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by Loic 5y ago
What is also important to state is that the parties can vouch the answers to ensure that the match is correct. I cannot vote because I do not have the citizenship but I went through it and was interestingly surprised by the results. I do ag
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It was the presentation of the books mimicking exactly the work of somebody else. Sorry, I should have explained more. Apple contacted (if I can remember) the original author, had friendly discussions about the way he was doing the stuff, a
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iBooks was also a rip-off, let us kill the nice work of a developer.
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My first association: https://xkcd.com/541/ This is very emotional because we start when being 6 and as such, for many years, you are exposed to only one way to quote or put spaces around punctuation. I am French, li
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They will do it. The 100-year-CCP discourse of Xi clearly stated that he wants CCP to be self-sufficient. He will simply take control of all the West assets in China once he considers that the West cannot do anything against the takeo
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It shows the benevolence of the PostgreSQL Community(TM) ;-) I think this is the morally right way to handle the issue. This way they also accumulate good-will if they need to take stronger legal actions. I like it.
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For the company it costs more money, but for the employee, you are way better being employed than contractor. This is not a surprise, this extra money is effectively bringing the employee health insurance, pension, invalidity pension, unemp
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I agree with you, we have friends next doors, one bought a model Y and the other an ID.4. The quality of the model Y painting is really bad, it is brand new (delivered 3 weeks ago) but already looks old. But it is maybe deliberate. I am in
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Basically all the world over, the steam boiler accidents lead the way to the start of the external control organizations. For example, the TÜV[0] in Germany was founded in 1866 after "the explosion of the boiler at the Mannheim Aktienb
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For the past 20 years, only ThinkPads. I directly replace the main drive and install Linux on it.
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You are right, the original article is: Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition Released . PS: I am sorry, I was sure that HN policy is not to editorialize/change the title. I did not suspect this was done here.
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The first two lines of the article, emphasis added: > The Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition provides an overview of developments and trends in the U.S. wind power market . > A record 16,836 megawatts (MW) of U.S. wind capa
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Ortlieb[0], the very appreciated maker of bicycle bags, is not selling over Amazon. They are selling online, but your order/payment is sent directly to a local shop delivering to you (in Germany). I really like it. Some years ago, Amaz
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If a small group of people can create, maintain and improve F-Droid[0], I do not think it is that hard when you are the size of Apple/Google to implement something without dark patterns. As a side note, the parental control stuff on an
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You can drink a bit too much with 18 during a year and nicely recover. With marijuana, you smoke a bit too much during a year and you are good for life. This is why I totally understand the point of view of the therapists having to deal wit
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I am sorry to say that you are most likely right. My father is[0] a psychiatrist in big psychiatric hospital in France (1500 beds, only psychiatry, nothing else) and he told me again and again that he was against the legalisation of marijua
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Yes and incredibly well balanced, listen to the Funérailles von Liszt recording if you want to get the bass sounds. You get both really nice bass with clear high tones. Chapeau .
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I will quote him directly: > "The mismatch between what they say and what they really do is growing," Cornet said. "The thicker the gap is, the easier it is to point out that hypocrisy." Maybe Twitter internally compl
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For the past 15 years or so, I have been using a TypeMatrix keyboard (2030 USB, Dvorak). For me, the best part of the keyboard is the ortholinear layout. This is really a great feeling to just extend/retract a finger to reach to above
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Just remembering what someone from the trade directorate of the EU told me a some years ago about Bitcoin: "If it starts to have a real impact on the ability to collect taxes and control money transfers we are simply going to make it i
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Elsevier had/has also a profit margin at about 35%. As a small structure you can achieve that but at a very large scale, this is effectively the sign that natural competition is not working as expected.
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It is time to solve these problems from both sides, upstream and downstream.
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Stopped using the car for everything within a 4km radius from home with an exception for bulk transport of heavy/large stuff. By taking the resolute habit not to use the car for short trips, the side benefits are that my kids now bike
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In fact, this is a wonderful program. If you adjust all the thermostats 1 or 2K above for a relatively short period of time you can have massive savings at scale while not fundamentally change the quality of life of the people[0]. 26°C for
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> the Netherlands, parts of Denmark, or perhaps Japan (more for transit than cycling). From my small experience living in France, Germany, Denmark and spending quite some times in other old [0] EU countries, you can do it everywhere the
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In scientific software, from my experience, we need a lot of "javadoc" like comments because you push data into functions which are basically equations. This means that you need to document the units (if not in SI), the assumption
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Better than privately owned, they are owned by a foundation and are known to not only think long term, but also short term for their workers. In France, some years ago, they closed a plant producing automotive parts, but they kept all the e
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Only 40 cities. The reality is that the best work-life balance cities are not the biggest cities in the world. You get the best in the middle range. I have been working in Copenhagen, yes, it is a nice city, but you get way better quali
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The 40ha limit is generous. This is because at the moment we have a lot of diseases in the forests (thank you climate change...). Nearly each specie is suffering of one and sometimes, the only way not to transform your forest in a reservoir
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Do it! A forest is wonderful and buying a small lot does not cost that much. But if in France, stay below the 40ha limit to not have to deal with massive costs of having your forest to be managed with validated planning every X years etc.

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