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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
There is certainly corruption in the use of EU funds within the programmes but do you have evidence of actual corruption in the institutions in recent years? The only cases I'm aware of were all in the parliament, which is unsurprising
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Honestly a quite funny post. You offer strong emotion wrapped in a story lending supposed crédence but give no single fact of what this abhorrent thing is that the European commission is doing. You read one (extremely technical and niche) r
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
While this is amazing, I wonder if there is any modern print book series or magazine series that comes close. I'd love to share this with my kids, but digital format is not ideal. Any suggestions (in EN but also any other major Europea
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
The EU doesn't have a patriot act; the whole body of decades of EU legislation on tech is still less intrusive than that one single act the US has in place and continues to use extensively. Not to mention that US agencies have a long h
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
This is standard acces to document request protocol across Europe. You are not going to make your staff targets of the internet mob (see Trump and the names of jurors). You can deduce these were likely actually low level staff (contrary to
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Sorry this is not quality journalism and you misunderstood the message further. 1. The meeting tool place after the commission made it's proposal, meaning that contrary to the way the article sets it up, the meeting couldn't have
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
As someone old enough to remember: one of the main reasons Google won was that the other engines (shedding here a tear for Lycos) simply couldnt handle the increasing amount of web spam. They were built in a trusted web environment, but sud
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
There's some element of survivor's bias here. You only see the items that survived long enough and draw a conclusion on all the products they had then. Also the price/income ratio for any such item might have been quite diffe
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I bought an OKI colour laser printer. More an enterprise model and definitely overscaled for my use but the market of colour laser printers is rather narrow and Oki seemed the best value/price ratio. Quality is good and the thing can p
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
That seems to be an unrelated discussion. There is no discussion whatsoever that bicycles would be taxed in Belgium. Bicycles have been in use for more than a hundred years at this point and no one suggests taxing them. There is a clear cut
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
It might be that you turned off playing DRM materials
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I don't understand this kind of critique. 2% on pure hosting cost. The horror! And they spend things on salaries, like web admins, accountants, lawyers to defend against all the different legal threats the face, people to handle takedo
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Starbucks is rather bad coffee though, without all the syrups you will notice it more. Honestly I have a bean to cup (Krups, previously also had DeLonghi) and prefer to take a small thermos along for decent lukewarm coffee all day rather th
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Is there really such a thing as to non-decide? This seems to me a pretty impossible study to do.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Interesting but I guess the key here is that they sprayed something stretched with water. I'm not an essential oils person but I'd guess a pure oil would kill all bacteria. So I'd suggest better not to buy sprays, rather buy
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
That's exactly what the EU is doing - right now putting in place the "CBAM" (carbon border adjustment mechanism)
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
They at seems rather useless. It is based on a small number of countries' data, apparently missing for instance Russia and Mongolia.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Not to be a downer but this is not the first time there are rather unqualified opinions from this blog presented as factual/scientific writing. The starting point is a theory looking for evidence. This is the wrong way around.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Many countries have similar veto powers for their courts. The exact reasoning of course is different. But no one elected official working for the court in israel. There is an important difference between a court able to block something an
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Your post suggests ethnic russians are the only ones that matter. There are no trustworthy numbers since Russia annexed Crimea but before that - meaning less than 10 years ago - ethnic russians were just a minority. There are also Ukrainian
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Africa is not a state but a huge continent with many countries and diverse situations.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Wow, Llama2 actually gives sources if you ask where information stems from. > what's the best about a Brahma chicken? > Brahma chickens are known for their friendly and docile nature, making them a popular choice for backyard c
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Yes, but the Commission takes decision as a body of 27, not by individual Commissioners. What he might say and what the commission puts forward is different . Not to mention that the commission in all important matters only makes proposals
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
There is a difference in knowledge that a fire department Vs a company producing the material have. First, it's a choice to include these in the product. Second, it's a choice whether to appropriately inform fire departments on ho
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Proving a counterfactual (what would have happened without gdpr) is rather difficult to impossible. I would argue 1. Morally, are we encouraging tech to go in a more human direction? Definitely. 2. Operationally, is gdpr working well? I hav
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
But every other browser is worse...
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I acknowledge your position but it is very blind to the real impact global warming is already having. Yes, we , meaning the decently off in rich countries, will adapt. In other places this is much more difficult - see Bangladesh, Pakistan,
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Google gets EU antitrust charges on ad tech business(politico.eu)
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
There was never a consensus for or against lockdowns. Cant speak for the US and it's utterly broken media landscape but in Europe experts were asking for this from day one. It is also a known tool of any epidemic/pandemic manageme
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
You are confusing branding with product description. Thunderbird can call itself 'a better programme' but not 'a better outlook'. There is also no "meat envy". But you might like a dish called 'chicken tik

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