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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Line has a fully featured desktop client that's even more lightweight than Telegram. They also have a white paper that explains their encryption which is decent enough https://d.line-scdn.net/stf/linecorp/en&#
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I was fully expecting him to be arrested by a third world dictatorship somewhere but, no it's my home country, France. I'm ashamed of my country. Most of the traffic on Telegram is not even encrypted... EDIT: Yes, reading more abo
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
One of the schools near us gives an ipad to every children from 1st grqde. Needless to say this instantly disqualified the school in my mind. I’m not anti-screen, I think it’s good if my son uses a computer at home with things like kidpix,
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Same here, in the last 2 years, my eyesight has gone down a lot (combination of astigmatism and presbyopia is not great). I used to love the growl style notifications from macos, now I always miss them (and often miss the alert that I only
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
First, please show me where exactly in the user agreement having two different accounts in different countries is a violation. I've looked and I can't find it. Don't go inventing violations of user agreements... Second, what
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
That's funny, I actually hate Apple's subscriptions because they are a pain to cancel. My wife has an iphone, she travels regularly to different countries for work. Because apps on apple store regularly have country restrictions (
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Having done freelance work with customers in different countries (US mostly but France, Japan, China and UK). Americans are not more likely to screw you over than companies in other countries. But yes, the rest of advice is good. Also when
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
What proofs do you have that he is doing that? I mean I'm not him and my first instinct if I saw your previous comment "What are you even talking about. When is the last time you went to comedycentral.com to watch something... Thi
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I see vivid images of pretty much everything except faces. Faces are blurry (but then I can't recognize people's faces in the street and instead rely heavily on contextual clues, what they were, etc...)
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Sorry, what mainstream topic would make kid pix not astute?
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
It's heartwarming to see this from your daughter. Never doubt that you're a better parent alive living your truth and that your daughter is grateful for you being there for her. Best of luck for continuing your transition.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I don't think you've been banned. There's some mechanism to rate limit replies in HN to prevent flamewars so maybe that's what you're seeing?
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I've always wondered about that. I'm also bothered when walking around Tokyo (it's very prevalent in Ginza for some reason). I've also seen it in other cities in Japan but I've never had that issue in other cities i
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Some backward countries (like my own France) forbid that due to concern over eugenics.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
> I agree the communication about this change of ownership has been far from ideal. In this case, downright fraudulent.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
oh pity, anyway to have it work in an unsupported fork? Or do older version of the software work on modern os x?
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Argh, I didn't realize that the app was sold and I paid for the upgrade recently :( If I had known I wouldn't have. I wonder if this could be a case for a chargeback, since the owner silently sold the app
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
That’s how I became cto at 40 years old, I stayed long enough while being indispensable enough and always taking the difficult projects. It’s a gamble though and I needed to play hardball when negotiating with the owner for the new salary t
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
We did a book club at my previous company. We voted on the first book, Despair by Nabokov. The interesting thing is that the ones who voted on this book didn't end up reading it. The ones who did read that book had voted on something
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I ask because I've done colonoscopy a few times (I have IBS plus family history of colon cancer) and not once did I get general anesthesia or anything that impacts my brain. It hurts a bit (mostly from the gaz they use to inflate the c
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
A few things to note on Japan and kids walking around. Usually you don't see children that are less than 5-6 years old walking around doing daily errands. When it's children that are younger it's usually with the parent walki
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Yes, I'm absolutely against tracking for teenagers or adults but I could see it when my son is around 8 years old and I let him walk to a friend's house or go to a nearby playground. We live in Hong Kong, and it's very safe h
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
In France, it's done with only local anesthesia. I don't remember it hurting much during the actual teeth extraction. On the other hand, I had some bleeding afterwards and that was particularly uncomfortable. I did all 4 at once
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Why have general anesthesia for a colonoscopy? It seems that's an unnecessary risk for a procedure that can easily be done without.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Definitely experienced this with my father, after two cardiac surgery (cardiac ablation), he became much more radicalized. Politically, he went from someone who was left wing closer to the center to being very much anarcho-left wing, repeat
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Plenty of books got banned in the deep south for things that are hardly obscene. Just add a teenage LGBT character, have some paragraphs that are written from his point of view, mention harassment by bigots and you have a very bannable book
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I’m French went to a French engineering school (INSA, ranked within the top 10), went to RIT (tanked 35th in the US) as an exchange student for a year. I found that the level at the RIT was really quite low. Especially when it comes to math
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Yes, any such feature should be bypassable by the owner. I hate that on phone they've decided that the owner doesn't have complete rights to their own system.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
That’s why I actually welcomed the change in mac os that requires prompting to read certain directories like Documents Historical unix permissions are not really aligned with desktop use of a single user
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
That's a very good point. Over the course of my career, the best people I've seen are those that are really good at educating themselves and keep constantly learning new things. They were a small minority though of the coworkers I

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