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by tpm 4mo ago
I'm probably missing something but your last sentence doesn't seem to agree with the rest of the post. If it's just paperwork then surely nothing bad happens not following it (mostly because it's just not possible to imm
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by tpm 4mo ago
or even since 2002 when it started as Phoenix https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
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by tpm 4mo ago
Treaty law just doesn't work with 'common sense and social conventions' any more than compilers that won't compile your 'common sense and social conventions' text. You have to say exactly what you want, nothing
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by tpm 4mo ago
If there are no valid studies, you can't say Britain didn't suffer any economic damage from leaving the EU, because you can't possibly know that.
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by tpm 4mo ago
So no treaty was broken? Why did you write "Sure it did" when you know it wasn't? > They actually can pick and choose and both have done so successfully. They didn't. What happened was that some parts of some treaty w
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by tpm 4mo ago
only there are several studies like this: "These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%" https://www.nber.org/papers/w34459
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by tpm 4mo ago
What EU-Switzerland agreement was broken by the EU by this action of Spain? And please do be exact which one and how. Otherwise stop telling lies. > Nothing stops European countries being reasonable and looking for ways to work with each
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by tpm 4mo ago
Pretty sure I've already used it 20 years ago. Yeah it's not specific to communism, one just needs to look at the sudden changes the US admin is implementing to see it's broadly applicable, only they don't even pretend t
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by tpm 4mo ago
> My point is that it's never really possible to provide a detailed plan for a complete changing of the social order. That's correct, but if the communist avantguarde says (as they did) "we have to completely change the so
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by tpm 4mo ago
The EU didn't break any agreement. > the Swiss are to be the recipient of some draconian action "we'll show them" It's quite clear that the EU-Swiss agreements were negotiated as a whole and one side just can&#x2
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by tpm 4mo ago
Xenophobia is on the rise across the board with the rising unequality and an alliance between extreme-right elements of the society and the wealthy class that wants to use them to destroy democratic institutions and take over the power. Rat
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by tpm 4mo ago
There are plenty of such places and as the population in many countries gets older there will be more even with available housing etc; the only issue is relatively lower pay.
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by tpm 4mo ago
> There was a major campaign the last decade from many pro-capital and libertarian thinkers to label Adorno and other philosophers as the root cause of many people grievances. I feel it's still ongoing, the reactionary elements are
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by tpm 4mo ago
It's not about telling other people how they should feel, it's about managing your own emotions as an unpaid maintainer of a somewhat public good facing unreasonably entitled members of public (often not even users of your product
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by tpm 4mo ago
> Selling a toaster has an implicit warranty of merchantability. Why would you think this is worth mentioning here? Instead of explaining, just try to do something, that people actually use, for free, in the open, for some time. It doesn
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by tpm 4mo ago
> Cost of a great apartment by 1920 standards is affordable to anyone before they are 30, the problem is that they want to add lots of nice but non-essential things to that house driving the price up. This statement is not true in locati
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by tpm 4mo ago
Good for you. I've tried a few during the last 30 years and once Web UIs started being usable (after gmail), I use them if possible.
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by tpm 4mo ago
Every desktop mail client is bad in its own way. And then I have to set it up on all computers I use. Web UI just works.
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by tpm 4mo ago
The EU did nothing like that - it's quite simply a lie you are proclaiming here, and once again, the EU only does what the member states agree upon. China was for decades an important export market so chinese imports were accepted as a
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by tpm 4mo ago
If you are entitled enough then they are to blame they didn't fix everything at once, but in that case you really should be paying for their product and support. Otherwise fixing security issues has high enough priority to accept there
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by tpm 4mo ago
> My argument is that the government lets certain companies get away with large scale law violations your argument is besides the topic of foreign companies violating the law and the member states doing nothing about it.
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by tpm 4mo ago
or they are not to blame because they accepted the possibility of a regression when fixing 6 CVEs
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by tpm 5mo ago
That's a failure of the state to control its borders. > it would cost a ton of money That's why the EU is imposing a €3 fixed customs duty per item (and later another €2 handling fee) effective July 1 (should have been much soo
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by tpm 5mo ago
> So no, the EU commission was stopping member states from doing this. No it wasn't. I wrote 'prosecuting', that is a term from criminal law, and that still is in the agenda of the member states. If Temu is breaking law, w
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by tpm 5mo ago
Because the GDPR enforcement is left to privacy agencies in the members states. The DSA is enforced at the EU level, so that might actually work.
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by tpm 5mo ago
What logistic company will ship plain unmarked packages? They simply wouldn't be delivered at all. > Is the EU customs peeps just going to start inspecting every single package from China looking for items from Temu? They might, why
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by tpm 5mo ago
There are still borders and customs inspections, that's how.
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by tpm 5mo ago
Nobody was ever stopping individual member states from prosecuting Temu - they just don't do it because I don't know why, it's too much work? So finally after decades (because this is a decades-long issue with Aliexpress etc)
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by tpm 5mo ago
> Most people could not complete a 3-6hr bike ride without weeks of training and my guess is most people on hacker news probably live fairly sedentary lives. I do live a fairly sedentary life too. The point of aerobic exercise such as c
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by tpm 5mo ago
There is nothing extreme about doing a 100km ride from time to time, I don't even have the body of an athlete. That bit about training the guts was an aside and clearly marked as such. I don't do it. 'sugar bad' is a cle

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