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by renaudg 10y ago
Whether the case is "more common" is debatable (and besides the point, unless you'd like to challenge the whole premise of sharing risk through insurance). As it turns out, I am that healthy young person from the country with
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by renaudg 10y ago
Depends on your individual situation, but it's not as outlandish as it sounds, see this story: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lamar-french-heal...
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by renaudg 10y ago
Sorry, I didn't catch that. However, you also just failed to follow your own advice :)
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by renaudg 10y ago
As someone who created a small business in France then did the same in the UK, I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, there's not a lot entrepreneurs can do, it's up to the authorities to be brave and reform the infamous "Gre
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by renaudg 10y ago
You really can't compare pre-tax salaries between countries with such a completely different taxation and benefits structure. The take home pay certainly is much, much lower in France than in the US, but it comes with access to top-not
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by renaudg 10y ago
I quite like OneTab instead of The Great Suspender, more predictable and really straightforward to use : https://www.one-tab.com/
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by renaudg 10y ago
Not the OP, but the reason I switched to the Mac 12 years ago (and never looked back) was to bring together my nerdy, creative, and "end user" sides under a single OS. I'd been using mostly Linux on the desktop since 1996, I
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by renaudg 10y ago
My personal experience is 100% in line with this, and it's beyond me why none of the major todo list apps feature drag & drop calendar integration. I'm reluctantly using Things, and the closest thing it has is due dates and &q
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by renaudg 10y ago
only those comments made after I gained this ability were downvotable That would be quite computationally intensive to implement.
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by renaudg 10y ago
They could get their news from Facebook too, they would just more likely subscribe to more reputable pages and have less hoax-sharing friends.
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by renaudg 10y ago
Ever tried messenger.com ?
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Renegade Facebook Employees Form Task Force to Battle Fake News(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by renaudg 10y ago|0 comments
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by renaudg 10y ago
To each their own, I find it great ! That 80s sound is back in force at the moment (under the "synthwave" moniker). Think Stranger Things OST. Also, this one fits the Windows 3 nostalgia theme nicely (okay, not quite 90s music but
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by renaudg 10y ago
I dont do anything on facebook at all, i just happen to scroll through my feed every other week when i just went online to contact one of the few people that i cant reach otherwise. Well there you go again: at last count 1.26 billion peop
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by renaudg 10y ago
He's actually not that wrong if you think about it. This cultural divide was a major issue : https://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/trump-won-because-leftist...
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by renaudg 10y ago
I'm not American either. I'm French, living in the UK, and the figures are probably not very different here.
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by renaudg 10y ago
It's definitely not just my world view. According to some studies, 62% of Americans are said to use FB as their primary news source ( https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/62-people-now-use-facebook-pr... ) So it's
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by renaudg 10y ago
That also happened for Brexit before. And there are more western elections to come in the coming months (Italy, France) where this is likely to be a factor.
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by renaudg 10y ago
i never heard anyone using Facebook as news source Well, that's one hell of a bubble you're living in.
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by renaudg 10y ago
At issue in this election is apparently a new idea: people who hold positions that are being publically shamed tend to lie to pollsters Definitely not that new. For example, pollsters in France have for decades been applying a "coeff
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by renaudg 10y ago
What ? Interested to know what side you think "the people" is on.
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by renaudg 10y ago
Pretty sure that only the iMac has desktop-class Intel CPUs, the Macbook Pro has, well, mobile CPUs.
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2016 MacBook Pros may not be compatible with current Thunderbolt 3 devices(9to5mac.com)
1 points by renaudg 10y ago|0 comments
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by renaudg 10y ago
memorizing passphrases and using encryption is "too hard" It's not just baby boomers, it's most people outside HN unfortunately.
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by renaudg 10y ago
Critics were NOT excited about the loss of the Floppy. Infamous 1998 Boston Globe review : “The iMac will only sell to some of the true believers. The iMac doesn’t include a floppy disk drive for doing file backups or sharing of data. It’s
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The iMac and the Floppy Drive: A Conspiracy Theory (1998)(osnews.com)
15 points by renaudg 10y ago|3 comments
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by renaudg 10y ago
Don't forget that the UK prices also include 20% VAT, the US prices don't.
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5 Controversial Technology Choices That Apple Was Right About(pastemagazine.com)
3 points by renaudg 10y ago|0 comments
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by renaudg 10y ago
This is old FUD.
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by renaudg 10y ago
That's all I needed to hear to know that 2016 (and probably 2017) is still not "the year of the Linux desktop" (coming from a Linux desktop guy until 2004: switched to the Mac because I value my time, I keep monitoring any

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