ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Schengen is about being able to check at your borders. Indeed the UK can still do that, despite being in Europe. However, the UK still has to allow free movement of people. Meaning that it can not stop Europeans from living in the UK. This
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
To give you an idea of the mindset of some people, and for how much they are ready to lie and deceive, I have this gem: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/postcard-from-the-edge-of-reason-pb7rnswfc8b
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
There is pushback against car-impacting measures in Europe too, make no mistake. The yellow jackets in France started as a protest against increase in tax on petrol. The previous president in France, Hollande, had to roll back a toll system
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Don't know the particular tax law in question, but perhaps it would help you if you thought you of lawmaking as making software (in fact in French the word for law is 'code') Everything you code has to be coherent, requiremen
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Nitpick: we can actually transmute, either by fusion or fission. Sure it's not economically effective, but then neither was Apollo.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Exactly. Or Apple charging a percentage of all in-app purchases.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
This YouTube video explains a bit more, and also 'how we know all this': https://youtu.be/muWrmfXpivY It is in French (sorry) but it is subtitled and his channel has many very clear explanations about a diverse ra
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The metal part is in fact partially liquid and partially solid depending on how deep in you are. The increasing pressure makes the liquid go to solid state. It is the rotation of this solid part inside of the liquid part that generates magn
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Or, for those who want a more entertaining version (by the excellent and late Hans Rosling) https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The 6502 could perform 8-bit operations, but had a 16-bit address space. Hence the C64 (= 2^16)
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Question of semantics is mixing up your conversation here I think. Is "the church" the religious authority (i.e. the Vatican), or just simply anyone religious? Because the Vatican has not persecuted people for their scientific vie
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
That is not as crazy as it sounds. The problem with CO2 is the fact that we're burning oil that was previously safely sequestered deep below the surface, thus increasing dramatically the overal amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. The carb
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by ArnoVW 8y ago
If you're an amateur of exotic states, try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
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by ArnoVW 8y ago
Even at nominal GDP it is 59k vs 39k, so 50% difference and not 100%. And I'm not sure to understand why you prefer one mesure over the other. Pure GDP does not take into account systemic issues, such as the cost of health care or educ
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by ArnoVW 8y ago
I won't enter into the policy discussions about wealth distribution, and you are right that the GDP per capita of the US is larger than that of Franc, but. The difference is more that of 43K vs 59K. So not 900%. In fact, the GDP per ca
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by ArnoVW 8y ago
Google now works in France
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by ArnoVW 8y ago
The Economist had an interesting article this summer about this subject, covering it from historical, statistical and political angles : https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/07/12/americas-elect...