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aikah
7y ago
"Tout message ayant le caractère de propagande électorale". Tu vas devoir prouver que la page Facebook des gillets jaunes diffusait des messages ayant "le caractère de propagande électorale", en premier lieu, d'une.
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aikah
7y ago
> This is actually normal, and is done in a lot of countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_silence . According to this, France acts "on the Saturday before the Sunday election; polling silence include
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aikah
7y ago
bait + switch. I've been going back to Firefox for 6 month now, both on desktop and mobile. I'm a developer so I still need to use Chrome for testing, but I'm never going back to it as my main browser, for obvious reasons. Th
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aikah
7y ago
I don't understand your optimism at all, considering the consequences of pollution and global warming will likely create violent changes and huge migration movements around the world that will lead to a lot of conflicts and wars.
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aikah
7y ago
> France, in spite of all the beheadings, never really lost its aristocracy. the beheading were about getting rid of the nobility(and the clergy), not the bourgeoisie. The French revolution wasn't a "grass root movement",
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aikah
7y ago
It's funny how Go limitations made me go back to using GOTO statement to deal with errors in an http handler.
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aikah
7y ago
> My bank only needs to keep 10% of its deposits backed by cash, securities. True, but your FIAT is FDIC insured to an extend. Neither Tether nor any of these funny moneys are. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure non accredited banks cann
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aikah
7y ago
Dart was born "for the wrong reasons" AKA replacing Javascript, it failed at it. The language itself is quite good, better than Go IMHO, but Go has the advantage of not requiring a separate virtual machine. The problem with langua
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aikah
7y ago
Looks like a great textbook. I'm really looking for a book on relational database implementation itself, but I understand this is a topic so large that a single book probably could never cover it all.
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aikah
8y ago
I imagine that Twitter is abusing the HTML5 history API. It's a Web specification. It can be useful when used right, but any scriptable functionality is open for abuse.
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aikah
8y ago
> Is VR dying on the vine? No VR is heavily used in architecture, healthcare industry and other professions. VR as a mass market however is not doing that great right now, because it's not yielding the results the entertainment indu
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aikah
8y ago
"behavioural genetics" and something else I will not even talk about for fear of being hunted and bullied by an angry mob on the internet. These topics are so sensitive because of the current political climate that they are litera
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aikah
8y ago
> The main driving principle of the sharing economy is actually the ability to give a lift from time to time without any bother. Except for people driving for Uber full-time. The whole "grass root sharing economy" Uber style is
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aikah
8y ago
> When you ask friends to drop you at airport that is sharing. And your friend didn't need a professional insurance for his car for that. The difference is scale. Giving a lift from time to time to friends is very different from doi
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aikah
8y ago
> This is an example of US economic dynamism. In France or even the UK people would be saying, "How can we let such a large, profitable company lay off people so easily?" Try to get a loan from a bank or rent an apartment in F
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aikah
8y ago
> It's mainly mined from the "Democratic Republic" of the Congo, which is a violent country that uses unethical practices in its mining industry. That's a euphemism for child slave workforce.
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aikah
8y ago
It's called the "west" in opposition to the eastern block during the cold war. And yes it's a useful concept because it exists and is well defined.
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aikah
8y ago
> Backups. Why commit to reliable destruction of data when you don't have to? That argument makes no sense if you're talking about publishing, AKA making something available to the public.
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aikah
8y ago
> Freedom of speech is as protected in the EU as it is in the US, possibly more It is absolutely not. That's a preposterous assumption. If it was the case then no European state could send people to prison or fine them for having an
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8y ago
And my point is more power concentrated in the hand of fewer people only leads to the tyranny of a bureaucratic elite and less democracy. > I think we should learn to be careful not to be exploited for this craving. You mean "we sho
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8y ago
> The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary. As opposed to the pedestal people put supra national institutions such as the EU? Rome? Napoleon's Empire? all failed eventually. > National
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8y ago
> Ok, well i just said it, so somebody did. Don't be obtuse, nobody ever said "Generics are a cure-all". > There is no difference whatsoever between the same function duplicated with different types. Yes there is, it&#
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8y ago
> Generics aren't a cure-all, they merely duplicate code and change the type. Its not much better than copy-paste and replace the type names. Nobody ever said that. > . Its not much better than copy-paste and replace the type nam
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aikah
8y ago
This isn't a macro language. It relies on an external program that the developer needs to write himself at first place. "go generate" just facilitates the execution of a third party program. It does nothing more, and doesn&#x
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aikah
8y ago
No it is not. What's the point of a compiler if you check types at runtime? It's just that a lot of things in Go weren't carefully designed and now the price of adding something to the language is the price of dealing with te
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8y ago
The problem is the solution is often to make the compiler ignore types all together and use interface {} wholesale, then test interfaces with type assertions. If Go had a least unions, it would be a bit less painful to describe a range of
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8y ago
> Then there's a potential tax issue. > Oh, and don't forget the credit score dings that people whose cards went over the limit could potentially suffer. Getting charged $10,000 abusively can put people in a complicated fina
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aikah
8y ago
Only because it largely sourced its news based on Tweets and Twitter trends. They went for cheap then they are surprised people don't want to pay for glorified tabloids?
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8y ago
> But it’s interesting that both Facebook and Twitter evolved into these negative, emotional, politically charged, environments when they moved from a chronological list of updates from your curated set of friends and followers, to an al
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aikah
8y ago
On Twitter any form of context is lost pretty quick. But it's a formidable machine for viral marketing, no matter who is the target and what is the message. It's the most efficient social media but also the most toxic. It also bec
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