lock-the-spock

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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
Interesting is also the mistranslation of "Dame", a lady from a wealthy family, as 'princess'. This is a governor's wife, not a princess.
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
Such projects are EU funded but in fact implemented through national or regional programmes agreed by the regional authorities... So it's usually at that level that favouritism or corruption plays in.
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
Even the concrete and steel houses often start with wood framing of some sort and end with wood as a structural part of any ceilings and roofs. Not to mention stairs, room structures/interior walls, ...
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
Few buildings in Europe are today solely made from wood, but nearly every building will be part wood. From the frame on which walls and floors are built up with other materials up to the roof where for most houses the very structure is ma
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
I guess you miss the selling point(s) as you see the phone only as its final product and the direct benefits to you. That has never been the ambition. Here's why I bought Fairphones for my family: * Fair supply chains. This was their
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
EU legislation generally sets a maximum, but then you also have to prove proportionality to determine the actual amount (damage done + fine). Any such amount will certainly get challenged in the courts, so the Commission will get its ducks
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
I'm sorry that you have such an emotional reaction about a company being threatened with a fine (not even penalised yet) for harmful behaviour which they could immediately choose to stop if they'd want to. * Two scenarios: Company
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by lock-the-spock 2y ago
The EU has its own subsidy programmes as well but it is a lot more complex. You need 27 governments to agree to make something happen, from 400.000 people Malta to 80.000.000 million people Germany. The small countries are terrified to be s
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Yes but Spotify gets only 70% of that cut while apple gets 100%. Without the apple tax Spotify might be able to either go down in price or increase quality/breadth/payouts to creators/other offerings/... The market is di
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
You might enjoy this as well, similar big picture and fascinating, but a bit more scientific and focused on the human element. > The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Why would they do that? U.S. military vessels were already attacked so they need no further casus belli if they wanted war. On the contrary Huthis have announced that they intend to cut cables. So the responsibility is rather easy to point
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Nothing illogical, Russia had been limiting supply due to supposed technical reasons for months before, with a clear intention to empty European/German reserves. Look at the charts of gas flows and storage prior to the war and the lite
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
You should probably put this in quotes as OOP is disseminating russian propaganda.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Sorry but you seem to be repeating russian war propaganda. The U.S. sabotaging north stream makes zero sense and Russia was already arbitrarily and randomly limiting supply through North stream for months before. That Russia was involved is
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Counterexample: If a set of IPs consistently and intentionally run DDoS to shut down small sites or e.g. newspapers, should the government not intervene? If they cannot stop, say, the russian government from running such attacks would it no
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
You would not filter based on the delivery man but based on the sender. If you know someone sends bombs or drugs in the mail but you cannot stop them initiating parcels, you would find ways to stop the parcels halfway. Physical mail is scan
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
How is that related? It also happened a week ago, while this is new. Houthis cause as much havoc as they want, presumably to someday get a decent deal at the negotiating table.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I guess it's more that it is difficult to ensure freedoms when people stay 'voluntarily' and don't speak out. There are similar stories about Chinese clothing factories based in Italy (thus: close to Chinese prices but &
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
It's a member of the European parliament asking a question to the European Commission (the EU executive). The reply is linked at the top of the page, but note that both question and answer are by now quite dated. > Overall, at the e
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Fully agree, this is unscientific nonsense trying to model an incredibly hard to model thing. People seem to just Google papers that support their worldview without even bothering to read them.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I feel like many people (men) here seem to live in a different planet than me. Women care so much less about wealth and looks than men think. Be a nice person, caring, reasonably fun to take with, ensure basic hygiene and carry your part of
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office: https://op.europa.eu/en/web
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I use AdGuard home as part of my HomeAssistant setup and have had no problem at all. Only thing is to turn off the enforced safe search as that quite reduces results.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
All depends on the setup. Pizza delivery run by the individual small shop has worked for 50+ years; they pay two cooks and two drivers and a waiter and feed hundreds of people a night while earning just fine. A single place to order all foo
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Wonderful project, congratulations! I love the speed, clean design, many options, multilingual results, overall very impressive!! Some quibbles/points to consider: * I can't find anything on the people/organisation behind, an
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I am on Manjaro linux and use KDEconnect, which is excellent in sending things between devices, including phone-laptop exchange.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Oxfam does PR but they are first and foremost a charity feeding and providing shelter and healthcare to millions around the world. Maybe the perspective they take is influenced.by their staff watching people suffer and die from preventable
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Why is it not true? Sure stock value is more or less theoretical but this is not all stock. Any euro or dollar going towards Amazon or Tesla shareholders does not feed back into the local economy and cannot support roads, kindergartens and
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I also see very innocuous reasons for selecting those dates: for instance if you want to show what happened "since COVID hit us" this is indeed the fully correct choice. But irrespective of the dates chosen, even your carefully se

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