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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 graemep »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #111
ragebol wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Any lawmaker with an ounce of foresight would have recognized the pervasive cookie banners as the logical consequence of the law. If you give companies an easy copy-and-paste way to get around a single regional law then they will do the quickest dumbest thing possible to get what they want no matter who the visitor is and where they're located. The EU laws are poorly conceived, poorly written, and now we all have to…

> Any lawmaker with an ounce of foresight

Where would you find a lawmaker with an ounce of foresight?

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

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Post by Isinlor »

kragen wrote: post #313

> The single market is, from the perspective of the EU itself, its single most important project. although i am not of course the eu itself, nor do i even live there, i think this is incorrect world war i lasted from 01914 to 01918 and killed 17 million people world war ii in europe started 21 years later, lasting from 01939 to 01945 (though it started earlier in china) and killed 73 million people, mostly in russia…

> probably the atomic cooperation is even more important

That's why I don't understand why Budapest Memorandum signatories allow Russia for breaking the security guarantees.

Ukraine gave up fully the third biggest nuclear arsenal for security guarantees from Russia, USA, France and UK.

To me it seems pretty clear that if Ukraine falls then nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation is dead. And that my country, Poland, should seek to develop nuclear weapons.

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

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Post by dwaltrip »

polski-g wrote: post #375
kerkeslager wrote: post #159

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There are two systems at play when you see a cookie warning: 1. Businesses trying to violate your privacy. 2. A government trying to protect you from said businesses. Either of these entities could avoid the cookie warning, but there are very different reasons why they do not.

This reminds me of the Cloudflare vs Archive.is shitfest. I do not care why CF DNS doesn't work with Archive, all I know is that it doesn't work, and others do. I do not care why cookie banners are there. All I know is that they weren't there N years ago and now they are, and they are annoying.

Let us all cater to what annoys you.

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

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Post by mst »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #71
mst wrote: post #58

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This is an explanation of the EU's point of view and motivations and how you can use understanding that to predict their actions. Calling those actions 'fundamentally stupid' will not, in fact, change reality, and thinking such an opinion has any relevance to doing business in the real world is precisely the class of mistake the author's trying to point out.

The article does not just explain the reality of doing business. I doubt you actually read it. There is an entire paragraph defending the connector situation and justifying inaction on the incompatibility of outlets. Its not saying “this is the reality, do better at accepting it”, it is making policy justification arguments. It is perfectly valid to point out that those arguments are stupid. I could use your weird, s…

It's explaining the motivation behind the policy choices.

You don't have to agree with the motivation or the choices for this to be helpful.

Being able to better predict both implementation of current policies and what policy choices are likely to be made going forwards is useful and the author's description of the world view driving them seems to me to be accurate.

> I doubt you actually read it.

Saying this in a conversation about denying parts of reality you don't like verges on performance art.

> you can’t convince me

Evidently, but hopefully other readers will still derive value from what I've written here.

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

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Post by olabyne »

denton-scratch wrote: post #268
sealeck wrote: post #236

There's also another option where Apple is just going to wait/lobby the US government to apply pressure on the EU in the hope that this is effective (as it has been historically). In in the event of another Trump presidency (let us hope this doesn't happen) this is very likely to happen and Biden has made some moves in this direction. The fact that Europe is 100% reliant on the US to stop the Russians conquering Ukra…

> The fact that Europe is 100% reliant on the US to stop the Russians conquering Ukraine at the moment This appears to be an "alternative fact", a type of fact that is popular in the USA. It's true that EU countries have historically underspent on defence. But as far as I can see, US supplies of materiel amount to be some MANPADs, some handheld anti-tank missiles, and some Patriot batteries. The (14?) promised Abrams…

Yes. Looking in the details the US is #1 in material goods. Financial #1 supporter is EU. And things are changing, with doubts and critics in the US and unity and wake-up calls in the EU

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

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

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Post by graemep »

eadmund wrote: post #168
ragebol wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The cookie warnings are dumb, because if an individual wishes not to use cookies, he is free to configure his browser to refuse to use cookies . It is entirely and 100% under the user’s control. Heck, the way the cookie protocol works the server already says ‘hey, may I store this cookie?’ by sending the Set-Cookie header. The user’s browser doesn’t have to do anything if he doesn’t want it to!

Its worse than that. I used to use a cookie whitelist addon in firefox, so only a few sites could set cookies at all.

I stopped using it because if you blocked websites from setting cookies, that meant the cookie consent banner showed on every page rather than the first you viewed because the cookie consent cookie had been blocked. That made blocking cookies entirely apart from whitelisted sites impossible.

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

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Post by pelorat »

roenxi wrote: post #51

I quite like the article as far as it goes; but this begs the follow up question - is the strategy working? Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America. This should be an article about how Nokia or equivalent is approaching the US all wrong and not understanding the realities on the ground. I'd put energy in a similar fra…

If we had comparable energy prices to the USA then we would also have more manufacturing. It's almost the sole driver behind the current economic crisis.

Europe is sadly not energy independent like the USA is.

It's not economically feasible to operate a large factory in central europe any more, it's barely possible to operate a restaurant (they are closing in droves) -- energy prices are too high.

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

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Post by mst »

Mashimo wrote: post #89
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #50

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At least all the phones will use the mechanically defective USB-C connector though. Huge win for labor unions and internal market?

I have no idea about USB C connector being mechanically defective, but how would that relate to labor unions? And how does that relate to my question?

At this point I'm suspecting "because libertardian mad libs."

Personally I'm looking forwards to my iPhone using friends no longer being second class citizens when it comes to borrowing a charger, but opinions will naturally vary.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

overstay8930 wrote: post #54
zarzavat wrote: post #16

At least in the case of Apple, it’s not at all specific the the EU. That company is run by children. Everybody who works with Apple, be it developers or suppliers complains about how shitty they are to work with. They maintain relationships by the strength of their market power alone. Bridge burning is ingrained into the company culture. Apple is treating the EU like they do everyone else: they are being dicks. Unfor…

Apple saw what happened when Google was nice to developers and got shitty camera views in apps and adobe flash. Apple has rightfully concluded that developers do not deserve to have any freedom on their platform because they immediately abuse it for their benefit and to the detriment of the user. Devs got so bad meta lost billions in value when Apple set up a privacy transparency feature in the App Store, say what yo…

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

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Post by cynicalsecurity »

huijzer wrote: post #37

> There are a few examples of this trend towards denying reality. The starkest one being Elon Musk behaving as if European labour unions don’t exist and that labour is entirely powerless, leading his companies to lose money on strikes and other collective actions. > And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world. I can agree that labour unions are real, but I see little evidence that Elon Musk denies realit…

Give an impression and actually be are two different things.
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