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by jbn 3y ago
I will just leave this here: http://nestedvm.ibex.org/
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by jbn 4y ago
here's an obligatory reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
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by jbn 4y ago
> There is no retirement “fund” in the way that word implies well, France really has 2 systems (to simplify, it's really more like 42+), the "public" one (i.e. civil servants) and the "private" one (i.e. anyone e
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by jbn 4y ago
ergo the "limits to growth" :)
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by jbn 4y ago
if only it had control of its currency! The way out of this previously was to devaluate currency so that the face amounts of pension stay the same but purchasing power decreases (in other words, it decreases the value of pension in a much l
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by jbn 4y ago
> The Touraine Law in 2014 raised the number of worked years from 36 to 43, which is a big deal. that's right, and what's so surprising (to me) today is that the Touraine law got enacted without much protest, while what's
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by jbn 4y ago
>You're still relying on money being worth something in future. Yes, and that's why this basic pension can only be something guaranteed by the state. In case of war or massive devaluation or change or currency, the state (maybe
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by jbn 4y ago
but these are pensions, more specifically they are supplemental pensions on top of the basic one like US social security, or France's basic pension from SS (which is supplemented by "complementary pension" from other regime
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by jbn 4y ago
> the system IS sustained regardless of whether this is correct or not (difficult to predict the future, even the COR only has "scenarios" to talk about, but nobody knows really what will happen), the current system is unjust i
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by jbn 4y ago
>Not sure why I'm thinking about a frog being slowly boiled alive. The double entendre ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre ) here is wonderfully funny, I love bilingual jokes. It is true that this ref
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by jbn 4y ago
only if they are to be prosecuted in case of toilet malfunction! A long time ago in Paris the street sweepers were euphemistically called "surface engineering technicians" (paraphrasing from the French "technicien de surface&
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by jbn 4y ago
IMHO you got this slightly wrong: ENA has not been closed, it has merely been renamed to INSP. Which is to say, that there was no true reform in this regard. In the same way business schools are really networks or clubs (there is little lea
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by jbn 4y ago
taxation, one needs to have a local entity that is the employer of record and pays all local employment taxes (either that, or the employee establishes a one-person local company that sells services to the remote company). Each country will
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by jbn 4y ago
I think you got this right, but the other thing is also that either of those approaches can work in the small, but they just don't scale. For the engineering side, at some point you need "architects" or people whose sole job
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by jbn 4y ago
heh, control theory as applied to economics... this is really what MIT's system dynamics is/was about IMHO. Forrester's world model was an attempt at that.
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by jbn 4y ago
interesting, so there is a synergy! Of course, it doesn't do anything when you park your car when it rains ;-)
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by jbn 4y ago
how is it a synergy? the solar panels will necessarily feed into the grid (because electricity must be transported for immediate consumption), and not necessarily into EVs (since it can be sunny when no cars are here to recharge, or EVs nee
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by jbn 4y ago
that's the spirit!
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by jbn 4y ago
the nitpicker in me wants to say that the hash key can change (and it works if you rehash items whose key changed), but lookup by key will fail because the item will landed in the bucket of its original hash... but yes keys can't chang
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by jbn 4y ago
.. and it's funny how a system where there are no guarantees of delivery (people email to reach their inbox in seconds, but the delivery time is not guaranteed at all, nor is delivery!), no privacy (IMHO most emails are transported in
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by jbn 4y ago
Is there data on this? Specifically I wonder if women who refused it for a first birth still refuse them for subsequent births (or maybe they change their mind?).
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by jbn 4y ago
and if you do do it (speaking from experience) people get offended that someone be looking at their code (as if existence in source control guaranteed absence of bugs...). It is all the more surprising since simple inspection of never-revie
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by jbn 4y ago
heh, that makes it sound like one would want to have a a.out format toolchain and kernel support to run such executables... kinda the opposite of the direction of history here :) Maybe even running a.out under docker would be desirable?
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by jbn 4y ago
can you clarify "how" it makes one a better developer? When I think of how the java streams API is used, it generates lots of garbage (i.e. lots of intermediary allocs), doesn't always make things clearer.. i'm genuinely
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by jbn 4y ago
Salt and Cod are great reads. I would also recommend Skunk Works by Ben E. Rich & Leo Janos - The Box by Marc Levinson, which are fantastic as well. For companies, I found Bad Blood, by Carreyrou entertaining but scary.
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by jbn 4y ago
I guess the trick is to flip this by modeling your organization to the system design (i.e. create teams around the components of the system, not components around pre-existing teams). This is easier said than done, and as architecture chang
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by jbn 4y ago
It is not a silly question, it is quite shocking how many apps do not even have basic search working in any useable capacity. Outlook is one of them (I believe there used to be a Lookout plugin of some sort to add it on, but I think it died
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by jbn 4y ago
>France is somewhat higher at 57%. This is only taxes (income tax + employee share of all social taxes) visible to the employee. If you factor in employer share (which really really does not belong to the employer, it's really the &
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by jbn 4y ago
using NNTP internally was something I always thought would be a great idea: all public discussion (i.e. public to all inside the company, as opposed to siloed conversations in emails or Slack/Teams) and a repository for knowledge trans
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by jbn 4y ago
don't "legacy" students like status?

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