Doesn't it mean you're now dependent on the US (and our particular politics) as well as the middle eastern oil monarchies? Or is the idea to try to source all of the EU energy needs independently?
Yes, it is exactly that.
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It says here that fraud happened on german side. The chinese company reported that documents have been modified on the german controlling side without their approval, and that potential fraud is happening and they should investigate. However nothing was done.
"Dabei waren die Gefahren Geld nach China zu zahlen für solche Projekte dem Bundesumweltministerium eigentlich bekannt. Zuletzt im April meldete sich ein chinesischer Öl- und Gaskonzern von selbst bei dem von Steffi Lemke (Grüne) geführten Umweltministerium und erklärte deutlich, dass von Betrugsfällen auszugehen ist. „Wir vermuten, dass es eine hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit gibt, dass Dokumente gefälscht wurden und wir bitten dringend, dass Ihre Behörde dazu ermittelt“, teilte der chinesische Konzern dem Ministerium mit. Dieses wimmelte wohl ab, wie die Welt berichtet. Deutsche Prüfstellen haben anscheinend einige Daten der Anlagen des chinesischen Unternehmens geändert und ohne dessen Zustimmung verwendet. "
bluelu commented on Marcus.com locked me out of my account and retains control of my life savings · Posted by u/vinse
Hi,
It's marked in the thread you referenced that Marcus only excepts US based customers.
I assume it is best to close your account with them and let them transfer the remaining balance to your European bank.
Not sure how you can achieve that now, since you probably lied/faked to them before that you were still living in the USA, and your account is flagged now.
I also don't believe filing will complaints will help, since you seem to be at fault here, and they have to lock your account for compliance and security reasons.
When you unlock your account, I strongly also suggest that you use your local bank to exchange the currency (or Marcus and make a € transfer). IB currency exchange is meant for trading purposes, not for exchanging currencies:
See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivebrokers/comments/ywj5hw/...
What do you think will happen when a transfer in $ comes into a newly opened account, you convert it to €, and then cash out to a European € account. All alarm flags will probably go off, as this is classic money laundering. I would definitely ask their ok in advance and provide them documentation on where the money comes from, before trying to exchange money through their platform.
Depending on how large your transfer is, any european bank will flag the transfer and you have to provide proof of the source of wealth. It's best to provide that documentation beforehand, because otherwise your funds will be blocked for a few days too before you can access them.
Also, in case you have signed a "compromis de vente" without a suspension clause (e.g. that the contract is void if the bank doesn't finance the acquisition, or something similar), then yes you are on the hook for the 10% in case you don't go to the notary in time to buy the house/appartment.
Good luck!
bluelu commented on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn
John Gruber’s take should make folks think twice about what’s going on here:
“”” What makes this all the more outrageous is that many major publishers in the EU use this exact same “pay or OK” model to achieve GDPR compliance — and none offer a free alternative with non-targeted ads. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Der Spiegel to offer free access without ads. Christ, they don’t even let you look at their homepage without paying or consenting to targeted ads. And Spotify quite literally brags about its ad targeting. But Spotify is an EU company, so of course it wasn’t designated as a “gatekeeper” by the protection racketeers running the European Commission.
They’re not saying “pay or OK” is illegal. They’re saying it’s illegal only if you’re a big company from outside the EU with a very popular platform. “””
They explicitly added an exception later on for newspapers (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114111)
I had a similar bug more than 10 years ago, also while building a search index through Lucene. It would crash after hours of running with an impossible nullpointer exception. It always appeared after running for hours, and running that specific iteration would not trigger the exception, so hard to reproduce.
Turned out it was a java jvm bug which was triggered when the jvm decided to recompile that code part since it was used more frequently.
Try running your code with the -server flag and see if that makes a difference.
bluelu commented on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boein... · Posted by u/ephesee
> FAA will never ban it because politically its untenable in the US
What are you basing this on?
Common sense
bluelu commented on EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
Disregarding the regulation itself - the logic you describe here is that non-EU competition isn't regulated, so EU shouldn't regulate anything to be competitive.
1- the EU didn't "miss the internet" because of regulatory policies. At least not regulations on the Internet.
2- even if that was the case, does it mean the EU should always level itself by the worst competitors?
3- and then, assuming it deregulated LLM, how would would it lead to a place where EU would suddenly becomes competitive on that market?
There is no fair use for copyright in Europe. That's the reason why we don't have any google here, and won't have any AI company here.
bluelu commented on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive deathbyai.gg... · Posted by u/overactor
Definitely helps by leading the prompt, I survived this scenario by saying I relaxed, focused and suddenly a familiar feeling returned as I remembered how to breath again :)
Another interesting one was where I was attacked by 500 puppies and just said I realized it was a dream and woke up safe in my bed.
I called for homelander to help and he incinerated the puppies with his laser vision while sporting an evil grin
I survived too, even though it was a desperate attempt :)
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No, that's not how it works. You can't do illegal things to someone on the basis that they consented. You can't go around killing people saying "well they were fine with it".
Similarly, Facebook can't be building profiles for people when that's illegal, whether they consent to it or not.
Newspapers in europe are allowed to do so too, why shouldn't facebook?