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I guess the main difference is that in the US (as far as I understand) there is no official workers representation outside of unions, thus some characteristics of workers' represen…

Is that not the case in the US as well?

I have never been able to quite grasp what it means to "unionize" in the US. Here in my country, unions work like political parties (which I understand is not exactly enticing righ…

You seem to argue that politics is whatever issues where you support change and "not politics" is whatever issues where you support the status quo. It is quite hard to not see your…

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countr…

If you only need that, all the extra stuff is useless.

There's (somehow) a widely held belief that there is no barriers to entry, on any market, ever. Things from anticompetitive behaviour of incumbents to needing enormous upfront capi…

Shoes last longer if they are not worn everyday.

Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity is on-topic here

The usual caveat about Paris applies: the city of Paris is but a tiny core of the larger Paris metropolitan area (Paris: 2.1M people, Paris metro: c. 10M). Paris is about one fifth…

You missed the point. All the examples obviously all have at least one line of code, otherwise there would be no program to display "Hello, World!" at all. The goal is to have a pr…

I typed "UK data watchdog" (for I did not know its name) and while it is true that I needed more clicks than for France, I found their enforcement page with their list of fines [0]…

Are cookies banned?

I typed "cnil fines" (the CNIL being the French data watchdog) on google which led me to their sanction page [0] which features 100M€ fines to Google and 35M€ to Amazon _last week_…

> 3. The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent befo…

I was responding to the statement I quoted.

> There is no good reason for French military units to be interfering in former colonies in North Africa; let it go. The French intervention was after both the UN security council …

There are three things. First, being part of a larger whole may have material advantages that are not directly related to money or security. A good example is free travel between c…

This is the whole point of having your headquarters in those countries: make money in country X but be taxed according to country Y laws. Why would they not want to be under countr…

I agree: any company which does not respect DNT should be heavily fined at a minimum, with executives in jail. This would ensure fast adoption.

You still have to appoint a censor who decides what is false for libel, don't you?

> That was not helped by the motto of the 90s, when the 'glory' was to become "a company without factory"... Was that so silly? AMD seems to be doing alright.

More than make the price reasonable, I would wager it was to anchor the Apple Watch in the "watch" category, rather than the "electronic gadget" category in people's mind. It's not…

For the first point, I agree that _legally_ the Stewards rules depends on Gondor being a Kingdom without Kings. But legality and legitimacy are two different things. We can only sp…

This quote often comes up when people discuss Tolkien's works. However: - either "allegory" is meant to be a very strict one-to-one map, like Gandalf is really Jesus but has a diff…