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Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by 9rx »

torpfactory wrote: post #252
whatever1 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turns out capital without borders ruins prices for scarce things (like housing) everywhere.

I’d argue most of the cost of scare housing is supply limits imposed by ridiculous over regulation of new construction. It’s not like we forgot how to build houses and apartments we just aren’t allowed to.

Even if you could build as you please, the labour costs still make up the large marjory of the cost of the home. There isn't a whole lot of room for the costs to come down.

That is unless you destroy the price of labour... Which undoing the global economy will help with.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by MichaelZuo »

Pet_Ant wrote: post #232
DaveMcMartin wrote: post #225

It’s genuinely sad to see the world splintering into waves of nationalistic protectionism. Not long ago, we had something promising, a slow but steady crawl toward a united global community. Progress was gradual, sure, but it was real. Countries could specialize and trade freely: I’d buy your chips, you’d buy my steel, and we’d both come out ahead. It worked. Now, though, it’s all about "national sovereignty" and "in…

The problem was that the people that benefitted most from free trade never do the work to ensure that a fair share of the profits went to the working class who were now being displaced. If you can no longer get lifelong middleclass job with a high school diploma, but you need a degree, then the degree should be paid for by the state... or you see what you see, a race to the bottom and then a backlash.

This seems circular, since there are no credible authorities to decide what is “a fair share” or not, other than the political process in the first place.

(And then only in the ideal perfectly spherical cow world where single issue voters don’t exist…)

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by rafaelmn »

piva00 wrote: post #217
rafaelmn wrote: post #131

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Thats what every "support local" campaign boils down to - accept suboptimal deals because they are somehow more connected to you. I am glad to sell my services to the US and will buy their services, likewise for EU stuff if it is competitive. Besides this outrage at the US from EU perspective is mind-boggling, for the first time since I can remember US is moving away from imperialist global polices, and Europe is in…

> Besides this outrage at the US from EU perspective is mind-boggling, for the first time since I can remember US is moving away from imperialist global polices, and Europe is in a position where they can become an independent global actor after WW2. Sure Trump administration isn't making the process pleasant but Europeans should be happy about these changes. It's not mind-boggling when the US is threatening to take…

Well my point is more that EU is in a situation where Trump can realistically demand Greenland because without the US we cannot even protect ourselves. We should be outraged at the leaders that brought us to this situation more than Trump, while some other administration could have been less on the nose about it, they are still in a situation where they hold "have all the cards" (exaggerating).

If Trump was not so obnoxious I do not think a lot of people would be welcoming Germany building up its military for example.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by risyachka »

mertbio wrote: post #53
risyachka wrote: post #43

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They are used for different things. If you are doing paid marketing or other more or less complex marketing Plausible doesn’t cut it.

Could you be more specific? As far as I know, they have bunch of features like funnels, goals, revenue attributions etc.: https://plausible.io/docs/top-referrers

When doing paid marketing you need to track users as hard as you can otherwise you have no clue which ads work and which don’t, what are profit margins etc.

With GA, google uses cookies, fingerprinting and all other possible options to track correct attribution from various channels.

So even with ad blockers you can get a pretty accurate picture. It is also tightly integrated with google ads.

Plausible can tell you what users do inside your app. But honestly this is so basic you can pretty much build same functionality with a few sql queries.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by Trasmatta »

rafaelmn wrote: post #267
Trasmatta wrote: post #224

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> Besides this outrage at the US from EU perspective is mind-boggling, for the first time since I can remember US is moving away from imperialist global polices What's mind boggling is saying that the US is becoming LESS imperialist, when Trump has threatened to annex both Canada and Greenland, and come out in favor of the most imperialist country in Europe.

Thats them orienting themselves to neighboring territory and not that relevant to EU, aside from Greenland. But contrast that with recent past where US was blowing up middle east for oil, drone striking in Africa, building missile shields in Ukraine, etc. Now its actively looking to pull its bases out of Europe and calling for Europe to arm itself. A positive change for EU in the grand scheme of things.

If the US actually tried to annex Canada, there would be huge ramifications in the EU. And besides, Trump seems more serious about Greenland: in his address to Congress, he said something along the line of "I think we're going to get it, one way or another". Trump is serious about wanting to steal EU land. You seem to be trying to hand wave that away.

And what about his very clear support of Russia? Is that also a positive change for the EU?

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by SSLy »

pjc50 wrote: post #34
dvh wrote: post #25

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$ wget -qO - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... | pdftotext - - | grep -i banner | wc -l 0

That says nothing useful. The legislation refuses to be specific and you have to know what all the relevant ICO decisions are, which is why compliance is so frustratingly vague.

you can just not track the users, that might be easier.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by robertlagrant »

9rx wrote: post #263
DaveMcMartin wrote: post #225

It’s genuinely sad to see the world splintering into waves of nationalistic protectionism. Not long ago, we had something promising, a slow but steady crawl toward a united global community. Progress was gradual, sure, but it was real. Countries could specialize and trade freely: I’d buy your chips, you’d buy my steel, and we’d both come out ahead. It worked. Now, though, it’s all about "national sovereignty" and "in…

> Countries could specialize and trade freely: I’d buy your chips, you’d buy my steel, and we’d both come out ahead. It worked. It worked until emotions entered the picture. "I don't like making chips. I prefer producing steel. Why do you get to have all the fun?" they've said for decades and with increasing furor. If you could move freely about the world without any restrictions so that those who enjoy steelmaking c…

> "I don't like making chips. I prefer producing steel. Why do you get to have all the fun?" they've said for decades and with increasing furor.

Who says this? TSMC?

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by dpassens »

fads_go wrote: post #258
Toutouxc wrote: post #195

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> having a continent-wide conversation in a language natively spoken by only ~5 million of its own people Did something happen to the UK?

Brexit

I was unaware that Brexit included leaving the continent.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by whatever1 »

mentalgear wrote: post #251
whatever1 wrote: post #238

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Turns out capital without borders ruins prices for scarce things (like housing) everywhere.

Housing is a fundamental human right. Corporations should not be allowed to buy or hold large amounts of residential property or zoned housing land. They create artificial scarcity by holding it back, driving up prices purely for profit. A less direct but still effective approach is to restrict residential property purchases to citizens. This helps prevent international hedge funds and (sovereign) wealth-funds from m…

Rich people have smart folks whose job is to think ways to avoid regulation.

In your example they would probably just have puppet citizens who buy land on their behalf. Sure the cost would be a bit higher because the puppets would demand some commission, but hey it’s the cost of running business.

It’s close to impossible to regulate concentrated money. See the drug cartels or Musk as two examples. The cartels operate their own army in South America completely ignoring government regulation. Musk bought an entire gov for himself.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by mogall »

1over137 wrote: post #270
mogall wrote: post #230

Yeah this isn't what people make it out to be. I already pointed it out in another thread about this exact website: Go and search for "keyboard", what's the first search result? Logitech, a company that makes their products almost exclusively in china. There's nothing european about this. "Yeah but it's a european company so!" yeah i don't care. It's not an european product. It's a chinese product. I don't care if th…

>There's nothing european about this. / "Yeah but it's a european company so!" You are contradicting yourself. There is something European about it. Anyway, as long as it's not from the USA, it's a win.

I don't care. It's a chinese product, i refuse to take anyone who says otherwise seriously. European products are made in europe, not china.
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