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by pergadad 8y ago
The EU is saving the UK money in many ways. All the costs of standardisation, trade negotiation, etc alone, of Britain needed to do all the processes itself, get the cost difference back. One of the first things UK did after the article 50
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by pergadad 8y ago
Better not spread such nonsense. The numbers shared in other places in this thread just don't show the whole picture. Switzerland benefits in many both financial and other ways from the partnership with the EU countries (from more tour
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by pergadad 8y ago
Romania is a net recipient, doesn't mean it's not also contributing.
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Mutual openness of public procurement to companies of the partner country are a key ingredient of any trade agreement.
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by pergadad 8y ago
This ignores that the calculation of this is really difficult. It's not 1 contract = 1 country, rather it's often consortia of dozens of institutions. One of these is coordinating and that will usually for various reasons be one b
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by pergadad 8y ago
The EU is a very open body. It allows partner countries such as Switzerland or Norway in a large number of its programmes (actually Switzerland is currently not participating in most due to the Swiss not allowing free travel for Croatians,
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by pergadad 8y ago
Hi, can you provide some further info on the funding call or even the project page on the EU research portal, if it's up yet? I'm very curious which call this was, especially unusual as you don't mention any consortium partne
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by pergadad 8y ago
It's disappointing they don't specify which funding call this was. This would give us an insight into what really is behind this. Having been deeply involved in EU funding I am 95% certain they are overstating the "checks&quo
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by pergadad 8y ago
As a total amateur I found your post a very helpful introduction. Thanks!
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by pergadad 8y ago
Maybe that reflects better what is the reality for most people in office jobs: some predictable with many unpredictable tasks, many possible distractions (email!) and the most manageable gain is simply by forcing short-term focus? Or also t
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by pergadad 8y ago
Can't edit, so just to add that public admin also has to be conservative. Seems like you were running a startup with a great new product. That means they have zero idea whether you'll still be around in a year's time! Really
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by pergadad 8y ago
For public sector it's inherently risky to buy software and even devices. They often lack the capacity to properly outline what they need, to understand what's possible, to know the real cost/price they'd need to offer t
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by pergadad 8y ago
Wouldn't the cloud act also apply to subsidiaries? It's be surprised if the giants can at the same time split (for the purposes of the cloud act) and stay one coherent entity with central steering.
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by pergadad 8y ago
Legal obligation on landlords in any developed country
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by pergadad 8y ago
For printers I've learned to look beyond the known brands. OKI seems to be focused on the professional market but has some very great value home printers. Big & clunky but can do a lot and look very solid.
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by pergadad 8y ago
I doubt that many people would make a connection between their search engine and seeing captchas on other sites. So limited gain for, if anything, many unnecessary complaints.
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by pergadad 8y ago
This seems just like either a ridiculous cry for attention, or else another philosopher that is lost in relativism. There are many good arguments for saying vegetarianism is ethically not strong enough (e.g. the amount of critters killed in
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by pergadad 8y ago
Seems like it, which is why they really shouldn't have renamed it.
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by pergadad 8y ago
Uhh are you so deep in your conspiracy theories that you missed the whole fox news complex? There's no left wing equivalent to that.
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by pergadad 8y ago
Clicking on "advertiser's" on the preferences page gives me a "no internet connection" error within the Facebook mobile web app. Don't get that anywhere else .
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by pergadad 8y ago
One more book I won't have time to read :-)
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by pergadad 8y ago
No matter what they intended/wanted to do, they signed a contract not to break it. Ain't nothing much to debate there.
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by pergadad 8y ago
The commenters here are missing a key point, namely that the big impact will not be the move of the agency itself, but all that is linked to it. At the basics are skilled and well paid jobs, local rent and contractors, travel and hotel cost
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by pergadad 8y ago
Cambridge is a city. There are many organisations calling themselves Cambridge (or Oxford for that matter), either because they are genuinely based there or because they hope to benefit from the association. Can't really trademark a ci
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by pergadad 8y ago
It's not the government. It's an independent agency that follows it's procedures correctly no matter whether it's a mom&pop shop or a global giant. McD caused the whole issue and then didn't bother submitting th
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by pergadad 8y ago
In the contrary, it shows that both big and small companies are treated equally. What would not have been enough for a less known company was also not enough for Mcdonald's, shcih simply didn't make the effort to submit outside ev
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by pergadad 8y ago
Here's a better link from a collective of European IP lawyers. The point is that McDonald's was assuming it would be treated differently than any smaller company, and also that the Big Mac trademark might have been too broad to be
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by pergadad 8y ago
Sorry the first sentence should read: That's the point. As the earth overall is heating up weather patterns...
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by pergadad 8y ago
That's the point. Weather patterns are changing, not everything shifting to one specific weather. Not everything is getting hotter. Eg Europe for now is getting warmer, but at least the west and north of Europe can actually expect more
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by pergadad 8y ago
Top comments all are trying to relativise the stuff Russia is doing, what a surprise - basic propaganda tactics. The things the Russian propaganda machine is spreading are just intense. Misinformation on repeat, with real life consequences.

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