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by Bayart 5y ago
I don't know what's with payroll management software (low-hanging government contracts ? Inter-agency factionalism ?) but every time I hear about a nationwide software-inflicted catastrophe somewhere, it's one of those. In Fr
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by Bayart 5y ago
Previous threads : - IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources[1] - IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on[2] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by Bayart 5y ago
My understanding of historical linguistics is that gendering in Indo-European languages has its roots in animate vs inanimate objects, with a feminine category splitting later on from the animate category (possibly as a way to distinguish s
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by Bayart 5y ago
>Where would the invader come from? Poland ! I was alluding to the fact that the Plague wasn't uniform and that if demographic depression were an incentive to invade by itself, places that were unaffected (like Poland) would have ex
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by Bayart 5y ago
>Now on the other hand, if Europe had suffered something like 50%+ death from American diseases while indigenous Americans suffered much lower death tolls from European disease - in other words, the reverse of what actually happened - th
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's really a function of the amount of species that can be domesticated, the Americas has only few of them. Domesticated species end up living in close proximity to humans and create a perfect environment for disease.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Acknowledging the weight of passive factors (disease) shouldn't be at the cost of disqualifying the role of active ones like technology (military, political, administrative, trades). The Spanish had plenty of military engagements in th
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by Bayart 5y ago
It makes less sense than imaginations running wild at the sight of crocodiles and dinosaur bones.
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by Bayart 5y ago
You're looking for far-fetched explanations where his academic track record, most notably on Beowulf , provides a completely natural meta-mythological basis for his works.
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by Bayart 5y ago
I've got no real use case for Fly.io at the moment, but ever since their big thread the other day I went through their blog posts and I've got to say they're pretty much all fantastic as far as delivering information I'm
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by Bayart 5y ago
Regular SEPA wires between different banks take about one working day in France. But they can take up to three, legally. And four in the EU. Transfers in the same bank are usually instant. In practice expect a 24h turnaround on a SEPA t
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by Bayart 5y ago
And get a load of this one : the English spell chèque as "cheque" ! ;)
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by Bayart 5y ago
Making milk relevant for all ages is one of the main reasons for cheese existing in the first place.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Yesterday someone ran a thread where people posted tons of headless CMS options[1]. There might be a few ideas there for people interested in your comment. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674105
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by Bayart 5y ago
I can't speak for Britain but a lot of administrative services in France are digital now. I'm rarely trapped in bureaucratic nonsense like I would have been say ten years ago. Most services you'd require on any given day (tax
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by Bayart 5y ago
I don't feel France is nearly as business unfriendly as people like to pretend. At least not anymore. It's just an undying trope.
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by Bayart 5y ago
>France too, because of the difficulty in guaranteeing English-language services. As someone who's done English support in France, it sounds like preconceived notions that don't match reality. The tech industry is usually liter
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by Bayart 5y ago
I fail to see how this has anything to do with the post. Did you even read it ? >As soon as one goes OS packaging route, "Docker" for instance becomes immediately obsolete. Reproducibility is still a brand new frontier on the O
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by Bayart 5y ago
There are obviously legal and cultural variables allowing for the geography to be leveraged, as @iheartlife fairly pointed out. But you still need something to leverage. Distance from population centers matters, trading routes matter, topog
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They're not near human, they're human.
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by Bayart 5y ago
HK is wealthy because of where it is. Good luck trying to replicate that in the Falklands or on some rock in the Caribbeans.
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by Bayart 5y ago
I'm the same. I tend to get derailed on making my code philosophically "right" and aesthetically "soothing" (for lack of a better word), even when it doesn't obviously matter to the scope of the project, rather
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by Bayart 5y ago
Don't do any technical analysis, trust your guts, short low, buy high, lose all your money, get paid in HN points.
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by Bayart 5y ago
That design language makes sense with Chinese because it's dense. I'm not sure it would work with any language written in Roman script. Uber Eats for example uses a single vertical scrolling menu with horizontal separators and tab
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by Bayart 5y ago
A lot of this will be terrible in the long term for privacy. They're exploiting people's laziness to fleece them of their identity. It's vile.
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by Bayart 5y ago
>What's the UK equivalent to Lambda School? The French equivalent? France has *tons* of vocational dev training, through a variety of systems. They are mostly split between : - Public technical schools (ran by the state) that delive
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by Bayart 5y ago
In France, an engineering school graduate has far more prospects than a university graduate at masters level. Completely different systems. Schools are for engineering, universities are for science.
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's a core part of how we think about food. And pretty much all of the Old World works the same, really. There's a reason why it's a complete non-issue in Asia. What's that so-called « unjustifiable », dare I ask ?
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>"The Old World supplied the immigrants. It seems to be very weird that you’re saying that people can’t take culture with them," You can take the culture, not the terroir , that's the point. Actual buffalo mozzarella from
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by Bayart 5y ago
The reverse argument makes as much, if not more, sense : rents in cities are far too high, the economy is too concentrated and it has negative side effects on quality of life, health, political stability, wealth disparity and growth. Deploy

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