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We don’t even have to zoom in on Europe. In the US, it’s quite common for folks to expect public services (like public transit or even the USPS) to be profitable. Which means these services don’t get the investment they really need.
What percentage of US taxpayer money should go to subsidize money-losing services?
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>Europeans have [...] Six weeks of guaranteed vacation that people actually take. That is false. EU mandates minimum 4 weeks of PTO across all members but varies wildly according to country, sector and company. In most EU countries I've seen the average tends to hover around 5 weeks while 6 weeks or more is usually for very generous employers trying to attract top applicants in employee friendly countries. I get you'…
> 4 weeks of PTO There’s vacation and sick leave in most of EU. PTO is an acronym used in the US and the concept doesn’t apply in Europe.
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> 4 weeks of PTO There’s vacation and sick leave in most of EU. PTO is an acronym used in the US and the concept doesn’t apply in Europe.
Vacation days in Europe are still paid time off technically.
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Vacation days in Europe are still paid time off technically.
Paid time off in the US includes sick leave. It’s not useful to stick to acronyms which aren’t applicable n that specific context.
I've used the GOV.UK PaaS since the private beta. I was a user research subject and gave early feedback. I've used it on multiple projects since. As with Notify, the Design System, and all the other great tools that GDS produces, the PaaS is an absolute joy to use. Think Heroku, but built on top of FOSS, and with everything you could want to help you build the long tail of cookie cutter form or API-based government s…
I am wondering if there are political force behind it, that big Cloud Provider wants the Government to shut down their own PaaS.
i was unable to update my driving licence for the best part of a year because of some (still unknown) internal issue. i hope they have better luck bringing back up a degraded/read-only etcd service after a power cut. unrelated - i guess i have some real contempt for the current deployment stack meta :/
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We don’t even have to zoom in on Europe. In the US, it’s quite common for folks to expect public services (like public transit or even the USPS) to be profitable. Which means these services don’t get the investment they really need.
If it was providing a service of as much value as was being spent on it, then why shouldn't it be profitable?
The entire point of a public service is that benefits accrue to people other than the direct consumers of the service.
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We don’t even have to zoom in on Europe. In the US, it’s quite common for folks to expect public services (like public transit or even the USPS) to be profitable. Which means these services don’t get the investment they really need.
What percentage of US taxpayer money should go to subsidize money-losing services?
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We don’t even have to zoom in on Europe. In the US, it’s quite common for folks to expect public services (like public transit or even the USPS) to be profitable. Which means these services don’t get the investment they really need.
If it was providing a service of as much value as was being spent on it, then why shouldn't it be profitable?
Just looking at money is incredibly short sighted and naïve
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Is there any Europe-based PaaS currently operating, that are noteworthy? Most companies seems to be US-based.
Is OVH a PaaS?