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by dsnr 6y ago
Impossible. New member applications must be unanimously approved by the member states, and there are countries in the EU that would never be part of the same political organization with Russia, nor allow russian politicians to influence eur
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A long and healthy life? Eat less (2020)(bbc.com)
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by dsnr 6y ago
What reasons are there to believe that someone who‘s in the middle of a lawsuit with their former employer will tell the truth? For what I know this „leak“ might be part of their strategy to win the lawsuit.
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by dsnr 6y ago
> why people care so much For the same reasons real-estate speculators care so much about real-estate. Bitcoin might be interesting from a tech perspective, but it makes zero sense as a financial instrument. My main problem with it is th
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by dsnr 6y ago
Whatever happened to interviews and CVs? Since when must employers do incursions into private lives of their prospective employees in order to sign off on a hire?
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by dsnr 6y ago
> The company said in a statement that its systems had automatically locked Mitchell out of the corporate network after "our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external
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by dsnr 6y ago
If it was just a news source it would have been fine, but it‘s not. The department that manages this tax alone has 900 employees. Then each of the two big channels has thousands of employees. How is that an efficiently run news source?
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by dsnr 6y ago
> A German explained to me once that the forced payment by non-watchers is justified as it benefits society as a whole. Do they really believe these things? This is the Kool-Aid you have to drink as a society, in order not to go crazy wh
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by dsnr 6y ago
Ok, just make sure you record anyone who says something that you do not agree with. You never know when you might need it.
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by dsnr 6y ago
When state surveillance is not enough and “involved” citizens start to roll out their own. Don’t forget to “cancel” everyone on that list and keep the society divided for as long as possible.
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by dsnr 6y ago
There are multiple reasons. You often don’t subscribe by credit card but by bank account (you authorize them to pull money from your account). This means you cannot cancel, only the company can cancel. If you want to cancel you must hire a
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by dsnr 6y ago
And god forbid you miss the cancellation deadline, you’re stuck with another year.
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by dsnr 6y ago
German companies have a reputation for not giving a shit about customers and customer support is virtually non-existent. For example you are quite often required to cancel your online subscriptions by letters sent by post 1-3 months in adva
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by dsnr 6y ago
Yeah, misunderstood that.
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by dsnr 6y ago
> many European companies don't pay well. Especially for engineers and developers. You have to take into account the fact that in Europe the state takes a big chunk of your gross salary (probably around 50%) in form of social contri
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by dsnr 6y ago
> Unfortunately, they aren't. Yet they are allowed to drive cars, fly planes, raise children, buy guns and vote but somehow cannot decide for themselves what’s good or bad, and need a higher moral entity like Facebook to babysit the
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by dsnr 6y ago
What about compelling a company to respect a citizen‘s rights? Do you find that fair? Companies are already compelled to do all sorts of things for the government or customers. In order to ban me from a platform you have to take (negative)
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by dsnr 6y ago
> Some people seem to think that freedom of speech is something that can be broadly forced upon private organizations, and that’s simply not true. Why not? Private companies must respect your rights, like your right not to be discriminat
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by dsnr 6y ago
Shady article about nothing from a shady author reeking of propaganda. > The billionaire wants to explain to us that what might look like the steady hoarding of wealth and a feudalistic imbalance of power Things like this really make me
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by dsnr 6y ago
Thanks, will have to make some time to do the switch, but at least I will sleep well at night knowing that Google doesn't own my life.
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by dsnr 6y ago
> I would prefer to use something else, thanks. What is the alternative to Gmail? Genuinely interested. I'd be willing to switch if I found a future-proof email solution for both personal and business usage.
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by dsnr 6y ago
I‘m guessing players like Medium work around the rules by allowing X number of free (as in not logged-in) views. So it works if you open the link in private mode. But search engines could have the bot retry requests to check the website‘s h
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by dsnr 6y ago
> one that doesn't hijack 50% of search results that are hidden behind a forced login Recently Medium started to do the same thing. Google should start penalizing such results.
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by dsnr 6y ago
Normally, they should be allowed to rectify the problems without getting a fine. But if you do that you don’t get the free money. It looks like the tech companies are just being treated as cash cows by governments.
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by dsnr 6y ago
That’s not true, you don’t have the right to return digital products at the moment (discs, software, video games etc). For warranties, there are a lot of problems consumers face that don’t get talked about, but I won’t get into detail here.
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by dsnr 6y ago
Right, I feel this is just a new source of income for governments. They seem to be too keen on handing out fines in those areas where it‘s simple to do so, but fail to act in other areas where the consumer is constantly being hurt e.g. righ
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by dsnr 6y ago
I would say the tax makes no sense. It‘s a reminiscence of some times that are long gone. People pay a tax for a bloated system and TV channels that mostly pensioners use. The quality of the programs is very low. Also, few people know that
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by dsnr 6y ago
“The basic income is claimed to produce a range of health and social benefits, but it is important to underscore that none of the income maintenance experiments, including Mincome, produced direct evidence of a causal relation between incom
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by dsnr 6y ago
The fact that there has been measured an increase in average IQ of the world population, doesn‘t mean that the differences between individuals don‘t exist. Look up some studies and you will see that there are huge differences in IQ, and int
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by dsnr 6y ago
> If you put a lot effort you can maybe move 1% in the scale of success. Let‘s put it this way: work hard and you might have a chance at becoming successful; don‘t work hard, and your chances of making it sharply plunge to zero (unless y

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