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by tfourb 1y ago
Depends on your definition of "fair" and if you value that fairness more than social solidarity. I personally do not think it is "fair" that your basic human dignity in retirement statistically depends to a large extend
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This is not what happens. European public pension systems are mostly based on a solidarity system in which current wage earners pay for the pensions of current pensioners. This system has its problems, mostly demographics with fewer young p
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„Higher pay for U.S. executives is another draw. Peter Jackson, the chief executive of Flutter, which owns the betting platform FanDuel, nearly tripled his compensation after the gambling company moved its main stock listing to New York las
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I guess you live in a place with perfect weather year round? I don’t and I haven’t seen a robo taxi my entire life. I do have access to a Tesla though and it’s current self-driving capabilities are not even close to anything I would call „a
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Tesla‘s insistence on not using Lidar while other companies deem it necessary for save auto-pilot creates the need for Tesla to demonstrate that their approach is equally as save for both drivers and ie pedestrians. They haven’t done that,
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Starving a civilian population as a means to compel a peace deal is a crime against humanity and has been recognized as immoral almost universally throughout much of human history. Not to mention that Israel’s government probably could have
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We are talking about a status quo scenario, in which CO2 emissions are continuing unabated along current levels or falling only very slowly. This will result in an increase of average global temperatures of +3°C [0]. It will literally make
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by tfourb 1y ago
Why? Because I used the term "percentage points" incorrectly? Or do you have an issue with the facts? Those are: In 1976, global average temperature was 0.15 degrees C above the 1861-1890 mean. 50 years later, in 2024 it was 1.54
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Which is why I wrote "for the sake of the argument". You can of course make your own assumptions, but for my money, 10% is not necessarily unrealistic. The average global temperature is already rising by several percentage points
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Maybe read the second part of this analysis? https://ourworldindata.org/part-two-how-many-people-die-from... Cold deaths will decrease in high-latitude countries (which tend to be sparsely inhabited) but heat deaths will in
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It all depends ob your assumptions, i.e. the actual effects of climate change on extreme weather events, the capacity of various polities to adapt to these effects and how you would define "climate change related deaths" and the t
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Europe now has hundreds of excess deaths from heat and hundreds of excess deaths from flooding due to events exacerbated or caused entirely by climate change most years. Africa likely already experiences tens of thousands of climate change
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This is an incredibly limited understanding of what "politics" entails and also seems to be primarily informed by the outcome of the US political system. Most politicians outside the narrow world of US national (or otherwise high-
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by tfourb 1y ago
Assisted dying is legal in several countries and while it is obviously a complex subject and needs well-crafted regulations to ward off some obvious moral pitfalls, it fulfills an important need and right for a society. If I, for whatever r
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by tfourb 1y ago
Sure, but the US or US-based businessmen are hardly the only actors lobbying and if you look at the trade balances of basically all African countries, Chinese interests are far more successful in exploiting African markets than US concerns.
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Having lived in several African countries and studied Sino-African relations I can say with certainty, that both Chinese and Africans couldn’t give less of a shit about what Bill Gates wants if there is a product that Chinese people want to
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I’m a “ruralite“ and I would certainly prefer wolves over human hunters in certain conditions. I would also advocate for expanding these conditions to wherever possible in Europe. Kindly stop presuming that you can speak for other people yo
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All of this has been resolved already. In Germany, as in many other E.U. countries, you have a "right to your own likeness" that covers all of your likenesses, no matter what age. This right is restricted for people of public in
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by tfourb 1y ago
The proposed legislation is specific to deepfakes, i.e. artificially generated images of real persons. For actual photographs of real persons Denmark and many other E.U. countries already have a broad system of legislation that governs your
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E.U. lawmakers (including those in the individual nation states like Denmark) and judges generally can get quite nasty if they want to. Just look at Apple (a U.S. company and the richest one at that) getting systematically bent of a barrel
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I guess philosophically speaking, it is pretty rare for an individual to develop a written "voice"/style distinct enough to warrant this kind of protection. Not least because only very few people would ever be able to mistake
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They don't, really. At least in Germany, the "right to one's likeness" already exists as an explicit law but entirely separate from copyright and trademark law, which is what governs brand likeness. What Denmark is propo
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by tfourb 1y ago
Probably worth noting that "fair use" is a concept based in US law and jurisprudence. The law in many EU jurisdictions works quite differently.
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Under German law you need a “ladungsfähige” address, which a rented address is explicitly not. You need to be physically present at that address as a person.
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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features(theguardian.com)
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Couldn't the developer simply run a version check when the app starts and throw up a popup with the link to the app store to update the app? Sure, it will introduce some friction, but maybe it's worth it for some developers to pay
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At least under German law, if you offer services or products for purchase, you need to provide an address where you can be physically reached. For self-employed entrepreneurs the only address that will fulfill that criterium is your private
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>I'll probably just have to bite the bullet and form an LLC with a rented address and phone number once I get ready to release a paid app, which unfortunately just increases my costs even more for what is most likely to remain just
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The entire argument for private gun ownership to guard against tyranny is that it is effective and more so than other approaches. If private gun ownership is not more effective against tyranny than other approaches, why accept its conside
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>and the safe speed for those conditions is consistently higher than the posted limit. A cursory look at traffic safety statistics would seem to dispute this statement. The US consistently ranks quite high in traffic fatalities, which se

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