Loic

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by Loic 10y ago
The one difference is that for Biosphere II they tried to be cut out of the Earth atmosphere. They tried to be totally autonomous. For Mars, they will mine the local resources so they will not be "sustainable" at first.
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We both agree, but my point was more to think "future safe". You do not rebuild your house/office every 12 months like some people are rebuilding their app with every new framework coming out on the market.
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The first configuration is pretty simple and the 1000€ license is just to "build" the elements into your office/house. Once they are setup, you do not need the license and can control everything with fully open source softwar
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by Loic 10y ago
A DIY-solution is nice (and as engineers something really fun to do) but they will have to maintain it in the future and this is not necessarily "future proof". They would have simply put some KNX[0] compatible components in the s
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As a simple customer of the bank, your money there is ensured up to €100k. If you own stocks, you own them in full you can move them away without issues. So, I would say, for most people in a country, if a single bank fails, you have nothin
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by Loic 10y ago
Your comment is going up and down. Maybe this is because of the word marriage. Formulated differently, from my subjective, unique, non reproducible and totally unscientific experience of being 16 years together with my wife with three kids,
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by Loic 10y ago
I suppose you are American living in America, because, you would be from another country and living abroad (I am French and used to live in the US, Denmark and for the past 10+ years in Germany), you would definitely see that being a bit pa
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by Loic 10y ago
The car handlers in Germany do not allow that for large amount of money. You can authorize a transfer without limits with your card (Lastschriftverfahren), but the handler will not have the money directly so he cannot be sure he will be abl
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by Loic 10y ago
> solar irradiation tends to correlate much more with grid load. This is a very interesting remark. Last week, we had relatively high temperatures in Germany and France (above 30°C). In Germany, because the weather was perfect for solar,
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by Loic 10y ago
You do not need to go the private banking way to have such level of service. I am living in Germany at the moment, I have an account in a Sparkasse (A savings bank). As I needed to buy a car, I informed my account manager that I would buy o
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by Loic 10y ago
Python is wonderful for business logic and scientific computations. HTML/JavaScript is wonderful to make beautiful interactive user interfaces. So at the moment, I am using PyQt/PySide and load my HTML/JavaScript/ReactJS
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by Loic 10y ago
Interactive map rebuilding the location of a German green party representative over 6 months: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten He sued the Deutsche Telekom to get access to the data. As you can s
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by Loic 10y ago
It really depends of your website usage. I am maintaining a free database of chemical properties. Usually people are landing there from Google and looking at a single page[0] before leaving. To have this single page experience as good as po
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by Loic 10y ago
Not in the way the current system works because the publishers are doing nothing, they are just taking the papers as reviewed by the committee as-is. In fact, with this law, we are most likely going to see is that the universities will auto
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by Loic 10y ago
Yes, but you know, France is within the EU, this means you have a precedent in the EU which is very good to have other countries within the EU joining the party. Once you have 3 big countries doing so, because papers have usually authors
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by Loic 10y ago
The translation is not good, so a "shorter" version: 1. If you publish your research work in a journal and the research work has been financed for at least 50% by public institutions, you can provide on the web for free your paper
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by Loic 10y ago
I can remember a similar event in the Alps in France. What was interesting (it was with cows) is that only the cows showing or turning their back to the lightning strike were killed. It was because of the potential difference between the fr
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by Loic 10y ago
In Germany you have a very nice service if you want price transparency before buying a car: http://www.meinauto.de/ Basically, car dealers register their offer on the portal and you can shop without knowing about the deal
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by Loic 10y ago
This game industry study is a really really nice study. They take the time to analyse the effects of crunch/overtime at different levels and if voluntary or not. The first time I see such nice study for programming/creative work.
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by Loic 10y ago
You make me smile, nearly 10 years as solo consultant too. For the past 5 years my "week of work" is 25 billed hours and for extremely hard problems (reworking old complex Fortran thermodynamics code) this goes down to 15h/we
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by Loic 10y ago
I see 4 groups: 1. Largely above inflation are everything requiring local work. 2. Below inflation are everything mass produced in Asia. 3. Staying at 0 are the mix of the first 2, your car is built locally with automation and parts coming
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by Loic 10y ago
You can download the study[0]. If you look at the model in equations (2), (3) and (4), you can see that they force fit the decrease in population of the bees on the neonicotinoid exposure. Because the decrease of the population in this mod
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by Loic 10y ago
This illustrates the future unknown issues with respect to chemicals and health/environment. At the moment, we have two schools to handle this: 1. not proved bad, we allow. 2. not proved good, we disallow. The US is more on the first
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by Loic 10y ago
Take a look at Germany, they are steadily increasing their biocapacity while reducing their ecological footprint (I wonder how they increase the biocapacity so steadily over such long period of time). So, you may not achieve a balance, but
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It is a genuine question, not a rhetorical question putting into question the data, Netherlands has currently a deficit of 4.1 GHA.
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by Loic 10y ago
This is true, you need a scale and criteria which can be used by all the reviewers. This is really what matters for the consistency of the grades. Note that the Michelin is also reviewing hot-dog stands in the US and in Asia a couple of
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by Loic 10y ago
I am surprised you had a failure installing numba on Ubuntu 14.04. I am using it on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS without issues and with pip (no special Python distribution because I want full control). You need to have the right version of LLVM inst
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by Loic 10y ago
If this is of interest for you, I can only recommend you to check out numba: http://numba.pydata.org/ "Numba works by generating optimized machine code using the LLVM compiler infrastructure at import time, runtime, or
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by Loic 10y ago
The 8h/day rule is an average per week if you are working 6 days a week, this is because the maximum work per week is 48h. Usually you work 5 days, so you fall in the rule that you must not be above 48h/week and a maximum of 10h&#

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