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

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

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Post by orwin »

lapcat wrote: post #153
ragebol wrote: post #68

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The cookie warnings are a result of companies not taking a pretty obvious hint: don't do tracking.

The European Commission's own announcement of the fine against Apple has a cookie banner: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_... "This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience." Which of course is total crap. There's no better experience, only a worse experience with the banner.

It uses the same cookies as most official EU website. You can check why there: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice....

They seems to use this https://piwik.pro/, which as far as i read seems ok (i did not audit the code personally), i think this data might be legit useful for UX (im really shit a UX, you should ask people working on it though).

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

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Post by tzs »

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.

Cars was a better choice than trains on both environmental grounds and business grounds.

First, environment.

• Trains are somewhere from 1/2 to 1/4 the CO2 emissions per passenger over a given distance than are cars.

• For freight are nearly an order of magnitude less per ton over a given distance than trucks.

Second, business.

• Nobody buys sports trains.

Trains are expensive to build and expensive to buy. Almost nobody other than big companies and governments buys trains, and they buy them to do a job. Those buyers tend to be conservative buyers when it comes to technology. They want their new trains to be a lot like their old trains, with just incremental improvements.

With cars you can build a sports car, and people will put up with all kinds of problems as long as you nail the performance (acceleration, top speed, handling). Sports cars are playthings, not work things.

With a sports car you can try very different things and then take what works and use it to develop cars for the more widespread car market.

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

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Post by fermisea »

bojan wrote: post #253
Aerroon wrote: post #241

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When Bulgarian truckers started outcompeting French truckers the EU came up with new rules to shut that down. Requiring that the truck has to go back to the country the company is from every 2 months is ridiculous. Not the driver, the vehicle.

Why would it be ridiculous, if a truck has a Bulgarian license plate it's a reasonable expectation that it's based in Bulgaria.

If a worker has Bulgarian nationality, they are free to live and work anywhere in the EU, including France. And a Bulgarian business can also operate anywhere in the EU. It's a single economic market, so it's clear that rules like that are arbitrary and designed to be appease special interests.

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Post by immibis »

davidmurdoch wrote: post #250
paulsutter wrote: post #48

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Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

I've learned to never attack the cookie banner here on HN. EU citizens seem to absolutely adore them here.

No, it's just counterproductive to attack warning signs instead of attacking the thing they are warning you about.

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

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Post by jfyi »

voxic11 wrote: post #142
pydry wrote: post #44

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>It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". The notion of regulation as being on a sliding scale where "more is worse" was a manufactured American meme created by the Kochs in the 1980s. It emerged from some of their epic fights with the environmental protection agency and their subsequent lobbying and public relations outreach effo…

Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957, I'm pretty sure people opposed excessive government regulation before the 1980s.

Rand's work wasn't held in high regard... or any regard at all, really, until after her death in the 80's.

I don't disagree with the general sentiment though.

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Post by troupo »

Aerroon wrote: post #188
troupo wrote: post #61

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Nothing in the law requires those cookie banners. If you don't agree, you can quote to me the exact passage in the GDPR where it talks about cookies, banners, or browsers. Or you can read what Github has to say about this: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

Can you tell that to these guys: https://www.europa.eu That website basically has an infinite budget and doesn't have to make a single cent. It is also for the group that should have the best understanding of the law. Yet they still give you the cookie popup.

That cookie popup is within the law:

- it offers an explanations that cookies are used, and offers a link to read why

- it offers a way to opt out that is as easy as the way to opt-in

- it doesn't prevent the site from functioning

However, I agree that they shouldn't require non-essential cookies to begin with.

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Post by ransom1538 »

paulsutter wrote: post #48
mjburgess wrote: post #24

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It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". Since we have so many consumer protections, much of how we end up engaging with the law around business practices is to our benefit . We're always aware we can raise bad business practices with an ombudsman (etc.). So our lived experience of government regulation is, in large part, positive…

Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

Boss: "Oh, also, add those cookie warnings for the gdpr".

Me: "No. We are not in the EU. I refuse. I also refuse to abide by Congolese law or Peruvian Navy doctrines. If I break Myanmar PII laws, I will take my chances. EU is no better than anyone else, pushing their crappy laws, I refuse to care about."

Boss: "Ok! Np."

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

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Post by Phemist »

Phemist wrote: post #267
isoprophlex wrote: post #204

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My personal best: 1609. We care about your privacy! https://www.neverbeclever.org/blog/we-care-about-your-privac...

Obviously they do care, in the sense that they want to dissolve any remaining semblance of it.

And while searching to confirm the meaning of the word `semblance`, I found that the Cambridge Dictionary needs to up their game at only 775 partners.

https://imgur.com/a/arX6Z6S

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