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by rapht 7y ago
This actually has got a name in treasury circles: it's called "reverse factoring". One of the very nice side effects is that when you're a big publicly traded company, you can generally afford to set up a dedicated enti
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by rapht 7y ago
Everyone here who holds a grudge against Elsevier (and even those who don't yet) should have a look at the group which owns Elsevier (where it only represent a third of the profits). [1] Truly, a fascinating business combination includ
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by rapht 7y ago
Exactly ; I had a similar experience sometime back when I was lent a 2010 Audi A4 for a few months, there was a quite natural control knob placed much like in the article's pics. It really is night and day compared to my brand new Peug
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by rapht 7y ago
On Android, this just had me 1. Settings > Security 2. Click on Location 3. Enhance location precision 4. Disable "Bluetooth Analysis" aka the use of BLE beacons
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by rapht 7y ago
That's true... and that's why we should push for 2 things to happen when it is found that a business knowingly broke the law (or knew it was at risk of breaking and went on anyways) : - a "proportionate" fine should neve
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by rapht 7y ago
With all the talk about Google results not being satisfying anymore to a growing number of users, I'm surprised we haven't seen more sites pop up that would allow users to display the results of multiple search engines of their ch
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by rapht 8y ago
As Western countries are all slowly drifting towards what amounts to government-sanctionned censorship by ISPs - especially after the adoption by the EU Parliement of the copyright directive, but it's just one more step in the general
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by rapht 8y ago
As some others have said, a well-thought-out article on the larger scale impacts of the Internet as a new medium of communication - just get past the intro. In the end, it's interesting because it puts together a number of intuitions y
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by rapht 8y ago
I have seen Harari's "Sapiens" and Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" in the comments. Both are nice reads but Harari's book is shallow from multiple respects, and Diamond's book omits important counte
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by rapht 9y ago
This - exactly
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by rapht 9y ago
Antitrust strategy for the Internet era: a "copy-and-split" of the target into 2 companies: 1) these companies jointly own and can freely use all of the data accumulated and all of the tech developed to date (but as they jointly o
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by rapht 10y ago
I absolutely second that. And the problem is: the industry's interest is to lock you in on their cloud so that you end up paying a recurring fee of some sort, while the public's interest is clearly to be as free as possible from t
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by rapht 10y ago
> From the Government. Because we shouldn't be protected from business interests when they get too powerful?
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by rapht 10y ago
Had one of those for a looong time when I was in middle/high school. My teachers especially loved how it emitted 2 strident beeps at each hour. And indeed, that was the most efficient watch I ever had.
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by rapht 10y ago
I personally switched to the following policy a year or two ago to avoid all this crap: 1) NoScript extension filtering everything except the base domain => no third party scripts are allowed except when I explicitly allow them 2) Cookie
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Ask HN: Why don't browsers extend “This site wants your location” to all data?
40 points by rapht 10y ago|70 comments
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by rapht 10y ago
Very good points in this post, but it seems to me that they are only valid if you look at a single line of products / services at a time. When you put multiple products/services in one store, that is when your products get to be n
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by rapht 11y ago
Does anyone find it surprising that Europe seems to have comparatively more nodes/traffic flow than the US?
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by rapht 11y ago
How wouldn't that be absolutely fine?
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by rapht 12y ago
It's a wonder to me how no Verizon competitor has jumped at the opportunity to advertise this on a large scale with a message along the lines "it's evil, we don't do that". If the users really care about this issue,
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by rapht 13y ago
Why couldn't you be both visionary AND rent-seeker? I mean, isn't that the whole point of capitalism?
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by rapht 13y ago
> "I believe I saw a study that recommended shorter, more frequent, vacations as the best way to recover from mental fatigue but I assume that there is a lot of opposing opinions on that matter." As for myself, I find that I do
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by rapht 13y ago
From France : We get 25 days by law, that's for employees who do the 35-hour workweek. Then people who do more than 35 hours (that is, people who don't follow the fixed 35-hour model) get more days depending on the sector / c
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by rapht 13y ago
And mine too ! Better become a software engineer, I guess...
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by rapht 13y ago
What difference does it make ? It's just a mindset.
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by rapht 13y ago
DST is obviously not the real issue. The real issue is that people's habit have changed from what they were until a century ago : the advance of transportation has meant commuting times have extended, the advance of lighting has meant
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by rapht 13y ago
Looking at Twitter and at Google's first 50 results on Note 3, I can't help but wonder : is the marginal profit they expect from region-locking so high that it will pay for all the bad buzz? At first sight, even though pricing dif
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by rapht 13y ago
I'm in full agreement with your demonstration, however, as to the case at hand, it appears to me that it's not really the point : the fact is that it should not be qualified as a "presale" and Paypal here is not a trade
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by rapht 13y ago
If someone is ready to finance the $68bn needed to build that high speed "train to nowhere" that doesn't answer a problem, I really don't understand how nobody would be willing to finance $6bn (or even $12bn to correct f
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by rapht 13y ago
I'm sorry, isn't that what's called "experience", which is about the only factor that differentiates an "old" person vs a "young" person when they are considered having identical theoretical knowledge ?

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