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by Xixi 8y ago
"It was a good description to say that it was a game, a very interesting game one could play. Whenever one solved one of the little problems, one could write a paper about it. It was very easy in those days for any second-rate physicis
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by Xixi 8y ago
"Charges salariales" + "Charges patronales": it's way more than 10-20%. It's around 28% for a minimum wage worker, and around 45% for a software engineer making 45k "brut" / year.
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by Xixi 8y ago
It's 30% of what remains after the "cotisations sociales" (or "charges sociales" as people who hate them like to call them). These social contributions amount to close to 50% of what the employer pays. So it's
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by Xixi 8y ago
Indeed Netflix was successful, while a lot of other companies are not/weren't (Blockbuster, etc.). But because a company doesn't quite understand how/if it is going to be impacted by a digital transformation doesn't
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Isn't Netflix a prime example? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of "digital transformation"? Netflix used to be a DVD rental service, and in fact that service still exists: https://dvd.netflix.com/ .
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Unless the car is fully autonomous: then the liability is gone to the manufacturer of the autonomous system, so that you can enjoy your ads while being driven around.
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Apple doesn't like not being in control. There are a handful of core use-cases (besides basic phone functionality like calling and texting) of a smartphone that Apple will simply not give control away. Among these I see the browser, mu
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by Xixi 8y ago
If you Google around you will see that the interests rates charged by Kiva (or rather Kiva local partners, the ones actually handling the loans) can be pretty high [1]. But keep in mind that interest rates should always be compared to infla
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by Xixi 8y ago
If ownership of a house is decided by contracts, written by lawyers, then adding a blockchain will only add issues, since it can get out of sync with reality. And if the blockchain is the source of truth, it means that stealing your house-t
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by Xixi 8y ago
I remember spending way too much time reading threads on usenet (fr.comp.sys.mac, mostly) on the beloved MacSOUP. In this dial-up area it was great to be able to download a forum content and read it offline, writing the answers offline, and
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The problem is not that C-sections are riskier than "we" might think, and certainly not that I might think because I'm extraordinarily unlikely to be in a situation to decide whether to do one or not. The important question i
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But are the injury and mortality rates higher because C-sections are riskier, or because high risk childbirth are done through C-section? You need to control for the prior, otherwise the statistic is not very useful.
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In the context of a business building a service around it, a mapping service is not a consumer product. Superficial perception only go so far until it is debunked by careful scrutiny. I would certainly hope that a startup deciding to build
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by Xixi 8y ago
In the EU the ceiling in the regulation is 0.2% for debit card rates and 0.3% for credit cards. 1% cash back credit cards are virtually non-existent...
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I love Elixir (more so than golang), so I would sincerely recommend using it. Erlang concurrency story is lightyears ahead of Python3 asyncio (despite being older by maybe 20 years). And OTP has no equivalent anywhere. But if you are migrat
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I understand this keyboard is brittle, but I absolutely love the feeling of it: I have a hard time typing on my old MacBook Air after using my newer MacBook Pro for more than one year now. If I could change one thing though, I would get rid
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What if you are working at Facebook on improving Linux's network stack for example? Sure, if you have the skills to do that, you will find work very easily. But is it easy to find a job that would allow you to make these kind of contri
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From an administrative perspective in the US an immigrant is someone who moves to the US with the intent of staying. Work and other temporary visas are called non-immigrant visas, and for example when I applied for my E-2 visa I had to clea
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by Xixi 8y ago
The article is probably the original announcement. The merger was approved today [1]. https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-is-set-to-decide-whether-...
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It's a matter of taste: I personally love the keyboard, much better in my opinion than the one of my old MacBook Air, or any other keyboard I've used in fact. But it took me a while to get used to it. However I would not be surpri
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Full Details of Circle’s New USD-Backed Cryptocurrency (USDC)(cryptoglobe.com)
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Gold/silver are also speculative assets, not investments (per Warren Buffet definition, which I like and use myself). Just because they are speculative assets doesn't mean it's a bad idea to buy them. An investment would be p
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by Xixi 9y ago
There are also two concepts of being a virgin in Japan: never had sex at all, or only had sex with prostitutes. Depending on how you ask the question, a man who had sex with prostitutes might still answer that he is a virgin.
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"bit" in French means "dick" (though the spelling is slightly different, being "bite"). Then again "god" is a shorthand for "godemichet" which means "dildo" (spelling again being s
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I'm not so sure regarding the F-22: production costs are only one side of the equation. Its maintenance is very expensive, and there may simply have been no solution in sight to reduce these costs. I think the stealth coating in partic
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I read these kind of comments all the time, yet I'm still to see one actual court case showing that this is true. Are you really sure that this is true?
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Volumes on Most Major Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Fake or Inflated: Study(cointelegraph.com)
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I'm going to take the cynical approach: assuming that all politicians are corrupt anyway, a newly elected senator might accept a huge amount of cash in an envelope in exchange of legislation/contracts/whatever. That will make
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I work in a Hedge Fund: my first reaction reading this article was to wonder how someone can be so stupid to even try something like that. Then I read your comment and realize that in fact, the rest of the world (people not in Finance) actu
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On the other hand, if they are serious about it and haven't decided on the location yet, it means that they probably haven't started acquiring the land, or that they are attempting to acquire it at several locations. Given the Rop

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