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by rmc 9y ago
> I don't really see if implementing what they have because it's already built in. Amsterdam, as city, is hundreds of years old. Bicycles weren't around then. They have had to put bike infrastructure in.
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by rmc 9y ago
> What law did they break, exactly? These aren't medical or financial records. I know this is USA, but FYI in the EU, all personal data is protected.
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by rmc 9y ago
FYI EU telecos have to cut you off if you spend more than €60 in a month in roaming fees, unless you explicitly opt out. Most people won't think of opting out, so it means their roaming costs are capped.
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by rmc 9y ago
> I guess the long-term plan is that that most telcos will end up merging into pan-european companies. The EU does have a goal of creating a Single Market.
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by rmc 9y ago
I am tempted to ask to see the company's open source contributions
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by rmc 9y ago
I don't think any union has come out after that?
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by rmc 9y ago
The funniest thing is that John Lewis/Waitrose is an upmarket supermarket.
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by rmc 9y ago
If a certain amount of workers agree they can form a workers council which is a legally protected union within the company. And they have much stronger legal rights, seats on the board of directors, legal requirements to see certain documen
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by rmc 9y ago
> Since Amazon said they're not renaming the stores, how can this be about Amazon's brick-and-mortar expansion? Sure they say that now ...
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by rmc 9y ago
It's all part of their incredible journey!
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by rmc 9y ago
In the 1880s Bismarck increased the modern welfare state (it was called State Socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Socialism_(Germany) ). The idea was that, if the poor people can get some form of social welfa
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by rmc 9y ago
> That is literally "he deserved it because he is not man enough". Or more obviously: "Look at him, he looks like a queer! Probably liked it and all. Probably led them on."
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by rmc 9y ago
Not really, there are plenty of words which don't have quite as strong a connection as "bender"
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by rmc 9y ago
> Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"? I'm Irish, not British, but the slangs are similar. "Bender" (on it's own) would mean a gay man. "on a bender"
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by rmc 9y ago
Are there any software products from British organisations called "Fag"?
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by rmc 9y ago
I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama. But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/. https://en.wiktionary.org/wik
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by rmc 9y ago
> - I also personally found that about 6 of us (team leads/seniors) ended up with much more pressure, and stress due to trying to force 8 hours of work into 6 hours of a day. Isn't the point to do less work per day?
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by rmc 9y ago
> is it very likely not to check your email at least just before you show up at work 6 weeks later? This very much depends on the country, and local employment expectations. There's the old joke comparing US and European "out
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by rmc 9y ago
> does anyone know why resignation letters are so popular in the first place? For important things, nothing beats a papertrail. Formal, written records of things can be very useful.
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by rmc 9y ago
> Europeans in general don't seem to have that same drive Americans do to create new products Maybe they don't want to work 70 hour weeks?
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by rmc 9y ago
It might be the correct legal strategy. But it's not a great PR strategy.
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by rmc 9y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and guess that Google has been recording internal things digitally for a while. It is a tech company. Sure, it might not be as easy as "just a SQL query". But if they can make cars which dri
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by rmc 9y ago
> The name suggests otherwise. Do not underestimate the power of someone to make a business selling the feeling that your not part of a business!
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by rmc 9y ago
The European Union has a similar. A European Citizens Initiative has been available since the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon. If 1 million EU citizens (~0.2% of the population) sign it, the European Commission must respond, maybe with legislation. I
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by rmc 9y ago
> where does NATO come from here? I have heard people say things like "Sweden has co-operated with NATO in [....]". Maybe Sweden does co-operate with NATO, but it's not a member and the UK is. The UK courts might seem wo
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by rmc 9y ago
No, one of the charges is that he started having sex with someone who was asleep.
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by rmc 9y ago
It's also very strange that, if he was really afraid of the US & NATO, he'd flee to the UK . Sweden is not in NATO, and the UK co-founded it. The UK and the US have a long standing "special relationship", with the U
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by rmc 9y ago
Whereas the UK has a history of colluding with terrorists to murder politically annoying human rights lawyers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Finucane ) and oppressing an ethnic minority (the whole of The Troubles
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by rmc 9y ago
In 1989 MI5 assisted loyalist paramilitaries in murdering Pat Finucane, human rights lawyer. Not exactly "kidnapped", but in many ways being shot 14 times, at point blank range, in front of your children at home, is pretty bad. h
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by rmc 9y ago
Or the UK secret service can do it. Wouldn't be the first time.

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