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Keep in mind most people in France don't have AC since it's usually not necessary. It's gonna be a tough week for us

Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell

I work for a retailer and have been loosely involved in a project like that a few years ago.

Basically, it felt like it was mostly a very inexpensive way for the company to get everyone involved feel good about themselves. The free advertising was definitely an argument to get the higher-ups on board, but my impression was that it was kinda secondary compared to the kinda fake good conscience it gave everyone.

There was definitely no tax breaks for that initiative though, so at least in my country that is indeed a myth

EDIT: You also get to say in your annual report to the shareholders that the company helped raise x millions euros to charities at no cos, which in turn makes them feel good about themselves without impacting their profits.

You can do it but only once

Wait, when they say "Bob SquarePants" they mean it as an answer to that question? Honestly that seems a bit far fetch, you're reading into the lyrics too much

Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It's certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news

Just so you know: GDPR has (mostly) nothing to do with those cookie banners. It's a very broad text that doesn't go into specifics like that.

What you're seeing is a result of the 2002 E-Privacy directive that has been reinterpreted by data privacy authorities in light of the new definition of consent brought by the GDPR.

Basically, since 2002, websites are required to ask users for consent before depositing cookies. The issue was that there was no definition of what this consent meant. What the GDPR did is simply to define the concept of consent as a free expression of will that must come from a positive act (i.e. it must be explicit rather than implicit).

The GDPR was supposed to come out with a sister regulation called the E-Privacy regulation, but due to intense lobbying that text was buried. Local data protection authorities in Europe then decided to reinterpret that old directive in light of the GDPR to fill the gap.

All in all, blame the lobbyists, not the GDPR

From the looks of it, what they're calculating is a net promoter score. The idea is that, in some context, what you actually want to know is whether your target audience would be willing to actually promote your business to their friends and family or not.

It's very common in retail and other competitive markets, because a customer that had an "okay" experience could still go to a competitor, so only customers who had a great experience (7+ out of ten) are actually loyal, returning clients.

Don't know if that's the best method to gather impressions on workplace environment though, I don't think many people would consider their workplace "amazing"

Not sure whether it means something else in English, but in french a vernissage is the first opening of an art exhibition

Hey, I'll let you know that I'm a judgmental asshole and I happen to be french, but I don't hate the world, only the parts that aren't french

Oh, I couldn't find words to describe it to my friends but "digital art student Summer projects" is exactly what it looks like!

So it's more like "female cat, I farted"