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rpadovani

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About rpadovani

Working on Google Cloud. Opinions my own or from people smarter than me. @.com

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    My company pays for taxi from my door to the airport and I still take the train, unless I am leaving before dawn. There is both a rational environment choice in that, and a nice fe…

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    Comment #48821797

    > Nobody in EU is saying the EU should clean up others' mess around the world That's literally what the top poster said. Your points make sense, "EU should reopen Hormuz" is laugha…

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    Comment #42601550

    > "None of the database guides I followed had warned me about the dangers of exposing a docker containerized database to the internet." This prompts a reflection about, as an indus…

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    Comment #42025950

    Because English is not the mother tongue for the majority of the people, and correctors fix typos, but not swapped words, unless you use something like Grammarly. Pointing out mist…

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    Comment #37602511

    They still do switches, what remotes are you referring to?

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    Comment #37276739

    I believe you paid 70 euros. I just wanted to highlight that, beginning 2013, that's not a problem anymore thanks to the semesterticket.

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    Comment #37271662

    Beginning 2013, there is the semester tickets for students, which is twenty euros per month. Before that, 70 euros? Where were you living, Freising? Two external rings were around …

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    Comment #37271497

    Ah, but then your first comment is highly misleading, because when you talk number, readers assume cost per year. You are basically saying that living in Europe in a university cit…

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    Comment #37271258

    Uhm, what? If you live with your parents, and the university is free, where does that number come from? And if you don't live with your parents, you live with others students, spen…

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    Comment #37271210

    I count 10 European companies on this list, and 20 US. Maybe is not as bad as you think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

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    Comment #36616335

    You know that you _choose_ to be a policeman, right? Is not that you are born a policeman. I can definitely say all killers are rotten inside, and it's a blanket statement.

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    Comment #36487095

    Do you have any sources? According to Wikipedia, this regulation applies only in Australia, UK, and Taiwan. Germany and Italy have the latches for sure.

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    Comment #36456964

    I am curious on how this will reflect on the Ukraine invasion: as far as I understand, Wagner was a huge source of soldiers on the front lines. I am sure this coup, however it will…

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    Comment #36353414

    CWA was using the Exposure Notifications from Apple and Google[0]. Exposure Notifications is not an app, but a framework and a protocol, and CWA was an implementation of it, hookin…

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    Comment #35713619

    A bit more than 2 years: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovh... I thought it was less than 12 months...

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    Comment #35372980

    > - You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. By itself this seems fine, but it also seems to bea prerequisite…

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    Comment #35326306

    [citation needed] Of course, there is no way to know exactly how much tax fraud there is, but it doesn't seem that tax fraud in Germany is particularly high: https://www.taxobserva…

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    Comment #35326239

    Germany is the second to last country for IM apps usage in EU, with a mere 60% [0]. It is also the second to last country for social network accounts, with 47.7% of the population …

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    Comment #35172245

    The editor will be free, and they will monetize the network features (or so they say) https://zed.dev/faq#how-will-you-make-money

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