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> When Merkel decided to welcome one million refugees on german soil, it was about domestic politics?

No, that was about personal revenge for the press eviscerating her and calling her the "Ice Queen"[1] after an interview segment was shown on TV in which Merkel can be seen rejecting a refugee girl's teary-eyed plead to bend the asylum law solely for her.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKBa2VvUMAE1Ymv?format=jpg&name=...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/29/a-refugees-hope...
It is not so much a problem as a simple reality that the cost of fulfilling every reservation exactly is (for example) 10x then it is worth fulfilling only 99% of reservations at a cost of 1x.

Car rental customers are not going to pay 10x to get that extra 1% of guarantee, and you simply will not see that type of car rental business exist. It simply is not economical to build enough redundancy for the 1% of the time there is a problem.

Of course, it also is not economical to build enough redundancy for multi year pandemic situations.
Now I'd love to see that tested with Frank Zappa, for example with One Size Fits All.
America fought the pandemic economy – and won
You are getting downvoted, but I think you hit the nail on the head there. There is an increasingly strong "disaffected male" contingent here. It's allowed because we're extra adult here and can handle some divergent opinions, at least so the theory goes. Unfortunately it's starting to feel downright gross at times and I can absolutely understand why a woman would not feel welcome here. These are the hard to swallow pills, but it's happening all the same.
US industrial espionage on the level of China and France (using Echelon and the rest of the NSA) was uncovered in the Snowden leaks.

It's also about the US trying to force Australia to commit to an anti-China policy while the conservative government is in power.

Australia announced support to the US in the region so it's also because of that.

It's just dirty geopolitics. The US is trying to tie in Australia before they realize that it's not worth massive expense to defend their trade routes from China. When those trades routes are... With China.
Thanks, but I don't see your email in your profile.
> It's not like a company fires half of their team after the product is launched.

Not an uncommon VC/PE strategy. Wait two years and see what happens.
This has the "reefer madness" feel of drug war reporting. After sitting through school classes where a police officer tells you about "street names" of drugs, and how they have instantly horrible effects, then finding out on your own that the officer was spouting the purest of propaganda, it's hard to believe reporting like this.
GitLab is not just a git hosting and collaboration tool. They want it to be the single tool you use for almost everything to do with an application including monitoring, controlling infrastructure, error logging, project management/planning, security auditing, and a bunch of other things.

If you are using GitLab in a hobbyist or solo way, you are touching about 5% of the features that GitLab provides. Which is fine and a valid way to use it but its easy to see how customers justify spending big dollars on the top plan with hundreds of user licenses when the tool does so much. We even have customer support and project managers using the tool because it caters to them well.

If you want you can even use gitlab to replace something like zendesk as it provides an email address which puts all emails in to a "support desk" queue.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Blondihacks
Plausibly related to some recent attacks on other VoIP providers -

https://www.uctoday.com/unified-communications/3-uk-voip-pro...

https://www.hackread.com/revil-gang-hits-uk-itsps-ransom-ddo...
Fastmail. I used mailfence for almost two years but was disappointed in their customer service. I tried out fastmail a couple of months ago and everything about it is better/easier.
Volvo is trying this! They call it a car subscription. Doesn't seem like it has had a huge impact, though: https://www.volvocars.com/us/care-by-volvo/
I think people were genuinely looking for good patterns, and still are in a way.
TL;DR - We'll let you know what's good for you.
I have never used anything in my whole career that was as easy to set up as Tailscale. It is terrifying.
Somehow this article doesn’t mention Turo. There are a dozen Tesla Model 3s available to rent on Turo around LAX right now. Many less than $100/day.
You shouldn't let downvotes cow you into issuing mea culpas. Stand your ground and ignore the loss of imaginary internet points :)

It is deeply unjust that old farts (who no longer even send their own children into combat; the current president is a fortunate exception) instigate futile wars and then blunder their way out of them by essentially capitulating more or less completely. This has been especially true in Iraq where we have handed the country on a platter to Iran, and also in Afghanistan where we do not even know if future terrorists will not be sheltered.

But I still believe that what Churchill (supposedly) said about us is essentially correct: "Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
Pirates use human crew as hostages. Without hostages, the other country's military could just shoot them.
That's what a lease is.
Life will continue to be a pain in 2022 ...
I wonder if part of it is also due to people getting older.
https://jumpstartrails.com/

There are a few other Rails template frameworks but I think this is the most popular. It basically has a lot of the boilerplate stuff that you need to do for setting up a SaaS product. Of course because it’s rails a lot of the stuff is supplied in gems
Communism would've been the better choice for the world, not for the people of the 20th century themselves but for the following generations. We are destroying the world with our consumerism (capitalism) and we just can't stop although most of us know that what we do is wrong. We are all complicit and guilty. Everyone with a consciousness, when old, will look back to these days and know that s/he has done too little [or rather: consumed too much], full of regret and sadness. [Unless...]

edit: yes, I'm talking about climate change.
I think after 14 years here we're allowed a moment of self-reflection.
I didn't violate the guidelines. It seems clear what their intent was and I added information to the conversation. I could still be wrong. To me, if he was trying to usefully inform other readers he would have commented on why his/her perceived historical connotations are meaningful.
Even with back-seats being used, bring back the station-wagon:

The 90s Buick Estate (a behemoth of a wagon) was 9 inches shorter than the Kia Telluride (one of the smaller 3-row vehicles in the US) and seated 8 (though it would be 7 today because front-row bench seats appear to be disallowed except in pickups).

The Estate's contemporary Ford Taurus Wagon could also seat 7 (though two adults in the 3rd row is not comfortable, it worked for short drives in a pinch) was almost 20 inches!! shorter than a Suburban/Escalade.
If a company is advertising unlimited PTO as a positive part of their compensation, but intends to give you 10 days in 1.5 years I guess it isn't a bluff...they just think you are stupid. He =outlines how he was told that the expectation was to take 20 days off a year- don't give employees some benchmark unless it is followed. I've definitely worked at companies that publish the average or median taken as a way to guide employees about what the true quantity of "unlimited" is. I agree that most of us understand unlimited PTO a bit better, which is why most of us would never be as honest as he was with his employer. I would definitely counsel anyone in his situation to get whatever PTO approved FIRST, come back for a few days, and then request FMLA straight with HR. Your manager should understand that what you use your "personal" (not "vacation") time off isn't their business. Be cheerfully vague about PTO prior to approval. Before and after any kind of leave, take notes on all conversations with date/time, outlines of subjects and direct quotes. This is actually something all employees (and really managers, but managers already have the company and HR in their corner) should do with any and all one on ones.
A manager telling someone they can't approve PTO because they aren't going on a fun vacation but rather staying home with family, and then mis-directing them to take their FMLA before exhausting whatever PTO could have been granted, and then denying them any additional PTO after the FMLA is insane. FMLA is not a Federal Government program to subsidize a private company's PTO expenditures. I would also love to know how this ruins anything anyone. Are fun, vacuousvacations being ruined by people with real problems having a reasonable expectation that unlimited PTO policies would include the sorts of extended/bereavement leaves that used to be offered in separate policies?
Yes it's nuclear powered but the argument stands.
>cemented

>Portland

>contruction

Wait, you avoided a triple curse. JK, having professional tools for free in the 90's and early OO's was astrounding.

No more Windows+shareware crap combos. In late 90's/early OO's you even got lots of games and multimedia software.
They're well positioned to build whole new platforms.
The most obvious use case is to replace absolutely anything you'd ever use OpenVPN or IPSEC for. Building on that, Tailscale is so simple that you consider things you wouldn't have before just because OpenVPN would have been so painful to set up. It has fine-grained access control and it integrates with SSO.

It's good for home use, but --- and I am bias I guess because of my background --- where it really shines is corporate connectivity. If I joined a company as a security person and it was running some horrible OpenVPN access VPN for its dev team right now, one of my top action items would be to replace it immediately with Tailscale.
Yep, this is what I've experienced last two times around looking at Acuras, Lexus, etc. Maybe it's different with trucks, SUVs, and non-luxury brands, but the new cost of a mid-tier Acura is at least 50% more than one with 20K miles off a 2-3 year lease. This was always the sweet spot for these cars as they were in perfect shape and still had pretty decent "certified warranties".

I'm due for an upgrade, but if my choice is between a full price $40K new sedan or a 3 year old one for $38K (instead of the $26K I'd expect to pay a few years ago), then I'm more than content to just keep my ten year old Acura, knowing I'll need to spend $500/yr on repairs as it starts showing its age.
That will only help if every NIC has about 20 TX queues or so. If it cant utilize the cores, or the driver or app cant then all those cores won’t help.
Lol, no one is using nuclear subs to defend territorial waters. Their job is to help the US run a blockade against China and it's trading partners, nothing else.
One thing that has never made much sense to me is that you can most of the time (at least pre-pandemic) rent a car for cheaper than you can rent a bike (as a tourist in a city), with cars costing an order of magnitude more. I'm not sure if it's car rental that is/was crazy cheap or bike renting that is a rip-off...
"Imagination" should not be a substitute for hard numbers, and hard numbers keep telling us we're not doing enough to fix climate change, over and over again.

You want bleak? Look at projections of what the planet will look like in 100 years if current trends continue.
We can "look at" a variety of factors and I am pretty sure that is what the poster meant. Not so much their physical appearance, but the overall visibility of their results. Cycling, for example, is an endurance sport, and gains usually take several years to manifest. Yes, you have some gifted juniors who get to Cat. 1 very quickly. In the masters levels, if a competitor has performed very poorly for several seasons and then is on fire all of a sudden, we tend to be suspicious. There were several masters level racers who did get tested at state and national level events and they got caught. All of this just for an amateur state champions jersey! We have also had older cyclists die as a result of doping. I have no compulsion to pack my blood with cells to boost my hematocrit percentage to 60% and have a heart attack, but it has happened several times to other cyclists.
Actually, France has far more territory in the Pacific than the UK, and better positioned too. The UK is part on the basis of historical ties, not because someone looked at a map and said "hey, that guy controls some important bits".

It also seems distressingly naive to say "it's been two days and nothing's happened, so nobody cares" when talking about the EU reaction. The only fast EU action you ever get is the statements, and those have been supportive of France.
The interesting thing is to see what happens this spring when France has the EU presidency.

Anyway, the big benefit of NATO is to keep Europe and the US aligned; Europe has lived with Russia for a long time before NATO existed and the big trouble in Europe was about keeping whatever nations where large at the time from attacking each other.

I don't see the US and Russia getting along much better, precisely because, as you say, Americans don't think they need to respect the Russians very much, a judgment which the Russians don't agree with.
> I started talks with upper leadership to move all the people currently working on building/improving products internally into a dedicated business unit.

New things go with old things. The people who maintain a product ideally should own the improvement or replacement of that product. That's how you get everyone on board. And if you can't manage to do that, then you'll probably end up in some kind war.
China is already starting to leverage that trade with Australia to push demands that are fundamentally incompatible with Australia's status as a democratic, independent country, plus they've been carrying out aggressive military expansionist manoeuvrers that are pissing off much closer regional allies. France and other EU countries still have this idea that they can somehow balance themselves between China and the US, despite China already openly throwing its weight around against elected politicians who so much as criticise it.
What are you guys using to watch RSS feeds these days?
"Of the systems created in 1992, SLS (Softlanding Linux System) had what I would consider to be the biggest impact."

Wasn't the impact not also due to the cunning marketing trick calling it SLS 1.0, when people were eagerly awaiting Linux 1.0 for months?
You can get a "meh" e-bike for under $1k in the US; I'm sure you can go cheaper in China.
The retaining cusp does impose some restrictions.
Walled gardens whose algorithms maximize outrage have made things worse.

Human beings were fine with internet access before that point, except for September... September used to be the time all the new students got their first internet accounts.
It's not promoting it - it's showing what other people on YouTube are watching. It's an unbiased look at what other people are interested in.

Home page is the one that's being promoted to you.
Hit men?
At this point, I feel like this is the most consistent way. There are notable web apps that do this. There are plenty of good reasons for this, including caching and service workers.

It feels dirty because you’re not handling these issues silently. But it’s explicit, clear and it enables a consistent and performant experience.
These ships are not a real problem.
The credible part of Russian navy is nuclear submarines.
Russian surface navy is not, and won't be a threat to Nato, with or without them.

There isn't really a country theatened by Russia where sea is a relevant theater - it's always a land border

Pales in comparison with amount of US weapons left in middle east, supplied to Saudi, etc. The diffetence is Russia has some standards, they don't do things like 9/11.
French nuclear submarines require refuelling part way through their operating life, US and UK ones don't. Australia doesn't have or want to develop the domestic nuclear power industry to be able to do this itself.
Also crying eyes or “you suck just quit”

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=QQ
Same with my Subaru Forester! My car got totaled so I needed a new one. Used Forster that were 2-3 years old with 30k miles were selling for 24-26k with loan interest rate of 1.9 or so. I ended up by a brand new Forster xt for 28k with 0 interest loan from Subaru. Only cost me 2k more to get brand new car with full warranty vs a car that was 3 years old. Made back the difference in interest rate. I took a 5 year loan because why not no interest. I was never underwater on the car as put decent amount down.
The Euro strategy is to make themselves vassals of Russia to appear less threatening. Look at how Germany walked away from nuclear and made themselves dependent on Russian natural gas.
I am not sure how thick the reinforcement actually need to be in order to comfortable cover the minimum 6 atmospheres of pressure at 50m. My intuition with diving gear tells me its should not be that bad, but I don't know how much things scale with volume.
> The car will be available in seven colors: Tarot Purple,

I'm pretty sure that should be Taro as in the Asian/Pacific vegetable, not Tarot as in the occult fortune telling.

Taro isn't actually purple, but it's often confused with purple yam/ube:

https://bonteacafe.com/taro-vs-ube-whats-the-difference/
Literally 2 lines below that quote is:

> CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: All I'm trying to get at, and I'm not saying it's outcome determinative or necessarily bad, I'm just saying your technological model is based solely on circumventing legal prohibitions that you don't want to comply with, which is fine. I mean, that's ­­you know, lawyers do that.
Another similar project to Tailscale, for those in the market:

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

Crazy simple, fully open source, trivial to self-host. Maybe not as featureful as Tailscale, but imo that can be a feature unto itself.
Same as with everything involving US foreign policy in the last 20 years.

"Never go into a well with american rope."
wow super cool!
>America had to choose between a messy pullout or a swift escalation with the Taliban.

The Taliban offered to let the US control Kabul for the evacuation[0], it was the admin that refused. Earlier, the US extended the deadline itself from 1/5 to 31/8 - without an escalation (and without making any use of the extra time it appears).

[0]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/28/taliban-take...
Disclaimer - Not financial advice

SPAC's are incredibly risky. When they IPO they basically are shell companies with no operating revenue. So their valuations are essentially fake (some get better market caps because the people who create them have "track records"). Once a startup converts into them their valuation becomes much more interesting. It's a huge gamble. A SPAC that hasn't converted yet is essentially a guessing game. If the SPAC is valued at $500M pre conversion and the market doesn't think the company is worth $500M then you can lose a lot. The opposite is also true.

Note - its much more complex than this, but this is the general idea.
What do you consider "independent news"?

The majority of "independent news" have a highly partisan or highly unreliable tilt (both to the Left and to the Right): https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/

Interestingly enough, most people complain about the opposite: that if you watch some piece of slightly tilted piece of content on YouTube, the recommendation goes wholehog and pushes you towards the same radicalization direction, and so you start by watching someone complaining about Feminist Frequency and before you notice you're getting recommended White Nationalist content.

If anything it's probably good that if you're watching "independent news", that the algorithm tries to moderate you with some mainstream content...
If you're already subscribed to what you consider to be the best channels and they're feeding you more content than you have time to watch, then the recommendation section becomes almost useless. As long as you're using grid view and hiding videos you've watched or aren't interested in. Of course you can still waste hours this way but at least you won't have to keep refreshing in hope of good content.
Yeah and also, culturally, sometimes there are hardasses who go around using that as an excuse to ignore individual differences when they're making demands of people or postulating how much credit they should receive for accomplishments that already benefit them.
> bragging rights are literally all that's at stake for the audience (and gambling winnings, I guess).

Almost… https://youtu.be/PFFFa9M4T80
I want it to diversify a lot more. There's a lot of room between 'WoW related videos' and 98% of your sidebar is one particular creator (asmon).
Expertise is overrated
Curious to know your motivation to do this instead of more tactful methods? Were you aware ahead of time how it could come off?
FWIW as the first engineer he might have gotten 1% of the stock, which would be worth about $6M. If he's really that good, there is a decent chance his more secure job has paid that much in 7 years, especially if it was with a FAANG company.
Is this because of how different col is between SF and Atlanta? Because I'm looking at https://www.levels.fyi/company/Mailchimp/salaries/Software-E... and the compensation doesn't seem outrageous.
> The most popular "edgy" opinions will be voted as the most contrarian and be rise to the top.

Reminds me of r/unpopularopinion
I see, you mean trim literally, like "Camry XSE"? Usually people say "highest trim" to mean "loaded", "with all the options" etc.
Which Critical Race Theory?

The narrow legal sense which is all about bias built into the system by layers of subversively racist laws?

The Left political grift version which encourages performative virtue signaling instead of enacting actual change.

The traditional grift version used to sell trainings where white people are told all evil is the fault of their whiteness?

The Right political grift version which uses the worse excess of the above grift version to quietly silence pr forestall actual change.

The social movement that acknowledges with (purposely?) bad language that the system is rigged, and needs to be fixed.
Bingo. I thought I finally had the procedure down last time around. I found similar models, sent them my terms over email, and let them know I wouldn't put up with games and would walk the minute I detected any BS.

Several dealers seemed to know the type of customer they were dealing with, and for the most part, played things straight.

A month or two later when I was reviewing my account on the credit company's site, I discovered some sort of financing charge for $1500. I have no idea how they managed to slip it in - maybe I could have got it removed if I complained. But at that point, the sale was made and the creditor would blame the dealer, the dealer would blame the creditor, and it wasn't worth the fight.

They just cannot be trusted - it's inherent in their business model and how the various teams (sales, financing, etc) all earn their commissions.
I saw this a while ago but had not realized it was feature complete now. Fantastic work. I look forward to moving from pure-wireguard to Headscale/Tailscale soon.