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Interesting is also the mistranslation of "Dame", a lady from a wealthy family, as 'princess'.

This is a governor's wife, not a princess.

Such projects are EU funded but in fact implemented through national or regional programmes agreed by the regional authorities... So it's usually at that level that favouritism or corruption plays in.

Even the concrete and steel houses often start with wood framing of some sort and end with wood as a structural part of any ceilings and roofs. Not to mention stairs, room structures/interior walls, ...

Few buildings in Europe are today solely made from wood, but nearly every building will be part wood. From the frame on which walls and floors are built up with other materials up to the roof where for most houses the very structure is made from wood, it's clear wood is one of the most essential building components. To be honest I struggle to think of any building I've ever seen that has no wood - except for semi-subterranean structures or those built out of natural structures I can't think of any.

I guess you miss the selling point(s) as you see the phone only as its final product and the direct benefits to you. That has never been the ambition. Here's why I bought Fairphones for my family:

* Fair supply chains. This was their original selling point and is still an incredible unique feature. They changed cobalt and copper supply chains and established tracing mechanisms that now other manufacturers can also use.

* Self-repairable. I switched two screens so far, probably not a huge cost difference to the neighbourhood dirty phone repair shop, but I feel better about it.

* Social enterprise, giving back to the community

* Nice to know my funds go mostly to a good cause and everyone in the supply and production chain is treated well (they even pay a premium to manufacturers so workers at the assembly line get paid a fair wage).

I am well aware it's not the best phone. It's rather clunky, camera used to be weak (got much better with the latest update), and I had some small issues. But overall a solid phone, I support a de kind of ecosystem that really improves things down the line and I don't need to feed Sony or Apple execs money.

EU legislation generally sets a maximum, but then you also have to prove proportionality to determine the actual amount (damage done + fine). Any such amount will certainly get challenged in the courts, so the Commission will get its ducks in a row before actually settling on a number.

I'm sorry that you have such an emotional reaction about a company being threatened with a fine (not even penalised yet) for harmful behaviour which they could immediately choose to stop if they'd want to.

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Two scenarios: Company A violates consumer rights. Government does nothing, consumers continue to get ripped off.

Company B violates consumer rights. Government threatens fines. Company either fixes the problem (consumer hsrm reduced) or eats the fine (and the money can be used to pay for useful stuff). Either way, they can no longer gain by tipping off consumers and have every reason to stop if the fine may be repeated for a repeat offender.

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Calculating on global profits is standard practice and is done the same theme the US calculates fines (depending on what the fine is about - you might have different reference points for different harm). This is the only solution as otherwise companies will play the usual whack-a-mole where they create an "affiliate Europe" that is legally separate but pays 100% of its net profits as a licensing fee for the brand name to the parent company, thus making 0€ (more difficult to play this game with gross sales, but there are still plenty of ways to fudge those numbers).

The EU has its own subsidy programmes as well but it is a lot more complex. You need 27 governments to agree to make something happen, from 400.000 people Malta to 80.000.000 million people Germany. The small countries are terrified to be squashed by German and French power to give subsidies to their own national company, ruining the single market.

In fact you have the same issue in the US but the states have no direct say, and statistics are not done the same way - so you don't see the impact the same way and don't have discussions the same way.

Yes but Spotify gets only 70% of that cut while apple gets 100%. Without the apple tax Spotify might be able to either go down in price or increase quality/breadth/payouts to creators/other offerings/... The market is distorted and you pay more and get less if one monopoly takes all others for a ride.

You might enjoy this as well, similar big picture and fascinating, but a bit more scientific and focused on the human element.

> The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Why would they do that? U.S. military vessels were already attacked so they need no further casus belli if they wanted war. On the contrary Huthis have announced that they intend to cut cables. So the responsibility is rather easy to point to.

Nothing illogical, Russia had been limiting supply due to supposed technical reasons for months before, with a clear intention to empty European/German reserves. Look at the charts of gas flows and storage prior to the war and the literally hindreds or news articles on this.

You should probably put this in quotes as OOP is disseminating russian propaganda.

Sorry but you seem to be repeating russian war propaganda. The U.S. sabotaging north stream makes zero sense and Russia was already arbitrarily and randomly limiting supply through North stream for months before. That Russia was involved is pretty much fact and established by several western intelligence reports. The only other possible part with a good cause would be Ukraine but they'd be stupid to sabotage the pipeline and alienate all their essential allies.

Counterexample: If a set of IPs consistently and intentionally run DDoS to shut down small sites or e.g. newspapers, should the government not intervene? If they cannot stop, say, the russian government from running such attacks would it not be the only route to block such IPs?

You would not filter based on the delivery man but based on the sender. If you know someone sends bombs or drugs in the mail but you cannot stop them initiating parcels, you would find ways to stop the parcels halfway. Physical mail is scanned in the real world, and customs stop stuff from entering the country - so the analogy is already reality!

In theory this would also work for IPs if not for the IP laundering OOP criticised.

Cloudflare chooses to hide thousands of IPs on a single IP - this is a technical choice, not a system necessity. There are of course many reasons for those and many of them legitimate, but it doesn't mean this is the right approach (and with IPv6 certainly other options are possible...)

How is that related? It also happened a week ago, while this is new. Houthis cause as much havoc as they want, presumably to someday get a decent deal at the negotiating table.

I guess it's more that it is difficult to ensure freedoms when people stay 'voluntarily' and don't speak out. There are similar stories about Chinese clothing factories based in Italy (thus: close to Chinese prices but "Made in Italy" labels). Workers without any locally relevant language skills are brought there, housed in Company housing, eat from canteen/company shops with produce they know, etc. Hard to fight if all the formalities of labour law are respected and the employees do not speak out against abuse/actual reality of implementation. Very similar to how U.S. companies, in particular the slaughterhouses are known to work, with often irregular migrants employed for their wonderful exploitation potential. You won't speak out if you think you'll be deported and can't suppor your starving family back home... And of course even much worse is known from the seafood sector, where notably Chinese vessels essentially enslave south east asian workers - where are you going to go when locked on a tiny boat...?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-wo...

https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/made-in-italy-by-chinese-...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/the-crimes-beh...

It's a member of the European parliament asking a question to the European Commission (the EU executive). The reply is linked at the top of the page, but note that both question and answer are by now quite dated.

> Overall, at the end of 2016, 630 North-Korean citizens were holding a valid residence permit in the EU for work purposes, predominantly in Poland (534).[1]

> When processing the applications for residence permits for work purposes, it is the responsibility of the national authorities to check that the conditions are fulfilled, in line with the EU acquis on legal migration, working conditions and on health and safety at work.

> The EU acquis on legal migration ensures that third-country nationals working in the EU benefit from equal treatment with nationals in terms of remuneration, access to social security systems and other conditions of employment. It is the responsibility of the national authorities, including the labour inspectorates, police and judicial authorities to ensure that the prohibition of forced labour is enforced.

> The Commission will keep monitoring the transposition and application of the different instruments by Poland.

Fully agree, this is unscientific nonsense trying to model an incredibly hard to model thing. People seem to just Google papers that support their worldview without even bothering to read them.

I feel like many people (men) here seem to live in a different planet than me. Women care so much less about wealth and looks than men think. Be a nice person, caring, reasonably fun to take with, ensure basic hygiene and carry your part of emotional and household duties and there are plenty of women out there who would be interested. But that also requires going out and meeting real women at work or in leisure environments they enjoy.

Honestly it is quite staggering how easy many fellow men find it to blame women for all supposed dating unfairness, but most do not even a basic own effort (or do so once and then give up when it doesn't work). Take care of yourself, have some hobbies and dare to talk to new people. And stop blaming others or the system or an amorphous and diverse group like women which make up more than 50% of the population for your own unhappiness.

To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office:

https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...

I use AdGuard home as part of my HomeAssistant setup and have had no problem at all. Only thing is to turn off the enforced safe search as that quite reduces results.

All depends on the setup. Pizza delivery run by the individual small shop has worked for 50+ years; they pay two cooks and two drivers and a waiter and feed hundreds of people a night while earning just fine. A single place to order all food from all restaurants at any point? Well something needs to give...

Alternatively it's simply time for people to learn to cook simple foods again, a pasta with alfredo sauce, fried potatoes with eggs and a salad, or a spinach quiche (with a 1€ supermarket crust) are all quicker to make myself than I get through any app's ordering process (ignoring here the waiting time for both processes to finish).

Wonderful project, congratulations! I love the speed, clean design, many options, multilingual results, overall very impressive!!

Some quibbles/points to consider: * I can't find anything on the people/organisation behind, and can onl guess from the Terms that the team is based in DK. * Search results are broad and interesting, maybe a bit more weighting for the joint occurrence of terms would be great. * Developing a site weight over time might be interesting, maybe even with user votes. Currently minor and major sites appear all together and e.g. a search for "Donald" gives me an interesting ranking order that gives neither the most famous Donald's nor the most reliable sites firet (not problematic per se - my fault for entering an unclear search term) * There are some interesting result patterns, with often official sites quite low. For instance search for "EU" with some term like subsidy (in any of the languages I speak) gives me random project websites but nothing from any of the official EU websites, or "Microsoft 365" (sorry...) gives me no MS website. * Very minor but hopefully a very easy fix: at least on Firefox mobile there is no direct way to add the search to my search engines, I had to add it manually. For other engines I can long press.on the search field and then get the option.

Great work, keep it up! I will certainly start using this :-)

I am on Manjaro linux and use KDEconnect, which is excellent in sending things between devices, including phone-laptop exchange.

Oxfam does PR but they are first and foremost a charity feeding and providing shelter and healthcare to millions around the world. Maybe the perspective they take is influenced.by their staff watching people suffer and die from preventable deaths each year.

I would love to hear someone sa similar thing about Coca Cola or Kellogg's "Oh they pump out all this propaganda".

Why is it not true? Sure stock value is more or less theoretical but this is not all stock. Any euro or dollar going towards Amazon or Tesla shareholders does not feed back into the local economy and cannot support roads, kindergartens and retirement homes.

I also see very innocuous reasons for selecting those dates: for instance if you want to show what happened "since COVID hit us" this is indeed the fully correct choice.

But irrespective of the dates chosen, even your carefully selected counter-data shows a 30% increase in wealth for the richest in about 2 1/2 years. Even those of us dabbling in stocks must find this increase mind-boggling, also as it continues a seemingly indefinite trend. The rich are getting richer, whether it's by 30% or 100% in 2 years it is damaging to our societies and means millions more continue to suffer as resources are used for private enrichment at a level that does not even bring these rich anything beyond vanity value.