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by arrrg 10y ago
Do the people vote for ministers in member states? Commissioners are appointed and they are appointed because the governments they appoint them are so horny for power, they want to exactly pick the person they want. I want Commisiooners tha
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by arrrg 10y ago
That's just not the world we live in. Contradictory regulations exist in places with no unifying framework and create trade barriers. That's a reality and no wishing for market solutions can solve that. You are living in a fantasy
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by arrrg 10y ago
Do you really think it's possible to bully white people (as a function of their whiteness and in the UK)?! I have no doubt that you can bully people who happen to be white (I'm white and I was bullied), but that's not the sam
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by arrrg 10y ago
When country a calls for diameter x and country b for a different diameter y then you cannot sell your thing in both countries. The EU would then come and say that the actual rule is diameter z, problem solved. Your view on this is hopeless
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by arrrg 10y ago
This is a failure of media coverage and attention, not the EU. And the people who were representing them are, well, mostly still David Cameron. One of the sad things about the EU is that it could never completely shake this thing many supra
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by arrrg 10y ago
Which rules are you talking about? In terms of being a political union, the EU doesn’t even do that much. It does do some things, but those things tend to be overall small and also relatively uncontroversial. The bulk of the work the EU doe
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by arrrg 10y ago
The EU is not other people. The UK has always held large power in controlling the EU. Obviously in concert with others, but such is the nature of cooperation. This othering of the EU is really lazy. The EU was never some ominous foreign ent
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by arrrg 10y ago
Tarrifs, sure, but tariffs are the boring part. What about freedom of movement? What – most importantly – about unified regulation? Differing regulations create trade barriers and much of the work the EU did was unifying exactly those myria
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by arrrg 10y ago
(There is a setting in Settings that will turn off ringer volume changes with the buttons. That way you will always adjust the volume and never the ringer, no matter whether anything is playing or not. As such you can then adjust the volume
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Takes guts to do a rethink like that. I like a hungry and threatened Apple.
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I don’t think there is anything wrong with changing the schedule. Anything else would be quite dumb and probably just delusional. Perfectly predicting the future is not possible and if honest mistakes or simply unknowns lead to this then th
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Ahead of schedule based on an adjusted schedule during construction. They are slightly behind the originally planned schedule (a couple years). Obviously this is still a very well executed project overall.
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Yes, you can, together with everyone else, cooperatively.
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The four Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) all derive their names from lovers of Zeus in Greek mythology (who is Jupiter in Roman mythology). Zeus famously transformed himself into a bull and abducted Europa. Europe as a conti
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by arrrg 10y ago
I view this as a key task for societies: Insuring that quick changes due to technological progress (or any other quick changes that are hard for anyone and especially individuals to foresee and plan for, like natural disasters) don’t leave
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Apple has high margins and has been slowly but steadily (I think roughly during the last decade or so, maybe for longer) outgrowing the rest of the PC industry. They are very successful despite not selling the most units and not seeing expl
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Cool! I obviously didn't know that. So that use case is probably quite common in Japan (if the other factors line up, but I don't see why they wouldn't, frequently). In the US and Europe having your own, dedicated place to pu
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by arrrg 10y ago
But on the other hand electric cars can be charged at home … Depending on how many people have a place with a power outlet (ok, a garage) in close proximity to their car and depending on how many people frequently drive less than their rang
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by arrrg 10y ago
You could have residency requirements, not citizenship requirements. Maybe not doable in the US, but perfectly possible in countries where people are required to officially register the main place they live at, e.g. in Germany. That would m
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by arrrg 11y ago
I don’t think that matters here. What matters here is our perception and only our perception, since this whole discussion is only about perception and what humans do with that perception, not wavelengths.
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by arrrg 11y ago
SRS is awesome and exactly what’s needed.
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by arrrg 11y ago
You have a weird definition of “positive”. Where is that coming from? It’s a straw man.
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That reprinted edition is heavily annotated, with the text basically surrounded on three sides by annotations. There are more annotations than text … This means that it is perfectly innocent to buy the book in this form. None of your friend
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Effectively delegating tasks is a skill and I know it’s a skill because I suck at it.
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The fund … doesn’t? They just seem to be following new regulations, regulations that, apparently, aren’t even uncontroversial. The fund is not the Norwegian government, the Norwegian government is not the Norwegian parliament. This article
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by arrrg 11y ago
Pragmatism and realism is important. Some weirdo RAW format? Will probably suck to deal with. Already sucks to deal with. Don’t expect it to last long and maybe keep the JPGs around for your grandkids or rather grand-grand-grand-grandkids.
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by arrrg 11y ago
No one’s freedom is being taken away as of yet?
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I’ve read that the underlying assumption here is basically that since such insults potentially damage the relationship between Germany and the foreign state, Germany is an injured party and as such involved in the process. But it’s also jus
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by arrrg 11y ago
Eh … I think waiting until 2018 is a bit … hesitant and cowardly? Federal elections are in 2017, so basically she says that the next government will do it. (Ok, it’s extremely unlikely that this next government won’t include her at the helm
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I’m not sure whether that is actually true … Insults were always a crime in Germany. They are even more or less explicitly mentioned (“honor” is mentioned) as an exception in the freedom of speech article in the German constitution. (One in

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