eloisant

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by eloisant 2mo ago
It's not regulations, it's European companies being (legitimately) worried about their data sovereignty if they use US or Chinese AI providers.
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by eloisant 2mo ago
To be fair that h1b requirement is stupid.
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by eloisant 2mo ago
Or coding on a white board. God I hated it.
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by eloisant 2mo ago
I wonder how it relates with housing. Today you couldn't move without a job at your destination, because buying a house is expensive and renting requires a stable job.
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by eloisant 2mo ago
No because they only buy the best deals that would have sold fast anyway
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by eloisant 3mo ago
Also because they closed all the gates of interoperability once they got big enough. If they didn't have the incentive to get a monopoly we would have kept a more decentralized web.
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by eloisant 3mo ago
I feel like the discussion between "monolith" and "microservices" is a false dichotomy. For a big software company, you don't have to ship a single behemoth monolith, but you don't have have microservices so sm
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by eloisant 3mo ago
There are plenty of electric motorbikes already, problem is those guys WANT it to be noisy.
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by eloisant 3mo ago
I think it's "just" a regular balance bike that you push with your feet, although I wouldn't dismiss that kind of bike as a "toy". It's actually the best way to learn to use a bike for kids, much better th
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by eloisant 3mo ago
Not that weird, you're in the majority now and birth rates are plummeting all over the world.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
This is true for consoles as well. Console prices are increasing, I think this is the first time I witness that. Console prices used to go down until the next generation comes out.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
They spied on their mobile users with the Facebook app to detect Instagram and WhatsApp growth early
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Not really. In France we have a French brand of bikes, from the sports retailer Intersport, called Nakamura... They actually hide the fact it's a local brand, let people think it's a Japanese brand, to suggest it's higher qua
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Don't you already have conduits, or undergrounds where old telephone lines are running already? That's what we used to install optical fiber everywhere in cities France. Really easy, nothing to tear open. And because it's den
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Human decisions but usually with external factors: increasing costs, pressure to grow, etc. If they could get away with raising price just because they feel like it they would do it earlier and more often.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
It's a vicious cycle if we get in an "inflationary spiral", but most of the time a small inflation is pretty healthy.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Comparing prices between Japan and Europe or US is strongly skewed by the weak yen. The fact that the JPY has lost a lot of value compared to the US dollar has nothing to do with how prices or salaries in Japan evolve.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
I remember getting interested in an app because of the icon looked nice. Also couldn't use apps if the icon was too ugly and spoiled my beautiful dock.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
They have more than 1 billion people that are getting more and more educated, they have the capital and will to invest in it, they will get there eventually. The "moat" we're talking about with private companies is that it&#x
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by eloisant 4mo ago
They're already capable to build microprocessors completely in-house. This is precisely the cutting edge we're talking about. This matters for AI datacenters in particular, if they want to be autonomous in building them they need
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Also it's no longer a toy for hobbyist but a necessary tool to participate in society
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by eloisant 4mo ago
nobody wants the Cybertruck, why would anyone scalp it?
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Depends on the country I guess, but in France it's about 3% of the rent. For that price they will pay you the rent if the tenant is not paying, and take care of the getting paid by the tenant. If landlords don't want to pay that,
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by eloisant 4mo ago
The benefit you give (be able to "cut" a kana in the middle) is really weak, I've never seen anyone being confused by that when learning in kana. This is completely nullified by all the drawbacks of using romaji while learnin
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by eloisant 4mo ago
They are completely ignoring the market of parents who want a non-Smartphone for their kids. And I'm pretty sure this market is going to grow, much more than adults who want to limit themselves.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
Most are happy and stop at multimillionaires, but of course we don't hear about them. The focus on hungry billionaires is survivor bias. We don't hear about Tom from MySpace.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
That's pretty crazy when you see that in developed countries, Japan in particular, population is aging and declining. Countries should be competing for the best immigrants, not closing their doors.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
I never really understood this "US person" restriction. There are 350M people in US, mostly citizens and green cards holders, surely some of them could be working for a foreign power.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
This is a short-term view approach and can really hurt a company on the long term. It's also why US car companies are a wreck.
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by eloisant 4mo ago
The difference is that the biggest popup offender was not the same company behind the browser everyone uses... Just imagine if Netscape and MS made all their money from popups at the time.

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