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Employers in Germany have to bear half of the mandatory social security contributions.
This is on top of gross salary and includes mandatory health insurance.
Employers in Germany have to bear half of the mandatory social security contributions.
This is on top of gross salary and includes mandatory health insurance.
The government points out in the budget that at least seven other countries, including the U.K., France, Italy and Spain, already have similar taxes in place.
Come on, they’ve already listed four, why not mention the remaining three?
there is a difference between the end of a LICENCE and the end of something’s functional life?
This may be somewhat pedantic but the plant’s functional life ended when the license ran out.
The planned/ hoped for EoL may have been longer but if there was a 40 year license then the end of that license is also the end of the initially licensed lifetime. Otherwise they could have just issued a 50 or 60 year license.
That doesn’t mean lifetimes cannot be extended, many plants run longer than initially planned.
But not renewing a license is hardly a premature shutdown,
But NONE of that means that the plant was some falling apart scrapheap that needed closed
As already stated, I didn’t make any argument about its functionality and it has no bearing to my argument.
That said, other have claimed that the plant was apparently leaking, which does sound like an argument against renewal.
I never claimed that the license couldn’t be renewed nor that it wouldn’t be running fine.
The license period had a pre-determined END and it’s LIFEtime has not been extended.
Surely the very existence of a time limit to the license must mean that the option to not renew it after a certain time has been anticipated when the license was originally issued.
And for all that it does not matter, whether that was the correct decision or not, whether other plants had their licenses renewed orwhether these other plants are operating just fine.
If they had to apply for a renewal, then their old license ran out.
That is exactly what EOL is.
I was just clarifying the original comment about the baseline not being 0.
Tbh, I hadn’t even looked at it properly and only noticed now that the timeline isn’t one month per box.
It’s a 32-34% increase looking at the graph
But you don’t get that percentage from looking at the graph. You get that from looking at the numbers.
The graph height increases by 300% in the last 3 months 9 days.
It goes from ~7 to ~11. That’s not even x2.
Yes but the graph goes from 2 rectangles above the bottom line to 8 rectangles above the bottom line in that final surge.
So visually, it looks like it has quadrupled.
an ultra-light laptop, or a raspberry pi consume WAY less power than a full on gaming rig, and the same can be said between a data server that is used for e-commerce and a server running AI
And if external costs are priced into the cost of electricity then that will be reflected in the cost of operating these devices.
Also there are far more data servers than servers running AI which increases the total effect they have.
Tbf, talking about the environmental costs of generative AI is just framing.
The issue is the environmental cost of electricity, no matter what it is used for.
If we want this to be considered in consumption then it needs to be part of the electricity price. And of course all other power sources, like combustion motors, need to also price in external costs.
It’s a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!
“we’re OK with what you’re doing with messaging right now, but only just barely”. If Apple does something the EU doesn’t like, new legislation can be written.
Because of the “only just barely” part, new legislation might not even be necessary.
If Apple only narrowly avoided falling under the core platform definition, just a change in market share might be enough for that to change under the existing rules.
attempting to cancel them?
Just how many people did firing her prevent her from reaching?
Disney doesn’t want to ‘cancel’ her, they just don’t want to be associated with her.
They don’t care whom she reaches as long as people don’t think they endorse her views.
In this hypothetical scenario, if he paid by card you’d already have evidence that he was fined and what 50% of the amount was.
So the customs guys would have to bring in the same amount in cash. How would the cash part not make it into the report if there were a rule that there must be a cash part?
And once that is deposited in the bank, nobody can just walk in and make some of it disappear.
Baldur’s Gate 3 boss
Wow, Larian really breaking the 4th wall in this game.
One of those boss fights where you really regret having to fight him because he actually has a good point.
Probably still evil though.
First of, I couldn’t find anything to corroborate the experience existence of such a rule.
The article might not be entirely accurate.
But even if it were true, you think customs officials just take your money without giving you a receipt?
And how would underreporting even work if the amount is exactly specified?
“Yes, we fined him for 20k, he paid 10k by card and here are the other 8k in cash.”
but German customs rules require half of the charge to be paid in cash.
What a stupid fucking law.
Never heard of such a rule.
Afaik the reason why he couldn’t pay with card was that the card reader was broken.
Products are priced based on their cost/value
Ah, yes and the world is full of rational actors with perfect information.
I generally agree that that freedom in the US is mostly seen as ‘my personal right to do anything I want’.
But that’s exactly what is being restricted here. An individual’s personal freedom to wear the hairstyle they want.
So how does that explain the restrictiveness of US schools?
I mean, it seems they want to focus on the outcome not the reason so the title is pretty much on point.