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by rapht 4y ago
More often than not, the problem is not "collective bargaining" per se. It's that unions are known to play the dumb game -- in France for example, the demands from unions are in general so far from anything reasonable that an
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by rapht 4y ago
> People decide they want to buy something, and then try to get it for a good price, and try to have it so that due dilligence works to reduce the purchase price, while not actually finding anything to block the deal. Perhaps in public c
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by rapht 4y ago
All companies cook their earnings to a certain extent, exactly in view of having a nice, regular, consistent performance... because markets over-react (in one way or another) to anything that is not nice, regular, consistent. The only thing
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by rapht 4y ago
Not sure I'd put Le Monde's quite biased left-moralist editorial choices in the same league as The Economist...
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by rapht 5y ago
Not a computer security engineer here but reading the article feels like in most organisations there are no safeguards in place for modifying global highly privileged accounts (the article cites introducing a global Office 365 admin and the
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by rapht 5y ago
So did America actually just change timezones?...
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by rapht 5y ago
Whatever symbols are used and implied meaning they have (or not), as a layperson I found that the article was very clear that they had not reached any total energy gain (they write something like 0.17 MJ out for 1.9 MJ in).
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by rapht 5y ago
(2020) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21937607
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by rapht 5y ago
This debate about 'new' vs 'old' music can be approached through many angles, just a few on the top on my mind: * Extrisic quality: does it sound "better" as a production, autotune, analog vs digital recording
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by rapht 5y ago
My problem with the libraries that recognize and tag music such as MusicBrainz is simple: they suck at properly tagging classical music. (To their credit, ID3 tags are not very classical music friendly in the first place.)
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by rapht 5y ago
René Girard actually _is_ a must-read. No need to go through everything he has written -- though his works are a great gateway to our (Western) culture as they draw on everything from ancient mythologies (notably greek) to modern philosophy
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by rapht 5y ago
Don't get me started on online bank security. Here in France, most banks have decided that security is best achieved by: - authenticating using a 'client number' (different from your 'account number', sent to you on
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by rapht 5y ago
I'd swear I'm hearing myself talking about Windows 20 years back... "I keep saving everything incase it just crashes", "It's slow as hell even for simple tasks", etc. Has Apple 2021 become Microsoft 2001
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by rapht 5y ago
The article does have a point about attributed sales vs incremental sales - as a CFO (whether I qualify as the "hard-nosed" type in the article, I don't know), I'm bugged every time a marketing guy starts talking about h
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by rapht 5y ago
Mid-thirties, CFO of a largish French/European (non tech related service, brick and mortar) service business. Always been a geek, used to code, love to think in terms of systems / data / interfaces... kind of missed that natu
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by rapht 5y ago
> Organizations don't have a conscience, but people will not stand for taking personal risks for the imagined benefit of their employer. I find this to be very true independently of this case: in general, I think people are a lot to
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by rapht 5y ago
The source of those stats is not clear enough in my opinion. Is the "per-stream" measure a result to try and have a comparable basis between the various actors, or is it really the only underlying factor in the calculation (beside
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by rapht 5y ago
(2017)
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by rapht 5y ago
I don't know for a student but given the density of the primary text (okay, I read that long ago, but that's what I remember anyways) it seems to me to be a pretty good condensate.
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by rapht 5y ago
> I keep seeing this suggestion, and it seems not to occur to the proponents that it would simply land someone with destruction-of-evidence charges. Only if someone can prove the data was there in the first place.
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by rapht 5y ago
I'd be interested in the reaction of all the folks who put their datacentres in Ireland (for tax or other purposes :p).
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by rapht 5y ago
> Easy enough to booby trap discreetly to delete things if not accessed the 'correct' way. Exactly! If I had anything to hide, I'd make sure to give them the 'correct" password that will wipe out selected data fr
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by rapht 5y ago
I agree with you. This makes even more sense as in: if a lender lends you $x against a collateral of N shares, this means that they consider that there is only a tiny chance that said shares may be worth less than $x before the maturity of
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by rapht 5y ago
"A little misleading" ?? I'd rather call it blatantly opinionated... taking to its full conclusion the logic of considering commitments (i.e. money alloted) through the way energy is consumed instead of the way energy is prod
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by rapht 5y ago
Precisely: this does not work in practice! I see many reasons why, the first of which is just that most of the time the damage is already done by the time it goes to court, assuming you can find the real name behind the usernames that profe
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by rapht 5y ago
Cancel the mob: make platforms liable for publishing (or linking to) any accusations not established by a court relating to an individual's morals or ethics, except when those accusations are made by an accredited press organization. O
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by rapht 5y ago
These kinds of articles always boil down to how Google are not doing their job properly anymore, be it by presenting results that do not include scams, content farms and the like, or by systematically pushing ads (including dubious ones) ov
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by rapht 5y ago
Planned obsolescence != suboptimal life expectancy On the left hand, you make design choices with the goal of limiting the life expectancy of the product, and on the right hand, you just don't prioritise life expectancy over other cons
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by rapht 5y ago
I'm always flabbergasted at seeing how these things are handled in America. Long ago in the country where I live, the regulator: - set up an opt-out central register where the owner of any phone number can freely declare they do not wa
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by rapht 6y ago
I am incredibly thankful that you took the time to write all this. Thanks a million!

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