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According to [1], what happened was that volunteers were recognised as workers by ECJ and as such their time on call at home can count towards their weekly worked time. An older directive (2003) sets out a maximum working time which I am sure nobody is complaining about, and if anything in many member states people claim to be working to many hours. Individuals can and could previously opt-out of these limits. Nothing new under the sun here.

It is also clear that no "regultation" is being planned.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2019-00020...

The OP said that Apple doesn't have to support older devices because they are antiquated as far as performance goes. So I gave an example where software was supported for far longer during bigger increases in performance.

You are saying that as long as the OEM updates drivers for components support is possible. I agree. This is a reason why Android is often not updated even in the modding community (Qualcomm is not releasing drivers). If only Apple was responsible for both the software and hardware... Oh wait...

But in Europe this often goes hand-in-hand with mandatory schooling while in US people sort themselves by dropping out.

Microsoft supported Windows XP for 12 years, Windows 7 for 10 years (+4 years if you are willing to pay for extended support). During the lifespan of XP the Moore's law was very much working.

EMH says that prices reflect information, if anything it's a statement about the mean/expected return. What you are probably referring to is CAPM which has this baked in as an assumption on people's preferences.

It is also much less useful, requiring you to hover over an element to get any information, including the name of the element.

VAT is a tax on consumption, corporate taxes are on profits (revenues in this case). If Amazon does not have to pay as high corporate taxes due to transfer pricing, then it can offer a lower net (pre-VAT) price so their products end up being cheaper to consumers driving away sales from other retailers. While competition, you may say it is 'unfair' competition.

And yes, this makes it very hard for new businesses to enter the market as they do not have the resources necessary to do tax optimization.

About Gadfly. If you were plotting it in a notebook then the default is to make it an interactive figure. In that case a lot of overhead comes from the browser trying to render it. You can explicitly invoke e.g., draw(SVG(10cm,10cm), plot(...)) to make it much faster.

Just because the seller is responsible for transferring the tax revenue to the tax office does not mean that the seller is the one paying it.

What competitors will Amazon have in France if all the local competitors cannot escape paying local corporate taxes and Amazons of the word just throw a few millions at lawyers to shop around for the most convenient tax haven.

Thanks for that! I was not aware of this.

SsfPack will still be faster though and be less memory hungry than Python. On the brief look I had, it also seems that the nonlinear/non-Gaussian simulation methods are not implemented.

SsfPack [1] is a great implementation if you are willing to suffer through Ox.

[1] http://www.ssfpack.com/

Lenses are sold as discs and cut to the shape of your frames in store.

It is actually not. I've been labelled anything between 22 and 65. It is not only wrong, but also not accurate about it (large variance).

And it applies to people who are in the EU. So all these people have to do to get their data is to book a plane ticket into any EU country.

First thing I thought is now people are going to be looking for people having sex in the windows. I guess my expectations were too low.

I might have been unlucky then, but the one machine I was in contact with before I ceded all responsibility on my host was Japanese only.

I have not said that it is not worth it. But it really depends on the business and the arrangement. Some banks charge you a fixed minimum rate making small purchases relatively more expensive for the seller.

There are fintech companies that make transfers between countries painless and cheap.

They would have to pay commission on every transaction to whoever owns the terminal and the network.

Cash is not one of those things though. Nor is the system of buying metro tickets with cash only and without an option to change language.

I didn't try with WeChat but I did try with AliPay. You can register your non-Chinese card, but it will not let you pay with it.

Most of the terminals I see are NFC ready, but NFC payments are not enabled. In particular, ICA has Yomani terminals and does not accept cards not issued by them. In other countries NFC has been introduced years ago. In the Netherlands, most of the cards were replaced in 2013 and the full rollout of the tech was in 2014. The fact that a card is valid for longer does not mean that it cannot be replaced beforehand.

The article makes Sweden into something it is not. First, Swedes are not as eager to adapt new technologies as it may seem from the text. Case in point, NFC is just arriving in the country and in one of the main grocery shops, that has its own bank as well, you can only use store cards this way. A small subset of cards are also still swipe-only. In all honesty, Poland seems like a better example of this as it is effectively the sandbox of Europe for consumer finance.

Second, this trend is visible in many countries in Europe. In my 7 years in the Netherlands before I moved to Sweden, it would be unusual for me to have any cash on me and in recent years the number of 'pin' (card) only points of sale there has been growing tremendously.

People in the Nordic countries have a different expectation of privacy. Just search for the plethora of papers in economics and finance that use "Swedish/Danish/Finnish data". While anonymized, you can get a look at spending and investment of the whole population. After you move to a new place, you get a personalized onslaught of mail welcoming you the neighbourhood. Everything you do is connected to the personnummer (social security number), including loyalty cards in shops.

I found it hard to figure out where this could fit in my job as a researcher. I mean even a potential use case. I was ready to give up, but since you are EU based I'll try harder now.

I'd say marriage equality goes deeper than GDPR.

In Sweden you cannot fire people on permanent contracts (that you need to give after 2 years) if you still require their work, i.e., you cannot fire someone without cause and then hire someone else to their exact job. In the Netherlands it is also extremely difficult to get rid of an employee with a permanent contract that you need to eventually give to them. In all cases I personally know of, permanent contract employees were basically paid by the company to agree to leave.

Reminds me of the joke about interpreters at the European Parliament. It goes something like this: there are always 3 waves of laughter when an MEP says something funny. First are the natives, then most of others who rely on translation, last are the Germans who wait for the verb.

It wants brightcove.