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by lgeorget 7y ago
In France they're (cleverly enough) called "appart'hôtel". You can stay there for one week up to several months (or years I guess if you keep paying?) and you can use it as a hotel or an apartment depending on the level
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Is a loan deemed not risky by the bank necessarily not risky for the loaner? (That's a genuine question, I have no clue)
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Well... Introverts are more likely to let you know they exist via a blog post than by telling you directly.
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Well that's what happen when you use a special value that's actually not that special and is part of the valid values domain. If they had to use a string (and I doubt they had to), they could at least have used the empty string.
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Since a lot of pages contain these exact words (WordPress, github.io, etc.), maybe it's actually the sorting of the result that takes time?
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by lgeorget 7y ago
At least, if I understood correctly the article, it's considered like stocks. What's the law on that?
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by lgeorget 7y ago
But what if you can do pattern-matching at compile-time?!
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Arguably, it's better that way. Confusing meteorology with climatology is the favourite fallacy of climatosceptics. EDIT: Replaced "argument" by "fallacy"
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by lgeorget 7y ago
"cycling multiple hours a day" Well, I wasn't imagining _that_ level of exercising either. That's already sounds quite extreme to me. My initial point was the following: just doing more sport is not going to help if you
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by lgeorget 7y ago
I understand your point but food is not just a sum of calories. Not all food is metabolised the same. Athletes consume a lot of calories but avoid junk food. Edit: as I read your comment again, actually, I think we mostly agree.
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by lgeorget 7y ago
That's not my point though. It's not contradictory to say "intense exercising can cause starving if you don't eat enough" and "exercising cannot prevent overweight without a proper diet".
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Exercising is very beneficial for your health for a lot of reasons but it cannot prevent overweight without a proper diet. The role of exercising has been exaggerated by Coca-Cola and other junk food sellers to shift the blame away from the
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by lgeorget 7y ago
A wonderfully written article, very instructive and enjoyable to read. It's fun to see how a lot of things never really changes, like the teachers trying to sell their own textbooks, teaching for the exams for the students they know ar
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by lgeorget 7y ago
I'm starting to wonder if Wright could actually be pathologically delusional and convinced to be Satoshi, despite the accumulated evidence against it. I'm no psychologist but it reminds me of how paranoid schizophrenia is typicall
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by lgeorget 7y ago
Indeed, encryption algorithms and implementation are subject to restrictions on export similar to munitions. It used to be very strict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
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by lgeorget 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer but I think it's the basis of civil law (I speak for France specifically but it's kind of a general principle): any damage must be repaired by the one who caused it, by action or lack thereof, voluntarily or
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by lgeorget 7y ago
I learnt to program with VBA for Word and Excel. I found a booklet that my father got along with another IT magazine. My brother and I started self-teaching programming this way. I still occasionally write some VBA macros.
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by lgeorget 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. Maybe it's because I've used SVM and Mercurial before but I learned Git very easily. I find the commands and options fairly intuitive once you know you're manipulating a graph of patches. But I guess this
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by lgeorget 7y ago
You have a point. Actually, in the case of search-and-rescue that's already a moral decision that is made each time. In case the rescue mission itself is seemed to dangerous for the team, it's not attempted.
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by lgeorget 7y ago
I'm not sure the analogy is accurate though. People doing extreme sports are (usually) aware of the risks and take them consciously. Even those who suffer severe injuries usually say it was worth it and they knew it was something that
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by lgeorget 7y ago
> Despite tracking those transfers, Bednarek has no real idea of who the blockchain bandit might be. "I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a state actor, like North Korea, but that's all just speculation," Given how "easy&
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Plus the time needed to aggregate the results...
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by lgeorget 8y ago
They actually measure a lot of parameters, not only temperatures, and in all the layers of the atmosphere. And they're _very_ sensitive. For some forecast needs (short term forecast, storms, etc.), the conditions under the atmospheric
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I see. It's definitely complementary, indeed.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
But surely you miss the anomalies that might exist high in the atmosphere and which are actually responsible for the violent meteorological events (such as temperature inversions).
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by lgeorget 8y ago
This is very true and I thank you for this. I think what hurts really is the fact that a cathedral that took 200 years to be built, and had been standing there for 800 years can burn down in a single night. It makes one wonder about the van
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by lgeorget 8y ago
If my understanding is correct, the Doctrine of First Sale only applies if you buy a physical asset, like a CD or an actual book.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Thank you, indeed I was not aware of that one. I'll have a look.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
If you're not willing to develop all the boilerplate code to encode your states, transitions, etc. Boost has two libraries to offer : Boost Statechart and Meta State Machine. One of my favorite question on Stack Overflow compares both:
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by lgeorget 8y ago
This is answered in the article it seems. Those numbers are associated with obligations of fairness, liability, etc. which an individual is unlikely to be able to provide the callers with.

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