nraynaud

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by nraynaud 8y ago
When it was time to regulate quadcopters out of existence, we didn't feel the "scaling with the amount of danger the public is exposed to".
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by nraynaud 8y ago
If only model aircraft fliers who for have not killed anyone yet benefited from the same leniency.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
You just can't have more data points, because flight travel is too safe. And no, the FAA is not really that good, general aviation pilots die all the time from negligence and the FAA doesn't enforce the rules when pilots violat
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by nraynaud 8y ago
yes, less noise, and less pollution (by the economy of scale).
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by nraynaud 8y ago
don't big truck have a power outlet from the engine? I think welders are plugged into the engine. I'd share some concern about transition, in particular because I live in Arizona, but I guess things will be better in the long run.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Wouldn’t transforming the asteroid from a solid rock to a ball of sand already be an improvement? 1) it looses density 2) it loses cohesion
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by nraynaud 8y ago
It’s not free, it’s universal. You pay for, it but the insurer is less cynical.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Maybe it’s a sign of the times, productivity is so high that there doesn’t exist work for everybody. Either you create bullshit jobs, or you have unemployment. This psychology thing is forgetting that being forced in a job that doesn’t pay
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Let’s get a bunch of instagramers together and solve those freaking millennium prize problems once and for all.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
it's more like Brep is the distinction, is the internal representation a list of operations on a Brep model? But it's true that model history is preferred for mechanics, but I have seen some proto model history in 3DS max with the
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by nraynaud 8y ago
It doesn't change the issue that when people have changed the grammar, you have to find their documentation to read their code, if the library is not used you have to read the parse tree transformation code, etc.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I have a project that uses it, Meh. when people use Camlp4, it's a pain to read, the stuff is had to follow when it's a wall of text because of the level of indirection, Lwt makes everything hard. When I was 20, I thought Ocaml wa
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I am an "idea guy", I still see my "inventions" on the PR pictures of a company I stayed at for only 6 months. But I think the trick is that I know how to get some stuff done.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
"504 Gateway Time-out" This person had an idea about a blog but not the skills to keep it up?
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by nraynaud 8y ago
This is not going to happen at a small airport and without the collaboration of ATC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwbTq_4-jGg CAT3 landing need a lot of things aligned properly to work.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I have been living in the US for one and a half year now, I'm still using my French phone contract in roaming because it's cheaper than using a local one (20€/mo, data limited to 25GB in roaming).
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by nraynaud 8y ago
That’s the only way to “recycle” a Tetra Pak.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
recently I was wondering about time keeping on Mars, did they create a local clock network like we have with UTC here?
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I think we are talking about a company calling people to ask them if they have a bag to dispose of and organizing conferences on the fine art of bag disposal, a primer on material science, some workshops on bag design and the intricacies of
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by nraynaud 8y ago
They already paid a 1B€ “bail” (read in a dream has newspaper) before the court hearing. I am unfamiliar with the procedure, so I don’t know what kind of events would trigger a restitution (it’s not intuitive, because you can’t put a compan
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I like the idea: ”here is our best estimation, you can counter it by providing us with some documentation”
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by nraynaud 8y ago
most of them would illegal in Europe, because of pedestrian safety.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Nicolas Sarkozy, for peddling influence. He was under investigation for getting money from Gaddafi when the police discovered he had another phone and was peddling influence with his lawyer as accomplice. He was trying to get informations o
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by nraynaud 8y ago
In France that’s how the former president got busted, he used his burner phone from a sparsely populated area.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I guess so, and the fine would be proportional to how long it has been illegal.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
It could be a continuous crime, online publication crime are continuous in French law.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
yep, there is a Phoenix newspaper like that too.
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I think the proper vocabulary is "indentured servitude".
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by nraynaud 8y ago
I think that's how consumer protection should work: company extends shady contract, regulator says nope to the entire industry. For example you should be able to get out of a contract with the same ease as you got in. (also I am still
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by nraynaud 8y ago
Let's make it forbidden in leonine contracts.

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