> Current EU company structures like the European Company (SE) are made for public companies and ill-suited for startups due to high capital requirements, complex formation processes, and heavy administrative burdens. A flexible, tailored EU-wide entity for startups will solve these issues.
I’ve rewritten a bunch of our tests to this factory pattern last week, too (the factory is a fixture though - FactoryBoy is worth a look).
I’d argue that too many global fixtures in conftest have a high risk of becoming a “Mystery Guests” or too general fixtures. For a test reader it’s impossible to know the semantics of “institution_10”.
I believe this to be rooted in DRY obsession leading to coupling of tests: “We need a second institution in two modules? Let’s lift it up to global!”
1. Misleading headline. Glasser says that there’s no clear definition of „hate speech“ so you won’t know what you’ll get when you ask government to ban it. Just because something is ambiguous doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (e.g. definition of freedom is also ambiguous, doesn’t mean „no such thing as freedom exists“). What are words even?
2. Shady website. Unclear who runs it. Seems to have been popular on Parler according to Google index.
A too short or complete lack of an alternatives section has become red flag for me when reviewing proposals.
I often scroll to the alternatives section first thing to see whether at least a few alternatives were honestly evaluated. Too often I just find some bullet points with abstract URLs (without any summary for the reader) and a statement that they would not be as great as the proposed solution - or no section at all.
It becomes impossible to provide constructive feedback at that point. It leaves me with the dreaded “Have you considered Alternative X, Y, Z?” or a passive-aggressive “Could you do an unbiased research of alternatives against the requirements?”
Even though the alternatives section tends to be towards the end of the document it doesn’t mean that it should be filled out at the end.
That prefix certainly comes with baggage. There were a lot of affordable "Volks-" (read as: "for the people") products created by the DAF (German Labour Front) between 1933 and 1945. The more (internationally) known ones are the Volkswagen, Volksempfänger (radio receiver), Volkskühlschrank (refrigerator), Volksgasmaske (gas mask).
On the other hand, the infamous "BILD" tabloid started using that prefix brand again in 2002, with the Volks-PC and has been marketing 200 products with that prefix since and other companies/projects/products followed (like Volks.Fahrrad - which had to rename because of the product proximity to Volkswagen).
> I guess the fact that the limits are higher also has some influence on this?
See the other comments on that people definitely go above posted speed limits, but limits are also not necessarily higher.
Cities are 50kph (30mph) with residential areas often at 30kph (20mph), outside of cities the limits are 80-100kph (50-60mph). You get a lot of 100-120kph (60-75mph) sections on the Autobahn where the otherwise _recommended_ speed is 130kph (80mph) which is when BMWs will be overtaking you at twice that speed on the left lane.
> I remember a Dutch engineer telling me that when they increased the speed limits years ago the average speed sunk and it was hypothesized that it was (IIRC) because as the limits became more reasonable more people decided to just follow them.
I'd assume they meant "rate of speeding violations went down" versus "average speed sunk". The problem with measuring the effect of speed limit changes is that so many things change over the timeframe of the measurement - better vehicle safety, change in traffic rate or overall transportation preference (increase of cyclist in the Netherlands)... studies on this topic are manifold and they all seem to come to rather different conclusions.
According to their FAQ they actually want those poor conditions to be present in the corpus.
> We want the audio quality to reflect the audio quality a speech-to-text engine will see in the wild. Thus, we want variety. This teaches the speech-to-text engine to handle various situations—background talking, car noise, fan noise—without errors.
A driver's license in Germany costs 1400+ euros, covering a minimum of 12*90min learning, 12h driving, a written test, and a driving test. If you fail the tests you have to take more hours. Bad drivers pay 3000+ euros until they pass.