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by greatpatton 5y ago
Seems that the article is a bit outdated. Carmat total artificial heart already had patient with at least 20 months of survival (it is currently used as a bridge until transplantation). * https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/
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by greatpatton 5y ago
As HN is covering so many different subjects, I thought that it was related to these oil languages :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl
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by greatpatton 5y ago
But the same rules applied to all taxi drivers before Uber. In a lot of place taxi driver were forbidden to not accept customer hailing them, and the price is controlled almost everywhere. The logic would be that all taxi drivers have to be
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by greatpatton 5y ago
Seems that once again video games are the easy scapegoat for China's problem... If people participating in this giant rat race will have a sad life if even video games will be restricted...
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by greatpatton 5y ago
The rate in France was 36.7% in 2010 (declining steadily year after year): http://www.bichat-larib.com/revue.presse/revue.presse.resume...
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by greatpatton 5y ago
They did it only after ES decided to abandon the Apache license. I doubt that Amazon would have done it if they were not forced. Redshift is also Postgres based and Amazon never released something. So based on that metric Alibaba is more op
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by greatpatton 5y ago
Not the OP, but the one time I had to micromanage someone was because the engineer was unable to focus on the important tasks and would deliver nice things but totally unrelated to the end goal...
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by greatpatton 5y ago
German has a difficult grammar (was a real pain when learning German as a kid) but at least when reading German you know how to pronounce it, English pronunciation like German gender must be learn by heart :)
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by greatpatton 5y ago
France is already not importing Brazilian beef: http://www.journees3r.fr/IMG/pdf/Texte_1_Economie_V-Chatelli...
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by greatpatton 5y ago
It seems that Dengvaxia is a live attenuated vaccine, what is the relationship with mRNA vaccine?
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by greatpatton 6y ago
You can trade shares of companies from all around the world on US stock exchange.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
Protonmail do not have a letter-box presence in CH... They have real employees there. That's quite a misinformed comment. (I said that knowing multiple ex colleague working there in CH).
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by greatpatton 6y ago
As a consumer, every time the clause is not specifically negotiated, it is considered "abusive" and void (for businesses it may be different). If as a consumer you negotiate a contract with an arbitration clause it will be enforce
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by greatpatton 6y ago
It's the same in France and I think most of EU as the highest french court ruled that forced arbitration was against EU law.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
If you enjoy writing a book why would you value your time?
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by greatpatton 6y ago
Sport? I mean almost all the people I know had a broken bone or joint issue because of sport and then you have domestic accident. For instance in Switzerland each year you have 550k non-professional accident (declared one to your employer)
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by greatpatton 6y ago
If the prevent buy and let people only sell stock it is going to create a great market imbalance that will just crash the stocks blocked. For once this done by multiple broker is pure market manipulation because it is going to have a huge e
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by greatpatton 6y ago
yes Financial Times! this is a real low for a journalist...
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by greatpatton 6y ago
Exactly! from who the short are getting their money when they crash a company stock like Wirecard? Not from the company management who did it but from other shareholders, and most of the time "retail" shareholder. They are running
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by greatpatton 6y ago
So if everyone in Wall Street have significantly tighter risk can you explain the risk linked to the short position taken by Melvin Capital on GME? How many "Wall Street" were burned by taking high bet that went wrong going aroun
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by greatpatton 6y ago
Sotbank holds massive investment in China. For instance Softbank own 25% of Alibaba (this 25% are way more valuable than ARM). So yes they do have a large power over Softbank not complying to their decision.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
Can you tell me which chips are produced in PRC? (Not Tawain and TSMC)
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by greatpatton 6y ago
No the article is saying that if you want to keep doing direct sales to EU customers (retail), the only way is to use a company in the EU from where you will do the shipping.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
The cost here is an artificial variable as it completely under the control of AWS. They can decide to sell them very cheap to lock people on AWS.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
And 6 years after the release of Elastic Compute Cloud.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
OK but AWS already had Elastic xxx named product before Elastic search even existed. So the trademark issue can go multiple way in front of a court.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
Doug Cutting is at Cloudera.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
If you use look for his username on Github you will get after a couple of link to his personal website and his note (automatically posted). The note is in French.
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by greatpatton 6y ago
And then people complain to be the product...
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by greatpatton 6y ago
And in Switzerland this is Swiss Cow fighting (combat de Reines)

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