Bayart

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by Bayart 1y ago
> You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place. The EU bureaucracy itself is significantly lighter
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by Bayart 1y ago
You're not that special. While the American special snowflake syndrome has been useful in giving its citizens a sense of purpose, freeing them of apprehension and bringing it where it is, it's ultimately baseless. Things get dange
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by Bayart 1y ago
> Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines
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by Bayart 2y ago
Note that those tariffs are related to earlier US tariffs from March, not the recent universal tariffs. The European MO in that respect is very consistent : take time to deliberate, reach consensus and apply pressure in kind. It's at o
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by Bayart 2y ago
Nobody can. There's far too much overlap regionally between Britain and North-Western France. And nobody in Britain has just Brittonic ancestry, or Frankish ancestry in France. For the most part the populations in Europe have been stab
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by Bayart 2y ago
> ..and that's why these Western European welfare states are collapsing. No, it's not. The weight of illegals on the welfare system is a rounding error compared to the effects of an aging population. And if you were familiar wi
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by Bayart 2y ago
It's not just Russia we need to be weary about. America needs to be guarded against.
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by Bayart 2y ago
I don't see proliferation in Europe as realistic politically. Europeanising the French program is what makes the most sense in that regard.
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by Bayart 2y ago
> Unless they partner with someone who does, which is what they’d likely do. They're already doing it. Most crypto or crypto-adjacent product you'll see traditional firms is relying on a provider white-labelling crypto exposure
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by Bayart 2y ago
Compliance has a centralizing effect, for example the American OFAC sanctions list. You can do business outside of it but you're cutting yourself out of a lot of institutional money. In the end while there's a lot of money being
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by Bayart 2y ago
Webflow ? Squarespace ? I assumed that segment had been occupied by CMS and SaaS companies.
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by Bayart 2y ago
Yeah, it sounds like an attack on the Metamask extension, or the browser hosting it.
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by Bayart 2y ago
Being in the thick of it, I can tell you the compliance side is pushing towards what exists in traditional finance, be IT, money laundering, accounting practices etc. At least in Europe and to a lesser extent the US. If you go working at ne
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by Bayart 2y ago
I tend to agree with you, if only because the swing in Europe on the IT job market has had less amplitude and is more spread out, similar to the difference in stimulus policy.
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by Bayart 2y ago
EAST (Chinese) and WEST (French) are under the ITER umbrella. Showing your notes is baked in.
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by Bayart 2y ago
> I think a big factor might have been learning to read at around the age of two, possibly creating deep and regularly reinforced mnemonic links to my audiovisual recall. That's very possible. Although it wouldn't explain much
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by Bayart 2y ago
I'm very aware of this and tend to examine my own memory critically while trying to avoid reinforcing some preconception I might have about them. I can clearly remember, for example : - The exact look and shape of my feeding bottle. -
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by Bayart 2y ago
I have snapshot memories from before the age of 1 that I can certifiably say aren't false (no photographic evidence, no external testimony, being able to recollect them regularly since infancy) and that can be pinpointed to that time d
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by Bayart 2y ago
A suit that (sic) suits your morphology and isn't made on the cheap is very comfortable.
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by Bayart 2y ago
> Or do devs around the world just have to bite the bullet and learn enough English to be able to use the majority of tools? That's how it goes, at least around Europe. People know English as a technical jargon (similar to legal Fre
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by Bayart 2y ago
The full tentative transcription, from the original article in French: ib r…mi [m]arte rigisamu | a]nmantigIu Se uiron bnanon uanderonado brixton sod-esti Cisin…piSSlon atlon atemiston Etic se-uiron banon canti piSSiantas
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by Bayart 2y ago
In a francophone context, what's perceived as being elitist is consuming English-speaking content.
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by Bayart 2y ago
> The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude. In France I could have a blood test right now, without an appointment, and
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by Bayart 2y ago
> With the tech and scales of the times, it's mind-blowing and a testament to how badass humanity already was. At the scale of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Antiquity is yesterday. A good rule of thumb in History is that people were and
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by Bayart 2y ago
> You get to a ruin which has been messed up by Roman archaeologists, and their stuff is also artifacts. In the case of Egypt, the chief culprits are usually ancient Egyptians. Not just common thiefs mind you, but also officials from lat
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by Bayart 2y ago
Indic doesn't make assumptions about religious boundaries and is not ideologically loaded while maintaining the association to the context of India.
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by Bayart 2y ago
Yiddish follows the same pattern as other Jewish languages, ie. starting out as a sociolect of the local language with additional Hebraic vocabulary for subject matters specific to Jews. It doesn't seem any less German than say Austro-
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by Bayart 2y ago
Working out as a projection of force assumes its usefulness at impressing force.
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by Bayart 2y ago
That would be a massive quality of life improvement for me. I've had a lot of issues with my teeth and while being in my thirties I currently need at least 4 implants to get close to a properly functioning dentition. And that still lea
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by Bayart 2y ago
Yeah, cloud computing is a streightforward energy efficiency business. That's why the pricing of enterprise hardware is always pretty frontloaded.

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