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by mrmanner 3y ago
The government has an obligation to deliver services according to its laws and agreements it has entered. The current view of the courts seems to be that there’s no law clearly defining an obligation for the state so provide postal services
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by mrmanner 3y ago
I think the notion of a “public utility” in the sense of “common carrier” may be more important in common law than in the Nordic tradition. If Postnord had been a government agency, results may have been different. But, and this is importan
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by mrmanner 3y ago
I think the courts agree with you: There are two cases, one against the government agency registering vehicles and this one against Postnord, a company co-owned by the governments of Denmark and Sweden. Both cases are still pending, but: In
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by mrmanner 3y ago
> Can it be exercised for other postal customers for other purposes than their workers striking, e.g. for support of certain political beliefs? No - this is limited to labour market conflicts. The Swedish state (courts included) tries no
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by mrmanner 3y ago
I totally agree that these things should be available and financially viable. Getting that in order should be the political conflict in one of the richest countries on earth. Allowing dangerous people on the road to avoid fixing emergency c
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by mrmanner 3y ago
We _do_ accept some false positives in the legal system, but the relevant comparison here is not fair vs wrong executions. The relevant comparison would be wrong executions vs lives potentially saved because of the fair executions that are
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Why should people have to drive desperately to the hospital in an age where intensive care ambulances and helicopters exist?
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Indeed. My first thought when I read this article's description of the law was "where's the _switch_?". Not literally a switch of course, but there's not even a figurative switch IMO. It's a something else.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
> This attitude is inspired by the desire to sell more, and often times, it means to sell more unwanted crap, where customers are trapped by the "package deal", where they are either forced to update to gain useless features an
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Or something related to personal romantic relationships between them
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by mrmanner 3y ago
_Openly_ gay people, possibly. Within an economy you could make the opposite point - openly gay people are underrepresented in the economic and political elites.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Web of trust could work fine here. Have I met them? Check. Has someone I know and trust met them? Check. Has the government met them? Half check. Has the google met them? Quarter check.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
My objection is that OpenAI, at least to my knowledge, still is a non-profit organization that is not part of the government and has some kind of public benefit goals - that sounds like an NGO to me. Thus appointing “NGO types” to the boar
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by mrmanner 3y ago
> this is why you don't bring NGO types into your board OpenAI is an NGO…?
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Who pays to let people know there’s a referendum they should vote in?
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by mrmanner 3y ago
> after having donated substantial amounts of cash to their campaign ensuring their hold on power This is the main problem, and there is a solution. If campaigns are financed by enough public money, donations have less power and can be r
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Sounds like a 19th century robber baron
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by mrmanner 3y ago
They’re not being blocked from work - the article clearly states that work is conducted in Tesla workshops. Other workers refuse to work on Tesla-related assignments, that’s freedom in action.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Some countries legislate minimum wages. Now that’s some market manipulation. Strong unions working together are a small price to pay to keep the government from interfering.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
I don’t get the current hype around text (or voice) interfaces. This problem, for example, is much better solved by a calendar interface where everyone including the club can share availability. If I could choose I’d much rather book by se
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by mrmanner 3y ago
> SUVs usually have great visibility because of large windows. SUVs provide drivers great overview of traffic, visibility of other cars, and long-range visibility. This is good. However their height severely limits the visibility of peop
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Can royalties put on mineral extraction on public land be considered taxes in this regard, though? If the same minerals were found on privately owned land, the land owner would ask for a piece of the proceeds to allow mining.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
Ah, i may have misread. I thought you asked why only the employee side were allowed cartels, which is not the case.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
SAAB didn’t die, they just didn’t care about making a profit selling cars. Fighter jets are much, much, much more profitable.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
I don’t know about Europe at a whole, but there are examples of unions also employing step 1). Like, announce a strike and then beat up or even murder people working anyway. Also many unions did what business owners had done for centuries a
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by mrmanner 3y ago
On the labour market they are allowed. Unions typically negotiate with employer’s organizations with most businesses as members. Also, labour conflicts are adjudicated in a special court made up by representatives from unions and employer o
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by mrmanner 3y ago
The truckers are likely unionized though
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by mrmanner 3y ago
The alternative to this “mob rule” is government mandated minimum wage. And, ehm, I mean, have you seen what the government will do to get their way? They stop businesses and harass people, and then some.
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by mrmanner 3y ago
That’s Norway, don’t involve the rest of us
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by mrmanner 3y ago
> and not have to defend it The commission has to defend their suggestions or they won't make it through council and parliament. And if an individual commissioner is only delivering suggestions that get voted down, they're not

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