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Unfortunately the title is very clickbaity, but I didn’t want to edit it. Here is the full title: Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa. Employees describe a division in cris…

Also see this Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/Chronotope/status/151390041563242... Vodafone is now testing a service that adds an ID to every request a user makes so tha…

Maybe we are talking about different things, but you can definitely pre-fill your tax form with employer and social security data in Germany. In that case, you only have to add inf…

Actually there is. There is a certain chance that you're unhappy with your fridge and you'll return it. So the assumption is that you are more likely to buy a different fridge than…

Very interesting. Looks a lot like zeebe [0], which uses BPMN for the workflow definition. This makes it easier to communicate the processes with the rest of the company. I never u…

They don’t need verification. In theory, you are supposed to have a direct debit mandate, but that is basically just a click. If you want to take out a direct debit you need to be …

Two options: 1) Free apps with advertisements. Paid apps are by far the minority. 2) I guess this statement is related to subscription models like spotify. If you acquire the user …

Yes, thanks, I've clarified this.

In addition there is a short PR statement available for media use: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

That’s not the experience I have with AWS. They are really trying to help you get the most out of their platform - including costs. I’m not saying their pricing is not confusing, b…

This is along the lines of "Ha, taking half the day off, are we?" when somebody leaves a little bit earlier than usual. It sounds like (just) a bad joke, but it has severe conseque…

I've been running a raspberry 3 with a cheap sandisk sd card for years now without any SD Card issues. It runs a DNS based ad-blocker and a vpn. I am logging everything to ram inst…

I believe the reply was focussed towards the gig economy and the use of venture capital to scale aggressively. I agree with a lot of points op is making, but when it comes to e.g. …

Actually you can. A few years ago, when paying with a German bank card, very often the transaction was turned into a direct debit transaction, because they used to be cheaper. This…

Please also check this twitter thread, according to the Medical University of Vienna and the German Robert Koch Institute this is not confirmed. WhatsApp messages with a similar me…

No, the computation is not running on the client in the browser. This is the traffic to transfer the model from GCS to Google Colab. This is what makes the price so surprising - yo…

Heroku does the same in non-enterprise tiers. Their databases are accessible by the public internet with no option to limit it to your own dynos.

If you need more than 2TB it's quite likely that you are using the product in a professional context. Thus, they are able to charge more. The smaller tiers are cheap to be attracti…

There are a few things mentioned in [0] and [1], unfortunately in german: - The contracts are based on Irish law and contain rules that violate German employment laws. - They have …

I would say it's at least not uncommon. Danger of collusion / "Verdunkelungsgefahr" ist an often cited reason for that.

For me, there are two reasons: 1) The trains go every 30 minutes to Munich, so I don't have to wait that long. 2) The price structure of trains vs planes. The standard DB train tic…

You are assuming that I am using Facebook. I am not. They have a shadow profile on me anyway, together with my cellphone number and lots of private information, because my friends …

It will be examined before service by a genius. They do some additional tests in the store. When they take it in, pretty sure that you get a new battery. I had several devices chan…

He says that he would like to do so, but can't, because he doesn't have access to the coins: "I don't have control over the Bitcoins in the MtGox estate, however myself as well as …

Oh, sorry, absolutely. I'm actually talking about services that talk to each other using HTTP. One option I've though of is using the public internet to connect them and use OAuth …