remicmacs

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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   Thanks, I read the Reddit comments and I thought I was the only one seeing that. I mean it's hardly a thought experiment since it's already the basic idea behind Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", which I'
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   This is a repost of something that was posted today already : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20702995
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   That's nice to learn about this alternative. I haven't worked a lot with geolocation yet. But I'm driven to it because of my geography background, and I would be mad if every service for that kind of work was closed and propr
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   An open-sourced anatidae-based alternative : what3ducks.com Honestly I'm a bit annoyed by this article because it looks like an ad since it's a private commercial system.
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   I was looking for a reference to housing co-ops in the comments, thanks. To me it looks like a housing co-op scheme with more vendor lock-in, so to speak. But housing co-ops come in so many different shapes and form across the world so ther
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   From my european perspective, capital punishment is such a weird idea. Never I have came across strong evidence for a deterrent effect. And if you just quickly look at the Wikipedia article [1], it looks like it's really difficult to s
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   Yes I've heard of that through the Paris experiment cited in this article. Although when I talked about it with Parisian friends : * Cyclists have not heard of it and keep getting insulted daily for behaviors allowed by this experiment
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   You're kind of confirming a feeling I have. I am a daily cyclist and I started strictly following the rules after being scared by an accident I had. I realized eventually that I don't feel safer by following the rules . In fact
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   by remicmacs 7y ago

   Same here. Most of my ebooks are bought DRM-free. But some times I want a book from a publisher that does not do DRM-free publishing. And EVERY TIME, it's a hassle : I have to link my e-reader to a specific website account. This accoun
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    by remicmacs 7y ago

    You're correct about payment in the developed world. But the Libra website highlight potential usage in developing countries. I may be wrong but in my opinion there is a huge market to take over in the countries where one has a Faceboo