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by gwervc 3y ago
Apple prices in France are insane, partially because of how Apple adapt the dollar to euros, and the 20% VAT. Heck, at the time I got my 16Gb 14" M1 Pro plus an iPhone 11 mini for 50€ cheaper in Japan than just the laptop in France,
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Even functionally it's very comical because of how we were able to do on Win98 (even 95) almost everything we are doing today: editing documents, browsing the web (with images), playing games, watching videos, printing documents, liste
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Blazor is just a new iteration on Volta (2007) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Volta
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Some people are doing exactly this. The jibiki.fr project for example converted the Japanese-French dictionary from Cesselin into a digital form. OCR being what it is, plus change in orthography since the dictionary was published make human
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Maybe at today cost. But this is a lab about AI not just LLM. Also given that French research is underfunded since decades, our researchers are accustomed to producing good results at a budget cost.
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Still, the untaxed 100K threshold is quite low, it's a shame that a lifetime of work is so heavily taxed. Especially given how the government is spending it... My personal theory about this high inheritance tax is that it's real p
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by gwervc 3y ago
> deadweight loss to society On the contrary, the final price being (a bit) lowered (theoretically) is a good thing for society, and by society I mean the taxpayers. The Louvre is partially funded using public money.
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> When I ask for documentation (there isn't any), an architectural overview (nope) As if any of those were present in the average web project lol. I complained about those points in sprint review this morning, and this is a big proj
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Which learning? If anything AI will render (highly) skilled humans even more relevant in most creative fields: the literature translator and it's ability to transfer emotion, the artist that can create art outside AI reach, the softwar
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> suggesting a mechanism on how OC use could impair emotion regulation in women This doesn't surprise me the slightest, as I've noticed change in behavior in my ex-girlfriend between the periods (pun intended) she was on pill o
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Look at the name of the company: Yi. Seems congruent then to use 1, pronunced yi in Chinese, as a domain name.
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Which boomers hate with passion: they quitted their parents home as fast as possible, and kicked their children as soon as it doesn't yield tax benefits anymore. All while using real estate as an investment vehicle which led to unaffor
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> The best bachelors would be gone pretty quickly. That put a ton of pressure on the remaining women to quickly settle for an average guy in order not to be stuck with a terrible partner So average women with average men, I don't se
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Exactly. The previous points were interesting and I was about to share the article to an East-Asian friend that started a PhD recently. But being a White guy that point would just make it awkward to share it with her.
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> in a dictatorship the interests of the country and the interests of those at the top are not aligned It isn't either in a democracy. In a way it's even more insidious in a democracy because the corruption is hidden better by
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Nothing. This is exactly was happened in France where there is welfare money for housing (APL): landlords raised prices saying that rented are helped anyway. In the end the situation is better for landlords, equals for people getting the we
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You are assuming that disinformation is an absolute thing and that the state and governments tries to fight it for the common good. What I see around me is that state is a prime producer of disinformation which also already controls the mos
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I can relate being allergic to day job: I have one and hate the lack of freedom that come with it (in addition to it not being interesting). Doing it has a few expected advantages such as a regular paycheck and healthcare. One unexpected ad
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The paper title itself could pass as-is an Buzzfeed.
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> Life is much simpler when you don’t have to jump through twenty hoops because of some stupid political decision for every action you take as a small business. There is the same issue in France. I'm pretty sure it's viewed by
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Except the kind of people "saving time" writing in a dynamic language will skip the step of writing tests as well since it can be viewed as lost time.
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The circled digits as code points are very nice to have precisely because they are available in applications that don't support them otherwise... which is actually most of the software I can think of (Notepad, Apple Notes, chat applica
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> Most successful French startups move their HQ to US as soon as they can I'm pretty sure it is more a question of astonishing level of taxation and the difficulty to rise capital than national pride. > "Made in France"
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Private jet owners won't be the targets of such laws: luxury car are excluded from the future oil engine ban in the EU, and private jets aren't subjected to the recent law forbidding short distance domestic airlines in France. Tha
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Excluding Netflix as it's irrelevant technology-wise and including Microsoft, the difference is that those companies are offering a wide array of core products (operating systems, developer tools, server hosting, smartphones, etc) whic
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It totally wasn't, and countries that had less heavy-handed responses such as Japan and most African countries didn't have a significantly worse outcome than the one that took dictatorship-like measures. On the other hand the nega
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Same here, and when I was a grad student (phd) I used to write most important sections of a paper on paper.
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There are major developed economies outside Europe...
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I've seen it. It's darker than his previous movies (even the hero is a bit of an asshole) and one thing in particular makes it look like a masonic coming out. It's hard to see where the movie is coming while watching it the f