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we have been living in the US sovereignty until now, if you don't trust me ask, the people behind, The pirate bay, Dmitri Sklyarov or Kim dot com.

Instead of destroying the unsold clothes in Europe,

they are already being sent to Chile or Ghana to be destroyed there.

When we piss everyone off in the EU tech company growth gets kneecapped and limited to US

well, you can finally hardcode the date in mm/dd/yy format without worrying for a menu to change it.

I just want to appreciate how well written and thought out this was

Cath church is well famous on writing good things and then failing at putting them in practice. It took up to 1992 to see an official pardon to Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) we are still missing few words on people like Giordano Bruno, killed with fire because he dared to speculate of life outside of earth.

I personally find this piece of text over closer to a philosophic rant rather than an accurate analysis of the current situation.

The commitment to ensuring that AI always supports and promotes the supreme value of the dignity of every human being and the fullness of the human vocation serves as a criterion of discernment for developers, owners, operators, and regulators of AI, as well as to its users. It remains valid for every application of the technology at every level of its use.

this is being said by the organisation who decided american natives were lacking souls and therefore could be killed, the very same organisation who helped promoting slavery across the world, in the 2nd world war worked together with nazis and it is well known it supported far right governments in south america in the 1970's . the very same organisation against promoting condom use in Africa to prevent and contain AIDS .

54. Furthermore, there is the risk of AI being used to promote what Pope Francis has called the “technocratic paradigm,” which perceives all the world’s problems as solvable through technological means alone.[106] In this paradigm, human dignity and fraternity are often set aside in the name of efficiency, “as if reality, goodness, and truth automatically flow from technological and economic power as such.”[107] Yet, human dignity and the common good must never be violated for the sake of efficiency,[108] for “technological developments that do not lead to an improvement in the quality of life of all humanity, but on the contrary, aggravate inequalities and conflicts, can never count as true progress.”[109] Instead, AI should be put “at the service of another type of progress, one which is healthier, more human, more social, more integral.”[110]

TL;DR yes you can use AI but for few things, for other matters please refer to your local community priest

cortana plays me star wars imperial march. pretty please

Protesting without providing alternatives is futile and counter-productive.

Alternatives are suggested but they are largely ignored, postponed to the next legislation, criticized (with no scientific evidence) and finally hijacked by fake environmentalist who are just creating disinformation for their own interest/agenda

because my transaction is a legitimate one until proven otherwise (innocent until proven guilty principle), and i have the right to buy something without letting my bank know what or where i bough it.

I could or could not disclose that payment to my government depending on the laws and if there are fiscal benefits, it is my choice. I should not be forced to use a middle man for those payments, even if this means i am open to be scammed or victim of fraud.

now, as other mentioned, what are some good reasons to FORCE ONLY electronic payments above 3000€ ?

no they are not, unless by mafia you are generalizing the term "organized chrime"

his party seems the less dangerous because all the others have trained in the last 20 years to mimic it, while trying to seem different.

his party symbolise and perfectly represent the modern core of what is rotten in italian politic..and in the way - most - italian thinks

while i agree that "taking away the all wealth of rich people and divide it among all people" is simply unrealistic, wrong and unpractical, i do believe we could ask the wealthier more "effort" than the actual one, without having to recreate a "ussr 2.0" or worst go again for that awful original "experience".

SEPA transfers take 30 seconds to clear.

not entirely true, there are several countries in europe in which a SEPA transfer is shown in the beneficiary the next day, the most famous one being Italy. Italy also being the one with specific laws against mafia and terrorism, therefore such transfer would require you to add some additional papers.

> thats the safest transaction for both sides that's literally the less safe!

well so it's a bank transfer because once the money has been sent you cannot get it back, the bank acts only on specific cases.

there's literally a million of cases of scams via ebay or similar that involved bank transfers and for which the bank was just "sorry".

If you are buying something worth more than 10k and you need it now, something's obviously not right.

you are confusing "out of the ordinary" with "not right" and i'd like to remind you our legal systems in EU are still based on "innocent until proven guilty" principle.

Toyota is just stubbornly refusing to take the L on their 30 years of research into this. I don't blame them, but I'm not them, so I'll call it how it is.

no Toyota is just not buying the "all in" bet on EV, and they keep researching on other alternatives such as Mirai with fuel cells; the article is quite clear on that.

this imho makes Toyota more reliable than other manufactures who are running at making only SUVs with shitload of batteries just to please the market, greenwashing and not innovating at all.

in italy there are laws against fascism and fascist and having a political party that is fascists, just because she's from right that doesn't mean she is a fascist because that would be illegal.

well there was already someone named draghi , plural for dragon

As someone who would want to be a vegan but struggles not to eat meat

going off topic, i think that being vegan/vegetarian for 5-6 days a week and one when you eat meat would still help .

Finally its not a great solution for the elderly and has some risks.

it's not a great solution either to have elderly people in a car where one of their mistakes couuld kill people; but it is more accepted this as a "fatality".

btw there are lots of solutions of mobility for elders that do not include a car.

this is exactly why i added a fake camera in front of my door.

no it was not taxation but legal reasons. as it takes years in italy to get a decision from judges.

The Netherlands entire business is to be a tax haven inside the EU market.

while taxation in NL is lower than other countries like italy or French, it is not a tax haven, which is a precise definition that involves also border line legal activities.

what you maybe mean is that NL was able to lower taxes on companies because they understand their values, while other nations decided to go for a "tax the sh*t out of everything" and now they are surprised that companies are closing or moving to other nations.

the actual reasons for FCA and Mediaset to move to NL was more about legal : on average in italy you get a decision in 5 years, in NL on average it takes 6 months.

This is one of those confusing things as immigrant in NL, on one side the toleration allows all those weekend smokers tourism, especially in amsterdam and it helps the economy (well, debatable) but then the whole coffee shop activity (you can sell but you can't buy) is clearly borderline illegal and by legalizing it could help put under the sun a lots of underground world.

and maybe hit on those narco gangs which looks like are behind de Vries assassination

Our prime minister in NL recently got away with using a Nokia 3310 to circumvent SMS retention law

that's not entirely correct but people can read more here for example:

https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/politiek/71fd3bb2-b74b-4f4f-...

in this case the situation is far worse and the whole debate on the lack of transparency on decisions taken to fight sars-cov-2 pandemic in eu is something lots of people are protesting .

the two "why" laptops before the frame.work laptop are ranked 97.6 which is rounded to 98 and then 9,8 as score; the frame.work is ranked 97.0 without rounding so it ends being 9,7 .

the frame.work gets a higher score on the ease of disassembly and the tools you need to disassemble, but it gets a lower score on the documentation ( <flame> maybe documentation is not in french </flame> ) and on the price ratio for the component; probably frame.work parts are a bit more expensive in comparison with the price of the laptop.

the same argument might work for walking, but none is suggesting to have helmets while walking

if someone gets access to your phone they can do way more damage, but this is accepted.

Indeed, people should not be forced and they should be able to choose. And depending where they live different rules could apply.

for example if you live in the city there's no point on having a car and you should rely on a bicycle and public transports

if you live in a rural area you should be able to get some of the electricity you need from solar panels and windmills.

we have room to allow choices and live more sustainable, without forcing one way of thinking to everyone..in the same it was done with this car centric world

Well the main issue in italy is not lack of funding or lack of talent but rather the amount of taxation companies had to go through and the uncertainty behind a big and complex legal system which makes an average of 8 years for civil processing .

these two things alone and the fact there are better places in europe to make a startup (hint: netherlands, germany, france, czech republic, romania, poland) makes me wonder if they will succeed or is this a way to collect IP rather than helping idea to grow? maybe they saw that this is exactly what most of incubators are doing, in the end lots of startups in Italy were made by university professors making startups out of a research paper from one of their student, so i can see why an incubator could be interested in this.

yes i know, sorry for the negativity i've been there and i experienced this first hand.

i guess this is the course you are referring to: https://course.fast.ai/

Because people can decide to go live in another place, quit their job and get another one in the new place.

One of the reason some people do not move is due to being comfortable and at travel distance to their job.

Under this light you can see what happened to several European cities with high rent due to University: as soon as Covid made students go home to their parents as classes were online, there was a huge drop in rent prices.

Am i the only one confused by this part ?

I looked at the energy usage data from our Nest thermostat and discovered that those levels corresponded almost exactly with the times that our gas furnace was on.

Another way of seeing this could be that nest is turning on the heat between 2am and 7am, and it looks like the author was not aware of this. so yeah the gas stove is bad but not as much as the heating system, and the fact that a "smart thermostat" turns it on at night when it should be less useful.