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by alexis_fr 7y ago
$140 user here. I need DO to stay online for its simplicity. I simply don’t understand AWS and I’m too scared to wreak a subnet while trying to add lambdas and API Gateways. I wouldn’t mind spending double if necessary. Also, clicking in Cr
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I don’t believe the justice of France or USA is any better. Ghosn seems to be discovering how swift the justice is, like in any country. USA has 95% convictions based on plea deals, so the investigation is only complete enough to convince t
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
...because dating is the motivation for young men to accomplish awesome things, according to this video. It’s a fun thought experiment, though: - On one side, women provide half the work (a recent article on HN said they were now the majori
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
“Suicide” is also a totally unfounded accusation on paar with a conspiracy theory: There isn’t a single proof of suicide. Yet all the newspapers repeated it gullibly until social media made it impossible to ignore the opposite. So why wasn’
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
2.3 million men are in prison in USA. The definition is “divided by the total noninstitutionalized, civilian working-age population.” As a counter-example, average IQ at the workplace is 110. Where’s everyone under IQ90? Injured, suicide, d
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Sometimes it’s a matter of making a point. I mean, who likes the cookie law (and bear in mind that US people don’t even see it remotely as frequently as europeans). Some people just want to send the message that EU is going too far.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
He’s saying it should have been named the “Walkman Distance” or some inspiring name that evokes phone and walkman. Not the number that sounds like a container dimension or like the lubricant WD40.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Isn’t there an exception in US law for security and compatibility purpose, with even the ability to decompile software? Especially if Apple doesn’t provide any way to do it legally, then they can have a chance at trying to convince a jury.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
« The Boy Crisis » by Warren Farrell is a good study, it tells a few causes concerning boys. Basically they are forgotten in class or in family because we’re all focussed on equality for women, and they know they’re not the priority. Addict
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
It’s the « People are boring » effect, compared to even a Youtube video which is a compacted speech that constantly catches your attention. However, relationships are also broken, and we should do something about it as much as decrease phon
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
99% conviction rate, and 23-day detention without charges. One can imagine the various ways to torture people with no lasting marks in 23 days, including the « cold room » (soaking someone in freezing water in the aircon, which made Michael
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
You are right for private employment, but those people were hired under public servant contracts in a public company at the time, with lifetime employment guarantee. So you are correct, employment is too protected, both in private and publi
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> Employees are free to leave Those jobs were civil servants with lifetime job guarantee in what was, at the time of hiring, a public company. Of course the whole question is how to transition to private company with private employment,
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> MBAs thrown in jail for murder All I see in the currently best civilization of the world is MBAs not getting jailed when a mass crime is committed. HSBC for managing the drug cartel’s money in USA, Volkswagen for deceit on pollution, B
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I would like the ability of pointing out journalistic bias in other media so customers stop listening to them, and this requires source materials to compare to the way the article is written. Our problem is not how we consume media, but how
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Especially if they rename it and sell it under a new brand. I’d go for a “737 Neo”, only nerds can make the difference (even between a Boeing and an Airbus).
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
But it looks like a ranking where one can only rank at the bottom. Who is the company most loved by developers? GitHub? Stripe? Atlassian? SalesForce? Each of them has done something wrong at some point, and it may even be the sign of manag
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Monopoly? So... do we need to split up the bar, for a fair market?
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
It’s worth developing: Pop! is the fork of Elementary by System76, which is known for high-quality open-source laptops/desktops. I have never tried either so I can’t assess the quality. From the screenshots I have seen, it remains Linu
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
GPS tracking must also help Google a lot to determine mortar shop popularity.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> Most of Air France & KLM fleet are comprised of Boeing planes Are you sure about that? On WP I see 79 Boeing out of 223 planes for Airbus, but I’m not expert. Is there any wider fleet to consider? https://en.wikipedia.or
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
“Blogger” started like this, according to the interview in “Founders at Work”, an interesting book. The guy of blogger had to fire pretty much everyone, and it was on bay still running, and everyone angry at the former employer. A few month
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Airbus scandal won’t come “in a month”: Boeing’s problems became public in 2013 and it is the same problem over and over. - The Ducommon airframes in 2013, problem is FAA delegated certification to Boeing, - The batteries, albeit smaller, -
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> low-stress things where I have a lot of free time and don’t have so much res... Or children ;) John Lennon famously quit music for 5 years to raise his second child, after failing his first marriage.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Thank you, the difference between talc and baby powder wasn’t obvious for me (especially as a non-native). Quoting Google: “Talc is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2.”
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Are there websites like StackOverflow where you find pharmaceutical receipes for acetylcysteine?
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Life expectancy was the same for both genders in 1900 (in Europe at least). We’ve just made continually more progress for women than for men. Nowadays for example: lots of research on female cancer (twice more funding than male cancers, for
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
It would be quite easy to only index Reddit and StackOverflow.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
According to what I witness in the current comments, a first step for taxis would be to mandate a working credit card machine, under penalties. However, it seems so many many taxis were frauding their taxes, that it became cultural and enfo
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Blind enablement also allows easier webscraping , which is what I think Google is more worried about. It has solutions, like Google voicing out the contents, instead of doing a webpage that is so scrappable that screenreaders can parse it.

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