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by seszett 4y ago
> Ha, it's amazing how fast and efficient the French government can be at blocking these legal loopholes so that the handful of workers working in Monaco couldn't avoid paying French taxes anymore, when many publicly listed Fre
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by seszett 4y ago
> I have yet to see ChatGPT make any grammatical mistakes in either English or Japanese. In French, I have seen it make the same conjugation mistakes as native speakers ("elle a terminée") as well as a few gender mistakes on co
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by seszett 4y ago
To me this kind of grey used to be Volvo's signature paint, but it's been more common recently indeed. Either way, I don't think it's anyone's business to tell people what colour they should use for their cars? This
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by seszett 4y ago
> in Europe and places like India, the cardholder is usually liable I suppose it depends on what you mean by "usually" but no, in the EU generally you just go to the police station which has a form for declaring credit card fra
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by seszett 4y ago
Maintenance had been postponed during the corona crisis. What had not been foreseen was the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the associated general energy crisis in Europe.
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by seszett 4y ago
> and one place in Belgium. You might not have paid attention to it because your didn't know about it, but I don't think there are any dishwashers in Belgium that don't use salt, at least for the last twenty years or so.
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by seszett 4y ago
Not an artist myself, but it reminds me that maybe ten years ago or so I produced a series of "movie abstracts" which were whole movies accelerated to last 10-15 seconds by temporally averaging frames (the tmix ffmpeg filter). I
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by seszett 4y ago
"Seaweed" is a rather ill-defined term in English that regroups a lot of different algae. Nori is made from red algae, that are included under the term seaweed.
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by seszett 4y ago
I'm probably rich at least on a global scale, and I have always eaten algae because it's part of several regions' cuisine, including my home place in Europe. So go ahead, you can eat algae too, it's not a new experimenta
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by seszett 4y ago
When I was in high school, 1996-1999 (and 1999-2002 I suppose? I'm never sure when "high school" ends in English-speaking places) the only elective class was Latin, exterior doors were closed and guarded and when you were lat
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by seszett 4y ago
In my greenhouse I use half white, half blue/red lights. The resulting colour is not uncomfortable, and I can just turn off the blue/red lights when I want to inspect the plants in white light. To be honest though, I have no idea
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by seszett 4y ago
I don't know if it was intended, but "système D" in French means hacking together something with whatever you have available. D meaning "démerde" (literally getting out of shit or a shitty situation) or "débrou
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by seszett 4y ago
X is equivalent to a check mark for most people. I think it's mostly an American thing to see an X as meaning "not checked".
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by seszett 4y ago
I think they do care, but with limited means they cannot tackle the whole problem at once. So they go after one bad actor after another, and the others eventually adjust their practices to be a bit less illegal. On the French web you can se
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by seszett 4y ago
They provide webshops for 60€/year and a .be or .nl domain costs 15€/year, so 25% of that. That's a lot.
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by seszett 4y ago
Health services are not really affected by loi 96 and mandarin speakers have no issue talking to their doctors in my experience (specifically living with a mandarin speaker in Montreal in the past, with whom I'm still in contact). Howe
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by seszett 4y ago
Most countries have language skills requirements for immigrants though, and language isn't an intrinsic part of a person but can be learned, so language skills requirements certainly aren't racist.
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by seszett 4y ago
It's common for most European people I think. In France, " têtes blondes " (meaning "blonde heads") means children in general, because most children are born with blonde hair, even though they turn dark later on for
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by seszett 4y ago
> dans son ensemble > in sound together That's hilarious and honestly, incredibly bad. "Dans son ensemble" is a very common idiom (meaning "as a whole") while "in sound together" has to be pretty
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by seszett 4y ago
This is rather off-topic but in my opinion, the government not providing affordable housing free of chemical cleaners in the second most expensive city of Canada is very different from the government forcing her to commit suicide. The gover
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by seszett 4y ago
This is the fourth time this article with a poor, inflammatory headline has been submitted within the last five months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31227925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3121
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by seszett 4y ago
I sometimes wish to find emails that I couldn't have known I would need again. Right now, I've been looking for the email address of the landlord of the house I lived in until 2009. I'm happy that I didn't remove his ema
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by seszett 4y ago
What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades? Because I haven't, and having every
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by seszett 4y ago
They can park their car outside the city in the park+ride of their choosing, and take public transport from there. That's what I do.
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by seszett 4y ago
> 56 cars energy = 1 trains energy. These trains accommodate around 500 passengers though, while a car is generally max 5 passengers. So the trains are about ten times more efficient, and two to three times as far.
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by seszett 4y ago
Looks like I answered the wrong comment earlier: > I actually like to leave the cities I live in sometimes. You can own a car and still use a bike when staying within the city. That's what most people do here. > Or maybe I don
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by seszett 4y ago
On the quote of Georges Pompidou: " [the building] was the only good thing those Commies have ever done ". That translation is a much less neutral than what he actually said. He said " c'est la seule bonne chose que les
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by seszett 4y ago
> GDPR basically gives free reign to government services on the internet What do you mean though? Even the French interior ministry was condemned under GDPR rules last year. A few other high profile gouvernement services too.
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by seszett 4y ago
Well, I'm actually a French speaker and what makes me say that is the "a" in happiness that is IMO never going to be pronounced by a French speaker the same way as the "a" in "a penis". The "e" m
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by seszett 4y ago
It's in any case unlikely for a French speaker to mispronounce "happiness" as "a penis".

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