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Bayart
5y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the raison d'être of the Illumos kernel (upon which OpenIndiana is based) has always been the cloud, with Nexenta and Joyent (SmartOS) doing the heavy lifting. They're basically ZFS/
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5y ago
What does this have to do with anything ? As far as I know, the state of art for manufacturing on both techs happens in Korea, that's it.
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Bayart
5y ago
On both counts you should give credit to the Koreans more than the Chinese.
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5y ago
There's plenty of fabric innovation going on. Not just in techwear (where you get your high end outdoors stuff), but also in more traditional fashion. Off the top of my head I've seen the Techmerino stuff from Zegna (which fits th
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Bayart
5y ago
>I own the HD800S and if it wasn’t for the scientifically derived EQ filters some community members have developed, I would be entirely unable to listen to them for the reasons exactly as you describe. But once the EQ is applied fixing t
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Bayart
5y ago
>What kind of fabric that can withstand the stress of wearing, washing, drying and still be comfortable to wear and retain the look ? Whool, if you know how to care for it. Suits can easily last decades. Everything made out of cotton, in
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5y ago
>showed how unable Europe is to run its business Who do you think we are ? Some 19th c. African colony ? Qing China ? For the most part we don't want you here, and we don't need you here.
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5y ago
EDIT : For France I meant real estate gives 4-5%, don't know why I skipped that.
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5y ago
I get the sense everybody thinks their particular government is specifically bad at IT services.
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5y ago
If I'm not wrong, the average yearly ROI of something like S&P 500 has been around 7-8% over the last 70 years. Since you're French as well, I can tell you that here it gives about 4-5% in yearly returns. So it's not unhe
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5y ago
People keep being blindsided by the financial aspects of the space, whether it is those who love it or those who hate it. It just rings off-beat and it's frankly a bit vacuous.
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5y ago
>working democracy That's a sizable assumption to begin with. Democracies are less and less, well, working because the Internet itself has eroded trust significantly and is moving the parameters of epistemology around. That is a p
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Bayart
5y ago
That's not what happened, but that's what the Republican news media at the time pretended had happen.
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5y ago
To put it in computer terms : it's the same reason why we have task-specific hardware and general purpose hardware and software. The more a task reoccurs, the more you benefit from a device dedicated to the task. And the more heter
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5y ago
Those we call Scythians now are a group of Eastern Iranian horse-ridding people living on the Eurasian Steppe between modern Romania and Kazakhstan. What Greeks called Scythians was anybody riding a horse and living a bit North. Starting
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5y ago
Greek colonies employed mercenaries rather than the other way around. But Greek mercenaries were quite popular in Greece proper (between city-states) and around it. Egyptians and Persians used them extensively. One of the famous stories of
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Bayart
5y ago
Asymmetry is the rule in my country for both copper and fibre lines, although it's less pronounced with fibre. Symmetric lines are a specific business option.
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5y ago
There's a sort of never ending hysteria (I've heard it for decades) about brain-brain supposedly caused by taxes, administration, « backwards French culture » and basically any other liberal fever dream stuff you can pin on a coun
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5y ago
>the best meat for the buck you can get In France it's usually the worst meat available, aggregated with salt and spices to hide the horror. McDonald's has the best meat I'm aware of and they've gone to great lengths
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5y ago
The problem isn't the ISPs, it's the regulation and the arcane onion of overlapping jurisdictions. Places where infrastructure owners are legally bound to share with third party network operators don't have that problem.
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5y ago
>Get a powerful router that runs CAKE It doesn't even need to be powerful if you're on a normal copper line for home use. I'm saying that running a 20€ Xioami router and having machines torrenting, an Android box watching
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5y ago
>They don't need culture Everybody needs culture, and few people « need » programming beyond those with a a natural disposition for that sort of activity. And I don't know how that's a point relevant at all the subject of
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5y ago
> They limit the number of foreign restaurant chains like McDonalds and Chipotle I've never heard of anything like that. McDonald's are everywhere, there are new American concoctions of dubious nature making their way into the
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5y ago
The life expectancy for a 1-year old has gone something along the line of +40%. That's significant but not doubled. Infant mortality is by very large margin the most important factor in the changes to life expectancy at birth. And you
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5y ago
>Also, is Scots not a dialect of English? I'm not sure -- a mix at the very least. Scots and English are two dialects of the same language.
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5y ago
What English speakers refer to as dialects is milder than what other languages do, as English wiped all of its actual dialects out pretty early on. On the other hand, what's called in German a dialect might often be considered a l
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5y ago
The dynamic between Chinese and Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese in East Asia is very similar to the one between French and English, or more broadly Latin/Greek and all European languages. It's a good example to use for both s
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Bayart
5y ago
If that's a thing, I'll just end up treating them the same way I do now with sites who don't make GDPR consent easy to deny : blacklist them forever regardless of content.
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5y ago
As far as I'm aware they also banned some Zionist demonstrations, and pro-Palestine demonstrations were allowed in other places where it didn't pose a threat. It's a complete non-event.
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5y ago
>The European Union - those who can’t innovate, regulate. What a putrid aphorism. Law is a field of innovation itself .
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