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Unfortunately the title is very clickbaity, but I didn’t want to edit it. Here is the full title:

Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on 'a wasted opportunity.'

Also see this Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/Chronotope/status/151390041563242...

Vodafone is now testing a service that adds an ID to every request a user makes so that ad companies can track the users.

Maybe we are talking about different things, but you can definitely pre-fill your tax form with employer and social security data in Germany. In that case, you only have to add information if you want to claim deductions higher than the "Werbungskostenpauschale".

Things usually only get difficult when you are self-employed or have difficult deductions.

Actually there is. There is a certain chance that you're unhappy with your fridge and you'll return it. So the assumption is that you are more likely to buy a different fridge than any other item. That's why they show you other fridges.

Very interesting. Looks a lot like zeebe [0], which uses BPMN for the workflow definition. This makes it easier to communicate the processes with the rest of the company. I never used it in production, just played around with it for a demo.

[0] https://zeebe.io/

They don’t need verification. In theory, you are supposed to have a direct debit mandate, but that is basically just a click.

If you want to take out a direct debit you need to be registered though, the process isn’t trivial and you need to deposit a security that can be used for a dispute. That makes it rather unlikely that the system is abused - though not impossible.

Two options:

1) Free apps with advertisements. Paid apps are by far the minority.

2) I guess this statement is related to subscription models like spotify. If you acquire the user outside of the apple ecosystem and they subscribe on your own website and then download your free app from the app store, you get to keep 100% on the revenue that the user generates as well.

Yes, thanks, I've clarified this.

In addition there is a short PR statement available for media use:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

That’s not the experience I have with AWS. They are really trying to help you get the most out of their platform - including costs.

I’m not saying their pricing is not confusing, but the account managers and sales engineers I’ve worked with always did a good job navigating us through it - and being honest when something can be achieved a lot cheaper.

Better have a customer optimize their usage, pay less, be happy, and stick with AWS than switching to a different platform.

This is along the lines of "Ha, taking half the day off, are we?" when somebody leaves a little bit earlier than usual. It sounds like (just) a bad joke, but it has severe consequences for your working relationship.

I get that it's tempting to make jokes when you start managing for your old team members. Just accept the fact that you've switched positions and that your relationship will change. It will only make it more awkward if you don't.

I've been running a raspberry 3 with a cheap sandisk sd card for years now without any SD Card issues. It runs a DNS based ad-blocker and a vpn.

I am logging everything to ram instead of writing it to the card and that's about it. I never encountered any issue with SD Card reliability, despite me sometimes just pulling the plug instead of properly shutting it down.

Here is a simple guide: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/62536

I do have a couple of other raspberries for other uses (e.g. a small rc car) which are also running on their first SD card. Might be just luck, but I do think that it's not necessary to go to extreme lengths to have them run reliably.

I believe the reply was focussed towards the gig economy and the use of venture capital to scale aggressively.

I agree with a lot of points op is making, but when it comes to e.g. the gig economy and using vc funds to scale b2c businesses by undercutting competitors, I'm very happy that we have a different situation in Germany.

Actually you can. A few years ago, when paying with a German bank card, very often the transaction was turned into a direct debit transaction, because they used to be cheaper.

This used to be very common in supermarkets. Every time you had to sign the receipt this was happening. It's not as common nowadays as the fees are now more or less the same.

Please also check this twitter thread, according to the Medical University of Vienna and the German Robert Koch Institute this is not confirmed. WhatsApp messages with a similar message (and a “quote” of the Medical University of Vienna) are deemed to be fake news.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MedUni_Wien/status/12387995614156...

No, the computation is not running on the client in the browser. This is the traffic to transfer the model from GCS to Google Colab.

This is what makes the price so surprising - you are copying data from one Google Service to another, but it's billed as egress.

Heroku does the same in non-enterprise tiers. Their databases are accessible by the public internet with no option to limit it to your own dynos.

If you need more than 2TB it's quite likely that you are using the product in a professional context. Thus, they are able to charge more. The smaller tiers are cheap to be attractive to end consumers.

There are a few things mentioned in [0] and [1], unfortunately in german:

- The contracts are based on Irish law and contain rules that violate German employment laws.

- They have to pay for water on the flight, in addition to lots of other things (e.g. health checks, mandatory simulator hours). These costs can sometimes be deducted, but they argue the airline should pay for it in the first place.

- When they are sick, they have to come to the office/airport and state their symptoms in writing.

- Lots of Pilots are hired as contractors, not as full time employees. That would also violate German employment laws.

[0] https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-07/streik-flugbegleiter-...

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-01/pilotenstreik-ryanair...

I would say it's at least not uncommon. Danger of collusion / "Verdunkelungsgefahr" ist an often cited reason for that.

For me, there are two reasons:

1) The trains go every 30 minutes to Munich, so I don't have to wait that long.

2) The price structure of trains vs planes. The standard DB train ticket is flexible, i.e. you can use any train at the given date. Booking a flight on the same day is very expensive (and might be impossible if all seats are taken). There are discount tickets that are not flexible, but the price of the flexible ticket doesn't increase to enormous sums just because I book it on the same day - it's always the same.

You are assuming that I am using Facebook. I am not. They have a shadow profile on me anyway, together with my cellphone number and lots of private information, because my friends uploaded it to get access to Facebook Messenger & WhatsApp.

It will be examined before service by a genius. They do some additional tests in the store. When they take it in, pretty sure that you get a new battery. I had several devices changed already in similar programs and it always worked like that. You can also ask to have it serviced immediately, I had some luck with that and had only to wait for 30 mins.

He says that he would like to do so, but can't, because he doesn't have access to the coins: "I don't have control over the Bitcoins in the MtGox estate, however myself as well as many creditors are pushing for the trustee not to sell until a decision is reached for civil rehabilitation." and "The trustee was appointed by the bankruptcy court and I have no control over this process at this point. I only wish to see bitcoins returned to all MtGox creditors as soon as possible."

Oh, sorry, absolutely. I'm actually talking about services that talk to each other using HTTP. One option I've though of is using the public internet to connect them and use OAuth to make sure that they are actually allowed to communicate, solving the security issues on the application level.

Another option would be to allow only access from the internal network, but then you have to connect them somehow.

Out of curiosity, how do people handle communication between services that are in different accounts? VPC peering to connect all accounts? Public Internet and OAuth? Another method?

Aeon. It's basically Monero-Light.

Based on the contracts I've seen in Germany the notice period is usually around 3-6 months, though the mandatory periods are a lot shorter (~4 weeks if you have been with the company for at least 6 months, up to 7 months if you have been with the company for a long time). IANAL and I don't know the SoundCloud contracts.

I am wondering what this means for solidus.io. It's the shop system powering bonobos, which is basically just a fork of Spree Commerce.

So that everyone who is handling this news before it is released (i.e. the publisher) knows that it contains sensitive information and may not be acted upon.