happy_tentacles

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by happy_tentacles 5y ago
You are absolutely right, that the European Parliament (EP), does not write legislation alone. Though the "nothing will happen" is at best pessimistic outlook, at worst obfuscates the relationship dynamics in between the European
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by happy_tentacles 5y ago
Your problem: - you are a part of a self organising body, - the body pays to all staff a daily allowance based on presence and attendance, - on work days everybody signs in, - majority of you agree that there must be some accountability, -
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by happy_tentacles 6y ago
Brings to mind a dark dystopian corner where this could take us - as imagined by Stanislaw Lem in his 1971 "The Futurological Congress" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress It is a short a
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by happy_tentacles 6y ago
Based my first hand account - there are very timid attempts to open source some libraries - mostly used in between the EU institutions. Code given as a zip, no access to a repo. There is plenty of anxieties around the subject still, so work
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by happy_tentacles 7y ago
Portuguese are following a path of decriminalisation, which in a legal sense if a long shot away from the legalisation that the state of Luxembourg has just announced... Production and sale are still criminalised in Portugal, and possession
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
Truth be told, the press release is somewhat misleading. European Parliament is calling on European Commission to take a closer look at own Directive from 2001 (3 years before the countries in question joined the club). The European Parliam
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
Sad faith - get super bloated, kill all the live in vicinity, then shrink to a shadow of former self for the remainder of the life time of the universe. NO, supernova would be so much more spectacular. At least it might give a standard cand
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
Tax unification - would in fact start with Fiscal Harmonisation.. That is to say - tax rates can be different, but the underlying calculations how to calculate income and expenses would be harmonised across the Member States of EU. We are g
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
Agreed - the title is bombastic fluff, however, some interesting points are made. Though the strongest one just paraphrases of the opening paragraph of the EC press release ( http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-29
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
Yeap, in case of Tasmanian Devils you are right. I made a a large swooping statement and had this in mind -> http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n1/full/nn.3594.html When I read it the first
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
While it is a feel good story - that's also a remarkable reminder of how little do we know. Sure, we most likely have few full instances of Tasmanian Devil's DNA (accounting for reading errors that is). This just tells me how far
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
The two arguments presented - to keep a legal path for a higher priority routing - during late 2015 Trilogue Negotiations that framed the directive the way it is: Driverless cars Medical applications (remote operations rooms were mentioned)
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by happy_tentacles 10y ago
That's a very interesting point you are making. Would seem true if one establishes that any off-the-personal-baseline analysis by a human-wetware cost more, the further off the analysed position is. Your idea would to be to sneak in no