jonp888

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by jonp888 2y ago
The view of Broadcom is that VMWare has low growth potential and the route to maximum short term financial returns is to extract as much money as possible from the largest customers. So the strategy is to squeeze the 600 largest customers u
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by jonp888 3y ago
A parliamentary system as used in Germany works rather differently than the three-way bun fight in the US. The government wrote the law, not individual parliamentarians(for that reason we don't call them "lawmakers"). The fir
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by jonp888 3y ago
I work on software that has a lifetime once installed of about 30 years, and if a safety critical error is found during that time, ideally it needs to fixed with a minimal patch, so we have to maintain the capability to do so. I guess the e
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by jonp888 3y ago
It's a collective payment system whereby everyone receives the same treatment, but high earners subsidize low earners, students and pensioners. Whether that is a good idea or not is of course a matter of debate, but it doesn't mak
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by jonp888 3y ago
I'm a bit surprised you would consider the credit system the same as the US. It doesn't have the bonkers bit of the US system where you have to take great care to be in a small amount of debt even if you don't need to be, in
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by jonp888 3y ago
You don't need to pay. You can get a report for free showing all the information they have about you. It just doesn't show the score. I have never known anyone to demand the paid version.
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by jonp888 3y ago
I have eaten in Restaurants and and shopped in shops in Berlin where at least some of the staff were unable to speak even the very basic German needed to take an order or inform the customer of the price. This seemingly wasn't consider
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by jonp888 3y ago
All employees in Germany(except in very small companies) have the right to request a reduction in their working hours, and the employer must allow it. The employee does not need to provide any justification for the request, and the employer
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by jonp888 3y ago
Until 2023 male blood donors in Germany were still asked "have you had sex with a man in the last 4 months?" As an exclusion criterium. Donors who lived in Britain in the 90's are still banned due to the Lack of a Test which
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by jonp888 3y ago
You don't have anything to worry about. You are just stuck in a nice new cage Apple has built for you because they were forced to dismantle the old cage. So long as you are good boy and don't upload your App to any non-Apple app s
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by jonp888 3y ago
Retiring to Germany is highly problematic because of the health insurance requirements. It is mandatory for all German residents to have comprehensive health insurance which covers all treatment for any condition at any hospital with no ded
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by jonp888 3y ago
American has laws which force you to join a Union even if you hate them, want nothing to do with them and don't want them to represent you!? No wonder so many Americans hate Unions.
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by jonp888 3y ago
The EN50128 safety standard for the European safety critical rail software places great importance on the development process. Every change to the software has to be based on a defined requirement, and in order to validate the software you
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by jonp888 3y ago
My understanding was that the whole point of the Gamestop trading was to force financial companies into a position where they were facing insolvency. I guess it was a hyperbolic to describe it as smashing the system, but the key thing is th
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by jonp888 3y ago
Why wouldn't they? Gamestop meme traders deliberately set out to smash the system and they succeeded to a small extent. Robin Hood, in the face of the partners they rely on refusing to allow further acquisitions, did the best they coul
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by jonp888 3y ago
That's how the ISO works. C++ is no different. I guess the theory is that only compiler developers need a copy of the standard. Everyone else should rely on their compiler manual
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by jonp888 3y ago
"Pacify" implies doing something, anything, to keep something calm and under control, not necessarily solving the actual problem or doing what would be best long term. A good government should explain to the electorate the consequ
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by jonp888 3y ago
I'm sure they don't want to end up like the Arduino ecosystem and be in a position where they have to spend all the money on the software development and other vendors undercut their hardware. So they need to have hardware their c
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by jonp888 3y ago
Not sure why you would need dual monitor outputs for education use. I seem to remember at the time of release them talking about how it would actually be useful in telephone call centres. If they want to increase access to computing hardwar
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by jonp888 3y ago
This is simply false. It's trivial to see from the statistics( https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... ) that the phaseout of nuclear energy was matched by an increase in renew
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by jonp888 3y ago
Sorry, but what the actual f**? It's the single worst decision ever made in the history of mankind? Replacing some power stations of one type with some renewables of another type, without any disruption to the functioning power grid? W
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by jonp888 3y ago
I am continually astounded by the absolute obsession of YCN with German nuclear power stations, or the lack of them. Not a single thread about Germany fails to attract some comment about energy policy, no matter how tenuous the connection.
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by jonp888 3y ago
The EU system is much simpler than the chicanery of the US system of quotas and multiple visa categories. If there is an EU citizen applicant suitable for the job, they get it. If there isn't, anyone can.
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by jonp888 3y ago
Ironically this is bad news for Americans applying for German citizenship, because currently under some circumstances they can argue that they should not have to relinquish their existing citizenship as is normally required, on the basis me
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by jonp888 3y ago
No. I have lived in the UK for 35 years and I didn't even know Google Messages existed until you mentioned it. WhatsApp is the default and I would only use SMS in the rare case that someone did not use WhatsApp. There is no automatic i
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by jonp888 3y ago
> How can a primary AND it's backup system fail safely??? Who specified this? All safety critical systems are specified to halt instead of performing undefined behavior, if they encounter something that cannot be processed. An unsaf
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It's British. In Britain 6 episodes is a series ;)
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by jonp888 3y ago
Unions and Works Councils are not mutually exclusive. All companies that have a recognized Union will have a Works Council too. A Works Council is entirely company specific. A Union is usually concerned with an entire sector and deals with
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It's nothing like that at all. They have no powers to make any subjective judgements about hiring. They can only object to a hiring if the company has contradicted the law or it's own policies. For instance if the company makes a
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by jonp888 3y ago
I don't know how much this is present in US culture, but in the UK the prospect "beating" Germany in any form makes politicians and media outlets of a more nationalistic bent very excited indeed. That they are also very fond

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