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Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by hyperbrainer »

kergonath wrote: post #78
hyperbrainer wrote: post #40

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You really think law would be such a highly sought-after and highly-compensated field if it was that easy?

That’s cynical and edgy, but misses the mark. There are several reasons why rules tend to be more specific about the outcomes than the ways to get there. This decreases the attack surface for loopholes. What is desirable is the end result, not the technical details. The law is actually clearer because the intent is clearly spelt out. The point of the law is to protect privacy, not cover every screen with cookies bann…

I completely agree with your points. However, my admittedly snarky comment was regarding the idea that simply searching for a term across a document is how one decides legal validity, with no regard to alternate jargon, definitions, and of course, as you point out outcomes.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by hyperbrainer »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #49
hyperbrainer wrote: post #40

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You really think law would be such a highly sought-after and highly-compensated field if it was that easy?

It should be easy.

The law is written to prevent loopholes and exploits -- an extremely hard task, given the number of people willing to break it for even the slightest profits. The sheer number of these "false exits", that, then need to be covered, makes making reading and interpreting the law a hard endeavor. And a very precise one. It could be easier by some fraction, but never anywhere near easy.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by matt-p »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #181
matt-p wrote: post #171

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That's a shame. There are many UK cloud providers, who would work - what do you need, I'd be happy to make suggestions?

Containers IaaS, plus managed Postgres. So far I’ve only found UK hosts that do VPS, VMs, or bare metal- the abstraction above this is (heroku, fly.io etc.) makes Ops 10x easier for smaller companies

Civo.io have had both for many years and for Katapult.io these are coming in April. Both are british companies, if you need referring feel free to shout.

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Post by nodar86 »

generalizations wrote: post #148
NalNezumi wrote: post #62

Today I learned that DeepL was German. It's hands down the best Japanese to English translator (according to my Japanese coworkers) and I was surprised how many used it in office. (never used it myself as a trilingual)

How does it compare to 4o? I used to use deepl but not since the later chatgpt versions came out.

what do you mean by chatgpt versions?

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Post by nec4b »

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…

>> Housing is a fundamental human right.

No it's not. A fundamental human freedom is to build or to buy a house. Nobody is owned a house.

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Post by realityking »

RobotToaster wrote: post #212
ChocolateGod wrote: post #67

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Whilst a good idea, no politician is going to try and do it under the fear of reigniting the Brexit argument which ends up dominating politics in the country.

Most people who voted for Brexit were mostly concerned about free movement of people, not goods. I doubt a free trade agreement would upset them too much . If the EU would accept a FTA without free movement of people is another matter.

The UK has a FTA with the EU. What they don’t have is access to the single market or a customs union.

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Post by shafyy »

t43562 wrote: post #254
bigfudge wrote: post #219

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But we have huge economic dependence which could also be used. We need to wean ourself off the Chinese supply chain. This will take decades, but the lesson here is that it will be used against us in future. Europe is big enough as an internal market to sustain a good quality of life for the majority of the population — even if our 1% are disadvantaged relative to those in US, Russia. We have the capital and resources…

I understand that but what's nagging at me is this: I think civilisation is about building dependence really. Civilisation is organising in larger and larger groups - everyone becoming more dependent on each other and having laws and so on to resolve problems instead of fighting. .....so somehow, for the sake of making Star Trek and all those wonderful science fiction stories possible.....we have to get that dependen…

> I understand that but what's nagging at me is this: I think civilisation is about building dependence really.

As it looks now, there might be a limit on the scale of global collaboration. There's nothing that says that the trend of global depenence and collaboration will continue (in fact, it is reversing now).

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by hazzamanic »

kharak wrote: post #54

Did similar movements had a measurable impact? Asking because I have the impression that boycott movements are ineffective, but I never verified that.

I was recently in Malaysia and they've boycotted certain American brands over the Israel-Palestine war. For example, KFC has given up and was shutdown everywhere. So boycotts can work. Maccas seemed to be doing just fine though, take from that what you will

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

actionfromafar wrote: post #220
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #110

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If only it was so simple, there are of course many conflicting interests in Europe, with certain countries who are more export oriented for instance benefiting from a weak Euro and others from a stronger Euro etc.

But the EU is a single market.

A single one on paper but a heavily divided one in practice where every country wants to be king or at least backstab everyone else to get what it wants.

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Post by yurishimo »

nodar86 wrote: post #334
generalizations wrote: post #148

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How does it compare to 4o? I used to use deepl but not since the later chatgpt versions came out.

what do you mean by chatgpt versions?

I think they are referring to “models” in this case as versions. 4o is a ChatGPT model as is o3, 4o-mini, Sora, etc etc.
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