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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)
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> Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible! That would be the rational and sensible solution. This may be why it’s unlikely to happen. I would be happy to be wrong.
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.
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Labour party manifesto explained in this fresh (5 days old), official document. It also includes context about ongoing emergency EU security meetings and the Trump administration. No single market, no freedom of movement, unfortunately. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
You should look to Norway https://www.norway.no/en/missions/eu/areas-of-cooperation/th...
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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…
So covering every screen with cookie banners is a form of malicious compliance?
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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.
These are trying times.
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I think you're posting a strawman here. ePD is known to be bad (though for different reasons depending on who you ask), GDPR on the other hand _is_ easy to understand and follow.
Except it isn't. I too thought this was the case. Please talk to a lawyer sometime for a more nuanced take (I begrudgingly have). The funniest part about GDPR is that currently any organization that uses pretty much any US tech is in violation of the latest rulings, including much of the EU government itself running on Microsoft tech. If you've just been consuming journalist or internet comment narratives on this top…
But please also share the more nuanced take on the GDPR of your lawyer. You can't go around making claims like that without substantiating them ;).
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Sure. But what is the reason sites like this are popping up? Which county is threatening to take over Greenland "one way or another"? Not China. Which country has invaded multiple countries over the last decades? Not China. Which is the lesser evil, really?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Peo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company ( https://mailpace.com ) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here
Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! We're all living in Only fools and horses anyways.
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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 po…
Not handwaving anything away, just saying that EU has blame for its weak bargaining power in this issue and that this kind of escalation creates a situation where it is politically acceptable for EU to significantly invest in military. Imagine talking about building up German military 5 years ago and contrast that to a situation where US is talking about removing military bases from there. I do not think Trump is sup…
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All modern business is built on trust, since Americans are keen on throwing that out the door now, every EU business is going to re-evaluate who to trust. Which means, no longer trusting American.
What is trust to you? It looks a lot like Europe is getting upset that American taxpayers do not want to waste money on a conflict that is going nowhere, that is not America’s concern.
But to your point, as a random European resident, it's not upsetting that the US is pulling back, it's upsetting that it's pulling back with so little regard for anything else. If this was the only thing, fine, i wouldn't agree but it's your call, but look at all the other stuff happening at the same time in your foreign policy and ask yourself why all those "wasteful" things existed in the first place.