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by rmc 10y ago
Dropbox is a US based company, is not bound by EU data protection law, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (basically the EU's Bill of Rights), and additionally the US Constitutional ban on warrentless searches does not apply t
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by rmc 10y ago
And if a EU company were to break the law and send personal data outside the EU, they'd be shut down in a heartbeat too.
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by rmc 10y ago
And money. Don't forget all that EU structural funds.
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by rmc 10y ago
EU is probably more democratic than the USA.
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by rmc 10y ago
Very few groups in N. Ireland are trying to set up their own N. Ireland state/government. People either want in with one country or the other.
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by rmc 10y ago
Banking. From nazi art & gold looted from europe, to the modern place to store your ill gotten money, it's amazing how rich you can get when you look the other way and help the crooks.
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by rmc 10y ago
Maybe the USA should join the EU. There already are federated states in the EU (Germany), so it wouldn't be too different. :P
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by rmc 10y ago
> I think most Europeans would be horrified of joining the United States. Why? Because there is not enough shared identity. Also there are many different laws. From US Freespeech uber alles which allows hate speech, to guns, to very lo
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by rmc 10y ago
Nominatim is actively developed, and in active use by many organisations to handle large load. It is reliable.
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by rmc 10y ago
> The advantage of OSM geocoding is that, unlikely Google Geocoder, there are no terms of service barring you from using the data on a non-Google product or for storing the data for your own use and analysis. Basically correct. However
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by rmc 10y ago
Geofabrik can set up a nominatim geocoding service on your own servers for a one off fee, if you don't want to do it yourself. http://www.geofabrik.de/services/server.html
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by rmc 10y ago
Geofabrik also provides OpenStreetMap based Nominatim geocoding as a service, and can set it up for you on your own machine if you want. http://www.geofabrik.de/services/server.html
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by rmc 10y ago
It quite funny how socialist American football is. :)
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by rmc 10y ago
One great thing about the EU law, is they are implying that "clicking the site" does not count as "unambiguous, informed consent".
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by rmc 10y ago
Each country will probably have their own highly religious areas. Many bible belts! For the UK just look at Northern Ireland.
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by rmc 10y ago
Printed paper ballots can remove ambiguity. Did the person spoil their vote, or did they really mean to vote for X, Y, Z?
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by rmc 10y ago
companies: if you don't want to do remote, then you have to pay more in salaries
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by rmc 10y ago
Eircodes were created that way so that people wouldn't have to change their address at all. Which could be a politically difficult thing. Politicians choose the thing that made their life easier and stopped complaints.
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by rmc 10y ago
Each what2words is supposed to correspond to a ~3 (or is it 9) by 3 metre square.
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by rmc 10y ago
One of the biggest problems with evoting machines is that the voter has no way to guarantee that the machine has correctly recorded their ballot.
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by rmc 10y ago
"a second to check a hash" is a long time, but that's 3,600 attempts per hour. With rate limiting you can bring that down to 10 attempts per hour.
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by rmc 10y ago
> And we all know Islam is a race, not a religion, so it deserves the same protections from discrimination. In Europe, "racism", in law, means discrimination to someone on the grounds of their race, ethnicity, national origin
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by rmc 10y ago
And yet, this article often refers to Google possibly taking down search results. The article also talks about individual people committing murder, something that's already a crime, rarely about state actions. If a lone murderer &
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by rmc 10y ago
Differences in free speech law geographically? France & Germany are a western countries, have a constitutional protection of free speech, and ban Holocaust denial. The USA is a western country, has a constitutional protection of free sp
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by rmc 10y ago
So Holocaust denial should be banned because it's harmful?
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by rmc 10y ago
> If you don't like Facebook's censorship policies, don't use Facebook. Why? Don't I have a right to free speech (on Facebook)? Should it be moral for the government to set up small, limited, "free speech zones
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by rmc 10y ago
EU data protection law doesn't require contracts.
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by rmc 10y ago
> Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater has been widely accepted as harmful speech and as such is not free. So if speech is harmful it can be banned? That's an interesting new exemption.
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by rmc 10y ago
Quite often this "free speech" argument is just a way to promote hatred and intolerance of Muslims.
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by rmc 10y ago
> Free expression is a staple of Western civilization And yet, so many Western countries disagree about what it actually means and have different laws. There's differences in places and time. Cinema and movies weren't covered

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