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by alexis_fr 8y ago
> Reddit is morally bankrupt > When I call them morally bankrupt, it is because of meddling with democracy To say that, you have to affirm that the people in your democracy are unable to decode various forms of information. It happene
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It gets better. Soon it will imitate you without you uploading your conversations, because enough people around you did it (making themselves guilty of private conversation disclosure, at least 6 months emprisonment in France). It’s not tha
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Look at Japan: 23-day police custody period. After that there’s a 99.99% confession rate. Carlos Ghosn, president of Nissan, seems to have just discovered it: He will be interrogated for 12 days. I would never go to such countries.
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Oskar Schindler, from the movie The List of Schindler? He’s my idol, the guy rescues 1200 jews from the Holocaust, and still cries at the end (of the movie) because he could have sold his shoes and bribed one more assistant.
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For those who wonder what “DRM in latest Gmail” means: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/20/not-actually-confidential....
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If you are in a foreign country and your mobile phone was stolen...
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Ad-featured taxis experience is quite common in Thailand or Vietnam: You pay to get to some hotel, and they drive you to ...another hotel and make you visit it, until you pay a second time to get to the right hotel without detour. Sounds ve
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Humans drivers could be necessary to... just lend the car. Not for their driving skills but for the money they invest. It’s much easier to let car owners take the risk of investing in a car, maintaining it, repairing it (for the moment they
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Worked in 7 of them, million dollars of brand new buildings... Energy efficent buildings are efficient because they’re not as mild as they should be, always too cold in winter, always above 25° in summer (in actual on-the-desk thermometer m
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Toilet Day was recognized by UN in 2013 and is celebrated on November 19th. I guess this report was issued in preparation. UN still doesn’t recognize International Men’s Day, which is on Nov 19 too and celebrated since 2003 [1]. It’s a bit
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Win10 is known for autoupgrades now. It’s another thing than just telemetry.
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This French startup claims it is able to run some Javascript in the PDF, therefore notify you when a customer reads your offer, tell you which part he read, where he stayed the longest, etc. Does PDF support JS? https://www.tilke
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Has Apple security record on electronics been ever broken? I don’t think so. If there is an exploit yet, at least it’s not publicly known and no-one has seen it for sale on the black market, so it would be in the millions. I’d say Apple is
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“Permanent” tombstones are often limited to 30 years. It’s probable I will lay in my grand parents cemetery, but probably not alongside them.
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Does anyone know the video of an entrepreneur at a conf who nailed the startup pitch language and levers? I’ve been looking for it for quite some time, I don’t know the name, it was a 5-minute pitch between sessions.
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More than he could handle? “I’ve already ported bash and gcc and it seems to work”. Who, even today, would even dare trying to do so much work in a few months?
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A $600 mass phone in 2007 was difficult to imagine. And 2008 was the recession.
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There is no scientific study about wage gap for equivalent work. If it had been reported properly by newspapers, we wouldn’t be talking about it.
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As you can see, the divide is becoming greater between ones who “believe” and ones who “don’t”, and the audience is massively imposing a bias here in this thread. We’ve lost our ability to listen to each other, and it’s sad that it happened
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by alexis_fr 8y ago
White male, graduated from quite a good school in France in 2006. Wages in gross, 33% tax on it. And the employer also pays 33% tax on gross, for social insurances. - 2006: 36k€, Java/js dev in Luxembourg/banking - 2007-2010: 35k€