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> when seeing labels that talk about kWh/day

That's at least kinda reasonable. I'm always amused when I see TV energy labels that state

xx kWh/1000h


To.m be fair I want to know how much a fridge costs to run when it’s on 24/7, my tv not so much.

Can complain to your local MEP about that. They updated the passenger rights regulation recently, but still kept this/

Regulation (EU) 2021/782

> Railway undertakings may introduce a minimum threshold under which payments for compensation will not be paid. This threshold shall not exceed EUR 4 per ticket.

Sadly the MEPs cared more about railway companies than passengers.


> and can only be cancelled in small windows a long time before auto-renew

any examples?


Parship used to do this (not sure about their current practices, this was years ago): I once had a six-month subscription that would automatically extend by a year if you didn't cancel at least three months in advance (by letter or fax!). Especially dodgy in that line of business, because if you get lucky shortly before subscription runs out, you're literally giving away a year's worth of subscription that you're not going to use at all.

Many commercial leases run in 5-year increments with 2 5 year auto-renewals and a 90-180 day window in which to exercise the opt-out of auto-renewal. That window is often not set to end coincident with the end of the lease term for obvious reasons.

> Amazon/Walmart

They are also in the advertising business. Walmart cleared $4 billion last year.

https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/walmarts-ad-business-cl...


> In Germany there is a discussion

The discussion concluded with it being codified into law. How it's gonna work apparently is that the image will be stored E2E-encrypted in the cloud and at the photographer you'll get a barcode that contains the URL to the image and the key to decrypt it. To upload the image into the cloud, the photographer will need to use a secure ID card to sign in.

https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikat...

Was kinda interested in building software for this, but it feels like you need to pay a lot of people for fancy audits.


> HaystackDB is accessed through a RESTful HTTPS API. No client library necessary.

That's cool, but but I would prefer to not reinvent the wheel. If you have a simple library, that would already be useful.

Some simple code or request examples would be convenient as well. I really don't know how easy or difficult your interface design is. It would be cool to see the API docs.


Yeah, it’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Since I don’t have a way to find potential customers I feel it’s too risky investing in stuff like client libraries and good API docs. But I can definitely understand you’d like to see more.


> Well yes, Ryanair itself put their flights on Amadeus

Pretty sure 99% of OTAs don't book Ryanair flights through Amadeus, but through screen scraping.


Why?


Rented a Polestar 2 multiple times from Hertz in the summer. It included both a home-charging cable and a charging fob.

The Hertz charging fob is quite expensive though, cheaper to signup to something like EnBW, which you can use for almost all charging stations [0].

Supercharger in Germany are almost all open to third-party cars as well, though not as cheap as EnBW.

[0]: https://www.enbw.com/elektromobilitaet/produkte/ladetarife


> it is super duper easy to register a car online.

If you are in possession of the title of the car, yes.

However if you lease a car, the leasing company will just post the lease to the Zulassungsstelle so that you will not be in possession of the title at any time. So it will require you to go there in person.


Dealer plates cannot be used for export.


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