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by pi-err 9y ago
A bit OT but how did ancient civilizations know that they should NOT watch an eclipse with a naked eye? The knowledge would have been lost or unavailable at each occurence. Remote areas would probably never get the word. So how didn't
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by pi-err 9y ago
If you haven't updated yet, why would you need the Sierra installer? Nobody managing multiple machines would use a 1.0 anyway.
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by pi-err 9y ago
There's a gap going from "the next Facebook" to "a nice niche for 15-20 US demographics". There'll be more adjustments as the market answers the usual question: are they enough advertising dollars to fund a nic
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by pi-err 10y ago
> Ms. le Pen may not win this time, but she will one day There is very little to support this. FN has been around 20% for decades, racking in about the same 5-6M voters at most elections. Structurally, far right in France (as in other co
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by pi-err 10y ago
Kudos to the team who made it happen. I'm French and happy this comes to life. I still have the feeling this is more of a stunt to bring attention on Station F than on the startups themselves. Beyond the buzz, there is very little visi
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by pi-err 10y ago
Overall, wages in France will be lower in software - with important things to keep in mind: - health and education are dirt cheap. This is phenomenal for a family (even compared to the the U.K.). The downside is you have less control on you
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by pi-err 10y ago
We are all in denial. As a non-FB user, I hit every day a Facebook captcha to test if I'm a bot, each time I land near a Facebook site. When it's not a captcha, a panel hides a third of the Facebook page. I have a "shadow&quo
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by pi-err 10y ago
Could't the source get encrypted as well? Also the cognitive gap between a AI and a human brain has to grow and transform unpredictably in the next decades. We may be puzzled to understand how it "thinks" the same way we stil
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by pi-err 10y ago
> Until the Model 3 is delivered, everything else is a distraction Agreed - except to increase cash flow to get to build >500k Tesla 3 fast enough. They're climbing a mountain of risk at this point. If the first T3 production yea
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by pi-err 10y ago
What's the goal of a "Find my iPhone" attack? Ransomware? Also puzzled that the attacker manages to guess the victim's password (described as complex). In my experience, 3 incorrect login attempts on iCloud block the sit
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by pi-err 10y ago
France would be a good western example of the frail intrinsic support for liberalism by democracy.
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by pi-err 10y ago
Points: - "unrestricted free trade will be awesome" - peace is not at stake, au contraire - decentralization is awesome. And small is beautiful! - it doesn't matter that it's a little about xenophobia It sounds more like
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by pi-err 10y ago
I still see major obstacles to indyref 2: Scotland would have to join the Euro and Schengen, and build a border with England. That's choosing work over family and I bet Sturgeon doesn't underestimate the risk of a 2nd (and final)
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by pi-err 10y ago
> Oh, by the way, "The referendum was non-binding, it's advisory". True - though the gov white paper mentioned that it was, in effect, binding because ignoring its result would irreversibly damage representative democracy.
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by pi-err 10y ago
To quote a Tory MP: "Nicola Sturgeon seems to be the only one who knows what's she's doing". Warning of a constitutional crisis is good tactics. It probably will not lead to canceling brexit, though it will probably brea
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by pi-err 10y ago
This skips how Brexit is mostly about British politics and very little about the EU. Of those countries, only France has a tradition of organizing referendums. The politics there will not get cornered like Cameron (amazingly) did. There&#x2
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by pi-err 10y ago
There's a much better and simpler explanation to the 4-months delay. As shown in Cameron's [white paper on Brexit from last February]( https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm
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by pi-err 10y ago
And isn't Linkedin the only network who got people to pay subscriptions? That's extremely interesting for MS. On demographics alone, though, the deal doesn't seem to make sense.
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by pi-err 10y ago
Twitter has an incredibly powerful brand and appeal. How many companies can say they triggered revolutions? Yet it's puzzling how much it fails to improve its basic product, 1 year in Dorsey's comeback. On mobile, the search/
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by pi-err 10y ago
tldr: a "willpower and success coach" takes down Georges Lucas because he didn't live up to his dream or artistic ambition. On Medium. As a willpower coach he could have found the force to not publish this clickbait story. Pr
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by pi-err 10y ago
> That space can seat around 40, which works out to 9600 passengers/hr capacity at 15 second intervals, on a single track. Thanks, didn't have those figures. I used a study from a Hyperloop study group (can't find the URL)
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by pi-err 10y ago
There's a palpable excitement around Hyperloop and I can't wait to know if this will reshape our world or not. One of the largest problem I can see is not technical. The consensus is that a "standard" Hyperloop track (be
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by pi-err 10y ago
Impatient to know if the 1st stage is reusable after a 12g phase. The entire concept hangs on this and it looks like we don't have a firm confirmation yet.
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by pi-err 10y ago
Printing press changed the scale, idea and goal of government. Very slowly though because it changed _societies_, not actual rulers. It may be that it takes 1-2 centuries to software-ize our govs. And are we so sure it would be more efficie
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by pi-err 10y ago
In tech, "newest" often trumps "best".
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by pi-err 11y ago
There's very little substance in the summary, hopefully the book is less clickbaity. A few reasons why this should join the "pills will replace food" drama: - a long-term trend in wealthier societies has been to get more cont
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by pi-err 11y ago
Great thought experiment. I would have thought that a planet's life form, shape and variety would be determined by: 1- the energy output of nearest star 2- the planet's gravity He barely mentions gravity which is surprising. Earth
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by pi-err 11y ago
I remember having been immediately struck by differences in office bathrooms between California and UK/France/Germany (where I worked). The offices were usually nicer overall in the US (roomier, more recent), except for the bathro
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by pi-err 11y ago
Their PR is unfortunately low quality and low on facts, though critical thinking would also try to look at the "why". The futur or "solar roads" is clearly not highways and express lanes. It's slow speed, commercial
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by pi-err 11y ago
The "1000 km" title is misleading. The tiles will be mostly installed on parking space near commercial centers and on a few low-speed connecting roads. I find it actually a great idea, especially with more electrical cars looking

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