Thanks for adding another source with some more context

The issue is that as someone already mentioned i doubt something like that was ever truly on the table.

I think you can’t give assurances like that in a vacuum. If a nation e.g. the US would grant them, they’d only do so while simultaniously building up a physical presence in the territory and possibly also do deeper integrations military wise. You wouldn’t give such strong assurances while weakening your own ability to act on them.

For Russia that would have never been acceptable.

Since I see this claim constantly: where in the Budapest memorandum did they promise protection?

Looking at the Wikipedia summary nowhere does anyone give security assurances similar to NATO article 5 or the even stronger worded mutual defense clause article 42 TEU of the EU. The closest it comes to is in the fourth point, but that is only in the case of nuclear weapons being used. Which obviously hasn’t happened yet. Beyond that it is just a promise not to attack, which Russia has broken, but every other singator has kept. And as far as I can see it does not contain anything that compells others to act on someone else’s breach.

It definitely seems that way and I wonder if “postponing” instead of straight up canceling is just a way to soften the blow on their already beaten stock price.

Pennsylvania jetzt auch offiziell republikanisch. Schon krass wie deutlich es am Ende wird.

(disclaimer that this is purely my impression from what i’ve seen mentioned online, not firsthand knowledge)

Which isn’t necessarily mutually exclusive. I was under the impression that the problems have more to do with high workloads and work environments that are chronically understaffed, not necessarily because of low salaries. Not claiming that all nurses are payed well, but it seems like that at least in the US there is a somewhat reasonable path to making good money (assuming you are willing to switch jobs and maybe continue to get sought after qualifications along the way).

That makes sense. I can definitely see consulting work paying top dollar in many different professions.

But that seems to me like she has carved out a lucrative niche for herself, which wouldn’t scale as advice for a larger number of people. Whereas with the other professions you can probably make good money even just doing more “regular” work.

Physical therapists, nurses and people that went into trades I can see making good money, but social workers I am kind of surprised to hear. I thought those were for the most part not paid as well compared to how taxing their jobs can be.

That I am actually not sure about, since you can manipulate profit numbers much easier (see Hollywood accounting) compared to revenue. But making money is ultimately of course the goal for profit companies, so naturally where you can hurt them.

If you decide to not go for a draconian fine where the margin of error are wider (doesn’t matter too much if you fine 4 or 5 times profit, you still get the point across), then you need to at least try to put in some effort to be accurate.

And 3% margin on a deal would be something you’d see from discount retailers like Aldi or Walmart.

Cost of doing business.

I’d really like to know what their margins are, because if my math is right that $0.5m fine is roughly 3% of $17.1m. The very least a fine should do is siphon off all profits, more to account for those you do not catch and to be an effective deterrent. But even if you do want to incentivize companies to cooperate taking all profit should be the lower limit. And I have a really hard time imagining that margins in the chip market are that thin.

Of course you also need to know the month, but similar to the year i would argue that there are plenty of times where the month is evident from context. So the informational value is lower than the day.

I don’t want to argue that this is an absolute thing, but i’d say that quantitatively there are more times where you only need the day compared to very few times where you only need the month for example.

I’d agree that yyy.mm.dd is probably the best for sorting reasons, but imo dd.mm.yyyy also has at least some logic in an everyday setting. Usually the order of relevance for everyday appointments is the day, then month, then year. Oftentimes the year has no informational value at all, since it is implied, e.g. for an upcoming birthday.

Kann mir jemand erklären, was denn jetzt genau noch der Unterschied zwischen Bürgergeld und Hartz 4 ist außer der Name?

Was mich persönlich extremst irritiert ist, dass es überhaupt erlaubt ist neben einem Job bei den Stadtwerken gleichzeitig Nebentätigkeiten wie z.B. Aufsichtsrat in großen Energieunternehmen nachzugehen. Das ist doch ein Paradebeispiel von systematischem Interessenkonflikt, den man als Arbeitgeber prinzipiell ausschließen sollte, denn es besteht ja eine direkte Verkäufer/Kunden-Beziehung.

Das kann doch der Logik nach nur schief gehen, denn letztlich sind sie dadurch beiden Arbeitgebern gegenüber Verpflichtet in ihrem Interesse zu handeln. Aber der Gewinn der einen Seite, ist oft genug der Verlust der anderen.

Thanks, i wasn’t aware of that option and will definitely try to use it occasionally. Although having an option like that and having a default mechanism that pushes posts back to the top still probably still have different effects.

broad market Index fund with low management fees

I actually think all the posts talking about the size of communities, amount of memes on the frontpage and so on are wrong, since those will naturally change over time and are not fixed.

Every platform will see changes in their user base to some degree. Reddit now is very different to Reddit 10 years ago. The same thing will happen to Lemmy: If growth continues we will see more engagement in niche communities, but also more low effort posts and reposts.

Considering it doesn’t do anything fundamentally different to reddit in the way of being a content aggregator with comment section it will be a similar experience. It would be different if it e.g. had a function to make older posts resurface and stay relevant longer to foster longer conversations, or structure comments differently since right now the further down a chain you go, the less people will engage with it.

Even if the average user doesn’t care about open source or federation, they’ll still benefit (and suffer) from the consequences.

On a centralised platform like Reddit you are beholden to their will for better or worse, and incentives might change over time such in their case with taking investor money and going public. This can have consequences such as forcing out third party software (one of the events that brought a lot of people here), but also censoring specific content or taking away powers from moderators.

There are downsides to it, since smaller, less professionally run instances might disappear at some point or have less reliability. But The upside is the option to choose and the resilience that should things change at one instance/community, you can switch without having to leave the whole ecosystem. And for that you do not have to be a moderator or volunteer

The existence of different instances also to some degree helps identify users to some degree, the obvious choice being political instances like hexbear.

The average user is not looking for NSFW

That’s an assumption i’ll challenge. Looking at the amount of porn on the internet, the average person most definitely is looking for it. But that is probably a bit offtopic.

Wobei sie das in dem Fall denke ich nicht nur zum Abgraben von Wählern, sondern leider auch aufgrund der eigenen intoleranten Gesinnung machen würden. Merkel, die ja trotz all ihrer Fehler wahrscheinlich eher dem moderaten Lager der Union angehört, hat selbst z.B. gegen die Ehe für Alle gestimmt.

Meinem Verständnis nach ist es auch bei Nobelpreisen nicht angebracht. Die werden jährlich ungefähr im gleichen Zeitraum vergeben. Und ehrlich gesagt sehe ich jetzt keinen Allgemeinnutzen, der daraus ensteht, dass man eine Minute früher davon erfährt. Klar auf persönlicher Ebene mag es toll sein das ganze sofort zu erfahren, aber dafür muss es dann halt andere Werkzeuge geben. Zum Beispiel irgendeinem Twitter/Mastodon Account folgen der das wiedergibt (denke mal die Nobelstiftung wird das haben?) oder es sollte einen Service geben den man abonnieren kann.

Eilmeldugen sollten für wirklich wichtige Nachrichten vorbehalten werden, bei denen eine sofortige allgemeine Meldung einen großen Mehrwert erzeugt. Weltbewegende Ereignisse, große Umweltkatastrophen/Anschläge, Warnungen die Leib und Leben betreffen.

Gleichzeitig reduziert jeder Missbrauch die Nützlichkeit von “Eilmeldungen”. Wenn soetwas wie “Deutsche Wirtschaft im dritten Quartal überraschend gewachsen” auf meinem Handy eine Benachrichtigung auslöst, dann stelle ich das ab, verpasse aber gleichzeitig tatsächlich potentiell relevante Informationen.

Edit: wenn ein Wissenschaftsmagazin aus der Nobelpreisvergabe eine Eilmeldung macht, dann wäre das mMn ok. Es kommt also vielleicht auch auf den Kontext an über was man generell berichtet.

Damit kann man aufmerksamkeit und Klicks generieren. Warum die Tagesschau das nötig hat? Keine Ahnung.

Aber das wird schon seit ewigkeiten Missbraucht und hat schon seit langem jegliche relevanz Verloren. Es werden auch Todesmeldungen irgendwelcher 90 jährigen Promis oder die Vergabe von Nobelpreisen als Eilmeldung deklariert.