Xylakant

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by Xylakant 5y ago
In 2020, German spent about 53 billion USD on its military, that’s rank 7 world-wide. The UK spent 59 billion, about the same ballpark. The bigger problem in Germany is inefficient spending.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
There are many places that have fog, but no or little rain - the skeleton coast inwards/Namib desert in Namibia for example.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The EU has a special status for people fleeing Ukraine right now (afaik including permanent residents, not only nationals) They get a temporary, time-limited right to stay (1 year, possibly extended to 3 years) and this includes the right t
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The posting I responded to was about a case where the transactions themselves cannot be deleted since they must be retained for accounting reasons, so the same reasoning applies here: If they need to retain the messages/bookings/.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
A bank would entirely be entitled to keep the info around. All information that must be retained by law (such as receipts, financial transactions etc.) is exempt from the GDPR and you cannot ask for deletion. You can ask that the holder of
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by Xylakant 5y ago
More specific: if you’re employed, you and your employer share the contribution roughly half/half and your share gets deducted before taxes.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Freelancers in Germany don’t pay higher taxes. They pay income tax like every employee. They loose the employers share of social security and pension, but the remedy for that is to adjust rates - you also loose paid holidays, sick leave and
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I honestly don’t understand why you’re singling out germany and Austria. The same holds true for Italy, Sweden, Canada, the UK, … - you cannot employ anyone without registering as an employer and following local labor laws. You sometimes ca
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Poland is sending the aircraft to the largest American Airbase in Europe, located in Western Germany close to the French border. I’d assume that Ukrainian pilots will somehow transfer there to pick them up. The distances involved are not un
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by Xylakant 5y ago
What international law are you talking about? The Dublin agreement stipulates something like that, but that’s a EU internal contract and would bind neither Mexico nor the US.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
By that argument, the German government isn’t elected either. The Bundestag is elected and elects a Chancellor who then picks a government.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Your sarcasm detector is in dire need of recalibration.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Yes, I know. But my point was that sourdough, at least the one I keep, are living things and are not consistently the same. Mine depends on the time I kept it in the fridge, the temperature it’s kept outside (which depends on the weather),
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Look, I’m not advocating banning pancake mixes or canned or frozen food. I absolutely understand that people have constraints and not everyone has the time or energy to cook every day. I just say that I personally, don’t consider “it consis
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Let’s not get religious about it - it’s food and you do what you do. I’ll eat your pancakes, mix or not. But the parent I was responding to was extolling consistency as a virtue and I don’t consider consistency (as in “tastes the same every
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The Y2K problem was a nothingburger because legions of people worked to make it one. Still, critical systems failed - for example the system managing the emergency call lines for the Firefighters in Berlin https://www.heise.de&#x
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> Mixes are engineered to consistently reach a desired result. That’s pretty much exactly what I dislike about mixes and ready-made food. It’s not that they’re bad, but they are the same every time. Your pancakes taste like my pancakes.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Russia is pretty much turning Belarus into a puppet state, not a neutral buffer.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The idea may be, but then users will need to manage a key pair per site - and there’s less support for safely managing key pairs than there’s for passwords. How many people will actually do that, if the system doesn’t enforce it and how can
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by Xylakant 5y ago
We’ve struggled with that in the past as well, but it got better over time. One thing that helps is to aggressively start moving messages to new topics once things go beyond a few in a general topic.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
It is actually the combined airport for the border region with passport controls into the three different countries Switzerland (Basel), France and Germany. A bit confusing at first, but pretty nifty.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Putting gas on a ship where nordstream leaves land makes no sense at all if you want to ship to china. You’d have to navigate all of the Baltic Sea and then go all the way around either Scandinavia and Russia or via the Mediterranean. You’d
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I license a photo for my website, upload to google cloud and create a sharing link to share with my web designer and the contractor responsible for the website. Did I just infringe copyright?
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by Xylakant 5y ago
AFAIR it’s never the server that rejects the request in a CORS scenario: The server indicates what origins are allowed to call the API and the browser cancels the request on behalf of the user if called on a website that’s not on the allowe
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by Xylakant 5y ago
3. Move all data to Europe instead of the US.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
Obviously, the app will need that access privilege to perform its task. Now, you’re in the bind: Do you trust apple to use these privileges on the device only - and not track you - or do you care about being tracked by others. Depends on yo
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I don’t believe your parent is arguing for centralized planning in any shape or form. Even the US knows rules for markets - it’s never entirely free. European laws just set more rules and give the consumers more rights - something I consid
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by Xylakant 5y ago
I’m a European and if you’d ask me without any context I’d not think of the geographical term which includes chunks of Russia. I’d initially take it as a synonym for the EU and associated states. So YMMV.
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by Xylakant 5y ago
> This is a rhetorical trick being misinterpreted as some baseless claim. That part of the story is comparatively easy to check - the audio is available if you follow the link in the article. The relevant section is at about 1:10 minutes
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by Xylakant 5y ago
The problem that I currently see rampant is that “definite proof” is hard to come by. There are a lot of people that use a set of alternate facts and call these definite proof. I’m afraid that with some people, I’m no longer arguing about h

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