Jdam
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I just read a bit on that site:
> The private person used a dashcam to make recordings of public road traffic and then published them on YouTube as a compilation.
What a PATHETIC thing this GDPR is. Fully agree that we should admit that GDPR is a massive failure (who would have thought!)
Greetings from a European.
BS. My area had fibre since the 80s or 90s and that's why we had to have dial-up until early 2000s. Early DSL only worked through copper.
Literally any discussion about EU vs US:
„But what about healthcare??“
Disclaimer: I’m European.
If this doesn't apply to the UK as well, it is not enough. I would like to see a flyover ban as well, as PIA flies through the EU to the UK.
I'm following the aviation industry closely and there are plenty of reports every now and then where PIA flights don't respond on radio anymore, triggering fighter intercepts. It is assumed that those pilots are oftentimes either sleeping or just don't bother because of their ego, which was built in their former careers as military pilots.
I don't want to have PIA planes crashing into others or falling on my head.
> Living in a country with an extremely efficient police department is not fun either. See: China and Singapore.
I lived in Singapore it was one of the best times of my life. But you know what? I never even saw the police there. I can't even tell you how their uniform or cars look like. But also I didn't smoke pot or vandalised; I respected the rules that that community set up.
because they are not well connected to politics.
My favorite Siri moment since like iOS 7 is when I ask Siri to turn off all alarms:
".......... one moment please ........... there's a problem with the network connection".
No. There. Is. Not. In fact, all alarms always get deactivated. All other queries immediately before or after work fine.
The failure rate when I ask that is no less than 100% for me. Just sad.
I'm a huge aviation nerd and super curious about the impact of covid on that market. I've built a website that tracks which aircraft type flew where over the last days and what the average number of flights per day for that type is and was:
http://www.flightstats.pro/
It already works well, but there's still a lot to do, like showing aircraft routes on a map.
The overall data provides a nice trend that is statistically stable, but since free aircraft data is hard to come by, coverage of regions that are not Europe or North America is not that great unfortunately.
I'm originally from the Rhine river area and I still spend time there. It's certainly true that the water level was low this summer, but it was an exceptionally long and hot summer. I found interesting that my grandma labeled the it "a summer like the summers we were used to long time ago".
There's even a famous german song "Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?" (When will we have a real summer again?).
Btw since it was basically constantly raining from Oct-Dec, the river replenished really quickly.
I‘ve worked at a major company that is more or less controlled by Rocket and my direct neighbor was the Germany-CEO of one of their successfuller ventures, so I think I have a rather good picture of Rocket. However, I think they have not met expectations. They have not become huge, and are just doing okay, what I consider as a failure, given their goals.
I‘d have been eligible for EXIST, but that program is a bad joke. 100k for 3 persons for one year before tax? C‘mon. That is financial sucide, if you’re in tech these days.
I’ve lived in Berlin for some years. What I‘ve seen from most of the startup scene there was that people are more collecting memories than building businesses. The predominant mindset was like „we don’t want to take over the world and we will most likely fail anyway“.
The successful ones, like Dubsmash, leave for the US after a while.
If I, as a German, was to create a startup in Europe today, I’d do so in London.
You mean like the CBP database that stores a fresh picture of my face [and other data] whenever I enter the US?
Have you ever heard about that thing called fog?
As a European, I wish I could just say the same :/
> After this goes through I will become a single-issue voter, to leave the EU.
Same. This institution has given me enough. Not only in tech.
It takes more than 2 days to flesh out those deals.
not op but it lacks a proper, modern ui. Recently, I needed to remove myself from a schedule and a team, took me 10 minutes.
Be sad at your politicians. They allow for it. This tax avoidance scheme is known for years now and nobody takes action, so it must be okay for them.
And as a public company, it is your obligation to not spend more money on tax than you are legally obliged to, unless you’re doing charity.
Citation needed for like everything in your first and last paragraph.
I was promised Moon bases, farms and hotels by now and all we got is the information that there’s ice at the poles?!
Why do you mention a low salary is cool? Is that a mistake?
> the salary is 2 to 3 times less
so it’s negative?
> If I pay with a credit card I have level of protection. When I put my money in a bank the money is insured. Crypto is simply too risky as a way of storing money and trading.
People actually realize that an anonymous, autonomous & decentralized system is not always desirable.
On the landing page, you can see that it’s debit.
The USB controller is unrelated to USB power supply.
Oh, if Chrome does it, it’s totally fine for Firefox to do it, too!!
Wait, why am I not using Chrome then in the first place?