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But what if those apps could survive if they were allowed to ask for your private data or a payment? That wouldn't infringe on anyone's rights as far as I can tell.
look , the EU has decided to change the ad-supported model of the web. doesn't matter what addicted users want
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I thought we are on hackernews here, and not some bullshit propaganda spreading site. Can you provide a documented example of devaluing your currency? Can you provide the number of illegal refugees that came to welfare states (can you name those welfare states?), regulating the form of cucumbers? Who are you, Nigel Farage? https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/straight-cucumbers/
Are you aware that in recent years the ECB has engaged in one of the two largest money printing runs in human history? The ECB's balance sheet as a share of GDP is still increasing. Only Japan's central bank has done more. And are you aware that when you create money, the value of that currency drops to reflect that? If it didn't any country could become infinitely wealthy by just printing money endlessly. Obviously…
> euro QE
A lot of shaky implications without much grounding in economic theory or reality. Please study:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap http://eur.exchangeconversions.com/usd/charts (10y chart)
There was drop in 2014-2015, but ever since Euro has not moved down, rather in opposite direction... So both facts and theory contradicts your continuously-deprecated-currency theory.
> refugees
Now quote the numbers for following years please.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis
No wonder all refugee scaremongers quote numbers only up to 2015.
But hey, it is worrying! . . . that people on HN spread such lame propaganda.
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That network effect can't be underestimated. In the olden days of a new social network every other week the percentage of my friends and family on each social network (including Myspace, the most dominant) was relatively low, so the pain of switching was low. Now the percentage on Facebook is extremely high and I don't even know what an alternative would be. Lots of friends and family are on Whatsapp, quite a lot of…
Due to the network effect, you may end up with lots of people using Facebook, but actually disliking the service. What you can see happening is that people treat Facebook more as a news feed then as a platform to communicate with friends. Once personal communication moves away from Facebook, other communication is likely to move as well. It may take as while though. When that happens, Facebook will be more like a twi…
> What you can see happening is that people treat Facebook more as a news feed then as a platform to communicate with friends.
I see the opposite trend. People ignore worse-than-useless feed more and more, moving to messenger and especially group chats.
Until serious competitor appears (and I mean real one, not HN-ideal decentralized-blockchain-powered one), FB stays. Tons of people using it in spite of their dislike of the platform has not stopped FB's growth, and who knows if it brings any actual change any time soon.
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Well, I'm also a full-blown federalist, although I understand very well why people don't like the idea. I'm still hoping to be able to hold a genuine European passport in my hand that states "European" as nationality and "German" as mother tongue. Here is the main reason why I favour a genuine union with a partially joint military, a strengthened power for the European Parliament, and less power for appointed commiss…
Yet many people obviously disagree. I don't think the EU is a recipe for peace or is making Europe more peaceful. Far from it. The EU looks a lot like a bunch of very unhappy neighbours kept in line by the threat of wildly over the top retaliation from the federalist core if they even think about stepping out of line. Look at Brexit. The EU is talking about grounding all flights, banning British firms, insisting on o…
Also bear in mind that the vast majority of all British politicians were "Stay", because they knew what's at stake.
It is also mysterious to me what makes you think that the EU would "suck" at understanding, collaboration and compromise. These are central pillars of the EU, without those three factors the EU could not have possibly been founded by unanimous votes of all 28 member states. All I can say to people like who - who genuinely leave me baffled - is that you could inform yourself better about the EU structure and what EU programs and institutions are actually doing and, most importantly, how incredibly cheap the EU is in comparison to the respective national budgets.
Last but not least, there is either peace or no peace. People, states, and nations will always disagree about certain matters. Your idea of a "true peace" is naive and unrealistic.
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Are you aware that in recent years the ECB has engaged in one of the two largest money printing runs in human history? The ECB's balance sheet as a share of GDP is still increasing. Only Japan's central bank has done more. And are you aware that when you create money, the value of that currency drops to reflect that? If it didn't any country could become infinitely wealthy by just printing money endlessly. Obviously…
Well when you cherry pick some facts and present them without context ... Isn't that textbook definition of propaganda? > euro QE A lot of shaky implications without much grounding in economic theory or reality. Please study: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap http://eur.exchangeconversions.com/usd/charts (10y chart) There was drop in 2014-2015, but ever since Euro has not moved down, rather in opposite d…
I did. Go back and try again. You are so eager to defend the EU you can't even be bothered reading what I wrote and immediately dived for the insults: scaremonger, propaganda, lame.
Now for your misunderstanding of basic supply and demand.
Look. Let's say there's a million euros in circulation, total. People are using these million euros to buy and sell things. Suddenly the ECB awards itself 9 million euros and starts spending them. Eventually the currency equalises out and those 10 million euro total are spread over the entire economy. But the total amount of stuff being bought and sold hasn't changed, so the prices must have done - they will have gone up by 10x. Likewise, an external currency will now buy 10x more euros than before.
If you understand that you will understand what I was talking about.
Your confusion about the USD/EUR rate is fairly basic I'm afraid. USD was also engaged in huge money printing during the same period. Despite that the ECB still managed to depreciate the currency. The reason the value started dropping at the start of 2015 is that this is when Mario Monti began huge monthly printing runs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#Europe
on 22 January 2015 Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, announced an 'expanded asset purchase programme': where €60 billion per month of euro-area bonds from central governments, agencies and European institutions would be bought