BrandoElFollito

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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I am glad I'm not the only one. At least in France there were traditionally stacks of cartoons as well (and some magazines)
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
The French head of Microsoft ctor not, under oath, say that Microsoft can guarantee sovereignty. This is the evidence that until you have a EU company, under EU rules and not present in the US at all , you cannot have sovereignty.
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I was on the cybersecurity side of that, "advising" huge, multinational companies that hold the world together. Oh boy. I was told for instance once that my concerns about an open, unencrypted Wi-Fi for SCADA systems were not a bi
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
The third that didn't vote does not exist. The net result was roughly 50/50. Now, maybe this third will start to exist and vote if they either wake up, are seriously hit financially or someone annoys them enough. Until then they
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
This is and have always been the case for Masters and above across Europe. It varies for Licentiates. It is also often the case for exams in majors (they are often oral). So nothing innovative there
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
Why? If the low revenue busyness is taxed at 1% and the mega one at 30% (just examples). Taxing on the income also means that you can offload taxes elsewhere easily
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
It all depends on the tax level. If today they are texted at, say, 20%, this could be a 5% on gross revenue (or whatever), and indexed on the revenue (like for humans). I also run on narrow margins, and nobody cares.
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
Sorry, I mixed them up (I am not a native speaker of English, but would have probably mixed them up in French as well :)). Thanks (I updated my post)
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I seriously do not understand why companies pay taxes on the income and not the revenue. (EDIT: I mixed them up) I pay on the revenue. I also buy things. I also consume. And somehow I can manage with taxes on the revenue. This would also so
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
The French Post is also living in the 90s. They send SMSs that look like a scam ("your package something, click here"), the link is on a wild domain completely unrelated to anything close to a post office service, and then the con
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I have tons of devices and I wish everything was Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi has its problems but at least it is easily measurable, debugable, ... Zigbee is a voodoo protocol: you initiate the pairing and hope for the best. And then you hope for the best
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I work in cybersecurity, have seen a lot. For your own good, really listen to the legal advices.
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I find it perturbing that one completely corrupt organization haggles with another completely corrupt organization using some moral arguments. It is just missing the Olympic Committee to complete the podium of corruption. On top of that the
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
YEs, absolutely, there is a big difference. My point was rather that both drivers and cyclists can be assholes (with different outcomes)
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
True. Still showing 10$ when it is actually 11.75$ because there is a random tax is really, really insane. I truly wonder why the US does this when the rest of the world does not.
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
When visiting the US, I lerned that a meal that costs 10$ is actually 10$ + some random tax + a tip = 20$
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
This also includes cyclists. (I drive and cycle, and see all the combinations)
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
Why not reconfiguring it with something like AutoHotkey at the OS level ?
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
Thank you for the information - and what about communication? I don't think they have an antenna that reaches out to the surface?
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
When I was in my late teens, I used to hike with a 15 kg backpack (with the technology of the late 80s). I could walk about 15 km in average hills over 8-10 hours. I was average, physical capacities wise.
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I would love to have something like this for HN, a RSS feed with articles over 5 hours (5 hours because it is old enough to have comments which are often more interesting that the article, and fresh enough to get a reaction on a comment fol
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
How does a modern submarine navigates today?
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
When I was younger and eager for retreats I saw one turn really bad. The facilitator suggested volunteers to sit in the middle and people to be open about their bad and good things. Oh man, this went south quickly after a few beers, the ret
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
I was actually interested in the contents but the scrolling is unbearable. It looks like some contemporary art and not a web page with stuff to read. No ideas how to design a site (or too many ideas)? The motherfucking website to the rescue
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
In France, land of free helthcare, the problem is ultimately the same but for different reasons. We do not have enough doctors (they lobbied a law to set quotas) and finding a specialist is a near miracle. Then the doctors complain that the
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
SO is the second thing I liked that was broken via "we cannot have nice things". The first one was UseNet. I was on SO for 14 years, with an accumulated rep of a few hundred thousands. At the beginning the crisp philosophy of the
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
The motorola razr was the sexiest phone ever
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by BrandoElFollito 2mo ago
Not necessarily idocracy. I don't know the name of the person who runs utilities because they just work. I sure would know if there was a problem. This is the same with politics: when a country is stable and is moving ahead, people are
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by BrandoElFollito 3mo ago
Noether theorem is one of the nicest ones to derive (together with Maxwell equations). There is such an elegance to go from the axions to the result. I still have a trauma associated with this, though, because it popped out in one exam and
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by BrandoElFollito 3mo ago
> But Poland and Portugal, and all other countries, send their prime minister Yes, but what does it have to do with the original point about countries with real power presidents?

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