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by Jacqued 13y ago
That might just be why. I know when doing operations at my bank in the EU, from time to time they require a certificate that I am NOT a us citizen
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by Jacqued 13y ago
Paris, FR Local good pizza : 12€ - $16 Dominos : 15.90€ - $21.50
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I did, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out !
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by Jacqued 13y ago
Indeed, it seems like an incomplete explanation at the very least. France largely overlaps Spain in terms of [latitude] longitude, is in the same time zone, shares some of the traditions cited in the article (long lunch break, midddle-of-th
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I used to love Gmail because I thought it was fast, reliable, secure and had a great UI. Now I kinda hate the UI, it's not quite as fast as it once was, and I don't feel like it is a good place to store my email. However, what all
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by Jacqued 13y ago
The problem lies not in the rules, but in their enforcement. I can't speak for the UK but in France it is not allowed for an intern to work more than 40 hours a week under any circumstances, yet in many industries you still see 60+h wo
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I think it comes down to the display which really is still unmatched to this day (resolution and aspect ratio of 3:2, which is a very rare sight), proper design and lasting battery life.
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I don't contest the idea/execution thing but i don't think this is underwhelming, far from it. What would that same conversation with an HCI expert yield today ? Even though it all seems obvious in retrospect, it mustn't
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by Jacqued 13y ago
Ironically, it seems that this precise submission is getting flagged a lot, seeing as it is rapidly being dragged down the first page
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by Jacqued 13y ago
The USA have already drone-killed american citizens who were in Arab countries. It's not far-fetched to imagine Israel could do it too (with more traditional methods)
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by Jacqued 13y ago
This is not the customer's contract, it's the University of Michigan's contract. If the regular customers know that there are other more privileged tiers that impact the value of what they're buying, I guess it's ok
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by Jacqued 13y ago
To me the ineptness of the practice seems to be reason enough. For anyone who travels, it really is a hassle in 2013 to have to put everything digital in your life on hold and stop relying on your smartphone just because you are moving arou
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I don't know about the situation in most of Europe, but I think at least some countries could be severely disrupted by French operators, which seen some very low cost alternatives emerge since the irruption of a 4th operator in early 2
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by Jacqued 13y ago
Nonetheless, I think he's right in his assumption that it brought a sense of togetherness that social networks desperately fail to reproduce. However, i think gamers still experience it on more "regular" MMORPGs. I know I use
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by Jacqued 13y ago
Well more honestly you'd have to ask them to name another city in the states than NYC. I'm not sure that many people outside the US would have even been able to cite Chicago when asked for a city in Illinois
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I do. I think it's a cultural thing, people around here tend to not respect the rules very much, myself included. I must admit this behavior is less frequent in the busiest streets in town but even there it's no rare sight. In Fra
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by Jacqued 13y ago
The most fascinating part of this for me is that people _actually_ pay attention to the green and red men at crossings, and even to crossings at all. I mean, sure, where I live children or older people who can't walk very fast wait for
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by Jacqued 13y ago
This is the worst ! I used to drag and drop the yellow character to view exactly the place I wanted to see, now I have to go back and forth between maps view and streetview until i get to the right place... Plus, the switch between views (p
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I think this is especially true for native speakers of languages derived from latin. Why ? Because in classical latin to pronounce a word you just pronounce every letter in the standard way. So you tend to associate the written word strongl
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I think this vision is shared by some of the town councils in big european towns. For example in Paris, the current mayor (who has been in office since 2001) has made it his mission to make the city as unfriendly as possible for cars to dis
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by Jacqued 13y ago
This seems to me like a disguised return of slave work. In my value system, forcing people to do unfulfilling work to be able to feed themselves is nowhere near a positive. Paying people to stay at home is not ideal, but it's the least
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by Jacqued 13y ago
The point of the guaranteed minimum is precisely to make this kind of jobs even more expensive, so that people are not forced into unfulfilling jobs by economic necessity. I mean, if you don't need to clean other people's houses t
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by Jacqued 13y ago
> A basic income without work makes sense after technology makes human labor obsolete, but we are nowhere near that point yet. I would argue we are slowly moving to that point. The fact that there is just not enough work do to anymore to
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by Jacqued 13y ago
A proposal in this direction has been pushed in Switzerland that will be subject to a referendum. The idea : hand out 2500CHF a month (about $2700) to each citizen without anything in return or any condition. Plus around $1100 a month for e
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I am 100% in favor of these actions, not so much the squatting itself as the fact that the city ends up turning useless offices into homes - there is too much office space in paris, and an awful lot of them remain empty. Also, social housin
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by Jacqued 13y ago
The thing is, new constructions tend to make rents higher, because they are usually of higher standards than what they replace. Typically, a newly build building will sell flats at 14k€/m² where as the surroundings sell for 10k, becaus
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by Jacqued 13y ago
It's actually bad security practice, because terrorists do not exist. I mean, there are so few of them that they are basically irrelevant. Yes, every few years a terrorist event will occur somewhere in a western country, and that is qu
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by Jacqued 13y ago
To be fair, nobody thinks the U.S. has reached the same level in practice against U.S. citizens than Beijing against chinese citizens or Moscow against russian reporters. U.S. citizens are still somewhat protected by the Bill of Rights (wel
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by Jacqued 13y ago
It could be argued that the French Revolution effectively ended its cycle in 1870 with the Third Republic, after two more upheavals (1830, 1848), two emperors and a few less powerful kings. The country ended up a lot better than it was at t
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by Jacqued 13y ago
I would have thought "intellectuals" to be mostly (if not only) people focusing on the humanities (be it litterature, philosophy, history, social sciences...). For me (and every frenchman I think) at least, this word does not apply at all t

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