ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Extra 133%, not extra 33%. So from 4% to 9.33%, not 5.33%
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Not really your question I think, but, what country do you live? You are mandated an app? That's crazy?! What about people that don't have a phone? Or a 'dumb'-phone? Where I live any valid QR code works, be it paper or
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What I'd expect in an MBA : accounting, finance, marketing, basics in legal, management, business strategy, etc. Sure. It's not higher maths. But they are real skills that are 1) hard 2) are not 'natural'. Yes. It's
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The fact that the Chinese numbers are fake is at this momement only at question for the extremely gullible. Supposedly they have not had a single covid-death since March 2020, and have had 100 new cases this week, with a country that has 14
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Which in turn is based on the size of a equine derriere, as the story goes. https://www.precisioncontent.com/blog/on-rocket-ships-and-ho...
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The gmail prototype was made using 20% time. I'd call that "no oversight" as per the third point. Moreover, when the developer in question demoed his work, the reaction from Brin (famously) was something akin to "there&#
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Aaaaaactually... in the postscript he sort of walks back everything. But since the article has mathematical and educational merit on its own, I guess he maintained it. "My indignation at how the internet dealt with Wald's work was
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Ubuntu LTS. It also serves for my wife and (small) kids so something easy that works out of the box. It's great because it gives the kids a computer that's 'theirs' but I can manage their freedom to the level that they&#
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After 30 years on Windows I switched this month to Linux, for pretty much the same reason. It's great. And it feels so fast . All my software exists natively on Linux (minecraft and game emulators for the kids, KNIME, Intellij, and Bl
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While it is true that they will likely not see any money, it does mean that they have effectively banished these people from the US. Perhaps it's not as life altering as jail or fines, but still: no holidays in Florida or Hawaii. No me
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for those interested, I recently found this YT channel, run by a Canadian that moved around a lot and settled in the Netherlands. He goes into various urban planning issues, and breaks down some of the reasons why he thinks Dutch cities are
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I think he meant to write heating. Because the moderate (slow) parts leave, keeping the 'hot' members.
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I believe the misunderstanding is between "Christianity" (the religion, old) and "the Roman catholic church" (the institute, younger)
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Yes, but with their wheels down and at a much lower speed =)
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As an aside, for those interested : this sort of "paleo-contact" ideas were proposed by Erich von Däniken. Aztec lines are space-ports, the flaming angel from the bible is a landing space craft, etc. Someone even made a sci-fi car
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I imagine this person is the reason that David Strathairn's personage in Sneakers (1992) is called Whistler.
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Oops. Copy pasted the French link. It's corrected now.
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I recently bumped into this Arte documentary about his life. I believe in the first 5 minutes they list his achievements and what he was like as a kid. I don't think you would have been disappointed :-) Documentary (with English subtit
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
These countries were not the problem cases. If you compare it with Ireland however : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Repub... "Ireland's "headline" corporation tax rate is 12.
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
That's quite an enormous effort! Do you do it for professional reasons, or to keep up? If your objective is really to have an understanding of the world, it may not be that effective though. Watching US news 8 hours a day does not broa
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
The coup was attempted by military that were not happy with the way things were going in Algeria (i.e. France was losing it). They were not the only ones, and France was coming apart at the seams. De Gaul, who had been out of power since 1
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
You're making it too complicated. Find an open wifi somewhere.
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This blog posting by a squatting collective surfaced in a HN thread yesterday https://paris-luttes.info/communique-sur-l-affaire-de-la-145...
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The issue was assault during eviction, not just squating. And my point was not to equate assault and murder. Just to say that we were having the wrong discussion.
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Presumably the charge is not "resisting arrest", but "assault of an officer of the law". Several officers missed a couple of days work, one officer had to stop working for two weeks. I haven't more on the subject, b
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From the blog posting I read yesterday, the individual was not arrested for his political convictions. He was not only a climate activist, but also a squatter. Apparently there were several police officers hurt during a legally mandated evi
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And in the spirit of accuracy : the reason for the arrest was the violence during an eviction (several injured police officers), not the squatting itself.
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Yup, fully agree: Protonmail should just say "we comply with the law". Though at this point the security reputation of the Swiss should have given anyone pause to think (Crypto AG, Omnisec AG, etc) My point was just that 1) the ar
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From what I gathered from a (French) blog posting by a squatting collective, posted elsewhere in this thread, the arrests are in relation to an eviction. The eviction was legally sanctioned, and violence was used on the officers. Several of
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Counter point: beginning of 2021, for weeks I was wondering why the markets were not reacting to Covid. Only when travel restrictions were introduced, and only when they were introduced to the US , the market started taking notice. Does

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