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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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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…

A lot of manufacturing actually does happen in EU - it's just somehow concentrated in manufacturing parts necessary to make factories in general or producing other things.

So less in big name end user products, a lot in terms of "drive around EU and you can purchase everything to build any kind of factory"

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overstay8930 wrote: post #269
whatisthiseven wrote: post #221

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So after your basic premise was demonstrated false, you instead just deflect to a nothing statement that couldn't be more false? "Apple is good" "no, they aren't" "for every bad app Apple let's on the platform that makes them extremely rich that they will never ban, and all the spam apps they seem un able to ban, there are definitely way more malware on the play store because Google lets people do whatever" Which is…

The basic premise isn’t false, you just decided it was. Snapchat and Instagram did irreparable damage to Android’s reputation for an entire generation of people because of how relaxed Google’s restrictions were on lazy developers.

Instagram, the application that was so infamously Apple-only for a long time that there was public backlash for making an android version, when one of the main reasons for not having android app was simply that they had a small team and wanted to avoid splitting effort?

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tristor wrote: post #300
ta1243 wrote: post #97

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You hate (not dislike, actively hate ) 861/2007, the European Small Claims procedure? and 1007/2011, you are really that opinionated on textile fibre names?

I realize you are using these examples as something so innocuous and inoffensive nobody would oppose such regulation. However, you clearly have not read either regulation in full and with due consideration of its effects. You can form your own judgments, but these regulations are not without tradeoffs. Take 1007/2011, on one hand this just centralizes and codifies some existing regulations to reduce country-specific…

Possibly stupid question, but for novel material, why can't you use entry 48 in table 2 of Annex I, which is "descriptive" naming scheme for things outside current list? Plus a bunch of the current standard names includes very generic terms.

Blends are accepted with the descriptive names.

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

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Post by p_l »

RandomLensman wrote: post #446
epistasis wrote: post #438

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My main source of the idea comes from Timothy Snyder, who argues primarily based on timing. European countries continued wars after WW2, just their imperial wars, against the people that they didn't think deserved having national self determination. And as the big maritime empires lost an imperial war, that's when they joined the EU. The Dutch and French lose their colonies, time to join up. UK lost their empire late…

Thanks. The French lost most of their colonies later than the concept/creation European Coal and Steel Community, for example, and the UK joined much later. My impression was that in the late 1940s/early 1950s some of the ideas around overcoming the old animosity between France and Germany were genuine (at least from listening to people around at the time). On some of the later moves I have less insight into - perhap…

Some of the ideas were related to avoiding another Treaty of Versailles issues with Ruhr and other border regions, and stopping effective implementation of Morgenthau plan (which had inane idea of effective depopulation by starvation and total destruction of industry in Germany, leaving a small pastoral population) that was ongoing, while avoiding considerable opposition from population to any idea where germany might endanger others again.

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ajuc wrote: post #467
s_dev wrote: post #270

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Germany holds a lot of sway in the EU. My point is that Germany didn't do this unilaterally.

No, they did it bilaterally (with Russia) because France didn't mind. This is the problem with EU.

Because even the countries publicly opposing might have ultimately voted for, or fucked up their vote.

For example on Nord Stream 2, there was a polish vote "yes", despite there being a lot of very public opposition from the government to it - NS2 was regularly used as part of scaremongering tactics about germans.

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Post by overstay8930 »

p_l wrote: post #512
overstay8930 wrote: post #269

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The basic premise isn’t false, you just decided it was. Snapchat and Instagram did irreparable damage to Android’s reputation for an entire generation of people because of how relaxed Google’s restrictions were on lazy developers.

Instagram, the application that was so infamously Apple-only for a long time that there was public backlash for making an android version, when one of the main reasons for not having android app was simply that they had a small team and wanted to avoid splitting effort?

You forgot about the 10 years that the instagram app just used the camera preview for pictures (as did snapchat), and now the average person thinks Android phones have bad cameras.

That's how badly Google mishandled Android, they listened to smooth brained tech bros who thought giving developers freedom would be a good idea, and Apple has always said they would ruin the user experience. Years later that "closed" ecosystem is so good Google has to beg lawmakers to let them access it because now there's a whole generation of people who see Android as a steaming pile of garbage, because it's exactly what Google let it become to the average person.

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maxwell wrote: post #503
piva00 wrote: post #492

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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,…

Yes, but voting is up to the States. They're free to adopt RCV, as we have here in Maine. Or ban it, as in five other States. But only Congress can repeal the Apportionment Act of 1929. https://nocapfund.org 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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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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deanishe wrote: post #508
roenxi wrote: post #458

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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.

> the people who can afford international travel. 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.

Turns out to be a surprisingly hard question to answer; so I'm going with such people will exist but I'm not sure how many there are. But regardless, that is a list of things that are either mainly to be enjoyed by people who are well off or (ironically and opposite) part of a program of enabling cheap labourers to migrate large distances.

And I'm not against either of those things, both are good. But it is funny how one comment is complaining about doing things that are good for business and the wealthy, then the next comment was celebrating the same.

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Post by ajuc »

p_l wrote: post #515
ajuc wrote: post #467

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No, they did it bilaterally (with Russia) because France didn't mind. This is the problem with EU.

Because even the countries publicly opposing might have ultimately voted for, or fucked up their vote. For example on Nord Stream 2, there was a polish vote "yes", despite there being a lot of very public opposition from the government to it - NS2 was regularly used as part of scaremongering tactics about germans.

Could you link the vote you mentioned?

AFAIR Poland blocked it several times, including in 2015 and 2021. I googled a bit and couldn't see any EU vote in which Poland supported Nord Stream 2.

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Post by p_l »

ajuc wrote: post #519
p_l wrote: post #515

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Because even the countries publicly opposing might have ultimately voted for, or fucked up their vote. For example on Nord Stream 2, there was a polish vote "yes", despite there being a lot of very public opposition from the government to it - NS2 was regularly used as part of scaremongering tactics about germans.

Could you link the vote you mentioned? AFAIR Poland blocked it several times, including in 2015 and 2021. I googled a bit and couldn't see any EU vote in which Poland supported Nord Stream 2.

I will dig it out - it was effectively deep in the minutiae of arranging framework plans (which are nonetheless important for setting future direction of big infrastructure projects like this).

It wasn't only vote, but by being careless earlier I think at least polish representatives reduced our chances of blocking NS2

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