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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.
and to be clear, the european attitude to this regulation would be, "try again, better this time" not ah yes, let's go back to having no regulation of corps tracking people. People would be quite enthusiastic to more regulation which required no cookie banners where users had, eg., expressed a preference for no tracking at the browser level. And likewise, to require the provision of such "no-tracking signals". I susp…
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As a European, you almost certainly have better representation than most Americans. We haven't expanded the House of Representatives since 1929. We're approaching a million constituents per rep, an extreme outlier among OECD countries: https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/enlarging-the-house/... The reason Americans no longer trust Congress is because the Colonists had better representation per constituent (on pap…
Also the US following UK's FPTP system inevitably creates a 2-party system, you simply cannot have just 2 parties representing all of the political spectrum and needs of a nation of 340 million people, and very diverse people at it, across a vast swath of land. Even though most Continental Europe elections end up being a race between 2 major coalitions at least there's fluidity in the composition of these coalitions,…
But only Congress can repeal the Apportionment Act of 1929.
The 118th Congress is on pace to pass the fewest acts ever. Will they hit double digits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_118th_Unit...
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Nowhere is the general sentiment towards government regulation "more, better". The correct sentiment is both "more good ones, better" and "less bad ones, better"
But there is the general sentiment "less, better". And that's because it's right. That "good ones" is both subjective and a challenge tantamount to "write bug-free code". People aren't worthy of that kind of trust.
To summarize: Laws are like lines of code. Nobody in their right mind would put programs on a spectrum between "more lines" and "fewer lines". Lines of code that help do the necessary work are good, and unnecessary lines of code are bad. And so it is with regulations.
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You could not even get near a border without a foreign telecom provider trying to connect you to their network abroad with powerful senders and charge through the roof. Those where the days ;-)
Still a problem with that pesky Switzerland in the middle. Do not approach any Swiss antenna without reading your telecom contract !
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Including USB-C? I find that hard to believe.
USB-C was the first to grind my gear. Believe it or not I like the feel of the lightning plug and still prefer it over USB-C. I don’t care about transfer speed or whatnot for my phone I use the cable exclusively for charging. EDIT: In any case it’s not even the lightning vs. USB-C that matters it’s the fact that the plug is mandatory. What if someone discovers a revolutionary plug someday? Well too bad, can’t use it…
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> Let's be real, the GDPR banners are far less annoying than the ads that HNers love to defend. "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Do you have any evidence for that claim? Unless you have access to raw HN data, I suspect not.
> Treating such toxic ideology as acceptable in the name of politeness doesn't make HN or the world a better place.
Well, if you don't, then you're breaking the site guidelines, and you'll be flagged.
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As someone living in the EU, I'm well aware of the EU's failings, but also of the successes, and I think we don't celebrate them enough. Some things I really like: * I can travel in a wide area with just my ID card (and practically even without it), no visa or passports required * sending packages by mail is really easy and cheap compared to non-EU countries * free mobile data roaming. Not such a big deal for me (but…
I find it ironic that at the time of writing the comment before yours is the one that complains about "simping for big business" (ie, overfocusing on the benifits to the wealthy) and then your comment is mainly lauding the benefits to the people who can afford international travel. Community discussions are odd beasts.
Who can't afford to travel 100km?
Maybe for you, international travel means hopping on a plane.
Most Europeans live closer to another country than to most of their own.
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…
It's working for the people that live in the EU. This is another point that I think Americans miss sometimes - "good for the businesses" is seen as the end goal, and it is assumed that people will benefit in some trickle-down way from that. The goal for all of this is for people to have good lives. Supporting businesses may or may not be the right way of doing that, but we shouldn't lose sight of the end goal.
Definitely. Americans are very quick to prioritise the needs of businesses over those of people.
In Europe, the people come first.
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Have you seen pictures in these countries from pre-2000 to today ? - ireland is probably the only western europe country that was a net beneficiary, - but also the whole eastern bloc : poland, romania, slovenia, croatia, hungary, czech, estonia, latvia, lithuania
Was there any other big event that happened in the eastern bloc in, say, the early 1990's?
Despite rampant crime post 1989 in many eastern bloc countries that flourished in the chaos, and the predatory capitalism plundering.
Especially since the foreign debt (to western countries!) that was big chunk of economical issues of some of the eastern bloc countries didn't disappear.