jeanjogr

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by jeanjogr 6y ago
I guess the main difference is that in the US (as far as I understand) there is no official workers representation outside of unions, thus some characteristics of workers' representatives are done by the union in the US (you get repres
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
Is that not the case in the US as well?
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
I have never been able to quite grasp what it means to "unionize" in the US. Here in my country, unions work like political parties (which I understand is not exactly enticing right now): - you are free to join or not - there are
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
You seem to argue that politics is whatever issues where you support change and "not politics" is whatever issues where you support the status quo. It is quite hard to not see your examples as political _but_ you don't want a
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
If you only need that, all the extra stuff is useless.
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
There's (somehow) a widely held belief that there is no barriers to entry, on any market, ever. Things from anticompetitive behaviour of incumbents to needing enormous upfront capital invesment simply do not exist. This has to implicat
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
Shoes last longer if they are not worn everyday.
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity is on-topic here
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
The usual caveat about Paris applies: the city of Paris is but a tiny core of the larger Paris metropolitan area (Paris: 2.1M people, Paris metro: c. 10M). Paris is about one fifth of its metro area, a city like NYC is about half. A closer
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
You missed the point. All the examples obviously all have at least one line of code, otherwise there would be no program to display "Hello, World!" at all. The goal is to have a program that is _counted as 0 line by the software &
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
I typed "UK data watchdog" (for I did not know its name) and while it is true that I needed more clicks than for France, I found their enforcement page with their list of fines [0]: £18m here, £2m there... [0] https://i
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
Are cookies banned?
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
I typed "cnil fines" (the CNIL being the French data watchdog) on google which led me to their sanction page [0] which features 100M€ fines to Google and 35M€ to Amazon _last week_. It is surely not much in the grand scheme of thi
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
> 3. The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Prior to giving consent, the data su
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
I was responding to the statement I quoted.
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
> There is no good reason for French military units to be interfering in former colonies in North Africa; let it go. The French intervention was after both the UN security council (though France is part of it) and, more importantly, Mal
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
There are three things. First, being part of a larger whole may have material advantages that are not directly related to money or security. A good example is free travel between countries. The second point is that people actually believe i
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
This is the whole point of having your headquarters in those countries: make money in country X but be taxed according to country Y laws. Why would they not want to be under country Y laws for things other than taxes?
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
I agree: any company which does not respect DNT should be heavily fined at a minimum, with executives in jail. This would ensure fast adoption.
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
You still have to appoint a censor who decides what is false for libel, don't you?
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
> That was not helped by the motto of the 90s, when the 'glory' was to become "a company without factory"... Was that so silly? AMD seems to be doing alright.
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
More than make the price reasonable, I would wager it was to anchor the Apple Watch in the "watch" category, rather than the "electronic gadget" category in people's mind. It's not some $XXX toy for notificatio
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
For the first point, I agree that _legally_ the Stewards rules depends on Gondor being a Kingdom without Kings. But legality and legitimacy are two different things. We can only speculate whether the people & the nobles of Gondor think
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
This quote often comes up when people discuss Tolkien's works. However: - either "allegory" is meant to be a very strict one-to-one map, like Gandalf is really Jesus but has a different name in this story. Then the quote is i
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
Indeed it was, however: - Stewards ruled for 1000 years. I would wager that the idea that Kings would return and that stewards rule was a temporary thing was a purely ceremonial thing. We do not know (or at least I do not know - perhaps it
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by jeanjogr 6y ago
i think there are a lot of plot points in Tolkien's legendarium where you do not need to change the fact to change the perspective: - the Elves are a puppet of the Valar, doing their bid in exchange for land and favours in the Undying