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by realityking 2y ago
> For instance if the UK had remained and the EU had then announced all the opt-outs were voided, that would have been a major change but well within the remit of what was possible in a Remain scenario (without the threat of leaving what
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by realityking 2y ago
> It would make a lot of sense to go back to a smaller more integrated union with the countries which want it and leave the ones which only want the single market be part of a less integrated union. That option does exist, albeit in a bi
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by realityking 2y ago
Of course these get revisited (e.g. here[0] for your example) but in the case of parking spots there‘s a sizable pro-car lobby. 0: https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.landesbauordnung-b...
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by realityking 2y ago
It’s surprisingly common for SIMs in IoT devices to not be locked down. If the data usage spikes enough above the noise it’ll probably be detected & deactivated. Here’s an example from a few years ago: https://scootertalk.org
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by realityking 2y ago
There‘s also some work to be able to indicate these rules via an HTML attribute but the work is a bit stalled. https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/safari-allows-to... https://github.com/whatwg&#
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by realityking 2y ago
Or, in the absence of any signage, it'd just be "right before left". Relatively common in the outskirts of cities where there isn't one road that has significantly more traffic than the other one.
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by realityking 2y ago
Interesting. But why store the somewhat unwieldy wafer instead the packaged chip? I’d imagine that doesn’t add much cost but makes storage significantly simpler.
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by realityking 2y ago
> All tax treaties and agreements between countries (including intra-EU) are bilateral country to country agreements. That is completely wrong on multiple levels. - You’re likely thinking of the double taxation treaties that follow the O
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by realityking 2y ago
At least VW and BMW have certainly received state aid in the past, mostly around opening new factories, but I can’t find anything where they got specific aid during Covid. Of course they were able to use support that’s open to all companies
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by realityking 2y ago
I don’t think Deutsche Bank has ever received direct state aid, they’re quite proud of that fact. Though they have benefitted indirectly when institutions that owed Deutsche Bank money received state aid. Lufthansa did receive state aid dur
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by realityking 2y ago
DisplayPort has the audio channel but AFAIK has no _return_ channel. Which is not needed in the typical computer setup but quite useful in a TV + soundbar or AVR setup.
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by realityking 2y ago
AFAIK the major problem are the detonators potentially triggering as they decompose.
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by realityking 2y ago
Fair point, I‘ve been considering todays standard of one year off for each child. That said, at least in Germany, you can‘t get to 8 years with 2 children as the maximum time for parental leave is capped at 36 months per child.
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by realityking 2y ago
> If the mother has multiple children, it’s not really practical for a company to hold their spot open for like 8 years and I don’t think this happens even in the most progressive of European countries. Almost no one in Europe has 8 chil
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by realityking 2y ago
> in the wireless-display-sharing ecosystem the chromecast is unique in that, when possible, it streams content from the original provider on a local client rather than relying on mirroring your device's display. AirPlay has the sam
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by realityking 2y ago
Is Tech only Software? If so, Apple and Nvidia won‘t qualify. They‘re more of a hardware company. BTW Bosch‘s main business is automotive supplies. They‘re doing everything down to having their own fabs for automotive chips. It‘s just compl
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by realityking 2y ago
> There is an issue with that perspective though. The Europeans sell out. Ok. Maybe they are bad at valuation and don't realise that their companies are worth more than they are being paid for. Or maybe an EU company can't capt
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by realityking 2y ago
Berlin’s economy is unique for a major capital. Berlin is one of the weaker states economically in Germany. Mostly an effect of the division when most major industry left towards a place where the Soviet Army is not 5 minutes away and the c
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by realityking 2y ago
This goes both ways. While the US is certainly open to having scientific payloads launched by non-US launch providers (e.g, JWT) it’s strictly not launching military payloads from non-US spaceport or from non-US vehicles. Given this stance,
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by realityking 2y ago
> The government buys from the lowest bidder To my knowledge, in the case of NASA’s launch contracts, only US companies are allowed to bid on these. It’s quite understandable that Europe would like to keep domestic capabilities the same
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by realityking 2y ago
Doesn’t a Surface fit that requirement?
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by realityking 3y ago
The European Commission (which is the institution in question here) has a staff of about 32000 people. Other institutions (parliament, the courts, independent bodies) have their own staff. And while heavily concentrated in Brussels, they’re
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by realityking 3y ago
While cloud computing services is one of the categories where a gatekeeper can be designated, none were. Presumably none met the threshold requirements. If neither AWS, nor Azure, nor Google Cloud could reach that level, Cloudflare is gonna
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by realityking 3y ago
Germany and France, both NATO members, did bot participate in the Iraq war. Also NATO itself did not as there was no consensus among the members to be involved. In Afghanistan there was the necessary consensus (and Article 5 was invoked) so
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Apple Safari 17.4 beta includes VP8/VP9 and WebM support on iOS and iPadOS(developer.apple.com)
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ToS are a contracted. You can specify a legal venue as part of a contract (though that’s not always enforceable, especially in B2C relationships). However in this case, Universal sued them without being a customer (or, if they are a custome
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by realityking 3y ago
> Can German chancellors appoint anyone they like as ministers, or do they have to appoint someone who has been elected to the Bundestag? They can appoint anyone to ver the age of 18 with German citizenship. It‘s common that several mini
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by realityking 3y ago
The European Parliament does get an outright veto or rather the opposite, without explicit approval from the EP commissioners can‘t be appointed. The catch, they can only approve (or not approve) them as a group. Usually the parliament will
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by realityking 3y ago
I don‘t think those two statements are at odds at all. Consider that the Jan 6th insurrections were trying to keep the then current president, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, in power. That‘s about as far from a citizen‘s only r
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by realityking 3y ago
This is how German HSR works, large part of the track are shared between freight and passenger trains with only some limited exceptions. They are however actively removing crossings and generally everything HSR is electrified.

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