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by duchenne 7y ago
> Amazon has literally won everywhere else in the world. FWIW, Amazon is also quite small in South Korea, which is the #1 country in ecommerce spend per capita. There, the market is fragmented into many players big and small, and the del
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by duchenne 7y ago
Interesting case: Seoul. No earthquakes. 20-story buildings everywhere [1]. Construction cranes everywhere. Still real estate is very expensive ( 13K$ per square meter for something downtown [2] ) The main effect of building so much is that
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by duchenne 8y ago
> Facebook exacerbates poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading hoaxes and inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia, rewarding clickbait and outrage, and so on. An interesting example is the ye
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by duchenne 8y ago
Just to clarify. The source of the energy of this earth quake was not man-made. It was pre-existing gravitational potential energy. Similarly, a low-energy scream in the montain can trigger a high-energy avalanche.
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by duchenne 8y ago
Let's say that this problem occurred because they logged the body of post requests (including the passwords). Could this problem be mitigated by hashing the password on the front-end (and a second time on the back-end)? Like this, the
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by duchenne 8y ago
Yes, this system does not seem to prevent the information from spreading. I guess that the logic is that most people who know how to make a screenshot also know how to make a fake screenshot. So, let's say that Mr A is not a very hones
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by duchenne 8y ago
They do have several paid plans that allow commercial use. If you want to make money out of their work through commercial use, it seems fair to pay them back. Source: https://www.remove.bg/pricing
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by duchenne 8y ago
You just probably know things that I don't know. That's why I am asking. Which SSR framework do you prefer?
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by duchenne 8y ago
If you have a solution to avoid using a bundler altogether, that would be great. Personally, I would use it for: - compression of html/css/images. - css compatibility with old browsers. - source map / auto-refresh during deve
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by duchenne 8y ago
How do you guys achieve this in practice? I made my home page without javascript, and it is blazing fast. But as soon as I try to make something more complicated I bumped into practical problems. - Components. I want to have the same navbar
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by duchenne 8y ago
> I hope other 3rd world countries don't block it following Russia. Interestingly, the original meaning of "third world" country was: a country that is neither part of the Soviet block nor the US side ( the two first worl
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by duchenne 8y ago
Abviously not. Nature sides with academia. This article has been cherry-picked.
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by duchenne 8y ago
After reading this, the cynical part of me would say that the start-up world is in competition with the academic world to recruit the best talents. So, it keeps publishing biased articles about the drawbacks of doing a PhD. For similar reas
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by duchenne 8y ago
I am now reading "Red Star" a 1908 utopian novel by Alexander Bogdanov, where another advanced Humanity is living on Mars. In this Utopia, people frequently transfer blood one from another. The author presents blood donation as on
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by duchenne 8y ago
Also, I've met quite many office workers in France and Korea that would be very interested in your service. They regularly have to make powerpoint slides in English. This kind of presentations can have a big impact on their careers, bu
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by duchenne 8y ago
Since I am not a native English speaker, I use quillbot to make my sentences sound more natural. Especially when I write an email or for the texts on my web apps. Also, I met the founders before our yc interviews. They are very cool guys, w
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by duchenne 8y ago
Thank you for the correction. 2030 would give us more time to prepare an ambitious next step.
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by duchenne 8y ago
I find it amazing that, even though Mars One looked so sketchy since the beginning, still 200,000 people applied for their program. That means that still many people dream about exploring space. If a solid project was launched, probably hun
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by duchenne 8y ago
If you want a bigger scale experiment, you could have a look at the French RMI/RSA, it is not exactly a basic income, because it is given only to unemployed people. But, it is 550 euros/months, it has existed since 1988, and it is
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by duchenne 8y ago
Yes, but it did also facilitate transport of military equipements and commercial goods using wagons. Sorry, my "just" was not intended to be ironic. Roads were also important for pedestrians.
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by duchenne 8y ago
> Cities existed before without cars and I suspect they will exist again after they leave. Sucks that I had to live in the time period with them. I find it interesting that many people don't realize that city with cars have exisited
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by duchenne 8y ago
The temperature might be an issue. The moon surface 106°C during the day, -183°C during the night. Also, the sun is brighter in space than an Earth under the atmosphere. The long days and nights lasting 12 Earth days each might also be prob
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by duchenne 8y ago
Except that even if you use your own paper currency, you have to pay taxes in your country's oficial currency. Taxes are usually a significant amount of every transaction. So, the new system will very quickly bleed out. Because of that
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by duchenne 8y ago
Most people believe that this garbage patch (aka plastic continent) looks like what is in their trash bin. The picture in the article reinforces this misconception: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec&
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by duchenne 8y ago
Thanks to Snowden, we have hard proofs that the USA have been using hacking on a very large scale for multiple goals including industrial espionage. Now, they say that their #1 economic rival is using hacking to steal data. But, there is no
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by duchenne 8y ago
I do not have a specific website in mind. But, there are some news about some cool Chinese accomplishments: they will send a robot on the far side of the Moon soon; they are leading in electricle vehicules and public transport, photovoltaic
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by duchenne 8y ago
It is probably a mistranslation, they obviously mean that the "battle royale" theme is too violent: a bunch of strangers are gathered and have to kill each other until the last one. Personally, I enjoy that kind of games, but the
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by duchenne 8y ago
> This is why Tesla is valued higher than GM, Daimler or pretty much any other car company. I have heard a different theory from a friend working in finance. He said that most of a GM/Toyota car is made by suppliers, but Tesla does
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by duchenne 8y ago
A possible solution would be to split the job, to avoid conficts of interest. One teacher teaches. Another one grades. When I was studying in France in "prépa", all students wanted to get a real evaluation of their level, because
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by duchenne 8y ago
Yes, that used to be a common misconception in Korea until recently. It is completely false but such rumors can get viral very quickly. There are also many such misonceptions in the West. For instance, in the West, many people still believe

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