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by otagekki 5y ago
Reminds me how the old-world diseases wreaked havoc in the Americas in the 16-19th centuries: It is estimated that current-day Mexico's population had plummeted from 25 million to 1 million between 1500 and 1550. Even the bubonic plagu
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Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax(wired.co.uk)
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Norway to restore tax on electric vehicles(wired.co.uk)
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by otagekki 5y ago
It's really saddening to see the Chinese government try to muffle a movement that might be well compatible with Cop26 measures in the name of economic growth.
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by otagekki 5y ago
Yet they still charged roughly $2,000 for a single patient and that is something that did not take the whole day. If I was a physician I'd be happy if I could bill half that amount even if it took me the whole day to treat the patient
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by otagekki 5y ago
The hospital and the doctors. Almost $500 for a tetanus shot is simply not justifiable
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by otagekki 5y ago
Not necessarily, I forgot to mention that when changing your password through their UI you still have to enter your old password. So it's safe to assume that the string comparison is made at form submission. For history rule I don&#x27
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by otagekki 5y ago
I'd move closer to the Equator probably in Indonesia. Climate would be less chaotic regardless of the temperature increase and the country's climate is classified as roughly the same [1]. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.or
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by otagekki 5y ago
That's good to hear! Although I would have been frustrated and made anxious by their security practice. Did they change their security practices after that 'event'? And did you manage to regain access to your development box?
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by otagekki 5y ago
I used to have those: 8-24 characters among which 1 uppercase/lowercase, 1 special character among a whitelist, and renew that every 2 months. At renewal, must be different from all your previous passwords and the new password must be
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by otagekki 5y ago
I think even if you were fired, you'd have dodged not a bullet but a cannonball there. Sometimes being the nice guy full of good faith doesn't pay. Literally
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by otagekki 5y ago
Yes, as strong as before, if not more. IMO Gates' Law -- the inverse of Moore's law -- doesn't help either. I have plenty of examples, from those pieces of software and appliances I use everyday: - Power went on and off in ou
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by otagekki 5y ago
> Baristas will earn, depending on market and tenure, from $15 to $23 per hour, it said. Not sure how much that'll influence the cost of living in places where it's effectively implemented. In places like the Bay Area it didn&#
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by otagekki 5y ago
OpenStreetMaps could be used as a good enough alternative and could easily be the Wikipedia for Maps, but sadly the search results on Google would never allow that.
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by otagekki 5y ago
Too bad Windows 7 has "only" lasted for 11 years. The reason I switched to Windows 10 was just to play a resource-hungry game (FS2020). The level of privacy is such on Windows 10 that even with the browser, webcam or microphone of
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by otagekki 5y ago
It reminds me that back in July 2019. I was using the Windows file explorer to investigate an issue. When clicking on a folder to open it, my wrist slightly twitched while clicking on the folder, which led to the accidental move of a 650 GB
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by otagekki 5y ago
Well as a French citizen I can call a French doctor to describe my symptoms from wherever I am. So I think doing so as a foreigner shouldn't be a problem provided you can speak French or English depending on the practitioner.
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by otagekki 5y ago
Sure, that was just to show how absurdly costly medical treatment has become in the U.S. Not so long ago I had seen a documentary about how American diabetics couldn't afford insulin and had to purchase their insulin pens in Canada. It
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by otagekki 5y ago
The thing is, at that price, even without telemedicine, it's still profitable and in the process you've awarded yourself a small vacation to Paris.
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by otagekki 5y ago
... And in the meantime, the same medicine (commercialised there as Indocid) costs €3.78 in France ( https://www.vidal.fr/medicaments/gammes/indocid-4902.html ) provided you pay the full price. That essentially mean
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by otagekki 5y ago
Well there are so many rules and official norms (approx. 400,000) and exceptions about pretty much anything in France that this is pretty accurate... Just look up the rules of the road regarding phone calls while driving for examples and se
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by otagekki 5y ago
That definitely broadens your horizon. The more I think about it the more I think that your value as a programmer comes from your knowledge of the domain.
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by otagekki 5y ago
What would you expect to be able to do after 100k? Coding and debugging any codebase in any of the 10 most used languages without internet? God knows if I'll still be alive after 55 years
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by otagekki 5y ago
It does: https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/malicious-npm-packa...
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by otagekki 5y ago
The thing is you don't even need to have a bigger keyboard: there is currently an input method that maps every key to a given kana. Not sure why it isn't more widespread though
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by otagekki 5y ago
In France 3 month notice period is commonplace
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by otagekki 5y ago
Very impressive indeed! I remember a few years back an April fools prank on a self-balancing bike by Google ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s ). Glad to know that it actually exists five years later
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by otagekki 5y ago
I have used it exactly once 3 years ago to track down a regression and find the offending commits, while having no knowledge of the code base or architecture.
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by otagekki 5y ago
As a Wikimedian who used to spend sleepless nights editing on the Malagasy language Wikipedia and Wiktionary, I have been developing botjagwar ( https://github.com/radomd92/botjagwar ) on and off for the last 10 years. M
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by otagekki 5y ago
I sure do. Here in France, as a software engineer paid 2.5 times the minimum wage, I receive 48.5% of what I cost my employer. And even though I manage to negociate a raise every year or two, the taxes increase rate is higher.

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