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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by s_dev »

ajuc wrote: post #56
Havoc wrote: post #30

Reminds me of trump repeatedly trying to make trade deals with individual EU countries. Only had to explain it 11 times until for it to sink it. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-merkel-germany-e...

It worked for Putin (see Nord Streams for example) so Trump wanted it too :)

That still needed EU approval. Ireland can sell it's beef to the US at a different rate than other EU countries (all Irish beef is grass fed and thus premium grade) again needs EU approval.

The EU doesn't mind exceptions to her rules once it can approve or disapprove of them thus preserving the EU trading bloc. People really do think there is a 'gotcha' though e.g. US President Trump getting schooled by Merkel thinking he could just repeat the question and she would give in. I can assure you though these things are very rules based.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by bengale »

llm_trw wrote: post #82
dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #10

What amazes and perplexes me is that Apple thinks it can effectively play politics against the EU and that somehow their customers will back them in the face of the "consequences" Apple applies, which are pretty transparent and really quite amateurish (eg no more web apps for you!). As the article states, the first mistake Apple makes is thinking the EU is somehow like the US, but I can't see how any large proportion…

I think there needs to be a word like "Paris syndrome" for when Americans meet actual Europeans and find out their politics. I've not met anyone who doesn't work in Brussels who thinks the EU isn't a dysfunctional pile of shit. The most spirited defense I've heard of it is "Well at least it keeps the Germans from invading again.". > The EU, it's better than genocide, by a bit - probably. -- Enthusiastic EU supporter,…

Great term. Sometimes, I think I must live on a different continent.

It comes down to interest I think, for someone with a bunch of devices and online all the time it sounds great when the EU forces USBC through for example. Even though they don't generally have a good view of how ordinary people interpret it either.

But at the far end something like the damage the common agricultural policy has for ordinary europeans is completely lost on them. There would never be any interest in how it impacts people.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by hef19898 »

tsak wrote: post #59
dbspin wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Another less talked about is how the US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare by virtue of the obscene amount Americans pay and hence make profitable that industry to the benefit of all of humanity. Health Disadvantage in US Adults Aged 50 to 74 Years: A Comparison of the Health of Rich and Poor Americans With That of Europeans - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661456/#:~:tex... . Differences i…

I don't think any of your links substantiate the claim that US healthcare expenditure subsidises global R&D on healthcare, only that healthcare is more expensive in the US (which I personally think is more due to an extremely ineffective system with an unhealthy amount of middlemen that inflate prices).

You know what disproves this, again right wing US BS to oppose universal healthcare? The financial filings of each and every international pharma company.

Regarding defence spending, it is good this point comes up. It replaced masks during Covid as a clear indicator of where a person gets its information from, or how good they are at critical thinking.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by pjerem »

In fact I’m really amazed that Apple is trying to play games trying to circumvent a brand new regulation (the DMA), while totally ignoring the fact that they are amongst he primary targets of those regulations. It’s like they don’t understand that any circumvent will just sharpen the 1.01 version of the regulation.

They are only gaining some time until the next iteration but it just shows that they are afraid they can’t function anymore by just providing greater products than competitors. DMA isn’t banning the App Store, it still can be the number one store and it still can be a money printer. Except that it will have to be better than competitors.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by simonbarker87 »

overstay8930 wrote: post #66
mdrzn wrote: post #31

Finally more people are figuring out that the EU is a net positive and not a net negative. Love my Europe.

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Most people work for big companies or smaller companies supplying big companies. A tiny percentage of the economy is the typical start up model. Start ups !== the economy.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by blitzar »

soco wrote: post #77
blitzar wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet digital cash is seen by actual true patriots as the solution to free themselves from the enemy the government .

As an European I fail to see how I could call myself patriot and at the same time distrust my own government - elected by me . Even if I didn't like the government, I'd still go with it because it's representing my country, and I'd also try to change the aspects which I don't like, again because it's my country. Those "actual true patriots" sound to me more like actual true selfish people which only want things happe…

Stealing from above;

> Distrust of government, and the limiting of its powers, is an American founding principle

American Patriots believe defending themselves and their country from an oppressive government is true patriotism. It looks and sounds a lot like you think because taken to its logical conclusion thats exactly what it is.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by e12e »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #14
e12e wrote: post #3

Editorialided headline, the title is: > Facing reality, whether it’s about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management

Not really, but I guess they should have left 'Apple' in? It's not like they added anything to the headline.

They (probably inadvertently) added emphasis on EU, rather than:

> Facing reality (...) is a core requirement for good management

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by spuz »

klabb3 wrote: post #79

The author is right but makes a similar mistake as the Americans, given he’s European. He does not clarify what market means. This can be perplexing and misunderstood by an American audience. Market in the US is such a different thing. American companies like TurboTax and Comcast are operating (by American standards) right within the market. In fact, probably “better” than everyone else. The market is a Wild West whe…

I'm also from the EU, not the US but I have a hard time believing that Americans believe that monopolies or large dominant companies represent anything but the corruption of the concept of a market. Anti-trust laws in the US are some of the strongest in the world even if they are rarely enforced. I acknowledge they don't experience the benefits of free markets in many areas but I think they know what they should look like.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by andsoitis »

kitsune_ wrote: post #69
bengale wrote: post #55

"They were behaving like Elon Musk. And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world." I'm not a fan of his behaviour on Twitter, but the idea that the world does not want more Elon Musks seems insane to me. Theyre not for me personally, but whatever you think about Teslas I don't see how you would not want a person who can build a new car company. Just look at other entrants like Rivian, it's so hard, and he…

Insane is a bit of a strong word, no? If Musk was a visionary he would have built trains, not cars.

> If Musk was a visionary he would have built trains, not cars.

Musk started SpaceX in 2002.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by dangus »

bengale wrote: post #55

"They were behaving like Elon Musk. And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world." I'm not a fan of his behaviour on Twitter, but the idea that the world does not want more Elon Musks seems insane to me. Theyre not for me personally, but whatever you think about Teslas I don't see how you would not want a person who can build a new car company. Just look at other entrants like Rivian, it's so hard, and he…

The sheer volume of electric car startup companies shows that Elon Musk was in the right place at the right time. The reason there are a lot of EV startups is because the powertrain is simple. You don’t need an army of engine plants and parts suppliers to build an EV. That is the disruptive part about the EV, which has nothing to do with anything unique to Elon Musk.

Also, he didn’t found the company, he was just an investor. Investors are a dime a dozen and mostly aren’t dinguses on social media, he’s the exception.

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