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b-mmxxon European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

There is Wire with HQ in Berlin, Germany.

b-mmxxon Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Source, please. Where there any changes to Article 5 (Grundgesetz)?

b-mmxxon Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Annual admin costs very much depend on how complex the business is, no? The primary recurring obligation for a UG is the mandatory retention of 25% of annual net profits until the share capital reaches €25k, enabling tax-neutral conversion to a GmbH.

What I could think of for UG with idea on converting to GmbH, you could have:

- UG setup cost (fairly low compared to GmbH)

- UG/GmbH accounting & tax compliance

- Commercial register updates

- Notary fees for structural changes, and eventually the conversion process

b-mmxxon I found an iPhone and Mac browser that's faster, safer, and easier than Safari

TLDR: Orion browser.

b-mmxxon EU Consumer Group Calls Out Safety of Temu Products

Press release - A recent BEUC investigation found "gaping holes in the safety of products sold on Temu", with many failing EU safety standards. [0]

Test Results on Temu Products - Consumer groups tested various items sold on Temu, uncovering multiple safety failures. Full report here: [1]

There is also an ongoing investigation related to Temu violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to protect consumers and prevent deceptive practices. [2]

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[0]: https://www.beuc.eu/press-releases/gaping-holes-safety-produ...

[1]: https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-...

[2]: https://www.beuc.eu/enforcement/taming-temu#the-action

b-mmxxon Their Trains Were Stalled. These Hackers Brought Them Back to Life

No paywall and more information on Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops. [0]

Previously on HN (1076 points, 5 months ago, 360 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

b-mmxxon Ask HN: Cheapest way to use LLM coding assistance?

Cody was mentioned already. Continue [0] is another tool that you could give a shot, load local llm etc.

[0] https://github.com/continuedev/continue

b-mmxxon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

We can start with the fact that German nouns (e.g. job titles) have a grammatical gender. Due to that offers included "m/f" in the past. Since this[0] ruling companies prefer to be safe.

So in short: legal safety and following the German law [1].

That's why German based companies include "all genders" or "m/f/d" in their job listings.

[0]. https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...

[1].https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeines_Gleichbehandlungsg...

b-mmxxon Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?

It is also available with OLED display, 2880 x 1800 pixel 255 PPI.

b-mmxxon Meta's threat to leave Europe hints at waning big tech influence

“Anacharsis, accordingly, on learning what Solon was about, laughed at him for thinking that he could check the injustice and rapacity of the citizens by written laws, which were just like spiders' webs; they would hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.” - Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives [0].

[0]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:20...

b-mmxxon Ask HN: Tips for more energy during day?

Except it does not exist [1]. Please do not spread misinformation.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27557747/ (Adrenal fatigue does not exist: a systematic review)

b-mmxxon Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

Based on submissions, All About Berlin.

https://allaboutberlin.com/

@nicbou Thanks for this, good quality content.

b-mmxxon The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber

This reminds me of the following:

“In my view, shared by many blue-suiters, this marvelous airplane should still be operational but, alas, that was not to be. One of the most depressing moments in the history of the Skunk Works occurred on February 5, 1970, when we received a telegram from the Pentagon ordering us to destroy all the tooling for the Blackbird. All the molds, jigs, and forty thousand detail tools were cut up for scrap and sold off at seven cents a pound. Not only didn’t the government want to pay storage costs on the tooling, but it wanted to ensure that the Blackbird never would be built again. I thought at the time that this cost-cutting decision would be deeply regretted over the years by those responsible for the national security. That decision stopped production on the whole series of Mach 3 aircraft for the remainder of this century. It was just plain dumb.”

Ben R Rich and Leo Janos. “Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed”.

b-mmxxon Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer hardware upgrades?

There can be several factors (not all related to software companies).

- Budget

Money goes to different departments. Some managers are better than others at winning internal bids.

- Regulations and internal policies

Big corp procedures can sink any request.

- Project

Consulting world. It's likely you get a lighter, shinier and faster machine if you’re going to spend lots of time at the client site.

- Migration procedure

At some companies the IT support can lack manpower to process high volume of migrations. I've seen this taking months.