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SAP has been doing something similar for years now. They call it indirect use. If a system integrates with SAP and accesses data you have to pay licensing fees. Even if you host the SAP system yourself.

In Germany a couple of two software developers would earn above the threshold of ca. 70k EUR per year each and therefore pay each around 15.000 EUR per year, which would be higher than the number given in the article ($27.000 for a family in US vs. around $35.000 in Germany currency converted). This applies for the public insurance where adults each have to be insured but kids are included for free.

People with lower incomes pay proportionately less, government employees and high earners can also switch to private insurance where they get much better service but for non-government employees this comes with risks and has to be done at a younger age.

Yes, there's a big push towards "Digital Sovereignty". The EU just now published a compact guideline for IT purchasing in regards to this: https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/09579818-64a6...

They offer managed PaaS services such as databases, logging, secrets management. They also offer quite some managed SaaS services like ServiceNow or soon SAP Rise. These are not (yet) advertised on their website.

Other notable EU cloud providers are also STACKIT, IONOS, Cloud Ferro and Exoscale

The economist articles are unsigned: https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-...

You can sign up on their website: https://www.stackit.de/en/

While there are no free credits the services are priced pay per use to the minute with a much simpler pricing model than the large hyperscalers like AWS. See prices for EC2 here: https://www.stackit.de/en/pricing/cloud-services/iaas/stacki...

You can find the docs here: https://docs.stackit.cloud/stackit/en/knowledge-base-8530170...

The will likely be using Phoenix: https://www.dataport.de/about-phoenix/

The German government developed a fully free and open source solution that is quite similar (consisting of Nextcloud, jitsi, Collabora etc.) and can be deployed using Kubernetes: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk

Coming myself from MySQL to Postgres I found PgAdmin (https://www.pgadmin.org/screenshots/#7) easy to use

> In a follow-up post a day after his initial Tweet, Johnie noted “inaccuracy in the ASUS router tool.” Other LG smart washing machine users showed device data use from their apps. It turns out that these appliances more typically use less than 1MB per day.

From my understanding they mean the code was generated by instructing OpenAI’s ChatGPT (contrary to writing the code themselves).

You can find it here: https://assets.ctfassets.net/4cd45et68cgf/1HyknFM84ISQpeua6T...

Last discussion (4 comments):https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127673

Link to comment from the original thread where you can find an archived version of the repository: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127061

The poster might be referring to some of the additives used in the making of American bread: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/bread-additi...

Now a comparison of US vs. EU cases of early onset colorectal cancer would be required.

It is Meta‘s new competitor for Twitter

In Germany employers can offer the employees a bike leasing program through one of several providers (like Jobrad). This is tax exempt and allows people to pay the monthly rate from their gross salary. The contract lasts three years after which you can return the bike or buy it for a small price. This greatly accelerated e-bike prevalence in Germany.

The vast majority of e-bikes in Germany are pedelecs that offer electrical support for riders up to 250 watts and only up to a speed of 25km/h (15mph). Bikes that go faster or where one doesn’t need to pedal at all need a license plate and special insurance.

Germany introduced a legislation like this recently ("law for fair consumer contracts"). It mandates that there is a cancellation button (and clicking it sends you an email confirmation), offers via phone have to be sent and confirmed in writing, contracts can be canceled at any time within one month after the initially agreed runtime.

In German: https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamat...

You can also watch it outside of YouTube here: https://watchdominion.org

Download and archive links are provided here: https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

99.9% but calculated on a monthly basis

I'm advising top management for a large corporation and can stress what others here mentioned as well: communicate often, in simple terms, and in written form

Executives have a lot on their plate and usually work on a wide variety of topics at the same time. Therefore try to help them when they have to switch context

Concrete example:

* create a (bi)weekly status report with four sections (achievements last week, focus this week, current risks/impediments, decision needs)

* to every risk add a measure (don't admire the problem but bring a solution)

* to every decision need add the alternative(s) (usually something like "Option A", "Option B", "Option do nothing") and show the pros and cons

* show your vision and achievements. Every manager has another boss and will need marketing material to advertise what an important kind of work is going on. Show what you are working towards ("We want to use state of the art AI to improve drug development") and where you stand right now ("We have built the foundation by creating a structured training data set with records of more than 1 million drug trials")

* use abstraction to simplify (not "we switched our legacy adapter from SOAP to REST" but "we switched to a future-proof interface integration")

Regarding the meetings, cancel enough to show you are busy but participate in enough meetings to stay on people's minds

Concrete examples to improve meetings:

* ask for an agenda for each meeting and for your expected contribution

* keep meeting minutes, send them around if no one else does that

* everything that is dicussed should be related to actions that have been undertaken (status update) or will be undertaken (next steps). Every action has to be assigned to someone and has to have a due date

* I mentioned it before, focus on solutions not on admiring a problem (not "no one is providing the data we need" but "We currently lack the data. Who can we contact today to get access to the research data?")

While I don't know whether this would have helped you in the case you described, these are some general points for management communication that offer a good return of investment from my perspective.