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mrtksn
3mo ago
If you want to be pedantic you can choose to be pedantic about the fact that the text literally does not require a camera. If we can pass that, then let's stick with the reality and understand that processing the light that shines on C
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mrtksn
3mo ago
There are no camera requirements and if cameras are used they are prohibited from using them for the stuff the article implies because the privacy is protected by GDPR. Remember how US corporations really hate EU regulations? Yes that'
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mrtksn
3mo ago
That's not slippery slope, no cameras are required. The whole outrage is based on bullshit ragebait.
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mrtksn
3mo ago
Nope, that's not what we call slippery slope. This system does not require data recording or sharing, does not require cameras.
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mrtksn
3mo ago
It BS article, no cameras pointed at your face are required. They require "Advanced Driver Distraction Warning System", don't specify how it should be implemented. Here's the text describing the system: https:/&#x
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mrtksn
3mo ago
I don't know who told you that but maybe it wasn't the EU?
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mrtksn
3mo ago
Nope, the laws require Advanced Driver Distraction Warning System and does not require cameras aimed at your face. Also, cameras are receivers. Nothing happens when cameras are aimed at your face, it is only significant when you are interes
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mrtksn
3mo ago
The headline is wrong. The article and the headline seems to be written in a way to cause outrage by giving the impression that the EU requires cameras which should be recording your face all the time and storing/sending it to authorit
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mrtksn
3mo ago
Sweden is a success story by European standards but meh by US standards. > If I'm a Swedish resident, and I want to sell to Danes, then in no way is it easier for me to start a US company (?!) then sell to Denmark from outside the
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3mo ago
> a risk that could eventually cool down if the general situation stops being this critical Exactly, EU must guarantee that there's no going back even if the next US president is likable, cooperative politician and not this thing th
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3mo ago
Seden is a success story, just as Estonia but instead doing that and god knows what complications it creates across EU borders you can just create a company for pretty cheap in US and be clear on the situation across all the EU since US is
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mrtksn
3mo ago
There isn't going to be "EU tech" as long as US can access the EU market as freely because for the mainstream anything it doesn't make sense to have a duplication effort for the EU. USA is/was easier to start busine
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mrtksn
3mo ago
The issue with this kind of subsidy is that it is designed to lock you in and not as a loss leader. In other words, it is not like giving free nuts at bar to make you drink more beer but more like Nestle giving baby formula so that the babi
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mrtksn
3mo ago
There’s no middle ground, just that the serial killers and the people who insist that all human life is sacred are both destructive assuming that the sacred lifers take it to the extreme(i.e. try to force all resources and politics into sav
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mrtksn
3mo ago
I don’t know about moderation but optimization is the mother of all evil. All extremists are actually optimization agents. Let one run for too long and you greatly loose on everything. So I don’t think that we should meet a middle ground ne
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mrtksn
3mo ago
Does the websites get some flag or clue that this is an AI bot interacting?
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mrtksn
3mo ago
This must be relevant due to the air conditioning meme about Europe. Anyway, sometimes I just like to turn of the AC and enjoy the +30C summer heat at low humidity however I can’t stand +24C when it’s humid. It’s not just the temperature.
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mrtksn
3mo ago
So in other words it as Idi Amin of Uganda said: There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech :) Just because you eventually go free after your life gets ruined by the government doesn't really make you bette
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3mo ago
There are court in Turkey to protect you too, you stay anywhere from 30 days to 8 months in prison and then the court says you exercised your free speech rights. Similar stuff in US, people in control destroy your life and career then you a
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mrtksn
3mo ago
> Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Virginia Guiffre. Medea Benjamin. Your free speech examples are telling enough. You should check out what happened to them.
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mrtksn
3mo ago
That's my point, US bans free speech through property ownership. Just because you banned speech through property ownership rights doesn't mean you have not banned it. Free speech is non-existent on US platforms and in US it is tuc
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3mo ago
> Parking and speeding tickets should have income brackets, at least AFAIK in some countries this exist but my case is more capitalist oriented. Rich people obviously can pay more since they keep accumulating wealth. It is an obvious sub
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3mo ago
And yet for some reason all the algorithmic pricing targets the laborers, when apps hunt for whales they target teenagers. Ridiculous. There is a need for proper pricing for the rich, i.e. Elon can pay a million dollars per meal. Someone is
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3mo ago
I even have to be polite to you despite your attitude, if you were in Europe as well that would have been optional :)
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3mo ago
Of course they can talk about Gaza, its just that they may face the wrath of the US government in form of funding cuts like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/trump-admini... TBF USA i
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3mo ago
Europeans are able to talk whatever they like about Gaza, WTF? Go Google Greta Thunberg, go research for the Gaza flotillas, go find the polls on the issue if you want sources. What you can't do is to demand killing of the Jewish peopl
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mrtksn
3mo ago
US civil rights movement? Seriously? Different times different people. In the latest free speech crusade a rich guy just changed the kind of speech is allowed on his platform. Online speech is heavily restricted on US platforms, as account
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mrtksn
3mo ago
I got the impression that free speech in the US is limited to right to annoy people and harass politicians from distance. Seems to be more restricted than Europe actually since access is tied to private property and its culturally acceptabl
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4mo ago
Apple is amazing company and has amazing abilities, it's just that it doesn't have its own production ability and its %60 dependent on non-US consumer base. It will have to start producing its own products at %60 reduced market in
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mrtksn
4mo ago
Not true, less than half of Apple’s revenue is from US, %42 last year. Europe is %26, China %16.
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