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by skitout 3y ago
So basically your are saying that: - peaceful protest or "convention citoyenne" are not and should not be efficient - We don't care what the vast majority of people want, and we don't care about the parliament. - The onl
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by skitout 3y ago
Seriously ? In France the only way firefighter got heard the last few times, after month of peaceful protestation, is by doing violent protest, including throwing heavy thing on the policeman. Then the government accepted to negociate with
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by skitout 3y ago
I am not a fan of Melenchon. I find problematic his taste for the Bolivarian alliance, or his defense of Cuba. I find problematic the lack of democracy in his political party. But a new constitution with more democracy is still one of the c
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by skitout 3y ago
Depend which kind of Neo-Nazi organization (they are illegal in France and most of them in France do like to punch people and say it), and co-organized with whom, and depend on what is saying these Neo-Nazi But for sure I do blame Neo-Nazi
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by skitout 3y ago
Few months after the start of the Gilet Jaune, they were not "blocking the country" anymore (I was answering a comment about this)... And while not supporting the Gilet Jaune mode of action anymore, people still strongly supported
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by skitout 3y ago
1) I was responding to someone talking about silent majority... polls is then relevant 2) Democracy is not just voting every 5 year for a president and a parliament
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by skitout 3y ago
Not sure what Melenchon is doing in its list as one of it core element of its political platform is to have a new constitution with less power to the president, more counter powers, more power "to the people"
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by skitout 3y ago
Well, democracy is not 0 or 1, there are shades... So for sure Macron is not a dictator, but French democracy "grade" was not super high and it did went down. French 5th republic is sometimes nicknamed "presidential monarchy&
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by skitout 3y ago
Germany power is less centralized, with more powerful counter-power than Hungary , reducing the risk of seeing an Orban like situation.
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by skitout 3y ago
They indeed sometimes destroyed some properties But you cannot blame them for the violence in the protest they co-organized. People are free to attend the protest, and they cannot control them. They never called for violence against police.
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by skitout 3y ago
Polls showed that a large majority of French supported the Gilets Jaunes or supported the recent strikes. Foolowing your reasonning, the minority imposing their will to the silent majority is the government. Furthermore, independently to ou
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by skitout 3y ago
On what is based your view ? My feeling, without sources at hand to confirm it: In few Asian countries, we can see it did helped many. In most developing countries, the picture is less clear. In developed countries seems to have benefits to
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by skitout 3y ago
- Taking local language courses helped me when I was abroad. I enjoyed it, it helped me to feel better in the country I was, and I met friends there (people more or less in similar situation than me) - I met a lot of people and some friends
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by skitout 3y ago
One big difference is : the one that is experiencing the hotel is choosing it and paying for it, have different experiences with hotel before and after... In hospice it is generally the kids choosing and paying the hospice for their dad or
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by skitout 3y ago
"Bans are inefficient" , any source on this ? This is a real question. Bans "seems" to me as an efficient tool, but I have no source either...
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by skitout 4y ago
I started a project where a guide with art history background was writing the content... no we use GPT4 for 80% of it. A lot of job are at risk. Most of them no because of full automation, but because less people will be required because of
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by skitout 4y ago
I'm almost certain that many, many times in history we've been afraid of new things... and those things had bad consequences for millions of people for decades, while benefiting a minority of people, with mixed result at the end.
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by skitout 4y ago
Hard situation to be in... Here are different things that have helped me or some of my friends (none with exactly the same situation, but with similarities...). Many things have a small effect short term that compound over the time... - Fin
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by skitout 4y ago
So you mentioned hundred of death... and can only find one (and the killer said he acted in self defense) The example of attack against the police station can clearly be seen as terror attack. But no dead people there while you were mention
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by skitout 4y ago
Do you have examples (with a source) of a leftist killing someone for political reason by shooting him, or with a bomb, in the recent events ? My understanding was the shootings during those event were not politically motivated, just shooti
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by skitout 4y ago
So you are basically saying that leftist did not kill people, but their demonstrations and riots created an environment leading to people being killed, while comparing it to extreme right terror attacks ?
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by skitout 4y ago
A lot of interesting things in this article and the work on what it is based. Still, I think (that is a personal theory) one key element not mentioned here is what the protesters demand (how big will be the impact), and who will be impacted
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by skitout 4y ago
I am a big fan of renewable energy, and I think blockchain can have a big impact... but based on my current understanding: If you still have big power plant, then you still need transmission line and everything linked to it. Those transmiss
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by skitout 4y ago
About the funding model, it would be great if normal donation works. If not, I think the way some WEB3 projects are funded maybe an interesting inspiration (not talking about Ponzi scheme here). Many projects are "non profit" and
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by skitout 4y ago
I cannot delete it anymore (too many comments I guess)
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by skitout 4y ago
Was working 5 minutes ago, and now it indicates "This paper has been removed from SSRN at the request of the author, SSRN, or the rights holder." The full paper: https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=4990841
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by skitout 4y ago
It is worth noting that the author works for crypto...
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Bitcoin is more energy efficient than the classical system(papers.ssrn.com)
6 points by skitout 4y ago|8 comments
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by skitout 4y ago
A 2018 article of the Harvard Business Review about women discrimination by VCs: https://hbr.org/2018/03/vc-stereotypes-about-men-and-women-a... In France, what was one of the most famous "accelerator" (
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by skitout 4y ago
It is worth noting that the author has a consulting company around cryptopayements

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