know-how for private use later on
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Yeah, don't know why they posted Renew's page instead of the official press release but here they are: https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/adoption-europea... https://ec.europa.eu/commissio
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Tech is only tech if it runs on javascript
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That's only true when they are significantly more difficult to amend than the ordinary legislative procedure
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> Every Country in Europe has its own boze I'm fairly certain that any area where a large enough community has been living for long enough has its own booze
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There were issues with France due to them leaving and the way they chose to, but the issues with the Irish border were constraining the way they could leave (to some level) The UK could choose to leave and cut off all agreements concerning
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I'm curious if you could use the transcript + something like the title/subtitle of the talk with chatgpt to fix the spelling mistakes
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https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1470-2045(21)00279-5/full... > Globally, an estimated 741 300 (95% UI 558 500–951 200), or 4·1% (3·1–5·3), of all new cases of cancer in 2020 were attributable to alcohol cons
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Yeah, but that's not the "exit" part, that's life as a third country part By the way, it was the border with Ireland that created issues, not the one with France It was an admittedly "um actually"-adjacent comm
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> even fewer EU regulations apply than in Norway, for instance Automatically, but many if not most commercial regulations get incorporated, in this case the warranty legislation also dictates 2 years > than for something like Brexit I
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> really only using it to go after larger foreign tech companies The big notable cases are against large tech companies, but most of the fines and procedures involve local entities
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This proposal hasn't been made before (at least in the EU at the EU level) If you're thinking that you saw something like this last year and now again it's the same law. The EU legislative process is extremely slow (not that
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I think what's implied to be morbid isn't the fact that they haven't made them since, it's them making so many in the first place
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> Also no mention of changes in the orbit of the pair around the sun It would be worrying if there were as that's not what the test was supposed to achieve nor measure
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I'm genuinely curious and wanting to understand what makes you feel that way. Are you colorblind and the colors of the text are hard to read? They weren't very readable on light mode but I wouldn't call that political Is it t
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I (also westerner) would still like to see RISC-V succeed, doesn't mean ARM has to fail but open competition is likely to be good in the long term. An ISA won't let China become a leader in semiconductor unless they implement it b
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Yes, the Greek parliament can't vote to give itself other countries' money without their approval Not sure it could before joining the euro either though
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The counting must be coordinated, but doesn't have to be centralised. Though it always is so in practice You could have each precinct count the first round, communicate the result to a coordinator then wait till everyone finished to co
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> In general, the USB-C receptacle seems better designed for longevity. I swear every other comment on C vs Lightning has a completely different view on which is more robust than the previous
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In an ideal world I'd agree, but since one term is dramatically easier to misrepresent I still think the equivalent but more understandable term is better
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The whole world being a couple degrees hotter is not guaranteed to be equally distributed. The reason why Latvia, and most of "Northern" Europe is livable instead of a frozen wasteland is due to climate mechanisms that we're
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Twitter is definitely not big enough to be considered a gatekeeper
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IIRC that should be the method they use in the Expanse
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True, by the way do you have some sort of alert or just happened upon this thread? (Re: the topicality of your username)
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> even though that is a direct personal safety risk Is he worried about his haters getting a hold of anti-air weaponry or something?
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