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by courgette 4y ago
I "own" one of those. My previous employers went under. I asked them several times for a fedex label so I could return their stuff. They never did.
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by courgette 4y ago
Yep, I got your point and I think you drove it home. I mistaken you for something else.
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by courgette 4y ago
And I would reciprocate on that drink! I live in New Orleans those days, social alcoholism is a lifestyle there! I haven't been in Spain in a solid decade. I miss traveling and living in europe. It's so pleasant. To get back to th
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by courgette 4y ago
Hi, I’m your neighbor from the other thread. Just above. I think the issue in your approach is the transactional aspect of it. “I payed more, now be more nice to me” At their core, people don’t want to be owned this way.
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by courgette 4y ago
Hi, I’m sure you would constitute a great bar neighbor :) I just spend a few minute refining my thoughts on tipping outside the US : I would say it has to do with a relationship with money and the power emanating from it. Tipping is not exp
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by courgette 4y ago
It’s a US and Canada thing. I’m 40ish and I gave a type twice in my life in France. Both were exceptional situations were I felt that the normal compensation was not enough and I felt bad for the worker. And even then.. I might have been in
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by courgette 4y ago
Honest question : how do you think it works literally anywhere outside of Canada and the US? We have bar and restaurants, too. People working there have kids, mortgage. I would even say that it’s more a “real” job than in the US. “Real”,
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by courgette 4y ago
Where did you travel ? I had the chance to move around a lot and my social alcoholism made my spend lot of time in seedy places where someone pour out booze. In all those places, paying more money is just bad taste. A way to get what you de
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by courgette 4y ago
the tax being calculated separately seems suspiciously petty to my French ass. I’m used to it now, but the only rational I could find by asking around “why is the tax not part of the final displayed price” were : - “it depends from state to
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by courgette 4y ago
Thanks for sanity. I do understand the specific of the US situation, I’ve leave there since the last decade. In a very touristy city to boot, so a large part of my social network rely on tips. But the lack of awareness from our US friends t
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by courgette 4y ago
I live between France and the US. France has https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/ and IGN topographic map of every square centimeter of the country. The US has... google map and you can also find some decent topographic map onl
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by courgette 4y ago
When I enter a new state, a buy a road map of that state. Then I store it under a seat of my van. Phone battery die, cell signal can be weak. And I can scribble on the map. It's just a better tool.
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by courgette 4y ago
Good point. From my pov they can then shove their service up their ass but it’s a valid concern.
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by courgette 4y ago
Good point. Maybe companies working together? Like teams in a larger corporation.
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by courgette 4y ago
The inspiration for the coop in the mars trilogy actually exists in the real world. I think it’s called the mondragon collective and it’s a meta-coop ? Here is the wiki about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrago
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by courgette 4y ago
Great idea
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by courgette 4y ago
Alternative are cropping up. I've been testing out solutions with other nerds. https://www.beeper.com/ is promising. It's set of matrix bridge over 15 chat network or so. Neat.
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by courgette 4y ago
As a long term foreigner in your country. Yes. Y'all are incredibly honest. You would NOT leave 20+ credit card under the supervision of an underpay bartender in France. Stuff would happen.
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by courgette 4y ago
I've been living here 7 years now, I still have to get my credit card abused. What I had in mind is situation where the bar tender has 20+ credit card behind the counters.
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by courgette 4y ago
I spend 5 years in startup around 2008, last big recession if I'm correct. What I appreciated of that time is that the mood was considerably less gloom and doom that my peers in large company. Also... I was under 30 and I was just ecst
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by courgette 4y ago
Just as a aside : the US is the only country I’ve been where the relationship with credit card is so … relaxed. My first week here, my conclusion was that people must be either really honest, and that you get refunded routinely.
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by courgette 4y ago
Nothing to sneeze at, thanks for the feedback. That project and helium are the two crypto stuff I don’t find completely idiotic. ( or that is not finance, finance crypto “works”, too. But that idiotic too )
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by courgette 4y ago
I’ve seen the market thing play out first hand : my former company was dominant in France ( in a tiny niche market ) But that was bringing just enough to get by. Then we expanded to Italy and Germany with great effort. Each country was a wh
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by courgette 4y ago
Very valid nickpick. Thanks, I had no idea.
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by courgette 4y ago
It’s me freestyling English :) Just to say that I probably wrong / not very informed.
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by courgette 4y ago
I think you are correct :) I work in startup on both side, it’s … different
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by courgette 4y ago
France had more than ok software company. Bull for instance. Ubisoft and a bazillion other video game company. Alcatel / Lucent / Thales for industrial stuff. For the deepness of my ass I would say failure was tree fold : - France
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by courgette 4y ago
I worked for a startup that was based on the fact ( amongst other ) that Sony was making a good hardware product, but terrible software for it. Mostly the UI, but also weird restrictions on the input / output while it was a 20k profess
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by courgette 4y ago
Strike. Those two particular issue are really core : election financing and parties creation. The first one should be harshly reign in IMO. Having strict and enforced limitation on donations works. The proof : crooked politician try to ge
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by courgette 4y ago
How is storj going ?

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