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by ckarmann 7y ago
While you watch Netflix, you don't watch a competitor. In a way, this autoplay feature removes a friction for the customer that doesn't have to decide what to watch next. This removes the "danger" that the customer think
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by ckarmann 7y ago
Off the top of my head: - Only take a plane when absolutely necessary. - Live in a city, sell your car and take public transport - Reduce meat consumption (at least beef and lamb which are a lot worse than the others). You don't need t
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by ckarmann 7y ago
I don't know how people hired and paid by the government in place are automatically less suspicious than volunteers who just want to help the community. Yes, I have the opposite bias :) In France the counting process is open and anyone
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by ckarmann 7y ago
Stupid question: can you watch it if you have arachnophobia yourself?
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by ckarmann 8y ago
For me one of the weirdest use of this book was a vegan (and animal rights supporter) friend who copy/pasted on Facebook the speech of Old Major, the eldest pig who incite the Revolution, who was explaining to the animals how bad the f
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by ckarmann 8y ago
I'm French and when I hear about this kind of things in the USA, I wonder why this data even exists? Why do people register as Democrat or Republican in the first place and why do the laws even allow it? I understand that it facilitate
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by ckarmann 8y ago
I team up with two colleagues and we get one such box every month, delivered at work, that we share. It's not very expensive (10$ per month per person, where I live that's the price of one takeout) and just a bit too much candy.
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by ckarmann 8y ago
An actual lottery is usually low-effort: you buy a ticket, scratch something or pick numbers, that's all. So even though you'll probably never win, you don't lose much. Working thousands of hours is not like that. The equival
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by ckarmann 8y ago
Stars that can produce elements up to iron and spread it through a supernova are massive and have relatively short lifespans of 10-30 million years. Since the Universe is 14 billion years old, we have had already more than a hundred generat
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by ckarmann 8y ago
I lived one year in Sweden (in Lund, near Malmö). Easily one of the two nicest places I ever lived in. People are warm and welcoming. And in my experience at least, you can delve into arguments about society and politics like anywhere else,
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by ckarmann 8y ago
Actually at this time, when Haussmann started its transformation of Paris, people though that the circulation of air was very important for health, and that was one of the reasons of widening the streets and limiting the height of buildings
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Green revolution’ crops bred to slash fertilizer use(nature.com)
1 points by ckarmann 8y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 8y ago
Except if you plan to build an underground city, people still have to walk from/to the metro station to/from wherever they live or work. And people also still strangely favor having a bit of sunlight. As a French living now in Can
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by ckarmann 8y ago
Not saying you are totally wrong but the federal income tax has been already existing for decades at this time and the max and min rates actually went down during the prohibition era (per wikipedia). It only went up in 1932 a year before it
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YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song(bbc.com)
3 points by ckarmann 8y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 8y ago
In France there is a "Labour court" (conseil de Prud'hommes) that handle disputes around employment contract, including termination of it. The court is independent of the company, it's a public institution. There is no j
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by ckarmann 8y ago
But we don't have ranges. It's not like a physical measurement where we know that the actual value falls in a certain range with a Gaussian distribution. In history we have disparate sources, often contradicting each other when yo
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by ckarmann 8y ago
You can not sum like this the populations on the table, because it does not cover the same things all the time. A couple of problems for example: - When a kingdom/empire spreads to Africa and Asia, the whole population of the country i
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by ckarmann 8y ago
Both situations happened. Rich families had slave and non-slave educators who would teach to the family children and to the slave children. A lot of slaves in Antiquity were given the occupation of shopkeepers, clerks or even lawyers, so th
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by ckarmann 8y ago
While the article mentions Pattern Matching, it seems to be something for the distant future. I was referring changes of Java 11, which seems to me the focus of the article.
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by ckarmann 8y ago
These are just syntactic sugar, not going to change much to the way Java programs are coded. I found these changes rather tame compared to historical ones. Java 8 (lambdas), Java 5 (generics, annotations) and Java 1.1 (inner/anonymous
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by ckarmann 8y ago
About the verbs used as nouns, I work with a team based in China, and they do that all the time (and sometimes they used nouns as verbs). I know nothing of Mandarin but maybe it's a thing common in this language that they do uncounscio
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by ckarmann 8y ago
Taxes don't pay the same thing in dense cities as in the suburbs. Public transport for example: in a dense city taxes pay for bus, subways, tramways, bike lanes, sometimes subsidized bike sharing. In a lot of suburbs none of this make
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by ckarmann 8y ago
I've had a year of productive work thrown away by a clueless and arrogant founder that didn't understand the product he was trying to build and the market and was blaming everyone but himself. So you can have the crazy overtime an
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by ckarmann 9y ago
Clarke was actually diagnosed in 1962 ( http://www.clarkefoundation.org/about-sir-arthur/ ). He developped complications in the 80s. He has lived in Sri Lanka since the 50s, which was probably not the best place for acce
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Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting on Kubernetes(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
154 points by ckarmann 9y ago|16 comments
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by ckarmann 9y ago
The population of Asia is at the same level today: between 4 and 4.5 billions, and while there is quite a lot of immigration relatively speaking, you don't see hundred of millions of immigrants. That's partly because the economy h
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by ckarmann 9y ago
Yes, nicotine at low dose has a stimulant effect who explains most of that. But its tolerance builds up very quickly and most habitual smokers don't really feel this effect anymore and have to smoke more. At high dosage its effect turn
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by ckarmann 9y ago
The equivalent for conservatives is to consider secession. There were a good number of petitions for some states in 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_state_petitions_for_seces...
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by ckarmann 9y ago
> The sole way a government can kill it -- any government -- is to invest >$2B into getting >51% hash power, then launching coordinated malicious doublespends for the purpose of shattering faith in bitcoin. I am not a bitcoin exper

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