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Y-bar

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About Y-bar

I work with ecommerce in the EU

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49220512

    I’m quite sure Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, Jared Kushner, Sam Altman et al are unironically thinking that.

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    Comment #49219214

    The number is based on expected actual annual output in GWh, not theoretical maximum. We don’t really do gas peaker plants because they are so expensive and seldom needed here. htt…

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    Comment #49212632

    Nope. I don’t claim it to be undemocractic, I only insinuate that it is very stupid. And to be fully clear: I also think these people are hypocrites because they loudly proclaim in…

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    Comment #49209439

    Wind power is a purely commercial enterprise which only requires state support for permissions to build and permissions to connect to the grid. There is no issue about state suppor…

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    Comment #49208804

    When you say that the Greens provide subsidies to coal, but this can be found on a quick search… > The next fight is already brewing, over a Green push to accelerate the phase-out …

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    Comment #49198000

    More than eight minutes ago. At least.

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    Comment #49172349

    A sense of responsibility that the user experience should never be compromised. He never wanted to release Maps for example in the state it was, yet had to take the fall for its fa…

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    Comment #49155302

    I wanted to crack a joke that Swede's do like their stinky fermented fish, why not sell to them… But I figured why not see if other cultures might also like it, and was floored wit…

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    Comment #49151516

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/request https://munley.com/tag/request/ I’m not a US lawyer, but the word ”request” seems like it has a solid legal basis and can be used to compel …

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    Comment #49136718

    Am I missing something here? Why is this considered a noteworthy feature when my operating system has provided this API enabled by default for all text and document views for over …

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    Comment #49114177

    If a newly hired colleague lied like this I would strongly argue to my immediate superior to end their probation period/employment immediately.

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    Comment #49107901

    I am one of those. It generally goes like this: When we launch a site it is seldom more than perhaps Hotjar, Google Analytics, and two-three other services connected. And then thro…

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    Comment #49106697

    GDPR absolutely applies to apps, it applies to all manner of electronic and non-electronic means of data collection and processing. The G stands for General, and the EU means it.

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    Comment #49047879

    You say that as if I’m not acutely aware of the issues. I am ashamed that I am part of the problem.

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    Comment #49045256

    Don’t drag Presdient Camacho’s name through the dirt like that. He was a loving father. And as a president he identified a real issue the country was facing and when presented with…

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    Comment #49045150

    I didn’t ask for a single of these ”features” for example: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphfed2c4091/io... If our entire profession is unable to provide a better qu…

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    Comment #49035711

    Might be different in USA? But while just about every reimbursement or perk is indeed taxable here in the EU… It is also used as a measure of how much you earn when calculating une…

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    Comment #49034978

    Hate Week is every week I have to use Jira. Or SharePoint. Or Slack. Or Teams. Or Magento.

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    Comment #49034498

    It makes a difference to my experience as an end user and that is what I am talking about. I work in development and programming and with all the modern tools and testing framework…

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    Comment #49033756

    I think the flaws have moved. I remember Mac OS 7-8-9 (”Classic”) fondly and the suite of software I regularly used there. It crashed, and crashed hard, a few times per week. That …

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    Comment #49033246

    There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, you and I know that. The other major chain is a consumer’s cooperative, which is owned by the members and has no stock dividend or…

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    Comment #49018546

    Just because most of everything has a political angle/facet does not mean it defines my life as much as it seem to do to you. It just serves to help me articulate my choices in lif…

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    Comment #49018002

    > How do you know what the politics will be next? I was very tempted to reply with a ”always has been” astronaut meme, or possibly Morpheus ”what if I told you” meme. But I would n…

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    Comment #49017748

    Personally I would have gone for Lotus to avoid any naming confusions with other software.

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    Comment #48989525

    A high trust society is not only a measure of the relationship between civil population and the state, but also the interpersonal relationships among citizens. That said, bribery i…