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by maeln 5y ago
In general, there is way less huge open-air parking lot in France compared to the U.S. Even the one found around commercial center tend to be dwarfed compared to what you can find in a smaller U.S city.
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by maeln 5y ago
People love micro-trottoire, you can find thousand of youtube channel doing them for country X, a lot with millions of views. They are one of the form of journalism that are the most easy to manipulate (show mostly one opinion, show "c
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by maeln 5y ago
This bring back memory of middle school. I grew up in one of the poorest overseas territory of France, and if you left anything on your table while the teacher was calling you to the board, you had a 50/50% chance of having them stolen
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by maeln 5y ago
This is hard to say and I am not a lawyer. As I understand, the non-competes financial compensation has to be given when the contract end, therefore, it cannot be included in the salary.
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by maeln 5y ago
PSA: In a lot of country, non-competes agreement are illegal, at least in the form they usually take. In many jurisdiction, non-compete will only apply when specific condition are met. For example, in France[0], all non-compete have to hav
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by maeln 5y ago
> And only 13 years late! Not very surprising when you see that Areva/Framatome was involved :^) /s All jokes aside, having worked for a manufacturer of nuclear equipment, delay are usually the result of two factor: One is tha
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by maeln 5y ago
What start to really annoy me is how it as become almost impossible to buy quality product anymore. And the issue is not even limited to Amazon. Recently, at work, we had to make a bunch of RJ45 cables. So we bought some cable, terminals an
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by maeln 5y ago
You can host extension on your own server. Fireox will display a security warning when you try to install them, but that is it.
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by maeln 5y ago
It is more complicated than that. Any system as its drawbacks, and the Singaporean system is no different. Presenting just one metric (home-ownership) and showing it as a symbol of success is hiding a lot of complex issues. A similar system
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by maeln 5y ago
Yes that is what I meant.
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by maeln 5y ago
> 90% of Singaporeans own their own homes, the fourth highest rate internationally. In contrast, the American homeownership rate is 63.5%. This is kind of comparing apple and oranges. First off, almost all of the housing in Singapore is
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by maeln 5y ago
Basically, from Ronja, I feel like he really started to do his thing and was successful at it. Ofc, From Up on Poppy Hill is a notable exception, and if I remember correctly he worked with his father on this one, but the themes are very muc
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by maeln 5y ago
Big copyright holders hold a lot of political power in France. That's why France has been one of the country in the E.U fighting the most against piracy and taxing pretty much everything you can store music file on (we used to buy blan
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by maeln 5y ago
Goro has had a lot of issue going out of his father shadow and making a name for himself. He didn't really want to be a director in the first place. But after his first movie being a clear copy of his father style, he really started to
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by maeln 5y ago
Funny thing, I knew when I wrote my comment that they would be at least one answer mentioning enthusiast with their fancy all carbon fibber road bike that cost has much as a car :) . While it i definitely true that expensive bike existed fo
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by maeln 5y ago
With e-bike costing over thousand euros, bike stealing has become way more lucrative, attracting more and better thief ...
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by maeln 5y ago
> Just imagine the anger when it would come to a FOSS dev team's attention that <insert-evil-group> is using their product, successfully even... Err, this is something a lot of FOSS dev' have been complaining about actual
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by maeln 5y ago
> Well, if you'd really talk to people, you'd find out that significant percent of population still mourns the Soviet Union and they have all the reasons to. It really depends where and who you ask. You probably not going to fi
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by maeln 5y ago
Public education work in a lot of country (see for example most European country). Teacher also tend to be heavily unionised in other country, as well as having a tendency to be more left-leaning (but that is a veeeryyy big generalization).
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by maeln 5y ago
Yes it's the plan. The idea is to use small and modular reactor. https://www.usinenouvelle.com/editorial/pourquoi-les-mini-re...
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by maeln 5y ago
> Drilling into the material is another matter though, I at some point invested in a hammer drill which manages that just fine. And don't take a cheap one. Also buy good drill bits. I have reinforced concrete wall in my home and any
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by maeln 5y ago
Ofc these things happen, but compare that to the number of hijacked aircraft : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking Pre 2001, there was more than 10 hijack almost every year.
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by maeln 5y ago
There was the same discussion a few days ago on another post. It's not a fair comparison. You can hardly hijack a train. Even if you manage to get control of the train, you cannot land it in a tower full of people. The worst you can do
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by maeln 5y ago
You mean with a lightning connector or a usb-c one ? In my experience, lightning connector were much more easy to break than usb-c one, since there is no actual protection/shielding to the actual pads/connector. It is so easy to s
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by maeln 5y ago
I mean, technically, they can keep using the same connector (usb-c) but make extensive change to the underlying protocol making it required to buy an "Apple cable" for anything else than charging and maybe still respecting the U.E
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by maeln 5y ago
I completely agree and I really doubt that it is the real reason, but it is something that Apple might still consider.
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by maeln 5y ago
> What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones? I can think of 3 reasons: 1. A lightning port is slightly smaller than USB-c, so it enable Apple to keep their phone slimmer than the competition in th
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by maeln 5y ago
I don't know for the staff in the restaurant and entertainment position, but usually, the sailors are recruited from very poor country and paid very low wages. Only the captain and some officer are paid a decent salary.
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by maeln 5y ago
Those numbers are meaningless if we don't have the benchmark specification. And Apple really love to throw numbers like this with no context (but hey, it work, so why stop).
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by maeln 5y ago
While I applaud Mullvad intention and business model, I wonder how long they will be able to operate this way. Their company is Swedish and therefore must respect Swedish and EU laws. It would be very easy to end up in a ProtonMail/V

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