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by aragot 12y ago
When talking about climate change, Jean Marc Jancovici (our local Al Gore) never fails to mention urban architecture takes time to reorganize. Given your petrol is so cheap (low tax and high foreign... let's not say it), US builds citi
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"Why 12-foot lanes are disastrous for security" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439977
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I wonder how's that compares with a priority-on-the-left intersection, when the diameter of the roundabout's island < 1.5m.
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Volvo even gave away their patent on the 3-point seatbelt patent, to the benefit of the security for everyone. http://jalopnik.com/volvo-gave-away-their-most-important-inv...
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Some roundabouts (most of them in my region, Sophia Antipolis, Ftance) are designed with a tilt to the outside, so that the car would be ejected if it takes them too fast.
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France (Lyon). I'm ok moving to other countries in Europe and Australia.
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by aragot 12y ago
Become a product manager (at least part-time). I was a developer for 7 years and never progressed towards PM, so I've just left my company, created my bootstrapped start-up because no-one would ever believe in me, got experience at cop
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The article never talks either about "getting cold" (and being sick). How does it work? Each time I spend a few hours in the cold (e.g. at work in Sydney in summer, they keep the A/C at 19C), I feel like I have a mini-fever f
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To explain this acceleration of technology, let's remind the exponential growth of population: There are more people on Earth than dead population since the birth of times So there's as much potential for science advance in 1 li
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by aragot 12y ago
I read HN since 3 years. I've created my startup 1.5 year ago. I think that says it all. Oh and I had revenue from day 70, currently cash-flow-positive, and I've taught a lot of people what bootstrapping means. Thank you, communit
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Seriously, don't make it responsive. I'm already shortening my eyesight by reading HN compulsively on a large iPad, I can't imagine the effects of reading it on a phone.
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by aragot 12y ago
That focus on Iraq is strange. I'm French and when Bush provided so-called "evidence" at the UN, people here were laughing and media were skeptic. From comments on HN, it seems Bush was taken seriously in other circles of the
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Isostatic Rebound: I didn't know it existed! According to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound , it could be in the order of magnitude of 1.8cm per year at some places of Antartica and Canada.
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by aragot 12y ago
In the DRM model, car dealers would sell cars for a very low charge, then sell DRM'd petrol. That would be way funny, with all its inconveniencies. Should we make it mandatory to display the DRM situation on the box before the purchase
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by aragot 12y ago
Think of it as molding and allowing. The nation molds people into producing the same unsurprising results (I mean the frequency of couch-potatoes-who-get-offended-by-the-sight-of-alcohol-but-not-guns is unmatched in the rest of the world, d
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Facebook is full-prod live since 2008. I would have included game shops or buzzfeed-lolcats-type of business as "successful publishers" for it (No condescension intended, any successful business deserves respect). The fact that th
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by aragot 12y ago
Funny reference in the name: "TOC" in French stands for OCD - "Trouble Obsessionnel Compulsif". http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_obsessionnel_compulsi...
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by aragot 12y ago
> I discovered that many Americans have no ideas of the tremendous role of Russia in WWII Oh we have. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of... I quote: "Female deaths in connection with r
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by aragot 12y ago
The eternal high-touch vs low-touch debate... Atlassian's whole sales system is to display the prices upfront and have no rebate. Last time I checked, their competitors (resp. IBM Rational and Microsoft Sharepoint) didn't grow by
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Why SourceForge? Since they changed investors a few years ago, I thought SourceForge now added spameare to installers, such as the Ask toolbar for example?
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The Fourth only protects 330 million out of 7 billion people. However, if we don't help US citizen for their democracy, we'll have no weight for ours.
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VAT varies from 10% to 25% in most countries of the world [1]. There is an income tax in _addition_ to it. I've calculated a total of net income/turnover rate as low as 34% in my country (France), albeit including all mandatory sp
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> more intuitive than metric units I've seen that several times in the thread, but it's like asking what is the most intuitive size of "a piece" of string: Depends where you're born and which unit system you&#x27
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It is perfectly ok to sell open-source software: http://opensource.org/faq#selling It seems his code isn't open-source, btw, but it's a nice thing he lets us see it for audit.
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Yes, exactly, both tools are a wrapper around blocking websites in /etc/hosts. I can understand non-programmers may want a UI, but on the other hand it's dangerous to install more and more apps on a machine, especially if the
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At that speed, I wonder what accidents will look like. I respect this technology as totally serious but in case of accident the NTSB may just delegate the investigation to a Darwin prize: Is the plane sensitive to slight variations, like a
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Even before eyesight problems, it's recommended to have a screen at least at 65cm to avoid forcing eyes to accomodate, which is more or less our arm's length. iPhones are a pleague for eyesight, tablets are slightly better (except
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What is the difference between Let's Encrypt and StartSSL?
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It's ironic that criminals and governments can't be distinguished, after all the time they've spent fighting against terrorists.
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"Liberté, Egalité" is a very strong statement for a country because they have opposite effects, you can't have freedom with equality and so on. If we were to build the national theme of a government today, we'd certainly

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