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Yes, very frustrating for me as well. I consider now purchasing Gemini Advance with another Non-Workspace account. :-( I also found this [1]: “ Important: A chat can only use one m…

Hm. 4.6M „voters“, and I know a couple of persons who were not able to vote due to server issues. I also doubt that the way the voting was setup was safe against the most basic man…

They belong to the Holtzbrinck Group [1]. They also operate a VC [2] and own or are invested in a lot of startups. [1] https://www.holtzbrinck.com/ [2] http://www.hvventures.com/

Unfortunately directly booking with the hotel has drawbacks as well. 6 months ago I booked The Pullman Hotel in London directly (they had the same pricing as the online agencies). …

I think it's also about the ecosystem. With Elixir all third party packages etc. can be relied on having no side-effects / immutability. If you try to code functional in an OOP lan…

That's true for threads (although most of your threads should be blocked by IO, e. g. DB queries, and that means the GIL lock isn't a big issue). But the beauty of HTTP is that you…

I think that's not true. If you have e. g. 4 cores, and you start Puma with 4 workers (i. e. processes) it will utilize all cores. I guess you're mixing up processes with Ruby thre…

Just today the author of the "merge-conflicts" package for Atom emphasized that his plugin is depcrecated because Atom 1.8 will have that feature included by default. https://githu…

We have a grocery store in Krefeld, Germany, which uses e-ink price tags exclusively[1]. But I never noticed a real-time change when I was shopping there. [1] http://www.lebensmitt…

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At a bar it's most probably voluntary. There are some toilets where you have to pay after your visit but normally they put a sign on it, if it's mandatory. I only know it if there …

In Germany you receive welfare no matter of your work history. True, you need to sell your assets, like your house, but I think that's understandable. Your 65 year old retiree woul…

> It is fine to force 70 year old pensioners to clean toilets No one forces these 70 years olds to work there. I honestly believe that the people who do are happy to be able to ear…

A toilet in a mall is not considered public (= state-owned) in context of this article. The latter are usually really dirty and not nice to use.

Yes, you're right, I too think people would "tip" anyway. I just assumed that if you're participating in the program the cities may kind of forbid to ask for money.

I think the toilet business is only a good one on a large scale anyway: mostly due to fixed costs for paying the cleaning staff no matter if you operate a restroom with 1 or 20 sea…

The cities pay 50-150€/mo to the owners [1]. I wouldn't participate if I would own a bar/restaurant. Slightly OT: A shopping mall in germany, where paying for the use of the toilet…

It's not required in Germany either. The data protection law allows to "lock" data instead of really deleting it from all devices. And IMO that's the only sane solution to deletion…

I'm similarly confused. Wasn't Netflix founded by Reed Hastings?

I'm not sure about the "Business as target market" thing. In our 12-person company I introduced Macs and now everyone uses one instead of a PC. I'm not sure if businesses would hav…