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by Xixi 10y ago
Isn't the main issue of Paris the lack of wind to blow the pollution away? Combined maybe with the high number of diesel cars? I don't think you'd see this level of pollution in a city like NYC, or really any city near the co
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There's a difference between a major upgrade that breaks nearly everything (like Angular to Angular2) and a smaller but necessary change in a couple of the many functions of an API. So I think there is a point for a major.breaking.mino
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Full Ariane 6 rocket funding is unlocked by Esa(bbc.com)
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But most professionals are not using "Pro" laptops. They use basic consumer laptops, because they don't have the need for anything else: it runs Outlook, Excel and IE fine. A professional photographer probably has higher com
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I'm not sure I understand the hate for this MacBook Pro on HN. To be fair I never quite understood the now defunct Apple love on HN either. I think this new MacBook Pro is actually a very decent laptop [1], if a tad expensive. I mean I
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I don't like these sort of comparisons, because the density (and a lot of other things) depends a lot on where you place the boundaries of the city, and that's very arbitrary. For instance your figure for Paris is only the actual
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The great famine of 1876 [1] in Bengal is a possible example. I'm not very familiar with it, but it seems that exports of grains were at an all time high while an estimated 5.5 million people starved to death. Grains were allocated to
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by Xixi 10y ago
I used to have optical fiber in a brand new building in Osaka: the fiber was actually only going to the building, then it was RJ45 (or something very similar, I'll admit never trying to play with it). It was much faster, and far more r
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"Stuck on DSL"? I beg to differ: I'll take DSL in Paris over cable in NYC any day. Cheaper, faster and much more reliable. That said large European countries are definitely late when it comes to fiber...
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I don't know many people who use credit cards in France. Practically everybody use the so-called CB which is a debit card (either immediate or deferred, usually deferred), not a credit card. It doesn't allow you to accrue debt: th
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The PS4 doesn't run on a battery though, so if they can get roughly the same power with a much lower power consumption it's already really good.
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If you are using a Mac I recommend this little known gem: Graphic Converter. It supports hundreds of image formats. First used it on System 7, such a long time ago! It has of course been ported to MacOS X / OS X / macOS. https:&#
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European imperialism and colonization was pretty much not done in a post-scarcity area: we [1] needed all these resources so we took them. There were also ideological reasons involved in colonization ("I repeat, that the superior races
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Reduce the employee count from 12 to 1, who isn't even a real employee because the company has no revenue yet, and suddenly Stripe proposition is much more interesting: it allows you to focus on your product, and finding product-market
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Both Airbus and Boeing have extensive lineups, so I don't think it's true to say that they did bet anything at all. This is mostly storytelling on much more boring decisions: Boeing built the 787 because the A330 had pretty much k
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by Xixi 10y ago
iPhones sales are over 100 billion dollars a year [1]. If this change makes the iPhone substantially worse to the point of losing even 1% of the would-be buyers, Apple will lose over a billion dollars in revenue. The risks are so staggering
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by Xixi 10y ago
Aren't Vulkan, Direct X 12 and Metal much closer than Direct X pre 12 and Open GL ever were? The three are derived (at least in philosophy) from AMD's Mantle, not like Direct X pre 12 and Open GL that are (or at least were) very d
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by Xixi 10y ago
The corporation tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%, and the rate applied to Apple was (eventually) 0.005%: it's the delta between Irish own tax rate and the one applied to Apple that is deemed illegal according to this EU ruling. If Ireland
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Federalists (like me) who want to create United States of Europe usually want to get rid of the current institutions, and replace them with proper executive and legislative entities, elected by European citizens. But the focus on Commission
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For those who are wondering if there are alternative to animal gelatin, Japanese have been using agar [1] (they call it kanten ) for centuries to prepare sweets. It's similar to gelatin, but made from algae, so it is absolutely vegeta
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by Xixi 10y ago
You say that you don't like coffee: have you tried green tea? There's plenty of caffeine in normal green tea, and even more so in the like of Kabusecha or Gyokuro. Though I'm not sure I would recommend the latter for everyday
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MacNN, MacCentral and MacOSRumors are the reason I can read English today: I would check them everyday on my dialup modem and read nearly every single news, not without the help of a good old paper English-French dictionary. Maybe there wer
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This is nonsense: the commissioners are not a self-appointed oligarchy. They are appointed by the European Council, that is to say by the head of all EU states. It is called indirect democracy, and is certainly not anti-democratic by any st
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by Xixi 11y ago
Wikipedia has 777 on order, so I guess it's not a typo. Two others sources give 764 [1] and 780 [2] orders, respectively. Given that Air France recently converted outstanding orders for the A380 to three A350, that would make 777 as of
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by Xixi 11y ago
It's not at all about segfaults. Assuming the Erlang VM is as likely/unlikely to crash as the JVM, then it's a complete wash: Erlang processes are green-threads, not OS processes, so you don't gain anything there. It&#x2
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The F35-B is both supersonic and VSTOL [1]: very hard indeed, but done. Just like the Harrier, the F35-B probably doesn't take off vertically with any significant payload though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by Xixi 11y ago
I think people underestimate even more the amount of caffeine in green tea. Some kind of green teas, especially the like of Kabusecha/Gyokuro, have way more caffeine than coffee. Up to three times as much in a cup of tea than in an exp
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by Xixi 11y ago
It's not rare to spin-off/resell an unwanted part of a business after an M&A, assuming the company is not up for sale by the slice in the first place. A studio could buy Yahoo for their content platform and either spin-off the
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I remember Steve Jobs saying that Apple is a software company, and then quoting Alan Kay: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.". Apple certainly has the talent in-house to be a software com
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The goal was to prevent Vietnam from becoming a communist state supported by the Soviet Union. Vietnam became a communist country: that's a clear cut Soviet win and US loss. That US was not able to translate its technical superiority i

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