etiennemarcel

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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Bureaucracy is not an issue in my opinion. I've ran a successful business in France and if you have a good accountant (and lawyer for some particular issues), it's not anymore difficult than in the US. As an individual, compare ho
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
"in the pocket"? as in the literal translation of "c'est dans la poche" (meaning "I got this, it's easy")
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Well we have Carrefour (second largest retail store chain after Walmart). I understand your position from an American point of view but I don't agree with it. What you see as unnecessary regulation we see as the right way of governing,
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
What Paris could have looked like if Pompidou had his way in the 70s: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_autoroutier_pour_Paris
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
"Funny" story about that... We switched to Berlin time when Paris was occupied in 1940. We didn't go back to GMT after the war.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
The French system is fairly complex, it's not single payer. To sum up, for "everyday" health issues the public health insurance reimburses 70%. For grave long-term illnesses, you're covered 100%. You're supposed to
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
At least in France, it's both. The cost for the patient is usually low thanks to the health insurance, but also because of price control. A GP visit is 25 euros by law, covered from 70 to 100% depending on your insurance. Doctors can c
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
From a European point of view I have a hard time understanding your opinion. In other countries, regulated/public healthcare works better and is more efficient than your system, it's hard to deny it... I don't see how doublin
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
The number is actually pretty high (around 1800 soldiers deserting every year): https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2018/04/17/le-temps-d...
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
The "opération Sentinelle" (the soldiers patrolling in France) is mostly for the show... It's currently the most expensive military operation run in France, and is one of the main factors in the rise of desertion in the army.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Ethnic statistics are not totally forbidden, they're very strongly regulated. http://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/01/16/est-ce-que-les... Yet if tomorrow these statistics were allowed and were t
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
In 81 homosexuality was taken off the mental illnesses list, that's probably what you're thinking of.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
The 1830 revolution is also missing, or the revolt against the 1851 coup... Yet minor incidents from last year protests are on the list.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
The de Funès movies (gendarme) are still on French TV at least once a year and nobody cares about the nudity. We don't really have the same puritanism when it comes to nudity or profanity on TV.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
That's a very American point of view. Here in Paris, public transit is run by the state since the war and works really well. It's going to be open to private concessions in a few years (buses first, subway in 20 or 30 years) becau
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
2003 was a wake up call. The heat wave this year was the second hottest since 2003 and there have been a lot fewer deaths (at least in France). People are better informed and the health professionals are better prepared.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Yet the administrative costs of Medicare or the French healthcare system are much lower than private insurances. I'm not sure the government is that inefficient...
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
A better before/after taken from the same location: http://www.niepce-daguerre.com/boulevard_du_Temple_de_dag.ht...
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
ZAC rive gauche, Batignolles, Chapelle International, Bercy-Charenton, Rosa Parks... That's quite a lot of room for experimentation and new neighborhoods.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Actually, the whole point of the new subway lines (especially line 15, which will go around the city through close suburbs) is densification. City planners want to avoid the city going further and further in the countryside and want to have
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
And yet most arrondissements have densities similar or greater than Manhattan (28k / km2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrondissements_of_Paris#Arron...
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
What's interesting about your examples (Place d'Italie, Montparnasse, Berges de Seine) is that these neighborhoods are considered as the ugliest and seen as mistakes from the 1960/70s. They were part of projects to rebuild th
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
It's not true at all. The central arrondissements are (for some part) well preserved, but once you go a little further you'll see that most buildings have been destroyed and replaced since the 50s. There are few highrise, but Pari
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Upper floor apartments were cheaper because they were meant for working-class people. The ground level and first floor were for shops and shopkeepers. The 2nd floor (that would be the 3rd flood in American terms) was the "noble" f
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
When Brancusi died, he left his workshop to the French state. It has been rebuilt right in front of the Centre Pompidou and can be visited for free, it's very interesting!
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Georges Perec in 1969: http://homepage.urbanet.ch/cruci.com/lexique/palindrome.htm (1247 words)
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
I'm not saying one model (national companies) is always better than the other (private ventures). But I was trying to show that it's mostly a management issue, the MTA seems to be terribly mismanaged, while its French counterpart
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
It was the same in Paris (CMP and Nord-Sud), until the subway was nationalized after the war. And yet there are still major investments... You could say the same for the national railway network, it's a state company and it didn't
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
We've had a subway for more than a hundred years, it's not exactly a new development.
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by etiennemarcel 8y ago
Why is that surprising? Until the 90s France had a nuclear triad, but the land component was dropped. We used to have more warheads, but still need quite a few to keep global coverage through submarines and aircrafts...

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