Source: Me running mail servers on VPS since they've existed.

It will always be beyond me why literally every tiny town in the US seems to think they're a special snowflake with veeery different requirements than everybody else.

There should be base codes for literally everything coming down from the federal or at maximum state level that you may be allowed to stricten in very specific points for very specific, publicly discussed reasons. The need to "develop" such a code more than once should never exist.

Everything else is not just unfair to the taxpayers who paid for these developments, it's simply unfair to your citizens. Why should they have different rights just because they happen to live in a different federal state?

The government actually has a contract with DIN (first signed in 1975, last updated in 2020): https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/804880/5d66359e36df84...

With the stated purpose of "freeing the government from having to make up its own standards".

So Germany has basically avoided the need to pay for a National Instition for Standards, by offloading that cost to everybody who actually wants to read the standard.

> VDE is an association of many private companies, they could basically make a new norm, that some kind of cable, devices or such is now required, and you have to comply!

This is not correct, though. The norm would still have to be directly mentioned in any kind of legal document, or at least in any requirements by a third party (e.g. a bank that won't give you credit for a house if you don't promise to follow given building standards) to have any binding effect on you. The government also has people sitting on these standardization gremiums.

The main issue is that our German government sees value in overboarding standardisation and all those fees because they create revenue and jobs and make life harder for small companies. They want as many strong, big players backed by as many "reputable" standardisation agents (aka "consulting agencies") possible to influence the rest of the world. DIN and VDE are not just nuisances. They're powerhouses of German know-how transfer and influence in the world. Lots of DIN norms even have to be automatically taken over by most other European countries through CEN.

Just because so many people are successfully postponing children doesn't mean it gets any easier after the age of 30 or your children are going to be as healthy as others. Statistically the probability of chromosome defects roughly increases by one factor for every year parents are older than 25. ~7 times higher at 35, 15 times at 40.

If you are generally open to having children, the best time is in your mid-20s. You still have much more options, support and energy and your children will be healthier. By the time you're out of the education system and your career takes off, your children are already in school and mostly taken care of. That also makes you much more attractive to employers. Nobody likes a 30-something who's been a reliable employee for the last years and might even be up for a promotion to a higher role, but now suddenly has kids and will be tired and unreliable for the next ten years.

Fun fact: The word "slave" is derived from "Slavic people".

Since Chrome/Chromium supports screen sharing with Wayland, it simply just works for me nowy while it never worked with the Elecrton-based desktop application.

- Alexanderplatz - Görlitzer Park and Wrangelkiez - Warschauer Brücke - Hermannstraße and Bahnhof Neukölln - Hermannplatz and Donaukiez - Rigaer Straße - Kottbusser Tor

Görlitzer Park is officially lost to African drug dealers, they just group raped a woman in front of her boyfriend.

In other cities it's similar. I go to Hamburg and Dresden regularly, can't even befin to describe how much downhill St. Pauli and Alaunpark are going. No sane person goes there after dark anymore.

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Her base salary at Yahoo may have been $1m, but during her first six months at Yahoo she got a total of $36,6m. She has $69 million worth of unexercised stock options plus $97 million of Yahoo stock she already owns, after less than five years, during which she run the company into the ground.

McInerney gets a base salary of $2m plus a bonus of up to $2m, and he "will also be eligible for grants of long-term incentive rewards of up to $24 million". All of this is connected to his performance, and I guess the requirements will be much stronger than the ones set for Mayer.