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by louhike 8y ago
Maybe it's giving it too much credit to say it happened because of him or that it was what he planned.
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by louhike 9y ago
> The NIH spends 32[1] billion per year, whereas the global spending is ~160[2] billion. So around 20%. That's a lot, but not nearly half. I don't understand how comparing the spending of an American institution to worldwide sp
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by louhike 9y ago
Your argument really looks like whataboutism. It's not because some people gets paid too much that it doesn't make the pensions absurd. Those facts do not have much in common.
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by louhike 9y ago
Female hormonal BC can have a lot of bad consequences on the health (I know someone who died, one other who lost a lost of her hair, my girlfriend gets depressed, etc.) so I hope more couples would consider that.
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by louhike 9y ago
I agree with much of the article (return early, errors management at the top, etc.). But won't returning a "wrong" value for the sake of one less line worsens the readability of the code? When I saw that, I imagined myself sp
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by louhike 9y ago
Even with no extension ?
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by louhike 9y ago
"I have a new found respect for man-made fibres like polyester, polypropylene etc as producing those fibres is so much cleaner than natural goods, and instead of having to spend a lot of energy getting the fabric to "feel" ri
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by louhike 9y ago
> "Why is it that there are so few women in high level management positions?" frame it as "Why are there so much men willing to put up with the stress and pressure of high level management positions?" What does it cha
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by louhike 9y ago
Maybe it would be better if the HN title was something like: "Book Review: We Got from Twinkies to Tofu"? Like that we could know what to expect clicking on the link.
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by louhike 9y ago
I guess it would have been quite hard to do if they wanted the same gameplay and not spending too much time on the balance between civs and units. They tell for the network and pathfinding code than redoing would have been stupid as it has
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by louhike 9y ago
Foobar2000 is a nice and customizable/skinnable audio player also.
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by louhike 9y ago
Exactly, I'm vegan but I have a leather jacket I bought before transitioning. I will use it until it wears out. Some vegans would sell/throw out all their non-vegans clothes afraid of what others might think, but a lot of vegans d
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by louhike 9y ago
Sim City 2000 is on GOG, where it is playable on modern computers. They also sell Sim City 3000 and 4, without DRMs.
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by louhike 9y ago
You can use the following link (in french) to be able to do it on Windows: http://chrisbertrand.net/fr/articles/clavier_fr_esp_maj.html
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by louhike 9y ago
What do you mean? Cloudgine is the company making Crackdown 3.
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by louhike 9y ago
Most of Mozilla revenue comes from patnerships for the default search engine.
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by louhike 9y ago
> Accents are optional on uppercase letters Unlike what some french believe, they are not supposed to be optional: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue#5_stron...
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by louhike 9y ago
We just know he is on temporary leave.
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by louhike 9y ago
(<speculation>)Maybe because offices are calmer, so it's easier to concentrate?(</speculation>) It tends to work for me so I would be curious to know why it is so.
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by louhike 9y ago
I've discovered some days ago that the thepiratebay.org domain was available again. Is it linked to the original one or is it just a proxy?
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by louhike 9y ago
"But darktable seems to be able to edit a batch of images at once so you don't have to manually edit each one. But should you?" => It can be useful for pictures taken in a similar context. Like you might want to set the te
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by louhike 9y ago
Designers do try to find the author. Some of them don't because they lack ethics or they are pressured by their management, but most do so.
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by louhike 9y ago
They are big watermarks so they cannot be used without paying. Agencies are supposed to pay for theses photos, and most good ones do so (I'm currently working in a design agency). As they are working for a company like Netflix, I doubt
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by louhike 9y ago
It's becoming a thing in a lot of countries. There are a lot of discounts in France.
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by louhike 9y ago
I've seen a lot of people complaining about that and most of them are on macs. Let's hope it's a bug which will be corrected quickly.
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by louhike 9y ago
You cannot throw this kind of jokes around given how this subject can be hard to read for people to which it happened. HN is a community with people of lot of different backgrounds so it's important to be careful.
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by louhike 9y ago
Even though I hate the business model, this is going crazy with people sending death threats to employees. They never hid their intent, the business model for the game has been discussed for a long time.
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by louhike 9y ago
I do not have any problem on it with Firefox 57. Are you sure it's not because of an extension ?
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by louhike 9y ago
You make assessments with no basis and you want others to answer to you with economic theory and data? EDIT: Parent comments have been heavily edited.
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by louhike 9y ago
The thing is most couriers have orders to do it like this to go faster, even though it is not assumed publicly. So if it happened one time with a company, it will probably go on.

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